[deleted] ยท 1312 points ยท Posted at 21:42:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my 6 year old daughter came downstairs from her bedroom and said "Dad, i think Kacey is dead", that's my 3 year old daughter. Of course i ran up to make sure Kacey was ok, at which time my oldest daughter raided the cookie jar.
That's awesome. I remember one day my daughter wanting the jewelry at the other end of the coffee table from where she was sitting. I told her she had to eat first. The next thing I know she drops and entire spoonful of food on the floor. I stand her up to move her chair and clean it up, next thing I know...she's playing with all the jewelry.
I eventually put two and two together, the little shit.
my 75 year old daughter hobbled into the kitchen while i was nuking some pizza pockets and said "Dad, I didn't actually travel back in time to help you find mom, I am your wife from the future, and I'm DTF!"
Creepiest thing I ever did with my wife was F. เฒ _เฒ
[deleted] ยท 461 points ยท Posted at 23:41:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 16:26:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was changing my 2 1/2 year old daughter's diaper when she reached up and touched the side of my face. She looked in my eyes, and said, "I love you, but I never should have married you."
It was a week later that I realized the babysitter had showed her "The Fantastic Mr. Fox", and that it was a line from the movie, not something my wife was practicing saying in the mirror.
Once, when I was at my grandmother's house, I needed my diaper changed and she wasn't sure quite how the disposable ones worked (she was a strange woman). I don't remember this, but apparently I told her what to do as she changed me.
I've heard similar stories. I remember when I was 3 or 4 I was in a play group where a kid that was older then me was still in diapers. My young brain found that quite scandalous and neglectful at the time. Looking back on it that kid probably had developmental disabilities. I didn't last long in that playgroup anyway, it was to shady and was run by a domineering asian lady.
I don't know, until I read this thread I thought it was pretty common for kids to be potty trained between 2 and 3 (both my sister and I were), but the more I look into it, it seems that the opinion is split between 1 to 2 years of age (the average before disposable diapers came about) and 2 to 3 years (which started with the onset of affordable disposable diapers and new parenting styles...basically the 80s, when I was born). Of course there are some people who that doesn't cover, but it seems there are two big groups.
I have no idea if this just applies to America or the Western world in general. I'm sure the majority of humans are still potty trained between 1 and 2, as those people use cloth diapers and it is in the parents' best interest to not have to constantly wash diapers.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:43:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
or not have to buy disposable ones.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:26:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Disposable nappies are very expensive and horribly wasteful.
No, she was very strange. My dad found out years later from a cousin that her father was a terrible man who beat his wife and daughters. My grandmother was the older child, and when my great-aunt was born, the nurses bound her mother's legs together until the doctor arrived, causing the baby to end up with brain damage from lack of oxygen. Her father would not accept that any daughter of his was mentally challenged, so my grandmother covered for her sister throughout her childhood. She was constantly beaten for my great-aunt's mistakes, and it obviously affected her deeply. She was never quite right, and my dad says that after his father died, she nearly went off the deep end. I still loved her, though. Unfortunately, I never did really understand her until after her death.
tl;dr: Not old-fashioned, but abused and messed up. :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:36 on July 26, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading the scary "reincarnation" stories, I feel really good reading this one that ended up with an explanation. A cool one too! That's some good memory
Screw the supernatural stuff, the innocuous little comment I could destroy my life over is freakin scary. That's like the seed of a Greek Tragedy right there.
Well some of them are there for valid reasons, like box sets of Farscape and various other old TV shows that are actually loved.
But I do agree the actual DVD section needs some drop-kicking. I'm gonna be jettisonning some of the anime at an upcoming conventions, too (con is awesome, it has a "garage sale" where people can sell their own crap!)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:47:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Drive
True Legend
Wu Xia
Curse of the Golden Flower (I seem to really be into fighting movies right now)
Ponyo
I Heart Huckabees
The Fall
Reservoir Dogs
Cinderella
True Romance
I should mention that the top ten are based on both general awesomeness and frequency of viewing. Sometimes a few on the list get knocked down a few pegs.
Farther down the list I have Blue Valentine. A REALLY good movie, well shot, and freaking depressing. I've only been able to watch it once.
I also strongly recommend Cyber Ninja, if you're into terrible, terrible movies.
man, i effing love Drive. If you like that you should check out the James Caan movie called Thief from the 80s. I think it must've inspired Drive cuz i got the same vibe from both
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol I just wrote the same thing, you have 11 downvotes, my kid at 20 months had no diaper. doesn't seem like good parenting to me, jesus christ 30 months old and a diaper, wtf???
2.5 years... that really blows my mind, the only guess i have to your downvotes is because those people are not parents.
I bet when this kid is 7 years old, they are still using a stroller, those people make me want to punch them.
Midgers ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:10:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love how you guys just call this person a shitty parent without knowing the circumstances. Maybe the kid has an issue, maybe they've tried really hard to potty train and the kid just isn't interested. There's a lot of reasons other than "shitty parent."
Until something else is said I'll just stick with "shitty parent". Thanks for your comment, though.
Midgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a friend whose kid was just recently potty trained at around 2.5-3. They're not bad parents, the little girl is just a complete shit about it and refused to use the bathroom. She knew how, she just refused. If they left the diaper off of her, she would pee all over the house and shit on the floor out of spite. No amount of punishment or rewards for using the potty helped.
I suppose they never struck her? That will sort that issue out fairly quick.
Midgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dunno man, not my kid nor did I know everything about the situation other than a story told to me by the parents. They had a young son too young to be potty trained, so I suppose it was easier to just keep them both in diapers. ./shrug
Midgers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:51:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, its not my shitty kid. I'm not disagreeing with you I was just trying to point out that there could be other reasons. I guess mine was a terrible example.
not sure if you have kids or not, but yea... there could have been problems, but USUALLY it is bad parenting if a 2.5 (this really blows my mind..) year old is still in diapers. Same with the parents that have 5/6/7/8? year olds in a stroller. I saw what must have been a 7 year old fat kid in a stroller, i almost threw up all over the top of my one kid that is a year old and walking, my other kid just looked at me (younger than the stroller douche), and gave me the wtf dad look.... bad parenting pisses me off
Midgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No I don't have kids. I guess what I was trying to get at is that you just can't take a situation at face value and call it shitty parenting if you don't have the full story.
Humanity is logical when it comes to options? options are human when it comes to logic? logic is human when it comes to options?
SkyNTP ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:41:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have seen a trend on Reddit of a lot of rage comics about children casually mentioning or even threatening adults with death. I think some/many children of a certain age learn about death from a logical point of view ('sleeping'), but haven't yet developed empathy (or experienced loss?) to understand the the consequences of death.
Children, until around 10-11, are essentially sociopaths. It's why I'm not against spanking. Expecting your 5-7 year old to consider other peoples feelings just doesn't work because that requires a whole new set of social skills that they don't even know how to use. However, they understand the downside to having mommy/daddy upset at you.
anlupe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:36:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
terrifyingly logical. this thread is making me kind of scared of children.
Yeah, my younger cousin will play with his Simba/Mufasa toys and act out the part where Mufasa dies. But then Mufasa will just wake up and come back in the game.
arefx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:58:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's the reason I keep begging my mom to show me how she makes her sauce and meatballs!
Your mom didn't want you but due to our conservative government she couldn't afford an abortion.
Zhang5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:49:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's pretty much the entire learning process. You're not going to be around forever to do things for me, so I better learn how to learn to do what you do for me.
LAC1987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, that was my reasoning for learning to do laundry.
Not Facebook, this kind of thing has been posted to Reddit since I've been here. You're a Redditor for over a year and you seem to be active on it. You've got no excuse.
That's good, but I actually posted something good. It's eye bleach, which is pictures of hot women. Definitely worth the click. Don't believe me? Google that shit, it will tell you the same damn thing.
Huh. I've never actually clicked it before since it always comes up in threads where people are talking about spacedicks and I don't want to take the risk.
People often link it because before they click eyebleach they usually see something disgusting. Eye Bleach is there to make your brain forget the shit you just saw 5 seconds ago. Definitely worth the click, my friend. Seriously though, I don't joke about shit like this.
It just redirects you to your browser's cookie that refers to the FB account you're signed in as. If you have automatic signing not on then it would redirect you to Facebook's login.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when i was a real little kid and went to my mom's bed for whatever reason, she'd ask me what i would do when she died. so much for comforting me from my nightmares, mom
This and the following comments were funny, and so worth upvoting. That being said I would have upvoted anyway, just because they have so many fucking upvotes already. It`s nice being part of something.
My daughter had some imaginary friends for a couple years named Dodo, Ghana & The Evil. They just sort of appeared out of nowhere when she was about 2.5 years old. It started with Dodo and Ghana, then a few months later (she was about 3 at this point) she came up to me and told me with a creepily expressionless face: "The Evil is coming over today" and just walked away.
Turns out, The Evil was actually a pretty nice imaginary friend, she just had an unfortunate name.
I want to make this happen. I want it to be a punk/grunge band with Dodo as the lead singer.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:12:51 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... dot tumblr dot com
hg13 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:15:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sister had an imaginary friend named sam when she was three. I asked her where sam lived. She replied "she lives under your bed. She doesn't like you"
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:45:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds scary. Maybe I'm just imagining it from a movie where a child gets taken advantage of by an imaginary friend, but my mom always told me "The devil doesn't appear at your door with horns and a pitchfork."
I hope he has more subtlety than to name himself 'The Evil', though ;)
I am happy to report that my daughter is now 5 and The Evil still hasn't cause any problems. Actually, we moved about 3 months ago and she hasn't mentioned The Evil or any of her imaginary friends since we moved. I guess they stayed behind on the other side of the Atlantic.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:56:19 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're waiting. You know that feeling being watched? The shadow that moves in the corner of your eye? You know it's there.
I did that when I was a kid. I had an imaginary friend, then after a while I decided he should have an evil alter ego. I'd be curious to see how common this is in kids with imaginary friends.
[deleted] ยท 1670 points ยท Posted at 20:23:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Getting my two and a half year old daughter out of the bath one night, my wife and I were briefing her on how important it was she kept her privates clean. She casually replied "Oh, nobody 'scroofs' me there. They tried one night. They kicked the door in and tried but I fought back. I died and now I'm here." She said this like it was nothing. My wife and I were catatonic.
Cyprah ยท 1258 points ยท Posted at 23:23:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother said something similar to my grandma.
"I like this mummy better than my last mummy. My last mummy locked me in a room and I drank some paint and died."
Some actually think of it as the opposite - if someone dies not fulfilling their life goal, they are reincarnated and get to complete their task as a young person (then die with a soul at peace).
ajkeel ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:10:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:31:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This makes way more sense to me then a virgin giving birth to "god's" son
[deleted] ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 02:25:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 03:28:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He did not forget. His father wanted to debunk the story and hired a skeptic to help him debunk it, and the skeptic admitted he couldn't. They wrote a book about it together. The kid actually went to a squadron reunion and walked right up to people and identified them, calling them by nicknames, etc. Gave very specific details of "his" shootdown that his fellow airmen corroborated.
I'm a very skeptical person and this blows my mind.
A review from Amazon I thought helps give a rational skeptic's assessment of the book and story:
"This was a tragic case of child exploitation. Not only tragic for the boy's sake, but also the relatives of Mr. Huston who were indecently imposed upon to partake of this narcissistic folly.
So many reviewers have observed that the book seemed too focused on the parents' story, and not young James's story. There is a good reason for this, one so obvious to the skeptic but completely lost on the believer: This story, lock, stock, and barrel IS the parents' story. Perhaps not consciously or deliberately contrived, but from the beginning the "reincarnation" narrative was spoon fed and nurtured. Lo and behold, what do you know? ABC and the History Channel liked it, and now a book! Some day when James becomes a man, I would hope he emerges from his indoctrination to give his independent account, without his mother and father coaching from the sidelines.
There is abundant evidence that James's narrative just doesn't line up with certain facts. Facts that are left out of the book because they are so inconvenient to the narrative. Facts like the discovery that young James had visited an airplane museum when very young, and shortly after the visit his nightmares began. At the museum there was a Corsair exhibit.
The airplane Mr. Huston was shot down in was not a Corsair, but an FM-2 Tomcat, which is a completely different looking plane.
Reading these reviews, and the negative vote pounding one can expect if you offer a skeptical viewpoint, but an equally positive vote campaign one can expect if you provide a "believer's" perspective, this all sounds overly religious to me. It is obvious that the majority of readers want some supernatural explanation, and are positively phobic about rational, psychological explanations for young James Leininger believing he is the reincarnation of a World War II pilot. Unfortunately, there is no proof here, and the evidence is very loose, subject to a liberal degree of misinterpretation.
It seems very likely that what happened was young James's responses and expectations were reinforced--and I'm not saying deliberately reinforced, but reinforced in subliminal ways to conform to the "reincarnation" narrative.
Fails to convince, sorry. This is a fake story concocted by the parents. Some day I believe James will have to admit this to himself, and hopefully the rest of us."
Thumbz8 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:09:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to remain skeptical, but I believe in reincarnation much more now than before.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:13:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love this kind of stuff. it makes me think we're just not imaginative enough to come up with an explanation that makes sense in our world, so we resort to "must be reincarnation".
Wawis85 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:22:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Made me think of thw shell silverstein poem about old people going into a machine and coming out as babies again...
its how religion started. we were unable to explain something so we created something simple and general enough to cover almost everything. now we know we CAN explain things people who understand it have no reason to believe in god(s). there is probably some perfectly good explanation for these phenomenons but we don't have the tools to yet so we fall back on the simple and general explanation for things which will later be proved wrong.
Quantum physics may very well allow for non-linear time (I'm a big goose so I'm probably butchering this), or things in the future determining the past. Possible explanation?
I have a story like this. When I was 12 or 13, my family was on vacation in San Diego; I'd been born in Iowa and moved to Missouri when I was about 5. So my family walks into the train station in San Diego, and I suddenly remembered being there before, right as I walked up to the door and over the threshold it hit me. But I remembered being there as a little boy (I'm female), in what feels like the late 1800's or early 1900's. I was wearing a brown suit with short pants and leather shoes, and a cap, but it was hot in the train station. I remember sitting on a wooden bench waiting for a train, across from two older women who were fanning themselves and talking about the heat. I remembered looking up at the dust in the sunlight coming in through the windows in the ceiling, through the wooden beams, and when I looked up, the wooden beams were there. I walked across the whole open space talking to my parents about how I remembered all of this stuff, and then I walked up to a little historical display with a black-and-white (sepia, I guess) photo from when the station was new, and it had the wooden benches I remembered sitting on in it. I have NO CLUE where the hell this stuff came from. I kind of write it off as a 'weird feeling' but it really shook me at the time. I wasn't remembering a story, I remember looking at my short legs in front of me in itchy pants, and the smell of the varnish on the bench. I don't remember an entire life though, just those moments in the station looking at the dust, listening to the two women, and waiting for the train. I can't explain it at all.
edit: I looked up 'boy's suits' with years 1890, 1900, 1910, and 1920, the 1920s clothing looked closest to what I remember wearing. After looking at extensive lists of hats from the 20s (I had no idea what to search for as far as clothes went but I remembered my hat), I figured out that I had a flat cap, which, according to wikipedia, was worn by 'fashionable young men' in the 1920s. Wikipedia had a postcard with a picture of the station on it from about that time: http://i.imgur.com/uimWr.jpg I was wrong about the windows being on the ceiling, but the windows near the ceiling. I remember sitting and facing the train platform, and it was late in the day because the light was orange and coming pretty directly into the windows. I want to say I don't believe in reincarnation, but wtf. It wasn't like I was thinking about a boy, and what his life might have been like. It was like I couldn't stop remembering or thinking about it if I had tried, not like I was considering facts one at a time but like I just suddenly knew a whole bunch of new stuff about myself. To be honest I kind of want it to happen again, it was a pretty unique experience. My 12/13 year old brain didn't appreciate it for what it was.
Perhaps that train station is where you died? You should ask, if you ever go back, if a kid of approximately the age you think you were died at any point in the late 1800's/early 1900's, and then try and find photos and shit. It might open up more memories.
I had life skills that I "remembered" when I joined the navy such as knowing how to put my uniform on correctly without instruction. I remembered flashes of wearing the uniforms before, along with uniforms that are no longer used.
Reincarnation? I don't know, but it was strange.
wagashi ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:28:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hyperthymesia case here, means I have a photographic & involuntary memory. I retain memories from childhood mostly, and although i was a smart kid, I often remember screwing with my parents by talking about a past life, often saying things like "When I was a grown-up I have a kid just like me who killed me" and i remember sitting in my treehouse, with a friend who told me he often did the same thing. THis is possibly common amongst children. I knew I was smart but pretending to get simple facts wrong in order to be cute or gain attention seems to be something many of us did.
I saw this a few weeks back, it was really interesting. Apparently children who do have memories of past lives start to forget them after about 5 or 6 years old.
The Boy Who Lived Before
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
They say that children have stronger spiritual connections than we do. A few years a go, at the beach, my sister asked us "When's Aunt caroline going to get here?" even though she had never met, or even heard about the woman, didn't even know her name.
EDIT: My brother, just last year, started telling us his name was, something starting with R, I can't remember the name, Rokka or something. We googled the name to find out what it meant and it turned out being the name of some super samurai, this was right around the time he also expressed interst in Bruce Lee movies, martial arts, and sword fighting.
EDIT: Also, when my sister was still in the womb, we were expecting twins, but then the doctor said she had both of them miscarriage. A week later when she was supposed to go in and have them vacuumed out or whatever they do, they did another scan and found one of the twins was alive. sometime after that, they said it was a miscariage after all, and this happened a total of 3 times(one more).
I remember my mom telling me when I was younger that she thought I had a "psychic connection" to "unknown beings" and that she could tell when they were around, because I would drop everything I was doing and zone the fuck out..
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 01:24:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is when you do a search for deaths due to drinking paint. How many could there be? I'll look...
Welp, turns out humans have a fond taste for chemicals. Nevermind.
Cyprah ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:19:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He went on to explain that it was blue paint, if that narrows it down? :\
Iratus ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:32:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm afraid not. Blue chemicals are pretty tasty, aparently.
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 01:35:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, what if kids are actually remembering their past lives and eventually we just forget as we get older? WHOAAAAAaaaaa
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:13:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My aunt was reading a book about reincarnation once. She said she read that babies cry because they are remembering their death from their previous life.
Telmid ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:19:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. When my sister was little (like three or four), she explained about how she used to be black until the soldiers came to raid her village and how she died when they shot her family and set fire to the hut.
I'm still not sure if she somehow encountered the concept of Africa on the radio, or what. And she doesn't remember it anymore.
Arx0s ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The rare occasions in which small children have alluded to having violent experiences that led to previous deaths freak me the fuck out.
The most detailed one I ever heard was actually delivered second-hand through my friend's mother. Apparently beginning around the time my friend could form sentences until he was little more than 2, he would go on and on about how he was a Native American named Conchon and that after his wife and son got sick and died, he moved to a mountain to live by himself with his horse. He died of a broken neck when he fell into a ravine. Weird shit, man.
Isn't it? Apparently he would add pieces to the story all the time. I can't remember all the details, but it amounted to a terribly sad story of a very lonely man.
Edit: And, interestingly, my friend has no recollection of this.
red_280 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 01:43:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And this is why its so important to have your cameras out to record this stuff. It'd be nice to have concrete evidence of these cool incidents rather than just people relying on random anecdotes.
Apparently, the X-Files was secretly commissioned by digital camera manufacturers.
Klavier ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:28:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I am researching reincarnation thanks to this thread. It's a bit creepy considering the children know things in detail that they could not possibly have known unless they were actually those people at some point.
Yeah, it's odd when there are not only those oddly precise details, but adult elements, too. I think that's part of what really freaked out my friend's mom. He would talk about death as though he had this very clear understanding of it (which isn't unheard of for a child, I suppose, but it seems like it would be for a 2-year-old). And he would talk about food he ate and such and describe terrain pretty precisely. Very, very odd if she's not embellishing the account too much.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:33:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She probably will be biased and embellish. In any case, how do you know the kid couldn't have picked up inspiration from elsewhere? Kids are absolute sponges when it comes to knowledge. That is their purpose - to acquire knowledge. The way they learn and acquire language is phenomenal. This leads me to believe that it's perfectly possible for a two year old to see a movie or two, hear an adult conversation or two, and internalise that.
I addressed this in a comment somewhere in here. I've always been skeptical of her unfettered astonishment at the whole business. I mean, they had cable.
Maybe it's also useful for me to point out that I in no way believe in reincarnation or "past lives" in the supernatural way that some folks like to conceptualize them. The eerie, or at least interesting, part is how it all seemed so organic, when there is obviously some reasonable explanation.
That same friend and I had 4-5 Violent Femmes songs and 5 or so Sublime songs totally memorized by the time we were 6. Our mothers were baffled and outraged by all the drug references and foul language. Our fathers found it hilarious.
As someone who frequently gave details of a past life, I can confirm I have absolutely no recollection of the life I supposedly lived before this one, but I do remember one time when I was about five giving a detailed story of being a viking executing someone. I used to always give very detailed stories of when I 'was a viking on the ship' and they always went together. I said that I was part of the same family and what not. Later found out that my family actually was vikings hundreds of years ago, and the names I gave were real people. Again, I have absolutely no memories of the viking days, just the one time I told the story.
AshNazg ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 04:03:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Genetic memory? There's little to no basis for it in science but it'd be cool if it existed.
Didn't hear the names. No one in the family had read the book on the history and what not. And it's not like they were common names today, they were old scandinavian names and what not. Not saying I'm some weird reincarnation child. Just saying it's weird
It would make sense because so many people believe they used to be Napoleon of other famous people. Since thousands will have be descended from these people, that explanation would make more sense than a single soul being reincarnated.
I would like to know if any kid has ever claimed to be some famous person who was known to never have children.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:36:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When you look at the maths, we're all pretty much descended from everyone who lived historically anyway.
The reason is..each person has two parents, four grand parents, eight grandparents and so on. The numbers quickly stack up beyond the number of people who ever lived. So, clearly, there has to be overlap.
I have a few theories based on reincarnation relating to family ties and intelligence level. The main thought is that through each life people gain knowledge, atleast that's the goal. Every new life they're born with the knowledge of the past lives, basic facts, common sense, and a general sense of understanding the world better than some other more immature souls. This is the reason you see such immature teenagers and then you see kids who put them to shame. It's not necessarily their fault, their soul just hasn't been around long enough to pick up enough common sense. This is just the stoned thoughts of a 16 year old who thought too deeply about his freak thoughts when he was young though. I could be absolutely wrong and have a retarded theory, but I like it.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:38:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like your theory but I don't believe it. I think that variations like that in humanity are a necessity to keep us balanced. Like the political left & right, people who are introverted or extroverted. Plus the way you are raised makes a massive difference to how you turn out.
True. Like I said I'm just a kid who got stoned and thought up a theory that I thought was kinda cool. I agree with what you're saying though about the necessity for balance in the different types of people.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:34:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You probably heard people talking about it or explaining it. It's perfectly possible that a relative talked about that stuff to you without your parents knowing.
Like I said, no body even knew the book existed. Plus the stories I told had such detail that it is unlikely I could have just repeated it from being told, and there were a lot of stories. You don't have to believe me, but yeah.
Or maybe visions during near death experiences are caused by the way neurons fire as the brain dies and it's idiotic to make up new fantasies to explain those of children.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see why this is downvoted, it's the plausible explanation, even if it's not funny or romantic.
You realize they weren't talking seriously, right? Are you so insecure with your own identity that you feel the need to lash out at anyone who doesn't fit your norm? And you're kidding yourself if you think adults don't enjoy fantasy discussions and other such "5 year old" activities from time-to-time; just because we know more than a child doesn't mean we can't wonder from time to time. You seem like a pretty miserable person, I'd hate to be your child.
ok since I took with an Iphone it wasn't exactly steady, I might be able to take a better quality photo later on when the light is better. http://imgur.com/jvNgm
Look up Ian Stevenson he does research about children who remember past lives. A lot of times if someone died in a violent way they will have a birthmark mimicking the wound from the previous life. Its really interesting because the kids always remember their most recent past life so sometimes he can find medical files from the past life that have pictures of the wounds and compare them to the birthmark in the current life.
I doubt that would work with me considering we have nothing but plane crash, the current family favorite is WW2 pilot considering how many people were killed by sharks during that war.
Yeah I didn't think you could do that I just thought you might be interested in knowing a lot of people who remember past lives have birthmarks of where their wounds were
oh yeah I actually saw a documentary one something like that might not have been him, but there was a kid who had a perfectly circular birthmark on his stomach and his uncle who had died like a few months before he was born was killed by a shotgun blast to the gut.
Wait--so this is actually a thing? Is there a name for this phenomena? I've never heard of it before.
pfohl ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 00:32:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation and near death experiences normally fall under parapsychology. Obviously there hasn't been anything definitive but it's worth looking into. These sorts of things are widespread throughout different world cultures. If their false, there's probably something causing it within our psychology that would be illuminated.
I really don't have an inclination (I like Sagan's views a lot) either way but it's always reflecting on mysteries will always be revealing.
My father is a firm believer in reincarnation; he grew up in a small village in Lebanon and is part of the Druze religion, a very small sector of Islam that you are born in to. After reading these (creepy) posts I asked him about it, and of course his answer was reincarnation. The interesting thing that he noted though, that is absolutely true, is that all these children claimed to have died from freak accidents. According to what my dad believes, he claims that a child will remember his past life more vividly if the person beforehand died suddenly. When someone ages and dies peacefully, in most cases their memory is already gone (ie. Alzheimer's, dementia, etc) so the next life (the child) really doesn't have any specific memory...just thought I'd share! It's truly an interesting phenomenon, especially in cases where young children are talking about things they have never been exposed to before.
I've heard that too. My mom and grandma were big into Native American tradition and Edgar Cayce's books; reincarnation was just kind of an accepted truth in our household. Glad you posted this.
Apparently when I was an infant, I was flat-out terrified of fighter jets going over. Other loud noises didn't phase me at all, but the moment the jets started (we were military, lived near the air base), I'd just lose it. Coupled with the claustrophobia I appear to have been born with, my mom always wondered if there was some violent death-memory there.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:35:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For the sake of science;
How does your father explain the increasing number of souls in the system?
I myself always try to look at things in a scientific light as well. When I asked him the question, he first inquired where there is proof stating that there are increased "souls." Yes the human population increases every day, but a head count by no means says that souls have increased, just bodies. The same souls are recycled over and over. In the Druze religion they also believe that souls can by reincarnated from outside of our own realm as well; outside from Earth essentially. They consider the entire universe. He also stated that when people consider reincarnation, they sometimes omit the natural disasters that have occurred that have killed thousands of people at the same time, so right there that's already thousands of souls possibly being reincarnated. Hopefully none of this sounds condescending, because he by no means wanted to sound this way, but this is what he grew up believing and I respect that. He has never pushed his beliefs on me, which is great, but it certainly is an interesting thing to consider. Some stories (like the ones on this thread) are pretty mind blowing.
I think Buddhists would be inclined to say that life is an infinite and ever-changing thing, and that a bird may be reincarnated into a human or a human into an ant depending upon karma. It's all a never-ending cycle of death and rebirth until you become enlightened.
Brain Weiss who writes books about using hypnotic regression to remember past lives say there are more relems for souls to live and learn in than just earth. Some day earth might end but there will be other places for souls to go.
pfohl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's interesting, various smaller religions are fascinating. Where you raised in it at all?
Both of my grandmothers died in the past eighteen months and both were in hospice programs. So as a family member I was recommended various books. The thing that stuck with me most was considering death/dying as a process not a singular event. (Obviously that is different to those who die in an accident.) There seems to be some of that wisdom there.
Nope; my father moved to the states in the late 70's and married my mother who was raised Roman Catholic. I did not have a religious upbringing whatsoever. I actually consider myself at the moment to be agnostic and I try to be open minded about everything. I was able to understand both religions in my household. I didn't have to go to church, read the Bible, or anything like that. My mom just believed in being a good person and Heaven and Hell, she wasn't an extremist about her religion, which is awesome. Honestly, there are a lot of Druze in Lebanon, but it IS a small sector of Islan. I don't think they really do anything to promote the religion at all; I am pretty sure you are born in to it. Their main prophet is Abraham and they firmly believe in reincarnation...even in my dad's village, they took it so seriously that when someone they knew passed away, they would spread news to nearby villages in hopes of finding their passed loved one again in a newborn. It sounds a little intense to me, but I respect his beliefs. :) And what you said about death being a process....wow! I think those words are going to stick with me as well; very powerful.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If he accepts that dementia diminish the memory, how does he explain the memories of healthy brains being 'transferred' to the new body? I think that either there is an external 'store' and brain disease erodes your ability to access it, or there is not.
More philosophical buddhists don't believe in reincarnation as in we're just a continuation of you in different lives. They think that the world just continues and the world produces others. I dunno, I watched this today.
Might be a bit off, there was marijuana involved in the making of this post...
Admittedly, this is all third (fourth?) hand, so I in no way vouch for its validity, but my mother told me this story once that a woman she worked with told her, about how her son used to speak French in his sleep, even though he couldn't speak French while awake. It turned out he had been having a series of dreams where he was a French fur trader in colonial era America (or pre-colonial?).
Whether or not some/all of this was exaggerated in transmission from person to person, I can't say. But I always thought it was a really bizarre story.
mugs79 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:20:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would wonder if an actual French speaker could understand any of his sleep talking, or if it was just gibberish she thought sounded like French. Still though, adds to the creepiness of all of this.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:42:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. My SO woke up the other night talking gibberish. I know, I'll claim it was some language that no one can ever verify!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, because children are mental sponges and have good imaginations.
iLoiter ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 00:54:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it may have to do with the fact that children sometimes can't differentiate their dreams/wild imaginations with reality. That's why they are creepy little fucks.
Very true. And I have always been skeptical of my friend's mom's certainty that this all magically came out of my friend's head. I mean, come on, they owned a television.
I've considered this--among other explanations--but when a child is 2, they're not often alone. Certainly my kids weren't watching movies without my awareness. When they said stuff like this, I thought back on how they'd have gotten that info and didn't come up with anything.
Before it happened to me, I would have guessed the kids were coached even if subconsciously.
Is there any scientific explanation to why kids would create these memories?
Tatters ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:37:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It might be possible that a very young child's brain during early development has difficulty separating subconscious \ conscious thoughts. So what they are seeing is essentially a very vivid walking dream. As they mature, the brain would be more able to separate those types of thoughts which probably explains why most adults no longer have thoughts like those. Just a hunch though, I'm by no means qualified to answer.
RicoVig ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:16:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Little children usually say that because they don't understand the meaning of 'death.' They think that if you die, you can go to the doctor and get 'fixed'
but yea, the Indian thing is still pretty fucking weird.
A dream, perhaps? My brain has come up with the weirdest shit while it's supposed to be resting.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:43:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but the kid was around two years old. I doubt he'd know about native americans and the rest of the stuff. Its still freaky though. My brain comes up with crazy shit normally but when I'm sleep deprived because of insomnia,that is when the creative shit comes out. I only wish I could remember to write down everything word for word to have good/crazy stories.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:27:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:27:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
According to my father, when I was a toddler I had a nightmare and woke up screaming, and told him about how I was stuck in a burning building with a bunch of people jumping out windows. Keep in mind, we lived in an incredibly rural town in Portugal at the time and had no television or internet, so there was no way the concept or image of a burning highrise could have gotten into my head. My father thought it was weird, and wondered if that could have been how I died in a past life or something.
It's interesting -- I've heard about a theory that memories of the experiences of our human ancestors could have been hardwired into our consciousnesses, sort of in the way that instincts get passed through generations of animals. And since our dreams mark the point at which our minds are more open and tend to process problems, those memories get thrown into the mix and pervade the narratives of our dreams. So, when children dream about being chased by animals or monsters, or having other similarly primal dreams like that, they are tapping into vestigial memories from ancestors waaay back (like, at the run from wild animals all the time stage) and analyzing them. So if there's anything to that, maybe that's part of the reason why kids seem to have access to memories they could not have actually developed in their own lives.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's an incredibly interesting theory, but how could that be scientifically tested? Have there been studies about it?
Also, I'm trying to figure out your username. Backwards - than_sawte, or German - something_not?
German! It's from a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. He verbs the noun -e Naht, which means seam or weld -- basically, a connection of some sort. So it amounts literally to "something drawing nearer/becoming fused."
Here's the poem (it's title-less)
*
Ich bin auf der Welt zu allein und doch nicht allein genug,
um jede Stunde zu weihen.
Ich bin auf der Welt zu gering und doch nicht klein genug,
um vor dir zu sein wie ein Ding,
dunkel und klug.
Ich will meinen Willen und will meinen Willen begleiten
die Wege zur Tat;
und will in stillen, irgendwie zรถrgernden Zeiten,
wenn etwas naht,
unter den Wissenden sein
oder allein.
*
And here is an okay translation (courtesy of I don't know who):
I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
to make every hour holy.
I am too small in the world, and yet not tiny enough
just to stand before you like a thing,
dark and shrewd.
I want my will, and I want to be with my will
as it moves towards deed;
and in those quiet, somehow hesitating times,
when something is approaching,
I want to be with those who are wise
or else alone.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:01:25 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, now I do remember part of how it was tested. Apparently it had to do with the sectors of the brain that were active during the dream. I forget precisely what part of the brain was active, but it had to do with a portion that was related to more basic functions, different from the areas that conventionally fire during dreams.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:42:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to date this guy, and we took a little camping trip together to get away one weekend. We were hanging out by the river when my boyfriend just stopped what he was doing, crouched down and grabbed some arrow heads from inside the rock crevice. It was so weird because neither of us had ever been to that river or town before, and he couldn't have seen the artifacts before hand because it was so deep down. He said he felt like he left something in the hole so he just stuck his hand in and pulled them out. It was incredible. I guess he left them there in another life!
I laughed when I read Conchon and thought it was a joke, then I read the rest and it freaked me out.
biddily ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least my little sister (aged 2 at the time) didn't rant about her death - it was more she just ranted about her previous life. 'Before I lived with you I lived in Chicago and rooted for the white sox.' Creepy shit man, creepy shit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:36:22 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody should search for a bunch of these sort of stories, and then see if the person they claimed to have been actually existed.
I wonder why they say things like that and tell amazingly crazy stories like that? Is it past lives or imagination or influence or mental disorder peeking through? Someone; with kids/PHD in psychology of Children/Smart with lots and lots of around children experience explain this to me!
I know a woman who's kid won't go anywhere without wearing two pairs of socks. Anytime you try to remove the socks, he'll scream and shout and resist. His mom had to change them in his sleep. She once forgot to put them on him, and he wouldn't move or say a word until she put them back on, like he was paralyzed.
This woman, being sort of spiritual, took the kid to a fortune teller. The fortune teller said that in a past life this kid was hung by his feet and tortured, somehow. She said this without even knowing about the socks. I don't know how much truth there is in this spiritual stuff, but that seemed pretty convincing.
I think if there is such a thing as a past life, it makes sense that kids are the most aware of them. Maybe as we get older, we begin to forget? I don't know, but it's definitely kept me awake and thinking some nights.
my mom says my bro and I used to talk about being in mommy's tummy and saying it just wasn't his time. Also I would talk to thin air and not like imaginary friends... And that I died in a fire And my bro drowned... I wish I could remember that!
I've heard a theory before that your greatest fear as a child, or even as an adult, is whatever you died from in your past life. For example, my greatest fear is fire, or my house burning down while I'm asleep inside, so I could have died in a house fire in my past life.
The word Conchon means Mattress in Spanish. Poor Mattress.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my sister went to play with a neighbor's kids (we had just moved into a new neighborhood, so they didn't know much about us). anyway after play time their mom confronts mine- telling them she's so sorry madeline's real mom, dad, and baby brother died in a fire blah blah blah
This story isn't really a child related one but to relate to a type of past life thing, my grandpa told me one. He does have Native American heritage, and a lot of it. He told me he's had a certain dream several times where he was a Crow indian and a "white man soldier" was chasing him down. He then sliced him on the chest with the sword he had. The reason why this was so strange because apparently, in the same spot where his dream self was sliced at, my grandpa's hair is parted there as if it were a scar. There is no scar, just hair parted. It was interesting to hear.
That's very odd. When I was little, 2 or 3, my twin sister and I would talk about our "past lives". I too claimed to have been a Native American. I still have the image of myself being an Indian with bison around me except I didn't look like me. Freaked my grandmother the fuck out, lemme tell you that.
Ralain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son started telling his grandmother about a visit to a slaughterhouse. It was in an old barn. Animals were hanging from the beams, and the blood drained on the floor. Some were gutted; some still whole. He described tools on the wall. He told her about my reaction. None of it happened, yet he was adamant. Absolutely bizarre.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My six year old told me a tale of where he lived before he came to be who he is now, and wove a majestic tale of a planet with no crime, flying vehicles, earthen homes, and keyless ignitions. He even told me the passcode to start the vehicle he owned. He was killed when a flying vehicle crashed into his home.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently he did. He used the word "Indian," which I changed to rule out confusion. And he did not specifically use the word "ravine," just described one. The whole narrative was in child-speak, but his meaning was apparently clear.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But there is probably nothing supernatural going on.
For reincarnation to work and the kid to have memories, you'd need somewhere those memories could be stored and retrieved. Your memories are stored in your physical brain. When you die, it rots and they are gone. There is no evidence of anything resembling a soul or any external entity that stores memories.
Obviously we don't know everything about the universe, which is why I say 'probably'.
I had a dream about death when I was very young and the memory of it now is as vivid as any real life memory from my early days. I think it's highly likely that these kids had a dream and/or saw a movie at some point that they came to believe really happened. It's condescending to say kids are fanciful creatures, but any human being can be tricked into false memories if you know what to do, and little kids have less knowledge about the world to help them decide between what is real, what is feasible etc.
These type of things make me wonder how intelligent young children really are. Maybe they're geniuses but most just can't communicate the thoughts going through their minds.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:17 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
somebody should check that out...If Conchon was real and nobody found his body....you'd be famous for a) finding him and b) proving re-incarnation!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:02 on August 26, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of the common things (who was that famous researcher at harvard who did all the hypnosis?) is really young children remembering past lives. I used to not buy into all that, but now I'm not sure.
A kid up the block who's only 5 remembed a past life where he claimed his house caught fire, and he died when he was a teenager. Sure enough a little digging we found the story and he was able to tell us things that we could ONLY find on the public library microfilm.
Thorns ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 23:50:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Wow, I didn't know this was a common thing. I remember when I was very little (about 3 or 4) I told a waitress at Bennigans about how I had another family before being separated when our house caught fire. I remember prattling on about this story after we left the restaurant and my sister was carrying me through the parking lot. My family thought I was just making up some nonsense story based off a television show (seeing as I'm not adopted/ had not experienced fire outside of the kitchen setting). While that is probably all it was, I do find it odd I that would have a strong memory of telling a story that out of character (as most of my stories were centered around Disney Princesses and the Muppets) after all these years....
Now this thread has me spooked out @_@
wes337 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:10:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was younger, my mother told me I did nearly the same thing. Always talking about my "family before this family". SPOOKY
Well she was most likely outclassed, and according to her story still managed to successfully thwart said attacker/s from their intended purpose.
Correlate: the Spartans at Thermopylae.
Tfish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:06:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I'm planning to rape you, and then end up killing you in the process I'm probably not going to stick around to have sex with your dead body. Actually even if they did have sex with the body she wouldn't know because she was already dead.
I don't know if I'd say she thwarted them from their intended purpose unless she like killed all of them, and later died from wounds sustained during the fight. Even if she did stop them from raping her, she met with a fate arguably worse than that.
Correlate: Burning your house down to stop someone from robbing it.
She never mentioned them having sex with her. So that first bit is all your imagination. I don't think dying is the worse outcome there, going down fighting is dying on your own terms and I think most people would prefer that over getting raped. The suffering doesn't end when they finish up.
Oh ok I see so the 2 year olds hypothetical past life should definitely have just let it happen and there is nothing commendable in someone whose instinct is to fight back, my lesson here is learned.
I've always wondered why I always get all teary eyed over WW1. None of the other wars I cant think of bother me in the slightest, but that one always gets me.
tmelee ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:44:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My toddler did say things like that when we were visiting old family, and claiming that one specific artifact was his and that he had been cheated out of it. He then said the name of the surviving spouse, "tell him to give me back my boat."
This is what Ian Stevenson would have called a "case of the reincarnation type." Sadly, he died a few years ago. I'm not sure if anyone has continued his research, but if so, you should get in contact with them.
jax9999 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:37:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when i was a very little kid i used to tell my family about my real family and how we all died in a car accident. my grandfather shrugged it off as me being an old soul. i don't remember it at all.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:24:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's actually a lot of stories like this. there's a youtube video I saw a few months ago called "The boy who lived before." I just hope it never happens whenever I have children, I'd have no clue how to handle it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qXmgUexYo and here's the video
My son was also around 2 and a half when he finally told us why he had always feared/disliked uniformed police officers. "The bad police man killed my friend when we were in jail." No, we did not watch police/crime shows in front of our son or expose him to any negativity about police officers. We were shocked by his certainty and didn't pursue it with further questioning. He is 17 years old now and doesn't recall any of this. Oh, and he has no residual aversion to police officers! : )
mugs79 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't usually read to far into these sort of casual ask reddit threads, but I saw this title and though, 'this thread will deliver.' You have delivered.
Past life experience. Not uncommon. If you ever get a chance during a quiet moment, ask her about when she was big. If shes not already too old, it might come through.
Or... childish babbling, a combination of half-understood TV and dreams?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:10:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, seriously. Kids are like tape recorders, they see bits of news, television, etc. and might not understand it, but can repeat it. If there was something to past life kids stories, there would have been irrefutable documentation by now.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ed2417 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My ex's nephew at three did something similar. Parents brought home a frame from a department store stuffed with a generic picture of a sailboat. Kid asks where they got the picture from. They told him and then asked why he was interested. "Because that's the boat I died in."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I made stuff up when I was little, mostly about being a kid who died from the spanish flu around 1918. The thing was, even though I was a precocious kid, I hated medicine and was more of a mythology kid. I scared my parents shitless while I talked about inflamed lungs and how temperature affected my brain's ability to grasp what was going on. I ended it by telling my mom my last thoughts were about how fuzzy the world was. It ended up being an adverse effect of having a pre-med student babysitting me. Good times.
My mum told me once that she and my dad mentioned hiking in the mountains when we were planning a holiday. I was three at the time and said "I like mountains. My other mummy and daddy took me there once."
Replying to this comment so most people see it - I'd recommend watching the documentary "The boy who lived before" which was created by Channel 5 here in the UK. It's along a similar vein of a young child who seems to be able to remember aspects from a previous life and his family trying to understand it. I found it very interesting.
I am very intrigued in the idea of maybe un-suppressing these "memories" later on in life. I wonder how this kid would react 20 years later when put under hypnosis and asked about it.
Pyryara ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister would say that her real mommy and daddy died in a car crash but it's ok because she loves her new parents too. This was her story up til she was like 3 I think and then forgot
There's a documentary called "The Boy Who Lived Before" that talks about a couple of cases similar to this. The boy remembers living on an island near to his home and remembers his past mother. You can find it on youtube and google video.
That is terrifying....and reminds me of that 1970s novel and film Audrey Rose. When really young kids say things like that you do have to wonder about reincarnation. Truly. I can understand your catatonic state after....
HeyOP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:52 on November 23, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin's kid when he was around 4 or 5 came into the bathroom as I was straightening my hair. He closed the door, looked at me and said: "I don't want to kill you."
Creepy. He's 13 now and whenever I tell him the story he just laughs his ass off.
gdrocks ยท 831 points ยท Posted at 19:29:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I don't want to kill you...but if you don't get me some cookies your ass is grass, PuppyBreath."
My sons were about 2 and 4 when their pet goldfish died. I attempted to use the situation as an opportunity to discuss death and mortality. After I finished my explanation, my four year looked up at me with his big, blue eyes and asked, "Mommy, someday, will you die?" My heart filled with love and a little sadness, knowing this was one of those pivotal moments when the first bit of childhood innocence was lost,and I told him yes, someday, mommy will die.
"Good," he said with a totally deadpan expression, and walked out of the room.
Later when we were about to flush the fish, he asked if we could eat him instead. I said no, we don't eat pets because we love them, and he said, "When you die, I'm going to eat you."
Ratava ยท 1804 points ยท Posted at 20:13:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I wonder what my generation's children are going to think of the Internet when they grow up. How easy will it be to trace out your parents' lives? With a quick Google, they'll find things about their parents that they never would've learned otherwise. For example... Someday, your sons might discover that their mommy used to comment online under the name "ClitorisMaximus." How will they feel?
[deleted] ยท 1110 points ยท Posted at 21:41:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Dammit, grandpa! Stop upvoting my r/GoneWild posts!"
I feel sorry for our children, having to share the internet with us.
The internet was invented back in Roman days (Romans invented everything, you know) and they've been cycling ever since. We just get tricked into thinking that computers are 'recent inventions' and the internet is the natural modern conclusion of all this.
Also, aliens walk among us and at least 5 different governments want to kill me.
It might lower teenage pregnancy.. think about it.. make it 25 or 30 years and everyone would wait until the 25th or 30th year is up before they have children so the kids wouldn't get put in the same internet as them.
They will have been archived by then. That means you can't vote on them!! LOL NOOB.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:23:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, he's saying that in the future his granddaughter (or son) will be posting on Reddit at the same time he is... and he'll upvote his grandchildren on gonewild. It's touching, really
Out of curiosity, how'd you get started with that? My wife likes to write erotica, but she's never even posted any of it online, let alone publish it, due to insecurities (not related to the subject matter, she just doesn't think it's good - I wouldn't really know, since it's not my thing really). I'd love to be able to help her attain her dream of getting paid to write.
It's not hard to get into. Just write something, polish it, have a few others read it and get feedback (preferably someone with experience in writing, editing, or something along those lines) and edit it some more. Then you just take the plunge and submit it to a publisher or, if you know what you're doing self-publish it.
Source: I've published 6 erotic-romances and work on the editing staff for two erotic romance publishers.
I would love that job. Do you have a degree in English or journalism or anything? Or is it just one of those, "Loved it so I applied and it worked out" things?
I'm finishing my degree in English at the end of the summer. I got lucky. I applied to work with a new publishing house that was opening up, passed their test, and got hired. It pretty much snowballed from there. I met with some different publishing houses at conventions like Authors After Dark and was able to network and find new jobs. Original house has since folded and I'm now working with two well respected houses.
I get paid pretty well. I average anywhere from $1,000-$1,300 for about forty hours of work. However, since I'm currently a full time student, I don't work forty hours every week. Can't wait until I'm done school and have the time/energy to work 40 hours every week.
I read 5 pages and threw it away. It was like a mildy retarded teenager wrote it. I read here on reddit, that it was originally Twilight fan fiction. So it makes sense that it was written so badly.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or, eventually, a whole world of masturbating...
lyrrael ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad writes erotica on the side. There is a whole world of wtf out there for me. I totally feel your kids' future pain.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Since you said your kids were once 2-4 Im guessing they are older now. Once they start being interested in sexual things have you thought about using your novels as a example?
I can't believe we're still using dude in 2032... My 2012 self hopes that something new and completely random comes along. Like "Jedi, I just found 412 pictures of my mom doing a duckface and that my dad spent his whole time making a load of misogynist comments on reddit.com"
Also, pretty exciting that in 2032 we will still be able to count to 412 (Zaphod Beeblebrox would be happy to know this).
Why do you believe search results would return anything relevant from 20 years in the past? They won't. The only place I can find any of my internet for even 10 years is on the way back machine.
If you don't go through and delete old Facebook posts, and Facebook is still up and running in 20 years, there's no reason that today's stuff wouldn't show up, especially with the timeline feature as it stands today.
That's assuming Facebook is still around and relevant. The internet has this way of cleaning house over time, like designed bit-rot.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ten years is about right, since that's when it really started to take off. The internet is 'bigger' now. Also, you have the way back machine. Do you think that will not be there in some form in the future?
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 21:27:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've already found out more than I want to know about my family heritage with Ancestry.com. I don't want the future generations of my family finding all the links to all of the screen names I'll ever hold in my entire life. The 1999 Yahoo Chat days were something no one needs to know about me.
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[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:20:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Luckily, without providing an accurate screen name you'll never know what happened the first time I ever lived alone, with a mic and webcam. But I'm sure everyone's imagination would be nearly correct.
[deleted] ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 21:10:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I believe I may start a game of Civilization as the Romans and pretend that I am ClitorisMaximus, the living God of my people! You just made my day better.
As a child of internet savvy parents, I would really rather not know anything about their online ventures and I sincerely hope my future children will feel the same way.
I've spent some time thinking about this and what that will be like. Even though I have a healthy relationship with them, I honestly don't know much about what my grandparents are really like, just who they are in front of me. Nevermind what they were like when they were yoing. Same, to a somewhat lesser extent, with my parents. But our generation documents absolutely everything. If they're willing to go through it, our kids and grandkids are going to know exactly how we felt and what we were thinking about all sorts of mundane bullshit.
In a way I do wish I knew those things about my grandparents and beyond that. I've never been able to know them (three of my grandparents passed away before I was born), and I would be curious to know more about them... anything at all, really. My parents didn't seem to pay attention to anything at all, so when I ask I get pretty much nothing. XD
Oh yeah, me too. I love my grandmother, but I wish I knew her as a more fleshed out human being. People are so much more interesting than what's on the surface, family members included.
Sometimes our parents and grandparents leave behind journals and diaries for us to go through, but we'll leave rich multimedia experiences.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:10:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Having been raised by ClitorisMaximus, I bet they will laugh their asses off. I know 3 young men raised by a very raunchy and funny mom. It seems to have ended up just fine. They do not seem traumatized or embarrassed. Her creative punishments come up in conversation often and they are so good, they make me want kids for about .2 seconds.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seconding this. Please do tell. I've been told by multiple people that my personality is like the mother from Meet the Fockers, so I'd really like to hear how someone with children integrates a similar personality.
I am new to Reddit, so forgive me if I do not yet understand the rules, I have said this to another poster. My favorite story of hers is that whenever her boys would act like an ass in public, she would make them sing what she called the punishment song, out loud, and in front of everyone, and it was this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDPMmaHWj1I
It'll be weird watching "I love the '10s" or whatever in the future and them talking about the duckface like it was the equivalent of wearing bell bottoms in the 70s.
nameeS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:28:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine it will be similar to how you don't want to be facebook friends with your parents. No one will want to be digitally associated with their parents in the future either.
I literally stopped going to one of my favorite forums because of some of the things I posted there. By the time my daughters are old enough to be savvy, there will be no links between me and that place.
That's a fucking rad-ass username! I don't normally read usernames, I would have missed that if I didn't read your comment. It would probably feel good knowing my mom was a baller.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I anticipate it will be something to the effect of
"You mean the internet had things other than Coke ads and internet banking?"
JAsherP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Opa would search our names on Google and he found a page from that mentioned my mom's high school and said that she was married to a guy who was insanely obsessed with her when she was younger. She isn't married to him. Haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:44 on August 15, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And thats the story of grampa I_FISTED_JESUS. He died of a a mysterious infection on his forearm.
upvoted and thanks for the laugh. Horrible for you, but from a listeners perspective, it could be seen as completely hilarious how you tried to do the best you could on a very important day, and that things then backfired in a very creepy way.
It totally is. After finding nemo came out many kids started flushing their fish down the toilets... one water company actually had to come out and make a statement about it.
...drain pipes do lead to the ocean -- eventually -- but first the fluid goes through powerful machines that shred solids into tiny particles. In truth, no one would ever find Nemo and the movie would be called 'Grinding Nemo'"
I think that if you really love your pet, you should eat them when they die. Not only would they do the same thing to you, they would consider it to be a high honor.
Not nearly as creepy as some of the comments here, but a while back my four-year-old daughter and I were visiting a friend of mine, and during a conversation about pets, the concept of death came up. My daughter asked the obvious questions four-year-olds ask about death, and I explained, as gently and positively as I could, that yes, every living creature dies, it's a normal part of life, and we miss our friends and family when they die but we remember the good times we had with them and move on and make new friends. My daughter said, "When I die, you will be sad."
Creeped me right out that she jumped to her death and my reaction to it first, instead of the usual childhood concern of being left alone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I just woke the house with laughter.
YGMIC ยท 1407 points ยท Posted at 19:37:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Backwards, as I remember saying this to my dad when I was little.
When I was probably around 6 or 7, I had no idea what sex was or how making babies worked. I just thought that if you loved someone, you'd eventually end up being pregnant and having a baby. So one day, I randomly said to my dad "one day I might end up having a baby with you". Which probably creeped him out no end.
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[deleted] ยท 1152 points ยท Posted at 22:00:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Freud just rolled in his grave... from joy.
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[deleted] ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 22:05:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You... I like you...
Lihiro ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 23:39:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. He also named it the Electra Complex. Thank you Freud and you Greeks out there.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:10:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it was Carl Jung who proposed the Electra Complex. Freud came up with the male equivalent before Jung and called it the Oedipus Complex. Besides the different genders, there are some other differences in the theories as well.
This is actually completely normal behavior at that age. It's not that children have sexual feelings for their parents, they're just starting to see how the two sexes pair up and mom or dad are the most readily available and they already love them.
This brings back so many sad memories...after my mom left my dad used to cry in his room, I'd go in and rub his back and tell him not to worry, that when I was old 'nuff I'd marry him.
nanikun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sis said the same thing when she was about that age. Except my mom replied that she would have to divorce dad first. And then my sister started bawling.
Naw, don't worry. At that age all you know is that you have to marry someone. The example couple I had was a Male/Female relationship, and I knew that you love the person you marry. The two males in my life at that point whom I loved were my brother and my father. I think it's a fairly typical response, especially for young girls, to want to marry their daddy. I don't know about boys thinking they'll marry their mom/sister, but I wouldn't freak out unless they're still playing this game in 5-10 years.
Seicair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom tells me about once when I was.. I dunno, <5. Maybe <3 (before my brother was born.) I don't remember it at all. I asked both of my parents "How long have we been married?"
z3m ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:05:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOL. My parents had a couple friend and the husband had a big beard. For some reason, when I was 5 I thought that was super cute. Once, at the dinner table, I announced to the table that I wanted to make babies with him, lmao! My mom said, in front of everyone "That's very sweet, but "Bob" is already married to "Lisa"."
"So I'll kill Lisa and Bob and I can live happily ever after like a fairy princess."
Silence...
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:24:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew proudly declared that girls were gross, but he was going to marry me when he got older. When my mom asked why his aunt wasn't gross (seeing as I am a girl), he says: "She's not a girl. She's a laaaady."
Let us hope you also did not want to kill your mother.
YGMIC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, I did not want to kill my mother.
Xenasis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or so you thought!
Remember, Freudian psychology is all subconcious.
Obviously Freud has since been questioned, if his psychosexual stages ARE stages people go through, you DID subconciously want to kill/remove from the equation your mother.
When a man and a woman love each other very much...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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YGMIC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:55:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My boyfriend is fine with me saying things like that to him. :)
Cyprah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I really want to know what his response was.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have another "backwards" story. I was really really young (5 or 6), sitting in the living room with my mom. For whatever bizarre reason, my young mind assumed at the time that any country that wasn't the US was an enemy of ours... so I asked my mom out of nowhere, "Mom, if we're the most powerful country in the world why don't we just nuke all the other countries?" She looked at me like I was a psycho, and I didn't understand why she was so mad
I used to pick flower petals like Ariel did in The Little Mermaid, saying, "Daddy loves me, he loves me not! Daddy loves me, he loves me not!". He was my first crush, weird as it is. *like 4 years old.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I recently had to have the "where babies come from" talk with my seven year old. I got about half way through my monologue, and she stopped me with an upraised hand and said, "Dammit, mom. I really don't want to know this!"
Thats normal. My baby brother until he was about 8 told my mom everyday he was going to marry her. He thought people had babies in their hearts when they loved each other and the heart babies would drop to the belly to come out.
so he'd say everyday "Mommy we're going to have babies in our hearts"
Sad thing is now he draws Swastika trees and he probably won't be able to have any kids....
I know. Before I had "The Talk" with my parents, I thought thats exactly how it worked. Just fall madly in love with someone and when you were ready you ad a baby. But unfortunatly I was wrong o_o
Weirded me out man
Similar story- When I was little, before I had any idea what sex actually was, I used to jump into bed with my mum and say 'Let's have sex!' I meant cuddle. Mum now tells this story to everyone and I nearly die of embarrassment EVERY freakin time!
Similar story- When I was little, long before I knew what sex was, I used to climb into bed with my mum and say 'Lets have sex!' I meant cuddle. Now she tells that story to everyone and I nearly die of embarrassment EVERY freakin' time!!
YGMIC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:32:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother used to do things like that, when my mum was giving him a kiss goodnight he just says "we've been snogging" when I walked in.
She then had to explain what snogging meant to him. Lol
I posted this up in the thread a little earlier, but after 3 kids my mom wanted to stop and had a dream that a blonde little girl with green eyes came to her in a dream and begged her not to stop, otherwise she'd never be born.
My mom is thoroughly convinced that I was sent by God so I could be born.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And you are the blonde little girl with green eyes right?
I was born with black hair and blue eyes so she figured I wasn't her, but the hair all fell out and grew in blonde and my eyes changed to green... but by then she was already pregnant with my sister. But yeah according to her I'm her angel baby.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:06:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
but the hair all fell out and grew in blonde and my eyes changed to green
My parents thought it was weird too. I thin black hair and one day it all kind of shed???? and a few months later it grew in a fair blonde colour. I've seen pictures before of when I was a few weeks old and my hair was REALLY dark and then a few months old and my hair is white blonde.
Also some babies are born with blue eyes and they change to the colour they are meant to be later. My niece has hazel eyes but she had the most gorgeous blue eyes when she was born....
That happened to me too. (The hair, not the eyes.)
I was born with stark black hair, and it all fell out, grew back in blonde, and is now a medium brown color.
But as far as I know my eyes have always been this color.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow that's so creepy.. Any idea on how it could change?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:12:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
have no idea. But it was dark and then light, it got darker as I got older, kind of an Ashen blonde now. My mom said it was weird, my hair wasn't too thick or anything and I kind of just shed it like an animal does, went totally bald for a while and then grew it in light. Like maybe I wasn't the angel baby... but wanted to be :p
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like maybe I wasn't the angel baby... but wanted to be
One time I woke up (I have no idea what I had been dreaming of) and my first thought was "need to check on the twins." (As in babies, not my breasts.) It seemed so natural and normal that it almost felt like a physical shock when I remembered a second later that I do not have children. I don't intend on having any either.
I had a dream like that too, I had a kid named Ben and he was the cutest thing ever. I've always really liked that name, and ever since then, I've been pretty sure that if I ever have a son, I'm naming him Ben! I can't really remember what he looked like though, just that he was about 3 years old in the dream.
I dreamed I had a baby named Gloria, and throughout the dream I was really confused, not because I knew I didn't have a baby but because I would never name my child Gloria.
Okuhou ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:43:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hallucinate too sometimes when I wake up. It's soooooooooo weird cause sometimes I'll imagine my friends or my classmates in the room with me, and if my classmates are there then I get all embarrassed cause I think I'm falling asleep in class and everyone is watching me ha.
While Playing classroom with my three year old brother he made an off handed coment about being in my mothers belly twice. I was amused and said oh really. He preceeded to tell me in amazing detail being inside our mother. He told me about it being warm and that he liked it but he always felt sick. One day he got so sick that "they" came and told him he had to leave. He didnt want to so they promised him he would get to came back again and back to our mom. So he left and they let him come back again and this time he didnt feel sick. I lost my mind and
started screaming for my mother. He told her the same story then after she stopped crying we were not allowed to talk about it. I was ten and I was old enough to remember that she had a miscarraige almost 1 year before my brother was born.. Side note im not religious but my brother always kinda makes me wonder.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:11:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I pirated this poster for my brother's birthday. He's big into UFO stuff, and this is the same poster Spec. Agent Mulder has hanging in his office on The X-Files which was my brother's favorite show at the time. Best gift I've ever given him, I think.
My boyfriend enjoys doing this. Sometimes we'll be talking on Skype and suddenly the computer starts going up and down and he gets this grin on his face.
My grandmother has a kind of similar story. When she was a kid, and even for a while as an adult, she would have a recurring dream in which she would just be floating in a dark warm place, and then there would be cutting near her and she would wake up from fear. This dream recurred often as she grew up. Once, as an adult, she was mentioning it, and one of her sisters said "You know, when mama was pregnant with you, she had a tubal ligation." (This was because my great-grandmother's husband was abusive and had forced her to have 8 kids.) After this, the dream never recurred, and my grandmother has stated that she believes it was a memory from the womb, and that she has always been very pro-life ever since.
I believe in reincarnation, and I'm pro-choice, because I know that those souls come back in one way or another, it just wasn't the time for them to be born and grow up when these women conceived them. My mom had an abortion when she was 18. Her mother was severely mentally ill and abusive, and she would have been bringing a baby into a horrible situation. She told me about it when I was 11. I always knew that I had an older brother, and a few years later she said that she had a dream after the abortion in which she knew it was a boy, and he is safe now.
My mom had a miscarriage before I was born, it was what motivated her to concieve me. She believes that I am the reincarnation of that fetus. So same story, except that I never said anything like that. haha
thats odd. My mom had three kids before me and thought it was time to stop, consulted with my dad about it, they both agreed that three was enough. A few weeks later while my dad was in boot camp she had a dream where a little blonde girl came to her beside and held her hand and cried for ten minutes straight, my mom tried to console her, finally she calmed the girl down and asked what was wrong.
The little girl said "Don't stop, because I won't be born."
She said that shortly after she thought she was pregnant again, she hadn't had her period and every test she took was coming up negative, she took close to ten because she was so sure. Went to the doctor and the first blood test came back and she was pregnant. I was born with black hair and blue eyes (in the dream the girl had blonde hair and green eyes) so she figured that she still hadn't had that baby. at 2 months all my hair fell out and a few months later it started growing in blonde and my eyes had changed green, by then though she was already pregnant with my little sister (we were born 16 months apart)
She said when I was about 6 or 7 I looked just like the girl in her dreams and that god sent me down to make sure she had my little sisters and brother. Oddly enough they planned to stop after my youngest sister (she had been born with severe health issues) and she had a dream she was holding a baby boy in a red blanket and handing him to my dad to be blessed (my parents are mormon) a few days after my dad's vasectomy my mom already regretted it, thinking she had to have that baby and found out a week later she was pregnant with my little brother.
Who oddly enough on the day he was meant to be blessed my mom couldn't find the white blanket she used for the rest of us so she grabbed a blanket from the top stack and it was a red blanket she had made while on bedrest with him.
He would often tell us about traveling through tunnels of light when he went back and forth from our mom. He talked about it like it was a legitimate way to travel. Like we are running late no park today kids. My brother would be like what about going in light. Around the age of five it started to scare him. He got the idea that if they made him leave once they would again. He would hide before he fell asleep and that progressed to boobie trapping his room. For two years you couldnt walk into his room at night without knocking something over, stepping on something, or finding my brother in a box of somekind. I know my mom has a few pics. I will see what I can get.
The story is very true. Take what you want pitch what you dont. Thats always been my motto. My mother however , no she didnt say anything to my brother even close to this. If you knew my mother you would be laughing your ass off . She is actually 45 years old and sleeps with her lights on. She will not talk about it at all it still terrifies her, along with all bugs , bats, ghosts, or any other silly thing that cant hurt her . Lol
My daughter was 4 years old. One morning I heard her door open and shut. That usually meant that she would be coming to our room to lay down with us. She never came in, but shortly after I heard her voice. Hoping she would go back to sleep I let her be for a bit. Then I heard the door open and shut again. This time I decided to go into her room and see why she kept getting out of bed.
I walked in and she had her eyes closed.
"Sweetie?"
"Yes, daddy."
"Why did you get out of bed?"
"I didn't, I was trying to sleep but he wouldn't leave me alone. He kept talking to me and asking me questions."
"He? Who is he?"
"The little boy that was in my room."
"Umm, sweetie that was just a dream. There is no boy in your room."
"I know that. He just left."
"Ok, well what was the little buy doing?"
"He was hanging from the fan and asking me a bunch of questions."
"How was he hanging from the fan? With his arms?"
"No, with a rope."
Scariest fucking moment of my life. I asked her about it about a year later and she said she doesn't remember.
slenski ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 02:01:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck man...
I'm just imagining your annoyed daughter looking at this kid smiling and talking away with a hanging limp body, spinning in circles and asking questions.
shivers
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:35:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Too far, you've made it less scary now. Understated is best kind of scary, well, as understated as you can be when talking about dead little boys hanging from ceiling fans.
also, how fast is he spinning? Is he spinning fast enough to where his body starts to go horizontal a little bit?
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:24:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm currently sitting on the can reading these stories getting increasingly terrified. I'm in a bathroom located in my house's basement. After reading this I now know I will not be leaving the safety of this throne room for some time. My legs are already numb.
The house was built new before we moved in, so no. Before my daughter was born, my wife's brother (she is my ex now) killed himself. No hanging though.
Her great-great grandfather killed himself also. Not sure of the method though.
My kid was in the bathtub one night with the bathroom door open and I was puttering around in the next room. She called out and said "hey mommy, who was that blue guy who just walked down the hall?" She said he was tall and thin and featureless like "the shape of those men on the bathroom door like at a restaurant". Creeped me out!
[deleted] ยท 1054 points ยท Posted at 19:20:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slenderman has joined up with blue man group
Guyot11 ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 21:43:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I googled that. I want to watch it, but... well, I prefer to sleep.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:04:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would recommend it, although the quality of the entries is inconsistent sometimes. It's getting near the end so now is a good time to catch up
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:44:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dang, the last entry I watched was 32. Perhaps I will catch up this week.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It is supposed to appear like a true event so that is why they are like that. There have been some entries that make me shit my britches and others that leave me waiting to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't seem to really find anything about that movie. I see just the IMDB page. There is also another movie that seems to be about Slenderman called "The Tall Man". I would assume either it is about him or the Tall Man from Phantasm. Given that they say he abducts children I would say it is Slenderman.
I believe there is a film on youtube called windigo that is about slenderman. its 1hr 30 mins long. I only watched about 20 mins due to a time constraint but it looks pretty good so far.
I'll have to look into it, I've only watched a good bit of marble hornets. I dunno how many they've made since I watched it, bout a year has gone by. I do read some /r/slender_man from time to time, can be some good stories on there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They've gotten up to 60 something.
short573 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:24 on August 11, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should look into the original creepypastas. I find them creepier than the videos. EverymanHYBRID and TribeTwelve are other series of videos. EverymanHYBRID being the best as they can actually act, while TribeTwelve being the worse do to its crazy storyline, but it is interesting none the less. Check those out. Waste a chunk of your life
ERhyne ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:56:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing you don't understand my reference.
EDIT:
Michael Bluth: [looking at a gift basket Michael received] Didn't you get one of those, too? You bought Lindsay at the same auction.
Tobias Fรผnke: I'm afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run if you will, so I'm afraid I have something of a mess on my hands.
Michael Bluth: There's so many poorly chosen words in that sentence.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 22:39:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
"Okay, you know what you do? You buy yourself a tape recorder, you just record yourself for a whole day. I think youโre going to be surprised at some of your phrasing."
a Jewish hero who with divine aid marries his kinswoman Sarah in spite of a jealous evil spirit and restores his father Tobit's sight.
So don't worry Second_Location, it's just Tobias.
arvinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I just blued myself.
-ogre- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who is tobias
BabyJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A character in the show Arrested Development, who has unrealistic expectations of becoming an actor and lands a gig as an understudy for the Blue Man Group.
Amie89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid I used to see a guy I called "woodstock" walking around all over the place. I'd always see him just as he was about to round a corner or walk out of site. He would always pause, look back at me, and then round the corner. I always thought he was motioning me to follow him.
I called him Woodstock because he was made out of lumber. My parents just laughed it off, but I can see him soooo clearly. Of course, I grew out of it at around age 7 or 8. I was really freaked out when I was 13 and he came back. We're roommates now.
EDIT: We're not really roommates, he was either a figment of my imagination that has persisted into adulthood or, mots likely, some kind of lumber ghost sent to avenge the deaths of his tree brothers.
Phukc ยท 531 points ยท Posted at 19:28:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As an expert on lumber ghosts who are sent to avenge the deaths of their tree brothers, I can tell you that yes, it is definitely one of those.
neric05 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:03:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Hi, I'm Rick Harrison....and THIS...is my pawn shop.
SELLER: So I have this leg of a vengeful lumber ghost ...
RICK: you lookin' to pawn it or sell it?
SELLER: Sell it; it's just taking up a bunch of space in my house and my wife wants it out.
RICK: Hmm...seems legitimate, but around the late 1800's people started faking these things all the time, let me call in my guy Phukc, he's an expert on lumber ghosts who are sent to avenge the deaths of their tree brothers.
brbegg ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:04:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The best I can do is 5 bucks.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:00:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As an expert on experts on lumber ghosts who are sent to avenge the deaths of their tree brothers, I can tell you that indeed, it is positively one of those.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:14:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky and I went horseback riding, but there weren't any horses around? Anyway, Brasky throws a saddle on my back and rides me around Wyoming for three days. Well, wouldn't ya know it, my stamina increased with each day, and I develop tremendous leg muscles. So anyway, Brasky decides to enter me into the Breeders Cup under the name Turkish Delight. And Im running in second place, and I'm running, and I break my ankle. So anyway, they're about to shoot me. Then someone from the crowd yells out, God bless him, Dont shoot him, hes a human.
123draw ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:33:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are a series of snl skits about Bill brasky consisting of a group of men recounting tales of their adventures with Mr. Brasky. If I wasn't on my phone I'd post a link but you should be able to find them easily.
Kids can often have visual and auditory hallucinations when they're young, but as far as I know, they disappear once they grow up a bit, and aren't of any real significance.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:26:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it possible that auditory "hallucinations" in the third person persist throughout out life?
I'm asking for a friend.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:53 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean? As in voices?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, I now just realize that the voice I had in my head when I was young was probably just that. I felt like I could hear what it was saying, but after it was over I realized there were no words being said. It was usually as I was just about to fall asleep, I always pictured the voice to be of some demon or something but I was never really sure because of the lack of words I was able to interpret.
zero_iq ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:36:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
During sleep paralysis, impressions of 'demons' and 'presences' are common. My own theory is that it's a watchful subconscious part of the primitive brain projecting its fears into the environment in your half-dreaming state.
lvnshm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
EASY COVER-UP.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:43:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it interesting that these claims are somehow perpetually beyond the reach of any kind of scientific probing? We have plenty of tools which could see more than the visible spectrum of light and hear more than what our auditory range allows us to.
What if we set up my spectrum analyzer to a logging mode and then have a seance without me there to influence the results, but I later get to analyze them?
I agree, I want to take the ghost hunter equipment and make it into serious dataloggers for analysis instead of just being like "I got a spike!?!?!!!!!111!"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is there would likely be a strong correlation between the intensity of their "evidence" and the number of people conspicuously out of frame when filming.
"Sensitive" in this context usually just means "prone to hallucination". In terms of their senses, kids operate within the same ranges as adults, minus hearing (they can hear higher frequency sounds than adults can).
I think what most of it is is that kids don't have the same heuristics (or as many) as an adult; they don't have as many experiences that would teach "hallucination or trick; disregard!" and so they persist.
I think you're totally right. My issue is that this is interpreted as them being more "sensitive" in some vague way as a means to lend legitimacy to whatever superstitions the speaker ascribes to. "Sensitivity" is a non-issue in any meaningful sense in this situation, but they aren't good filterers and don't make strong distinctions between real and imagined experiences.
Rarely... like less than once a year. I always assume it's something like deja vu more than anything else, but the feeling that overwhelms me is pretty intense... I still try to follow him (last time was a WHILE ago) but never see him past the first corner any more.
Nah, it's not like a problem or anything. Otherwise I'm a perfectly lucid and cogent person. If only those damn voices would stop tormenting me...
EDIT: above post was referring me to a psychiatrist
LtOin ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:49:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All you have to do is do what they say then they will stop pestering you. I did it and I'm as happy as ever!
Well my internet time is up, they only allow me 10 minutes in here.
Knezzy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:05:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Boring. He was actually your spirit guide. You totally neglected him despite his earnest attempts at enlightening you. You "grew out of it" because that was the popular thing to do.
I tried to chase him and follow him all the time but he was always one step ahead of me. I remember that when I'd chase after him I'd see him just leaving whatever room I made into next... I could never catch up to him!
I had something similar. Used to see a white/clear character, who was really small. I'd always say "He's playing over there! Messing with the [insert random furniture] Haha!". My parents laughed it off, until last year when another family member went to a seance. They got into contact with a long dead family member, who weirdly had the same name I called the spirit (I can't remember what it was exactly, but it was a very unusual name that I'm pretty sure I made up.)
have you ever considered you have schizophrenia? It does not seem like that big a problem for you now but you might just want to see. That is the only way i can explain what you just described
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:12:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so you're telling me that you have a viewable imaginary friend that traveled into adulthood with you? can't say im not jealous.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:28:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he was either a figment of my imagination that persisted into adulthood or, mots likely, some kind of lumber ghost sent to avenge the deaths of his tree brothers.
Option B seems like the most reasonable explanation.
This is so weird. When I was a little kid I used to see and talk to "The Lady" in our bathroom. I don't remember any of it, but my parents do, and they say it freaked them out, especially when they mentioned it to their neighbors, and they were told the woman that used to live in our house died in that bathroom.
I'm always a little freaked out that maybe one day I'll start seeing her again.
kingbot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is pretty interesting and I would love to hear more on it.
It was actually more like 2x4s... stick lumber, screwed together into an anthropomorphic being. I just tried to draw it but I suck at drawing so I deleted it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No! Although I did have a childhood ADHD diagnosis, I only took ritalin for a month before I begged my mom to take me off it. So I dont' think it's a factor.
I had an imaginary buddy called John Hoobert when I was 5. He lived underneath the maintenance truck parked out front on the street in Fort Huachuca, Arizona - the electronic signals processing center of the US Army. Like the NRO. I used to lay underneath that truck for hours and chuckle with John about stuff.
Nothing wrong with imaginary friends. They generally agree with you, but you can bounce idea things off them and hear the other side. When you grow up they tend to be lyrics of songs, poems, things you've read.
Imaginary friends tend to stabilize a kid. Nothing wrong with that.
Holy shit dude. I had an imaginary friend named Woodstock too! I'm not trolling you. I'm dead serious. I just called my mom and asked her if she remembered my friend Woodstock. She just made a tsk tsk sound and said "yeah, I remember Woodstock. We were worried about you for awhile there. You used to say he'd stand outside of your window when you were going to sleep and watch you. It didn't scare you though. And he never showed up when anyone else was there. I'd catch you talking to "him" out in the backyard sometimes and watch you as you played with him. It was a little weird, but your doctor at the time said you'd grow out of it so I wasn't concerned. He hung around until you were 10 or so. You just grew out of him eventually." Your post really tripped me out! I haven't thought about Woodstock in years. Great. He's probably going to come and haunts me again...
I have the Tree Man... I used to see him at night when I was thirteen or so. And then I had recurring nightmares about him. He was kind of an angry thing. >_> I'm sure he was a figment of my imagination as well, but a powerful one.
The jokes on you. If you look through a book with thousands of UFO abduction cases one of the most common is a tree like beings that seem to be made of brown bark. I know someone that had an experience like this as an adult and I genuinely believe him as he's a cop/state trooper.
I had something like that when I was younger. He was an old fashioned camera on a tripod, but he was green with orange trim and a face instead of a lens. He would always pop up in the hallway and room across from my bed and teach me the alphabet. He had some friends, one of which I clearly remember to be a very shy and easily frightened ghost (just a white sheet with eye holes and a frowny mouth hole).
dude...maybe you should have some sort of brain scan? to check for tumors or what have you. I don't think kids can generally TRULY see their imaginary friends.
Had the same thing when I was little. Turns out my grandmas house was haunted. It's been a couple of years since it was blessed, but I still don't like going there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In the Native American side of my family, when there was a mess that was made or doors left open, they would always blame the stick Indians. This was when my grandmother was young.
It is interesting how the stories tie together. Maybe "woodstock" wasn't a figment of your imagination...
That's creepy. I used to have a dream when I was young that a "treeman" would see me from outside my house and start moving towards me, had this dream multiple times.
pharoon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:07:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for destroying my plans to sleep tonight.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:17:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
This is actually really scary for me because when I was 8, I kept having dreams of a tall man like that with no face. In fact, I drew a picture after the dreams and included it on the cover of my journal for art (when I was 8).
no because your acting like a god. that u know everything because u study science, that u understand things that are not within the realm of human understanding because u spent a couple hundred hours in college classes that teach no practical understanding of anything, but only spit theories to us. and to top it off, u claim rationality like a complete tool and try to make it to be a bad thing.
the fuck is wrong with u?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
see here, that last sentence there, its so wrong. its not ur inability to enjoy ghost stories, its ur stuck up attitude about being "rational." I bet ur a fucking idiot in real life to top it off
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
omg man are you fucking retarded or something? its not the fact that u dont enjoy ghost stories that makes u stuck up, its the fact that u declared that ur fucking meaningless science degree and self proclaimed rational make u not enjoy ghost stories, as if ur too intelligent for something like that
thats the second time uve tried to throw a loaded question at me. are u so stupid that u have no reading skills? ur not coming off as very rational to me
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh man, i didnt think ud actually do it. i didnt think youd actually try and link spelling on the internet with intelligence. but there ya go. ya went and did it
here i was about to type something about how i like how u havent turned away from a fight. but god damn, that really sealed the deal there bro
Arx0s ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:09:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a shitty slideshow full of fake pictures played to the tune of a Requiem for a Dream. How on earth did that freak you out...?
I have a slender man story, I am 13 now and living in a new house (very relevant) but when I was around the age of 3 I began to have very disturbing dreams of a dark green man, very tall with a dark face and 3 long arms. I had a dream of it walking through my wall, sitting upon my bed and comforting me. I believe myself to be a rather lucid dreamer because every night it got closer and closer and I became more uncomfortable. One night I saw it come in so I jumped out of bed and ran, it seemed to not even see me, as if I were in a dream state and he were in a state of reality, and I (the real me) was still asleep I watched as it stroked me for several minutes , then it began to lift me up and carry me. I ran to myself and shook my arm rapidly. A moment later I awoke, standing upright in the hall way.
We moved houses soon after and I frequently see this "slender man"in my dreams. I do not acknowledge it nor does it acknowledge me. What do you think?
What's funny is that the audio from that video camera that supposedly had the video destroyed was all in mono except for the "slender man" voice which was in stereo. Clearly fake.
I something to that effect when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. I was sleeping when suddenly I was wide awake with eyes wide. There was a green glowing featureless figure leaning over me. I was terrified but called out my little sisters name hoping she was fucking with me. No response. The. I swear to you, in a moment of courage, reached my hand out to touch it. It went right through and this green man about six/seven feet tall stood up and ran out my room. After a few seconds I screamed and went to run out the same door to my parents. But the door was shut, it was never closed when I slept. I hit the door with my face which woke my father. I quickly told him there was a man in my room. He checked the entire house with a large bat. Mom & Dad allowed me to sleep in their bed fora few nights following this encounter. Still think about that night often, even 25 or so years later.
FJSpoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upon reading this, I could only think "Slenderman"
Which honestly, despite being an internet legend, would creep me out to if a child had said it to me.
tomius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
!!!!! I saw a very similar thing when I was little. It would hang out in the hallway outside my bedroom door. I would cry myself to sleep in fear while hiding under my covers.
Years and years later, I found out my sister saw the same thing, in a different room of the house. :/
That reminds me of that guy who sees people. He did an IAMA on here but I can't find it. He said usually they just watch him. He didn't think it was schizophrenia or anything. If anybody could link it that would be great.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me a story about how, when I was young, I would ask to stop and "play with those kids over there" whenever we drove by this cemetery. It was one of those cemeteries where the gravestones were flush into the ground, so you couldn't see the tombstones, but people would regularly leave flowers on the graves.
My mom would say that "those aren't other kids, just flowers," but I would insist that I could see kids playing.
Fast-forward a decade and a half, my mom is at work with one of her coworkers who mentions that she was at a funeral of a family friend whose kid had just passed away. She said he was buried in the children's section of the cemetery. The place -- you guessed it -- where I would supposedly always see the kids playing.
tl;dr: I don't remember any of this, but apparently I used to be able to see the ghosts of children playing.
Kid has Synesthesia. My daughter has it and growing up she used to see things like this all the time. She (still) called them 'awake dreams' and it is FUCKING unnerving being with her when she has one! One scary 'awake dream' I recall her having when she was around 5 was her seeing Rocky & Bullwinkle tapping on her bedroom window asking to be allowed in. She is completely coherent and awake when these occur.
As an adult she still has these 'awake dreams' but recognises them for what they are. One recently involved the girl from the Ring was floating above her doing that clickity clack sound she does. Fuck that!!
There was this kid I knew back in '98 (age 6), who would tell of these dreams about an empty beach with navy waters and dark sand. A beach just before sunset would be a perfect example. On this beach there was a Black jeep. The black jeep would just sit there with a surfboard rack on the back. This rack was minus 1 surfboard.
This kid LOVED the idea of surfing. He would talk about it nonstop for years. He firmly believed he could surf, so one day, his parents took him to the beach, gave him a board and waded out the shallows to teach him. Much to their surprise the kid took to it like a pig to mud. When the parents asked the kid how he knew what he was doing the kid cryptically replied, "I used to do this all the time!" Then paddled off.
one time, i was watching the dogs of some people i barely knew. they lived on the corner but i went to the house on the wrong corner and tried the key. didn't work, door opened anyway, hmmm... walk inside, "this place is different at night i guess," i think to myself, until i hear a child rub-a-dub-dubbin in the bath laughing with her mom. eyes went wider than the average person's wide eyes and i got the hell out of there fumbling with the door on my way out so i know they heard me. i felt bad for freaking them out. but i'm over it now.
Did you run and immediately tell the Blue Man Group about this? Because that's like the entirety of the concept they went for in their complex rock tour.
Dean97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Blue Slenderman?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was Doctor Manhattan. That creep.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wrecked my parents existence once because I saw a man out in the forest. He was hiding behind a tree and as green as a praying mantis. There is/was a trail down to the beach from the campground at Dash Point State Park in Washington State. We had decided to take this trail against our parents wishes. This guy he looked like an overgrown praying mantis. My cousin and brother were with me and my cousin saw him too, my brother did not. We ran like all hell. It was supposed to take about an hour to get to the beach, we made it in 15. I'd never run so fast in my life. When I got to the beach we were all out of breath and my brother was crying. They asked us what happened and my brother only cried that someone was chasing us. Me and my cousin countered that someone was not chasing us only watching us. They thought it was some pedophile until I described him, I said he was tall, about 8 ft tall green like a mantis, with long long arms and long legs, he had a long face (longer than Sarah Jessica Parkers face) and pointy elbows. Slanted eyes like a chinamen, no colored eyes, they were just black pure puples. I knew it was a male just by the feeling I had, he looked at us not even with curiosity or hate, but just with knowing. I drew a picture with my cousin who was older than me and a better drawer and it scared the living shit out of our parents. I can still see him in my head, at least 8 ft hidden behind a tree just watching us. I think it was a hallucination due to someone suggesting that the woods were haunted. I sure as fuck scared the shit out of my parents though.
Do you still have the picture/care to recreate it? I always wonder if one or two of the stories like this are some kids having seen an alien or something.
Hey! I used to see a blue man, too! When I was 3 I used to scream and cry every night because of the blue man in my closet. It freaked my mom out and drove my dad nuts. Finally, my sister came in my room one night after I had ran out screaming and pretended to push the blue man out the window. I never saw him again.
Nyrb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:06:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just blue slenderman.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, between this and MissAnthropy, I am outta here. Gonna get my wife to chase the monsters away.
eneron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I used to live with my older cousin, her three year old little boy said the exact same thing. He would color pictures of him, and said he lived in the attic.
I hope this is a coincidence.
loceryl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I used to see a featureless man like that outside my bedroom door at night. I had to wait for him to go away before I dared to run in to my parents room.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If someone said this to me, I would honestly think the kid was talking about a robber. It's hard to know what a kid is actually talking about when they can sometimes be poor at describing things.
If you find any organs in plastic bags in a body in a tree...Packing is not necessary, grab the kid and drive.
ARKIX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, I used to see a similar figure, only all white, in my backyard as a kid. My sister and her friends (and a couple of my friends) all saw it on different occasions.
wick36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young I used to see a black stick figure looking guy like the things on the bathrooms outside the house and I thought for sure it was going to kill me.
Scared the hell out of me the several times it happened. :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
little kids apparently see spirits and auras.their innocent minds are much like those of animals, except more self-conscious. (At least that's what i read a few months back...)
I've had dreams of a person who she described. Its been years but it still scares me.
[deleted] ยท 249 points ยท Posted at 20:04:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was 18 months old I was carrying her past the kitchen counter. She started screaming, really screaming in pain -I was in a panic checking her out her to see what was hurting her. There was nothing -I then noticed her eyes where fixed on the counter - I looked down and saw a large carving knife had been left out - I quickly carried away and she stopped. It's always bothered me.
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:26:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That gave me pit-of-my-stomach disgusted chills.
Neoaris ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:41:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once found a knife stabbed into the fence behind my house. Old, rusty, not anything of ours. No one in my family said they put it there.
I found a cleaver in a tree in my back yard once. Turned out the neighbors' kid was using it to hack down the chain link fence that kept them from playing in the storm drain. Seemed to be no malicious intent in the end, just didn't want to take the busted cleaver back into the kitchen I guess.
Neoaris ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:23:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was a property a fair distance away from any other house, the only other kid I knew about lived 3 blocks south of me, and didn't really head up that way much. We had a fair sized lawn that evidently took a large amount of unauthorized traffic.
Maybe she just had a fear of knives at the time, just would never talk about it. I had a friend who's cousin was scared stiff of knives. Except for plastic and butter knives of course. He just never liked how sharp they were
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was so instant - it scared me to death - I'd never thought about previous life until this moment. (I have since come to the conclusion I must have been a real shit in a previous one!) We never had a repeat of that but she is a real "old soul" - she is an artist now uses scalpel blades all the time always been wise beyond her years.
My son when he was about 2... he had a weird fear of being abandoned, which there never was an incident of him getting lost or any type thing. He asked my wife if we have ever forgotten him anywhere, which she replied no. He responds "oh that's right, it happened when you were small and I was big"
[deleted] ยท 573 points ยท Posted at 19:07:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This same sort of story has popped up a few times so far in this thread. Does anyone have a logical explanation for why it might be so common, or should I just assume the weirdest?
I was thinking that kids want to know what it's going to be like to be adults and they simultaneously want to know what adults were like as kids. It's sort of their way of addressing the entire aging process at once. It doesn't quite seem linear to them I think.
Makes sense to me. Whenever my cousin would get picked on by the older kids in the family, she'd scream, "You better watch out when I'M older than YOU!"
People think time is a fixed set of linear points. When in reality it's really a wibley-wobbly, timey-wimey ball of...stuff. That sentence got away from me.
I remember being kicked out of the living room when my (much) older brother had friends over. I said to my parents that when I was his age I would kick him out for a change! Then my parents pointed out that by that time my brother would be in college. Crap.
So yeah, the concept of aging is confusing to some children.
I dont either, it makes no sense. There are billions of people alive today. Go back far enough and you could count the human populations in the tens of thousands. So you might ask yourself, where did the extra billions of people materialize from? The truth is far simpler, we all live once and when we die, thats that.
Animals? I don't think it doesn't make sense for the reason you listed.
dsi1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Then you just scale it up.
I'm not sure if there's an accurate measurement of this anywhere but there has to be more biomass on Earth than there was 100 years ago, much less 1000, and especially after the last ice age. Where did these extra 'souls' come from?
Scale it up to the universe and you still have the same problem. (unless galactic-tier disasters are happening all the time and we just haven't observed it somehow)
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:55:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a believer in reincarnation either but that's kind of a silly way to "disprove" it. Who says that all "souls" were here since the beginning (whenever that was)? Maybe right now there are few ancient souls and plenty of noobs? Or maybe time is not linear for "souls" at all? You could reincarnate as Jesus! But first I will reincarnate as you!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:22:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember reading a short story where there was only "God" and one "person". This person would return to earth at a different time period as someone else after each death. They were the only person to ever exist. Pretty interesting.
I'm not sure if there's an accurate measurement of this anywhere but there has to be more biomass on Earth than there was 100 years ago, much less 1000, and especially after the last ice age. Where did these extra 'souls' come from?
I'd say there's probably less in the form of animal life. An acre of the amazon probably contains millions and millions of insects, and hundreds of small animals.
If you go far enough back then, yeah. At some point you end up with a lifeless world/solar system/universe.
I do believe in reincarnation. I won't try to convince you that I'm "right" because I may very well not be, but I do believe in it. As far as I'm concerned, it could be any living creature, not just humans.
Well, I honestly would consider myself agnostic, in a sense. Part of what I believe is that I very well could be wrong. There are so many religions and systems of belief that I make an effort not to rule anything out. Personally, though, reincarnation has always made sense to me. Everything in the universe is constantly changing, on every scale - from microscopic organisms to solar systems. So the idea of an afterlife where if you were good, you will live happily forever in a magnificent place that never changes and there is nothing but eternal joy doesn't seem natural to me. Nothing against anyone who believes that, of course, but I've never truly connected with that concept.
I believe that the best goal in life is to try to understand others. I feel like my purpose is to learn how other people feel and learn to relate to them. So the idea of reincarnation makes sense - to grow as an individual by experiencing all kinds of life. To live an impoverished, neglected life as well as a very privileged one, or to live as a mosquito who gets squashed or a deer who gets hunted. All of these experiences contribute to the development of a well-rounded being.
Of course, we have no real knowledge that proves or disproves any of this. I just have a feeling that says that that is true. I don't find it any less likely than anyone else's theories or beliefs on why we're here or what happens after we die.
I feel like it's just a normal part of the constant game that is early development. Like when the kid is playing house and someone dies. Jr needs to cope with something he might or might not have experienced because he's trying to figure it out, so he pretends he was big and thus not vulnerable. The parent becomes small because first, to a kid, all big people do is take care of them all day. And second, Someone taking care of someone else is more brave than someone alone.
My parents said I tended to ask a lot of oddly specific hypothetical scenario questions when I was little. (e.g., "So when our car crashes into that tree, how will we get home?"). One of the weirdest ones I had though was asking about my older brother (3 years older than me). "So when I'm Jacob and Jacob's me, will I get to stay up later too?"
kidkvlt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think some might have a poorly thought out conclusion that adults age backwards and kids age forward. I used to assume that all adults were always just adults. Everyone around my parents age or older was just always an adult to me.
Yillpv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe like in the old video games you exit the screen on one side and enter it on the other, like its one big loop rather than a line, but you can't see where it transitions.
Lereas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't quite seem linear to them I think.
I don't think time was linear for me until I was about 5 or 6. It just was.
My theory is that if reincarnation is a real thing, then maybe these kids have brief memories of their past lives, and as they get older, those memories are forgotten due to all the new experiences and new things they're learning.
Think maybe it stems from a chikd's desire to be an adult and emulate their parents? If you want to read of crazy shit a child has said, read the little hans case that Freud published. Crazy little child.... Anyways, that might be a cause of the whole "when you were small and I was big" thing. Kids have crazy imaginations and I just generally don't believe in past lives.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:21:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:41:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You could probably write a movie/book about that.
dahknee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:29:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when I was a kid i believed in past lives and would say that I used to be a little boy who was attacked and killed by a bunch of dogs, hence my irrational fear of dogs when I was a kid. I think I just made it up though.
samgret ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The 'Little Han's' study is more a study on phobia's and their origins. Freud also comes up with the Oedipus Complex. His findings are also very un-reliable as Hans' dad did the interviews and Freud just interpreted it.
samgret ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, i reckon he didn't have a very nice child-hood.
Kiacha ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:18:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Both my kids are convinced we start over when we die, reincarnate as babies. I have no idea why, but to them it's just common sense. I've read other parents here saying the same. Perhaps that's a clue?
As a kid I always thought that I died in the past. So when people talk about past events I reply with "Oh yeah. I was still dead that time."
jobosno ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:56:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember wondering at a young age why parents were allowed to be parents, and thought people grew up suddenly at different phases instead of gradually. So in my dreams, it only made sense to me that if I was good, I could skip straight to being an adult. My parents were usually teenagers in these dreams.
The things I remember.
mojo996 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:55:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
children have very little concept of reality versus fantasy. Dreams really are real to them and there is evidence that when the play pretend, they really do SEE what they are pretending. Its as real to them as the computer in front of you. This leads to lots of odd conversations. Its hard to trust anything a toddler says about the past because reality is so fluid to them.
Proportion is a big deal to children as well. Who's big...who's little. They also have a good sense of the absurd. My guess would be its very common for children to have wild dreams where Mommy and Daddy are small and they are the big ones (probably helps that parents often play the 'so big' game with their kids).
To make a long story short..its probably nothing. Kids just say and think strange shit.
Dreams. Young children only really know their family, so those are the characters who populate their dreams. They re-hash what they went through the day before in their dreams, just like adults do. So they dream of whatever game they played, story they overheard, or lesson they learned that day and screwed up the character roles... My humble opinion.
I saw a special on tv. Apparently, it's a phenomenon called past live sydrome or past life memories or something close to that. On the show, there was a little boy who swore he was an actor from the 30s. He even went so far as to point himself out in film. No one in the family knew who the man was and the kid "recalled" quite a few correct memories and details. I think I'm skeptic but, if it's real then that's cool too. Im gonna go google around and come back with some links.
I would imagine that this is a innocuous statement. Kids say a lot of things that are very simple assessments of the situation - like my son wondering why we can't just turn the lights on outside so it won't be dark, and go for a bike ride.
Kids also like to play pretend, and they play house a lot. Most little kids love to pretend to be a parent with a baby. So they could just be remembering a play session.
My oldest (4) says stuff like that all the time. "when I was bigger, I drove your car all the time" and similar things. They make it sound like they are remembering the future. I think it's just a lack of understanding of the passage of time as well as an undeveloped understanding of verb tenses. My son also talks about things that happened yesterday by saying "last year".
I think the concept that your child is remembering future events as if they have experienced their whole life already and are just going through it again would be interesting. My favorite part of that movie would be when the young child would talk about his/her wedding day, birth of their children, or some other big events in their life. Another great part would be them asking for something because it was always their favorite and you just can't get that thing anymore.
my son had a similar thing when he was young -around 5 or 6 years old. He was utterly convinced he was an alien from a planet called Bo, and had been sent to earth in a human body to see what it was like. He drew maps of the planet and everything. I think maybe kids just have a great imagination, and are trying out their place in the world. Maybe. Either that or he really is an Alien.
The kids are remembering their past lives, although the details are a little fuzzy. It's a well-known fact that past-life memories are not completely forgotten until the preteen years.
cynope ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:02:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well-known claim
FTFY
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids dream and don't remember that it's a dream. Could be the explanation.
kapu808 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In early childhood, kids have no concept of irreversibility, so it wouldn't feel odd to them to suggest something that deviates from the reality that people are born small and grow and age and die.
its actually quite common for young children to have memories of apparent past lives, this isnt the first time ive heard of a child having memories of a deceased grandparent. Even spoken of things only their parents and grandparents knew about. too lazy to source it for you so youll have to do your own digging.
I reckon its because when a child thinks about the past when there parent was younger, they automatically think that the opposite must be true for him, because they are too young to understand that generations don't work in binary opposites.
It also might be because they cant comprehend not existing/ being born, so it is the only logical explanation to them.
It seems like proof of reincarnation to me. Dr Ian stevenson from the university of Virginia school of medicine spent years researching the subject specifically with children. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation_research
My best guess? Its probably relatively common for kids to have weird dreams about being big, or having some sort of role reversal imaginings. Kids like to play mommy to dolls and such, and they don' t really know anyone but their parents, so it seems fairly plausible that they imagine themselves in the parent role to the only other personalities the kid really knows.
Piggy backing on the comment below, I had (actually still have) very realistic dreams. Sometimes things will pop up as memories and then I realize it was a dream. So I think that's a possibility too.
What i want to know is how does a 2 year old form this kind of sentence? My son is only 3 and a half and he only started speaking in broken sentences at 3. Of course he was speaking at 2 but it was mostly just a few words here and there or he was stating he wanted something and would say "milk" "cookie" "bath" etc
awe300 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well if we all are just the universe experiencing itself, maybe we're just the same consciousness in different states of existence
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's all the same person. It's a conspiracy. A karma conspiracy.
Some people believe that kids souls are so fresh they still have recollection of their past lives. They are apparently very susceptible to psychic phenomenon like talking and seeing people from the other side because they dont understand they are here now. just saying, there are people who believe that. this thread has some prime examples of this.
Many people believe that young children remember their past lives more vividly. As they age they remember less and less of that past life. I believe that's what's happening with most of these cases.
I creeped my sister out sometimes when I was three. I would say things like "Well, when I'm older than you..." I remember my thinking at the time: I just didn't understand that we wouldn't, at some point, take turns to be fair. I didn't have an understanding of only living once, how we got where we were, and that death exists. I figured we had to take turns and share with everything else, why not be the older sibling 'next time'?
Zecriss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think they associate size with activity, because they hear "acting like a big girl/boy" so often. So maybe the kid was doing what he was supposed to be doing and AssnecK666 & his wife left him alone.
lmRay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
theres alot of cases where kids do this. its kinda weird but many people believe its a kind of reincarnation. heres a youtube vid about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6M-nXjh_9I
I didn't understand death as a little kid. I just figured when you became obscenely old, you would reverse direction ad infinitum. I couldn't wait til I was older than my mom so I could tell her to clean her room.
I that these children are having lingering memories of past lives they have lived. But, then again, I subscribe to r/Buddhism.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation seems to be the likeliest possibility to me.
Asyyd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Psychological thing with kids, they also want to marry the parent of the opposite, and kill the parent of the same sex at ages 4-6. Just subconsciously (Freud)
It's fairly common before the age of four(ish) for some reason. Both my kids were about 2.5/3 and neither of them remember now (11 and 22).
empieta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dreams.
Tel0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Children have really good memories for scripted thing, for example a t.v. show. But they also don't have a solid concept of self yes and that can sometime mess with what they know. And this is the idea I go with personally. Although there have been many situations, like these, form parents who claim there is absolutely no way the kid could have herd this so it really could be something else.
I recall a theory that you're reincarnated with the same group of souls each new lifetime. For example, your best friend in this life may have been your child (or sibling, spouse, parent, etc) in a past life. I find the idea comforting.
Like someone said before, maybe reincarnation. i remember being little and my dad trying to tell me about heaven and hell, and being young i said when you die you turn into someone else. we as a culture are conditioned to believe in heaven and hell, being rewarded in the afterlife... but as a child who hasnt be conditioned, the impulse is you turn into someone else. a few of my friends have had the same experiences, but now consider themselves "religious"
"Many Masters Many Lives" by Brian L. Weiss has some answers that seem to make sense. We have many lives often times surrounded by the same people in different forms. I have had many experiences that back these sorta theories up so maybe theres some truth to them...
well it could be logical, dependent on how memory is stored. Memory transfer, or things like instincts which can be seen as memories (child naturally afraid of loud noises despite nothing making them be afraid of loud noises, etc.), is a complete possibility genetically.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is what you said possible? I guess. I'm not a scientist. Is it logical? Not really. It's not the first thing I would think of when trying to figure out why kids say weird shit.
If reincarnation was a thing, that might be a nonissue! :B
I don't really care though, I just wanted to point out that some form of memory is passed down genetically. Although, it would be unlikely to remember a phone number or something else that specific.
Kaeltan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he was the kwisatz haderach.
CyruzUK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I qualified that statement with 'wants' meaning I have no fucking idea.
[deleted] ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 18:57:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
small back story, I am Russian orthodox, no local churches where we live, so we go to a Greek orthodox... they believe in theotokos, the mother of god....
He asked if god, Jesus and the holy spirit are one, and Mary is the mother of Jesus, than how is theotokos the mother of god. And as a follow up, if God created everything, how does he have a mother... he was 6 when he asked this..
Phukc ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:47:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow.. that is a very deep question for a 6 year old to be asking...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think so. I just think most kids that age are discouraged from asking such questions. I am not the only person I know of who had dismissed the idea of god/santa etc by 6.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:08 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it? I remember denouncing Christianity when I was 8, I'd already thought about it for years.
initially he stated that he did not know and it was a good question. He had gotten back to him, but he could never find a "logical " answer. They them talked about faith and believing based on that.. I guess admitting that there are times when you can't find an answer and having faith was adequate for my son.
ha. Not a regular. Im comfortable at this one. But not really a fan of organized religions in general. If my kids want to go, I'll take them, and have them form their own opinions.
Just asked her. There was a small incident on main street of Disneyland. Wandered away from her dad, he knew where she was, but she thought she was lost. Lends credit from the post about the mothers memories.
llill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he saw it on tv or read it in a story, and he put himself in the role of the parents and you as the kid because he wanted to see what it was like? That could create the false memories in his head.
I can only assume that it's a common dream for kids to have, like dreams of falling or teeth coming out, which mean something pretty basic. Kids probably can't totally differentiate the difference between dreams and reality.
oh thats quite possible. It was just weird as hell
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:53:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew went through a phase where he'd always talk about when "he'd get big and we'd be little."
zorua ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:15:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had something like that every time I was going down to my grandparents for the weekend, mum would drive a 60 mile drive and before we'd leave she'd fill up the car with diesel or w/e. And everytime I used to be in the car alone and then the car would drive off and go so fast and I couldn't stop it it was so scary. It was like I was sleeping but I was awake at the same time. Stopped when I got to about 6 though.
pikapie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister would always say that kind of thing when she was little. One time I was in the car with my mom and her, and she said, "Mommy, remember that time when you were a baby and I gave you a bath?"
O_O
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your username reminds me of something from a late 90's chat room.
It comes from the very earliest of ages, almost an instinct. Babies can't fend for themselves so they cry whenever they need anything. Crying for help and fearing abandonment are tied together.
I may know a cause, as I thought this as a child. I saw this thing on sesame street where Elmo was a baby and they showed the aging process of him and his mother but to dodge the whole death thing when Elmo's 'mother' became elderly, they just switched her back to a baby. I thought that's what happened!
When my younger brother was really little he use to tell my mom all about when he was an old man and he smoked a tobacco pipe and some other weird stuff like that.
When I was really young I would have these dreams where my mom, dad and sisters would adandone me then I'd wake up in my bathroom just bawling my eyes out.
My mom was telling me a story like that that happened to my grandpa before. When he was really little, he said to his aunt "Remember at that party when somebody ate the last piece of pie and you got mad?" Confused, she said yes.) She had only mentioned the party to him once before.) He responds, ashamed to admit, with "Well.... it was me who ate the last piece... not ----"
This party happened before my grandpa was born....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was the exact opposite as a kid. I loved freedom but ended up getting lost and separated in a gigantic fucking museum when I was about 5.
I had a music teacher, who took his 4 year-old daughter to an old theatre in Alaska. She started crying immediately when she walked in, so he took her outside- and she stopped crying. He took her back in, she started crying again, so he took her outside again. He asked why she was crying, and she said: "That's where the people with no eyes watch you."
ddalex ยท 1197 points ยท Posted at 20:49:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Easy one. She'd seen decorating statues, common in theaters, that after greek fashion, have no discernable pupils.
And therein lies one of the fundamental differences of the genders... I would find it overwhelming to wandering around a city decorated like that. Like a bad acid trip or something.
Not solely British - after all there are plenty of (formerly painted) Greek & Roman marble statues that were never possessed by the British that are also scrubbed white.
The reason is that when many of these artifacts were rediscovered, they had been buried or the paint had completely oxidized so the statues just looked like they were covered in dirt.
Archaeologists of all nations in the 18th and 19th centuries assumed that the statues were meant to be white marble and cleaned the "dirt" off.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:42:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Internet detectives prevail again!
Godolin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man, those guys would make great horror movie monsters.
They don't have pupils because back when they were new statues they were painted to be as realistic as possible and they would paint the pupils in. This was back in ancient greece, and over the years the paint faded away.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Naw, it was slenderman.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I almost shat myself when that picture loaded... thanks for that.
that after greek fashion, have no discernable pupils
Which is not actually greek fashion: the statues were originally painted (usually in pretty gaudy colors), the paint just flaked off over time leaving only the sculpted stone.
kulykat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Both of my brothers had a strange fixation with statues of all kinds, and the belief that they were fossilised people/animals/etc.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be completely terrified of mannequins. Especially the ones who are just a torso.
I kept dreaming that they chased me. They came in white and black. The black ones were rarer but were faster and more dangerous.
Are you kidding? Those masks are frikkin' terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:44:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
are you kidding that just made the story a million times more scary kinda like the angels from doctor who. this whole post is terrifying by the way. there is no way I'm going to sleep tonight.
Nope. Nope. Nope. I am usually the most rational of individuals, but this thread is seriously putting the shits up me.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:03:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps she was talking about theatre masks? I have a collection in my bedroom and full grown adults think that they are creepy, I could only imagine what a 4 year-old would think.
I'm a professional musician. In a lot of theaters/concert halls, you can see lots of heads, but no faces from on stage because of the lighting. It makes sense to me!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Another explanation could be that in the darkness of the cinema, peoples facial details can't be perceived as good and it looks like they have no eyes/faces
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OMFG I know this story!!! My drama teacher in high school was also from Alaska and told this exact same story about a friend of his, only it was his niece...
Just, out of curiosity, what was the teacher's name?
Edit: He told a much longer version, with more context, but that's EXACTLY the same line the kid delivered. And she made an imaginary friend shortly after this event that was not exactly the most friendly...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old was laying on my chest a few weeks ago and she said "I can hear your heart, Mommy. It was much louder when I was inside there with the poops that didn't come out yet".
Vozadam ยท 143 points ยท Posted at 21:53:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Poop is sentient and talks to fetus'. The only rational explination.
The sound of my mums stomach gurgling and heart beating used to freak me out so much...
Me, too. But never enough for me to wake your mom up, I just liked to rest beside the bed while she was asleep with my head on her stomach and listen. And when I was done, I'd leave and go home.
I think it has more to do with that I'm pregnant again now and she's constipated all the day so she's hyper aware that babies and poops both can spend a long time in that general region. The creepy part to me was that the concept of hearing the heartbeat from the inside and that it would be much louder is fairly abstract for a 3 year old. But, no, I don't think she literally remembers it.
I once read a fascinating article about babies hearing sounds in the womb. Alas, this was way before we all had internet, so I'd probably never find a link.
The one that stick in my mind was a guy whowas a symphony conductor with an inexplicable affinity for the string parts of the music, who learned that his mother had played a string instrument (violin or cello, I forget) before he was born and all through her pregnancy, but put the instrument away when he was born and never played again.
vulpyx ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 23:51:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember reading a book or article when my oldest daughter was not quite two years old, that suggested children can remember being born and if they are early talkers, they will sometimes talk about it if you ask them. So I asked my daughter "Do you remember coming out of mommy?". She got this VERY indignant look on her face and said "It SQUEEZED MY HEAD!!" I told my (now ex) husband about it when he got home and he didn't believe me. I'm still irritated about that.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:01:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, children will often create memories based on other people stories or experiences (even if the said child wasn't there) and adapt them to their own lives. Real conscious memories are not developed until the child is about 3 years old.
I don't want to be a buzz kill, but that's the science, yo.
I remember reading a book or article when my oldest daughter was not quite two years old, that suggested children can remember being born and if they are early talkers, they will sometimes talk about it if you ask them. So I asked my daughter "Do you remember coming out of mommy?". She got this VERY indignant look on her face and said "It SQUEEZED MY HEAD!!" I told my (now ex) husband about it when he got home and he didn't believe me. I'm still irritated about that.
abenton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:44:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's really cool; have you talk to him about how he got here and kinda synthesising the idea or do you think he might actually remember your heartbeat?
You want your daughter inside you? Ew, if the sexualization of children stimulates you then you may want to seek help before summer break is over so the little kiddies at school don't make fun of you.
[deleted] ยท 245 points ยท Posted at 21:37:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
A little late, but I have a good one: When my oldest brother was 3 or 4, he fell into my cousins' pool. The pool didn't have a ladder and was several inches to reach to get out, no way for a 3 year-old that has ever swam in his life to escape. Well, while all the adults were talking they hear him screaming and splashing, and then silence. When they ran to get him, he was standing right next to the pool and he was soaking wet. When they asked him what happened, he said, "I fell in the pool and couldn't get out, then a shiny man pulled me out."
That one will always give me shivers.
EDIT: I'm a really crappy story-teller.
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 10:58:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The pool didn't have a ladder and was several inches to reach to get out, no way for a 3 year-old that has ever swam in his life to escape.
When I was two I somehow managed to sneak outside while my mom was preoccupied with my grandma. When they found me I was soaked from head to toe and was laying on the top step of the pool with my head on the concrete crying. They say I had to have fallen all the way in but no one knows what happened from there.
Do you ever think that maybe he was talking about, perhaps, God saved him? Or maybe God was sitting on his shoulder or something like that?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:56:20 on November 18, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is obviously extremely late, I was going through my top comments as a cake day treat. And yes. That's what I think. I don't think it was God, I think it was one of his angels that did it.
[deleted] ยท 448 points ยท Posted at 19:52:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 21:55:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stuff happens to me like that. I hallucinate being pulled out of bed only to wake up when I hit the floor, and I really just fell out of bed. Or, I hallucinate something and I wake up somewhere in the house. Could be a waking dream/hypnagogic hallucination.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 00:45:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 01:09:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I cannot tell you all the shit I've hallucinated... I can list some, though. Giant spiders climbing onto my face and smothering me, dismembered, bloody corpses strewn all over my floor, a headless zombie man trying to pull me out of bed, cloaked skeletal figures staring at me from the foot of my bed, ghouls, a banshee, a little girl telling me a story, more zombies, more fucking spiders (hallucinated spiders hanging from my ceiling, carpeting my floor so it was crawling, FUCK)
I had a giant (12" legs) dream spider crawling on top of my bed moving from my legs toward my face. I woke up right when the spider was on my chest but still on the blankets. I jump up, flip the blankets over to cover the 'spider' and punch the sheets about six times to kill it. My gf was sleeping next to me and is woken up by this and freaks the fuck out.
Oh man oh man. You have a great opportunity here. The next time some horror presents itself, you have to confidently proclaim that: "YOU ARE BUT A CREATION OF MY MIND, EPHEMERAL AND IMPOTENT. I AM THE MASTER HERE, BEGONE!"
I have regularly banished dream haunts by screaming at them. I feel all my "power" gather up in my core, and then I shout, usually just a very simple, "NO" or "STOP", and it blows them away like some kind of fus do rah. I always wake up feeling so empowered, which is pretty silly, but I don't care.
iEATu23 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:41:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That would make sense. In /r/luciddreaming people have said what happened to them in a dream related to what they were actually doing. So if their blood flow was cut off they would feel bugs crawling on them in their dream.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 01:07:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I have dreams where my room is being wrecked by an invisible force, but I wake up and I'm the one knocking shit over. I've destroyed lamps, tables, and even my own bed in my sleep. I had one dream where I was running through a dark forest, and all I could hear was this woman screaming this awful, unearthly scream, and I woke up running down the hall and I was the one screaming like I had never heard myself scream before.
Fucking sleep disorders. They make weird shit happen.
I don't want to offend you, but you sound terrifying when you're asleep. Like, I'd be your friend... but you couldn't pay me enough to have a sleep over. Very interesting though
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:22:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mostly, I'm harmless - I just sleep-talk almost constantly. I've been told I lead angry World of Warcraft raids in my sleep, and that when I'm not doing that, I'm swearing like a sailor and bitching imaginary people out.
Simie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:48:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am weird shit like that doesn't bother me. I literally sleep through anything, I go to bed and wake up at 6am, doesn't matter when I went to sleep or what day it is I am up by 6 am every day of the week. I never wake up during the night.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:52:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, good for you. However, your personal reactions to situations are not going to be the same as the rest of the world's, so don't be so quick to judge when someone says something that you think is strange.
she turned on the lights and called her father....because of something that her child said which sounded paranormal. If you call your daddy because of a bump in the night you should have thought about growing up before having kids.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:50:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I live in a pretty small town in central Wisconsin zero crime (except for some weed and a newer heroin problem) My neighbor across the street is a cop and 2 doors down on my side of the street is a cop. I live 100 yards from the County Cop Shop. I don't pay for it but the Brinks Sign is in my front garden (the house had brinks when I bought it). If they want something from my house they can have it and I would tell them that. I pay for insurance for a reason. I sleep most nights in the summer with every window and door open in my house. I am not too worried about it.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:03:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I find it hard to believe that there's idiots out there who think being gay is a sin against god, and that people believe antibacterial soap makes their immune system stronger.
You have to keep an open mind about all the crazy shit that people believe.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:46:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, I agree with you. Your son is scared about a "dead man" in his room and instead of comforting him, you freak out more than him??
This is wrong in so many ways
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:43:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Little graveyard humor there
Spk4420 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:01:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here's some humor, I used to work in cemeteries being a vault man and such, used to bury the bodies; I've never heard a complaint and six feet under, we all get along. Heh
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 21:26:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Insert horror story about a wife who cheats on her husband with a handsome but creepy funeral worker who later kills her and their child so he can be with them forever here.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:39:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Twist, he kills the mother and child so he can be with the father forever.
gte910h ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:38:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha! He's probably just confused about your job. I remember when I was younger, I used to tell my friends that my daddy was the 'carpenter's messenger'. In actual fact, he ran a small furniture company, so he was very hands- on, so he had to visit the workshop all the time.
I'm a software developer who had a similar experience. When one of my friends asked my four year-old son what his dad did, he proudly told them I worked in a toothpaste factory.
My cousin is autistic & I watched him so much when he was little that he called me 'Mom' for a few years...anyway, one day he's talking in his odd babble, & I'm talking back to him like "Oh yeah? Is that so? Well okay then, whatever you say..." when he says in a complete sentence "Go away, I'm talking to myself." he was only about 4 & hadn't ever spoken a full sentence before & didn't do it again for another probably 2 or 3 years.
[deleted] ยท 153 points ยท Posted at 20:30:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually fascinating. It gives some insight into how autistic people must think.
As I said, it's a title given to a very wide range of symptoms & severities. Like SIDS could be just about anything but they're not entirely sure what so they just call a lot of different things that. The main characteristics are developmental delays & antisocial behavior, but my cousin LOVES people, he will walk up to complete strangers & strike up conversation like they're his best friend. He has started to shy away from other kids recently, but we're pretty sure it's because they can tell he's not "normal" & are mean to him.
But anyway, he doesn't think like other autistic people because truthfully none of them really think alike, they just don't think like we do. If anything, we're the weird ones that should be classified because we all have similiar thought patterns & logics, where they do not.
I've recently started working as a habilitation tech. for families with special needs, so far just autistic children, and it's really been an eye-opening experience. I'm working with my third recipient and they've all been very different. It blew my mind to see the difference between the first client (seemed like a shy, somewhat awkward teen) to my second (non-verbal, lots of self stimming). Working nine hours a day with somebody who is non-verbal (just throat/mouth noises) is very....trying. There was definitely a time or two when I could've sworn the kid actually said something. If you don't expect it, it will seriously creep you out for a moment.
Exactly, it freaked me the hell out when he spoke a full sentence to me & I had to think about it for a sec to decide if he really had said it. My cousin isn't too severe, technically he has fairly severe Asperger's Syndrome, but very mild on the full autistic spectrum.
Might i reccomend reading Speed of Dark by Elizibeth Moon? From everyone i've asked it does a pretty good job of portraying the (or one of the) mindset of an autistic person. Plus, it's a damn good read anyway.
I'm definitely open to suggestions. I don't feel like the training I got was especially helpful (I believe it varies by state, I'm in NC). I will look into it, thanks.
I work with an adult with autism. When he is in control of his body, his vocalizations indicate something very specific. I asked him if he wanted coffee once and he signed 'yes'(his sign language is often not indicative of his actual desire) but the preceded to freak out and started yelling and pacing. I asked whats wrong and he FCed "no thank you, no coffee right now", then immediately calmed down. I agree, it is often very trying with the occasional reward. I am still coming to terms with him being a human being just trying to live his life to the best of his abilities.
Edit: changed words for clarity.
Yup, I know exactly what you mean. My previous recipient would sign for yes/no and had a certain sign when he wanted something (none of this was ASL, just his own signs). I started getting to know what he wanted and what he didn't, but often times I just had to come to terms with the fact he was going to get very upset and I wasn't going to be able to do anything. Sometimes it's tough to balance the 'I'm working with a person with autism' with 'I'm working with a 13-year-old boy, kids this age can be jerks.' My current recipient is non-vocal and uses a communicating device. Sometimes when I think he is just spacing out or not paying attention he will put me back in my place with a few well formed thoughts on his keyboard. Everyone is different.
Yes. FC doesn't work for every person, but for some people it's a miracle tool. I would love to work with children with autism, I bet that's somewhat more rewarding then grown men who are set in their ways or "the damage is done". I have been floored by what has been typed out by some of the people I work with.
Im autistic... (I'm serious I have asbuegers also I can't spell it lol) my brain never shuts up... Idk if it's like other people but there always a beta or a song in my head and on top of that there like this back thought... It's ussaly about something weird and the only way I can stop it is by playing a game.. (or something REALLY intense IRL..)
I think low people with severe autism is interesting, their minds are working differently yet they are still people, they're still human! I would love to see two autistic people socialize actualy, not for a show just because it would be cool and you could learn a lot.
I align my views with no one, I think on my own terms and frankly I dont give a shit if im down votes.
jonjoe ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 05:12:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother and sister-in-law adopted a little German boy. By the time he was four he had never said a single word and we all thought he was never going to speak.
Anyway, on his fourth birthday my brother and his wife decided to throw a a party for him. He was having a great time smiling and laughing all day until his mother gave him a mug of juice. He put on this weird sour face and said "Ze juice iz not to my liking."
We were all dumbfounded and just stood there open mouthed until my shocked brother asked "You can speak?" My nephew replied "Of course I can speak."
My bother then said "This is amazing! Why have you never said anything before?"
My nephew replied "Vell, up until now everything haz been satisfactory."
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 20:31:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my wife was 3 apparently they were a bit concerned because she hadn't down yet. Until one day her mom came into her room to find her taking to her dolls. Full sentences. Apparently she just didn't talk in front of people.
My son is 5 and has a pretty bad speech delay- he can talk you up and down, but you just may not know what he's saying. Usually my husband and I can understand (most of) what he says, but not always. I'm having a hard time deciding on whether to put him in kindergarten this fall or not. kids are mean.
I think you should go ahead and do it. If anything, I think school will actually help his speech delay. Yes, teasing may be a problem but just talk to the teacher and explain the situation beforehand. You can always unenroll him. You could also try speech therapy if it escalates.
He's been in speech therapy for over a year (we didn't have insurance for a while.) We plan on using the therapist at the school as well, we've heard she's quite good.
My son's speech was very delayed. He was just starting to talk when he started kindergarten. He had been in speech therapy for a couple of years already and his therapists advised us to go ahead and enroll him. He never had any issues with teasing, at least that I am aware of. There's a lot of kids at that age that still don't have all of their speech sounds, so more than likely he won't be the only one with speech issues. That's just my 2 cents, good luck to you and your son.
I am starting to wonder if I was born with hyperlexia. I was reading at 3 as well and was always 3-4 grades above my class in reading ability all through school. Apparently, from the wiki article research I just did, hyperlexia is very common in ASD children.
That is actually pretty typical for autistic kids. My son used to do the same. He made up his own jargon, which was very expressive. He didn't talk in complete sentences until he was about 5. The first time it happened, I about fell over. And then, like you said, he didn't speak a sentence again for a long, long time.
hm1085 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 22:18:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My autistic cousin did the same thing I never heard him say a complete, non-garbled sentence and then randomly one day he goes "I'm going to wash my hands." Everyone was shocked.
Several years ago, in high school. When you hand-write just about everything, you find your own shorthand stuff that you can actually get away with. It just carried over into my typing.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:19:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Creepiest one here, by far. Just think of the implications of that: he understood English perfectly well, but never told anyone, and never cared enough to use it.
To this day his mom still doesn't believe me. Nobody could get him to do it again for years. It was so odd that it was totally creepy. He didn't say anything scary & he didn't say it in a scary way but it was so odd that it scared the hell out of me.
pdfpdx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:57:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I work at a school in Thailand. We have an autistic kid in grade one of our English Program. Most kids in his class don't speak much English except for a few simple phrases. They are just beginning. This kid had never said a word to me or responded to any of my questions unless I spoke Thai to him. I assumed he didn't understand much English, but last week I was eating lunch with him at school and he started talking in almost fluent English about his delicious chocolate cookies. It was pretty cool to see him break out of his shell a bit and was a total surprise.
You misread my tone, it's kind of like when you talk to a baby when they babble & you encourage them by talking back, not condescending like whatever I'm not listening...& some cases can work like that but then some don't. Autism is a very broad spectrum of symptoms & severities. At that point he would mumble & put in a couple of words to get his point across. Like he heard us speak in full sentences but he didn't know what the words in between the main ones meant, but he would mimic us by mumbling nonsense words between the word of what he wanted. Like instead of "Will you please pour me some milk?" he would say "Mmmbldesastklaksdfk MILK?" he also had echolelia for a while so he would repeat us so instead of "Hold me" he would say to him "Hold you" because we would say "Can I hold you?" He didn't start using full sentences until he was 7 or 8, & even then it was usually only to quote movies or repeat us. He's now 12 & generally doesn't speak in full complete sentences, but instead just uses fragments.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:48:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He loves the computer, youtube is his favorite thing, but he can't type because he has trouble reading and spelling. He likes to play with the keys if you open up a Word document but he gets bored, begs for youtube, & then you have to sit with him to type things in & make sure he's not on anything bad.
I am sorry, you misread my comment as well! I was not trying to sound condescending or anything the like, rather I was asking a question as to whether or not speaking to someone with autism in a more eloquent manner speeds up their understanding of language.
That actually doesn't encourage them, though. The way to encourage them is to really talk to them and try to understand them, so that way you are rewarding the clear and correctly used words.
We did, when he would mumble & add the word we would subtly correct it like with the milk thing we would reply "Would you like a glass of milk?" and then "I would love to pour you a glass of milk." So when he was actually communicating we always made sure to speak in full clear sentences, we only replied with the "Baby talk" responses when he would babble to just make noise, trying to encourage him to talk but not really knowing what he's thinking so you can't really converse with much else.
My little brother also said "hold you" to my mom anytime he wanted to be held until he was about 4, because anytime he would lift his arms towards her she would say, "do you want me to hold you?"
Edit: Thought it'd be worth mentioning that he isn't autistic to my knowledge, and he's 11 now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a few autistic cousins and they all did the made-up language thing as well. I've heard that it's actually quite common for autistic people to make up their own language.
This is the creepiest thing in the thread. I have a sister with a few disabilities and when I was a child I always thought how scary it would be if she suddenly acted normal for just a second when only I was in the room.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like this story, as i have AS my self.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My seven-year-old little brother is autistic. Many times when I try talking to him during one of his spells he gets angry and tells me to let him talk with himself. It's heartbreaking and cute to watch him.
[deleted] ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 20:47:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I type as I would write, & I write as I speak. Anywhere I would verbally say "and" I just type "&". I don't do it in anything with a formal context, like work emails, I always go back through & replace them all with the word.
Just letting you know it comes across as schizo and not as a good separation of ideas/thoughts. Writing conventions exist so everyone gets the right idea when they read.
I was putting my daughter to bed one night when she was around two. She said, "Mommy, who's that?" "Who's what?" I asked.
"Those people talking to me. In my closet. Who is that?"
I just about shit myself.
[deleted] ยท 1584 points ยท Posted at 20:28:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"That's just R. Kelly, dear."
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:37:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was hoping someone would see my analyses and give you an answer. It could be your keyboard language, or your browser language - one of the many language settings (or font settings) don't have that symbol. But I could be completely wrong and just made a good guess.
I laughed way too hard at this. I imagined that you tried to have the guy putting the table back, but fucked up the formatting. So you just roll with it instead of fixing it.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:00:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Really?
Really?
Out of ALL the amazing posts that has been posted on reddit in past years in various topics, out of all the useful posts full of information posted in subreddits like askscience or people with a specialized field of knowledge posting in askreddit and the like, or the astronaut who did an ama, you pick a stupid fucking table flip meme comment thread as THE GREATEST THREAD EVER?
oh my goodness - I came here to tell the story of putting my daughter to bed one night. I asked her, "Do you want Mommy to read you your story?" "No." "Do you want Daddy to read you your story?" "No." "Then who is going to ready your story?" "The man in my closet." It took all of my willpower not to scream so loud.
This makes me wonder - maybe there really are people who live in children's closets...
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:13:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not only does my room have no closet, but my bed lies directly flat, on the floor.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 21:11:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When I was a kid I used to hear voices that seemed to be coming from across my room at night. I can still vaguely remember how the voices sounded. There was one voice that was high, another one that was lower. I couldn't make out what they were saying, and could tell by the way their voices sounded that they were not human. They visited often, and I remember going downstairs one night to tell my mom that "they" had come back and I couldn't sleep. My mom brushed it off and to this day I have no fucking clue what I meant by "they".
Simba7 ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 22:43:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not two years ago I started hearing voices, murmuring at first, but then they got louder and louder as I laid there in bed. I began freaking out. Even though the voices were too soft to hear properly, I could tell they were coming from inside the room. This, naturally, freaked me out and despite the fact I wasn't able to make out any of the words I began to attribute sinister meaning to them. This only freaked me out more, so my searching grew more frantic. I got up, turned on the lights, looked all over my room. Eventually I narrowed down the origin of the voices to my computer, which was clearly off (unplugged laptop with no battery in it).
It was at this point I considered the notion that I might be going crazy. I calmed myself down and started the computer up. The voices got louder, and then stopped. I, thoroughly confused and a little bit scared, searched "voices coming from computer" on Google...
...and that was the night I found out my computer speakers pick up some AM radio station when set to a certain volume.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sounded like it was clearly in the same room as me.
crazyex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I swear I used to see a green alien peek around the doorframe at night and look in at me. It didn't happen often but I remember it well 30+ years later.
The closest I can describe it is sort of Greedo-like, but a different shape and sized head, with some structures on the side of its head.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:34:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just closed my open closet. not that i'm scared, or anything. no. no, not at all...
...if I get nightmares i'm blaming your fucking kid.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:38:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tony's the little boy who lives in my mouth.
z3m ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:56:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When I was a kid I had an extremely vivid imagination. I was also extremely religious, which got out of control when my best friend moved away and my parents converted from judaism to wiccanism (which I didn't really know much about, I just thought we weren't going to temple anymore) when I was about 8. I continued going to temple with a lady I knew from there who sometimes babysat us and read the bible constantly.
I believed I had 2 angels that followed me around and they told me things. I saw them plain as day and can recall exactly what they looked like. I'd been "seeing" them for as long as I could remember but around that time they were ALWAYS there. My parents thought I might have a poltergeist following some kind of weird events.
Over the years they "taught" me different stuff, which is weird because it was actually all true and I found out later on they were elements of tai chi and i ching. They also taught me how to astral project and by the time I was in 7th grade I was so good at it I believed I could drop out of my body in less than 30 seconds.
My father was gone by this time and my mother talked to my rabbi several times about my condition. Weird stuff sometimes would happen, that was probably coincidental but because I was talking about people who weren't there she was freaked by it. Plus, I was too old for imaginary friends at this point. Finally, in my freshman year old high school - after some really weird shit and running away - my mom took me to see my aunt who is a "psychic healer" and her and her friends did an exorcism on me.
It didn't do anything. The vision got more an more intense after that, though. Finally, somewhere in my sophomore year I was diagnosed as schitzophrenic and put on meds. The visions went away, but I was miserable. Went off the meds and they never came back, though. I've been told I'm not schitzophrenic since then. Not really sure what it was about, especially since I'm atheist and I don't really believe in ghosts. But, may be I'm wrong. Or may be it was just a security blanket for me and I have a powerful imagination. But, I also remember seeing dinosaurs eating Golden Gate Park when I was a kid, so... Kids sometimes just see shit. I think it's like how if you look at an optical illusion it's basically just your brain shorting? I think kid brains are still so new to the world their brains just see shit and short out and think they saw or heard something else.
im thinking that your parents wiccanism went wrong and demons took over your body.
z3m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if you're joking, but just to say the visions were there before they converted to that and they never told me they'd converted to wicca until I was a teenager.
I tried to remain calm and said, "There's nothing in your closet, sweetie. See?" I opened it for her and explained it was just clothes and toys and books. I asked if she thought there were people in there or if she was just using her imagination. She said "I don't know." She hasn't said anything about it since then.
Frokost ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:08:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have to do that sometimes for my five year old, and EVERY SINGLE TIME my heart skips a beat as I stick my head in the closet. One of these days there's going to be someone in there, I'm sure of it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Vitharr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:03:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, for kids its not abnormal. Young children sometimes hear voices, especially when it's silent. for example a child would complain it can't sleep because these persons won't stop talking. Most children don't experience this as scary but just as something that is anoying at worst. This typical goes away when they get older.
I don't have kids yet. but my parents told me, I once sleepwalked into the living room at night with the most horrified look on my face they've ever seen. They were unable to wake me up and I didn't say a single word. they finally brought me back to bed. I can't remember anything.
We have a family history of sleep-walkers and talkers. I guess my uncle was found outside next to the mailbox several times.
My daughter talks in her sleep now. It hasn't been anything especially creepy, but one time she yelled out that our dog was eating all of her toys.
My little sister said something similar. Our bedrooms were next to each other upstairs, and when I was a teenager (she was around 6 maybe?) I went upstairs to go to bed. As I passed her room I noticed she was awake and staring at the corner in her room. I asked, "Sarah? Go to bed dinky." With a deadpan face she stared straight at me and said, "But the old lady is staring at me."
All the hairs on my neck rose and I took her to my room for the night.
My friends Mom ones told us at dinner (they dined with our family) that once when my friend was a baby, she took a shortcut over the graveyard (It's normal to do if you know the way. Only like 25 meters of walking beside tombstones, nothing worse). And then my friend suddenly asked; Why is the Old man behind you gonna take you away? She turned around, saw nothing and ran like hell.
I am not sure how legit this story is, but it still gives me goose bumps. And yes she's still alive and well.
OH MY GOD NO THIS BROUGHT AWFUL MEMORIES OF THE MOVIE SAW.... The scene where the girl tells her mom there's a man in the closet and she gets freaked out, she tells her there's no one, she leaves then it turns out there really is a man in the closet. FUCK I HAD FORGOTEN ABOUT IT.FUCK ME
Popin17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. Rogers strikes again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A similar thing happened to my sister with her daughters who were 4 and 10 at the time, sharing a room in the attic. My sister said that weird things were happening before throughout the house, but that this event is what really creeped her out. She was putting the girls to bed, and the younger one wanted to read a story. Well my sister got about half way through when she heard some footsteps walking up the stairs, but she saw that no one was there when she heard it reach the top step. My sister shrugged it off as just her imagination, but after the story was over, the youngest asked her, "Mommy, who came up the stairs?" Well, that was weird enough, but then later that night, the two girls came running down the stairs, the younger one was scared and crying, saying that they were hearing voices in the closet, and the youngest one said they sounded mean (which is why she was crying).
Similar thing happened with my sister when she was little. Apparently she pointed out of the kitchen window and asked "why was that man in the white suit looking at us?"
Our son is 21 months old, and we find that the easiest way to get him to sleep is for one of us to lie down with him in our bed until he drifts off, then we transfer him to his cot in his own room.
l was lying there in our bed with him a couple of weeks ago, lights out and curtains drawn, and just the two of us in the house. Just as I thought he was about to fall asleep, he sat bolt upright in the bed, and turned his head to look up at the bare patch of wall above my head. Then his face lit up with a smile, the same one he does when he meets someone he recognises. I don't believe in the supernatural, but at that point my hair was standing on end. There are no paintings or pictures on the wall, or even patterned wallpaper, it's just matte white paint.
Then after no more than a minute of staring and smiling up at nothing a couple of feet above my head, he waved "bye bye" to whatever it was he (imagined that he) could see, and then he lay down and went straight to sleep. I didn't move for half an hour.
Sdg68 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Those might have been auditory hallucinations. Google: "More than 20% of Irish children 'hear voices'" and you'll find the article. I remember hearing whispers when I was little. Completely forgot about it til I read that article.
I had really active imagination when I was a kid.
My mom was putting me to bed when I told her that the barbie's face was moving. She looked at the barbie and of course it was still. "Oh honey, its nothing, go to bed." As she went to say goodnight to my brother the barbies face became a demons face and she grew horns. Then she whispered that if I talked again she kill everyone. My mom at that point turned of the lights. I quietly cried the whole night under my blanket..
There was another time when I heard a little man enter out apartment and for some reason he had an axe. I stayed in my bed paralyzed with fear. I hear his little foot steps approach my room, very slowly but surely. He also was laughing and saying things like, Im gonna get your little toes haha. I think I blacked out from fear.
The time when I scared the living shit out of my parents was when I was 6 or so. I was taking a nap during the day. When I woke up, I looked up on the ceiling and saw a little trap opening in the roof. It was opening and little hairy demons were looking down. I got out of my bed and tried to explain his to my parents. Then I tried to explain how in one hand I was holding a feather and in the other 20 bricks.
My childhood was filled with fears for some reason. I slept with a flashlight until I entered high school...
Along the same lines and perhaps a little late... My two young kids (the two with the current missus, aged 6 and 9) share a creepy "feature" with their old man... They hear someone calling out their names in the middle of the night, sometimes is a masculine voice they say is similar to mine, and some other times a feminine voice unlike any other voice they've heard before. I used to hear the same until I turned 14? I think.
Same here. I heard a voice occasionally saying my name until I was in my late teens. It was an almost imperceptible voice. I mentioned it once to a therapist and she went bananas, wanting to have me tested for all sorts of things. But I think it's really quite common.
I know I'm extremely late to this discussion, but my daughter does the same thing! She just turned 2.
I decided to do a ghost radar app and have tried multiple ones, and the name that has come up on every one is Tom. Every once in a while my daughter will say "Hi Tom!" randomly, and when we're leaving it's "Bye Tom!" as she looks and waves behind us. Freakin creeps me out! I plan on asking her who Tom is the next time she says hi or bye.
A while back I heard somebody say that the reason kids see all this shit and we don't is that kids don't know what to categorize as rational or not, and as they grow up the adult will teach them that certain things just shouldn't be there and that they're making it up.
This leads us to believe that these things are actually there and we have just built up a subconscious reaction to seeing them as that they're not real, so our brains won't process them.
TL;DR We still see them, but our brains think they're not real so we don't see them
I said something very similar when I was a child, except the voices were from the grates. Turns out I was having conversations with the people living in the basement.
helm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's little people
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once I was taking a nap on the couch. I was waking up, and just as I'm opening my eyes, I see my 2yo son walking toward me with a serious look on his face. He leans in close and whispers, "It Happened." He then leaves without another word.
I'm pathetic. I like to believe I have a clever sense of wit and all that noise, but I'm not particularly the guy who laughs aloud to everything I find funny.
Yet I fucking burst out laughing at a well timed poop joke...
[deleted] ยท 937 points ยท Posted at 19:22:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have night terrors when I was around 2. Vivid nightmares that involved walking and talking in my sleep. Consequently, I often spent the night in my parents bed. One time my mom woke up and saw that I was missing. She found me standing in the living room. She tried to pick me up but I backed away and screamed, "Wash the blood off your hands!"
Rizzz ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:04:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in 6th grade, I was Lady Macbeth in our school play. I was worried about forgetting my lines, so I would practice them incessantly throughout the day and while I was falling asleep. My mother came into the room to check on me, and heard me muttering about not being able to get the blood of my hands or some such thing. Freaked her right the hell out.
JB_UK ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:24:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn
As you have done to this.
My older brother used to have night terrors, which were creepy enough on their own, but we shared a bed which made it worse. There were a few times I'd wake up to my brother screaming only to be punched in the face for being a monster or whatever the hell he thought. Needless to say, I'm a pretty light sleeper these days.
I was watching a five year old over night once, and he started screaming and crying at the top of his lungs in the middle of the night. It of course woke the whole house up and his siblings were kind enough to inform me that he gets night terrors. I didn't want to make him feel worse, so I held him and told him that everything was okay. He kept screaming that they were trying to stab him. He woke up after a whole five minute ordeal. While totally explainable night terrors are terrifying for more than just the dreamer.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:15:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My three-year-old has night terrors. She'll be screaming, thrashing, crying (the awful, body-wracking sobs that come with lots of gasping and hiccuping for air), while begging me to save her from all kinds of monsters (which she describes in disturbing detail). In the morning, I'll ask her about them, and she remembers nothing. I'm extremely grateful for that, because I would not wish the pure terror she appears to be experiencing during these episodes on anyone.
That reminds me of one time when I was a kid and I was staying overnight at my aunt's place. I used to get really bad fevers really fast, which happened while I was staying there. It was so bad this time that I started hallucinating and I remember seeing my uncle and brother (they were watching tv together) as skeletons and I started screaming and told my aunt. She must've been a little freaked out.
If you can remember vivid details of the nightmare, it's not a night terror. Not being able to remember the dream is actually one of the diagnostic criteria for night terrors.
Not saying you didn't have bad nightmares -- just that they wouldn't be classified as night terrors, even if you were screaming, walking, etc
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:08:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I don't remember them...the doctor did diagnose me with night terrors. But I've also been plagued with bad dreams, always. I used to dream Jesus was trying to kill me.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 22:05:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus loves you, he wants you to join him in his kingdom... FOREVER.
...Kinda sums up Christianity. My perspective, anyway.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:29:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I expect this in theaters soon.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:27:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same. Psychiatrist diagnosed it as night terrors.
I had a Lady Macbeth dream, too - I had blood all over my hands and I tried desperately to wash it off, but it just kept multiplying and the sink was filled with blood and the walls were smeared and I kept trying to wipe my hands with towels until they were all bloody and left in a heap on the floor.
Night Terrors happen during NREM sleep aka, not when you are dreaming. So you most likely having nightmares, not night terrors...sorry I'm that annoying Psych Major.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister had the same thing. A man in a top hat and a suit. She would see him all the time. When we left town to visit family for the summer she thought she would get a break from the creepy ghost, but she saw him there once after about a week. the rest of the family never really saw him. all i saw was a leg just as it went out of sight through a door frame into her room. So it looks like male angels are classy as fuck.
My ex and I took our kids over to my dad's house and we were up stairs in one of the empty rooms playing. The closet door opened a little bit on its own and my three year old jumped up, ran over to it and said "it's grandma". My mother died before he was even conceived.
Same here my 2 yo son was in the shower with me and he opened the shower curtin and was just stairing. I said what are you looking at he didnt even turn his head and he said just grandma. Ive never mentioned any thing about her or anything. He calls his other grandma me me. So it totally freaked me out. She passed 6 years ago.
I remember seeing my dead grandma when I was 8-10 late at night in the bathroom mirror. She was serious and frowning, which creeped me out the most since she was always smiling and happy. She passed away when I was 6. Only in that bathroom though.
My kids definitely are. My mother is a Sensitive. However, she stopped breathing at 3 days old at the same time as her grand mother passed away.
My sister didn't stop breathing or anything but she can see dead animals - sometimes. Not as clearly as my mother. Sometimes she needs my mother to confirm it.
What does being a Sensitive mean? She could see dead relatives? This kind of stuff is super fascinating to me, because my mom and uncle claim to have seen dead relatives and have known when somebody died before being told. I can't see how any of that is real. I want to ask you All the questions!
Crap, I just wrote this all out and accidentaly exited off the tab. I'm so mad. Well here goes a freakin gain. Not your fault.
She doesn't like being called a psychic but I am sure it's similar. She has done both of those things - seen passed relatives and dreamed someone's death prior to it happening.
I just went to ask her about the prediction, she said it was a week prior and she didn't recognise her relative so the prediction couldn't be passed on. Sure enough, her Uncle was flung from a car and broke his back and the people in the other car and his own passengers died. Just as she had predicted.
I believe it because she told me that after I came back from my grandmothers funeral in Gisborne, New Zealand to Auckland, my Nanna came back with me to see if we were happy because she hadn't heard anything. This was really upsetting to me because I had been asked several times to write her a letter but I was too busy with my teenage social life to do it. I have regretted it ever since.
Also, a few years ago, I got dropped off home from my then boy friends cousin. After he left, my mother told me she saw a very angry Maori chief with him. He was standing there yelling, apparently. My mum was able to determine that if this guy didn't stop doing what he was doing (she didn't know what it was) that he would die and that it would be an impact wound. He was a naughty boy, from what I knew of him. He did Meth and beat up his girl friend. He had a daughter and a little girl on the way. So it was imperative that he grow up and deal with what ever it was.
Recently I have been hanging out with my ex's family again for his nieces 5th birthday. Earlier this week her mum came to get me but she needed to go to the dairy so she left her 7 year old son with me while I got ready, my mum then told him his Poppa was with him, that he loved him and he was very special to his poppa. When his mum came back, she told him that her poppa wasn't very happy with the men in her life.
Turns out uncle and her father have been real idiot drunks. I don't know the details, I was in the car when she told her sister that night when she went to drop me off and said, "Yeah, I think she was talking about uncle _____, remember what happened?"
"oh yeah sis!"
I was also dropped off another night by said 5 year olds Dad and his new girlfriend. Mum saw that she had a young Maori warrior with her, an acestor that had no European influences about him, he was speaking pure Maori. We were able to determine the words
Whanau: Family
Mea Nui: important (possible)
Aroha: Love
Mum was also able to determine that the girl in question has to overcome something before she can move on. Then her guide will be happy.
So yeah, those are some experiences I've had. My mum gets a head ache from her readings which is why she only does them for friends and family.
However, I told my boss from last year about my mum, she asked for a reading and I said I'd ask my mum. Mum said she'd need an item of importance, it didn't need to be expensive, just important to my boss. So she gave me a couple of bracelets.
From that my mum was able to gather quite a lot. She had an issue with her family she needed to solve, she has a hernia in her stomach which causes her some grief, things like that. It made my boss cry. haha.
Is there anything else you'd like to know?
Holy shit that was an essay.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:47:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Similar story. At a wedding, my 2 year old niece was sitting alone at a table smiling and laughing like someone was playing with her. When her mom asked her what she was doing, my niece goes "I'm playing with Auntie Roshan."
Aunt Roshan passed away before my niece was even born.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:58:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My older brother saw my dead grandmother alot. I put it down to living on a mountain top with clouds rolling through all the time and my crazy auntie always bringing tarot cards over.
I don't know, I always used to ask where my step brother was. I didn't have one, ever, and having one was never discussed in our house, but I kept asking. It weirded them out.
It was really because I had heard the term somewhere and couldn't fathom not having a family member of any kind. shrug
[deleted] ยท 954 points ยท Posted at 19:05:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I had a ghost in my house once that kept doing things to indicate that it didn't like me. I put party rock anthem on loop and left the house for three days. Haven't heard a peep from that fucker since.
Rule of thumb for survival: don't ever be scared of anything. Be wary, be cautious, avoid it like the burning plagues of hell, but panic is not a survivors tool.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 22:17:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Except if you're a hot girl in your undies or a black dude. Then you better go and investigate that shit.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:04:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just imagined you yelling at the old ghost woman saying "Yeah, bitch, but I can make him a sandwich. What you got bitch? Nothing!" I laughed my ass off at the very thought of such a thing.
Hey. I remember being a kid and I also remember what other kids acted like. Sometimes you'd say "So-and-so doesn't like you" to somebody in order to be possessive, or because you're angry about something, or maybe you just don't know what the words mean. I know that I said things like this when I was younger than six years old.
Can't you easily picture a little kid getting jealous over a pet liking someone else more than him or her and yelling "BUT HE DOESN'T LIKE YOU!"
I also remember saying I was "allergic" to any food I didn't want to eat, and I "hated" my older brother and dad for some reason.
So I guess my point is that even if it is a ghost, your little brother saying she doesn't like you isn't anything to worry about. Kids are just assholes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:05:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of a TV special that aired 20 years ago, that mentioned a similar unsolved mystery.
It involved a wife who had frequent dreams about herself touring the inside of her "ideal," make-believe dream house. And whenever she had this periodic dream, of walking through every room and corridor of this "wonderful" house, it always involved the exact same type of house. This inspired her enough to the point that she excitedly goaded her husband to help her begin house-shopping to find some new home to move into.
But at one of the homes "for-sale" that the couple decided to check out, the wife immediately thought it looked uncannily like the one in her dreams. Then when the real estate agent and homeowner walked out to greet them, the homeowner was stunned....because the wife looked exactly like the apparent "mystery woman ghost" who the homeowners repeatedly spotted around the house, that freaked them out enough to put it up for sale in the first place.
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:24:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone explain why when i read this kind of shit I randomly tear up???? Like I don't feel afraid currently but tears are consistently running. What the hell??
I have panic attacks occasionally, and I tear up with almost any great emotion, sad or not. I think some people are just way more sensitive to emotion and this kind of thing makes us anxious.
I do it as well. Any time I am talking about something intense--if it is sad, or scary, or especially when I am recounting something that happened to me that was frightening (even if I am not at that moment afraid), I cry like a madwoman. Not like sobs, just tears flowing like waterfalls. I agree with glasstapper on this.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:08:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yeah isn't it weird?? Like you aren't really crying but tears just keep falling out.
Probably depends on which Redditor you ask. Also, not sure if this was a point you were making but, astral projection has nothing to do with the eternal soul.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:25 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol, there was no connection whatsoever, I was merely making a point.
I love logic and all, but being too skeptical really stifles the magic and mystery of life, you know? I know everything can be explained, and that doesn't mean I don't like a good logical explanation, but it's fun to wonder and imagine, man.
Reddit can be so obsessively skeptical to a point where asking questions and having a little fun with your imagination (even in a thread like this) is downvoted and criticized to oblivion.
Fair enough, but I'd disagree with your point about everything being explainable; we humans collectively have come to know a lot, but there's still an incredibly vast amount that we don't still know about: the universe, human nature, and the nature of existence, for example.
When there's already such an enormous trove of things to wonder about, giving even a single thought to topics like the existence of ghosts, or of "eternal souls" -- for which there isn't even a shred of real evidence -- seems pretty mundane to me, and not very constructive.
But of course that's just what I think. I'll have you know that I'd never go about downvoting opinions that I disagree with!
You're honestly just proving my point about reddit, why so negative? I'm actually an artist so I have many a creative outlet, thank you very much. I just happen to love spooky unexplainable things and let my mind wander amongst their mystery.
I take it back... you are too creative. Stop making it so hard for me to be negative!!
Thumbz8 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:27:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not really logical, it's more pessimistic.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:03 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it's not a bad thing. But logically speaking, why is the concept of an eternal soul so hard to accept? This may be a stupid question to you but I'm genuinely curious, so if you would take the time to answer, I'd really appreciate it :)
No problem at all! I'm not sure that this is a fair restatement of the belief in eternal souls, but here's how I take it: that there is some non-physical component of our being that inhabits our physical bodies, and has some role in giving rise to human consciousness (plus maybe a bunch of different functions, depending on the nature of your particular belief). For me, it's not so much that it's hard to accept that belief. It's just that I don't feel there is any good reason to believe in it, firstly because there's no credible evidence to support it, and secondly because choosing to believe in it doesn't seem particularly constructive to anything.
I initially had a bit more written down here, but I thought Iโd like to hear out your thoughts about what Iโve said first, so I can try to address them. I might also prefer to refer you elsewhere, where you can read up on the same ideas being articulated much better than I ever could. So, tell me what you think!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:31 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'm definitely glad to hear you say it. But on the subject of reincarnation, I actually do believe in it, or at the very least, I don't believe it's completely impossible. Reading some of the stories in this thread (some, not all) leads me to believe that memory of a past life is the only logical answer to some of the weird things these kids did.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:54 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha stay awesome fellow Redditor :D
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When you astral project, it feels like you are a gas, just floating accidental-like on a breeze. To me, since the first time it happened to me, considering my body a vessel is logic as I have left it many times. If only Darwin had experienced this, perhaps it would have a place in atheism.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:35 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe, who knows? I for one would love to hear a logical, rational explanation for why this happens. I don't deny that I am a spiritual person, but in this case, simply saying, "God did it!" is not really enough for me, if you know what I mean.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:33:09 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My only explanation (personal theory) is that we have a soul and our bodies are vessels. Not like a soul in the biblical sense, I just can't think of a better term for it. I believe we are electricity inside. Whenever I astral project (which btw is not a talent, I have no idea how I do it, it kind of just happens to me), I travel very quickly, like electricity does. Every destination is an instant arrival. Unfortunately, none of these experiences are tangible and therefore can not really be documented and/or studied effectively. The best example I can give is emotions. Think of a time when you were really happy and couldn't stop smiling and then you ran into an unhappy person. Just being around them drained you (more or less depending on how well you knew the unhappy person). That is your positive energy being taken over by negative energy. Please forgive my grammar errors if I made mistakes. I need a pro bono editor stat.
EDIT: I mentioned Darwin (who is pretty much the voice of Atheism today) because if he had experienced the things I have, he could have never logically ruled energy and the astral plane out completely without being a hypocrite. With that I believe Atheists would be open-minded, but not to the point where their brains fall out (i.e Westboro/Phelps).
TL;DR I believe we have electric "souls" and am fully aware of how crazy I must come off.
Yeah. This is about to sound very ridiculous but when I was younger this was a show called "So Weird" on the Disney channel where a girl was basically a paranormal Sherlock Holmes; in one episode she dealt with a girl who could astral project. After that I researched it a lot and it seemed really complicated, I could never let me my mind go like that.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:40:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is crazy, and definitely the most believable story I've read. I'm convinced that people can see other people's dream states now.
What's funny is this specific story was specifically stated to be a "TV special that aired 20 years ago.
EDIT: Having read on, I learned this episode was based off of a real-life reported case.
That is actually the plot of a NightGallery episode called "The House" based on the short story of the same name by Andrรฉ Maurois
*Elaine Latimer has dreamed of driving on a country road and coming to a beautiful house. In her dream she knocks on the door but no one answers, so she leaves. She has had the same dream for years, and on her final day at a sanitarium she recounts the dream to her doctor. Leaving after being cured of what ailed her, Elaine finds herself driving in the country and discovers a familiar road, at the end of which is her dream house (literally). A real estate agent is also there and tells her the house is on sale, as it has been many times previously -- all the owners feel it is haunted. Elaine isn't put off by that and buys the house immediately. Now she is home for sure. *
dirt3h ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:24:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, this was a folk tale, it was on a TV show called beyond belief: fact or fiction. Where they basically showed weird stories throughout out the show, some fake some "real," this story was a fake one.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:59:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
BEYOND BELIEF: FACT OR FICTION!
Inky109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Something like "Fiction or Real" or something. It was just a one-time airing. They presented a series of paranormal situations, but the "gimmick" was that the TV viewer was expected to "assess" which stories were real, and which were totally made up by the writers. At the end of the program, half the stories would be revealed to be false and made up, but the other half of the cases would be revealed to be established reported cases. This particular case was purportedly one of the real ones.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:53:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's called Fact or Fiction. I used to watch it all the time as a kid.
This story freaked me out more than all the other ones I've read so far. Maybe because many of the other stories imply children seeing the deceased, but this involves two living personsโฆ thats some weird shit man.
I read a book on out of body experiences 10+ years ago. Everynight I tried to follow the instructions, finally I had the experince described in the book. I literally flew home (over 2,000 miles away) (this is my experience) and floated through the roof of my parents home. I saw them sleeping, and it scared me and I was instantly back in my body.
About 10minutes later I got a call from my mom checking, because she thought I had died. She apparently had seen my ghost in the kitchen across from the bedroomโฆ
Every once in a while, I dream that I've just woken up and I'm completely unable to move. My room, my bed, and everything around me look completely normal. I spend a few (dream) minutes panicking and trying to get out of bed, but I can't even blink. Then I realize it's a dream, which makes me "wake up" but this dream usually happens in a few layers where I keep thinking I've woken up for real, but I'm still dreaming.
I've gone through several bouts of this. I think maybe it was during troubled and/or confusing times... not sure.
Hrodrik ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:41:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is called sleep paralysis, and it happens when you're under stress, etc. Happened to me a few times. The first times I thought I was paralyzed, tried to scream for help and only whimpers came out. Then I learned to just wait for it to pass. Never hallucinated though, thankfully.
Yeah that sounds about right. It would also happen when I was lying in bed late with no particular reason to get up. Maybe some internal struggle about not really wanting to finish sleeping.
Hrodrik ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:48:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I think the causes of my episodes were bad sleeping habits and anxiety (I had a couple of panic attacks at about the same time I was having these).
It's not sleep paralysis, trust me they are way different. In out of body experiences, i've successfully been able to see things that you'd only be able to verify from an airplane.
mipadi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For a period of a few years, I had that happen to me almost every time I took a nap. Say I took a nap on the couch; I'd dream that I was napping on the couch, and within that dream I'd have another dream. Then something would "wake me up" (so I awoke from the inner dream); often it was because I "heard" someone come into my apartment. But I couldn't turn to look at them, or move at all. I'd hear them walking around, but I could't do anything. Eventually I'd realize I was still asleep, and then awake from the "outer" (first, or "real") dream.
The scariest dream ever, I dreamt that (as usual) I was napping on my couch. I'd fallen asleep smoking, and lit the couch on fire. I awoke (in the dream) being burned alive. Scared the shit out of me, and that prompted me to awake from that dream.
I hear some people actually see crazy, scary shit when experiencing sleep paralysis, but that's all that's ever happened to me. But it was unsettling enough that I stopped taking naps for a while. Hasn't happened to me in a couple years, though.
Zecriss ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:12:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's only happened to me once- I DID see someone looming over me. I recognized the figure, and it may or may not have really happened. But it was the scariest moment of my life.
I was half-sleeping in my room in this really old house. I could tell my friend David was coming up the stairs, and that he was probably going to ask if I was sleeping. I was planning on pretending that I was sleeping, and then jump up and startle him. He turned the corner and starting coming towards me, but it seemed like he was moving super slow, and the old floor creeked with every drawn out step. And his figure (I could see through the door) was shadowy, as the only window that was shedding light was behind him.
That's when I noticed I couldn't move. I knew because I was trying to move my hand to someplace that I could push myself up all at once so I'd have better chances and surprising him- but I couldn't. So then I tried moving my leg, and I couldn't so then I tried moving anything I could and my face started quivering. David's figure stepped into the room and I thought for sure he must be planning to kill me and all I could manage was to curl up into fetal position. I stayed like that for the longest minute or so of my life, still unable to move, and then I passed out. When I woke up (I don't know how long after) David wasn't there.
He's not the kind of guy who would admit to looming over someone, so I don't think I'll ever know if it really happened or not, but it was scary shit.
lCt ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:31:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sure. I had it consistently for a 2 month period. The first was a hooded figure standing at the foot of my bed. I woke up couldn't move and this thing was just looming there. When i unfroze I screamed like a little girl and slept with the lights on for the rest of the night. 2 weeks later, I was sleeping on my side facing my fan. I slowly opened my eyes and bending over me was the same hooded figure, I wasn't frozen this time so I kicked it and destroyed my fan. That was the last (Oh God I hope) I saw the hooded figure. After that 3 times i awoke with a white lace covering my face and slowly backing away. I know I was asleep but dude that shit SUCKS. I was afraid to go to sleep every night during this period. Talk about scumbag brain man.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god that's horrible. I've experienced sleep paralysis a few times but thankfully have never seen anything this creepy during it. The most creepy thing I experience is the freaking out upon realizing I can't move.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:35:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:08:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I, too, hate it when I wake up to my grandma choking me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:07:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When it happens to me, I get a sense of impending doom, coupled with LOUD LOUD noises, like metal bars being twisted, or a car wreck. Then I wake up.
I have this, albeit less frequently than in my early childhood. I only recently discovered that other people don't hear deafening noises while they're sleeping.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It doesnt happen often, only when I wake during sleep paralysis, and even then only a handful of times. But that does sound unfortunate to frequently go through.
fbea ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:23:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I get sleep paralysis quite often and have had it as early as I can remember. I have had ridiculous hallucinations and looming eerie feelings of being watched. Particularly when I was young, I would experience Alice in Wonderland Syndrome where I would feel like I was shrinking or everything around me was growing. While terrifying at times, other times I'd have fun with it. When this occurred I was awake but I believe I was between sleeping and being awake - I wouldn't quite call it sleep paralysis. I vaguely recall one instance when my environment was shrinking, I saw/felt the presence of nymphs of sorts just hovering and spiraling around me.
If you've ever seen Henry Fuseli's painting, The Nightmare, the feeling that I get during sleep paralysis is as if something heavy is sitting on my chest. But also, there's varying degrees of being sucked into the sleep paralysis (for a lack of a better description). For example, if I'm lying there and feel like I'm getting sleep paralysis (I can usually tell that I'm slipping because my mind is alert, but my body is slipping into paralysis) I may or may not try to fight it off. As I became accustomed to my paralysis and hallucinations, I'd have fun with it since the vibrations was kind of a fun experience (when I didn't have an evil presence lurking around). Other times, I've seen a little girl floating in the corner of my bedroom's ceiling, I've seen "The Devil," which was NOT fun - there was just a purely evil aura that just made me want to get the fuck out of my bed (which was not possible since I'm usually paralyzed).
I've seen Jesus before. It happened when I was a sophomore in high school during French class. There was a break and I was tired so I laid down on two seats for a powernap. What happened then was that everything was white and I saw the silhouette of Jesus. The light's intensity decreased a little and I could make out the beard, white clothing and an arm that was stretching out to me and I felt pure warmth.
In another instance, back during my Freshman year of college, I laid down on my bed after playing WoW (back when it everyone was playing the game) and closed my eyes momentarily. I reopened my eyes to see a two dimensional black silhouette of a cartoon-like guy's head wearing a Indiana Jones-style detective hat. Below that were flickering characters and numbers that I couldn't decipher or even recall because it was changing too quickly. When I looked to the left, there were two 2D silhouettes of dragons that intertwining with each other.
Typically, as I've been growing older, the sleep paralysis is just paralysis coupled with the vibrations. The hallucinations are infrequent as they used to be when I was younger. Although I believe it was within the last week that I think my hallucinations have progressed into auditory hallucinations for the first time. I freaked out when I thought someone walked into our house (I heard the door closing), but I felt helpless because I was paralyzed despite the fact that I wanted to check our door to see whether someone had broken into the house at night. When I came to I immediately (and cautiously) walked downstairs only to realize that no one was around. I think it was only a few days ago that I freaked out once again when I thought a mysterious figure was standing by me near my feet, who I also thought had broken into our home.
For a period when I was having episodes most frequently, I woke up with a feeling of immense dread, I could see my body from a perspective just above and to the left of my head, but not far up. I'd see these weird fingers clutch some part of me and my body felt way too heavy to move, and it suddenly seemed nearly impossible to breathe as well. So hard to tell yourself it is a dream and get out of it. Yikes. I feel funny just remembering it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel funny just hearing it. Weird fingers clutching you. NOPE
I had it once. The entire time I dreamed about hearing cars pulling up to my house and people screaming and yelling to get inside, knocking on my window and door.
[deleted] ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 00:13:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My twin sister claims she would often have out-of-body experiences and would see 'things' as she traveled around the room. I would fall asleep in her room with her at times if we were up late watching tv and she would report the following morning she would see me laying on her floor and would describe how I was sleeping and the different ways she would call to me or try to do things to wake me up. She would see beings in the room; they were still but ominous. She said she would sometimes see objects but was too weak to lift them or in the case she had seen a box: open it. She would explain these events in great detail.
We are in our mid-30s now and you would not imagine a more rational, polished woman. She will tell you all of this without any apology.
Edit: 3 Great Lakes, The Wright Pils has had an effect on my typing.
ta7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:23:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad said when he was little he got grounded for something and was lying on his bed starring at the ceiling when all of sudden he started floating above his bed and he turned around to look down at the bed and saw his body lying there with no face. It freaked him out and he was instantly back lying down on the bed.
My mom has said she has gotten up went out the front door and casually looked in her bedroom window and saw herself sleeping then felt like something was pulling her backwards and she woke up.
I've been reading all of these and just now realized that this has happened to me. I've gotten ready for work numerous times and came back to my room to see myself still sleeping. In that moment I'm automatically pulled back into my own body and most likely turning off the alarm on my phone.
There is a reason the old magical orders and most grimoires have banishing rituals. Or maybe its all bullshit. Who knows? I know I used to have sleep paralysis and see critters, and then during one attack I ran through a banishing ritual I had read somewhere... it worked. I didn't have sleep terrors again for a good five years. So make of that what you will. Purely psychological? maybe.
It makes perfect sense that it works, via placebo effect. You wanted it to work and believed it would, so your psyche changed a bit and boom, no more 'critters'.
Similar, but instead of realizing you're dreaming partway through, it's being aware of falling asleep and 'leaving' your body instead of entering an off location dream.
It was by Raymond Moody, he's dead now, but he was a pioneer in the field. Look up his books on Amazon.com. Try to keep an open mind. I promise if you try to have an out of body experience for a month and read up on them they will absolutely happen. My friend who is much more skeptical and hates anything 'unexplained' decided to try it with me for a month, he seems to have better out of body experiences than me and can actually see things and verify them regularly. So I think there is something to it. (he asked me to put something on the roof) and verified it, and it can't be seen by anyone (playboy poster on the roof) then an apple in the gutter. It creeps me out because I worry I'm gonna see him floating outside my window one night.
This is extremely interesting. I'll definetely look it up, thank you for telling me that, I would love if I could do that one day.
It's so absurd that he actually saw the objects on the roof, I don't know what to think.
[deleted] ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 22:40:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Give it a try. I don't know what to think about it, but I'm certain many people have had some kind of experience related to this. Is it merely dreams or imagination? Most likely. Still seems pretty fucking cool
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:17:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps the mother heard her son speaking, and she dreamt she was floating in the kitchen by suggestion.
Truthfully... I think there may be something to this. A lot (well, most.. okay 99%) of adults have preconceptions that this type of event isn't real, cannot happen, etc. but kids this young don't have those negativities yet. They're much more "open" because they haven't been exposed to most things that leave lasting impressions on us as adults. They haven't had the opportunity to form their own opinions yet, either. Who knows if it's real, but who's to say it's not?
My dad died when I was four, and I used to have recurring dreams almost every time it stormed where he would come to my bedroom door, give me a smile and a wave, then move on. Years later my mom confessed to me that she loved the rain because for a few years after my dad died it always seemed to fill the house with the smell of his cologne, but it stopped after she met my eventual step-dad.
It's probably just a weird coincidence, but even the skeptic in me wonders sometimes.
HOLY CRAP. I never really thought about just how creepy that is.
atla ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had two imaginary friends. They were ghosts. I made them up so I wouldn't feel left out -- I consciously remember this (as in, I would brag about them to my similarly-aged cousins and giggle to myself when they would claim to see them too).
However, the Man that I saw outside my door every night? That I vividly remember not making up, even if I didn't talk about it until later.
atla ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:50:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry this is so late. I really, really couldn't do this at night.
So, when I was little (4-8 ish) I was afraid of the dark. I slept every night with my bedroom light on, the hallway light on, and my door open. After a little while, I started seeing this...man, standing at my doorway. Tall, completely black (sometimes it had reddish or orangish eyes). Sometimes you could see hands, other times you could only see a sort of emptiness -- almost like blowing air -- where the hands and feet should've been. Sometimes he carried a Grim-Reaper type scythe, other times not. It wouldn't move -- just stand there.
There was, however, this instinctual terror I had of it. Seriously bad mojo vibes. You might be thinking, oh, sleep paralysis -- but I could move. I would be able to move my head, I remember on more than one occasion pulling the sheets up further, hoping it wouldn't see me. I didn't, however, ever roll over (because who wants to make that much commotion when something like that is there?), nor did I ever run for my parents or call for them, even though they were in the next room over (because it was still closer -- they couldn't do anything to help me, and if it was real I'd be screwed).
Eventually it got so bad that I had to move into the guest bedroom. It's mostly gone away, except I have never slept in that room again, and I really don't like sleeping with my door open (the rooms are right next to each other, so same hallway). I also get really freaked out when in that hallway at night -- alarm bells at the freaking wazoo. It gets worse when I go near the place where he stood, and goes absolutely nuts if I go into the room after sunset.
And I made sure it wasn't my parents. One night, I asked my dad if he'd dressed up and stood outside my door last night, or if one of his friends had. That freaked him right out, let me tell you.
Also, miscellanea:
I always got the wiggins when I sat at the top of the stairs. I could feel someone touching my arm, my shoulder, even though no one was there.
I hated, for years, being alone on a given floor. It was a thousand times worse being alone upstairs. Sometimes I would have mental breakdowns and start bawling if I had to go upstairs to bed while my parents were downstairs.
You know how most four, five, six year olds think their parents can do absolutely anything, protect them from anyone? Not in this case. With all the surety a small child could muster, I knew that my dad could take on robbers single-handed, vanquish the monsters in my closets...but I also knew that nothing could help me with the Man. Nothing, not even my parents.
I get bad vibes in my house. Like, primal fear, heart-pounding instinctual there's-a-lion-lurking-right-behind-you type fear. Even today (as you can see, though, it was a lot worse when I was younger). This happens to me in very few other places -- I don't, for example, get scared like that when I go to hotels, or to friend's houses.
So, that's it. I'd be happy to answer any questions, or receive any theories.
I remember seeing a lot of things as a kid. My mom fills in the rest of the creepiness with stories that I don't remember. My childhood was haunted as fuck.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of the stories I usually tell is from when I was about 4 of 5. My mom, dad and myself were checking out a new apartment. The landlord was showing my mom and dad the master bedroom and right across the hall was where my bedroom would be. I wandered off and stuck my head into what would be my room and across the room, were two heads that peeked out from the closet, one a pure black, nothingness and the other a bright yellow head. I freaked the fuck out and went running into the master bedroom and told them what I saw. They walked into the other room and into the closet and saw nothing. They invited me to go look but I said no.
Of course, my parents rented the place anyway. I only slept in the room. I would take my toys and play in the living room and I always had to have the hall light on when I slept. That room always gave me a bad vibe. My mom says she would wake up in the middle of the night and the light would be on in my room and I would be playing with some toys. When my mom asked me why I was awake, I would say that I was playing with someone but there was clearly no one else in the room.
That's only a couple of the many things that happened in that apartment and in my life in general.
Possible, but very unlike her. That, and the fact that this was not her first such dream. She had them pretty frequently before we had kids. Floating out of her body, sometimes feeling like something was messing with her, pushing her up higher and further away.
pokker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:11:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or that she died that night and a demon took her body?
I agree completely. This is a little different but I remember flying as a child. I know physically it couldn't happen but still the memory is pretty solid.
One Sunday morning when I was in high school, I woke up at my usual school time, went down to my mom's room where she was working on her computer, and lay down on her bed to snooze a bit more. It was about 8am. I had an incredibly vivid, disturbing dream with no scenery, plot, or context, just my best guy friend crying hysterically, holding me so tight I could feel his hands hurting my arms, and sobbing over and over, "He's gone, he's gone, he's dead."
Freaked me the fuck out, but I've had night terrors and vivid dreams all my life and chalked it up to that.
Monday morning, I walked into school and learned that my friend's stepdad had shot himself in their garage on Sunday. My friend found him there right about 8am.
Piogre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:44:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sleepwalking? sleepwalking with a really floaty walk?
I'm really just going to tell myself that you're a troll and there's no way that stuff like this goes on. For the sake of my sanity, for the sake of my sleep tonight and for the sake that I don't want to be floating around all willy nilly when i have kids.
That's it; I'm done with this thread. I'm going back to upvoting pictures of cats.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:14:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This further solidifies my belief that very young children have an extra sense, in that they can see things older kids and adults cannot. I am the oldest in my family with a few younger siblings, and there have been numerous occasions where they would see things that were way too far out to be made up.
Examples include: A dead woman in the parking lot bleeding - M. Knight Shyamalan plot twist: A lady matching my sisters description EXACTLY died the previous day by being hit by a car in the same parking.
Same sister would also be found sleeping on the very edge of her bed at night. When my mother asked why she couldn't use the whole bed. Sister answered that the 'man' was sleeping there. Mom asked her to describe the 'man'. What she described was the exact same 'man' I used to see in the same house more than 10 years ago.
Lots more stories where that came from. Point is, I am convinced young children have an extra 'sense' that allows them to see unexplained phenomenon, whether it be 'ghosts' or those who can utilize astral projection. (If any of these even exist.)
der1x ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:33:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
reminds me of an episode of Beyond Belief:Fact or Fiction.
A lady has reoccuring dreams about walking in the house of her dreams. Later she actually finds the house(in real life) and is told by the realtors that it is haunted though. When the owners see the lady they tell it is her who they see haunting the house.
Zecriss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any chance that his mom heard him say that? If she did, it could have influenced her dream. Of course, it's still strange he said that, but maybe he saw someone flying on TV.
Possible, but this wasn't the first time she had such dreams. She probably had a dozen or so where she left her body, felt very awake, and could see me and herself laying in bed from across the room.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:22:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
holly shit, astral projection!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My twin brother used to see a man in our foyer every time he stood on the landing of the stairs. He asked my mom "who is that" but she obviously couldn't see who he was talking about.
I think it's amazing how clairavoyant children are. The lucky ones grow out of it.
wethza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As true as it happened. Both my sons saw things as toddlers but they seem to have grown out of it.
Spk4420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Out of body experience, more likely. Possible that she was in a light sleep before she woke. I'm sure others have had this feeling: right before you fall in a deep sleep, you're kind of in a twilight, light sleep, then all of a sudden you jerk and you're awake. It's like an astral projection, then you're astral self falls into your body. It's that whole "I feel like I'm falling" thing that happens right before you actually go into a deep sleep.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It'll probably ruin the vibe but did you tell her what he said? How'd she react if so?
I did, and it freaked her out a bit too. We both have wondered to this day what happened, or how it happened, but both of our kids had 'the shining' to a certain degree. It seems to run in the family, as my grandmother and her mother have stories too.
My other son used to see 'a girl with a circle over her head' standing in his room at night, saying his name, and it freaked him out. This was when he was 3 or so. At some point he saw a picture of an angel with a halo and had an "Aha" moment. "That's like the girl in my room."
These events keep me on the agnostic side of athiesm.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am also an atheist whose family (unreligious) has experienced some really fucked up things. All I can do is shrug and say that life can be very weird.
I'm sure it can all be explained, and it helps to remind myself that there are many things about the universe (and ourselves) we still don't understand.
She is not my wife anymore, but she has read up about it. I think she tries to stay away from it because it freaks her out. Most of these 'dreams' she had were surrounded by bad feelings and things lurking around her.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story is definitely freaky. My roommate's grandparents have a similar one. One night, her grandmother woke up at 4 am, and said she felt the Angel of Death passing over. The next day, they find out their neighbor passed away in his sleep... at 4 am
Tehdew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have to stop reading this at 2am in the morning...
Your wife may have been experiencing astral projection! Also, a child's pineal gland is functioning fully and is completely calcification-free, that's why they have such strong imaginative ability and sometimes can experience mild auditory or sight hallucinations. It could have been a combination of your wife experiencing astral projection and a very in-tune-with-the-possibilities son.
Something similar happened to me when I was younger. I was like six or seven at the time I think, and I had this dream that the Devil was lifting me out of my bed and carrying me around the house and laying me on the couch. I woke up to my dad asking me why I was on the couch and telling me to get back to my bedroom.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These kinds of stories and a few others make me question some things... it's almost like kids are describing reincarnation, out-of-body experiences and a whole shitload of weird supernatural phenomena. Now... how to test this...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She could possibly have astral projected. Thats when the soul leaves the body (but returns afterwards (google it for more in depth ;) )). I have no idea how the little one could have seen her though.
Couldn't it be that she sleepwalked into the kitchen for few minutes and then went back to bed?
I don't know, just trying to give myself a rational explanation
Spud740 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cant be, the stories are actually scary and relatively believable
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All the ghosts escaped from there. Somebody call the Ghostbusters please.
ElginHK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why the fuck am I reading this thread alone and in the dark?
[deleted] ยท 423 points ยท Posted at 19:46:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my child but a friend's child came over to me and a few people while camping one year. He stood silently looking at one person in particular and after a few moments interrupted the conversation by saying, "you're going to be the first to die." Tripped us right out.
brielem ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:21:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember discussing age with my friends as a kid and we'd all argue about who would be the first to die. Usually based on when we were born or something.
Ravanas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:50:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 956 points ยท Posted at 19:11:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not a parent but I've worked at a daycare centre. I was watching a little girl playing with one of the dolls. She was dressing it, putting it to bed, etc. At one point she put the baby on the toy stove. I asked her what she was doing, "I'm burning the baby," she replied.
I have a friend whose little sister is known for placing her Barbies in erotic and torturous positions. At one point she had one hanging by the neck from her night stand with others gathered around, some seemed to be praying.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 20:27:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter does that all the time at daycare. Never said she was burning them though (that I know of). She usually gives them a kiss before putting them in.
I remember when I was little when I played with my barbies they would have relationships with each other and when they broke up I would just throw them off the roof and say that they killed themselves. Then I would go play with the little plastic toilet that makes flushing sounds.
I can take that a step further. My little sister (age 2) was playing in the living room. We had a lit fire place running. I swear my parents looked away for no more than 15 seconds.
I came home to see that the doll's arm was fully burnt away. When I asked what happened she turned to me and said, "I was cooking her."
In her defence, she did look positively guilty every time we talked about it.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:40:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter has always had night terrors, since she was only a couple of months old, the doctor said it was just gas (and that babies don't dream), but he didn't see the absolute look of terror night after night, even after having changed her diet and eating habits as he suggested, he finally agreed.
They have mostly subsided, but there was one in particular that I will never forget her telling us about.
(This is as close as I can remember to her exact wording, and told from her perspective)
I was with my family that I lived with before I lived you, and they were very, very mean people. My mom was dead because they didn't like her anymore, and my dad and brother hated me; they tied me to a chair in the basement, beat me, stuck things in me (I couldn't get clarification on this, how the fuck does a 4 yr-old know about this kind of abuse??!) and never fed me. Sometimes I would get free and would have to eat dirt and bugs.
They let their friends do stuff to me too.
(Me:) What kind of stuff?
Bad stuff, I can't say, it's hard to remember, but it was bad. Their friends later killed my bad dad, and bad brother, and stole me away. They chained me to their wall and threw knives at me, and burned me with sticks from their fire.
When they got tired of my crying, they held my throat until I died, then they cut me up into little tiny pieces and put me in the blender, then they found mommy and made her drink me...and that's how I was born.
(Me:) Well, that's quite the sadistic dream, sweetheart.
It wasn't a dream, daddy, that's what really happened.
(Me:) Good. God. เฒ _เฒ
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:39:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a good idea. There have been a few where she actually told me how old she was, which seems to make it that much more real to her, freaky shit, man.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:13:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my thinking is perhaps shes remember some awful past life. i dont really know if past lives are real or not but it be an idea of how she understands in such detail things no little girl should understand. maybe a hypnotist might help as well.
She has...a very active imagination. She has come up with stories that no child should know that much about. Things like building mechanical machines, beyond an understanding of simple machines (pulleys, inclined planes, etc), we have lots of Legos, needless to say. :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thats awesome! you have any pictures of the stuff shes built? you should encourage her to write as she gets older! a awesome imagination is a amazing thing to have.
I'll have to see if any of them are still built, I'm at work currently though. She's very erratic and doesn't seem to care about keeping them once she's built them and got them out of her head. I think I do have some of the elaborate block castles she built when she was like 3 or 4, I'll post them when I get home from work. :-)
I've been encouraging her to write frequently, I would love to see her expand on some of the stories she's come up with through the years. Some of them are freaky, like my OP, but some of them are just absolutely fascinating.
I have 2 TB of pictures and videos, so it's hard to find anything in that mess. here's what I have found so far, a block castle she built when she was 3, 3 1/2.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe writing with her to encourage her to write more often. maybe co-op a story? thanks! id love to see what she comes up with. kids are amazing in how they see the world with there tiny eyes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:05 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...and in my past life, some bastered pulled me out of the ground, peeled me and ate me with some dead carrots:( it was horriibbbllleeee... :'(
Sounds like Sylvia Likens story, was an American murder victim from Indiana in the sixties i think. She was tortured to death by Gertrude Baniszewski, Gertrude's children, and other young people from their neighborhood. There is also a movie about it, called 'an american crime'
It sounds like their may be either a few similar stories, or a few movies made of the same events. I agree though, it does sound somewhat like the movie.
I have night terrors as an adult and something that seems to help a bit is having a night light or the bedroom door open and have a light on in another room so that when I wake from one I know where I am. Helps a lot with the disorientation and initial fear.
When I was a child, I used to have night terrors, and still occasionally have very vivid nightmares (they've lessened in frequency as I've gotten older). The disorientation and fear that lingers after waking is, I agree, very hard to deal with. I've found that having pets nearby (in my case, cats) helps me to root myself in reality more quickly, and petting them acts as a sort of therapeutic way of calming down.
I might look into this. My partner sleeptalks & sleepwalks almost every night, and usually several times in the one night. Lately he's just been 'working' when he wakes up (he is a cleaner, so last night he was trying to pull our sheets off the bed so he could put clean ones on. Sometimes he'll go looking for his uniform) I might see if having some kind of night light helps him realise faster :)
haha, he is a room cleaner in a kind of hotel :) There isn't a lot of actual cleaning that he'd do with products, it's mostly stripping & making beds & sweeping out rooms (we have a carpet)
I'll have to wait until my wife is free, there are other stories, none as absolutely traumatizing as this that I can remember though.
She would totally take a hug. :-D
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aw! I really hope she gets better/well asap.
Heck, I used to get nightmares that wouldn't let me sleep when I was friggin' 14...Can't begin to imagine how nasty that must be for her. :<
They're a lot less frequent, but she still runs in our room some times, dives under the covers and latches on to me. It's somewhat comforting to know that she feels safe with me, but upsetting to realize the circumstances.
Thanks. :-)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You got it. The reason I brought it up was I was wondering if maybe your daughter had seen a commercial or something for it and her imagination ran away.
Oh I agree, and the fact that I've seen the movie tends to make me think she had either seen parts of it, or had heard me talking about it.
Just to be clear, I absolutely do not believe she was recounting a story from a previous life, or any such bullshit like that; it was just the way in which she told the story that freaked me out. :-)
Agreed. There's no question that this all came from her imagination, and honestly that makes it much more scary to think she was actually making this shit up, rather than simply recalling a past memory. ;-)
I have a hard time believing anything said by someone that admits to devouring children. I mean, come on, a lot of us (atheists) do it, we just don't talk about it for gods-sake. ;-)
A few others have commented to this fact though, I agree, it is extremely horrific stuff.
H8rade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just dreams. It can be pretty hard for little kid to know the difference sometimes.
I still remember a nightmare I had when I was 3 or 4. It was one of those movie-type dreams, where you watch it instead of live it.
A boy and his dad were captured by a bad guy. The bad guy made the dad go into a machine, kind of like a giant washing machine, but the kind with the see-through window.
The bad guy turned on what was basically a giant food processor. He used parts of the blended dad to make soup, and forced the kid to eat it.
Damn, I can only imagine how scary that shit was at 3-4 yrs-old. Kinda funny now though. heheh
The scariest part of my daughter's recitation was the complete absence of emotion on her face, except for horror at times. I could tell that it was very traumatizing for her. :(
I don't have any kids but I was visiting a friend who had a child. That kid was crazy, she was 5 years old and as soon as her mother left the room I got 4 death threats. " I'm going to cut your throat and throw you in the pool" " I will stab you if you fall asleep" " I will push you down the stairs so you land on your head" etc etc. It was really scarey.
After browsing reddit for almost 200d I've crossed alot of things of my lists of things to do:
Drinking liquids
Being a teacher
Being homeless
Sleeping
Having windows in my room
Having children
Being in the same room as a child
Talking to a child
Being alone
Having a relationship
Going to a party
No I did not. I think the kid got most of those ideas from her mom/boyfriend. One thing that really got to me was that kid would constantly hold their wiener dog by its collar/neck and nearly choke it out. I saved that dog many of times but a few months ago I found out that she killed the dog somehow :(
This is some really serious shit. I don't know how well you know your friend and her child but a lot of times these kind of violent tendencies can come from trauma associated with abuse. If you are telling the truth, this isn't anything that you should take likely. I would definitely look into it. This really could be a seriously messed up person.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 21:44:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well.... This sure seems like somethings going on behind the scenes......
Posted further up and posting here to make sure you see this. Call DFS or whatever the organisation in your area for child welfare is called. At that age and with the multiple expressions of trauma/abuse that the child is showing, someone needs to intervene. Don't feel bad for doing it either. This isn't the kids fault and you won't be betraying your friend. She doesn't ever have to know that you are the one that called. Either way, you may get help to that kid before this way of acting becomes hardwired in his brain.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 22:09:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, really? Tell your friend. If they try to blow it off, contact CPS or something. This is really, REALLY bad. And it's on you now that you know how fucked up their child is, so don't wait.
This is a SERIOUS ISSUE. Animal abuse in childhood is a very, very bad sign--in fact, there is a very strong correlation between abusing animals in childhood and committing violent crimes in adulthood. It can also come from the child herself being abused. Please do NOT blow this off; it doesn't matter where she got these ideas from, but this child desperately needs help. Please, please, please, for the sake of that child and her future, intervene. I cannot stress this enough.
aintso ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:46:08 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've taught my kid that it's mostly okay to kill cockroaches. Now I don't know how to explain that killing is apriori bad, and cockroaches being generally annoying is hardly a reason enough to kill them.
Killing pets is one of the strongest signs of being a psycho. Tell someone. Everyone. Keep notes. Follow up in ten years so they know where to find the body.
You definitely need to tell your friend. Like creativityfail said this could be linked to a trauma or the kid could have something along the lines of conduct disorder.
No, but you posted that only an hour after the post you were replying to, and the OP never promised anyone any response. You commented on a question that someone else asked!
This is actually pretty normal behavior for young children. I like to think it's because we are all born pure evil and it takes a lot of effort to keep the demons at bay. I told my niece that we were going to sell her to another family and use the money to buy a boat. Her response? "I'll just kill them and come back. I want to ride on the boat!" The most fucked up death threats I've ever heard have been issued from the mouths of children under the age of 10. They were mostly delivered in an offhand fashion, or with a cherubic smile.
edit: Read further down and saw the dog choking comment. This child is showing signs of mental trauma/stress. Either there is abuse or some major parenting fails are happening and this kid just isn't learning proper behavior. Therapy for the kid and fucking parenting classes for the mother.
sveccha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:54:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know - sounds more like a nature problem than a nurture problem. There are psychopaths out there and it happens early.
frankle ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was in Fred Meyers buying groceries a few months ago and a random kid walked up right next to me and pulled on my pocket. Kid had to be like 7 or 8. Anyway, he pulls on my pocket and I look down and he makes a throat slicing motion with his finger over his throat and just walks away. That was the creepiest run-in with a stranger, not to mention a kid, I've ever had.
[deleted] ยท 681 points ยท Posted at 20:27:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Should have looked back at him, kneeled down to his level, and whispered, "Kid, I know where you live. I know who you are, and worse, I know who your parents are. I am your brother/sister. They abandoned me for you. But I wont stand for it any more, I am coming for you, I will sneak into your house and take your place. They will never see you again."
... Some people believe in spankings or time-out to weed out bad behavior, I personally feel if they're willing to play the game of psychological warfare, we should too.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 01:24:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
FUCK YEAH. Big-ass evil grin on your face, kneel down on one knee, and repeat the motion, but slower, as if to say in Jigsaw's voice "You want to play a game?"
Right. Storm would tug on your pocket, point at something in your cart, and say, "That has a lot of gluten in it." and then make the throat-slicing motion.
Yes, I know. I've just seen so many articles speculating on the gender. I think that perpetuating the typical gender roles is bad, but keeping a child's gender from everyone is a little bizarre.
I don't see why people put up with kids like this, tell their fucking parents to control their kids or tell the kid its not okay and that your going to tell their mom. If you can't tell already I fucking hate bratty kids. /rant
Might not be as creepy as it actually seems. I've never been a violent person, especially as a kid, but I remember when I was young I thought the throat slicing gesture was very funny after seeing it on TV a number of times. I don't know if I even fully understood its connotations.
As a child I pulled the wings of a fly while saying "i'm going to kill you" over and over, never moved up to cats though. r/aww would be a lit more empty if I had...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:22:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thumbs up for Fred Meyer, as a native Washington I miss that place like the deserts miss the rain.
Kind of similar, less creepy than just plain old "dude wtf". I used to work at a big grocery store, and I was on register. This lady comes by with two kids in her cart, and they just stared at me blankly the whole time, while the woman talked on the phone, and the woman's mom told me about how much of a bitch her daughter is hahaha. Anyway, I finished the groceries, and as they started to walk away, the kids kept glaring at me, and one of them slowly raised his fist and flipped me the bird.
I think you should have pantomimed dying and clasped at your throat like you couldn't breathe. Then when the mom gave you a "wtf, dude look" you say, "he just pretended to cut open my throat, I pretended he succeeded." And then walk off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:48:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids mimic what they see. I'm sure someone in her life, most likely her parents, said something similar and often enough for her to believe this behavior was okay. If she wasn't hearing it from her mom to her dad or dad to her mom I'm assuming a kid at school, who learned it from a brother or sister, was saying it to her.
Sadly I am not lying. I am fairly certain the girls mother knows of the kids violent tendencies but she is not really a fit parent. She was the kind of girl who did tons of drugs and "couldn't get pregnant", she has calmed down since then but that hasn't stopped her from dating scumbags who influence her and her family. the worst thing she is recently had another kid.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:58:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're right that is pretty scarey isn't it? I don't think I've ever experienced something that scarey.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:05:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like a 5 year old shouldn't even be aware that cutting your throat is an effective method of killing someone. What has this kid been exposed to?
Not graphic violence per se, but anti-social and mean spirited gestures, etc. Like how Looney Tunes gave every kid the idea that smacking people with mallets, or running straight into walls, was funny.
He probably didn't realize the consequences. That does remind me of my irrational fear of someone coming up behind me and putting a giant ziptie around my neck.
I remember hearing a story about something like this, I think it was on an episode of This American Life. The child was actually violent toward the family cat, and turned out to be bipolar. Everything was solved by getting psych treatment, but the parents waited a long time to ask for help because they thought they'd done something wrong.
Death threats from children fucking suck. I was at my sister's friends a few years back when the friends little brother, maybe nine or so, came out and grabbed a drill that was plugged into the wall. He pointed it at me, turned it on and said, "if this didn't need to be plugged into the wall I would kill you with it." What the actual fuck, I'm still creeped out.
Similar--I was spending an afternoon with a girlfriend and her daughter. Friend leaves the room and I'm playing with her daughter, trying to get the girl to share her toys. I pick up a doll to play with her and she looks me straight in the eyes and says, "I will. Cut. Your. Face." I definitely dropped the doll
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You said you got 4 death threats. You listed 3 of them and then said "etc etc". You can't use 2 etceteras to replace a single omission. That's just wrong.
icycooL ยท 997 points ยท Posted at 19:01:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've got a few stories from my own childhood actually.
I remember one time my mom told me when I was about 2~3 I told her that I was once a firefighter and died fighting a house fire.
There was another time when I was 2 years old, at my grandmother's house, when I inexplicably walked up to the glass coffee table and smashed my head straight through it. I didn't cry or say anything, just did it. I still don't know why or even remember doing it.
DJP0N3 ยท 1422 points ยท Posted at 20:35:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You would probably remember it if you didn't SMASH YOUR HEAD THROUGH A TABLE.
I've had 6 or 7 serious concussions, and since I believe that qualifies me as an expert on concussions, I must say...fuck I forgot what I was talking about.
I got knocked out once and kept making the same joke over and over because I forgot I had already told it. I was such a smart ass with those doctors. I had to get stitches, which is why I went to the hospital.
Ha yeah at first I was like "did he hit me?" then I put my hand out and it filled up with blood. Later I was like "I guess this a good time to quit dipping." Even later I was like "Does this mean I can't pack lippers?" later than that I was "maybe I could gauge my lip?" I said all of those a good 500 times that night. Then I tried to watch Borat the next day and I had to turn it off because laughing hurt too bad. Are you in fact a lady? If so I'm upset that someone would knock you out. Haha when I got to the hospital they put a clamp on my finger to check my heart rate and I asked with mock apprehension "am I critical?"
Last good concussion I got, I also broke my neck. When the doctor woke me up to tell me, with my full family in the room (most of whom have never heard me swear):
Doc: Tim, it looks like you have a nondisplaced fracture on your C2 vertebrae.
TimmyTheHellraiser: Are you saying I broke my fuckin neck?
Doc: You will need to wear a neckbrace for at least six weeks, until we can get you to see a specialist.
TimmyTheHellraiser (turning to my girlfriend): Did he just say I broke my fuckin neck???
It sounded a lot funnier in my head, afterwards I laughed my balls off about it, family didn't find it so funny.
I was...26 or 27...or 28. I just have a swear filter that I can turn on and off pretty easily. I honestly just thought it was funny to be quoting the original "The Longest Yard" while lying on a stretcher in a neck brace.
Yes, it was a car accident. Still a little stiffness in the neck area, I guess there probably always will be.
I don't know why but this is the funniest comment I have read all thread. I just spent 3 minutes trying to calm down. Thank you for giving me a good laugh today here have an up vote!
tmelee ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:25:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
agreed, I literally laughed out loud (as opposed to constantly being like WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE KIDS)
LOL I thought I was the only one. Everyone else is acting afraid of each others kids but I just think these kids are funny/witty even though they are serious.
BTA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason it didn't really hit me till I read your comment, but I certainly agree.
Technically you don't really start forming solid memories until around 4 years old, so I doubt it. If it's any consolation you're the best kind of wrong.
loceryl ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:53:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I walked through a glads door when I was four. Don't remember it.
Cool guys neither look at explosions nor remember their furniture-destroying exploits. This is why action movies are made about them; so that they can watch and remember all of the cool guy stuff they pulled.
Nyrb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:57:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know I'm 4 months late, but does this baby look like a tunnel snake from fallout 3 (except bald)? Little leather jacket, the whole greaser look. Maybe it has little baby cigarettes that it lights up after a particularly rough bottle-fight.
people have a high risk of having false memories from that far back, not every memory obviously but people forget how subjective memories are or how easy it is to have your mind think something was real when nothing happened.
My sister used to tell me and my mom about her past life and how her past dad killed her and her mother and they sang the abcs in their grave while their souls went up to heaven. Now i remind her, she doesn't remember a thing. It was so fuckin vivid, man
Convenient because 4th of July is soon. First memory I have of going to a fireworks display I flashed back to what I recognize now as being trench warfare style combat featuring, of course, artillery. Strange given that I had no idea what that was at that point.
I told my older sister when I was about 3ish that I used to be a mean old king and I drowned while everyone watched. And her son who is a few years younger than me later said that he died in a war saving his brother. My sister said something about it maybe being a past life thing.
My mother, when she was kid, used to tell my maternal grand-mother that she was born and married in another place, had 2 kids and died in communal riots.
My neice, around 3, also tells her mother(my cousin) that she is married, and her father-in-law will be angry if she does not follow our common Hindu traditions (like covering your head in front of elders). It is hard to believe a 3 yr old would know complex relations like in-laws, and will randomly weave a story with characters and threads.
I do believe in reincarnation, not by religious reasons but by similar incidences. We can start new thread on reddit for this and lets see if others also have similar stories from kids. Normally such stories begin to fade by age 7-8.
My brother did a similar thing when he was about two. He and my parents were sitting watching TV, and he abruptly stood up, ran to the TV and leaped head first into the VCR.
It took my parents a minute to process the fact he was bleeding profusely/crying/needed to be taken to the ER, because it was such a "Why the fuck would you do that?!" moment.
There was a time where I did something similar. When I was about four or five, maybe three... Well, my mother was outside warming the car up in the driveway because it was winter, she had left me just inside the glass front door and was about to come back in and get me. Then I spontaneously headbutted the door so hard that it shattered everywhere, but I didn't get cut at all and didn't cry one bit, I also wasn't visibly agitated. My head is still incredibly hard so in hindsight it makes sense that it was possible.
ajax871 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:14:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(puts on picture of that guys actually pretty bad-ass)
I did the same thing when I was about 5, but we were in a store getting a map...and I just walked over to this little display case and did it, it didn't smash to pieces but it left a big crack. No reason. But I remember doing it.
Actually my brother did the bashing thing when he was about 2; it was because he had a really painful ear infection and to him bashing his head distracted from the ear pain. Mental.
wes337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mental? More like metal. Badass.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:16:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I bit another kid for no reason once. He was just standing in front of me at the morning lineup we did at my primary school. I just outright bit him for no apparent reason. Maybe he needed stitches? I don't know. I don't remember anything. Apparently the teachers said that nothing was happening. We were just standing there, no argument, no interaction and I bit him. Maybe it was a little like that.
I used to tell my mother about all these crazy past lives and to this day my mom claims that I knew things about certain jobs I had in a past life that there is no way I could have known about in Pre-school when this took place. My mom says the weirdest one was I told here that in a past life I worked with "Special" kids as in special education which had been my mom's major in college and she worked as a special ed teacher for 8 years before I was born but she was now a small time publisher and she claims to have never mentioned it before. My mom has a file of all the things I used to say and do. It's a crazy file.
I read something on cracked.com about how babies sometimes smash their heads into things because it releases endorphins or something. I forget lol. But it was on cracked so it is the truth.
Why do all these kids talk about past lives and how they died? Most 2 or 3 year old kids don't understand death, let alone say they had past lives. Creepy. Maybe you were a Hindu fire fighter?
icycooL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She's one of those people that believes in past lives and reincarnation and all that. Personally I don't have any clue why I said it, maybe I was mentioning a dream I had or something I saw in a movie. I honestly don't even have second thoughts about it.
When my nephew was 3 or 4, he would stare at the window in my parents' kitchen. One day, my mom asked him what he was looking at, and he said, "When I lived here before, my name was Alphonse, and I was bigger than you." My mom was slightly creeped out and eventually told my stepdad. My stepdad just kind of blinked and said, "Hmm. That was my grandfather's name, but we don't talk about him."
I never liked that house anyway...
NTesla ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 21:23:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If a kid said something like that to me I would be asking ten-thousand questions. If any of the answers could be verified...wow.
I think a lot of times, when kids say, "when I was big," they're probably confused by us saying, "when I was little. If we're big, but used to be little, and they're little, they must have been big at some time. Might not be true, but kids process things in weird ways.
Agreed. I can't decide if the ability to see dead people or the 'I am a reincarnated person, let me tell you my story' is more terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:47:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not just kids who say creepy things. I was taking care of my grandma a few months ago (keep in mind she can think clearly, she's not one of those elderly people who are out of their mind) when she felt really sick, so she laid in bed and my little cousin got in the bed next to her. Anyways, her eyes start to get really shiny I don't know, watery and then it's like she's staring at nothingness and she asks me "Who is the man by the door?" I asked her "What man?" and she says "There is a man wearing black by the door, what does he want?" There wasn't anyone by the door. She was hallucinating, but still, scared me a bit.
I said most of the creepy things (the ghost type stuff, not the threatening stuff) in this thread to my parents when I a kid. The thought of passing that down to a kid scares me.
Rincey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad watched his mother die of a ruptured gal bladder when he was twelve and still remembers vividly. My sister, one day, randomly gets up almost an hour after she's gone to bed and goes up to him. The conversation went like this:
Sister: Daddy, your mommy died in a red sweater, jeans, sneakers and with her hair in a ponytail, right? And her hair was blonde?
Dad: Drops book he's reading and stares, wide-eyed, and then says Yes...
Sister: What color were her eyes?
Dad: Blue... why?
Sister: Oh, she doesn't have them anymore, just empty sockets. I was curious.
And she goes right back to bed.
Not gonna lie, I don't cry much, but it's half two in the morning, it's really dark, and that just terrified me so much, my eyes started leaking a bit...
You should have seen my father's expression when she went back to bed. It was a mix of terror, repulsion, wonder and I'm-not-sure-I-want-her-in-that-room-all-alone.
Alright, OP delivers.
There are two others times I feel like sharing, one of which includes my Grandmother again. About two years after that incident, my family was sitting at the local park, under a tree, having one of our rare picnics. My sister's making herself a sandwhich like everyone else, and then, when it's finished, places it to her left and says, "Here you go." My mom asks her who it's for, and she said, "Grandma. She looks like she didn't eat in forever." like it's absolutely normal. When my mom asked her which Grandma, she just looked at the sandwhich, which was still just laying there, and just wondered aloud whether or not 'Grandma' liked mustard.
About three years after that incident, she's outside walking the dog and it starts to rain, really hard, with thunder and lightning and everything. I go out to bring them in, because my parents were getting nervous, and there's my dog, right outside the door, sitting and waiting like she's been there forever, her leash still clipped on. She leaps inside the moment it's possible, and my sister is nowhere to be seen. Naturally, I freak the fuck out and go shouting her name and running and trying to find her. Our neighbor has a lane behind their house into a mini-forest he lets us walk the dog on, and I looked for her there, and she was inside one of the four hollow trees off the right side of the path, holding a kitten. I asked her where she got it and if she was okay, and she looked at me like I was a stranger and said, "This is Caleb, he asked me to keep him safe." When asked 'from what?' she responded with something like, "The sky got mad at him because he escaped it and came back down and now it wants him back. Except the rain is coming down really hard to try and push him into the ground, because he's not allowed in the sky anymore. I told Marlo" (our dog) "to go home, because I don't want the sky to take her."
So, OP delivered.
I'm sure the conversation has been embellished throughout the years. The kid probably saw a picture of his grandma and asked about the blonde hair but couldn't tell the eyes from a black and white photo or something. The rest is just a dream she had.
Seicair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was imagining stunned into silence and the kid went back to bed before he could formulate any response.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just shit my pants.
Like I seriously just shat my pants...
I totally just put shit from inside my anus all over the inside of my pants...
ImDotTK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Excuse me for a second while I turn on my bedroom lights.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And then what? Did anyone ask your sister how she knew that?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a similar story but not so scary. My grandmother had just died and I was about 4. We were eating dinner at the table and I just look at my mother and say "Grandma says 'Hi and that everything is going to be ok'. Everyone just stopped eating and stared at me.
Another incident happened when I got into a fight with my father a few years later. I was sent to my room and I came back down a few minutes later and said 'Grandma told me to apologize. I'm sorry Daddy'.
A story of when my brother was younger that my parents often tell.
My dad and my grandad went to an old army base that was now used as a museum. As they went into a bunker, my brother started saying "This is where we hid from the monsters that went 'BOOM BOOM BOOM'". My dad thought it was a bit strange but kept on looking around. A low flying plane flew by and my brother said "That is the monster there." as he was pointing to the plane. My brother was 2 at the time, which must have been in 1994. Needless to say, both my dad and my grandad were creeped out by it, and still are today.
Now I want to write a story where the kid just keeps getting into character like that and the adults play along, but then things start becoming real and the kid starts acting like a commanding officer, barking orders, and the world piece-by-piece becomes an epic sci-fi battlefield.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:10:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have no idea lol, I met a kid once you had the memories of his great grandfather who as his mother told me was born two hours or so after his passing. The only story I heard si far was something similar to this but it was along the lines of my friends and I had a dragon who went boom. he was part of an artillery regiment during wwI.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:27:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Sqpon ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 23:38:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in Kindergarden I had best friend named Rider. We were friends all through School. He died in a horrific car accident at the end of the year. My mother asked me why I haven't gone in my room for a couple of days. I said "Because Rider is playing with my toys." This was a month after he died.
One night my 3 year old niece was supposed to be sleeping but instead was playing around. My sister went in her room and told her it was time for bed. My sister then hears my niece talking she goes in her room again and tells her to go to bed. My niece said "I know mommy. I'm going to bed. Aunt Nicki just told me I have to go to sleep now" Aunt Nicki had died about a month before.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:14:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yeah that'll happen. my brother came downstairs one morning a few months after my grandfather had died and told me, "Grandpa visited me last night and told me to be a good boy and everything was going to be all right."
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 19:35:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
with her two year old...ok so maybe the two year old was in the bed with her brothers as they were pissing and bleeding and blowing loads all over the bed. oh god, we need to help this kid
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:39:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 19:43:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
let's raise a billion dollars for a new bed!
Piogre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read that
Fund raising, anyone? This kid is going to sleep in the most ~skim~ encrusted bed ever.
Glad to hear it...if you have any questions about mattress shopping, I'd be happy to help. My family owns a mattress business, so I can give you some insight on what to look for and how much you can expect to pay for a good bed
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you can't afford a new mattress or you're still living at home and your parents won't buy you a new one, get one of those waterproof plastic covers. They enclose the entire bed and zip shut, and they're only US$40-50.
I would replace it with an alley or dumpster mattress. It will be covered in the same stuff but at least you won't know the previous owners of your blemen (blood+semen) logged bed are and I think that's important when choosing a piece of furniture.
My brother's friend once brought himself and his girlfriend, both who were shitty drunk and had just eaten vegetable soup upstairs, to the house. Long story short, they fucked on the bed and puked/splerged everywhere. That was a bad day in the history of wigwam2323.
there is pee and semen and blood stains on my once nice bed
Not sure if they were either having sex very, very wrong or very, very right...
SHFFLE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Could your brothers not fuck in their own beds? What, did yours have the more comfy sheets?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Blood and pee? Luxury.
We were poor (and nothing has changed) when I was in primary school and I slept on this thick two-piece foam mattress (about the height of a normal bed) in a room I shared with my big brother.
A few years in, we had to move the bed for some reason, and the entire bottom of it was glued to the floor by thick jungle-like swathes of green mold. Years of my childhood sweat must have dribbled down through the 60cm of foam to feed it.
A few months later (!) my mom decided to buy me an actual bed and throw that one out. Not that it's her fault, we just couldn't afford one.
(Later killed my cats to buy alcohol with the pet food money).
Love_N ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your skanky mattress just gave me the super AIDS through the internet. Glad you're getting a new one.
You definitely have the right to superman punch each brother one time - you get a redo if they stay on their feet. Just tell the police I said it's alright, they know me.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:07:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Gorgoz ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 20:46:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That guy isn't OP... Do you not know what an OP is?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:52:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Gorgoz ยท -16 points ยท Posted at 20:53:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's only one OP, there's no "OP" for comments. The Poster of the thread is the Original Poster, of the thread. Thread. If reddit is going to use 4chan's lingo they better get it right.
There are chains of replies linked together in mini-threads throughout this post, each one having an original poster, the person who started the chain of replies
Your posts are bad and you should feel bad.
Gorgoz ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 21:24:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no, the original poster means the original poster of the thread.
No offense, but now he thinks he was right. Next time just explain to him about dreams, or tell him that you're ordering the people to go away, which you can do because they're imaginary. I mean, come on.
When my little sister was scared of ghosts, I filled an empty spray bottle with water and told her it was something to keep the ghosts away. Then I would have her help me spray it around the house. It worked perfectly.
tyrryt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he was. Can you prove he wasn't?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:58:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I was going to ask about that, sans the judgement. Perhaps could have started a nice little discussion about individuality and the process of the creation of a personality in little kids.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was he talking about you? o_O
Eminian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read juice as Jesus. Hope he tastes good.
abasss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my sister was two she asked me if she could sleep with me (we shared a bedroom) because she had a nightmare. She was the most adorable thing ever so I couldn't refuse. Next morning when I wake up, I realized she peed all over my bed. Scarred me forever hehe.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They show Sponge Bob at night? Who is watching that shit at night?
And spongebob was supposed to help you be LESS creeped out?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should read the "Mommy's skin" Creepypasta
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I frequently get really, really fucking weird reality-dreams where my brain hallucinates over the setting of which I am sleeping. It was probably one of those. I generally only get them when I am sleeping with another person, because I sleep much lighter, yet my brain will still go into REM sleep (I think because I am very tired every day), just over wherever I am sleeping.
So I once had a dream where my setting was in constant shifting color (think acid trip) and wavy, and my campers (I was a counselor at the time) were crowded around me with mini golf clubs trying to see me. I was mumbling to my then-girlfriend "be really quiet, or they'll see us... They'll see us" And she was just like "The fuck?! Who's them?!" And I described what was happening. I remember all of this clearly, and the creepy emotionless yet searching look on their faces is haunting.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:16:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:21:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're pretty interesting. The other day I had a realistic one (without colors or wavy stuff) that my girlfriend's sister walked in and saw us sleep cuddling and was about to cry. Then she vanished. I turned over to tell my girlfriend about her sister, and she was there for a split second, then she wasn't at all. I was awake at this point, sitting straight up in an empty room, feeling very confused.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:59 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:14:13 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure. I haven't looked into it, because so far it's been managable.
Read that sentence wrong the first time and thought the kid said PITCH ASS BLACK ROOM.
Xeonit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dont worry, my parents told me that when i was a child i once said, while sleeping in the same bed, that there were snakes in the bed. Turns out i had the flu! (a bad flu, actually)
paula36 ยท 950 points ยท Posted at 19:01:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Well when I was a kid I slept walked one night and it freaked the shit out of my dad.
My dad heard a strange noise in the front of our house and walked out to see me sitting on our front step with the door open in the middle of the night. He asked me what I was doing, and I turned around and said, "I'm waiting for someone".
I had no recollection of it in the morning. He was creeped out for quite some time.
Edit: Oh and another time when I was a kid, I walked up to my dad when he was sleeping, shook him awake, and asked him if he cut all the logs for tonight. I was asleep the whole time. He told me, "Yes, go back to bed paula36". I was a weird sleep walker.
[deleted] ยท 710 points ยท Posted at 19:38:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
This is actually a pretty good PSA for why people who own firearms for home defense should have (at least) one flashlight/light source, and ideally one that isn't attached to the firearm.
Well then there's your PSA - You are not Liam Neeson. Don't assume that you are.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:18:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, his wife was checking on the children at the time.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's always a (small) possibility that if you hear an intruder-like noise and your kid isn't where he/she is supposed to be, the intruder could be a kidnapper. Very small chance, as it's much more likely that your kid is the one making the noise. But still nerve-wracking to parents.
I would be worried that if the father went into his son's room and saw his son wasn't there he might jump to that conclusion or some other bad scenario (we all know are brains like to think of all the worst possibilities in those situations). Then he's going down stairs with a gun to meet who he thinks is an intruder (who could have possibly done something to his son) and he's no longer as calm as he should be. I think he made the right move, send the mom to check on the kid while he checks on the disturbance.
Yes! I had assumed trigger discipline would be a given, but it definitely deserves mentioning, particularly when discussing someone who is willing to aim a firearm without knowing their target.
I think in the moment, my dad was more concerned with putting himself between the "intruder" (me) and my mother and me. He simply wanted to confront whoever was in the house, and ensure he had some power over them if they were ill intentioned. When the lights went on and he realized it was me, he immediately lowered the gun and unloaded it.
Since then, not a single drawer in my parent's house doesn't have a flashlight in it. Even I picked up the habit of keeping a solid flashlight nearby, including my own firearm for home defense, if I need it.
With preparedness comes safety, of course.
Minglor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:50:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not like he put lead down range or anything.
I see no issues here.
Technically, pointing a firearm at someone (unless they know that it's unloaded/unable to fire) is criminal assault. While nobody is going to prosecute this particular case, if it were, say, the guy's brother in-law, the in-law might be pissed enough to press charges.
Maybe the sue happy in-law should find a new place to live rather than crashing with his sister and her husband, rummaging through the fridge late at night.
voo42 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:05:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer option #2: Two flashlights and no gun.
Mostly because my phantasy is much more vivid than my common sense at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Investigating a possible break-in while unarmed is just plain stupid. You'd probably be better served - and safer - bunkering down in your bedroom and hoping that the perpetrators don't want to anything in it.
voo42 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:03:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
No idea where you live, but I can't remember a single break-in where the thieves used weapons when detected but instead made sure to get away. Not much sense in that anyhow (hey instead of getting possibly busted for theft, why not make it armed robbery? Clever!)
Although obviously I'd just call the police and then tell the guys from the relative safety of my bedroom that it was probably a clever idea to get away.
We all know the statistics of how many people get killed by their relatives, so I'd say it's plain stupid to actually have weapons at your house and even more stupid to actually draw them with the intent to use.
If you have a weapon, you should never draw it unless you intend on using it if the situation arises.
voo42 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There we all agree. But: "There may be a thief in the house, that may be armed and may want to use the weapon" has a few too many unknowns in it.
I can only speak for myself (Austrian if that's important) here, but I've heard of more than one unintentional shooting here (and lots of suicides with guns), but I can't remember a single accident where a theft went wrong and ended with the house owner dead.
Could be because the first one certainly gets more media attention, but that's my impression.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:21:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
unintentional shooting here (and lots of suicides with guns)
Unintentional shooting is the fault of the person holding the gun. Suicide can be committed by plenty of ways; having a gun wouldn't make it more likely, just slightly more convenient.
voo42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I'd say having a gun in your home makes it much more convenient than otherwise and for that I do have studies. Although those are in German, so I'll try to find one in english.
But basically: A weapon is a very simple, easy way to kill yourself with lots of appeal and has an extremely high success rate (something like 90+% vs. <10% with drugs). And since a large number of suicides aren't planned, easy access certainly helps too.
Edit: Here's a study for the US too, english and all.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:20:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Austria sounds like a wonderful place to live.
You see, In America, people are killed during home invasions much more frequently. Or, if it's just a woman, sometimes she'll just be raped. I don't quite understand why America has more violent crime per capita, but it's not just because of our gun laws, that much I can tell you.
voo42 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:41:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah I know that this is a much hotter topic in the US, e.g. once when two american friends stayed with me, the doorbell rang short before midnight and they were extremely surprised that I just went and opened the door and asked the guy if everything was ok or if he needed help. Turns out he was just completely lost (can happen easily on the country side :) ) and had seen the lights in our room. Never even occurred to me that something could be amiss (certainly a bit naive on my part, but it shows the different mindsets)
Since this is such a hotly debated topic in the US I'm quite aware that statistics are problematic and I'm sure one can find papers that show a completely different side, but things like: "For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides." src do make me wonder.
For starters that "study" is a joke. Memphis just happens to be one of the most violent cities in the country. They usually battle with a few other cities for "murder capital". NTM big cities (the 3 areas they looked at) in general tend to have higher crime rates. Then they state "in or around a residence"... Where exactly ISN'T "around a residence"? Then to turn around and say "in the home" in their conclusion? Clearly biased from the jump.
But most of all...
The vast majority of incidents of guns being used for self defense end up with no one actually being shot.
voo42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see what the actual crime rate has to do with how many people get killed unintentionally or kill themselves. Actually that makes a point for the study, since if the area is so dangerous as you say, clearly there would be more situations where the usage was justified.
"The vast majority of incidents of guns being used for self defense end up with no one actually being shot."
any source for that? I'd love to see some numbers there. I've a hard time coming up with life threatening situations where the presence of an additional weapons defuses the situation, but that's certainly an interesting data point yes.
The crime rate skews the stats dramatically because the vast majority of people shooting each other are gang members/drug dealers involved in various disputes. It may not say much about accidents or suicides, but it definitely skews the numbers as a whole. I would simply point out that suicides would generally just find another way (despite what the "guns are evil" crowd would like us to think) and "accidents" are really negligence on someone's part.
I'd wager most of them are "in or around a residence" when it happens. There are very few "bad guys" shooting "good guys" and vice versa. It's mostly "bad guys" shooting "bad guys" and has almost nothing to do with "self defense" as it's typically thought of. The vast majority of shootings can be directly linked to "the war on drugs" and the black market it creates.
I don't have the stats for displaying a firearm in self defense. I can dig a little later when I have time if needed. You could start by googling the Florida State study. I assure you that guns defuse life threatening situations all of the time... I'm not sure why that would be hard to imagine aside from complete ignorance (no offense intended) and/or anti-gun propaganda being swallowed whole. Guy has road rage and jumps out with a tire iron, soon-to-be-victim pulls gun, guy lays down until arrested. Similar situations play themselves out daily throughout the country.
Edit- I should have waited to reply when I wasn't so busy and could have put together something a little more coherent... Sorry, for the mess above.
Already a gunnitor. You may have seen my posts on there - namely my very pretty new Garand that made the #1 slot a few weeks ago.
I was just saying that having a non-weapon-mounted flashlight could have helped the situation come to a conclusion that wouldn't necessitate so much as aiming the firearm. Gavinardo's dad would have been able to determine that the source of the noise was not a threat without revealing his location by flipping the lights on, thus eschewing the need for him to point the firearm at Gavinardo, while at the same time allowing Gavinardo's dad to retain the tactical advantage against a possible intruder.
Oh, and there was no mention in Gavinardo's post that his father had a finger on the trigger.
Except he said it was around 7am, and presumably already day.edit: I suck cocks.
Isn't there a statistic somewhere that more people get hurt (and die) from accidents with home firearms than the amount of people that are able to actually defend themselves from intruders?
He hustled downstairs, held the gun up and flipped the lights on, only to see me having taken everything out of the fridge, arranging it on the floor.
held the gun up and flipped the lights on, only to see me...
If the room was dark enough that Gavinardo's dad had to turn the lights on to recognize that it was his son he was pointing a firearm at, a flashlight could have been put to good use.
Isn't there a statistic somewhere that more people get hurt (and die) from accidents with home firearms than the amount of people that are able to actually defend themselves from intruders
Not one that I've ever seen to actually be from a reputable source, no. The oft-cited statistic that "A gun in the home is 43 times as likely to kill a family member as it is to kill a criminal" was based on a study that both used severely flawed methodology and padded its numbers by counting suicides as "deaths of a family member". Link to a deconstruction of the incorrect statistic, using logic, citations, and figures.
I should point out too, that my dad is a veteran and has basically been around firearms his whole life, as have I. Being raised in the high deserts of Nevada, I was used to fishing and hunting with my dad in my childhood, and could even use a bolt-action myself by this age.
He told me he raised the gun, only to be ready if the intruder attacked. When he realized it was me, he immediately lowered it.
Primary rules of gun safety, of course, are treating every gun as if it's loaded, and only aim at things you intend to destroy. My dad shudders thinking about this fact, in this context. Gave him nightmares. Didn't so much bother me even years later, because I know my dad has a great sense of control and safety with guns, being a veteran and all.
I can also imagine injuries related to firearms being in the home are more likely related to a lack of education of the weapon itself, not keeping guns under lock-and-key, or simply being too careless.
Yup, already realised I completely fucked up on the reading comprehension. But even then I don't see how it's prudent to come down, in the darkness, with your gun drawn and your nerves to the max, when all you heard were sounds coming from the kitchen. Either that or my family is completely weird in that we'd ocassionally go down to get a midnight snack from the kitchen.
I'd rather this didn't turn into a flamewar over gun rights, but I don't see what's so flawed or necessarily misleading about counting suicides as firearm deaths. How would those numbers add up if you substracted the suicides? (I'll be reading your source tomorrow, thanks!)
edit: found the relevant numbers, turns out the deconstruction wasn't long at all:
"for every case of self-protection homicide involving a firearm kept in the home, there were 1.3 accidental deaths, 4.6 criminal homicides, and 37 suicides involving firearms."
Seems decidedly not-worth-it, still, and while not as high as the number (that I was unaware of) the article implies, it still makes the claim "that more people get hurt (and die) from accidents with home firearms than the amount of people that are able to actually defend themselves from intruders" patently true.
Is it wrong that I chuckled slightly at this story? I know it could have ended horribly but the idea of you sleepwalking and ending up in that situation is kinda amusing.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:23:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I sleep walk on occasion, and have night terrors. I'm 27 now, and it's been going on since I was a little kid. When I was little, I didn't know my night terrors were not real (they are hallucinations). I probably scared my poor parents badly by talking about the shadow man and the red eyes and the strange green light that had no source.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:03:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister sometimes wakes up with empty yogurt containers in her bed. She lives in the basement.
When I was maybe 6 or 7 I was a regular sleep walker, but this time my parents had already gone to bed. To give some context, we live in a modular home and my brother's and my bedrooms were in one end of the house and my parents' in the other. We live in a very rural area and our house is surrounded by woods. Anyway, my dad heard the doorknob trying to open so he grabbed his loaded 9mm and headed in there. I had gotten the door open and was in our yard walking toward the woods and he shined the flashlight on me, realized it was me, and carried me back inside. I woke up as we were getting back through the door and asked him why he had his gun out so late and if I could shoot it too (we regularly shoot guns as a family).
I sleep walked once, trying to walk from my room to the bathroom. I dreamt I was over the toilet and peed but I was actually in the middle of the hallway in my house, only about halfway to the bathroom.
I sleep in a detached garage converted to a bedroom with a small bathroom which is out of order at the moment. If I have to shit in the middle of the night I go to the main house and yell "Don't shoot it's your son!" So as to not freak my Dad out.
When I was 6 or 7 I would sleepwalk quite often. I would get up in the middle of the night, walk into the TV room and urinate on the N64. This happened a number of times, apparently; though I haven't any recollection. Also, the N64 still works.
skodi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:02:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My family moved when I was around 8 and the second night in the new house I slept walked. My dad is pretty jumpy and a very light sleeper. He heard a noise in the garage and grabbed his shotgun and went to investigate. He was at the foot of the stairs pointing a gun at the door to the garage when I opened it and stepped through and bumped the end of the barrel. Startled him to recognize me, woke me up and thank god we're both quick on the recognition and reflexes.
The first time I ever sleepwalked (and the only time I think), I was about 7. We were on our way back from a theme park (Busch Gardens), and I was little, so I was really tired. Two points I need to point out first- it was Halloween-time and late (past-midnight). I remembered getting out of the car, or at least unbuckling. I woke up to be walking in circles around the apartment complex. The buildings all looked the same, and I was new there. There were people just watching me as I walked. You know the scene in Home Alone 2 when he's in Central Park, and there's a lot of creeps everywhere? Same deal. Someone shouted "Shouldn't you be at home?" in a creepy voice, laughed, and took a big breath from his cig. I walked for about an hour. I then proceeded to the large pond in the middle, with some brackish water in it, and so some salt water predators. I started to sit down, and cry. About then, I heard my family. They had been looking for me. My brother says I was trying to walk into the water to this day. I was awake, but he doesn't believe this sentence, or the one previous. Pretty scary shit right there, losing a child late at night, around Halloween. I don't know what happened. I don't know if it's related, but one night, I was in the apartment, and I saw a light, and I walked out the door. It was in a dream though. Not there anymore (thank cow). I know my story was different than yours, but I felt like bringing it up. I can understand if anyone tl;dr's this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
same thing happened to my grandfather. except he managed to get outside, climb through a window and get back in. my great grandfather got his doyble barrel sawed of and went and found him
I had this dream where I was rolling down the steps of a fire escape, like the ones on the side of apartment buildings and my dad was at the top flipping out for obvious reasons. After I graduated high school my dad mentioned dropping me and I described it to him, the steel painted black with that diamond patter. He confirmed that I indeed remembered rolling down a fire escape. Makes me wonder if my past life memory is real in the same way.
Kitty_D ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I live in South Africa and this actually happened recently. The guy's house was broken into and his 7 year old daughter came running in to the room, obviously because she woke up from the whole thing. He though she was one of the robbers and shot her in the head.
Well, I used to sleep walk frequently until I was about 10. I can remember being quite young and feeling that the bedroom was quite huge in the darkness and half-asleep state I was in. So i guess I would go into the closet in my room and shut the sliding doors seeking some kind of confinement (kids crave restrictive spaces quite often) then I would snap awake and start screaming for my parents, telling them to get my out of the "cave." Every Christmas I would inevitably sleep walk downstairs into the living room and wake up while walking repeatedly into the Christmas tree, one time my mom tried to wake me during an episode and I slapped her in the mouth and told her the tree was crying. And finally, one time my grandmother was watching us and I was probably 6, but I went to the fridge and got a glass of ice tea and a beer, then I went to her bed where she was reading and handed her the ice tea and started drinking the beer. She took it from me and I responded that the shadow people were not pleased. I was a strange child.
I have a similar story too, about my sister. I was probably only 5 and she was 6. It was the night before Easter and I was laying in bed, and I was woken up by a heavy thumping sound. We had a kind of outside hallway leading up to our front door, and I recognized the sound as footsteps outside the door, since my room was right next to the front door. I remember being really scared thinking it was the Easter Bunny and that the thumping was his giant feet hopping up to my house.
My dad went out there and found my sister drinking from the hose. He asked her what she was doing and she just said she was thirsty and needed a drink. He put her back to bed and she seemed not to wake up the whole time, and didn't remember it in the morning.
I used to wake up with grass on my feet after going to bed with no grass on my feet. For a while I also would wake up and realize my feet hurt and look at them and see small red lines of indentation on my heels. I finally woke once to find that i was standing on the metal bed frame and just balancing there on the thin edge, hence the red indent lines that hurt. I was probably 10 or so.
My mom woke up to me on the front lawn, doors locked. apparently, in my sleep, I climbed out my second floor window.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did a lot of sleep walking as a child, and still to this day. (I have a ton of weird sleepwalking stories) My dad said that pretty soon after he and my stepmom married (I was 3) I went into the bedroom and poked him until he woke up, where I said "mommy 1 is sad she didn't kill you." I didn't know until my 20s that my biological mother had set their house on fire before the divorce because she wanted a better one.
I slept walked across the street from my house and my mom found me talking to something (she couldn't see anything, only me carrying on a conversation). Creepy.
A few years back, my step brother walked in to the living room with my dad and I, and said "Hey, Darren, I took care of that deer for you." Then he walked back...I laughed my ass off for the next couple of days.
My mother put me to bed as usual when I was about six or seven in the middle of a Wisconsin winter and went to bed herself. I slept, I sleepwalked out of my bed room, put on my parka (thank god), unlocked the front door, walked out the house and sat down and went back to sound sleep on the bench of my busstop. I woke up around what I'm guessing was two or three and realized where I was and went back inside, took off my parka and went back to bed. I didn't tell my mother about this story for some reason though, I remember crystal clear the next morning she was freaked out as to why the front door was open and told herself it was because she forgot to lock it the night before. Still never told her the truth of that night. Maybe I will eventually...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my kids and my wife sleep walk. Nothing as freaky as this yet, but I'm waiting.
I have an almost identical story -- dad heard me crying in the middle of the night; I slept walked until I was about 15 but this was when I was young, 7 or 8. He found me on the back porch, still asleep, kind of crying and asking where people were in a garbled sleep voice. Yikes.
Goatlad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:35:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I too also had a similar story, when i was about 11 or 12 i had got out of bed in the middle of the morning (2-3am) and had stood next to the door turning the front door knob unsuccessfully over and over (was locked) and my parents both came out to find me there saying repetitively "I need to get out, I need to get out, I need to get out..." Sends shivers down my spine to this day.
EDIT: I also have no recollection of this and to my knowledge have never slept walked before or after this event
I use to sleep walk/talk as well. Once, my mom said I came out asking here where my towel with the monkeys and the giraffes on it was (I had no such towel). Another time, she tried to wake me up for school and she said I started jumping on my bed and grasping for the ceiling, shouting "I have to get the roses off the ceiling!" These were a couple of the comical instances of this. The rest of them were apparently horrifying. My brother was sent to wake me up one morning, which he did by shining a flashlight in my face. I sat up quickly, and wide, unblinking eyes, started shouting a string of what they called "alien," that I am told consisted of no coherent words, but I spoke them very deliberately. This happened on multiple occasions, and it always was the same deal. My eyes would shoot wide open, and I would let out of string of this strange language, then I would close my eyes and go right "back" to sleep. They would wake me up afterward, and I would not remember any of it, thinking that it was the first time they were waking me up that morning.
That reminds me of the recent story where a 3 year old walked to the store in the middle of the night, in snow, because she thought her mom went there to pick up a pizza. Luckily a clerk was still closing up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read as "strangled noise". I was so confused.
ben2c ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently I had the same sleep walking experience you did. My mom would tell me that I would wake up in the middle of the night and just stare out the window. She would ask me what I was doing, and I would reply "I was waiting for someone" according to my mom.
Essentially the same story for me, except my line was "I lost the figure skating gold medal." Dad recommended I play football after that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom once found me at the age of three leaning against the second story window that was a just a screen, standing on my bed. She freaked and demanded I get down and I insisted I had to save the colors, they were melting.. She told me we could save the colors in the morning and I laid down but my bed was moved the next day.
I also once apparently woke my mom up screaming about someone stealing all the string.
kiwifou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to sleepwalk too when I was a kid. I would walk up to the side of the bed where my mother slept, and just stand there and stare at her. She'd wake up from the feeling of being watched. It creeped the hell out of her every time.
post4u ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be a weird sleep walker, as well! My dad woke up with me two inches from his face once, said he almost punched me. He told me to go to bed, so logically I proceeded to the kitchen and started to get plates out of the cabinet. 0_o
Shebazz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother used to sleepwalk a lot. The first time it was really bad, he was brought home at 3 am by some college kids who found him trying to get into the convenience store 6 blocks from our house. After that, my parents got a new back door with a higher deadbolt so he couldn't reach it. The next time he was brought home, it was by the police after he walked down to the store again. Turns out he dragged a chair over to the door in order to open the lock. I'm not entirely sure how old he was, but we lived in that house while I was in grade 5 until early grade 9, and I'm 8 years older than my brother so I guess the oldest he would have been was grade 1 - maybe 7 years old?
tl;dr sleep walking is some scary shit
[deleted] ยท 1060 points ยท Posted at 18:27:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but my mom told me that when I was really young, I used to sit by the rocking chair and mumble things. She eventually became curious and asked what I was saying. I told her I was talking to "the old lady".
Also, about 10 years later, I stayed at my aunt's house. In the morning, I heard my 3 year old cousin stirring, so I decided to be a thoughtful niece and went to get her out of bed so my aunt could sleep in longer. When I walked into her room, she stood up in her crib and said "Your friend came and woke me up last night." I was staying in a room by myself the night before.
[deleted] ยท 302 points ยท Posted at 19:18:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This made me shiver....
LAB731 ยท 399 points ยท Posted at 20:28:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, it even made the Iceman shiver?!
zumpiez ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:06:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little my family lived in a duplex and while living there I would point and say, "Lady," and proceed to follow the lady I saw as she walked around the house. My mom did a bit of research and discovered there had been a fire in the house a while before it became a duplex and an old lady had burned to death in it.
atilly ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:35:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Aunt was living in a town house and there was a little corner between the front door and the stairs and my little cousin used to sit there and would hold conversations with nothing. I think she said it was something along the lines of "granny" or something. Which all her grandparents are still alive.
I can't tell if this is an honest question or someone promoting the Paranormal Activity series even more. Oh dear
Aiyon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:01:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
1 was scary.
2 was better.
3 was alright, but not as good
4 doesn't exist yet
Okuhou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They all scared the crap out of me but I think the third one was the most scary. Not everyone agrees with me but I think they're worth it. Also there's only three out.
I think it's just confusion about how exactly you get to be a parent/why your parents are your parents/why a child can't be a parent, as well as starting to gain independence and having protective/parental feelings towards the parents. I remember I started thinking about being a mother when I was around 4 years old.
Cryano ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:34:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it's the kid trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else, so he switches the roles he's most familiar with (parent and child). It just comes out creepily because children are crazytimes.
[deleted] ยท 339 points ยท Posted at 19:07:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Each of us comes into this life as a member of a large "cast of characters." The "full cast" is everyone you ever meet or see. After death, we switch roles. When we have learned all we need to learn from being in each role, we can move on.
/justmytheory
it makes it better, i always read it in morgan freeman's voice while he's while he's slowly walking around in a white suit with his hands behind his back
Not sure why you're getting downvoted! It's as interesting a theory as any. It's certainly more developed than saying that the one thing that these kids have in common is that they're all trolls, which I've seen a lot of in this thread.
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 20:36:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And waaaaay more interesting than the theory that children have developing brains and they come up with these things as a way of trying to make sense of things.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:24:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a good Idea and it's been played with in both religion and literature. Look into the book "The Years of Rice and Salt," in which a cast of characters undergoes reincarnation in an alternate history Earth where the Black Death pretty much wiped out Europe.
I swear, this is something a good friend of mine told me almost verbatim during a very difficult and confusing time in my life. It's very interesting to see someone else say it, too!
It's very similar to a viewpoint that I've grown attached to, but can't remember where I picked it up from.
To expand on the "roles," the afterlife is essentially waiting on friends to finish their current roles so you can select a new role that intersects their role again. You may have played their father in the last role, maybe the next one will be as a friend to them. The people in your life are often the same souls (I guess) as the people in other lives -- the roles just change.
It's an interesting thought to contemplate, at least.
Cordite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So we ignore all basis in reality - that we're the current pinnacle of genetic evolution, forged from stardust and carbon, and that life is merely the combination of chemical processes sustained long enough to reproduce - in favor of a romantic theatrical explanation?
Word homie...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sayin' that's how it is, just saying that's how it feels to me sometimes...I find my experience of reality is not the same as the intellectual explanation of it. That's just me though...
I read a short story once that was similar. Rather than just give it away, I'll post it here:
You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that's when you met me.
"What... what happened?" You asked. "where am I?"
"You died," I said, matter-of-factly. No point mincing words.
"There was a...a truck and it was skidding..."
"Yup." I said
"I... I died?"
"Yup. But don't feel bad about it. Everyone dies." I said.
You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. "What is this place?" You asked.
"Is this the afterlife?"
"More or less," I said.
Are you god?" You asked.
"Yup." I replied. "I'm God."
"My kids... my wife," you said.
"What about them?"
"Will they be alright?"
"That what I like to see," I said. "You just died and your main concern is for your family. Thats good stuff right there."
You looked at me with fascination. to you, I didn't look like God. I just looked like some man. Some vague authority figure. More of a grammar school teacher then the almighty.
"Don't worry," I said. "They'll be fine. your kids will remember you as perfect in every way.
They didnt have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly reliveved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If its any consolation, she'll feel very guilty for feeling relieved."
"Oh," you said. "So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?"
"Neither," i said. "You'll be reincarnated."
"Ah," you said. "So the Hindus were right."
"All the religions are right in their own way," I said. "Walk with me." you followed along as we strolled in the void. "Where are we going?" "Nowhere in particular," I said. "Its just nice to walk while we talk."
"So whats the point, then?" You asked. "When I get reborn, I'll just be a blank slate right? A baby. So all my experiences and everything I did in this life wont matter."
"Not so!" I said. "You have within you all the knowledge and experiences of all your past lives. You just dont remember them right now."
I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. "Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic then you can possible imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. Its like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if its hot or cold. You put a tiny part or yourself into the vessel, and when u bring it back out, you've gained all the experiences it had.
"You've been a human for the last 34 years, so you haven't stretched out yet and felt the rest of you immense consciousness. If we hung out here for longer, you'd start remembering everything. But theres no point doing that between each life."
"how many times have I been reincarnated, then?"
"Oh lots. Lots and lots. An into lots of different lives." I said. "This time around you'll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 A.D."
"Wait, what?" You stammered. "your sending me back in time?"
"Well, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from."
"where you come from?" You pondered.
"Oh sure!" I explained. "I come from somewhere. somewhere else. and theres others like me. I know you'll want to know what its like there but you honestly wont understand."
"Oh." you said, a little let down. "But wait. If i get reincarnated to other places in time, could I have interacted with myself at some point?"
"Sure. Happens all the time. and with both lives only aware of their own timespan you dont even know its happening."
"So whats the point of it all?"
"Seriously?" I asked. "Seriously? Your asking me for the meaning of life? Isnt that a little stereotypical?"
"Well its a reasonable question." you persisted. I looked in your eye. "The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature."
"You mean mankind? You want us to mature?"
"No. just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature, and become a larger and greater intellect" "Just me? What about everyone else?"
"There is no one else," I said. "In this universe, theres just you, and me."
You stared blankly at me. "But all the people on earth..."
"All you. Different incarnations of you."
"Wait. I'm everyone!?"
"Now your getting it." I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.
"I'm every human who ever lived?"
"Or who will ever live, yes."
"I'm Abraham Lincoln?"
"And you're John wilkes Booth, too." I added.
"I'm Hitler?" you said, appalled.
"And you're the millions he killed."
"I'm jesus?"
"And you're everyone who followed him."
You fell silent.
"Every time you victimized someone," I said, "You were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you've done, you've done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you."
"Why?" You asked me. "why do all this?"
"Because someday, you will become like me. Because that's what you are. You're one of my kind. You're my child."
"Whoa." you said, incredulous. "You mean I'm a god?"
"No. Not yet. You're a fetus. You're still growing. Once you've lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born."
"So the whole universe," you said. "Its just..."
"An egg of sorts." I answered. "Now its time for you to move on to your next life." and I sent you on your way.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:15:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few people have mentioned this story. Great minds think alike, I guess? I never put that much thought into it! Thanks for the cut/paste.
THANK YOU! I can't believe you actually believe the same as me. That's really nice to see.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It seems that a lot of people have felt this way before. Somebody was kind enough to cut/paste a short story about this very idea. Weird, no? Maybe that's why the notion of karma (not Reddit karma) caught on...because so many folks experience life in this way? Thanks for the comment!
NO, you're crazy for thinking we don't know everything about life!
Everything has a rational, scientific explanation, so just cut it out with your nonsense right now!
.../s
Jephae ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:46:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My boyfriend and I were just talking about a relatively similar theory where you relive this one life over and over again until you reach, what could be considered, your "perfect" life, and then you can move on. And deja vu is when you remember something from one of the past times you lived this life...we found all sorts of ways each little aspect of life could fit into the theory. It's very interesting. I'll definitely mention your theory to him :)
I think that major events leave impressions that contain parts of us, and sometimes those impressions are both persistent and detectable.
I mean, you never hear tell of the ghost of a guy who died peacefully at 108, it's always the guy who got shot, or was in a car accident on the way to his wedding, or something. The more major the event, the stronger the remaining impression.
Also, if you want to carry on with this thought, the whole, "Past lives" thing could very well be persistent impressions getting hooked into a newly-minted consciousness that has compatible doo-dads.
These are things thought of over too much beer with spiritualism scholars.
Mr. strong-stuff, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no upvotes, and may God have mercy on your soul.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:17:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It means that the children are abstractly contemplating the meaning of child/parent roles, obviously.
jondoe2 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:18:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I posted my hypothesis in respons to some other comment;
I'm thinking something like developing empathy, "What might it be like to be my parents" which was then either miscommunicated because of a lack of words to describe the thought process accurately, or he himself misinterpreted a fantasy as a memory.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:19:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, but I did it too. I came over to my mom one morning and said, "member when I was big and you were little?" she thinks that I had a dream and remembered it but didn't know how to explain that it was a dream.
smeezy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:46:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It means that kids are curious and love to role-play in their minds. "What if I were mommy's mom? What would that be like?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's a common theory that most kids don't realise they're a separate person from their mother until they're about six months old, and that separation is basically the start of separation anxiety for a lot of kids. I'd guess that the thought of still being the same as their mother would stay, and then they could actually remember themselves being babies, just from their mother's point of view.
My first memory is a dream I had when I was still drinking milk from a bottle and in high chairs (so about 2-3 years old, probably) and it's predominantly from my mum's point of view, with her looking at me. I think it's just a confusion between where their 'self' ends and their mother begins - I'd say even the boys probably thought of themselves as a mother for that situation.
atla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's strange, but now that I think about it, a lot of my memories are in mixed first-third person. I'm either me, or some random non-entity watching in on the scene. If this is common, it could be kids not able to understand the concept of first- and third-person, and assuming that they actually are remembering being that non-existant third-person. And if their world is small enough, they could assume that that third person is their parent.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More than that, it could be them not understanding the seperation between first and second person - "I remember you doing this" could easily get confused by boundaries and turn into "I remember me doing this". But yeah, I definitely think it's something to do with them being unable to separate themselves psychologically from other things, and then being unable to identify which part they are and which part their parents or someone else is.
Toddlers DO dream, and their dreams are probably just as screwy as ours are, and they aren't as good as discerning reality from dreams. With everyone being bigger than they are but still knowing what it's like to be bigger than something else, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that this was a rather common dream for toddlers to have about their parents.
It means that reincarnation is really just ones lineage. I suppose this would also imply that when you're a kid you can remember your past lives, which would really just be the lives of your past family members.
llill ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:19:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I believe in reincarnation...so there's that.
Reincarnation. A lot of people believe that souls will often reincarnate into their same family when they can. If true, then it wouldn't be surprising for a newborn to have the soul of a recently deceased relative. It shouldn't freak you out, if it's real, it's not scary, just how things work.
Kids say crazy shit more or less 24/7. Until about 5 they live in a universe of their own creation which bears little resemblance to the one we live in. Anything that perplexes them they just make up some wacky theory to deal with. Many people never outgrow this actually.
ophello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Theory: A lot of parents who die chose to come back as their child's baby and live the whole scenario in reverse. It's how spirit families stay together over the millenia and learn about how to be a parent and how to live with a parent.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Little kids don't understand death or birth. They can't understand the concept of having never existed. They create scenarios that explain what things must have been like when their parents were kids. Maybe when their parents were kids, they were the parent.
A lot of little kids also think that, when they grow up, they will be married to one of their parents. They don't understand their parents will grow older, too, and will be elderly.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
always sounds like reincarnation to me. not saying I believe in it, but who knows? maybe some people can remember their past life.
Kids that age don't really have any concept of time, especially long-term, and they've usually learned gender roles through play (dolls, action figures, playing house, etc.). It's not really that surprising when you think about it. Just how the mind of a kid works.
My cousin says this. He was born on my grandfathers birthday, 13 months after he died.
He says things like: "Mummy when you were little and I was a growed-up you liked to wear your blue dress. Why don't you wear your blue dress now?"
He also avoids our grandmother saying: "But she's mad at me." when he hadn't even seen her before.
My Gran and Granddad were divorced when they were 40 and 59 respectively and never talked after that. When there was a family function they would avoid each other like the plague.
We've just come to accept that little James is pretty much his grandfather all over again. My aunt is okay with it. One of the last things Granddad said to her was: "You should have another kid. You're an amazing mother." She fell pregnant a few months later despite being told she would never be able to have any more kids.
It's just one of those things we know about as a family and get used to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It sounds to me like... some kind of reincarnation?
If I had to guess its that kids hear adults say "its when you were really little" or "when I was little...". The child is trying to sound like the adults by using these phrases.
I think that a lot of young children feel the desire to have the roles reversed. They want to be the mommy or daddy and "be an adult to their mommy or daddy." Also at this age, they have a hard time realizing the difference between a dream and reality, so they dream of being the mommy/daddy and then confuse it with real life.
Somewhat related, but this helped me not think I was crazy anymore.
Check out Brian Weiss's work, particularly "Many Lives, Many Masters."
It mirrors some of my experiences as a counselor. Mind blowing, reality shattering.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw one explanation where someone explained it that children don't understand time to be linear, so they imagine roll reversals with them being adults eventually, and older people being babies
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:22:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Imagination.
Love_N ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Read the book 'Many Lives, Many Masters'. It's a huge load of bullocks, but it does put forth an interesting premise as to reincarnation.
I'm not sure it means we all had past lives and/or ghosts are real. The most likely explanation is that kids have a hard time with the concept of how aging works. When I was very young I thought I would someday be older than my brother. Also kids say all sorts of nutty stuff all the time, and sometimes they unwittingly say something that terrifies the adults in the room.
Of course not, however a creatve story about how a child's old mommy locked her in a closet and she drank paint and died is a great learning opportunity about what is real and what is not. The old mommy is creative imagination, but drinking paint really will kill you.
It's called reincarnation. It actually exists and it's pretty interesting.
Asyyd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a psychological phase all kids go through. i guess some figure it out ;)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(according to mythology that supports reincarnation) children at a young age still have memories of their past life, so in a really lucky situation, they used to be their mother/father's gramma/grandpa, and still remember them.
I remember when I was a kid, i thought that my mom and dad would stay the same age and I would get older than them eventually. Possibility? Who knows. Other than that, those stories are creepy as fuck.
your current incarnation is not your only one, and everyone around is a friend that you have known since before time was. pretty simple really, and interesting once you step out of the box and see how often reality aligns with this perspective.
but maybe it is just me and I see that I am so different and see no other explanation than I've 'played the game' more than other people, like an old soul.
hatever ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 20:43:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This one is about me. When I was little. I told my dad there were people on the roof. He didn't think anything of it...until he heard, "the sound of 100 feet running across the roof. He went out side to shine a flashlight(the old roof was flat, you could see the top if you were far enough back) and he saw nothing. He asked me if I saw anything, I said, "The grey man daddy. He was at all the windows." It still freaks me out to think about it even though I don't even remember it.
So the moral of the story is... sometimes it's the kid that has to deal with the parents imaginary friend.
GizmoMo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:41:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This just reminded me! One day my mom and brother (5 at the time) were driving up a hill when my brother says "watch out for the orange peel in the road" ... as they reach the top of the hill and start back down the other side my mom spots AN ORANGE PEEL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD! Total weirdo...
When my father was a kid in the 60's, he would go into the living room in the middle of the night, turn the TV on to static, climb on his rocking horse and slowly rock back and forth in the dark room only lit by the TV static and slowly say "I hate mommy. I hate mommy. I hate mommy." over and over again. My grandmother says it was the creepiest thing she's ever seen. Well, that and the UFO.
[deleted] ยท 1204 points ยท Posted at 19:23:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I accidentally skipped over "was a kid in the 60's" and pictured a 5-year old Polite_Werewolf walking in on his middle aged father on a rocking horse saying "I hate mommy."
Actually, he recently had shoulder surgery. So, with the stuff he was on, i probably wouldn't be THAT surprised to see that. Although, i'd wander where he got the rocking horse.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I came that close to spitting coffee everywhere as the hilarious visual of this hit my brain... I can even feel a little coffee in my sinuses right now from choking back a laugh.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:03:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't decide which would be creepier.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:35:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. She claims to have seen a UFO about 20 years ago.
[deleted] ยท 585 points ยท Posted at 18:47:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was probably Russians.
I_CATS ยท 306 points ยท Posted at 19:04:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever seen a Russian or been in Russia? Just like have you ever seen a weather balloon? They are both government lies to hide the alien presense on Earth!
skucera ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:43:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever seen an American or been in America? Just like have you ever seen a weather balloon? They are both government lies to hide the alien presense on Earth!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:10:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've always wondered what the impetus for those designs actually was... there were a number of them, and they all occurred around the same decade. It's such a radical departure from all other aircraft then(and now) and there was clearly A LOT of engineering time and money put into them despite the underlying aerodynamic concept being flawed...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:12:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother says the same thing. She swears up and down that she has seen a UFO, and if you ever try to say it was something else, she gets really defensive and angry.
She claims it was a large disk, and it was moving slowly towards the foothills. She said she followed it in her car for about 15 miles before she ran out of road.
Granted, this was the 80's. Who knows what sort of things she could have been on.
Now, that's interesting. And, i can't even say "who knows what sort of things she could have been on" because she didn't even start drinking until after her husband died. Well, that's not entirely true. There was that time at the Grand Canyon.
My mother was young at the time, no kids, and really in to the whole party scene. She claims sobriety during this time, though, so who knows? Your grandmother, my mother.. maybe there really are UFOs. :P
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:06 on August 21, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If i remember right, she said it was similar to the classic "flying disk" look, but with a lot of multi-colored lights, and a number of smaller red glowing orbs "orbiting" around it. She said she saw it hovering above a house that's actually about five minutes down the road from where i live, and it shot up into the sky.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:25:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Where abouts do you live? Just roughly, not your address.
It's not too bad... Until shedding season. Not to mention the awkward reactions by people when i realize their silverware is actually silver. I guess "silverware" kinda gives it away.
I saw UFO once. Don't know that it was aliens, but, you know, object, flying, unidentified.
It was like a sphere in the sky with a regular pattern of lights on its surface. It didn't move and then it disappeared. To be fair I was like, 8 at the time.
Chazay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandparents claim they saw a ufo 20 years ago in new Mexico.
Um, all except the rocking horse. I do it in bed at night in the dark room and I have a white noise generator that I use during sleep. So yeah, I recognize the sentiment.
Actually, I usually sing made-up songs where the lyrics are really repetitive such as "Wish she were dead, oh wish oh woe, wish she were dead dead dead, yo".
"If i remember right, she said it was similar to the classic "flying disk" look, but with a lot of multi-colored lights, and a number of smaller red glowing orbs "orbiting" around it. She said she saw it hovering above a house that's actually about five minutes down the road from where i live, and it shot up into the sky."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that you're a werewolf didn't creep her out?
Wait, wait... I've heard this story before. It was about a kid who was picking winning numbers from the horse races for some family member. I don't remember all of the details, but I read it back in high school... I call BS.
That's the one. Thanks. I guess it was in my high school English textbook. I remember reading that thing cover to cover out of boredom... Upvotes for you, sah.
Not my kid, but my little sister. When we were younger (elementary school aged) we shared a room. She would often say things in her sleep, but it was usually incomprehensible and nothing interesting.
One night I wake up because I hear a strange noise. I turn over in my bed and in the dimly lit room I see that she is sitting stick straight on her bed and staring at me. I was already a little bit creeped out but I thought something was wrong, so I got out of bed and walked up to her. The second I sat down on her bed, she cocked her head a bit and while staring at me very intensely started singing the creepiest song I've ever heard in a possessed little girl voice.
Needless to say, I spent the rest of the night sleeping in the living room.
Seriously! The Ghostbusters thing made me laugh enough to erase some of the disturbance the original story caused in me. This is a creepy thread but I can't stop reading...
That was my brother's advice when I told him how much I hated having to walk through the abandoned psyche ward where I work (security at an old hospital). I told him I didn't want to make it some sort of challenge. It's easy to say you don't believe in ghosts but let me tell you when you are walking through an old psyche ward at 3am you might find yourself walking a little faster...
I worked the 10pm-6am shift in the alzheimers/dementia ward of the old folks home once. ONCE. I wasn't a trained nurse or caretaker, I was just a kid that needed a summer job and they had me work this shift one day there, all alone. SO scary.
Being around those patients is scary by itself before tossing in any supernatural stuff. I was chatting with some other staff one night and the topic of ghosts came up. One that worked on one of the ward just shrugged "Ya, you see them up there. You just start to ignore them after awhile".
It was probably a song of affection if that makes you feel better. Like her consciousness was asleep but basic functions still worked so she knew she loved you and that was the tune to her emotions if that makes any sense. I've done a lot of drugs, so bear with me.
wishbee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This comment made me very happy, and I agree with you. Then again, I also do drugs.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good fucking Lord, that was intense. As I read your comment, I was listening to the song "Crawlspace" by Two Steps from Hell and it times up perfectly with the comment.
"The second I sat down on her bed, she cocked her head a bit and while staring at me very intensely started singing the creepiest song I've ever heard in a possessed little girl voice."
Shit, now I'm scared.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
happy cakeday!
gabypoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:57:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister and I also shared a room when we were kids. She sleep-walked a lot, but the worst was when she'd sit up slowly, stand up and walk over to my bed and to just watch me with wide eyes.
It scared me so much that I was usually speechless for a bit. Then I guided her back to bed and she would look at me wide-eyed for a while until she knocked out again.
It was like this until I was so aware while I slept, that I'd feel her getting up right away. I learned to soothe back down and sleep. O__O
DP4Man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was it like the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" song from Dead Space?
sveccha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story by far filled me with the most visceral fear - my son and daughter share a room and it was really easy/creepy to imagine. What did your sister think when you related what happened to her...or did you?
During a tantrum, my two year old niece told her mom, "I'm not yours and I'm not daddy's. I'm the scary man's." (They don't speak English at home, so that's an inexact translation. She essentially said she was the devil's child).
There isn't a direct translation for the word she used, the closest would be something like "the scary one", but even that's clumsy. Scarer? Frightener? It was a cobbled word like that, where it isn't something from common usage, but rather a word that a kid puts together. And she used the masculine rather than the feminine, which is why I went with "scary man."
Because of her word choice it wasn't dark or scary when she said it (as opposed to if she'd used the actual word for "demon," say), so we all had a good laugh. Of course, that's what everyone does in the horror movie before things go crazy.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:41:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chakk de phatte!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:05:42 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sighs too much death metal and weed...kids these days!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:47:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
It strikes me as the sort of thing a child wouldn't come up with by themselves but would be repeating something that they'd been told... Unfortunately.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:56:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I feel like they might not have been calling their kid "the devil's child" directly. With the way kids' minds work, a parent can say something like, "don't do [something bad]. No child of mine does that" or "only devil's children do such and such"
Instead of not doing it, they do it and say they're not that person's child. Kids are silly.
Interesting insight! Children are silly. Be careful what you say!
Blt2002 ยท 1553 points ยท Posted at 18:45:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My one son was eating chicken nuggets and he would always eat the breading off it first, he takes a bite of the breading and then says "Oh no! Your face is missing!"
I can destroy a six pack of Pom-Bears in like 10 minutes. Shit's delicious. I swear I got them in a big bag in France once but I haven't seen them since.
pyratus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only if you're predisposed to it but even still most skitzophrinics aren't violent.
flume ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:21:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah well, I'd bet the chances of someone being predisposed to schizophrenia, smoking weed, becoming violently schizophrenic, and eating someone's face are significantly higher than the chances that any random person off the street will eat someone's face.
I'm going to stop now before anyone thinks I'm anti-marijuana.
JarJarB ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:37:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm already sharpening my knife.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:23:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mine's blunt. :O
flume ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My balls just shuddered. Individually. In succession. And then it went up and down my spine. Please stay away from me. But if you must find me, I live in... Malaysia. Yeah... Malaysia.
kjeppz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so is being born in the winter months...
....we know so little about schizophrenia.
EDIT: we know so little about what causes schizophrenia.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:36:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe. I'm not sure.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:18:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Really, have i been living under a rock? I have heard that bath salt joke so many times now, but i still don't know where it comes from. Care to elaborate?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:38:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a drug that is sold to look like bath salt, even though the buyers know its real purpose. Also, a guy who had taken bath salts ate someone else's face or something like that. Basically cannibal jokes.
Acrob ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:34:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's a pretty standard thing to do as a child - when I was younger, I used to mold my playdough in the shape of a head, but bury some object, like a penny, inside and play 'brain surgery'. Just normal kid activities!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE FUCK
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do this a toddler! I also said things like "try living without a head" and "everyone on this plate is going down" before eating food. My mom was convinced I was getting violent thoughts from "Speed Racer" and made me stop watching it. :(
My brother said something very similar as a child that sounded serial killerish. He did the same thing with his chicken nuggets, and when our mother asked him why he did it, he told her, "I like to peel their skin off while they're still warm, then I eat them."
Um... I did something similar as a kid. My mom would buy me animal crackers and I would bite the heads off and put the bodies back in the bag. When I would complain I didn't have any animal crackers left she dumped the bag on the table and said something about all of my animal crackers. My mom told me that I, with all of the terror only a child can possess told her "No. I ate the heads off of those animal crackers. They can't feel me eating them anymore, silly!" And then giggled. She never bought me animal crackers again.
Not my kid, but the kid I was babysitting. And perhaps more sad than frightening.
I used to babysit two brothers, one was 9, the other 4. The 4-year-old was a pretty typical kid, while the 9-year-old was really distant and sometimes downright cruel. He would flip out at his younger brother (phsyically and verbally) for the smallest things and would laugh if the younger hurt himself, etc. It was tough mediating between them, and the parents seemed oblivious to how much the older brother loathed the younger. I figured the age difference was really all it was, but sometimes I sensed a real hatred radiating from the older brother.
So one day at the playground the 4-year-old's friend comes up and says the younger brother has been telling everyone, 'My brother is a killer!'
I pull the 4-year-old aside and say, 'Hey, it isn't nice to tell your friends that your older brother is a killer.'
To which he dispassionatly responds, 'But he is a killer. He kills me every day.' It was like the younger had given up. Really disconcerting to see a 4-year-old so.... I dunno, hopeless.
Ha, I read that book and thought of the older brother when I read the part about Peter. But Peter was much worse.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's hard to compare Peter Wiggin to most human children though lol
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ender's Game reference?
tametu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:31:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, I was afraid no one had made that comment.
[deleted] ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 20:31:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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megret ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:33:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few weeks ago I was discussing that video of the bus monitor being bullied. The discussion was on Facebook, but it turned into a private discussion via email with my older sister. She was really abusive and mean to me when I was a kid, and she apologized for it. It meant a lot, even though 25 years had gone by. Go talk to your brother. It could do a lot of good.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:26:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I think being as cruel as I was back then has made me a much more mellow/understanding person now. It's hard for me to judge others, knowing the hatred and anger I use to carry.
You're awesome. I know exactly how you feel.
My brother has an intellectual disability and is 2 years younger than me. When we were much smaller I remember him giving me the shits and so I told him that I hated him. He cried and I instantly regretted it but was too much of a dick to admit it at the age of 7. I didn't hate him, I just didn't understand him.
We're not very close now and I ended up being a Disability Support Worker. I still carry that around with me though.
Thanks, I really hope that kid grows out of that hatred, too! Good on you for apologizing.
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 20:22:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Children often confuse "Killing" with "fighting". I imagine it's because they see a scene on a movie where someone kills someone in a fight, and ask what is happening, and are probably told they killed them. I once saw a story about a little boy who's father stabbed him and his mother. He survived and called the police saying "My daddy just killed me".
My three year old was going around telling everyone that he wanted to "kill" his sister. I was shocked and embarrassed, we have a very loving home. And he does hit her sometimes out of frustration. But one day a few weeks later I found out what he meant and it gave me such a sense of relief. He got ahold of the fly swatter and started chasing me with it telling me he was going to kill me. He then proceeded to "kill" our dog, by swatting him with the fly swatter. It turns out he saw my husband swatting at flies once and he thought swatting or hitting with a fly swatter=killing.
I often wonder how a cop keeps from beating someone who does things like this to innocent little children. I try to be a good man but how do you keep your sanity in a case like this one??
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Later in the news report they said that the father killed himself, but I agree. They're defective to the point that they are homicidal towards others. I'd probably just kill them to make the world a better place.
I did try to bring it up to the mom, although I was too awkward to tell her that specific incident. She brushed it off and I was too unsure to press the issue. At the time I thought maybe I was being oversensitive; I'm a girl and had a sister, so I didn't really know if this was just 'boys being boys'.
I haven't seen the kids in almost 2 years, so I dunno how they're turning out.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:43:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No wonder her 9 year old was like that, if she's that unattentive. I'm sure he gets away with whatever. Some people shouldn't be parents.
Dear god...I am going to counseling right now cause I went through this abuse my entire childhood with a sibling 5 years older than me. Affected me more than anything my parents did. And, yes, my parents too were and still are oblivious to it.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:11:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is ridiculously sad. I'm never doing anything mean to my brothers ever again.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:20:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did the 4 year old grow up to be the hound?
taitabo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:47:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a friend that actually killed his little brother. He was 7, and the brother was 4. He hated him, so one day, he pushed him in front of a car. And that was that.
This is pretty sad I remember not liking my little brother sometimes when we were young but damn we grew up and I wouldn't know what to do without him, hopefully something similar happend for these guys.
mlpjack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is the kid still as depressed and did you ever tell his parents?
Well, I haven't seen them in 1.5 years, but a friend of mine sometimes still babysits for them and it doesn't sound like things have changed too much. I did try to approach it with the mother, but when she didn't respond I didn't push it. I really, really regret that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:31:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
would have told him that he is stronger than his older brother, which is why you keep coming back stronger and more alive.
ithunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:36 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Please tell me you stepped in. Talked to someone, got something done?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The 9 yr old showed signs of being well on the way to becoming a psycho (mainstream media logic at it's finest here). Wonder what became of him. Do you know?
Yeah, I often wondered if he was on the path towards becoming a psychopath. But he had at least 2 friends- he was definitely a loner but wasn't completely isolated. So he could maintain a relationship and could even be almost 'normal' when he was with his friends. It was just when it came to his younger brother that he really lashed out or became completely indifferent.
As for what happened to them, I haven't seen any of them in 1.5 years. A friend used to babysit for them a bit after I stopped and said things hadn't improved.
Read an article about psychopaths as children recently, and this freaks me out. It was full of true stories of children doing really awful things, like pushing a baby in a pool and pulling up a chair to watch them die.
My dad re-married and had two kids with his new wife. I'm 17 and they're like, 2 and 3. They piss me off sometimes and it's the whole weird psychological "he's my dad" garbage that takes a lot of skill to ignore, but I've never had any kind of feelings like this. This kid needs to talk to someone, there's some sort of deep rooted issue going on and it's not fair to the younger one to have to live like that. I am truly sorry for his lots :P
SHFFLE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His parents are going to be having a lot of fun with the younger in a decade or two when all that sh*t finally comes crashing down on them in one form or another.
da7id ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This should be top response. Most disturbing thing here.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My heart hurts now..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like my brother and I almost to the T. I'm 5 years older and used to beat on my brother excessively. Odd that I read this tonight because a lot of guilt has been building up about the abuse lately.
Just talk to your brother and apologize. Simple as that; you can't change the past so there's no sense in wallowing in guilt. But you can do something to help both of you now. Good luck man.
When my cousin was around 12 or so (she's almost 30), we were sitting around the table eating dinner and she very quietly left the table to rummage through her room followed by her brother's room across the hallway. After about 15 minutes she comes back empty handed, cleans her area and proceeds to sit in front of the tv. Her mother and brother asked what she was looking for, she replied, "A man just asked for a blanket because he's cold. I couldn't find a extra one to give to him". We entertained it and asked what he looked like, she gave a random description of a older man with a scruffy beard, brown shirt and dirty jeans.
At that age we just chalked it up as imagination and left her alone. About a hour later the doorbell rings and my aunt answers it. She returns a few seconds later clearly shaken up and says, "There's a homeless man asking for a spare blanket. He's the man she was talking about". We all go to the door with my aunt to give him the blanket to see the scruffy homeless man in a dirty brown shirt and jeans. He politely takes the blanket, thanks her and leaves. My cousin states that was the man she was trying to help earlier.
Shit freaked me out for years.
TL;DR : Cousin trys to help a cold ghost but fails only to have it appear as a person to get a blanket.
Edited for TL;DR and typo
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:58:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Guess the homeless guy talked with them through a window or at the door. Imagine if they would have let him in...
That's funny because my mom thinks the opposite. She's from Vietnam, culturally girls don't move out until they get married. I tell my mom I want to move out at the most when I am in my early 20's, and she flipped out saying I can't until I get married. I tell her I am planning to get married when I am 45 and she can just deal with me for another 27 years. She just laugh and says she changed her mind.
I told my mom this when I was 6 or 7. I stayed at my childhood home (with the exception of 4 years at college) until I was 28, at which point she sold the house. I tried buying my own place, but unfortunately it fell through. Two weeks after the closing on my childhood home, my mom's realtor asks me if I'm still living in a hotel (which I was at the time). I said yes, and he told me that the new owner was looking to rent out my childhood home. He put me in touch with the new owner, and I moved in a week later.
TL;DR I told my mom I'd never move out of that house, and I meant it.
Well, my brother was buying it from them, I did move out for about 2 years. But my brothers life took a huge turn & he needed help with the house. I moved back in with my boyfriend (now hubby) just to help him out. Then he met someone, got married & she already had a house, so we did a quick claim deed & took over his mortgage. That was 18 years ago! Interestingly enough, my mom grew up here too. Her parents sold it to my mom & dad for a dollar!
That's pretty sweet. I wish I could've swept up this house, but it was not to be. Bright side is I'm lazy and since I'm renting, all I need to do is keep stuff clean! No repairs required!
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 20:24:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kudos
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:39:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dad? I have said that exact same thing to my father when I was 14. Is your name Ed?
Styx_ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:38:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That'd be fuckin' sweet if your parents were redditors.
Perhaps he just has really great insight into the state of the economy :/
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:51:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm having an issue WITH moving out. My parents don't want me to leave and anytime i bring up the topic it is hushed away quickly ._. i want independence
"Kidnap" yourself? Go to college? Start a bank account they don't know about and save up to move into your own place? Start dating an older partner with their own place? Counseling? Or you could put all your stuff in a bandanna tied to a stick and walk off with it on your shoulder while they watch in amazement.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:37:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao if i really wanted to move out they wouldn't stop me and i got plenty of money but i feel bad about leaving my mom alone we are so close. Shes always so sad when i mention it. Though i love the bandanna idea picturing people doing that always makes me laugh
My 9 year old daughter tells me that now. Mostly it's she's going to live with us till she's 30 and then live next door to us forever. Helllooo My Big Fat Greek Wedding!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:11:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If your kid is still 14 and saying that, don't worry. As a 17-year-old, I remember I used to say that to my parents (I even planned to get married and move into the house with my wife), but now I plan to get out of here very soon y parents are great an everything, I just wanna go to college and get my own place). You're fine
My 4 year old has informed us of the same. He plans to marry and have children and live with us. The best part? He says he wants 8 kids. He is an only child.
nourez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank god your post came after that fuckton of creepiness. If this thread had just ended on that I seriously doubt I'd be getting any sleep tonight.
Edit: and ruck, I kept going. No sleep for me tonight.
mangeek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to threaten moving out almost daily, starting when I was 13. One day when I was 19 I actually did, but my parents thought I was bluffing... Right up until I disassembled my bed and strapped it to the roof of the car.
And that was the last time I took anything tangible of value from them. Feels good.
I read a study that found a direct correlation between the number of males between the ages of 25-40 living with their parents and the state of the economy. Guess which country has the highest percentage of 25-40 males living with their parents:
Greece.
TL;DR this article has convinced me that by living with my parents I will destroy this country.
[deleted] ยท 131 points ยท Posted at 19:58:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5 year old daughter, just 3 weeks ago, said she wants to die. That was a tough one.
While it could be nothing, you may want to look into getting a therapist for your daughter. Kids as young as six have been known to have depression, and even commit suicide.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 21:57:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids as young as six also spend a lot of time thinking about things they don't understand, like death. The best way to understand something is to experience it. Most kids don't actually want to die, they just want to understand what it's like.
True enough, there are plenty of kids who aren't depressed who think about death; but it might not be a situation a parent wants to risk. Just because she may not actually want to die, doesn't mean she might not try it. She probably doesn't understand the permanence of it.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:37:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh for sure, it's not something to just brush off. But once you sit down with the kid and have a good honest conversation with them about death and what it actually entails, I would hope that it would end up with them realizing that it's not actually something they want right now.
NTesla ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:17:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
It's probably ok. My daughter said the same thing when she was seven. She's 26 now, living life in a rather extreme way. So no signs of wanting to die. Your daughter will be fine.
We did have some suspicion that she had been molested at her day care. But we were wrong. Turns out it was probably my mom :/
Did you ask her why?
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NTesla ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:21:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was the point I was trying to make.
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NTesla ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:34:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Right on. For me it was eighteen. 99 stitches. Massive arm-scars to this day (I'm old ;) Abusive, alcoholic fathers bite it hard :/ How are you doing with all that these days?
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NTesla ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:54:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Congratulations on your degree. That's quite an accomplishment.
My dad was dead by the time he was 50. Basically drank himself to death. I'm older than that now, and I understand that most of his heinousness wasn't his fault. His mother was a horrific person. That doesn't justify his meanness though. I had a horrific parent, and I am far from being anything like him, so he's still responsible.
Before he died, he was in a coma for eight months. There's is some evidence that he was conscious during that time. I never went to visit him. When I got the call, at work, that he had finally died, my only thought was "Well. I guess this is how it's going to be." and I went back to work. That was in the mid-eighties. To this day, I still haven't had a single regret. My mom died last year and I didn't go to her funeral. She wasn't alcoholically twisted, but she was mean and uneducated and cruel.
It's taken forever to get over all that, but when I was in my late thirties I realized that instead of being the product of my past, I should become the agent of my future. Things really took off after that. My wife really loves me, and that's more than I could ever say about my mom. I'm ten years behind everyone else because I had to go through ten recovery years, but that makes me seem young and people like that for some reason :)
Things will get better if you can just wait them out. That's the truth. Divorce your father. He doesn't deserve you.
I've had depression for a while, and I've tried it before, but I finally got over it two years ago when I started my relationship with my current girlfriend. It comes back sometimes, but I've never felt like I did since then. Thank you for sharing your story though, it made me feel like if it ever comes back, I'll be able to handle it better :) Thank you :)
Amaelyn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
remember that feeling regardless of what happens <3
She's changed my entire outlook on life. Even if it doesn't work out (we're still really young, and we're a month away from departing for different schools), I'll never forget her and what she's done for me. I don't think we could ever stop at least being friends :)
I've completely turned around since that low point a few years ago. I never actually faced it or anything, until now. I'm in the midst of writing an album about the story of it and how I fixed it :) I'll be sure to post it on here when it's done!
Thank you so much for telling me your story. It's heart wrenching and yet I feel the similarity in our feelings, which is reassuring. I'm glad you are doing well as it gives me hope for my future! I fear for the day that my dad ends up dead, mostly because I don't know how I'll feel. I'll just take it one day at a time and worry about me, not him. Thank you again.
I'm confused...I'm going to assume that you meant your mom was most likely the one who molested her? How did you come to this conclusion? and if your mother is indeed the one who did it, I'm so sorry. That is an awful position to be in.
NTesla ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 22:26:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's long story over several years, but the main factor is that my mother would often play a game with my daughter called "Bad Hand". The 'bad hand' would do something bad, and then they would both giggle like crazy. I just thought they were having fun, and I never really though anything about it, until one day I wondered "What makes the bad-hand 'bad'? Then some things started falling into place. I once asked my mom, when she was old, how, living on a farm in the middle of nowhere she found out about masturbation. She told me her older sisters showed her. There's a lot more, but it would take a long time to list it all.
The clincher was when my daughter came to me and said that she didn't want to sleep with grandma anymore. I asked why, and she said that grandma always squeezes her too tight and won't let her go and always wants to play Bad-Hand.
Oh wow...I'm so sorry that your kid had to go through that. I was molested as a child. The fear from that when it comes to my child is awful. I hope she is doing ok.
NTesla ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:39:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I raised her to always question authority and never to believe anything that was simply a matter of speculation, and to always rely on her own experience. Now I'm one of those 'authorities' she ignores and we don't talk much. I'm just waiting for her to come back around again. She's fine. I could drop dead tomorrow and she would be able to take care of herself. That's all I ever really wanted to accomplish with her :)
That is something every parent strives for and if you firmly believe that she could take care of herself should something happen to you, it means that you succeeded. :) That is something to be proud of.
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[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:59:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't poo-poo NTesla's concerns here. Female sexual abusers exist and are not that uncommon.
I won't let my child spend the night with his great-grandmother any longer because of similar concerns.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:06:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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NTesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Her preference right now is to live day-to-day, with her husband and two dogs, on the road, travelling from place to place, working when she feels like it.
My niece, when she was 9, asked me about my scars. She asked me if I made them myself. When I said I had, she leaned in and confessed, "I think about cutting myself too."
Broke my heart.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:34:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
she's just pissed that she has an ipad 2 and not a 3.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe she's just curious about what's going to happen in the afterlife, and that may be why she said she wanted to die.
My reaction, powered by my minor study in psychology (not much, but more than most), is that being that she's five she doesn't really understand death and is just curious about it and what may or may not happen afterward. I doubt she has a sincere death wish and this would be a good opportunity to talk about mortality, how people in general deal with it, various cultural customs and how your family in particular addresses it.
Not the parent, this story is about me as was told to me by my mom when I was around 16.
I am the spitting image of my biological father to the point that, as a child, I saw pictures of him at roughly my age and commented that I don't remember that picture having been taken, unaware that the boy in the picture was my father and not me. My biological father died in a boating accident a few months before I was born. Anyway, apparently I was 2 or 3 years old and my mom comes into the room and finds me standing up in my crib. I say to her "Hello Maureen (my mom's fist name), you look lovely today"
angg56 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:36:31 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why did I read the last line in Sean Connery's voice?
ratleaf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:56:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same thing with my mom and I, whenever I'd look through an old photo album Id ask stuff like "I don't remember doing this, when did this happen?" or "What am I doing here?". Looked exactly like her as a kid.
Apparently I was born a troll. For the first two/three months of my life I used not to react to my mother in any way. Whenever she talked to me, I would not turn my head. When she touched me or called for my attention, I would not look. My mother thought I was both blind and deaf, and she worried a lot about my future life. She went to a nurse to get me checked, and there I suddenly acted like a well-behaved baby and everything seemed fine. Then when we got home I would simply continue my ignoring. According to her story one day I stopped being an asshole baby and started reacting normally.
I was born deaf. For the first two months after I was born, my parents would bang pots and pans together, and yet, they couldn't elicit a response from me. My grandma then said one day, "He is going to be better in about 3 days." 3 days later, they dropped a pot and I shook because I was startled and then started crying. Weird stuff...
very good chance it does, but it probably gets weaker through generations
my mom is adopted
when my dad was a teenager a "gypsy" looking woman that looks exactly like my mom (minus the gypsy) pulled up in a car, rolled down the window said
"you will marry my daughter, be good to her"
my mom had dream's about her adopted mom before she died and the staff claimed they saw her (my mom) in the room as grandma died , my mom also "knows" when something bad is afoot
don't go down X street today you wont like it, slow down it feels like a cop is nearby ect
me and my siblings can tell if our parents are asleep even if we're not home... we sneak out alot =D
My mother and I have an uncanny ability to choose the fastest line, pick up the phone before it rings, and find hidden or lost items. She always says it's because she's the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, and I've inherited it from her.
My little brother is also very fucky. He once predicted the death of a random old man from the local Chinese restaurant. He got very quiet while eating, and when prompted said the blackness was here. He pointed to the old man, and said the blackness was over him. About a week later, I recognized the man's picture in the obituaries. Creepy shit.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:16:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reading this less than a week after reading "We Need to Talk about Kevin" has convinced me that I don't want kids. Not just yours in particular, but so far it's the one that reminded me the most of the book.
sibjat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:52:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The little boy acting in that movie is way too good at it. That's what creeped me out the most
Also, my mother would often test my recognition of colors, she would show me some colored objects and ask me to tell which color it is. According to her I would always say the wrong ones, no matter how many times she told me ''THIS IS BLUE''.
She really thought I was colorblind.
Then I said ''Could you please hand me that red truck?''
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:49:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not that this applies to you, but babies that are neglected in the first months of life often won't respond to loud noises either, yet when they have their hearing tested, it is fine. Growing up in a home that fostered babies, we saw this a lot. I don't suppose you were adopted as a baby?
Ooh, creepy. That reminds me of the movie that came out last year, "We need to talk about Kevin". It is seriously creepy especially when my s.o. and I are thinking about having a kid.
kvail90 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:08:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to fake both choking and seizures (which I did have a few real ones) when i was about 1 and when my mom would run over I'd immediately stop and start pulling and playing with her hair.
My mom thought I was deaf because I never cried or anything so she would bang two frying pans together to try and get a reaction, I would look at her like WTF and the docs said I was fine also.. I guess i was also an asshole baby
le_red ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My oldest son was born a troll as well. We moved to Mexico when he was a little over a year old. He is very talkative so he learned Spanish and English equally at the same time. Shortly after he started bilingual kindergarden at age 3 (customary in Mexico), his dad and I went in for a routine conference. First we met with his English teacher who said "He's a sweet boy but you need to speak Spanish at home so he will learn. He only speaks English to me." We were stunned since we had heard our son converse with all our adult friends quite fluently, but thought, hey, maybe we need to ramp up the Spanish. Then the English teacher came in and said, "Your son is sweet and smart, but doesn't know English. It's a shame that you guys are Americans and youve taught him beautiful Spanish to the neglect of his native language." Suddenly we understood. Knowing our son to be troll-ish we knew exactly what was happening. When we got home we sat him down and sternly told him that he was to respond in the language in which he was addressed. A follow up conference with the confused teachers the next week confirmed that everything was fixed now and that our son was suddenly and mysteriously bilingual.
My dad actually TOLD me this for years. It's a running joke... pisses my mom off that he takes the credit for the nine months of discomfort and several hours of painful labor. :)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a news program talking about the signs of Autism in your baby and that was the most prominent sign they talked about: When your baby doesn't reply at all to you calling their name or talking to them.
If you haven't seen it already, you should watch We Need To Talk About Kevin. The son, Kevin, acted that way as a toddler.
caliopy ยท 241 points ยท Posted at 19:43:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In the 80's I babysat a kid who was 11 (I was 17). He was pissed because I wouldn't let him go play with his friends due to the fact he was already grounded. He went down to the basement grabbed a bunch circular saw blades and started throwing them at me like Frisbees. He cut me up pretty bad. I lost it however. I duck taped him to a chair. Called his dad. Told him what transpired and said he has 3 minutes to get home before I left. His dad was there in 2. I was shaking like crazy. The child was still screaming he was going to kill me when his dad came in the door. I never babysat for him again and told him the child needs to be in an institution before he hurts someone.
Yes, thanks for that! Reminded me of the other day when one of my violin students told me he was born in 2002. I was like, what and you're old enough to talk already? Then I realized that was 10 years ago....
curien ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:06:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother is 13 years younger than I am. When he was 11 (one month shy of 12), I was home visiting and my wife and I took him out somewhere (don't remember where). We got back home right around his bed time, but the house was empty. My wife and I were starving, so we asked him if he could get himself ready for bed while she and I got some fast food. He said sure.
Twenty minutes later, we get back with our food, and he'd called both of his parents because being home alone had made him scared.
These are the same people who made me a friggin latch-key kid. I was allowed to ride the city bus on my own from the time I was eight. When I was 12, they left me alone for four days (with the neighbors checking up on me) while they went on their honeymoon. None of that is bad -- it's how kids should be treated. And here was my brother, afraid to be home alone for twenty fucking minutes. Sheesh!
(I later found out he wasn't allowed to pick out his own clothes in the morning. Talk about total parental philosophy reversal.)
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:10:33 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. That is crazy... Maybe they didn't like how you turned out :P
Naldaen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:01:07 on November 18, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah wtf. I'm 26. When I turned 10 I was good enough to be alone for the night. 12+ and staying at home while Mom went on trips? No problems. My sister's who were older and had children would keep me fed so no problems staying home or with a friend over.
I was amazed for a few seconds, until I remembered I turned ten in 2000.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:11 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I turned 11 in 2000, kiddo.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:30 on November 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
15 in 2000. ;) how you two doing? (gross..... gross.)
caliopy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:16 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he also had epilepsy so they needed some kind of supervision. My guess is the conditions could have been related. Mind you I also have epilepsy and I can say that the drug treatment side effects could have been the cause. Or it could have been the side effects with other issues like early on-set bipolar disorder. The father was a recovering alcoholic so it could have just been anger. I'm not a doctor so I can only guess.
I quit babysitting over a couple of kids that would constantly try to molest me. One would curl up on the ground behind me, the other would push me over and they would both climb on to grope me. I warned my sister not to take the job when I quit but she didn't listen. She called me on her first day having locked herself in the bathroom begging me for help.
[deleted] ยท -16 points ยท Posted at 03:17:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh jesus. This made me laugh.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:35:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fapfapfap....skeet skeet. Ah!
NTesla ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:48:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is this for real, or some move reference I'm not getting.
caliopy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:06:04 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
actually happened
NTesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:48 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my oldest son somewhere picked up the "REDRUM" thing from the Shining when he was about 2. He had the voice down and everything. He would go up to people and scare the crap out of them. First time he did it to me, I about peed my pants.
That's fucking hilarious. He should've asked two twin girls his own age to ride around the house on bikes for when people ran out of their rooms screaming.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 21:32:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just imagine him saying that as loud as he can in his room while you are sleeping peacefully in your room at 3 AM. When you go in to investigate, he's standing in the corner smiling and laughing. You slowly back away, but he follows you. You turn to run to your room, but he's already in there without your knowledge. You lay down, pull the covers over you, and whilst they are coming down, he quickly crawls to your face and whispers it ever so softly. You throw the covers off, and he's gone. You run to his room, and he's sleeping as peacefully as you were.
Sqpon ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 23:32:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a similar story. I was at a buddy's basketball game. Needed to take a dump so I went into the bathroom. I was alone until a minute or so had passed. A kid comes in and occupies the stall beside me. All of a sudden a conversation starts up between the kid and another kid with a raspy voice. I think nothing of it until I realize that the kid and I are alone in the bathroom. So here I am with just this kid and his imaginary friend (who talks like the imaginary friend in the Shining). I figure its no big deal. Lots of kids have imaginary friends, until I listened... They were in conversation about basketball and the kid asks his friend a whispered question. The raspy voice replies with, "NO HE WILL HEAR US!" They continue their talking and the raspy voice says ,"I want to look at him", very matter of factly. Weirded out now, I go to wipe and hear a little commotion in the stall beside me, and before I finish I look down to see the little bastard trying to clamber UNDER THE STALL. Needless to say, I noped on out of there. Never saw that kid again.
Mental note: do not let child watch the Shining until 3 years old.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:02 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You considered doing that before?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:06:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty scary
0116316 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:23:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My mom taught all of us that at a young age. She has my two year old niece doing it. When my brother and I were kids she would act like she was possesed and hum this music from an old horror movie. I guess I should add that she would have a fucking butcher knife in her hand and slowly walk around the house looking for us and talking in this creepy ass voice. We would scream for her to stop it and she would say "mommy's not here". My mom was/is a crazy lady but I love her. I got so many stories I could tell.
Aiyon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:38:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I went back. My friend bought me a resurrection scroll... a friend I hadn't spoken to in over a year and a half. We've added each other on Skype so we chat a lot more now, but WoW has changed too much for me to go on it.
Does he speak spanish or would he ever have heard what nino means? If not that is seriously sounding like some past lives shit. This whole topic keeps reminding me of the Mulder Reincarnation episode.
I was the kid, my mom told me this story once I was older.
My great grandfather died, and because I was so young no one told me.
My mom took me to his grave a few weeks after it happened, and let me play amongst the gravestones while she lay flowers.
As we were leaving, I stopped and asked "why is great grandpa sitting in the tree?" I then pointed to what appeared to my mom as an empty tree, and waved.
The tree was planted so the branches hung right above where he was buried.
TL; DR: Pointed out my great grandfather to my mother without knowing he had died.
There's kids with memories of a previous life, kids with memories of a previous life with matching fears, kids with memories of a previous life with matching deformities and kids with memories of a previous life with matching deformities that can all be seen to match a dead person. (seemingly often a relative)
All in all, I consider myself an atheist, but I can NOT help to think that there is not at least a major chance the human consciousness extends beyond just flesh and neurons. Kids see deceased people, talk to deceased people, see other "spiritual things" and then there's myself and one of my best friends.
He has, a creepy lot of times in his life, dreamed bits of the future: just ordinary things that come true exactly as he saw. While this seems like obvious bullshit, I personally do not doubt him, because see, during the first few years he and I knew each other he just sometimes went all "oh what the fuck I remember this". I never gave it much thought, because everyone has deja vus. But then, I had a future flash when I was awake. It was just an ordinary everyday thing like all he's seen, but it felt like 100% solid fact: and for that reason, I tried to make conscious choices to affect whatever flow of events might lead down to it. My efforts were however quickly found, by myself, futile: everything happened exactly as I had seen. This is when I opened up to him, and he opened up to me. "I remember this" became "I've seen this".
That, and me and my big brother live 400 kilometers (that's around 250 miles) apart. We don't catch up that often, but whenever we do, we seem to have the same exact ideas and like the same exact things.
TL;DR: "Well that's meant to be, just, like, your opinion, man"
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 23:14:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
See, that's another kind of precognition. Actually, I even have a name for it, and I call it short term precognition. You see a few seconds into the instant future. While I have a plenty of ESP stories, I sadly cannot say I have any personal experiences with short term precog.
I personally categorize precognition to 3 main types. There's short term, flash and dream.
My friend has dream precognition. He has dreams which are clearer than the rest: when the things he's dreamed of happen, he has already seen them and has a memory of them. Sometimes these dream memories are merely triggered by the events starting, but like in short term precog, he instantly remembers the whole event before it fully unfolds and recognizes it a dream memory. It's like you don't remember some dreams until something related triggers the memory, like dreaming about a beach and seeing sand somewhere.
My only personal experience is flash precognition. Just doing my usual morning business, my mind was flooded - and I mean to say it was like a jolt of what the fuck: I usually have no problem multitasking with ideas, but this shit completely clogged my entire mind for second - with a single solid "fact" and 3 related images of the event unfolding (I have a mind 100% built around the use of images). This left me with a solid feeling of knowing exactly what will happen, and a clear memory (or, well, a premory) of the event. But because this was absurd to me, I indeed tried to change the course of events to make it not happen: however, each time something intervened, leading to things happening exactly as I had seen.
Bottom line is, with flash precognition you get a "premory" in the wake state, with dream precognition in the dream state and with short term precog just as the events begin to unfold.
I wanted to say something different than what I knew was supposed to say, but the words just kind of came out of me uncontrollably. So weird.
It feels weird and I know the feeling: but the other bottom line I and my friend have gathered from our experiences is that determinism is real: The future can NOT, under any circumstances, change.
So sorry I'm rambling so hard!
iEATu23 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:25:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
The same types of things that happened to botzee and roastedbeef happened to me. I only remember, because this happened sort of recently (a few months ago), at the end of my swim practice in the same spot, the same exact conversation and movements of every one occured as I remember from a year or two ago. We were doing some sprints, and I was the first to start off, and some how the conversation went exactly the same. EVEN when I started freaking out because it was such a serious deja vue, and the same friend responded to me the same way when I started to freak out. I insisted that I was having a deja vue and my coach and friends reacted exactly how I remembered. They just told me to calm down and my coach was telling me to shut up so he could explain what we were going to do.
I remember this so well because I was positive it had happened before and the first time it happened, I also had a deja vue of it happening before. But the first time I think it was more of me knowing this would happen, not that it happened before.
I havent been swimming long enough on this team for it to have happen more than 2 times so far, so at least that makes sense.
I'd brush that off as either heavy ass deja vu (despite of even my self created terminologies, I remain a skeptic), short term precog or a mix of the two!
iEATu23 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:39:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just hope it happens again because this time I wrote it down. At least...it's on reddit.
I get the dream precog sometimes and once was able to change what happened so that the actual event unfolding didn't match my 'memory'.
Actually, thinking back I experienced the 'flash' type once in the past. I personally enjoy the experiences, although they are very rare. I didn't know it was a common thing. Do you know if it's possible to train the ability so it happens more frequently?
I have had one dream precognition in which I was lying on some table on my stomach, starting at a broken cymbal hanging on a brick wall. In my dream I was overcome with a sense of dread and hysteria and started screaming uncontrollable. A few years later I was lying on a table in a tattoo parlor, staring at that exact same broken cymbal on the brick wall, literally using my fingers to squeeze my mouth shut so I couldn't scream - I wasn't in any danger, just the same sense of dread and urge to scream. Fucking bizarre.
I've had these flash ones, where they unfold and trigger a kind og vague memory of "This had happened before, and I remember that at some point I've had a memory of it and this will happen next" and its always been uncontrollable, like I can kind of see what will happen next vaguely and then try to change it but the feeling of "This had happened before" is too vague to pull on anything in particular I can change because I'm literally remembering what will happen second or two before it does. Its much stronger than the dejavu I get all the time...
I get something like this, like all of a sudden i'll think of something, or will somehow end up in a conversation about a person or a thing, and then it'll happen or i'll see this person.
Kind of like when someone thinks about a person, and then that person rings them soon after.
Like okay, this is just one example out of a lot. Its been happening as long as I can remember in my 20 years.
I got into a really random conversation with my cousin about who all of our godparents were (I have a big family), and I had to think for a second who mine was. Then I remembered it was my dads friend Robert. Robert, who I haven't seen in at least 10 years.
And then a few days later, he came into the small grocery store I work in. Very unnecessarily, as it meant he traveled half an hour out of his town, instead of going to one of the 4 large chain shopping centres 5 minutes from his home.
But the thing is, I often wonder whether I'm just predicting things, or in a weird way i'm kind of controlling them.
ireneh ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:53:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This same kind of thing used to happen to me but doesn't very much anymore. Sometimes it would be in conversation, I would know exactly what I was going to say next to what my friend/teacher/whoever said next, and I actively tried to change what I was going to say sometimes, but I never could. Sometimes it would cause me to stutter, but I always had to say what I was "supposed" to say. I still think it may be my mind playing tricks on me, maybe I'm subconsciously evaluating facial expressions to get a clue to what other people are about to say (like when people study facial expressions and know that someone is lying, or sad, or thinking about dogs, or whatever..) Other times I would just know that something was going to happen, like "You should slow down, there's cops around that turn," on a stretch of road that I had never seen before and there were no indications that cops would even be around there (btw, my bf didn't listen and we got chased by the cops that I knew were there). Other times I would dream about something that would happen exactly (at least for a few seconds) as I had dreamed later on, but I think that may just count as regular old deja vu head tricks.
Just noticed your edit of asking me what my future flash was.
Well, it was nothing big like an accident. But in the school I was at the time, we had this system where it was always 2 people in the school cafetaria keeping order during lunch break: you know, like making sure dumbfucks dont fuck shit up and stuff. This worked in 7 week shifts. I don't know what the best term for it would be, perhaps janitorial duties. In any case, mine was simply that I got janitorial studies.
My mind tends to differ from the average one in functioning, but basically, I got the "raw data" fact that I had janitorial duties and 3 images of me doing them (memories, except since it had not yet taken place, "premories").
I used to have those all of the time and still do occasionally. Once I 'remembered' a big fight with my wife before it happened once. In my memory she got really mad, screamed at me and left the apartment, and during the recollection I had a sick feeling that it ended our marriage. Because of that memory I was very careful with my words during the fight and even though it wasn't a great night she didn't walk out. To this day I'm convinced that if I hadn't had that memory I would be divorced now.
sikada ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:36:00 on July 20, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are not alone, I have experienced this exact phenomenon countless times throughout my life. They happen to me in what I can only describe as "waking blackouts." They come on without warning and I come out of them very disoriented to the point that I don't know how much time has transpired, or how the experience initiated. They are usually so disconcerting as I always seem to have tunnel vision during the vision, with much of the scene obscured, and main points of focus illuminated: when the event comes to pass, I find that I seem to be looking at the things which were emphasized in the vision. I once even told my girlfriend about a specific vision in order to validate this whole thing for personal purposes and when it came to pass I contacted her immediately to verify that I indeed described this situation to her.
Now that's interesting. See, this is the first time I hear anyone else describe the whole disorientation part of things where your mind just kind of overflows and your entire focus is on the weird future flash, because that's what I got too. I had no tunnel of vision going on, but I think that might have something to do with how my memory functions. I could go on about that for ages, but the key point here is the fact that all of my memories are from the 3rd person's (unexistant) point of view, and so was my vision.
Honestly, I really wish I had the funds to do actual, proper scientific research on this shit. As in gather, for starters, 100 people who have repeating, matching future visions and 100 people who claim they have never experienced ANY kind of ESP or "supernatural" encounters, interview them and take very detailed brain scans of each and every last of them. There might very well be some neurological clues involved.
Well, deformations happen even without freaky shit. Every ligament in my left arm is loose starting at the spatula and excluding the wrist and yet I doubt I had a previous life where I died after hanging off a cliff for a bit. :P
My fingers and toes are the only thing deformed on my left hand and foot. Nothing else is wrong with my body. I mean, I have a slight deformation on my right leg at the ankle but it just looks like I was some stupid kid who left a rubber band around my ankle for too long.
Apparently I got into a fist fight with the amniotic sac and then tried kicking my way out of it, because I've always been told my deformation was from amniotic band disruption.
I'm not trying to say that it isn't real at all, but there are enough people born in the world that there are going to be coincidental matching body deformities, you know?
Some deformities do not make sense at all, that is the point.
Certainly, coincidences happen and I myself am still always skeptical, but Occam's razor and all, I admit there might be something more to consciousness than neurons and flesh. Concerning the body deformities, there is this institute type of a thing with around 2500 gathered cases of children with memories of earlier lives and deformities if I recall right: sadly, I cannot remember the name, but it was on a documentary I once saw. There was, among others, a girl I think it was who had this 100% straight line around her head on which no hair grew: scientifically, that doesn't really make any sense.
In other words, one's got to stay skeptical, but there is definitely some freaky shit going on, supernatural or not.
will311 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:01:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Could be some other phenomena that we haven't discovered yet as well.
natepip ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to believe.
exilius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or are more perceptive than adults normally think them, and mixed with a vivid imagination they see the people the are hearing about, in a place where they know they have been (great grandpa at his grave site).
There's a theory that since children haven't been exposed to the whole, ghosts aren't real thing, they can see more than adults and see the what's on the other side that most don't normally see. As they grow older and are constantly told ghosts aren't real and it's all their imaginations, they start to lose that sense and start becoming ignorant of that side. Some however don't lose that ability.
i believe kids carry their past lives with them and take the lessons they've learned, that's why some people just know sometimes, my mom said I had pyshic powers.
This is probably the least creepy for me. Well, depends on teh expression on his face while he's in the tree. If he was sad or smiling, it's heartwarming. If it's pretty much anything else, that's frightening.
xHeiKe ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:19:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's almost cute.
Remikov ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:46:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me too. My great grandfather died, and I was visiting my great grandmother with my mom. I was not aware that he was dead. They noticed I was staring into another room, smiling.
My mother asked what I was looking at.
I responded:
"Great grandpa, he's smiling at me!"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:31:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My husband's grandfather just passed away. The evening he passed, our three-year-old daughter got out of bed in the middle of the night, came into our family room and climbed up into my husband's lap, and (in a serious voice) informed him, "I love my Abba (her pet name for her great grandfather) so much. He is my best friend." It had been almost two weeks since she'd seen him, and we hadn't been talking about him in front of our kids. She loved that man so much; she has a fantastic memory, so I really hope she retains some of the good memories she shared with him.
dodelol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you probably saw your mother lay the flowers, so it's not just a random grave.
and you probably heard someone talk about the dead grandpa.
I had similar experiences as a kid, my great-grand father died a few months before i was born. As i grew up going to my grandmas house, i would sleep in the big foyer room that had hid-a-beds in it. I would often wake up in the middle of the night feeling i was being watched, never scared, yet knew i was being watched. As i got older still i would some times have sleeps overs, they never lasted through the night as most of my friends would wake up to the same feeling of being watched only they were scared, I had been told about grandpa by then and I would just laugh at them and say "Its just my grandpa but it seems he doesnt like you"
My younger sister did something similar. My mom's grandfather (Poppop) died when I was around 3 or so, and she was around 1. She didn't really know he died and never really knew him or even knew of him. She didn't know he was called Poppop and did. One afternoon, we were at my mom's parents' house, and she was crawling through the dining room. She came out of it into the kitchen and told my mom "No Poppops in the dining room, no Poppops in the dining room".
When I was about 4, I thought I was the best musician ever. My grandmother had this really old, out of tune piano at her house.
One day my family and I were there for a visit, and I sat myself down at the old piano and started "playing." To my ears, it was the most beautiful, heart-wrenching and moving piece ever to grace human ears. To everyone else it must have sounded like an ogre playing an organ.
My older sister walked over to me and asked what song I was playing. I stopped, and without looking up replied,"It's called 'Pretty Lady Go Away and Die."
I started playing again, and she slowly walked away.
I would be laughing really hard at this if I wasn't so terrified by the other things I've read in this post.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"pretty lady, go away and die"
"pretty lady, you make me want to cry"
"pretty lady...
I can't believe it, that you're still here, when you die, you won't be near"
"no mercy"
"pretty lady... Won't you die"
"pretty lady can't you see..."
"pretty lady you're just no good for meeeeeee"
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:46:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandma also had a piano and I used to bang on it thinking I was Mozart.
Sometimes she'd be lying in the bed next to it at night, and would ask me to "play her something nice" so she could go to sleep. I'd just press random keys in a soft manner thinking I was some sort of angel strumming a harp. She pretended to like it, but we all know it was shit.
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 19:47:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:13:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny growing up in a house of piano players. It didn't matter what was going on, you never would interrupt the person playing. It's also weird how much you can drown it out after awhile and continue to watch TV, while your friends can't hear a thing. I could tell who was playing from the first 3 notes and being floor up, whether it was my brother, sister, or dad.
Oh wow. Reminds me of a really weird recurring dream I used to have about basically the same thing, back when I was... I don't remember. Five or six? It was before my ma re-married, at any rate.
kepners ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:29:29 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter (2 y.o. when this happened) once woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me she was afraid because of the thing under her bed that tickles her.
Later, she told me she was worried about the glove that hangs down from her ceiling and tells jokes.
Think thats bad, i often had a dream that lead me to my living room and trying to coax something out from under the lounge, a glove would shoot out grab my leg and try to pull me back under, id always wake up, in the living room, legs towards the couch, in the same spot i was in when the dream ended.... Sometimes my legs were under the couch
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:47 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NOPE. I'm outta here.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:36 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why? The glove just needs to learn some good jokes.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:51:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry but a glove hanging down from the ceiling jokes would be awfully handy. Eh? Eh? Wooo..
We're just hoping she was inspired by a Hamburger Helper commercial, for what it's worth. She's never mentioned it again -- which in itself is odd since she's such a broken record about everything else in her life.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mine was most likely inspired by the same thing because as I think back they're very similar! Let's hope... otherwise... The Gloving...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:30:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Always fucking knew there was no reason to trust the hamburger helper glove!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother had a fear of gloves as a child (3-5 year old range); he said that he didn't want them to choke him. Now, this could have been due to his latex allergies. Super Smash Bros Melee wasn't released at the time, so it wasn't MasterHand, so that makes it very creepy.
Master hand was in the 64 smash brothers game, though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I should have added context to this. Our first system was a GameCube, AND WE GODDAMNED ENJOYED IT! I actually played the original Smash Bros after Melee. It was a sobering experience.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These 2 are more and more common with kids since they started using laughter instead of fear to generate electricity.
bilbo58 ยท 165 points ยท Posted at 20:17:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my child, but my nephew had the scariest conversation with his mum which went like this:
Nephew: "Mummy, when will I be reborn?"
His mum: "What, out of mummy's tummy?"
Nephew: "No. Out of the darkness"
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 21:45:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, maybe that child knows something about reincarnation we don't know.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:06:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Along the same vein, was playing N64 back in the day with a somewhat distant cousin of mine who was being raised by her single mom in a not so nice part of town. I was about 20 at the time.
Anyway, she wins whatever Mario Party game we're playing and then throws down the controller, jumps up, points at her crotch and shouts out, "SUCK MY PUSSY, BITCH!"
Oh my word alpharedditor! I've commented on your posts for the last week and now my image of you has finally changed from a 20something student in his dorm room blowing of home work to go on reddit to a middle aged guy blowing off something else to be on reddit.
My mother told me this story about my brother when he was a baby. She was putting him to bed in his crib, and went to shut out the light and he started to cry, more than usual, she told him to lay down and go to sleep. Proceed to the living room where they had several friends over for games, and he got to screaming this blood curdling terrified scream. She ran down the hall and into his room to see what was going on. He pointed to his rocking horse over in the corner, it was going back and forth all by its self. Freaked her out! she said there was no way he could have got out and did that, no toys were on the floor by it either. And when we mention this story to him... he gets quiet, because he has a vague memory of it.
good point. he was less than 2, I believe, but I remember asking if it was by a window and if it had been opened. she said no, and the air hadnt been on either. and she said anyway it had never done that before or after.
[deleted] ยท 518 points ยท Posted at 20:04:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 21:14:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, her support for minimum wage and reasonable hours will hold her back
Actually, I think you misunderstand slavery. She has explained it rather well. Slavery is not wrong because some masters beat their slaves - it is wrong because it denied self-ownership.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm fully aware of why slavery is wrong. I'm not quite sure what I said that made you think I'm not though. But to clarify, she thought that slavery just meant having people work for you. I was about to explain to her exactly what you said when she said the rest of that and I realized she had no idea that slavery meant actually owning other people. Once I told her that she realized immediately why it was wrong.
So you told her that's why taxation and regulation &c. is wrong, because it denies the principle of self-ownership?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:57:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll get to that when she's old enough to help me dump our toxic waste into other people's drinking water and doesn't understand why we have to do it at night in ski masks.
Are you trolling, or actually too stupid to see how that violates property rights?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:41 on July 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was making a joke based on intentionally misinterpreting your mention of regulations to mean all of them, even though I'm sure you specifically meant financial ones only. I suppose you could call it trolling, but I find it hilarious that would even care given your user name.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not really all that interested in a debate about how you think taxation and financial regulation are like slavery. I guess if you really want to talk about it though, go for it. But you have to write more than one sentence per post. If you take the time to lay out your entire argument I'll read it and respond.
Fair warning though, I read Ayn Rand too. I used to use variations on John Galt as a user name on various websites. Over time though I've come to disagree with large parts of Objectivism and Libertarianism, and I believe that quixotic adherence to them would lead to a horrible society that I don't want any part of. You aren't going to say anything that I haven't already spent a great deal of time not only thinking about, but at some point probably arguing from your standpoint.
Sadly revisionist historians are trying to rewrite text books to summarize slavery's shaping of America very close to your daughters interpretation in public schools throughout America
My son was 3 when I was tucking him into bed one night and he said, "Mommy what's that big thing?" I replied, "What thing, baby?" THEN HE SAID "That big thing right behind you"
I knew there was nothing right behind me but a wall, I just did the scumbag mom thing and backed out of the room and shut the door. He wasn't scared of 'that big thing' but I sure as hell was... creepy kids!
F-rn ยท 443 points ยท Posted at 19:24:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:35:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh shit.
cynope ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 21:00:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. This thread is full of anxious parents more than creepy kids.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's mostly just due to parents allowing their kids to watch TV too much/at a young age. Children vocalize everything, so even things they're just imagining can end up coming out as "creepy", whereas they're just make believe.
cynope ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like how you missed the part, where I said that the kids aren't that creepy and that it's the parents who are simply anxious.
I think the parents are watching to much TV.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was attempting to contribute to your point, not discredit it.
cynope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hm, yeah I can see that now, sorry.
I still think the TV issues are with the parents though :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:28 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think the parents read too many stories about creepy kids.
That is actually a really good explanation. Some of these stories are weird and kids are weird and imaginative so you don't get much explanation, but a shadow? That makes sense.
When I was 4, my mom and I were driving my aunt home 2 hours south of where we lived. We were in a hilly area and it was around 8 or 9 at night during the winter (which means here in Ohio, it's pretty much pitch black outside). I looked out the window, pointed up to a hill and said "Mommy! Mommy! I used to live up there a long, long time ago."
We stayed at my aunt's house that night and on the way back the next morning, I said the same thing around the same hill. My mom decided to look up there and see where I said I used to live.
On the top of the hill, there's a little cemetary.
I never believed her until 2 years ago on my way home from my aunt's house, I looked up on that hill and I saw it. I nearly shat my pants.
[deleted] ยท 152 points ยท Posted at 20:19:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I get out of the shower to discover a wild childling on her potty adjacent to the toilet.
I step out of the shower.
"Is that poop?"
"No, that's daddy's parts, honey. They're different from female parts like you and mommy and your sister have."
When I was little my dad was in the bath and I was in the bathroom with him. He has this cluster of moles on his forearm and I was like "Daddy you have poop on your arm" my dad was like "....."
Sounds like your son has been hanging out with some stoners.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:43:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so many stories like this have the parents seem to ignore this stuff - does no-one ever grill the kid on what they're talking about? you know "can you draw me a picture of the man?", "is he here now?", "does he want a canope?"
It's kind of hard to "grill" a 2 year old. His dad & I tried to get more info from him but didn't get much. Also, I didn't want to put too much focus on it & freak my son out. He didn't seem at all disturbed by it.
My brother and I used to share a room. I was on the top bunk, his was the bottom. One night, about 2 or 3 in the morning, he says, "Who's that?" Then, started screaming bloody murder. Wanted to call the cops, whole nine yards. He was about 7 at the time I was 9/10. According to him, a man was standing over my mother in her bed, holding something over her face. When he asked who it was, the "man" turned to look at him with a demon mask on and red glowing eyes.
My brother is 30, and to this day if you mention it he can't sleep at night. Even freakier, is years later, my mother told me that that night, she felt like something was suffocating her, but every time she tried to get up, something would shove her back down. She made me swear to never tell my brother.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
not to be a dick, but reading the comments (of which there are many, many variations of this sort of story) I'm wondering if night terrors + your mom, after hearing the story, came to believe it and justified it.
My mom's not the type to fear things that "go bump in the night." It could have just been some crazy coincidence that she was having sleep paralysis while he had a nightmare. I don't know. I do know it freaks my mom out though, and she's the most practical person I know. Not one for UFOs, ghosts, or monsters.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:53:20 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He just saw your mom and dad during some role playing.
Is there any electronics in his room? When I was little I remember hating my grandfather's room because when it was dark all you could see was bright red clock numbers from the hallway and I had a strong feeling they were dragon eyes. I was very specific about the dragon part.
When my brother was younger he would talk to himself in his crib (according to my mother) and ask questions out loud. My mom once asked
"Who are you talking to"
My brother said "He's in the closet"
My mom, having had people try and break in before, opens the closet and its empty. she turns to my brother, smiling and says "There is no one in there silly."
He just grinned and said "He's under the bed now."
"Who?"
"The scary rabbit with the red eyes and pointy teeth"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:41 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should probably tell Dracula to get his retired ass back to the castle; Renfield is throwing a kegger and hitting on the Bride of Frankenstien, and the Monster is getting pissed.
BigSiti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:17 on November 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
strange, I was going to post the same thing. Just last week my 2 year old son was talking about "an old man with red eyes that hides behind his clothes in the closet"
When I was a toddler, my maternal grandparents lived a few blocks away in an older 2-story house with an unfinished basement and a walkable storage attic.
I was scared shitless of the basement and typically wouldn't go down without an adult. The furnace and the central vac were down there and the noises they made scared me. The attic on the other hand was my playground. All the old toys and abandoned family stuff was up there.
My whole family; parents, grandparents, aunts and uncle, all talk about the multiple times that I would ask to go upstairs to play with grandpa George, or come down saying I had been playing with him.
Thing is, there's no-one in my family that I've known named George...
When she was young, my little sister would wake up and tell us everything that she and her 'black grandma Chalita' did that night. "My black grandma taught me how to dance." "This is the song my black grandma Chalita taught me." The songs always had a melody but were non-English (not random words, they were in order when repeated and had a pattern. I still know one of the songs to this day. Phonetically: 'Hay hay what-ahn-nay, key-oh-key-ah, key-oh-key-ah'.) Most nights she would tell us that Chalita had taken my sister to her yellow house on the lake. We lived in a yellow house on a lake.
I think it goes without saying at this point, but we are white.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:35:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew sometimes talks about someone named Charlie. There isn't a Charlie in the family. It kinda creeps me out.
Imaginary friend for sure, I had two imaginary brothers at that age. I used to tell my Dad stories about them all the time, similar to yourself, about playing with toys together and what-not.
when i was 3 i had an imaginary friend named facey. whenever i drew her, she never had a face. when my mom asked why she didn't have any facial features (eyes, mouth, ect.) i said "she isn't living anymore so she isn't allowed to have a face"
Don't you find it somehow poetic that rachrocket as a kid thought that dead people aren't allowed to have faces?
You can speculate about this a lot. It would be a very good subject for a book or a movie. It has a lot of possible meanings and is even more fascinating that came into the thoughts of a child.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:36 on July 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My two year old said there is a fairy in his room. He points to the corner with the aircon. He says it most nights. One day I was showing him some old family photos. I show him one of my mother and he points to it and says 'fairy fairy bedroom'. The photo was of my mum as a girl. She died 4 years ago.
My mom tells me that when I was a really small child we would visit my grandfather's house and often spend the night. She says that once, in the middle of the night, she woke up and I wasn't in the bed (young enough to co-bed). She got up and I was standing in the living room with my hand in the air like I was holding someone's hand and I said something along the lines of "not being able to go with you because my mom didn't say i could." We didn't spend the night at my grandfather's house again for another decade.
My grandparents had a bedroom that everyone thought was haunted (some suspected the bed itself). Over the years, many people claimed to hear voices in the room and see people in there or about the house. I never really bought it.
Well, my parents moved just before the school year was over, so I stayed with them until I finished that grade. I slept in that room every night for about a month and without fail every dog in the house would sleep on the bed with me. This was about a dozen medium to large size dogs and they would completely surround me from the time I laid down right up until I woke up and got out of bed.
My grandma (and others) claimed that they were protecting me.
Grandma ran a privately funded canine flotsam and jetsam refuge. Didn't matter how mean the dog was, she was meaner. She lorded over her pack of beaten and broken down alphas, each one screaming "I coulda been a contender" with a sullen thousand-yard stare in their eyes.
Dogs do that, nothing supernatural about it. My dog would always lay by the sleeping kids to guard them. He didn't like it if anyone approached a sleeping kid, myself included.
That was my take as well. I was very accustomed to my own dog sleeping with me at night. It was a little weird with all of them up there and being told they never left the bed. (I was sleeping, how would I know?) I just assumed that it was a treat for them since they generally weren't allowed on furniture. Also, it was very hard to move.
Having occasionally allowed my two boxer dogs to share the bed with me, my first thought when I read your story was how fucking awkward that would be whenever you wanted to move or needed to go to the loo. Dogs also have this magical way of being dead asleep but filling your space like a puddle the second you move.
anlupe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:05:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would point back to mutual domestication and say that I nurse my dogs out of a bad dream without waking them. It's not so hard for me to believe that dogs may be capable of the same. In the real world, dogs keep what's scary away from us and we keep away what's scary to them.
wishbee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:07:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:') I love dogs.
Neoaris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
See, in situations like this I try to pet my dog, she bites me, and my reaction is "you are a DAMN good dog".
phx-au ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dog (small papillon) will always sleep on a guest thats crashed on my couch, and growl at anyone who goes near. If I order him off he will defer to me, but with his most butthurt face.
Honestly doesnt suprise me with some of the crazy shit my dogs have done. My pup now has lived through 4 other dogs, each one we took to euthanize (due to all the goddamned diseases and shit :(()
After one particular sad night, our dog of 13 years ate a poisoned mouse and had to be taken. the next day, without fail, my dog would stand by where her bowl would go and whine. We put food down once, thinking he wanted to eat there. He walked away and it sat there for a full day, and he didnt eat.
docblue ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 22:19:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
reminds me of the guys who buy their buddies who died in combat a drink at the bar and let it sit there.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:21:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of animals are familiar with and understand death; even performing rituals or exacting revenge. Elephants, higher primates, ravens, et. al. I would automatically put dogs on that list, but I think I'm a bit clouded by anecdotal evidence.
I am terrified of how sad it's going to be when one of my dogs goes. They are sisters and have never been apart. If one ever has to be at the vets for the night after an op or something (from then being spayed when they were quite young, to recent ops to have lumps removed) they will mope about. One of them just mopes quietly and stays near us, watching the front door sometimes. The other one is really intense and stares at the door and if she's left in the house by herself at all she howls. It's going to be heartbreaking to deal with when one of them has died.
The consecrated 'slice' of bologna is between my legs, baby!
d_a_go ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:29:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my dad grew up in mexico
my grandparents lived next to an old dried up river bed filled with rocks. its a small mountain village with less than 200 people, and the river is often used as a shortcut to get to the local soccer field. he said one time when he was about 10 or 11 he was walking home from a dance there around midnight, where most of the villagers were partying, anyway my grandparents had made him take take a couple of their dogs with him for saftey and that at one point he thought he heard a child crying behind him and that the dogs started growling and what not. but when he turned and looked around with the flashlight nothing was there and his dogs got quite. he kept walking and was pretty close to his house when he heard it again this time he said the dogs started going crazy and that when he turned around he saw 2 green eye like dots a few feet off the ground. apparently the dogs saw them too cause next thing he knew they were all at a dead sprint home.
Big predatory cats like mountain lions and bobcats are known to produce sounds that resemble the cries of babies or women in distress, usually during an attack or some kind of territorial dispute with a rival. I've heard a bobcat before -- that shit'll make you want to jump out of your own skin. So terrifying.
So, that being said, they were probably on the turf of a big cat who was following them and scoping them out from the vantage point of a rock or a tree or something.
I've lived in a wooded suburban area in SC for my whole life that you'd think would be pretty wildlife-free, but there have been everything from coyotes to bears nearby. If your grandfather was even close to a rural or uninhabited (by humans, that is) area, it's very likely that a big cat could have wandered close to civilization.
Edit: I've never seen coyotes or bears myself, but I have definitely heard coyotes at least 5 times over the years (all 22 of them) from my back porch.
Also, I think big cats are the same as bears in that when young males reach adolescence, the mother kicks their ass out of her neck o' the woods, leaving them to wander somewhat haphazardly until they find a safe place to call their own and mature. An adult cat would be more adept at staying away from humans and finding his own food while a younger one would be less wily, less able to get food, and prone to end up uncomfortably close to people.
Coyotes do this, too. When one finds food, it screams and every time I think a neighbor's kid wandered off and got attacked. Then I hear the noise again, accompanied by high pitched shriek-barks.
Scares the shit out of you when it's the middle of the night and you're walking down the street. Tends to incite a panicked Insta-Run.
Lawd, coyotes are terrifying. I've heard them a few times over the years, too. Instant Fight or Flight FLIGHTFLIGHTFLIGHT.
Edit: Which reminds me, I think I may have stumbled across one (or some kind of large predator) out in the boondocks with my dog a few nights ago. My friend lives on a big patch of land in one of those sort of suburban/rural types of towns. I took my dog out into the field, which is surrounded by forest, and about fifteen minutes into the walk, she stops and does the sudden WTFISTHAT look into the trees (which were about twenty yards away to the left; open field on the right). She didn't make a sound, just stopped, sat down in front of me facing that direction, and looked back over her shoulder with this "So, um, can we leave, now?" look. No growl, no sound, just that sudden attentiveness and visible fear. This is really strange for her, considering she's usually bounding up ahead and frolicking and investigating critters. As soon as I turned to go back to the house, she immediately jogged a few paces ahead, but wouldn't go any farther than a few feet ahead of me, always looking back to make sure I was coming. I kept her pace, figuring that sprinting suddenly was a bad idea. Still have no idea what it could have been, but I trusted her judgment, because she's kind of a badass and all I had was a flashlight.
Ruvaak ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 20:56:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty creepy. It seems most pets have some kind of crazy ability to detect stuff like that.
It's important, because he's on a thread that's discussing quite a bit on something that he doesn't believe in. If he announces it, then the many can pacify the few, and he can keep reading a thread that's bothering him.
Ruvaak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:04:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not going to dispute their existence or lack thereof, but obviously something was up if every single dog was in there like that.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:31:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's adorably creepy.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:24:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a social contract that I make with all of my dogs. I put a backpack on them and take them out into the woods and we camp and have fun. The deal is, if I break my leg or get Donnered in then I'm eating you. If I slip in the bathtub and die and it takes awhile for people to figure it out, then you get to eat me.
As far as I'm concerned, I am and have always been a Scoobie Snack.
rttr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dogs can sense and score away ghosts. That is a belief of many people
I feel the same way about the Power Pellets in Pac-Man.
Seriously though, while I don't believe in the supernatural I also don't go around fucking with creepy shit. One thing I've learned in all my years of dog ownership -- if you're dog is freaked out, you probably should be too.
I know the history of dogs warding off evil spirits and it goes back very far. I've seen my dogs freak the fuck out at a corner in a room when there is nothing there. I wondered if they were seeing or sensing something and I just found myself in the middle of a paranormal movie. I've also wondered if my dog was retarded or had ear mites or could hear a squirrel in the attic or something.
They do sense emotion and intent in people. They know when something is stirring out in the woods. There is a reason we domesticated them. If you have a well-trained (working) dog and it loses it's shit, you need to react. Something is up.
I thought for sure my grandparents house was haunted, I still kind of do. They live in Springville, Utah on the bench of the mountain and they've lived there since before I was born. Same house, for over 20 years. After my dad went to basic (after marrying my mother) they moved up there with my father's dog "Auggie" he was a white dog with pointy ears and really friendly.
We moved to Utah when I was about three and about eight or so years had passed since my dad's dog had died. We lived with them until I was four and my mom wouldn't let us go down stairs because we always complained about the dog licking us (she thought we were talking about their beagle, Mitch) until one day she was showing us photos of my dad and my sister and I laughed and said "Its the licky dog"
We would go back every summer after we moved to Salt Lake and one summer just after Mitch had died my sister and I were sleeping on the couch (because we kept hearing howling in the guest room) and my sister suddenly started to get scared of the windows (the living room was a sunroom before my grandparents renovated it so the room was essentially all windows, one set that looked towards the mountains, another to the neighbours, and one to the valley)
so I went and shut the blinds, feeling this tingling on my neck. So the room was much darker without the aide of the moon and stars so my sister grabbed a flash light. At this point my grandparents had just gotten a new dog and she was on the couch with us. My sister is searching the room and she sweeps across the kennel that the new dog sleeps in and where Mitch used to lay and the light illuminated a set of eyes.
We ran back to the guest room because hearing coyotes was far better than seeing ghost dogs. To this day My grandparents new (well I guess she's old now) dog will not sleep in that spot...she instead sleeps on a bookshelf on the other side of the room facing the valley.
steigen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:23 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that bed just smelled like turkey.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:35 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably a pressure difference in that room or something like that. Also, dogs fucking LOVE warm beds.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They were keeping you warm so they could eat you if you died in your sleep.
I don't know whether to be terrified of potential ghosts or saddened by the fact that your mother's child-like ghost might have stood in a corner for several years before your son learned how to communicate its existence.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:30:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Would it be "it," or "her?" I'm having ghost pronoun trouble.
That's crazy!! When my daughter was 2 and really starting to talk, she would talk about the man in the black hat outside of her window. She said she talked to him all the time and sometimes he was in her room. No one else ever in the house but me, my daughter and husband. Scared the crap our if me!
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 20:15:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 2-3, i would always see imaginary people, especially a man that looked like my dad making a crazy/insane/scary face that i can't describe right now. i would see him walking by my window and yelling at me, walking down to the road, turning around, seeing me, and yelling. very scary for a little girl. i always swear these were hallucinations, but ALTHOUGH i truly believe i hallucinated it, sometimes i think that it was really my drunk dad screaming at me for no reason, and perhaps i just warped the memory.
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 21:11:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 23:31:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess you don't want to hear about the ghost snakes that live in the toilet and can smell you pooping, so that the longer you take, the more likely they are to find you?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:46:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:50 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
phantom poo is waving
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I sat backwards on the toilet ages 4-7 because I KNOW THIS TO BE THE TRUTH.
If it was your dad trolling you, that would be hilarious and kinda a bit sad!! Anyway, I think that children often speak the truth of what they see and as they grow that part of them where they have no inhibitions starts to die away and once they realize that it's weird to claim to see things that aren't there, they start to rationalize and explain away things that may have been real. I say this because I saw some crazy, and I mean crazy things as a kid that I always chalked up to wild imagination or dreams. But once I started experiencing hauntings as and adult (also separately witnessed by several people of sound mind) I began to question whether maybe some of those memories were real. At one point, I was telling a story jokingly about something I thought I saw as a kid. I remember it vividly, myself and my 3 siblings, looking out of the window staring at an object floating outside (it was the second floor). We were all mesmerized. I figured it was a dream, but then before I could finish the story, my brother, who was 10 years older, said, you remember that too?! He looked visibly shaken and recalled it exactly as I had. Thing is, he and I had never discussed that memory before. We weren't particularly close and he never trolled me.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:58:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Google "hat man" and prepare to be freaked out.
theCroc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is insanely creepy. I wonder if the Hat MAn is the onspiration for the observers in Fringe. Also I wonder of there is some psychological connection to the MIB reports.
The inspiration for the Observers in Fringe are a couple of guys that can be seen in the pictures of the onlookers of the parade Kennedy was assassinated in. They wore black suits and bowler hats and carried black umbrellas. They were just regular guys protesting something or other; I don't remember what. There are some people who believe they were responsible for Kennedy's death by building guns into their umbrellas.
Edit: According to Wikipedia the protest was about the Kennedy family's appeasement of Hitler before the war and the umbrella had been established as a symbol of appeasement in cartoons since the '30s.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is interesting. I always thought that The Watcher from the Marvel universe was the inspiration for the Observers. Now I know!
I may be angry with you for this in a couple of hours!! At the time I spent a lot of time on google trying to figure out what the hell was on the grounds there before my house was built and trying to find stories of hauntings in my suburb but never came up with much.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:41:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's still worth being curious about -- the general consensus about him is that he is an omen, or will appear in times of stress.
Okay - googled it and was already freaked out within the first few minutes. Wow!! I never realized how common this is and the shadow people thing! I didn't mention in my original post, but I saw a shadow of something walking away from the desk in the office - which was next to my daughter's room. It was an open loft so from downstairs, I saw what resembled a person walking away from the desk and the desk chair even swiveled as if someone got up and walked away. I figured it was my husband and asked him to check on the laundry and when he didn't respond, I realized that he and everyone else who was home at the time was in the basement. Long story, but I never stepped foot in that house again after that day!! This whole hat man thing is now thoroughly creeping me out all over again!!
Hatman has nothing on Slenderman. If you don't know, search MarbleHornets in youtube. Not exaggerating at all here, first watched it when I was 14 (now 16) I slept a total of 6 hours the following week, with the lights on. Couldn't walk to school, to terrified, and just couldn't stand to be alone in any room. That lasted about 2 weeks, I still watch new episodes today as it's a really good series, but I'm definitely permanently scarred and disturbed by slenderman.
Slenderman once bothered me during a bout of sleep paralysis. But I fought him off and don't have much trouble with him anymore.
Obviously, I don't mean this literally, as Slenderman doesn't exist. But the concept is no longer all that disturbing.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am floored that this is a real thing. I thought I was the only one who saw Hat Man. I really think I just became a paranormal believer. Can we make a subreddit of Hat Man sightings?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yea my sister and I had seen him a lot as kids, I saw a thread on /x/ a while back about him and I was totally floored to find out how ubiquitous he is.
Man... my sisters, twins, when they were maybe ten or so would have the same nightmare as each other, the same night, about a man in a black hat and long arms coming in through their bedroom window trying to steal their faces.
So much more common than I ever realized!! I definitely believe in that kind of stuff. For a while it seemed like it was following me. Every single place I lived, I witnessed, along with others, some sort of scary phenomenon. A door slamming shut, footsteps when no one is there, appliances turning on, and so on and so on. My mom and sisters even claimed to see a ghost in our hold house when I was a baby in my bassinet and they all ran and left me behind. My sister often retells the story with bitterness because she was the one forced to go back and get me. Anyway, been living at my new place for 4 years and nothing, so guess nothing is following me after all.
Not sure why I clicked back through to read the comments at 11:30pm. I have no particular desire to meet the man in the black hat tonight. Goddammit. I can feel him standing directly behind me. Of course there are only clothes spilling out of my closet. Right, I wonder how many times I will repeat that as I stare at my closet until falling asleep.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:41:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw the exact same man outside a window of my childhood home for years. He had a black hat and glasses.
I finally told my parents that I saw him when I was 6 and they got freaked out wondering if I was imagining things or if there was a stalker in the area. We didn't grow up in the nicest neighborhood.
so scary! we lived in small town usa where NOTHING ever happened so there was never any fear of it being a real person. Besides, her room was on the second floor!!
MILM ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:08:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
exisito ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:48:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a guy in a black hat standing against a wall in my room! I was like 7-8. Creepy as fuck. He was gone when I turned back around. One of those types of situations where you see it and you can't move because you don't want to give away that you're awake, but you look away anyway because you don't want it to be real. When I look back it had completely vanished.
Omg.. What state was this in?
When I was younger, I would hear whispers really far away and then suddenly I would hear a familiar voice really close to my ear; just a word or two. The closeness of the voice would startle me so I would quickly look to the left or right (whichever side the voice was on) and see a blacked-out man with a hat for a split second. The first time I got really scared and wanted to cry, but it didn't seem like he was hiding from me; so the dozen or so times I saw him next I wasn't scared and he/it never seemed to want to harm me. Even kind of made me feel safe when I was by myself.
Weird.
This was in the far Western suburbs of Chicago. The house was new construction too, and prior to that it was empty land. I think that might creeped me out even more, knowing that whatever this was - was not attached to the house, but the land. Didn't admit it in my original post, but I actually saw it (actually a dark figure) at one point. It was the last day I ever stepped foot in that house.
I try not to think of it that way!! About a year after she started talking about the man in black, we got a flyer for Halloween and at the time she was 3 or so and she would point at the flyer and say "it's the grim reaper". I asked her how she knew what that was and she said her aunt told her. The story checked out so I tried not to let it get to me. Let's just say that I often let my daughter sleep in my room until we moved. Anyway, I always envisioned the man in black wearing a cowboy hat!! No reason to think that I just did.
Deep echoing voice from the bowels of the storm drain - Hellooo my honey, hello my baby, hello my ragtime gaaaal; Come a little closer, I know you ain't supposed to, but I promise I won't hurt you noooow...
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:47:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FUCKING AUSTRALIA, EVEN YOUR TOADS ARE SCARY
No, wife, we're not taking a vacation to the land of deadly spiders, snakes, octupi, and TOADS.
Shrim ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:35:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Australia and I'm afraid to visit the USA because I'm worried about the deadly people. Something about guns everywhere is a bit scary.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The last time I saw a gun in person that wasn't being carried by a police officer was probably 2 years ago. You can go to the good parts of town to avoid 99.9% of gun violence. Last I checked, Sydney is infested with deadly animals of every sort.
The last time I saw a deadly spider in person that wasn't being carried by a tree in the bush was probably 2 years ago. You can go to the good parts of town to avoid 99.9% of fauna. Last I checked, New York is infested with deadly firearms of every sort.
And so on.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The last time I saw a deadly spider in person, whether I was in my house, my garage, or the woods, was never. Ever.
Same with deadly snakes.
I'll take my chances with people who are sometimes reasonable over an aggressive and territorial spider that can bite through your toenail.
Well, I mean, I'm Australian and I lived in the bush for about 12 years. I saw a red-back ONCE and there was an incident where a tiger snake allegedly went from my neighbours yard to ours. None of us ever saw it.
Animals are predictable. Ain't no such thing as a schizophrenic taipan suffering from crack withdrawl.
Not that scary. Slightly poisonous toads that got imported and started breeding all over the place, but can kill local wildlife and pets if they're eaten.
Here's a link to an entire video on them if you feel like watching. I started it at the funniest part though - a guy that hates the toads so much he swerves all over the road to try and pop them.
My understanding is that the poison isn't that dangerous if consumed. You can get high off of it (you lick the toad). I think the real danger is getting it in your eye.
I have no idea how much you'd have to actually consume to receive a fatal dose. I'm not an expert. Reason just tells me that, if people get high off of it, it can't be that dangerous. Right?!
CJLocke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think I've heard of anyone getting high from cane toads. Animals that eat them die, I think humans are big enough that eating one wouldn't be deadly, but you'd get sick.
I once watched a documentary about cane toads that had a section about getting high off of licking them. It might have been Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, but I can't find any reference to it in the description there.
CJLocke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough then. TIL!
fs337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:05:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Says Michael J. Caboose
Daneruu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If they're anything at all they're omiscient. The things are. Fucking. Everywhere. They were introduced from a different environment to deal with bug problems. Problem is, their natural predators didn't exist in Australia and there was a lot of bugs to eat. They overpopulated SO fast. There are hundreds in any given ffew square miles of rural Australia. You'll see drivers swerve out of their way to squish the fuckers.
On that note, they aren't too dangerous. They are really poisonous when eaten by 99% of creatures (hence the whole no australian predator thing) but they don't really have much else in the way of defense. They grow huge though. Like 5-10 pounds tops. I guess if they jumped at you they could knock the wind out of you.
I'm not from Australia, so if that's slang, I don't know it.
mtcruse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it was a brief and almost obscure Simpsons reference, after Bart "introduces" the cane toad to Australia. It is also my poor attempt at humor.
You know that ringing sound that you will perceive when you are in a very quiet area? Some people say this is an auditory-illusion brought about the earโs inability to detect frequencies below the threshold of the human senses. This is completely wrong. That ringing covers up something else altogether. If you are quick, patient, and maybe a little lucky, you will be able to hear past the ringing. What you will hear are voices whispering to each other. They will silence themselves quickly but with practice, you will become more adept at catching and interpreting what they are saying. You will hear things of the past, the present, and the future. However, you must be careful. Because there is no such thing as a voice without a body.
And when you start noticing them, they will start noticing you.
[deleted] ยท 883 points ยท Posted at 19:32:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a creepypasta.
ace586 ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 20:31:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I only recently figured out that creepy pasta was called such because it was copy pasta that was creepy, and that copy pasta was derived from copy paste (which is what the accusation of copy pasta implies you did to your so-called content).
First my head exploded, then I felt like an idiot for not figuring it out sooner.
This has nothing to do with anything in context here, but I had to get it off my chest.
TL;DR: 4chan is clever in a stupid way.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:25:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's one of the most apt descriptions of 4 chan I've ever seen.
dsi1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:30:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also creepypasta sauce
ace586 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:37:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The source is saucy indeed!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:03:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It took me hours to figure out why my friends were always Jelly of me. And why I always got weird looks if I offered them peanut butter and some bread for all that jelly.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:37:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He thinks he's Rod Serling.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He said it's tinnitus.
nf5 ยท 487 points ยท Posted at 19:50:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
the ringing is known as tinnitus, and is nothing to be concerned about supernaturally. however, if you keep hearing the ringing, you should be concerned, because that could indicate problems with your ear. If left unchecked, the ringing will never stop.
source: my dad is an audiologist and does this for a living
edit: a ringing in your ears from time to time is normal a lot of people are wondering if they have tinnitus. let me put it this way- if you have to ask, you dont have it. TV's or other electronics (esp. old ones) give off a high pitched white noise. some lightbulbs even do it. in fact, if you're hearing that, your hearing is actually very good to be able to pick up those faint, very high frequencies. you can also get a ringing noise after being exposed to very very loud enviroments, or very very quiet ones. why your ears ring after a concert should be obvious- but when its dead quiet, your brain strains to hear anything, and when it doesnt, sometimes you imagine noise. hence the ringing.
Tinnitus sucks ass. I heard of a treatment to do with electrically stimulating the vagus nerve while listening to specific tones like a kind of hard reset. Please tell your dad to look into this and try cure tinnitus once and for all xD
Yep, a similar problems exist with some humans ability to perceive light flicker above the "normal" threshold (huge problem for autistic people). Of course the problem wouldn't exist if we switched to three phase alternating current, and I venture it might also help with the sound emission of the bulbs too, but meh. We lazy.
When I'm older and have my house built I'm gonna use three-phase AC and LED lights for everything =D
I hear that high-pitched white noise off of electronics allll the time. It drives me nuts! Sometimes I have to unplug things and plug them back in just to make it stop. I used to think I was going crazy because most other people couldn't hear it. My mom told me I just had really good hearing (she knew this because she had me tested as a child because she thought I had a hearing problem; when in reality I was just ignoring her trying to watch television).
pkemp94 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:38:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
You can hear your own blood flowing through your ears. Because of this you will never experience total silence unless you are deaf.
Edit: forgot the word "never"
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
doesnt the brain naturally filter out that noise though? and yea, thats very true! true silence is unimaginable to me
Renrim ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:03:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can hear the high pitched noises coming from electronics. When I told my friend this, she said she couldn't hear anything and thought I was crazy. Now I'm curious to know how many people can/can't hear it.
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you're definitely not crazy. and quite a few people have a mild version of it, and basically everyone hears it from time to time
Good. :) my tv screen would go black and I'd say to someone "can you turn the tv off?" because the sound would drive me insane. Of course they'd argue that it is off and so I'd have to prove them wrong. The only reason why I could tell was because of that awful sound coming from it.
But the ringing you hear sometimes when everything around you is silent is normal, right?
nf5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yes, there are lots of things that can cause ringing. its quite normal to hear it from time to time (remember, its not a disease. it just happens.). when its very quiet, or when a faint sound has been emitting for a long period of time, esp. at the higher frequencies, you'll hear it. or, when that sound stops, you'll keep hearing it play anyway cause our brains are weird.
its a little complicated :P but its perfectly normal to hear it- trust me you'd know if it was a problem cause itd go on for hours.
Uh, I hear ringing right now, and it's always there if I listen for it. I just don't notice it as much when there are noises. Is any ringing bad? How loud is it when it becomes permanent?
Edit: It got louder about a minute after I posted this. -_- I hope I don't have some permanent ear problem at 17...
Did it start just now? If it did: go to a doctor ASAP. The sooner they can do something, the better are the chances that it doesn't become permanent.
But don't panic,
For the first 3 month, tinnitus is considered acute and chances are good that it will go away. After the 3 month it is considered chronic, and you are probably stuck with it. But if you only hear it when you listen for it, its probably pretty quiet. I have a chronic tinnitus (also quiet) and it doesn't reduce my quality of living at all. You learn to live with it pretty fast.
A tinnitus can be caused by a number of things. Loud noises are the most common one (clubs and concerts are usually way to loud, always use ear plugs!!), but stress can be one ,too.
TL;DR: If you start hearing a ringing, go to the doc ASAP. Everyone else, GET SOME GOOD EARPLUGS!
I play crappy ipod stock earphones at loud levels to drown out my mother's conservative AM radio while I'm in the car. If I have it, that would be why. I'm going to stop doing that now, but I don't know if that will make a difference. I've probably had it more than 3 months.
I can't go to the doctor though.
nf5 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:00:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you probably have a TV or something thats emitting a high pitched whine that you can only barely hear. (even if the volume is off on a TV, they still generate a white noise whine)
it can be anything really. try getting up and moving to a different enviroment- go outside for a couple minutes or bump some music. if you keep hearing it for the next couple hours, then, maybe you should be concerned.
God the old CRT televisions are the worst damn thing for this. Even when you turn the volume up it still pierces through and does my head in. Thank god for technology.
When I was a kid, I would HATE the sound of a television being on.
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i still do :/
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:28:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've had tinnitus for years. Do you think there'll ever be a cure?
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
im not an audiologist, so factually i have nothing to say to you. but if we're just discussing it, i think cure isnt the right word. its more of a neurological issue.
maybe in the future, but i think a risk/cost effective way will ever present itself.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's interesting. I always thought it was physiological.
Technicality: they don't give off high pitched white noise. White noise is by definition all freqs between 20-20,000 HZ at once. Most electronics actually give off hi pitched, yet definable frequencies. A empty analog television channel would be much more closer to white noise than the ring you hear from a computer monitor.
Edit: Something to consider, a light bulb would have no physical ability to create the frequencies necessary to create white noise, perhaps what you meant is high pitched atonal frequencies, which could be possible if their were multiple frequency in rapid fluctuation, e.g. a scrambled radio frequency.
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
im talking more like those industrial tube lights or something. i knew i shouldnt of gone ahead and generalized myself like that, thanks for the correction
SHFFLE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:54:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for that. Was worried I might be losing my hearing like my Dad keeps claiming I an, but I can almost always tell if the TV is on from that slight noise it makes.
nf5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:52:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
people used to call me nuts too when i would point to a black tv and say "its on" and everyone would call BS until I hit the power button and then the screen does that white-sshutdown sequence. (the bewooop bit)
i couldnt tell them at the time how i knew it was on, other than saying "i could hear it!"
SHFFLE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:49:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I used to go into the living room when the family would get ready to leave, suddenly they just see me quietly get up without a word and walk into my parents' bedroom to turn it off.
eStonez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:02:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So it is called tinnitus (I don't even know how to pronounce.) So that's mean I have problem with my ears which I thought so. I had an accident which my eardrum get scratched 15 years ago.
I can hear the humming sound come from Sub woofer, very faint static pulse from common speakers attached to computers when there is no audio played, fluorescent light, CRT TVs. I can hear the buzzing sound from some CRT monitors. ( Back in the days of CRT monitors I have to switch on and listen for that sound before buying because it is annoying to hear that buzzing all the time. ) I do not like hearing any type of those buzzing/faint pulse .. so I usually switch ON my PC for CPU fan sound or aircon.
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
tin-uh-tuss. And thats the sound I'm describing. you should see an audiologist
eStonez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have much time/money for this now .. what could happen if I ignore this for very long time .. ? I'm already living with this 15 years so far .. few problems are I have to switch off PC speakers if not used, change light before it spoiled ( use them in other places like kitchen. ). I am using LCD/LED screens now so I don't have to worry about CRTs.
Interesting fact: Pete Townshend of The Who has a severe case of tinnitus, most people believe it originate from the night Keith Moon set off the charge for the explosives hidden in his drum set at the end of My Generation. The explosion singed parts of Townshend's hair, and imbedded a chunk of cymbal into Moon's arm. Townshend, however, claims the tinnitus is due to years of headphone use in the studio.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:53:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I bet you're REAL fun to be around when people are telling ghost stories.
Does that mean if caught early enough, you can "cure" tinnitus? Both my parents have it and so do I, and I had always read that it would never go away. That is also what my physician said. Maybe an audiologist knows the real deal?
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
its not something you 'cure', it just kind of develops. and no, theres no cure at this time.
but, if you notice symptoms early enough and reach an audiologist about it, they can make reccomendations based on your lifestyle to prevent further damage. or, they could help find something to better suit your day-to-day enviroment, like custom fitted earphones for a construction worker or something. hell, you can get earplugs with bluetooth in em so you never miss a call
Fuck man, I can hear my neighbors' TVs from 3 floors up/down. TVs, computer monitors, even fridges... I've gotten used to it but it's still annoying, which is why I sleep better during the day when everyone's off at work and appliance use is at a minimum. Even better is when I go on vacation in the mountains, in buttfucknowhere, 3 miles from the nearest home!
ebass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You might be the blind superhero we've been waiting for.
Kyoti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the hell do I get rid of it?! :-( I've had it for as long as I can remember and the last audiologist I went to basically said "that sucks for you" :| I can't believe I've never known real silence...
Don't forget that the only way to see them is to look at them from the corner of your eye.
achshar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:58:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The last two lines did it for me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:11:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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Seicair ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:24:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I panic. I run out of the room down the upstairs hall and around the banister of the stairs. I am getting ready to run downstairs to get my dad to help me. A LONG arm wearing an equally long white clown glove follows me as it stretches down the hall. It grabs me and pulls me back into the room.
I got chills. Scariest post in the thread so far.
Wonder what was actually going on at the time.
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 19:32:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck did I just read.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:16:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While it's merely a creepypasta, you'd be surprised in what amazing world some people live. Even once you accept that insanity is not necessarily violent, it's still easy to think that every person with significant delusions lives in a mental institution. There are in fact highly functional individuals who live in world that'd put that post to shame. Ghosts, aliens, voices, imaginary companions indiscriminated from real entities...
Brains are fun. And technology is pretty close to actually monitoring brain activity and our perception. Which paired with wireless technology, implantology and glucose fuel cells (as in: a device can be implanted and run indefinitely) means 1984 was small fucking potatoes, but even more importantly - we're going to see a plethora of fascinating worlds. Have you ever wondered how world seems through eyes of a toddler (you should - we have still no idea what colours, shades or shapes they see, much less how they process it).
PS.: Read the last throwaway thread.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm in a quiet office bathroom taking a shit while reading this thread. As soon as I read this comment, the automatic lights shut off. I feel confident in stating that you scared the shit out of me.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:04:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You asshole. I'm reading this in bed on an iphone with all the lights off. Luckily there is no such thing as... Wait, there is a noise. Let me turn around the phone to try to illuminate the room with the screen. Omg, as I used the screen to shine around the room there was a face only two feet away staring back at me from the darkness! Is it one of these voices? Actually it's the plumber, Bob. He said he left one of his tools. Strange why is he in my room in the dark and why didn't I hear him come in? I'm sure it's nothing and he's just looking for his stuff. Could have knocked though. Asshole plumber.
You should cut the beginning part out (everything upto "this is completely wrong")- it totally makes it seem made up- the rest was very well said though
My music just stopped as soon as I read that. It was followed by the squeakiest, most terrified meepy noise I have ever squealed in my life. I...I think I'm done with reddit for the evening.
Just after I finished reading this, Duran-Duran's "hungry like the wolf" started playing.
For anyone who hasn't listened to this song before, it starts with the noise of a girl laughing. For about half a second I nope'd so hard and looked around the room to make sure I was alone.
prrifth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only the sun screams, ninety-three million miles away, that insane ceaseless cry of hydrogen inferno which we will never never never hear because, dreams Doc, because we are born with that horror ringing in our ears. And when it stops at last we shall not hear the solar stillness either.
When I was a kid and was lying in bed at night, I would start to get a low buzzing in my ears which would get progressively louder. As the sound would increase, it would start to sound like voices screaming at each other.
Thanks to reddit, I now know that this is relatively normal, but for years I thought there was some creepy ghostly shit going on in my bedroom.
well fuck, my laundry is done and i have work in 10 minutes, but im home alone and the washing machine is in the garage... and i just heard a noise, i think ill call in sick today
I made a Doctor Who fanfiction using this creepypasta as the premise. Surprisingly, creepypasta make for good Doctor Who stories (see: Slenderman/The Silence)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to hear voices like that when I was younger. I would lie awake at night listening to the voices. I could never understand them because they would all speak at once, so it just sounded like random words. It happened a lot when I was younger, and still happens once in a while. I never told anyone because I didn't want them to think I was schizophrenic. The weirdest part was that the voices would sometimes say stuff that didn't make sense until days later. One time I kept hearing one of the voices talk about a train or "the tracks." I didn't think anything of it until a few days later when my neighbor's kid got hit by a train a few miles from my house. There were some other strange occurrences; never specific enough to confirm that it wasn't just a coincidence, but just enough evidence to make it really, really creepy.
As you get older you lose the ability to hear certain frequencies. The older you get, the more frequencies lost. That ringing you hear every once in a while? That's the frequency's goodbye song. Listen closely because that is the last time you will be able to hear it.
I demand source! I remember reading that with a picture... and the picture totally made it better. (Hard to get into the creepy mood with a bright white background).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that ringing is hearing damage I've sustained from living in NYC for several years...
I've practiced focussing on the high pitched whine so I don't have to hear the voices, they never have anything interesting to say. I don't hear them as much on rainy days either. I wish I knew how to keep them out of my dreams.
ekohsa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i was up late one night and noticed that the ringing in my ears is not only ringing between the 18kHz-19kHz frequencies, but it also pulsed. so i started concentrating on it more and then took my pulse and realized after 25 years of existence that the ringing in my ears is blood flowing through them.
Oh goddamn my ears have been ringing for the last 18 years. At first it was like sparrows chirping, then about six weeks later the ring started. Ten years after that the other ear started ringing at almost the same frequency.
This might get some additional love from /r/OneParagraph -edit- unless it is creepypasta, in which case it shouldn't be cross-posted.
I must say it's nice to see some weird fiction getting some attention.
ruffyen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this made the hair on my neck raise, when I was like 13 or 14 my schizophrenic cousin told me this exact freaking thing. where did you hear this? also this makes sitting alone in silence REALLY scary... thanks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My phone says you posted this 2 hours ago, it was 5:30am two hours ago in Australia! It's practically morning! Unless you're in WA. In which case my bad! Only 3:30 am!
jamurp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah it was 4:30am. I stayed up watching the cricket. Bad decision.
When I was 3 I was sleeping in my parents bed when I sat straight up and asked "Mommy who is that man in the corner?" She was terrified. This happened every night until she went to the corner and talked to him asking him to leave us alone because he was scaring me. Still believe in ghosts because of this.
ttran984 ยท 1303 points ยท Posted at 19:29:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it me or does everyone else remember being 3 and 4 but me?
No one does, if they think they do its because they formed false memories later in life based on stories people told them about when they were younger.
kakey70 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:50:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not true. I have many memories from when I was 3,4&5. Things my parents wouldn't even know about. There are stories they'd talk about later that I have no recollection of at all but I certainly have snippets of those years burned into my memory. I have heard that in many cases people who have peaceful, happy childhoods have memories that predate those who's early years were more stressful. Don't know where or when but it makes sense.
I read that as "I have many memories from when I was 3,485".
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:13:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny how many responses to this were made basically saying "NUH UH, that's bullshit, scientists don't know what they're talking about!"
Take a few seconds to at least skim the link people, the top post says "Most people can begin to remember things around age 4 or 5, but they'll be very fragmented, disjointed memories." It doesn't say "People never remember anything before the age of X."
Nope, sorry. I know that I've imagined things off of what my family has told me, but there are other memories of mine that are actual memories. Usually, they are of injuries, because that shit gets burned into your brain.
For example, I remember falling down a staircase as a child, and slipping on ice, both of which occurred when I was about 2-3 years old. They were things I asked my parents about later, and they only slightly remembered them, because it's not like you're going to memorize every single time your kid trips and falls.
It's a little annoying when a complete stranger, who I don't believe is an expert on the mechanics of the brain, categorically dismisses the experience of many others.
Its fine that you disagree with me, but that last paragraph is not cool, you don't bring it to a personal level just because you think someone is wrong.
I was just relaying what I remembered from a /r/askscience thread from a while back, and they're usually pretty good with weeding out information not based on fact. Here's the thread where I got the info:
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:52:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You both are being grumpy pants' about it. But maybe I should butt out, because my dad lost his three front teeth once trying to break up a bar fight. I don't want to lose my teeth.
While you're generally right, be careful nonetheless: The top post explains why the OP has no memories till age X. At no point it claims that every person's memories "start" at the same age. That's why there sure might be people claiming to remember things from when they were 3-4 and it might be perfectly valid.
Well, take it easy. I said that I doubt you are an expert. My reasons were that 1. You included no citations to an expert report on childhood memories, and 2. nor did you include anything about having education in the matter.
I don't see why you would take that personally. I, too, am not an expert on neuroscience or memory, let alone how memories work in a developing child's brain. In fact, I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of people on here are not experts on the mechanics of the brain.
As for me saying it's annoying, I can do that. In no way is it a personal attack to tell you that the tone of your statement was annoying to me. Additionally, I didn't even fully disagree with you. I acknowledged the existence of "memories" that are actually constructed from what parents tell their children. I'm sorry that someone partially disagreeing with you is what passes as a personal attack in your opinion; I imagine that politics discussions must be pretty unpleasant with that outlook.
I sincerely hope that mine is the most offensive post you will receive in your time on reddit. It is rife with angry trolls who will say far worse things. Maybe you should save your indignation for one of those times.
I have several memories from when I was around 2 or 3. A few of them are just random insignificant events that have just stuck with me. I don't really remember a lot of details, I only remember what I was doing/thinking at the time.
edit: I live in S. Florida and I very clearly remember Hurricane Andrew. That was in Aug. '92 so I would have been turning 4 in a couple months.
Totally wrong. Clearly flawed science. I have many such memories, and most have been verified. No stories - stupid stuff about what I did that nobody every talked about until I mentioned, "do you remember when I"... and my mom would verify it.
The actual process of memory and thinking is very, very poorly understood, but it is often written about authoritatively by "scientists". I use the term in quotes because I don't think there's much proper use of scientific method. A survey is not scientific method - it is statistics that are prone to bias from the very language of the survey, and often by what the person being surveyed thinks the survey-giver would like to hear, which can come from very subtle cues.
It is very easy to talk about "false memories", but it's utterly unprovable.
Edit: My opinion is that such "scientific results" come from researchers who themselves have no memory of their early childhood. Thus, anybody who does must be faking it (even if unintentionally), because clearly there's nothing wrong with the researchers themselves. It's kind of a difficult conundrum - if you are a researcher with no childhood memory, yet you believe such is possible, then you have to start with the assumption that there is something (possibly) fundamentally wrong with your mental abilities. Which casts doubt on your research. So you have to start with the assumption you are RIGHT to not remember.
A ton of studies with children were done. Repeatedly. It is NEVER claimed though, that it occurs in every person the same way or at the same age. It also depends on your current age.
It is very easy to talk about "false memories", but it's utterly unprovable.
I honestly think you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Sure it's provable. Of course no one can prove or disprove YOUR memories but in principle false mempories can be induced in experimental setups.
I honestly think you either didn't understand what I wrote, or have even less idea what you (and I) am talking about.
Because, you even made my point:
Of course no one can prove or disprove YOUR memories but in principle
That was ENTIRELY my point. The fact that a false memory can be induced doesn't mean a memory that somebody has is false. And it is scientifically invalid to make the assumption that memory prior to a certain age MUST be false.
I've met people with credible memories from before they could walk. Very banal stuff about the crib or room - not things they would have been told. And even if they WERE told, that is not proof the memory is false either.
So how is it that I don't know what I'm talking about, since you agreed?
Not true, as stated before. I often mention things to my parents and they say things such as "How did you know about that/When was that?" and other things that can't be explained as false memories. I remember several days of playing Super Mario 64 and many other N64 and PS1 games with my cousins. We did this everyday, and were only supervised when we were outside of the bedroom.
I disagree, I can remember the day my memory just 'snapped' on. I was sitting on the stairs, talking to my parents. I must have early 4 at this stage. I was telling them how old I was, and that today I was 5 because yesterday I was 4. I was wrong due to my perception of time but I even remember the strange white socks I was wearing at the time because they had yellow and aqua coloured trim.
After that moment, I started remembering more and more things - now it's just the opposite. My days are going by quickly with fewer and less vivid memories. I'm going to dread growing old.
wolxe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:21:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm with you too, and apparently I was stabbed by my sister with a real needle because she wanted to play doctor.
Nope. I don't have quick recall of most things from most things of before the age of 11 or so. Some events I can remember (taking a sweet nerf gun for show and tell in kindergarten? yes), but most I can't.
Going with the theme of the thread, however, here's my "creepy shit." In 4th and 5th grade, I would sleep under the bed if I didn't want to go to school. No idea, why, but I did. I was weird, whatever. One day, I woke up underneath the bed, inside my blanket cover thinking it was trying to murder. I was so scared I flipped the bed over and just sat there staring at my blanket, like I was daring it to attack.
I was talking about this with the wife earlier--try to think back to the earliest memory that's "real" (not augmented by pictures or stories told again and again to you). I remember a couple of things from when I was four, a few things when I was almost 5, but nothing before that.
I pretty much don't remember shit. Neither does the wife.
I don't remember much either and I'm guessing these people remember more so that people told them about this stuff happening than they remember it actually happening. Could be wrong though, who knows...
I don't know if anyone really remembers it or they just know the stories about themselves from their parents. It's most likely the latter. People are really good at making their own memories.
Edit - By making their own memories I mean committing a story they've been told to memory and thinking they remember it actually happening.
Nah, I remember a lot of things happening when I was that young that aren't stories anyone's ever told -- a lot of things that no one else was even involved in.
I think it just has to do with what kind of kid you were -- perceptive and observant, or going out and doing things.
I was definitely an observational kind of kid.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:31:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, I have memories of mundane things that my parents never told me about until I asked them, "Remember when..." and they confirmed. Definitely real memories.
But isn't it possible that they just think they remember it after you put it in their head? I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just been shown to happen to people a lot more than they think. Just something to consider!
It depends on how quickly a kid develops. Some say that you can't store some memories until you've found an understanding of language, at which age can vary much from kid to kid.
Even if one would think that a language doesn't have to be a necessity for purely visual memories... it either helps a great deal... or just coincides with roughly the same level of brain development.
You are however also correct that it's very easy to subconsciously create fake memories from what we've been told (or filling blanks with what we think have happened). The human brain is very easy to fool in some aspects.
I remember a lot more things from my early childhood than my family does. My first memory is from when I was almost 2 years old. I was about 18 months. I can talk about something and they don't remember it- but then I say more details that I remember and then they'll be like, "Ohhh! okay, I remember that- that was the time that blah blah blah." Or they just don't remember it. So yeah. :)
Sookye ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:35:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a LOT of things from when I was 2-4 years old, and most of them are things I've never told anyone, and where my parents weren't present.
Dude, I can barely remember High school and that was only 5 years ago.
Some say that I have shitty memory. I chose to believe that I have a set amount of memory, like a computer, and I formatted out the useless shit (memories) so that I could store current functions and work stuff.
I can explain current policy and political matters like no other friends, but don't ask me about past dates or memories growing up, I deleted them.
I like to believe I have a phenomenal memory because it rids itself of the unimportant and traumatic.
KRSFive ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:19:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My first memory is when I was four. Was taking a dump and my golden retriever was in the bathroom with me. A mosquito was flying around, she snatched it out of the air. Then I wiped my ass.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:06:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
None of these stories are told exactly as they happened. The posters here are recollecting a shared family narrative that was embellished over the years.
Same here. I remember several things from before my second birthday, the most vivid being flipping off a bar stool, landing on it, going to hospital in the back of my mums VW and getting stitches in my head. Can remember mum brushing my hair and hitting the damn stitches too!
I remember the layout of the apartment that we moved out of when I was about 17 or 18 months old and I was able to describe it accurately to my mom. I remember a fuzzy hat/hood thing that went all around my head kind of like an eskimo hood, I remember a dish towel that my mom had that was white with a little embroidered outline of a kid on it that was so soft I wanted it to be my blankie, and I remember playing with empty Diet Coke cans and wondering why my mom drank so much of the stuff and why I never got to drink it. We don't have pictures of any of this stuff and yet I was able to describe it to the point that I scared the crap out of my mom!
I remember a LOT more from ages 2 and 3. For whatever reason my long term memory is excellent, but my short term memory is crap.
I'm exactly the same. My short term memory is that bad I have to write anything important down, yet six months to a year later I'll remember everything in detail. Drives me mad.
It's funny because I very vividly remember knowing it was my first memory. I had been thinking of the dream I had the night before when I realized I couldn't remember the ABC's (which I recalled knowing before) and all of the sudden I really took in the world and woke up out of my daze. My mom walked out of the kitchen seeing me standing there and told me to come to the kitchen for presents. I had no real memory of her and the faint fragments of memories I could pick up were almost like pictures from a past life. But I still knew who everyone was somehow and was very perceptive in my life from that point on. I think it is why I remember so many of my dreams from being a kid and little parts of memories I had before I could talk.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:08:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think a lot of these memories are facilitated by parents telling stories years later and the person recreating memories in their minds in accordance with the stories.
Doesn't seem like goose_berry remembers this story, seeing as he/she don't say what they saw. Seems like the mother told them about it when they were older.
The earliest memory I can clearly remember is watching people my family hired bring furniture from my old house into my new house's living room. I was probably around 1 because I had only spent my first year in the other house. It's weird how things like that can stick to you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I barely have any childhood memories of being 6-8. I mean I can remember events, but I can't visualize the really. I have maybe 10 actual memories that I can visualize from second grade or prior.
I only have a few select memories from before I was 10..
Namika ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My earliest memory was from just after I turned 3. I know when it was because its my only memory from my old family house (which my family moved out of one month after I turned 3)
I was thinking about poop and pee and what made them. I realized I hadn't pooped in a long, long time so maybe I haven't eaten the stuff that makes poop? Must be chocolate, its brown. Yea that makes sense. All food becomes pee but chocolate becomes poop. I better go ask my mom for some chocolate, I haven't pooped in a while.
It's interesting for me to look back on this memory. I remember it felt like weeks and weeks had passed since I last pooped. Realistically I couldn't have gone more than a day or two without pooping, but it all makes sense when you realize I was super young, and time feels slower the younger we are. Kinda cool actually.
Memories works in a weird way, I remember my Carebears baby mobile in my crib when I was ~2 years old.. That shit was turning over my head and I still remember it.
I remember fractions of memories...and the odd thing is, mostly creepy and disturbing ones. I remember seeing and hearing weird stuff, but I'd almost never told my parents about it, because I knew I wasn't supposed to.
According to my parents, I have memories of things that never actually happened. Funny how that works.
Sookye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being two.
atilly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember waking up one day when I was like 4 and not being able to remember anything before that day other than who I was, where I was, and my family.
I'm the other extreme, I remember bits and pieces of being a baby. I remember being really scared of the eye of Sauron illustration on the front of my Mum's Lord of the Rings paperbacks. I kept rubbing my eyes in my cot and thinking I could see the eye of Sauron when my eyes were shut, and that it was coming to get me. It terrified me but I remember not being able to communicate at all why I was scared and just crying and sobbing for my Mum. Weird.
I only remember a couple of very isolated incidents.
Xoebe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can remember to back when I was 2, in snippets. From 4 on, its clear. I've been told that's unusual.
I used to work for a local entrepreneur, he was known for being a pretty eccentric. He went on meds about the time I went to work for him, and he was okay, but still an asshole. He told me that he couldn't remember anything prior to fifth grade. I didn't ask about his childhood.
it's not remembering that whole time, it's specific incidents.
i remember my 3rd birthday. My parents gave me a cake and wanted to take pictures of me destroying it, like smashing it up and throwing pieces or something.
I remember it vividly, cause I remember being really confused, and even at that age wondering if it was some kind of test or trap.
What age did you begin to read? They say that long-term memories only start forming once you start to read.
Oaden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have no memories except some vague blurs, most of em highly inaccurate and seem impossible to pin down to what year in my life except. Half of those memories im not sure if they're from looking at youth photos and not actual recollections.
I have a handful of brief memories not lasting longer than 10 seconds, as well as a general familiarity with what happened when family members talk about it; kind of like how I feel just before I hit blackout drunk, actually.
All I remember from that age is the one time we drove to another state to see a great aunt. Don't remember her, just remember kicking the shit out of the back of the drivers seat the whole time.
I remember earlier than that- I remember being younger than two and standing in my crib screaming because the little clown statue on the top of my dresser scared me. But I couldn't talk yet so I couldn't tell my parents that was what was scaring me. I VIVIDLY remember that, and I couldn't even talk yet.
I remember being 3 cause I still lived on the east cost. My father says hes has vivid memories of being younger than that, held by his parents as if he was still an infant. Also my mother in law has similar memories of her parents at infancy as well.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have really vivid memories from when I was really young. I can remember really mundane things from when I was a year to 18 months old. I remember whole random days and conversations with my sister from when I was 3. Really crystal clear memories. Its strange because half the time I can't remember anything from 2 days ago, and have to write myself detailed notes and lists because I won't know what the fuck I'm trying to remember otherwise.
I always thought I was the odd one out because I have memories going back to the age of 1, and can vividly remember a dream or two I had around 3 or 4.
Dude, I'm 32 and I barely remember my twenties. Copious amounts of drugs and alcohol may be more to blame for that than a developing brain, though.
EByrne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember much from that age. Only the bad stuff, for the most part. Then again, I only have random assorted memories from even the later years of my childhood (12-18), so maybe my memory just sucks in general.
Oddly enough, when I think back to ages 3-6 or so, the vast majority of experiences that I do remember took place at my grandparents' house. Not sure why that is, considering that they lived three hours away and we didn't go there all that frequently. I think I just really liked how laid back the atmosphere was.
I remember some things as far back as one year old. My Grandfather died before I was two and I remember exactly what he looked like and things he said to me, I creeped out my Ma one day when I was almost three asking, "When is Grandpa going to come back to visit, Grandma is lonely without him and I miss being his Buddy-Boy."
Buddy-Boy was his nickname for me, he played with me on the porch all day as he was retired from the Navy after thirty years of service.
I still remember stuff like that to this day.
Just like the time I unlocked the door and dead-bolt when I was eighteen months old to take a walk down the sidewalk.
I remember 2 things - first time at the seaside and when my mother left some bbq meat out in the heat for so long that it spoiled, causing me to cry like a little bitch.
Cyprah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember random snippets from when I was that age, just flashes of memory as opposed to like minutes or hours of events that happened.
Like I remember dad lifting me up to the walnut tree in our backyard to pick some, I remember pulling pancakes out of a picnic basket that my grandma put together, my mum sitting on the kitchen floor and crying because dad had yelled at her and I was stroking her hair, a fish named Oscar flopping on the floor because it jumped out of its tank, just random disjointed stuff, all of that would have been when I was about 3 or 4 in our old house because we moved house when I was 5.
andash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a few things... My mother is from one country, and my father was from another. I first learned my mothers language, and my father was agitated by this since he didn't know that language.
What I remember is, by myself, asking him for an icecream in his language.
Other memory would be mom throwing him out, that being the last time I saw him pretty much.
After that at 4 (I think) I remember reading my first sentence out loud, from a milk carton. "Swedish milk from open landscapes" or something like that.
It's weird how memory works. I'm still not sure they are my actual genuine memories, or rather recreated memories from stories others have told me. Most likely the latter, or at least a mix...
Ba_0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have faint memories. Some kind of clear. I remember my sister babbling and understanding her like she was speaking perfect english. I also translated for other mothers. That and my old pets. Dreams, - -you know wierd things.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't even remember what I did this morning.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The only memory I have from that time is finally learning to use the goddamn potty.
I have one perfectly clear memory from when I was only one, but after that I don't remember shit until about six or seven, and even those are a little hazy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have one or two distant memories from that age, maybe more but it's hard for me to tell what age I exactly was. It's a big blurry pool of memories labelled "youth"
It's not only you. I don't remember that far back anymore. I do however remember remembering. When I was a very young kid, I used to talk about some of my earliest memories (the oldest being from when I was 2ยฝ years old), and I've revisited those memories may times.
In my early teens, I realized that the memories had faded and that I no longer could remember those really old memories directly. Though I had re-visited those memories so many times in my mind that I can still remember what I used to remember (but no real details). Today, I basically hold the memories of me revisiting the original memories.
My original memories have faded, but if (metaphorically speaking) they had been a lost/destroyed photo album, then I still have paintings depicting the photos.
When people are told stories over and over again, like with childhood stories, memories can be formed along with images of the memory that your brain creates. Our brains love to do these kinds of things.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the only thing i remember from that age is hearing my moms high heels and thinking that we were being followed by chickens because of the sound they made.
I have a few memories, not much though, and probably not much before that. I remember a few things from around that age because I remember my 4th birthday party at the house we were living in at the time, and so I guess I was about 3 or 4 whenever I remember something that happened in that house. I think a majority of the stories seem to be from parents reminding their kids what they did at age 3 & 4 though, more than people remembering stuff from then.
My earliest memory was being in my pram and wildly kicking my legs until my socks came off. It was mainly because it was fun to do but i also remember enjoying the fact that my mum had to go pick them up each time. Kids are trolls.
I only remember having a toy truck thrown at my forehead by my brother. It was pretty big.
Lereas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a few fleeting memories of specific things that happened, but for the most part I don't remember anything much from before I was 10. Even then, I barely remember anything unless someone reminds me, or somehow my thoughts lead me to some particular memory.
It's crazy that every day I got up and went to school from the time I was 5 through college, but for the life of me I can't remember almost any particular day out of it.
More like Forever Alone ghost. He died without friends and found himself unable to move on, so he spends eternity desperate for companionship, only to be shunned by those who refuse to try to understand him.
Agreed. When I hear about little kids thinking they've seen a ghost, I have to wonder why the possibility (or probability) that it's a kid's imagination and/or imaginary friend type of thing, doesn't cross anyone's mind.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that but I can remember making shit up about ghosts when I was little. No idea why I did it, just felt like lying I guess.
Seriously, if I was the mom and actually saw the ghost too, I'd call the cops and left that night never to return. On the other hand, if my kid was confusing imagination and reality, asking it to leave seems like a brilliant idea.
I did that a lot, my sister, too. We also would tell her someone was calling before the phone rang, usually with good accuracy on the caller. My poor mom. My nephew does it now.
When I'm on ambien, I wake my fiancee up to tell him about the ghosts in our room.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:08:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do the same thing with the phone, too! Knowing who was calling as well...used to freak my Mom out.
I did the same thing! But with an old man with a large top hat. There was also a little girl who sat on the end of my bed. My mum just told me to talk to her but I just pee'd the bed in fear of death for years.
Why not ask why he's there? Why is your first impulse to make him leave?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OH GOD, that reminds me, when I was five or six I was playing in my room when I saw this gigantic man shrouded in black with red eyes. He looked at me, pointed, and said "RUN", I went downstairs screaming for my mom, and we came back up but nothing was there. The really freaky thing was that the window was opened. My bedroom window was almost never open, it was nearly painted shut and my parents were afraid I'd open it and fall out so they never fixed it.
I googled it a couple years ago, and apparently others have seen shit like that, and if you google "shadow people", you'll find a drawing of two types of the; the second type, the one in the hood, is EXACTLY what I saw.
So you still believe in ghosts because of a vague memory of when you were three-years-old, when your brain wasn't fully developed, and you could see a vague human-looking shape in the corner of a pitch black room?
Sure, that's a logical conclusion to make.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You still believe in ghosts because you're a moron.
Cadvin ยท 190 points ยท Posted at 19:06:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It is clear. Your child is a changeling. He was deposited by fairies, and will grow up to have no concept of love or empathy.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:49:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:40:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Incredibly interesting.
Cadvin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The only choice now is whether to interpret this as someone explaining the reasons behind changeling myths, or as someone telling an ignorant populace that fairies don't actually steal children, and you needn't be worried.
Xylobe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:31:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stupid changelings.
pikapie ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:22:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know right?
Aiyon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:12:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
pikapie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hmmm...traditionally it was charms and such, I know of some herbs that were placed in the babies crib to make sure they wouldn't be snatched in the night but I forgot exactly which ones and I don't wanna look in my magical herbs book at the moment.
She heard her 6 year old talking alone and asked him who he was talking to. He said that he was talking to the girl on the stairs who was on fire. She researched and it turned out that there was a house there before, that looked strangely close to theirs, where a child died in a house fire.
[deleted] ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 18:42:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister has this portrait of our dad (died 11 years ago) above her fire place. My nephew has been looking near the fire place a lot, smiling and pointing near where the picture is. It's spine chilling to think about.
I don't know. I would put more of a positive spin on it... Your loved ones are always watching out for you, protecting you - and I would assume interested in their granchildrend. Younger kids especially have always seemed to demonstrate the ability to see and hear things adults can't.
That's so strange. A cousin of mine who is much older than me claimed, when she was about 3, that a little girl named Mary Fae came into her bedroom and played with her at night. My grandfather had a little sister who died when she was 3... named Mary Fae. No one spoke of her (my grandfather had been dead for about a decade by this point).
My grandmother had a few pictures of MF in the attic that had never been out in the house, so the adults involved agreed that they would nonchalantly show one of these pictures to my cousin to see if she could identify her. Sure enough, she did.
Needless to say, bricks were shat and the picture was returned to the attic.
It's crazy how kids either pick up fleeting bits of information and condense them into something cohesive... or are just epic trolls.
I remember going downstairs and into my parents room late one night because I was scared.
I was standing in their doorway looking into the darkness and starting imagining someone. I don't know if this was my mind playing tricks or not but I could see this man appear in front of me. first his outline started to appear before I knew it there was a large overweight man in a trench coat, green jumper and work pants and shoes. Staring right at me.
I shut my eyes and jumped onto my mum and dads bed, I wouldn't leave all night.
One other time I was settling for bed and I decided to shake my legs up and down to move the quilt around then suddenly my legs stopped as if someone had grabbed them and held them down.
I thought I'd maybe annoyed a ghost that was trying to sleep in my room. I've never ever shook my legs in my bed again,
LOL, I did this to my mum too. I dont remember it myself, but she said that I was petrified and pleaded with her to make the person go away. Apparently I was so convincing, she got pretty weirded out and scared herself.
my grandfather (dad's dad) died from prostate and bone cancer in '99. Usually old sick people are become ill, get a lot better for a week or two and then succumb to the illness. During that final 2 weeks, he was able to walk upstairs to his office and so on (had a nicely furnished office, he was the mayor of Cleveland in the 70's). He was talking to Dad one day and all the sudden started looking over Dad's shoulder for a while. Dad asked what he was looking at and grandpa said "Martian Luther". Now dad doesn't believe in ghosts what so ever, but this freaked him out so badly that he kindly escorted grandpa downstairs in a hurry.
There's a phenomenom that happens a lot in the human brain. There was even a website called haveyouseenthisman? or someshit like that. It basically said he was in everyone's dreams etc, which is bullshit. However the thing is people remember parts of dreams, not the start, not the ending and not the faces etc. What this basically means is that if you dream about a green ship, then you wake up and all you remember was a ship and someone else shows you a pic of a red ship your brain will tell you that is the exact same ship even though the original was green. This could have easily happened to your daughter. He dreamnt of a little girl fairy and then when you showed her the picture her brain went "THAT'S HER!" just because she was of similar height / bodytype ( skinny,fate etc). Hope this clears your mind a bit :)
He most likely didn't see our mom, we can't remember exact details from our dreams/ hallucinations, when we are showed something similar our brain assumes it was the same thing you saw in your dream. And sometimes people dream/hallucinate without even realising it. That means he could have been dreaming but he didn't realise it.
anchal3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Something similar happened to my son when he was almost 3, but it wasn't nearly as cute as a fairy.
We were staying at our sister's house for a few months before we moved across the country. My husband was out of state working, so it it was just myself and our 3 year old old in the room at my sister's. I'm about to drift off to sleep when my son nudges me and says in a very quiet voice, "The man with the red eyes is looking at me". OK WTF.
I ask him where this man is, and he points to the corner of the room, near the ceiling. He said the man had no arms or legs, and he couldn't really see his face very well to describe it, but said he had red eyes.
We slept with the lights on the rest of the night.
The red-eyed man showed up a few times after that, always in the same corner of the room, always at night, and because I am SO lucky, always as I'm about to fall asleep.
kaat528 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did this too apparently as a child. I don't remember it, but I'd sit in my closet with my "ghost friend" to the point that my mom would walk by and I would be having really in depth conversations with no one, sitting in the floor of my closet with the doors closed. I used to get bad nightmares when I was little so she thought the ghost was just your basic imaginary friend and ignored it. She told me the only times she's ever felt really strange about it was when anyone in the family had lost something, or had a random question, I would ask the ghost and come back knowing where to find it or with the right answer.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
BRB gonna cry and cuddle with my mommy.
andrepd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's Amanda Kissenhug, not Huggenkiss!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was four I saw a neighborhood boy on his bike get hit by a car. He was 9 and he died in front of our house.
A few weeks later I woke up in the night and saw him next to my bed. I recognized him but I wasn't scared. He looked really sad and I asked him why. He said he missed having milk and cookies. So we went to the kitchen, I poured two glasses of milk and we ate Oreos. He was dunking one of the cookies in milk when my mom came down stairs and turned on the kitchen light. His cookie dropped in the milk and he was gone. My mom wanted to know why I was eating cookies in the middle of the night. She did not believe I was fulfilling the last wish of a dead neighbor.
Kyoti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 4 my mother took me to visit my great-grandmother's grave. My great-grandmother had died a few years prior and wanted to be "buried" in a mausoleum as she was terrified of being buried alive.
So my mother was sitting on one of the benches, "talking" to my great-grandmother while I wandered around the aisle. I came back to my mother and asked "mommy, is that Nana next to you? She's really pretty." Mom instantly NOPE'd, got out of there, and didn't visit for months--or bring me with her when she did visit.
I could pull out a magazine and sit with my two year old nephew and he would point to nearly every woman and say mommy, and every man would be daddy...
chenb0x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom said I did something similar. I would point behind her and say โgrandpaโ. Just a few years ago I pointed out my dad's step dad in an old photo. That was who I saw. But he died two years before I was born.
When my grandmother was in her final decline (systemic cancer; her mind was still sharp), she swore up and down there was a fairy in her room. She wanted to be sure we didn't scare my younger cousins by telling them about it.
When my sister was a child she apparently use to hear people talking in her head. They would all be talking at once though so she couldn't understand what they were saying, kind of like when you are in the middle of a crowd. This continued on for quite a few years until another phenomenon replaced it. Sometimes when my sister would wake up in the middle of the night she could sense, rather than physically see, people standing in her room. Sometimes it would be one person, or a couple, several or I remember her saying one time it was a full crowd completely filling her room and surrounding her bed. Even worse than that, she said one time one of them was lying in her bed with her. They never say or do anything really, they are just there. If she didn't wear a top to bed she gets self conscious and puts one on because of the people watching and then goes back to sleep. This still happens to this day. She is 22 years old now.
Through some very conincidental events over the years, My Grand mother (T) lives in her parents house, and my parents live in T's old house. Thus, when I go and visit my paternal grandmother (T), I visit the house that my great grandmother (W) lived in her entire life. T moved into this house shortly after W (T's mother-in-law) died.
So over the years as I and my sibilings and cousins have grown up, all have spent time in this house in our early years. About half of the children that have slept in the guest bedroom of that house have mentioned playing house with the lady in the white dress. They have all independently described her the with the same details (short white hair, old hands, and having a monkey). My great grand mother had a pet mokey and a face lift in her later years, thus her hands looked much older than her face appeared to and mostly wore white flowey dresses.
While some of my aunt's do not like going into that house, I find it kind of comforting that some of my families history is, in-a-sense, preserved there.
I've done that before. When I was about 15, I had this unexplainable feeling we were going to wreck on the highway. So bad, that I pissed off my brother and woke him up to make him get his head off the side of the car. 5 minutes later, we were hit on his side, did a 360 and landed in a ditch. The window his head was on shattered.
No one hurt, but I have noticed that I get these bizarre "bad" feelings. Every time I have one, I call around. Last time, my MIL was on her way to the ER with a pancreatic attack. The one before my brother flipped his truck (he's ok.) Before that, my grandma was diagnosed with cancer, died 2 days later. (She never went to doctors, by the time she went in, they found out through exploratory surgery that the uterine cancer had spread all over her body, she chose to "go peacefully" then.) My husband used to make fun of me and tell me I was having an anxiety attack. Until I had 2 involving his parents. They don't happen often, and usually when they do they're a serious event. I'm not saying I'm psychic or anything, I have no idea why it happens, but I do know that every time I've had the feeling, bad shit has happened to someone in my family.
My dad's mom had similar talents. She always had feelings about things. One day her and my grandpa were driving down the road, and she got a bad feeling and told Grandpa to go the long way around. He brushed her off and told her no, it would take longer and they were in a hurry. She insisted and begged him, telling him something bad would happen. He didn't listen.
A couple miles down the road, they got hit by another vehicle really hard. Grandpa ended up with broken legs, and dad's mom was so badly injured she was put on life support. A week later they had to pull the plug.
It kind of makes me sad that I never got to meet my dad's mom. I'm similar to her in some ways, one of which being getting good and bad "vibes" about things. I don't think Grandpa ever really forgave himself about that one, though.
I used to call my mom's parents, who both died before I was born, my "mom's dad" or "mom's mother", and it has been pointed out to me that is sounds very cold & strange to other people. Then one time I talked to a medium & she told me all about how my grandpa watches over me & all these details about my sister & even that he wants me to pay more attention while I'm driving (I had almost been hit by a firetruck going through an intersection the week before, while listening to loud music & checking myself in the mirror)
Ever since then I've paid more respect at his grave, and send him my love when I pass by it. And I refer to them both as my grandparents now :) I just noticed how you didn't call her your grandma. And immediately presumed you'd never met her.
I never mean for it to be cold or disrespectful. It's just I've never met her. She passed away about 6 years before my parents even met and got married. Grandpa remarried shortly after my parents did, and so I've just always known his second wife as my grandma.
This happened to my sister and I once, we were coming home from getting icecream with my mum and dad and as we rounded the corner to the street that lead to our Circle My both shuddered and said
"Something happened to Harry" (Our oldest brother)
and as we pulled into the circle my brother was limping across the street, his arm completely busted. Apparently minutes before he climbed on the neighbours roof to grab a toy plane he had bought four youngest brother and when the neighbours pulled in (around the time we would have had the bad feeling) he was surprised and fell off the roof, hitting the fence and finally the pavement.
My brother was around 19 or 20 at the time that would have made me around 16-17 and my sister 15-16.
Similarly back in '09 after I finished high school my parents, younger siblings, and I went on a vacation to Lava Hot Springs, we stayed in this little cottage called "The Wayfarer" and the moment my sister and I walked in to the master bedroom we both shuddered when we saw the closet, and then went to inspect the guest room and the closet in there caused us to shudder and then when we got to the bathroom we both said at the same time (looking at the tub) "you could drown someone in here"
My sister and I have had a lot of these moments but not so much anymore.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:21:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, the place is fucking creepy. After we got back form river tubing my sister went and took a shower and when the bath tub drained it started shrieking like a woman being murdered. I was the only other person in the house so my sister and I were really freaked out. My other sister was up late one of the night we were staying (the funny thing being that no one would sleep in any of the rooms so they all camped on the floor, aside form me, who stayed in the smaller bedroom) and she thought she saw my brother sneaking into the kitchen, so she followed his shadow down to the kitchen and when she flicked the lights on, it was empty.
While I slept in the smaller room on one of the twin beds I just felt sick the whole night, like there was someone under the bed (I was 18 at this point so I was well over most of these fears) and someone in the closet. While I slept I dreamt of the weirdest things like two little girls, their mom, and a mean man. The next day my sister had said she had a similar dream only one of the girls was drowned by the mean man and the other was hiding int he closet and saw it all.
may have just been group paranoia after the creepy thing my sister and I felt and did....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. I've never been but I've heard stories... Looks like I never will go.
No you need to go!!! its freaky as hell!!! But still fun!!! Really relaxing to go in late summer just before it gets cold. So the days are warm for river tubing and the nights are cooler for the hot springs!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I grew up in Idaho actually, and always heard of Lava Hot Springs. I'll have to go next time I'm over there.
its nice just don't stay at any of the creepy little cottages.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:25:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm rarely sick; when I do feel sick, it's usually from anxiety. My mom dropped me off at school one day, which she doesn't do often, but I got a weird little sick feeling moments after she left. On her way to work, hooked her tire on the shoulder of the road. She over corrected, and steered straight into a rock wall, rolling her car onto the passenger side.
Maybe I was just catching onto her anxiousness, which caused her to drive erratically? I don't know, really.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:53:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a similar story. When I was young my dad and I were driving somewhere, I turned and asked him, "what happens when a truck flips over?" Which he responded, "don't talk crazy!" I didn't remember saying anything. Anyway, on the drive back there was a truck flipped over on its top almost exaclty where i had asked that question.
My powers aren't as awesome as some other Redditors. I have the uncanny ability to think of something off handed or say something off the cuff then have it come true. Often it results in "Hmm, I should take that random object but to hell with it" Then later "damn, I wish I had brought that."
The worst time was when a friend came to visit when I lived in a sketchy part of town. Every time he'd visit he'd leave early as to avoid getting jumped or beat up. One day he decided to stay late and I mentioned it, tell him as he left "Don't get mugged". 5 min later 4 dudes jumped him and stole his shit. I still feel bad about it even though I was joking.
My brother did a similar thing. My grandparents were leaving our house to go back to theirs. All my family said drive safely, except him; he said drive unsafely just to be funny. They got rear ended about a kilometer from our house. They were fine, but the car that did the rear ending had some bad damage. Weird.
Sorry I ment to reply to your reply but holidays anyways. I pictured you backing up getting hit by a truck going at least 100km/h and you and your son be tossed around like ragdolls and it was also stormy as hell
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:35 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Something like that happened to me a few years ago. My mom had this friend, Missy, and her boyfriend, David, was very abusive. They moved in with their daughter right down the road from us. One day my dad left to go to a motorcycle convention about 45 minutes away. I had been feeling anxious all day and felt like he needed to come home, and he did. I asked him why and he said like he didn't feel like going anymore. But I still felt like something was going to happen. About two hours later, Missy comes flying down the driveway and runs in the house with her baby, both covered in blood. David ran up to the door with a knife and tried to run in after them. Luckily my dad was there to calm him down and stop him. Missy and the baby had a few cuts, but besides that they were ok. I don't know what would've happened if my dad hadn't been there.
H8rade ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 01:58:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you should pay more attention while driving, especially with a small child in the car.
Actually no, I said I forgot to buckle myself up, not driving. It was snowing and I was paying close attention to the road, but when they are speeding 25 mph over, its clear whose fault it is.
Read before you type, you'll look smarter.
H8rade ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 11:18:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't really matter how fast they're going. You can see that and judge if you have enough time to pull out.
Except it does because in snowy conditions on a potentially icy road your ass should not be driving more than the speed limit, even if the person could see them there's no guarantee they could stop from pulling out in time due to the conditions.
Well, have you ever seen any movie with Japanese people? They climb walls, they throw small pieces of metal with deadly accuracy. They have tentacle porn. Need I say more?
Neoaris ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:56:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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need proof, logic says no one in Japan wastes time in Reddit. Unless of course you've created some sort of algorithm that notifies you when something relevant needs to be confirmed.
roloy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:39:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually I just realized I have watched neither of the current 2 rebuilds. I am looking at rewatching the series and now there are all these crazy Death Rebirth2 or something episodes, and I have no clue what I am doing
The Rebuilds are great, a bit more action focused than the series is. Try watching in this order Evangelion episodes>End of Evangelion (Movie)>Rebuilds.
It's theorized she might be Asuka Langley Soryu instead of Shikinami. The damaged parts of her plugsuit sync up to the damage she sustained in End of Eva, as I recall. There's a full explanation out there.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:26:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No way, just came out today? Sweet. I still haven't seen the first two, I'm waiting until I can watch all four in a row. It's been a loooong wait. Have you seen the other two?
Yessir, the Rebuilds are quite fantastic, a bit different from the series. Eva was more about the characters than it was the robots, angels, or action. The Rebuilds however put more focus into the action, and animation for the fight scenes. The Rebuilds and the Series are different, but I think you would like them.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:40:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The story is certainly different from the series, the the plot is effectively the same. Meaning Shinji and friends are fighting different angels, new characters introduced, completely reanimated (looks pretty great). I don't want to spoil too much for you, but the movies certainly are a new experience.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:13:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think it's worthwhile to watch them as they come out, or just wait for the end?
Well, you could do either, but keep in mind that the 4th movie will probably take 1-1.5 years to come out. If you watch the first movie, you will probably be tempted to watch the other one too. So if you want to wait, I would hold off on watching any of them.
I love the idea of a Japanese man tending to God like you would a bonsai tree.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:49:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother when he was 4/5: "Can we build snowmen?" (in summer. Me: "No, it's too warm" Him: "Why's it too warm?" Me: "Because science." Him: "I'm going to break science."
He's going to be a crazy scientist whose aim in life is to break the laws of physics.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I bet it is the DAMN MONGOLIANS
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In a somewhat related incident, one of my great grandmothers died when I was 4ish, and this brought up a discussion on death and all that. The topic of heaven came up, and my twin asked my mom "So where is heaven?" My mother replied "well nobody really knows". I piped up and answered "Heaven? That's in a cloud over Japan".
So who knows, maybe the Japanese ARE looking after God.
I don't have kids but apparently this happened when I was about four.
I shared a room with my older sister and we had huge closets in our bedroom that were about 6 foot tall. My mother would wake up in the middle of the night to hear me crying and she'd come in to investigate what was wrong. She then would find me sitting on top of the 6' closest, cross-legged and rocking back and forth while crying about; "The big scary man put me up here".
Since my mother was tired from it being the middle of the night and being heavily pregnant she didn't really think about HOW I got up on the closet, but would put me back into bed and comfort me until I fell asleep again.
But then my grandmother came to stay with us a few nights and she told my mother that she woke up in the middle of the night because it got suddenly cold and her bedroom door handle was turning. The door opened but no one was there and then the bathroom door opposite her door opened on its own. She stared out the door for a few minutes not moving because she was in shock and frightened, but then heard me start crying.
My mother walked by her room to get to me and of course I was crying about the man putting me up there. My grandmother told my mum what she experienced and my sister slept with my Gran and I slept with mum for the next couple of weeks after that. It stopped once my brother was born, and to this day I have no idea what really happened.
harr1s ยท 1656 points ยท Posted at 19:45:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I always chuckle when supernatural netherworldsy ghost beings have to put up with the most mundane aspects of the human experience, like turning door knobs lol. Instead of just using magic or walking through. I wonder if they file taxes or need to jump start their car batteries ever.
[deleted] ยท 1678 points ยท Posted at 20:13:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine this is exactly what I would do if I could become a ghost.
FUCK ALL Y'ALL, I'M GONNA SCARE YOU FOR FUCKING LIFE.
Aziral ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 22:45:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would do little shit to fuck with people too. Whenever someone got up from their computer I would set their default browser page to /r/spacedicks and switch all of their keys around. I would break the ends off of shoe laces and switch medicine labels. Start hiding their wallets and keys. Oh and also masturbating to their daughters/wives showering.
That last one I actually had a fear of ever since my mom told me about ghosts and the supernatural. I had this weird idea that my grandpa was watching me shower (She told me that the dead were always with you. Always.) so I would refuse to shower for a long time. I thought, y'know, I was saving us both from awkwardness.
Eventually I grew out of it though. Still, thanks for bringing those memories back to the surface. Now I'm just glad I can laugh at how ridiculous that was.
There should be a site created called Deddit, where all the inactive Reddit accounts go and bots make posts to one another using these 'ghost' accounts and talk nonsense for however long the novelty of it holds up.
"Fuck, the afterlife is dull. Welp, time to fuck with people in hilarious ways!"
If there was an afterlife, that's all I'd be doing. Someone puts down a drink, refill while they're not looking. Sort people's laundry when they're away. Just make them confused, while being helpful.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:00:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At first I thought you said "Snort people's laundry".
I'm in, when I die, I will find you. Where shall we meet? I live in Texas and went to school at UH. Maybe we can start in the dorm rooms. There are some pretty nasty rooms in there that really need a cleaning. And instead of complaining about all those college kids that get to college and don't know how to write...why not do something about it? Let's get on this. We can write some bitchin' term papers.
See, I live in Canada. Maybe we should start halfway between us? Like... shit, I don't know where all the states are... what's in between Texas and Toronto?
I've always wanted to visit Toronto! But if we start in the middle, we start somewhere in Tennessee or Kentucky. How's your southern drawl? LOL, I just got this weird reality check thought, "um, starlette, you do realize, you are making plans with some person from Canada for after you die, right?"
Considering that I don't believe in any afterlife, it's getting odd here too. Still, it's a plan. When I die, and discover there is an afterlife, I'm getting on Reddit one last time. Also, if I have some spare time from cleaning shit, and screwing with people, I'm going to haunt the fuck out of some people I know.
I can see it now, some crazed out posse of deceased Redditors start haunting everyone they knew and straightening out their shit for them. It's going to be amazing!
THE WORLD SHALL BE CLEAN! IT SHALL BE MADE SO BY THE LIFELESS! Also, the dead. But they had to be lifeless when they died. Nobody with a life is allowed.
I'm having too much fun, it's time to go to bed. I think I can wait to meet up with you other mischievous souls...but when it happens, we're going to have so much nerdy ghost fun.
Well, good night then! It's 1 o'clock here, and I'd go to bed too, but some assholes are launching fireworks for Canada day, which was technically yesterday. I know who's first on my list of people to haunt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
tmelee ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:39:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't think I've laughed so hard at a Reddit comment in SO long. (I'm also a little less afraid of ghosts now)
Shrim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My theory: there are thousands of ghosts around you at all times, the ones that open doors and move things are just recently dead and are still interacting with the physical plane out of habit.
You have no incontrovertible evidence they do. Besides, if we find they exist, suddenly we have a weird branch of physics to deal with.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:37:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I like your attitude for how if they did exist is that we would suddenly have a weird branch of physics to deal with. It sounds like you are one of the lazy people from the pre-quantum theory era :|
edit: I forgot a word. The grammar is still poor.
TheAntZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So quantum theory allows for the existence of ghosts?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:57:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's completely irrelevant. The point was that when quantum theory was emerging a lot of scientists dismissed it because it created a completely messy new view of our universe that screwed up their neat and orderly way of thinking, even though we have since proved that quantum theory is vital to our understanding of the universe! Dismissing anything at all on the sole grounds that it may prove disruptive to the current theories is a mistake.
SG-17 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:40:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it does? What if ghosts aren't actually dead people but rather images bleeding through time or from other realities into our own?
TheAntZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
bleeding through time? other realities? This sort of shit has actually been proven possible/observed? I've been living under a rock apparently... that sounds seriously unbelievable and awesome
SG-17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:51:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just thinking that maybe quantum teleportation can happen naturally and randomly at a more massive scale.
That isn't quantum anything. Gravity and normal physics prevent teleportation in that manner at the macroscale. It's the small stuff, the stuff that we can only observe as a data point or statistic, that might do this. We see anything else, it is not quantum physics. It is something new to us.
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[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:06:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Boneary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In the UK I think it's the other way round as far as Libel is concerned, ghosts though, most people are just happy to know that Mr Pipes isn't real.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This applies to everything said. So it really has no meaning. Evidence needs to be put forth, and lack of evidence (after serious testing) should be seen as a sign of it probably not existing.
Not going to happen. We're the end point of a few billion years of self replicating molecules evolving. That being so, it makes no sense to believe that at some point ghosts started being produced when people die. Otherwise when, how and why did that start happening? Its absurd. Besides if there were ghosts and they could interact with this realm to turn door knobs, we'd be able to build instruments to detect them. The whole ghosts thing is nonsense. Great story though.
I agree that it's all nonsense. However, I like to consider everything scientifically. Science is ever changing, so I would not be the first person to ignore any sort of reliable, peer-reviewed, and purely scientific suggestions for the existence of human ghosts. I would be highly suspicious and skeptical of any such thing that could arise, but I would examine it none the less.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have belief, I have knowledge. I won't ever "believe" in ghosts, but someday we might have the working empirical data to suggest their existence.
gathly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
scientific curiosity is not the same as curiosity. you don't investigate any random thing. If you're going to start with something that violates all known laws, you should have something pretty strong leading you there, and personal testimony is not very strong.
That's not at all how science works. The fact that I can't prove that a giant, pink, invisible elephant isn't sitting in my living room does not mean that I should waste time considering an assertion that it does.
Extraordinary claims require solid evidence by those defending the claim, and despite alllll of the "I swear I felt a presence" stories, not a single thread of evidence has ever been produced.
There are no such things as ghosts. I can not believe I would have to say that to an adult. This makes me sad.
We've been instilling this in our daughter since she could communicate. It's worked pretty well against imaginary monsters. We've never had fear of things in the dark.
My greatest fear growing up was that I would see something & my parents wouldn't believe me :( Therefore leaving me helpless to contend with the spiritual entity on my own. They tried to convince me ghosts weren't real, but neighbourhood kids & later my personal experiences, convinced me otherwise. As long as it's working for your family though, that's a great idea.
We're working on critical thinking skills, even at the ripe age of 4. I'm not intending for it to stick yet, but the groundwork is coming in.
She's told me a few times that she'd "see something." We'd discuss it, and I'd ask open ended questions, exploring the idea. I know a child's imagination is vivid enough, and they don't have the full mental tool set to always distinguish fantasy from reality, so I try not to harsh her buzz, so to speak.
Overall, though, we're accidentally shooting down potential conflicts (afraid of the monsters in her room) while building life skills. Though, if she has a bad dream, her Stitch pal wearing a toddler Vader shirt helps give relief from further nightmares.
You guys, I heard frustrated groans coming from my kitchen one night, but I was too scared to investigate. The next morning, the pickles I bought a few days earlier were opened.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:56:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:27:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know, when I think about it, it must be hard to be a ghost. Everything you do creeps everyone out, and there's no way to interact with anyone without scaring them half to death. What if you just want a friendly conversation with someone? Nope, they'll freak out as soon as you walk in the door. No wonder ghosts go insane.
Casper sure has it rough.
owlish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:30:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Where was the supernatural in this? (ok, maybe "got cold").
I wasn't thinking supernatural, just "a big scary man" in the house. That's definitely creepy!
Lahaim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you Jack Handey?
mbedner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That actually sounds like it could be an interesting movie/tv show, I mean, nobody want to see a ghost cleaning windows, but I feel like theres potential for some good dialogue between ghosts.
Not so much about ghosts, but Dead Like Me stars a cast of Grim Reapers who have to deal with human life and shit while doing their jobs.
Boneary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There was a british TV show called Rentaghost, it was about ghosts who were supposed to do oddjobs, was on before I was born though, so can't help you out much beyond saying google it.
I think the reason people do it is because...what else could it be? I'm not saying there are ghosts, but I'm just saying it's not like the wind can turn a doorknob and open a closed door.
Since see what you're saying here but what if the supernatural aren't fully aware that they are dead. Would make sense that they still tried doorknobs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well why not? If the afterlife exists, and if it is just another form of community coexistence, then I imagine there is a society with a structure that would include an economy, daily chores, and human relationships.
MumBum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus. Here I was ready to nope my way out of reddit because I'm home alone. Thanks for that comic relief!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe it was a rookie ghost? doesn't know the wallhack yet etc.
I'm not saying I believe in the supernatural or anything, but I always thought that they were doing that mundane stuff to get our attention, not because they had to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There is a theory, in Neil Stephenson's Anathem, that (spoilers) our brains exist in many universes at once, and that some things are similar across universes, similar enough that they give us otherworldly feelings or sparks of insight - and it is hinted that paperwork, bureaucracy, etc, are the majority of those things.
This would handily explain that, if you ask me, if I accepted the whole quantum brain thing, which I don't. But it amuses and horrifies me to think of a world where there are many universes, and they are all, by and large, bland.
Tiverty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:07:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I get scared/freaked out I start yelling really loud and cussing at nothing to seem intimidating, then I run like a little bitch
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:06:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Belfast by any chance? Around 15-20 years ago I would put on my ninja gear and for shits and giggles would break into homes in the middle of the night. I used to turn the air conditioning on full blast before slamming a bunch of doors and lifting children onto high furniture. Probably freaked parents the fuck out!
For me, a real person. I don't know why, but i have this fear of people being in my house. like, LIVING in my house, and me not knowing about it. Especially like someone just living in my attic, only leaving around christmas time, knowing that I'll be coming to get the decorations.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:15:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like that guy who thought he had someone living in his attic that posted in AskReddit a couple months ago... Yeah that is terrifying. Which is why I am completely satisfied in my tiny apartment.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:32:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was the animus of their baby brother, travel-led back in time from when he was an adult ;b
When i was younger my parents told me i had a evil twin locked up in my attic, it scared the shit out of me. I also had a dream a creepy old man was living in between the walls of my basement. After that i always kind of think what if, because it could be possible for some one live in someones house.
IG-64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ducktai ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:06:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think they'd like this story over in /r/Thetruthishere. It's a good subreddit for true, creepy paranormal stories that don't seem to have a rational explanation. Sadly, it doesn't have a lot of subscribers but we like getting new stories :)
M-m-m-maybe there was a ghost, a-a-a-and it'd put you up on the closet so it could sleep in your bed, and th-th-th-then that night with your grandma the ghost was just d-d-drunk and entered the wrong room twice, b-b-b-before entering yours to sleep?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, I walked into this thread figuring I'd hear funny stories about the shit kids say. Did I somehow take a wrong turn and end up in r/nosleep? This is just freaky!
Not me and not my child, but a friend told me a story that's pretty similar. He said they lived in an old house (where someone had been murdered - go figure) and he and his sister used to play down in the basement when they were kids. Similar to this story, there was a large cabinet/closet type thing with some space between the top and the ceiling, and they used to climb up and play on it. One day while they were both on top, the whole thing started rocking back on its own while they just stared at each other, shocked. Wasn't an earthquake - nothing else in the room was moving, and no one else in the house experienced any strange motion. There had been other seemingly unexplainable events occur in that house, but according to him nothing topped being high on top of a closet and having it suddenly begin violently rocking back and forth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it was your baby brother's spirit, taking on the shape of a big man, who was able to roam freely in the house before getting 'stuck' in his new body?
(Sorry for any mistakes in my grammar, I'm tired..)
Do you remember it the situation at all or are these all stories your mom told you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly the unborn child had great powers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I never thought about this, but maybe a lot of ghosts that people think are scary, are actually nice (if ghosts are even real...). Maybe a ghost did open your door but it was just so your mom and grandma would hear that you were crying and had a bad nightmare or something. I'm really glad I read this post in the middle of the day though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The story is fake. That is what happened.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever seen paranormal activity? The ghosts want the first born son's soul or some shit. No matter what really happened, NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your brother is "big scary man" reborn. Obviously.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some kids are crazy climbers. One of my mom's brother's would climb out of the crib, so their uncle built up the walls of the crib higher. He'd still get out, so they built it higher and higher...
A neighbor finally pointed out that all the crib walls were doing was making it farther for the kid to fall when he climbed over.
Anyway, I suspect you climbed up there yourself and then cried because you were scared and didn't know how to get down.
I find it very, very hard to believe that a mother wouldn't be extremely curious about a child appearing on top of a 6-foot object, claiming that a man put them up there.
Did anyone else ever experience a feeling of being picked up and rocked in someone's arms? If you opened your eyes everything was normal but you had to concentrate to feel the bed.
Did anyone else ever experience a feeling of being picked up and rocked in someone's arms? If you opened your eyes everything was normal but you had to concentrate to feel the bed.
Stuff like this is why I'm sometimes glad I have poor eyesight. I can't see beyond my fingertips of my outstretched hand, so I wouldn't really be able to see it. Of course, if there's noise, I'd only be able to hear and not see, which would be worse.
Not my kid but a friend's little girl:
(Little girl staring out car window)
Mom: What are you thinking about?
Little girl: I'm thinking about a man killing a monkey.
Neoaris ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:32:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Curious George: The Dark Years.
Wiskie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, that's kind of a funny thing to think about actually as long as you don't get carried away.
I'm imaging a Tom and Jerry-esque scene with the man designing all sorts of machinations to "get" the monkey, and failing each time.
sox5s ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 20:41:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a nanny, this 6 year old boy had this "christmas elf" doll that sat on his shelf and looked terrifying.
The kid would tell me everyday how it came to life at night and danced around his room and told him secrets.
One time i made the mistake of asking what kind of secrets and the kid freaked out and shouted at me, "I CAN'T TELL YOU! HE TOLD ME NOT TO TELL ANYONE!" then he stood on his bed and shouted at the doll, "MOVE! MOVE!!!!!!! I'VE SEEN HIM MOVE! MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:55:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's almost 2am here and it sure is looking that way for me...
Iratus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
1:13 am and I've been reading trought this thread for hours. Why do I do this to myself?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe we just hate ourselves.
Or maybe our sleep patterns got disrupted by technology.
Iratus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That last bit is true, actually. Artificial light fucks up sleep patterns.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They've been doing that to me for years. (probably, lol)
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:20:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to thinkt he raggedy anne doll in my toy chest woke me up at night and took me to the basement to tell me secrets.
she couldn't speak english tho- just jibberish, but I knew they were secrets. I remember it very vividly and thought it was just something that happened- it must have been repeated dreams because it only happened at night, but I remember picking up the doll during the day and wondering why it didn't move.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:29:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Had a marionette when I was 6 or so that I thought was hopping around by the bed in the night and talking to me in a high-ish pitched gibberish that I couldn't understand. It was like this, and we had just gotten it from a flea market. My mom prayed on it/burned it the next day. I can still remember it. I really hope it was a dream.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember 'seeing' my cabbage patch doll moving at night time. I think I was about 3 or 4. I responded by biting her butt. I don't know why that would be my reaction and it seems kind of weird now, but I actually vaguely remember a feeling of 'omg how rude of her'!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:50:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa I use to dream of having this little human doll thing and talking to it and trying to destroy it. it was a recurring dream when I was a kid, wowww
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So my family has been doing a similar thing for about 30 years. My grandma had the "pixie" which was too high to reach and would watch everything I do to make sure I was good and report to santa. It didn't move but I was told if I found a way to touch it then I would turn to stone. Thanks grandma....
We also have the elf on the shelf for my 7 year old sister. My dad is wishing we had marketed my grandmas idea years ago.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why the fuck did I imagine that last part being sung by Tingle from the legend of zelda?
the last part made me imagine this poor little boy watching his elf doll dance around the room singing the "I like to move it, move it, I like to move it, move it" song from Madagascar.
sox5s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:35 on July 12, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not kidding. This kid actually would not shut up about that song for a month straight. Not during the elf era, though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:26 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sorry to have to tell you...but that elf is abusing your son:'(
CBBR13 ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 23:48:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents used the basement in their old house as their bedroom and private den. It was an unspoken rule that us kids did not go in there. Unknown to us there was a door down there leading to no where. I've never seen it but mom says it opens up on to solid wall. Dad confirms this.
My sister used to be plagued by night terrors and one night she woke up screaming bloody murder, "The door is open! Close it! Close the door!" Mom closes her bedroom door and tries to calm her but she just won't be calmed. "The red door! Close it!" After some time of this mom remembers the red door in the basement and goes down to check it. Sure enough, it's wide open. A trip upstairs revealed that my sister had fallen back to sleep while she was gone.
You can always try to obtain the blueprints to the house. I think they are a matter of public record that way you can see if there was a room/closet there that had been sealed.
My mom told me this story about a year ago. She took me hiking a lot as a kid, and we usually went to interesting historical areas. We were at a place called "writing on stone" and we were walking along a stone wall with carvings on it, and we were next to flat prairie. Apparently I told my mom over and over about this Native man that was standing in the field. She asked me where he was, and when I went to show her, I was pointing at nothing. She said it scared the crap out of her!
I think he saw David Carradine. He was probably just trying to enjoy the afterlife, and was hanging out at this "Writing on Stone" place until he left because he was tired of some kid pointing at him.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:38:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Every time someone mentions David Caradine, I choke up a little.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:25:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So... Are ghosts real or do kids hallucinate ALL the time?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:47 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids have pretty ridiculous imaginations. I remember seeing colorful "mist" sometimes as a child. I remember seeing a red cloud of mist over my bed in the middle of the night, and another time I remember seeing green and red mist while in the car with my parents. Although my eyes are and always have been pretty fucked, so it probably had something to do with my eyesight deteriorating.
My son told me he had a twin while growing in my stomach. He proceeded to tell me the reason why he didn't have a brother was because he got hungry and decided to eat him. That is why he is such a big boy! My son is five.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:41:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and the creepy thing is that sometimes, twinning occurs, but the twin is then subsumed by the other, and only one is born.
You should see if he is a chimera. If so, I will have to reorient my entire worldview.
Iratus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:42:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now, this would be creepy.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:04:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is there ultrasound evidence of this?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:15:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also, parasitic twins are a thing too. One twin will literally strangle the other twin (not literally; just consume more of the resources and deny the sibling of them) while in the womb.
The result is interesting. There are some twin boys at my high school and one kid is literally just beautiful, 6.5 feet tall with amazing muscle mass for his age, great skin and hair, very talented as a basket ball player. The other twin is of course, the total opposite. Apart from them having similar features (hair, skin are the same color, same nose, etc.) it's clear which twin got the short straw. Oh, also, theirs is a confirmed story of parasitic twins.
Not my son, but my little brother. He was probably five at the time. I saw him crawling around on all fours and I said, "Luke what are you doing?"
He looked me in the eye and with a completely straight face he whispered "Sometimes I do creepy things."
Then he crawled away. I didn't feel very safe in my house for the next few weeks.
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 21:18:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At that age, he probably thought "creepy" meant "while creeping" as in like a spider.
Maybe your boss (or boss's wife) had a miscarriage :(
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:49:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Very likely. I said the same sort of thing when my mom miscarried when I was about 2. When she was pregnant with my brother after that, I apparently said a whole bunch of weird things to that effect. I spent a few weeks constantly asking her if the baby was still alive.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:58:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And then the mom's head swiveled around 180degrees, and with an tight lipped smile, she hissed "They do die sometimes," and proceeded to chase you around with a kitchen knife.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:01:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I bet she's going to grow up to be one of those random women at the grocery store that feels the need to tell you everything that can go wrong with your pregnancy and what you're doing wrong.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:53:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, god, I'm sorry. My mom does that too, with everything (considering I'm not pregnant yet).
[deleted] ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 20:32:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was in my room on the computer at about 11, which is late for my sister to be awake even now. I was thinking about bed, but then my sister knocks on the door. She was maybe 10 at the time, so not so young that she doesn't know when she's dreaming. She wanted to sleep in my room because she was sad and scared. I asked her why, and she said, "I watched your sons burn up in the fire. Their screams are keeping me up."
WHAT IS THIS, NOW?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:11:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DO NOT HAVE SONS.
boopah ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:06:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DID SHE ELABORATE?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:37:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I pushed her for a while. That girl sleeps like a rock though. All I got was, "Mom said I had to rescue Zoey (Our dog that we just got, which is also weird that she would mention her since she wasn't even thought of yet!) And that she was sorry they died. Kids are a nope now and forever.
[deleted] ยท 208 points ยท Posted at 19:36:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother sometimes tells me stories of her experiences babysitting. I'll always remember this specific one, when she was a teenager and had to look after two brothers. One of them happened to have a broken arm, the youngest. So after their parents leave, the oldest pulls a chair up to my mom and tells her, "My brother didn't fall down the stairs. I pushed him."
Well since there are a lot of ghost-like stories here, I'll tell this one:
My dad had two brothers growing up. The youngest, Lee, was about 18 when he died of cancer. He died at home and they had to wheel him out of the house on one of those bed things through the front door, which no one ever used (they always used the back door).
Well after he died, every so often the front door would open by itself. It scared my grandma very much. It kept happening frequently until my grandpa went to close the door once and said "Lee, you have to stop. You're scaring your mom.". It never happened again.
I already commented about my nephew, and this isn't that creepy, but it certainly scared my dad.
When I was 4, the phone rang, and thinking I was such a big girl, I answered it. I knew to ask who was calling for my parents before giving them the phone.
I walked upstairs to find him smoking pot and playing guitar. I hand him the phone and say, "It's for you, daddy. It's Jesus Christ!"
His face went white, and he slowly took the phone... To be greeted by a representative of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:51:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter has done two pretty creepy things. The first she was 3 or 4 and tells me "he is coming in red fire." the next she was 5 and said "the lights in the woods whisper our names."
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:22:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your daughter is going to be a great indie songwriter.
When my daughter was 4 I was putting her to bed one night and she said, "My toys watch me while I'm sleeping."
Freaked me out.
Also recently we moved into a new, older home which is rumored to be haunted and while we were unpacking her room she started giggling and asked, "Hey who is rubbing my back?!"
Neither I nor my boyfriend were close enough to her to be touching her.
This house is creepy.
When I was young I distinctly remember trying to wake up during the night because I believed that all of my stuffed animals came alive and partied while I slept, could be that I had 175 of them staring at me from the wall at the foot of my bed.
Zanki ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:35:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember this happening and it freaked me the hell out, this happened before Toy Story was released. I used to hear things as a kid and sometimes see things in my house. I woke up one night because I felt one of my soft toys climb over me and drop down onto the floor and keep moving. I freaked out and ran into my mums room. Woke her up terrified. She wasn't very happy but let me sleep in her room. I refused to sleep with dolls and stuffed toys in my bed after that apart from Noah.
It couldn't have been an animal. We didn't have any pets at the time apart from fish, so unless my goldfish grew arms and legs I doubt it was them. Nothing could have gotten into the house.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:49:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOL I did the same thing.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, most kids go through a stage where they start to figure out what life and living things really are. When you're young, you pretty much assume everything is alive, so to speak, but that it just doesn't move. I'm sure having life-like toys/models/dolls and stuff of this nature makes it a bit weird/difficult1 for the kid to learn it, as they all look similar to what lives, but they don't. So naturally, a child might think "oh, those one's must only move when I can't see them." because they look soooo similar to other stuff they've seen move.
1 I'm not sure if it's having life like dolls that makes it harder for a child to discern between life/unlife, or it's actually the difficulty discerning that causes human fascination with things of this nature. After all, humans have been making and playing with dolls for thousands of years. Perhaps it's a little feedback loop type thing. :P
I moved into a house in which a teenager hung himself in the basement. I found this out the day I moved in. Oh, I was also dating his cousin at the time (She had no idea I was moving into the house) and we had the same name. The dogs would randomly stand at the top of the stairs (only at night) and bark non-stop. Nothing terrifying about that. I got over it by talking him daily for about the 1st year I lived here, his name was "Ghost Robby712".
Reminds me of when I was a kid, about 5, I got freaked out about my long shelf full of dolls (about 20 of them!) staring at me, so I got up and turned all of their twisty heads around to face the wall (bodies still facing forward). Creeped my mom out a little bit.
Just promise me that if things start to turn bad in that house, you will GTFO as soon as possible. Tired of hearing about people staying in their houses because they're too proud and think flying, sharp objects doesn't mean anything bad.
Oh dude I already have an escape plan. I always wondered why in scary movies people don't GTFO when shit gets bad. As soon as I feel threatened I'm out!
In the mean time if the ghost is giving back rubs, count me in.
Call the Ghost Hunters, and Jeff Corwin. The GH will rid the house of human spirits, but in the off chance that it's a snake ghost, Jeff Corwin will have your back, and his humorous demeanor will make the paranormal situation funny and memorable.
Maybe you're not kidding. Maybe she just heard it somewhere. But this one, for whatever reason, I'm going to choose not to believe.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to guess it's some kind of mix between something she heard from adventure time, her siblings, or maybe even futurama. The worst is after we get back from her karate lessons, then it's all about those eyeballs and the kicking she's going to give them. :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is hillarious
ronearc ยท 2237 points ยท Posted at 17:47:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was only around 18 months old when she uttered her first, full sentence.
She loved to lift the air conditioning grate in the floor of our bedroom and stuff her toys down there. Well, there were some sharp edges in there, so my wife didn't want her sticking her hand in the duct, so she screwed down the edges of the grate, so our daughter couldn't lift it up any longer.
Well, my daughter has this plastic, toy hammer, and she's trying to get it into the vent, but it won't come up. So she takes the hammer, pounds on the grate some, nada. Then she tries to pry the grate up, no go.
At this point, my wife and I kind of chuckled, and our daughter heard us. So she glares with this furious look on her face, throws the hammer at the wall, and almost shouts, "I don't have to take this shit any more."
[deleted] ยท 789 points ยท Posted at 18:39:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a rough life being a kid, can't blame her.
x-tophe ยท 903 points ยท Posted at 19:03:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The shit they have to put up with is insane, I mean, eating some vegetables before dessert. What is this, a fucking prison?
To circumvent the consumption of vegetables, I would scrape them off my plate and hide them in my pockets (even when they were soaked in chive sauce). At the end of most meals, my trousers would often be full of broccoli and peppers - I would then scurry up to my room and dump them in an empty biscuit tin under my bed. Every Monday morning, I would transfer the haul from the tin to my Thomas the Tank Engine school bag, whereupon reaching the safety of my school I would empty them into the garden. My Machiavellian plan worked like a treat for months, until my cousin who was visiting from Sweden discovered my vegetable tin and told my mum. I tried the Clinton defence and denied having ever seen the tin before in my life, but I eventually crumbled under cross-examination and was forced to forgo my Tamigotchi for two weeks. All because my cousin decided to open her fat mouth. Fuck you, Henrika - I still haven't forgiven you.
dv_vb ยท 266 points ยท Posted at 19:28:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just vomited any vegetable I did not like back on the plate. Less hassle,same results :-)
My parents said "if you throw it up, you're going to eat it" knowing I could induce vomiting if I wanted to for things I didn't want to eat. The thought of eating voting scared and scarred me.
Years later I asked my mom about it - she said "of course we wouldn't have made you eat it, but there was no negotiating with you!"
My daughter tried that. I cleaned up the puke, served her more and told her to finish (even if that meant puking after every bite). She looked at me, shrugged, and finished her veggies. No more puking at the table after that. 12 years later she is going to college and isn't a picky eater. CALLED THE BLUFF!
MissL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's a far better idea than making the kid eat vomit, thanks.
EDIT: I have not made my kid eat vomit, that seems too cruel.
x-tophe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shoola ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:37:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother did that. My parents just cleaned him, his plate, and table, and made him eat the steamed broccoli again. He learned to hold it down and he ate the balanced diet she wanted him to eat.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like what my brother did. He was a pretty picky eater and whenever there was something he didn't want to eat, he'd scream about how he didn't like it and didn't want to eat it. Sure enough, it became a thing of principle for mom and dad to make him eat X portion of whatever it was he was avoiding. In retaliation, to prove a point, or maybe a natural reaction that could have been avoided, he would sometimes eat a bite and then promptly puke it back up. It didn't happen very often because my dad was a picky eater too so mom didn't make things that both of them wouldn't like (in situations like this she'd make something that dad didn't have a problem with but my brother apparently did), but it was priceless to watch the look on my mom's face when this sort of thing occurred. It was an amalgamation of disgust, humor, anger, and disbelief. She'd be cracking up laughing but still trying to yell at him, kind of hard to take someone seriously at that point. Good job, Aaron.
dv_vb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not named Aaron. ;-)
It was only with eggplants and I am able to eat em now. It was a gut-reaction, almost instict but I JUST did NOT want to eat that damn slice. Chewed it, swallowed and then BWARP the slice came back with some other stuff I just ate. One time occassion though :-)
My mom once forced my younger brother to eat applesauce when he was younger. We were around probably second-fourth grade at the time. He said he didn't feel well. Mom said, "I'm not buying it. You're going to finish this jar of applesauce(personal single serving size) or you're going to your room and going to sleep." She put the spoon to his lips. He immediately emitted a fountain of vomit all over her chest and lap. He didn't have to finish the applesauce. Flawless victory.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little (4ish) my parents were trying to force me to eat cooked carrots. I didn't like them and refused to eat them. My dad leaves the kitchen very angry and I thought he was getting the belt. The way mom looked at me I knew I had to eat them quickly or I'd be in trouble. So I inhale the carrots and wash them down. Shortly there after my dad walks in with an egg timer. "Oh...he finished them." I look from dad to mom...then throw up carrots and milk everywhere. There was a few second pause where my mom bursts out laughing and my dad just stands there not knowing what to do.
Mom loves retelling this story and my dad says, "And never again did we force the kids to eat something they didn't want to..."
I STILL do that. With broccoli as well. I hate them.
Huntred ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:59:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Henrika" sounds like the name of a woman who is either stunningly beautiful or stunningly...um...not-beautiful.
Either way, she was a bitch for ratting you out.
mrbooze ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would often be allowed to eat in my grandparent's bedroom (when I was visiting them) because that's where they had a TV. I had apparently discovered very young that I could just drop anything I didn't want to eat behind the headboard.
Years later when they moved out of that house, they move the bed and find an ENORMOUS pile of dried food, and otter pop wrappers, piled up between the headboard and the wall.
Mazuna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I didn't have quite so much guile, I used to be given Marmite sandwiches for school lunch but I never ate/eat much so I would only want half of it and I would come home after school with a guilty half of Marmite sandwich in my Lego lunchbox and hide it behind the radiator on the first floor play room, some years later, after I had stopped having packed lunches, my mum and brother were renovating that room and found some dozens of moldy old Marmite sandwiches lurking behind the radiator, I never lived that one down.
Marmite; for reference is a distinctive savoury British food spread, personally I love it.
my older sister was not as smart. My mom would make us sandwiches for lunch to take with us to school every day; she wouldn't eat them. But, instead of throwing her sandwich into a trash can at school, she brought them home and hid them under her bed. She made it three months before the smell led my mom to her stash of rotting sandwiches.
hm1085 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:13:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister would "drop" her plate on the floor if it contained anything she didn't like. It took my mom a while to realize her daughter was more devious than clumsy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit this brought back a flood of memories. After being fed up with my parents making me eat food I didn't like, I found a way to get around it. Our table was the kind that could be extended, but we used it in short mode. This left two panels underneath with about three inches of free space between panel and tablebottom to store food. When no one was in sight after dinner, I would take food and throw it to my dog :)
I would put them in my pockets and then go to flush them down the toilet, then I got caught and they started searching my pockets whenever I ate and then went to the bathroom. I started putting them in my socks. I gave up flushing my vegetables around 7 or 8 years old.
Yillpv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:09:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me that when she was a kid, her and her five siblings would take the food they didnt like and stick it on a lip under the table. Years later, my grandma was cleaning the table to sell it and found "rice crispies" all over under the edge of the table. They were actually old, dead maggots
I used to avoid eating my veggies until my parents got up from the table to start cleaning up, leaving me there to finish my food like a good girl. I got the clever idea to take spoonfuls of veggies and dump them behind the china hutch. I forgot to clean them up and after a couple of days/ weeks the smell was awful. I was found out and got the crap spanked out of me.
My sister was a toughie when it came to lima beans. She wouldn't eat 'em, and our parents wouldn't let us up from the dinner table 'til we did. So, what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
No, not cosmic annihilation. This:
Sis put her napkin into her lap and every few minutes would flick a bean* or two off the plate onto the napkin. Mom would look around, see a few more beans gone, and praise-and-congratulate Sis for eating them. Wait a few more minutes, repeat. This went on for at least an hour after everyone else had left the table. Finally all the beans were "gone," and Mom let Sis up from the table. As she passed the kitchen trash can, Sis dumped the napkinful of beans. Voila!
I just wish I'd ever thought of that; I hated lima beans too.
* Flick a bean - yeah, I get it...
gdrocks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:01:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you later give her a pringles can?
x-tophe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What a bitch!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I just used to put the vegetables in my pocket, then go to the toilet and flush them.
CtrlF4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would slap collard greens on the bottom of the dinner table. It would stick there like paper mache. Years later there was this giant black disgusting mound on the bottom of the table like some manner of hellish wasp had decided to build it's nigtmarish nest there.
i used to have to sit at the dinner table by myself until i finished what was on my plate. no TV or video games or anything, i'd just sit there until bedtime if i didn't eat my dinner. in all fairness, i'm the pickiest eater in the universe, so there was a lot that i wouldn't eat, and my parents were pretty good about not making stuff i didn't like, but every now and then, they'd try something new and i'd be a little shit about it.
I cook veggies right into the meal and I'm so sneaky about it b/c otherwise they won't be eaten. Lasagna is a great example. I can sneakily add up to 5 vegetables and sometimes tofu. It's not easy. It's actually a very time consuming process. However how else is he going to eat his vegetables. Forcing them gives them a bad reputation. Once he love something with veggies in them, I tell him. It's too late for him to hate it.
The roof of my mouth is very high up. My dentist asked my mother whether i sucked my thumb as a kid (I didn't), and my mom ended up going into a lengthy story about how I hid food in my mouth as a baby. If I didn't like the food, i would just hide it in the large space above my tongue. I would have gotten away with not eating it too, if my mom hadn't realized that I wasn't actually swallowing anything.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's a little girl at my preschool that I can imagine doing this, though she's not talking yet. But she looks at you with such laser focus and is so determined. It's hilarious in a one year old, but I feel for her parents when she reaches her teens.
Yapshoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:45:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stare back at her with the ferocity of a silverback. DO NOT BREAK EYE CONTACT FIRST.
dekrant ยท 265 points ยท Posted at 19:35:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, I feel for her. I totally remember getting pissed when adults acted all condescending to me when I was little.
I distinctly remember from when I was a small child that all my emotions were explosive and all-encompassing. I mean adolescence was though and all, but I don't think most people understand the degree to which little kids feel everything.
So nowadays, when I feel angry of frustrated at something relatively trivial, I remember that it's nothing compared to how I felt when my mom wouldn't buy me that damned ice-cream.
It's that or my consciousness has been transfered to a robot.
I don't know about 18 month year olds but you can feel something before understanding the abstract notion behind it. I think a child can feel when the parent is trying to exert superiority in a situation when they wish they wouldn't, so it's not that hard to believe that frustration at condescension could happen before one's able to understand what that means.
An abstract, unknown somewhere; that is, I forget. Google yielded a few results when I googled 'dogs know when they're being laughed at' or something similar earlier.
That just makes me think of dogs sitting there twiddling their nonexistent thumbs, glowering at me beneath their eternal facade of innocent joy. Plotting my demise. Sucks you couldn't find it though, that'd've been interesting.
Seriously though, I find it incredible that she knew what context in which to use that phrase. It really is amazing how language develops in humans.
aineob ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 20:10:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing how children know which words are important in a sentence without being taught, for example, if they were to try and say 'give me a drink' they will most likely say 'me drink', picking out the two words which will get their point across without the unnecessary 'give' and 'a'
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It follows a process of natural selection; kids will only stick to a word sequence that works for them.
It's likely she was talking already, that was simply the first complete sentence. I remember my sister was about two, we told her we couldn't go to the party across the street, and she responded with "A party. They're having a FRICKIN party and I'm not invited!" and stormed off.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:12:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like how this most obvious fact is ignored for the sake of a good story. An 18 month old saying that as their first sentence, lol. Absurd.
My guess is that she heard someone else say the whole phrase. Like arguing parents, or an adult TV show?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:55:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should read The Language Instinct by Pinker. It's a wonderful book that describes in very interesting detail the relationship between humans and language.
Are you the mysterious nub person with a phantom hand I recently read about in some science blog? That would explain traveling around and being away from reddit, I thought it might be you when I read about it a few days ago.
Are you the same awesome person who posted the Halloween picture where you made your nub look all bloody and cut off and went trick or treating with it?
I'm sorry but how is this ancient comment/image combo still getting upvotes?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:33:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was gonna say something like 'cuz arrested development will always be cool' but instead I'll be honest. We upvoted it to make you, specifically, unhappy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you make excellent circles. I didn't see your username before clicking. thought it was an irrelevant picture that you posted. I read it, then looked up and saw there was never really a hand there like I assumed. I thought, I guess so, that is some twilight zone level shit.
omen2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You were missed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We missed you!
411eli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure why, but this reminds me of a time when my father gave me a well deserved spanking. He remembers it better than I do, but according to him, he slapped me so hard that his hand stung, and I 3 years old, turned around without grimacing in pain, and said through gritted teeth, "I DON'T LIKE THAT", and that was the last time I was ever spanked. I was too big to be spanked and it apparently wouldn't have helped according to my demeanor. Perhaps he should've invested in a cattle prod.
atilly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when I was a child I used to put my face against the floor vents and would yell down them for Carol Anne.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sort of related- My first word was "shit". My parents tell me that it was during dinner, around the time that I was learning to feed myself. Apparently they were in some sort of disagreement and were "arguing" while I was using my food as finger-paint (I wasn't very good at feeding myself). At one point, I knock the bowl off my high chair table thing, which silents my parents, both of them shooting startled looks at me. Just before they said anything there was a moment of silence until my eyes go wide and I'm like
"Shit."
Pooters ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:23:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At 18 months? Jesus Christ your kid is insanely advanced.
Babies are almost incapable of forming such large sentences at that age...maybe only basic 2-3 word sentences. She's either a super genuis child or she was possessed.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This kind of reminds me how my Uncle used to tell me to respond to the question "What do you like?," or similar questions, with "booze and women." My mom hated it so much. Lol.
Now my uncle has a kid and I've been teaching the same thing to him. haha
zillin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had said something very similar when I was young. My father used to have this really dick-ish cat who would stalk me as a baby crawling on the floor and used to violently attach anyone. One time, my grandmother was babysitting me when I was about eleven months old and the cat stalked her and attacked her. She had been bleeding bad and started cussing the cat out while it ran up stairs. She called this cat everything under the sun and she did it right in front of me.
Turns out, I would learn my first words from her and, being a young child who just learned how to talk, would not stop saying what I had learned and would scream it at the top of my lungs EVERYWHERE. It only took a few days for me to learn that my mother didn't want me to say this so I used this to my advantage and for months, I would scream 'cunt cat' at anyone and everyone who ignored me or how I thought would ignore me. My entire family gave me all the attention I ever could want and my mother tried (and failed) to try and pass off what I was saying as 'cute cat'.
Thanks grandma.
ejc925 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hilarious!! In my family we all have the story of when we uttered our first swears. This would take the cake because not only was it her first swear (I'm assuming) but also her first sentence. Still giggling.
Aniolla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
" I did not choose the thug life, the thug life chose me"
My younger brother was about 6 years old and I was 11 or 12 at the time. His bedroom was on the first floor next to our parents' so that us where he took his showers. One day, I happened to have a resin to go in heir bedroom while he was showering and heard him though the crack in the bathroom door. And there he was giving a sermon, presumably to the shaving cream, shampoo, and conditioner.
I cracked up but kept my mouth shut. I ran upstairs, grabbed my sister and two chairs from the kitchen, dragged them in front of the bathroom door, and her and I just sat and listened to him preach away.
Apparently on three occasions, I said things to wither my parents or their close friends that there was no way I could have known (like... what they were thinking).
Sadly, this ability seemed to disappear around the same time I began to take an interest in the opposite sex. Could have come in handy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She figured out life at 18 months, she will save us all.
Yapshoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That good parenting.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother is four and has inherited his mommy's potty mouth. My mom's phone often doesn't get reception in the kitchen, and when I was home a couple months ago one of her friend's kids had left a toy cell phone at the house. He picked it up and said, "Hello? Hello? FUCK!" and hurled it to the floor. It was hilarious.
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 20:31:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 9 and my sister was 3, she was playing with dolls in her room and my friend and I were on the computer in the next room. We hear my sister sing in the sweetest, kindest voice "I am singing my haaaappy song. If you don't like it I will killlll youuuuuu."
I can still remember the pitches. Creepiest thing ever.
His mother had two miscarriages before he and his brother were born. His brother, maybe 4, said something like, "Those babies were us. You weren't ready for us so we had to wait until you were."
My daughter was 19 months old when her Dad died. About a month later she said he told her in a dream that he got to meet the angel that helped him bowl that time. Then she said that he told her that I would understand. He had bowled a 300 once, but of course she didn't remember or understand that.
Um, yes. She spoke in paragraphs actually. She was quite advanced verbally. It was amazing when she was little, not so much fun now that she's a tween!
Not my kid, but a kid my friend and I met at a party about 8 years ago. It's more of a story than just one thing she said.
So, my friend and I were in 8th grade, and we were with her mother for some kind of party, and there was this little girl who couldn't have been any older than 5. She was the only other kid there, so my friend's mom made us go play with her.
This was the creepiest girl I've ever met. She asked us if we wanted to play a game, and we said sure. The game was called "kill you" and it worked by her jumping on us and trying to strangle us. We told her we didn't want to play that game anymore so she came up with a new game.
"You be the mommy, and you be the daddy. Then I'll kill the mommy, and I'll kill the daddy."
She played that game the same way as "kill you", by jumping on us and trying to strangle us. After we got her off us, she walked away into the kitchen and started looking for stuff. We asked her what she was looking for, and she replied with "a knife to kill you with". Her mom saw her in the kitchen and asked if she needed something, she said she was thirsty or hungry or something.
Anyway, this kid was creepy. I think the only reason we didn't run away screaming was because she was less than 1/3 our size and it was just too odd to really think it was real.
Oy, creepy kids. When I was about 12, this odd family moved in next door. They had four kids, where super-duper far-right religious and home-schooled the whole brood, which seemed to amount solely to the kids (the oldest was about 7, the youngest 3) wandering around in the yard and straying into ours to freak us out by saying weird shit.
One time the youngest walked out of the bushes between our houses and stood in our garden for a minute. My mom, who had just stepped outside for something, asks if he's alright. No sign of parents or siblings anywhere. Their conversation went like this:
My mom: "Sweetie, why are you all by yourself?"
3 y/o: "I'm not."
"..."
"I was looking for Nathan [his oldest brother]."
"Oh... well where is he?"
[kid slowly turns and points to this gnarly old tree at the edge of the garden] "He's in there."
My mom led him back over to his house and avoided the whole bunch as best she could.
I think sometimes these happen because of violence in the home?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:10 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily. Let me share a short story from my childhood. When I was about 4 or 5 years old, one of my favorite games was called "Blades of Steel" for the NES. At the start of the game there's a schwing sound, like a sword being unsheathed. Sometimes I'd pull the biggest kitchen knife out of it's holder because it made that similar sound and I'd say "BLADES OF STEEL" to the amusement of my older brother.
So we're being babysat one day, and I pull the knife out and say "BLADES OF STEEL". The babysitter freaked the fuck out, grabbed my brother and hid in the bathroom with the door locked. I wasn't thinking about hurting anyone, but I was amused with how my babysitter was freaking out. So I stuck the blade under the door and was sort of sweeping it back and forth, to the terror of my poor babysitter.
In this case it had nothing to do with abuse, I was just a young kid that was very amused with the reaction I got from my babysitter. I had no intention of hurting anyone, it was just a game to me. My parents never abused us, unless you count the odd spanking abuse.
My little sister had this incredible violent friend when she was about 5 and I was like 8. Well we both went over to her friends house. It was morning time and her parents had practically locked themselves in their bedroom and didn't supervise us at all. Well her little friend M fucking lost it. She locked my sister outside and then fucking chased me around the house with a knife and cornered me in the kitchen. I finally banged on her parents door and all the did was tell M to stop. I was traumatized and called my mom.
I knew a girl like this as well, her household was all kinds of fucked up, as was she. She once locked two of our friends in her garage when they wanted to go home because she was creeping them the fuck out. She moved away not too long after that. All my memories of her are creepy.
some kids have night terrors and related issues
some people are trolling
I personally will accept that some of these are true in the sense that people did not hear things/hallucinate. But, damned if there's any way to prove it, and I could easily be the fool here.
I slapped together a theory in the last couple of minutes in hopes of being able to write this off as "no big deal".
I wonder if children often have dreams of roll reversal with their parents. Since all they know at that age is having mom and dad take care of everything they do, maybe it is normal for young children to dream of taking care of a small person. Since the people they are most familiar with at that age are mom and dad, that's who they dream they're taking care of.
Talking about dreams as reality is common with some young children. This is my rationale and I'm clinging to it until I fall asleep tonight...
Also, the human brain can't actually make up a face in a dream. So since the child hasn't seen many faces, it's likely that they're parents show up in their dreams often.
wes337 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:23:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How can this be proven? How do you know the brain can't make up a face in a dream?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of faces that you see in dreams are faces that you've seen before, even if you were just passing on the street. Since the child has the most experience with the parents faces, it would seem likely that their would choose them.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:16:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that's true.
But I have a competing non-proven theory :
I believe you dont actually "see" faces in your dreams. You "perceive" the identity of the person you see. You don't see his face, you just assume its him because the "face recognizing" part of your brain tells you "Oh thats Brian", hijacking the "vision" part of your brain. Basicly you dont see shit in your dream, you perceive ideas. So you either see "generic person I dont know" or "Brian/Jane/Luke". This causes you to think you only see people you know, because at first it's "vague silhouette of a human being", but if you look you ll be like "of course it's mom".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would beg to disagree, kind dream-philosopher, I have many dream, wherein all I can recall is the faces of people, and many of them I can associate with people I've seen before. Of course, there's always the possibility that you're right, and my brain is primarily different when it comes to aspects of dreaming, than that of other people, but that seems unlikely.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
truth is, I remember very little. That distorts my reflexion, I guess.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there's really only one way to settle this: A DUEL TO THE DEATH!! Or, you know, whatever.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:26:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or, even simpler, little kids talk nonsense almost nonstop for several years. The 99.9% of it that is jibberish or silly fantasy is forgotten, but when they say something creepy it gets remembered as significant and as evidence of the supernatural or reincarnation or life after death.
Agreed. This is also very plausible. I think the weirdness comes from the fact that they are all saying the same thing. If 10 people said that their children told them that pickles are purple, nobody would give a rip.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. I remember saying a lot of weird things in my childhood, which made sense in the fantasy worlds I liked on tv or the ones I created, but none for my parents.
I thought the same thing. Sometimes adults have trouble remembering what they dreamed and what actually happened, imagine trying to differentiate when you're too young to even know what a dream is.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a father of a 3 year old, I'm not entirely sure that he grasps the concept that we were once children as well.
To be honest, it's hard for me to grasp it too. There are two especially difficult thoughts associated with this.
One, I know I'm different. I'm grown. I have experienced many things and have had many different emotions and thoughts throughout my short 34 years. Though my body is older (hello workout injuries), my mind is not. I don't necessarily feel any different than I did at 21 and I find it difficult to realize that.
Two, I've forgotten more than I've known. There have been so many experiences that were so important at one time or another, but they turned out to just be fleeting memories.
I don't know why I got off on a tangent like this, but sometimes reality is tough to swallow. I hate threads like this. I'm drawn in out of curiosity, but then they make me think and I get all upset.
I remember knowing another language, that got pushed away as I became better with english, the only language I was exposed to as a child. I would spend time listing to the voice of memory signing songs to me, and it felt like an older me working to teach me. I was very sad when I could not sing the songs, when I could not form the words of this "before" language.
It some manner, many of us live other lives, even if they are only in imagination.
In the spirit of spookiness, Love Craft givs as what I find to be his least overtly horrifying tale. There is a lot of hope for innocence lost to be found with the silver key.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:07:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely remember having role reversal dreams as a kid. I remember when I was five I dreamt I was pregnant with my mother. I even wore her clothes.
s3harp ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:35:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah this sounds plausible...at least till I'm not scared shitless anymore. Thank you.
Shrim ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:02:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Am I the only one that wants the explanation to be supernatural? Reincarnation and ghosts make the idea of death a lot better in my opinion.
I'm pretty sure this is essentially what we discussed in my life span development classes a few years ago. Young children also lack a firm understanding of gender roles and might believe they'll turn into the opposite sex simply by wearing different clothing or getting a haircut.
Or memories are encoded into genes and when you're younger accessibility to those memories is greater than when you've aged a bit and had experiences that 'overtake' genetic memories.
Or he saw a movie or TV program in which a man was shot by a policeman, and that is the only way he knew how to express his fear that a policeman might break into his house and shoot him.
MRDE_ ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:44:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hardly evidence for reincarnation, perhaps they are developing empathy and causes them to dream from different points of views.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:16:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dreaming strikes me as the cause of most of the spooky 'goings-on' in this thread.
Even so, now I believe in ghosts again...
Dude, don't be so crazy. People dont tell lies on the internet.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My first memory is of a dream where I'm my mum, looking after baby-me. That's not reincarnation, that's a blurring of knowing who I was and where me ended - babies think they are the same being as their mother until they are about six months old, so those identity issues probably continue for quite a long time, giving things where they get confused as to who is who between them and their mother.
There's been quite a few stories where a child has said something like that when both that parent's parents are still alive, so it's quite obviously not reincarnation.
Why do you think reincarnation would only happen with familial spirits? Wouldn't any soul be able to be born into any family? Someone's parents being alive does not disprove that their child has a reincarnated soul.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When a child says "do you remember when you were the child and I was the mother" it means that it's still the same person (the parent of the child) ergo they have to be the parent's mother if the child has a memory of being the mother. I'm not saying it disproves reincarnation as a whole, I'm just saying that in this situation there's a reason that's already had a lot of research done - the fact that babies see themselves as the same person as their mother. So it's very possible that some of their memories take place through their mother's eyes because they've projected their thoughts that way.
Oh, see... the trend I was seeing was "do you remember when I was big and you were small", which doesn't directly imply that the child "was" the parent's parent.
I agree with your initial point, but got confused.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are indeed, as stated all over this thread, many more rational explanations than reincarnation...
I'm going to go for a dream of emulation. perhaps a child does not recognize a faint remembrance of last night's dream, which included a switching of roles. That's how we learn in real life anyway, through imitation; Right?
quakank ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:35:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Most likely just a common theme for childhood dreams. Most kids probably have issues telling the difference between dreams and reality for some period of time.
Sometimes I get the feeling that family members that died too young or before their time are reborn into the newer generation. This is their second and last chance to "finish".
Icedcc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yea i used to say that when i was big i used to have a red car
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids hear parents say, "When I was your age..." and "Back when I was a kid..."
Little kids don't understand that there was a time they never existed. These two and three year olds are assuming that, if their parents were once the kids, then they must have once been the adults. There's nothing creepy about it. It's just a kid trying to connect the dots.
My baby brother assumed that people aged up and down like yo-yos. So he could return the favour of looking after us when we end up as children and him the adult.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I couldn't tell you, but I do remember watching an episode of Roly-Poly-Oly when I was little where the kids imagined a world where they were the grown-ups and the parents were kids. In fact, I think I remember an episode of Arthur with the same thing.
Because he's asking for permission to play the grownup. If you said "I'm little right now! What should we do, Dad?" he would immediately start pretending he was you. Not creepy, just a developmental stage. You are, after all, the authority figure in his life, and he'd like to be in charge for once.
I agree - my kids do this all the time, between themselves, with each other as various members of the family. Some funny stuff is said when they are the mommy. It's a good lesson for me and I always try to listen close.
Is there some reference you and ___mads are alluding to, or did your children both spontaneously start talking about their memories of parent-child role-reversal?
If the latter, that's possibly the more creepy eventuality.
My three-year old has said this too. But, to be fair, I think that is mostly a kid thinking about his role in the family; being the 'leader' adult seems to be popular.
When I was three I went missing for a few hours while my dad was hanging Christmas lights outside (we had a bunch of woods and trails behind our house). Fast forward a few hours I come out of the woods and walk down the road to my house telling my parents a man told me to go home. When I described him to my mom she broke down crying because it was an exact description of her father. He died almost 10 years before I was born.
Arluza ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:01:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While it is a little creepy, I tend to think that without us hearing the description, you jsut met a nice man who your mom, in her distress, thought sounded similar to her dad. UNless her dad had a special mark or expression. Like a lazy eye or a scar.
I highly doubt it in all the other times I travelled through those trails as I got older I never saw anyone out there and also the time I returned home was 8:30-9:00 at night it was also mid December. But none the less its a good thought
Arluza ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:41:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did your description include special details or was it generic?
Because there is hundreds of millions of combinations of racial comboes/natural looks, not to mention clothing style/facial markings/noticeable traits.
One old guy could wear vans/shorts/tee and have a cane thanks to a leg he broke in nam and now the arthritis is too bad to walk normal.
Other guy could be wearing loafers/slacks/buttondown and have a white gash across his cheek from where he ran into a barbwire fence on his motorcycle as a young man.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 00:28:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My godmother's mom died when she was 3 years old. She was then raised by her grandparents. One morning she wakes up and tells her grandmother that her mommy came to her in the night, but she was all burned. Her mother had been cremated...
Fast forward to when I'm little. Said godmother used to call her grandmother "dia" because she heard her grandfather call her "dear" and that was her interpretation. Without any prior knowledge of this, I was maybe 2 and her grandparents had been long passed, one day she came over to see me, and I ran up to her, hugged her and said "hi dia!"
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:48:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think humans have a similar trait to elephants, that memories can be passed down? But is irrelevant so we lose it over time? I think that'd explain the recurring, "I was the adult and you were a kid" theme.
YES. Anything not pertaining to elephants is irrelephant. I just said that to my boyfriend the other day. He looked at me like I had three heads for a moment, but then (thankfully) started laughing.
Is that true about elephants? How's it work, exactly?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea how it works, but African elephants are known to know the exact locations of watering holes that have never been around since their birth, and know when to go there during a rain spell or something as such. You should look into if you want to know more. I'm not really an encyclopedia, just reference basically. Sorry if that didn't answer your question.
I feel like I'd be more inclined to believe in some sort of communication than in an overmind like ability to share memories. That'd freak me right the fuck out.
terub ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:25:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did that once to my dad! My grandpa (dad's dad) passed away a few years before I was born. My parents also gave me his name (but the female version). Apparently one day, when I was younger (maybe 2) I looked at my dad and called him a nickname that only his father had ever called him, and wasn't something I likely could have conceived on my own.
I also had an invisible friend who had the same name I did. My parents swear it was my grandfather.
I also had an invisible friend who had the same name as me. My only memory of him was him trying to get me to do stupid shit and me basically telling him how stupid his ideas were. My Mom said she used to see me talking to nobody in the backyard and she would ask what I was doing and I would say "Playing with DJBell1986". Didn't freak her out though.
maybe you had heard around your around people saying "hi dear" when someone came and that is what you were trying to say too but your godmother heard something else just because she wanted to hear that
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:03:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"My godmother was 3 years old when her mother died." FTFY
This reminds me of a story my mom told me. When she was a little girl she had a dream that her Aunt came to visit and she was scary so she ran to her parents and her parents said "It was just a dream Pat."
and my mom said "Auntie is dead"
the next day my grandfather found out that his sister had died of a heart attack in the middle of the night.
[deleted] ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 19:47:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Our boy when he was 3 kept talking to himself. Started out small but lasted a few weeks. One day i finally joked who are you talking to? He said "kyle" my wife asked who is kyle? And he said "my friend" the story got back to our landlord who lived near us...turns out Kyle was a 35 yo man who hung himself in the townhouse next to us about 5 years ago. We moved about a Month later.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 19:45:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A little 3-year-old boy in my preschool class told me all about how he used to be a girl, a "big girl" who went to college, got her nails done, and was named "Siddy" (like Sydney). He was probably just talking about stuff he saw on TV or whatever, but he told it to me like he USED TO BE a girl and a grownup and now he was a little boy. It was very weird!
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 20:56:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
REPOST
My 4 year old asked "What if there is a fire?"
I explain we call the firemen.
She said "What if you can't hear the smoke alarm because you have headphones on?"
Ummm...someone will hear it sweetie. I had to demonstrate how loud it was with the test button to convince her.
"What if when we call the firemen they ALL have headphones in and cannot hear the alarm?"
Ummm...they can't all wear headphones. It's against the rules.
She finally asks "So what happens when there is a fire and no one can hear it and by the time we do the firemen can't get here fast enough and there is a tornado, and it catches fire from our house, so we are driving away, but the road is shaking?"
It was the first time a child genuinely scared me. I explained that would never happen, but now I have nightmares about fucking fire tornados chasing my family during an earthquake where no one can hear us scream.
TL;DR My daughter would give Stephen King nightmares with her doomsday scenarios and fears.
kulykat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:24:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was this kid, except I was obsessed with volcanoes.
Granted, we did live on ... how many dormant ones? Fuckloads. And there were a couple of constantly active ones a bit further down the coast and island.
My 3 yr old started to cry around 2:45am, I go in his room and he says "GRAMPA MAYNARD SCARED ME!" and I said " Bany you don't have a grandpa Maynard.. Go to sleep.." I got him some water, wiped his face off, flipped the pillow because of tears... He goes back to sleep.
I go back to my room and tell my fiancรฉ & (soon to be step daddy for my son) that West had a nightmare. He said of what? I said " I dunno, a creepy fucking 'Grandpa Maynard."
My fiancรฉ turned white & said that was my grandpop's name. I almost fainted. We now smell his cologne in my sons room constantly.
my dad was abusive when i was a kid and one day my son when he was four said "daddy im glad u dont beat me like your daddy beat you" and i asked him what was he talking about and he said "u remember when..." and he went into detail about this time my dad beat me so bad i damn near died and i had never told anyone about it so i dont know how he knew
[deleted] ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 20:44:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a 10 year old son, when he was 6, we had a conversation that went like this:
My son: Dad, who's Hitler?
Me: He was a bad man, he didn't like the jews and killed a lot of them.
My son: Dad, what's a jew?
Me: It's a religion. A religion is what you believe in, like a god.
My son: I think someone in my class is a jew.... I don't like him, maybe I should... (he looks at me in the creepiest way when he said this).... kill him just like Hitler did.
I had a tape of Disney cartoons as a kid, and one of them was "Spirit of '42", an old Donald Duck propaganda film made at the height of the war. I don't know why it was there. There are some swastikas in that film, and also "Raiders of the Lost Ark" which I saw at 2 or 3 with my cool ass grandpa. One day in kindergarten I drew some on a paper. My parents were advised to put me in therapy.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:59:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You saw something (a very famous symbol) and drew it.. Yep, throw the kid in the looney bin.
Neoaris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or he might start stuffing other children into baking receptacles.
[deleted] ยท 345 points ยท Posted at 18:30:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
One of my 15 month old twins was laying on the changing table while I was changing her diaper and said "Diiiiiieeeeee." I doubt she understood what she was saying but it was strange.
It's not pronounced the same. "Die" in German is pronounced more like "Dee".
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Congratulations, your 15 month old made the same sound every other 15 month old makes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She had never done it before and has never done it since.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm that makes it kind of creepy. But my baby sister did this all the time, scared me the first time. After awhile I just accepted the fact that she would probably kill me in my sleep.
nuhcole ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's Stewie!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
edit: grammar.
Hers or yours?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha mine. I put "I'm doubt" instead of "I doubt."
is your baby a friend with a russian baby because die in russian means, "give me it"
H8rade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No mystery here. She was saying "Daddy," but in baby talk. My sister said that when she was very little, and we all understood it to be "Daddy." We would even call him Dai-e for years after just because it sounded cool.
EDIT
Ok, I just say in your history that you're the mom, not the dad. Still, they could have been calling for Dad to change the diapers instead.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't stress, my 18 month old just talks nonsense like that. If she finds a syllable she likes she'll say it over and over, mostly it's 'byyyyye' which can come off as a little creepy but she just likes the sound of it :)
I don't have kids.
But my mom used to tell my how I would talk to shadows. I called them "Mirror People." I would speak to my shadow and even myself in the mirror. My mom told me that she once asked me to brush my teeth, I told "I can't. The mirror people don't like it when I go into the bathroom. They say they want my face. They can't have my face." And I laughed.
I guess I grew out of it when I got a bit older but I still find it eerie.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:01:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is so creepy. You suck now I can't go to the bathroom..
The creepy thing is there is a post in this same thread by rachrocket, and I quote,
'when i was 3 i had an imaginary friend named facey. whenever i drew her, she never had a face. when my mom asked why she didn't have any facial features (eyes, mouth, ect.) i said "she isn't living anymore so she isn't allowed to have a face"'
My favorite story is from my niece, not my kids. She was around 5, and it was Thanksgiving. Before we ate we were playing around and she bit me. I yelped "ouch", then scolded her. After dinner I go in to the living room and she's there, alone. She walks up, grabs my arm and says "this time, try not to scream so loud" and sinks her teeth in to my flesh.
It's 2:41am and I can't seem to get to sleep. I've been doing my best to be as quiet as possible because I have family sleeping in the next room over. However, when I read this, I completely lost it. Funny story. Hopefully I didn't wake anyone up.. :-)
When I was maybe 10 or so, I was riding home from school in the front seat of the car with my au pair.
"It's too cold," I said, and held my hand about 6 inches away from the temperature dial. I stared at the dial and concentrated, and it began to slowly turn (this was back in the '90's, in our '92 Honda Accord-- electronic climate control probably hadn't even been produced yet).
"How did you do that."
"I have telekinesis."
"Do that again."
So I did it again. Slowly the dial turned under my hand, back to 'cold'.
"Seriously, how did you do that."
"I told you. I'm psychic."
"No you're not. You're not psychic."
She was a little agitated.
"Yes I am." I did it again.
"Stop it."
"Why?"
"You're freaking me out. Stop it."
She was visibly distressed. I imagine she was beginning to seriously weigh whether this very smart, slightly weird child from a family of non-believers really did have strange, dark supernatural powers, and whether she should maybe run away as fast as possible right then and there.
In reality, I had discovered that there was a mechanical linkage to one side of the passenger-side footwell, which I could nudge with my shoe and make the dial move. I eventually spilled the beans, but not before convincing my Star Wars-obsessed little brother that I had the Force.
I did the same thing to my little sister, but it involved the Harry Potter movie, a wand, and a well-hidden remote control :)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:19:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was so pissed at first, thinking you were gonna end with "yeah. For realz. My psychic powerz alwaiz getx me intoo teh tr00blez." Happy upvote fur yeh.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a hugely popular thread so it'll get buried but here goes. My wife died just about a month after my sons fourth birthday unexpectedly. A couple of weeks later he really had said much about it so as I'm putting him to bed one night I ask him if he misses mommy.
He looks me dead in the eye and says "no". Obviously this startles me, and I'm lost for words. Once I finally find rational thought again I proceed to ask him why he said no? He says "mommy is ok. She's happy". Now I'm freaking out. Why is my son saying this? His mom just died?! I the. Ask him what he means by it?
Heres where it gets really freaky to me. He answers me with this "mommy said she is happy", "she said I shouldn't be sad". My late wife had some "issues" and the autopsy hadn't come back yet. We at this time had no idea what she died from - I just found her one morning face down one morning in my living room. Ok back to the story. So when my son tells me this i start to freak the fuck out. Did she goodbye to him??? Was it suicide??
I then proceed to ask him if mommy told him this. He goes "yes". Ok. Now my heart sinks, I get pissed at her, I feel even more horrible for him, and a million other emoticons at once. I ask him "when did mommy tell you this?". He says "at night". "when i sleep she comes and visits me. We talk and she told me not to be sad. She said she's happy where she's at and she watches me when im awake and she will protect me".
Onions and shock.. Right then. I've had 2 years to process this now and it amazes me that a four year old has such amazingly healthy coping skills.
Tl/dr: mom of a four yr old dies tells dad that mom visits him when he sleeps and tells son not to be sad.
100%. It was so surreal and I went through so many emotions during one conversation I remember it like it was yesterday, prolly always will. I just wonder when I bring it up in like 20 years if he'll remember the dreams.
When I was a kid I had 3 imaginary friends named Nicola, Mugo and Bogon. According to my mom, one day I asked her if I could pick some flowers from the garden, and when she asked my why I replied "Because Mugo is dying, and you know it. We must feed him flowers or we'll die too"
And yeah, mommy let me pick up all tulips I wanted.
NTesla ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:13:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So weird. I used to eat tulips when I was a really little kid.
I actually don't remember if he died or not. I don't have many memories of them because they all disappeared when my brother was born, around when I was 4.
The names are actually less creative than they could sound to your ear! Nicola was the name of my favourite family friend and Mugo is a type of pine tree that grows in the woods where I live!
This one is not about reincarnation or ghosts, it's just amusing. My son, when he was about 3 (he is now 9) was hugely into Doctor Who, teh Chris Ecclestone series, and used to wind up his older sister by following her around saying "Are you my mummy?", which as all DW fans will know, is the creepy little gas mask boy's catchphrase, whose touch means death. One day, we were waiting outside a chemist that had an all-night microphone outside it, and he finds the button. The assistants and everyone in the queue inside the chemists looked utterly freaked out as this small boy's voice kept repeating over the intercom (apparently very loudly, in the shop) "Are you my mummy? Mummy? Is that you, mummy? Are you my mummy?" My son is awesome.
pikapie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:13:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's it, if I have a little boy, I'm teaching him how to say that. Especially when my Dr. Who loving friends come over to visit. XD
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:56 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is excellent. I would have been freaked out, too.
My daughter is about to be two. My wife and I where sitting in the living room and my daughter was playing and started to point to the kitchen saying something we couldn't make out. I asked her what she wanted and she said it again and kept saying it. Me and my wife realized she was saying my grandpas name. So I walked into the kitchen and my daughter followed me. Once we got in the kitchen she kept asking me where did he go and was shrugging her shoulders. I brought out a wedding picture of my wife and I with my grandpa and asked my daughter who it was. She pointed to my grandpa and said his name very clearly.
My daughter has never met my grandpa he passed away over 3 years ago.
After reading a ton of different "person with red eyes" posts, just came to a possible solution! Older photos, and even recent ones, that do not have red eye removal make it look like people have red eyes! Yay! Just justified a lot of these stories and made myself less creeped out!
But it doesn't seem like these kids have seen photographs...
Wiki says "Because the light of the flash occurs too fast for the pupil to close, much of the very bright light from the flash passes into the eye through the pupil, reflects off the fundus at the back of the eyeball and out through the pupil".
The red comes from the camera capturing blood in the back of your eyeball....dead people have dilated pupils...
=,( why would you hurt me like that? I was going to be fine...but now I am worse...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:29:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should have said "that was aunt becky, she's here to steal your face if you act bad"
QuillJS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:15:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought of La Llorona. It's a Mexican scary story my parents used to tell me. She drowned her kids and walks around the lake crying and wailing in grief. She also has long finger nails and red eyes. If she catches you kid she'll kill him.
ratleaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A small room off the main living room with lots of windows. It got a lot of sun, hence we called it the sun room. It is also where we kept my son's toys, so he was in there a lot.
My friends and her three year old daughter were driving and passed a police car. The kid asked her Mom if the policeman was "busy cutting people up and putting them in garbage cans." She is full of creepy commentary about cops for some reason.
I'm the kid in the story. As a toddler, I spiked a high fever, and once my mom could do no more, she took me to the emergency room. She says that as she was waiting, holding me in her arms, I looked at her, said, "I'm going to go away now," and passed out. My mom nearly flipped her shit right there in the waiting room. She tells me it was the first time in her life she felt that her heart had truly stopped.
[deleted] ยท 169 points ยท Posted at 19:01:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
On one of his first trips to the beach my 2 year old nephew said "I'm gonna run so deep in the ocean I will never come back" of course we we're like "wait, what?". And he replied "yup, if you go deep in the ocean you never come back, I'm gonna do that"
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:32:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:10:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well did he?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:44:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He wasn't allowed to go near the shore without an adult with him. A few months later he jumped into the deep end of a pool and a cousin had to jump in and save him. He is now terrified of water.
I don't remember doing this, but story from my parents is as follows.
My family has house on a small island on a lake in central Canada, where my grandfather (who I never met, died less than a month before I was born) used to spend his summers with his family. We went out to visit one year for the first time when I was 5 or 6. After getting off the boat, I immediately took off running up the path to the house. My parents chased after me and I ducked in behind a small shed just off the main path. My mom asked what I was doing, to which I answered "When I was older, I used to smoke here."
My mom told everyone at dinner what I said, and everyone got pretty freaked out. I guess my grandpa used to steal cigarettes from his dad and go hide behind that shed and smoke when he was a teenager.
I was driving my daughter, aged 2, to nursery one morning and as usual she was chatting away to herself in the back seat. She said "(little boy in her nursery) X hit me. Im going to hit him. I'm going to hit him in the face. The doctor will have to fix X's face". I just went silent at the little psycho :S
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:28:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually kinda funny.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:33:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not creepy. Pretty typical preschool violence.
Not my kid, but my brothers' four year old came up to me, looked me straight in the eyes and said, very seriously: "The day I will become a grandfather, you will die". He then turned around and continued to do stuff kids normally do.
He's 27, single and has no kids, so I'm save for now ;-)
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:50:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:39:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a comforting thought, I did the math myself already ofcourse. However, when he recently broke up with his girlfriend of 5 years I admit I was a bit relieved ;-)
Oh, I've got another one. My twin brother and I used to have bunkbeds, and I'd always sleep on the lower bunk. I knew my brother occasionally had waking dreams (where you wake up and continue to experience something from the dream for a few seconds), but never thought much of it.
After we got rid of the bunkbeds, he informed me that he would routinely see either a guy in a black hood or a guy in a 'lumberjack shirt' standing by the bed. This guy would be tall enough to be level with my brother, who was in the top bunk. Worst part? The guy apparently always bent down as if getting into the lower bunk, where I slept, at which point he would disappear.
I'm very glad he never told me this while we still had the bunkbeds.
Do waking dreams include when you're having a conversation in a dream and/or the voice of someone trying to wake you up enters your dream? And you wake up, talking about or reacting to a situation in the dream? Subsequently looking stupid? Because I do that a lot.
Not me, but my sister was babysitting our cousins and the youngest one, who was probably 5 or 6 at the time, says that he is afraid of the "Grandma people" that live in the basement. I would be scared to death of Grandma people.
Kids are terrifying. My parents and I used to live with my grandmother when I was around 2-3, and I always used to say I saw a man in a green coat walking around the house. I think I said I talked to him, but I can't remember at all. My nana still brings it up pretty frequently.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:18:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I seem to remember a legend/ folk story about a man in a green coat. Something about cleaning and caring for children, and a creepy forest. What country do you live in, if you don't mind me asking?
Well considering I have an 11 month old myself, this is pretty much the scariest shit i've read in a while and now Im just anticipating my son pointing out how many fucking ghosts live around us. shit.
fartblossom WAS taken, believe it or not, and yes, born in 57. As for the origin of the name, it was something my dad called me and all my friends. I've carried on the tradition with my son.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:32:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Short version, friend's car got towed, friend convinced him it wasn't "stealing" to steal your own car back, both got caught, spent weekend in jail, parents lost sleep, all charges dropped except friend had to do a little community service, parents dropped 5K on lawyer, friend not allowed in my house again.
Arx0s ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 20:13:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Everyones' posts have been scaring the shit out of me, but this made me laugh quite a bit, thank you.
Kitty_D ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:55:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My thoughts exactly. I kept thinking about the fact that I have to go face my 2 year old after work and I was feeling a bit terrified of her by now (even though she hasn't really done anything this freaky). This one made me laugh though.
[deleted] ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 19:47:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:19:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some people have weird reactions to anaesthetic, especially children. Those kind of episodes are not uncommon.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:13:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 13, I had really minor oral surgery, and I spent an hour hallucinating about people just standing, completely motionless wearing charcoal gray suits. I couldn't see their faces, only a shadow underneath their round brimmed pork-pie hats. Despite the fact that they weren't moving, they seemed to get closer. Never when I was looking, but every time I would close my eyes, they were in a different place. There were three of them. Even in my delusional state, I knew not to mention it to my mom, she was scared enough.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:24:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol reminds me of the angels in Dr. Who. Don't blink.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:30:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh God, why did you remind me! My friend literally won't look at mannequins at the mall. She's an impressionable person.
Last year my paternal grandmother decided to move closer to the beach and into a house right around the corner from my parents. She was getting close to her 91st birthday and my father had taken my daughter over to visit. My grandmother is a very proud woman and likes to show off her things and talk about how much everything costs. It happens on every visit so after entertaining my then 4 year old and my dad with a discussion on the value of each item she owns, they were ready to leave. My daughter gives her great grandmother a hug and then looks around at the house and says, "In three days, all of this will be mine." My father says my grandmother lost all color in her face and refused to leave the house for days, but he could barely get the story out over all the laughter. Grandma is still alive and as well as she can be for a 91 year old woman who doesn't like to do anything but refuses to move into a senior community. My daughter had a lot of creepy comments when she was 4. The other one that springs to mind was after I had had an odd dream about my brother dying from renal failure. It was oddly specific and my brother isn't big on communication so we really only hear from him on birthdays and holidays. It just left me with a really odd feeling for days. I mentioned to my husband over dinner that I had a weird dream and just felt off all day. That's when our daughter throws out, "Don't worry Mommy, Uncle Bobby isn't dead." Poker Face. It was funnier when she was pulling that with my grandmother.
[deleted] ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 19:56:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little cousin told my grandma that when my grandma dies she wants her burried in her back yard so she can dig her up and play with her whenever she wants. because that's not weird at all!
i'm pretty sure as a little kid she has no idea what it means, so it's a pretty cute/loving statement once you get passed the images of a kid playing with decaying remains...
[deleted] ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 19:40:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was little and we were sitting down to eat at home, or in a restaurant especially, we would always move butter and steak knives out of her reach. We called them "bad knives". One day she was in a particularly pissy mood as I took her out of the car. She looked at me and said, "When I get big, I get bad knife and cut".
The same child one evening was being fussy about going to bed. I put her in her crib (she was probably about two at the time) and pulled her bedroom door shut, leaving it open just a crack. She yelled and yelled that she wanted the door left open. We ignored her yelling until I turned around to find her standing in the livingroom. (She had never climbed out of her crib before.) "I said I wanted the door open." I let her have the door open.
My two-year-old said to me "Mommy, I want to hit." It didn't creep me out, per se, but I fear it might be ominous. She is such a sweet little girl so it took me by surprise. We do a lot more hippie/feelings talk now.
Not to tell you how to be a parent, but in my opinion, I'd say it might be helpful to find a way to LET her hit without hurting- something like a punching bag or a karate class. That way she can learn that it is okay to feel that feeling and there are special times when it is okay to act on them.
She's pretty advanced, but I meant she rides her trike/scooter. She calls them her bikes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:51:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:52:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, we figured it was time to buy her a toddler bed.
dalkor ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 21:26:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't me as a child, it's a story about my significantly younger cousin.
Earlier this year, my grandmother passed away. My Aunt and Uncle were having a hard time figuring out how to expose this to their kids(5/6) who had pretty much grown up seeing Grandma every day of their life.
About the time of the funeral my Aunt told the story. She said when she went home from the hospital to go tell them our Grandma had passed/moved on and that she had gone to a better place, their youngest Maggie said, "I understand mommy, Grandma and I just had a long talk about how she's going away and we wont be able to see her anymore." This was before any of their kid's had heard anything.
Needless to say I think it sent shivers up all our spines.
0116316 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:27:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No bullshit this exact same thing happened to my uncle Tommy with his great grandma. My grandma told me the story and 40+ years later she still gets teary eyed about it.
Zanki ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:18:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not some uncommon. The night my nan died, I saw her in my room at Uni. She told me she was scared, lost, couldn't find my grandad and that she didn't want to be cremated. I freaked out because it was 1am and I had no idea why the hell my nan was in my bedroom. I went back to sleep an hour or so later, the next day at 4pm my mum called to tell me she was dead. There had been a lot of confusion when she died, they had lost her body, my grandad couldn't find her and they decided to have her cremated.
When my grandad died, my mum came home from work early and her neighbours asked why she was home early. She said her dad had died. The neighbour was shocked because he had just seen my grandad in his car parked out front of the house. Freaked my mum out. I told her what happened with nan after she told me about that. I freaked her out with my description of her. I hadn't seen her for a few years because she went crazy and I didn't want to see it. I still don't know why my nan came to me. We weren't close, actually she hated me, I think she came to tell me that because I would be the only one who would listen.
zerbey ยท 147 points ยท Posted at 18:54:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My eldest had what we believe was an imaginary friend he called Xavier, however, he insists to this day (he's 9 now) that he was a the ghost of a little boy who haunted our old house. It's very creepy!
When I was 5 I had a ghost friend about a year older than me. My parents were always telling me that I was too old for imaginary friends , even though I insisted he was there.
Why not do some research? Ask for some concrete details on the boy, then try to look him up.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:45:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I somehow read "racist little boy" the first time through. I feel like that would be highly entertaining.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
we need the details please? :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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zerbey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We have, he keeps changing his story around so I think it was just a genuine imaginary friend or he was just so young he's forgotten the details (bear in mind we moved out of that house when he was 4). Nobody had ever died in that house as far as we know. He is still petrified of seeing ghosts though, so you never know.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:13:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can assure you it wasn't. I had a dozen imaginary friends as a kid, and they weren't ghosts.
...Or maybe they were and I'm in denial.
[deleted] ยท 305 points ยท Posted at 19:29:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When I was pregnant with my first, a five year old came up to me and said, "All babies are born alone." He mom and I share freaked out glances and then she awkwardly tried to fix the situation by talking about twins.
My oldest (6, 5 at the time) once got mad at my youngest (3, 2 at the time) for sitting in the doorway to their room. Instead of asking him to move or calling for me, my eldest grabbed the little one by his head and shook him as hard as he could. I freaked out, scooped up the toddler and yelled: "What's the matter with you?! You can't shake babies! Do you know that could kill him?" Without flinching, my oldest looked me in the eyes and said, "Yes, that's what I was trying to do." I lost my mind and called up his therapist, wondering if I needed to or could commit him. It was really scary. To clarify, he had a tendency to react physically, but before that I never thought he was actually trying to hurt anyone.
Edit: Thank you so much for the interest, the well-wishes and for caring! For those offended that my son in therapy, I'm sorry you feel that way. I am getting back to cleaning/dancing with the chitlins but I'll check back in after dinner (2-3 hours) if anyone else has questions.
You're not getting enough upvotes for this reply, so I gave you one.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:13:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What ended up happening
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 21:06:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His therapist said to try and keep the two separated and she began to work with my eldest on learning how to calm down. I changed the punishment/reward system so that he gets rewarded daily for no violence and an extra two minutes in time out if he hits. He is now on medication and is doing well. Thank you for asking!
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:50:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad that there is some way to make things work better. I hope this all works out for all of you and wish you the best
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:06:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:44:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was initially horrified that your 6 year old is being medicated, then I thought "well, he did seem to want to kill his sibling," and now I'm sad on two levels.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:05:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I get the horror at medication. I was a staunch believer that medicating children is a terrible thing to do. The brain is still developing... treating what might be a phase could cause permanent problems. He is on a very, very low dose. I understand when people think I am doing the wrong thing, though.
EDIT: Had "threatening" instead of "treating". I have no explanations.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:36:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I never said you were doing the wrong thing. It just makes me sad that medicating a 6 year old is necessary. I totally get that in certain situations it's an important step in treatment, I just hope he doesn't have to be on meds forever.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:48:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I get what you mean. I'm really hoping that I can get the relaxation techniques really integrated into habits so he doesn't need medication to control his moods. He's a smart kid and I know he can do it.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:52:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wish you the best of luck with both of your little ones!
I know that it's totally different but my fiance was very hyper when he was a kid, and one day I guess his Grandma had had enough of him and told him, 'Stop it. You can control it' and he said it was like a lightbulb went off in his head and he realised that he did have control. I realise that wouldn't work for everyone but I think it definitely goes to show that with the right encouragement or words of 'wisdom' that kids can improve how the deal with things :)
Gorgoz ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 21:04:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should watch this documentary, it's called Child Of Rage. The thing he did sounds very similar to things the child, Beth, did.
Although, since he is yours biologically and I'm assuming he hasn't had the bad things happen to him that have happened to Beth, there still could be a physiological issue of some sort.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 21:17:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His dad became an abusive heroine addict, which is why I am now a single mom. He was really close to his dad's family (saw them every day) but they all abandoned him when I left the dad. None of them even said goodbye. So... it's understandable where all his rage comes from. Schizophrenia (I know it is too early for this to be manifesting now, if he has it) and obsessive compulsive disorder run in my family as well. Maybe it makes me a bad person, but sometimes I wish I had not made children... I kind of cursed two lives with awful genetics.
But, yeah, I will check out that documentary. Thank you for the suggestion!
I recently saw two specials on one of the science channels (Discovery, Science, TLC, ect) about a little girl named January who was the youngest person in the US diagnosed with schizophrenia. I think she was 5 or 6 when diagnosed. The specials are very interesting. Just wanted to mention it because you said you thought your child was too young to be showing signs of it. They also had to keep her separated from her younger brother for years so she would not harm him.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 23:10:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I will have to look that up! That is really interesting. I have told his psychiatrist and therapist about schizophrenia being in the family, but they don't seem concerned about that at this point. I will watch him more closely for signs, seeing as I am his first and best defense.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:05:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're not a bad person for thinking that. Depression runs deep in my family and I sometimes look at my daughter afraid that I might have passed it on to her and feel like a selfish scumbag for having made her knowing full well that she may have to struggle her entire life.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:58:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so glad it's not just me! My kids have a lot of health issues, too. My youngest has had tumors since he was 6 months old. The doctors still aren't 100% what they are, why they are growing, etc. I know not everything is genetic, but I still feel so guilty.
vulpyx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:35 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! It's not your fault. Think of it as though your kids are lucky to have been born to such an attentive and understanding mother. So many children with health or mental issues aren't so lucky. You're doing an impressive job.
That is not too young for Schizophrenia in my experience, my brother was diagnosed with Schizophreniaform (a diagnosis when they don't want to give young children under 6 schizophrenia) when he was about 3. He would suddenly flip, say the people in the walls were telling him to kill and eat everyone, and go on the rampage. My mother got very good at driving him to the pysch ward while he was kicking her in the head.
I am so glad you are getting your son help now. It makes a world of difference.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This really worries me. My son has had issues with seeing things that aren't there. He has been telling me about seeing monsters since he could talk. When he was about three he went through this phase of seeing a faceless man all the time. He would just randomly start with ear-piercing screams, like he thought he was going to die. I'm going to make a mental note to mention it at the next psych appointment. I had just dismissed it as an overactive imagination.
How old is your oldest now? Has this sort of thing continued?
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 21:04:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He's 6 now. We did some big changes and I kept the boys separated for a few weeks. It was hard, cause they both wanted to play together.. but I had to be "the bad guy". He's been in therapy for over a year now and things are getting better. He just got started on medication. His psychiatrist says he seems to have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, because he becomes violent when his nonsensical patterns are interrupted. He hasn't hurt his brother since, but he has attacked me a few times. No violence since he started on the medication (Prozac).
That's great that things are working out for you! I've always had anger management issues, but therapy never worked for me and I just eventually learned to control my temper. It's good that you caught it early, my cousin has been arrested for attacking his father with a knife because he was never properly diagnosed when he was young and violent.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 21:21:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you! I am extremely proactive when it comes to helping him. My brother has issues that ended up getting out of control, and he is miserable now. I want my son to be happy and I'm going to do whatever it takes. It's humiliating to ask for help, but no one is perfect and it's hard when you are on your own.
You're a great mom. Keep it up, we need more people like you out there.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:07:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you... I'm actually a lil teary eyed right now. Seems like I'm too busy to stop and appreciate the progress that has been made and the things I have accomplished so I genuinely appreciate this validation.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:11:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His therapist said to keep them separated and then we just worked more intensively with him. She was very reluctant to do anything drastic. I wasn't sure at first, but he has been doing well.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:08:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He is doing better now. He is getting therapy for some kind of defiant disorder and is on medication for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It's been weeks since he last got violent, and he never hurt his brother after that incident. He did attack me a few times, though. Thank you for asking!
My cousin was like this as a child, and while he had a difficult pre-teen period and a less-difficult but still not easy adolescence, he's a normal, highly-intelligent, functional person now. My story is pretty much the same, and I'm also doing great. Hang in there!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much! There are good days and bad days... All I can do is my best and hope it all works out. Your comment has given me a little extra boost of hope, and every bit counts!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, he's been in therapy for over a year now. She comes to the house for play dates but the games are actually relaxation techniques or other teaching games.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:15:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much! I would try to say something reassuring about the potential of having kids but it would probably sound weird, seeing as my original post is about how difficult my own child has been at times. Best of luck to you!
E11i0t ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:19:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. He already had a therapist at 5?
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 21:29:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know it might make me sound like a bad parent... but his dad was hurt, got hooked to pain killers... ended with him becoming a violent heroine addict. Unfortunately, he saw a lot. He has a lot of anger from his dad not being around anymore, as well.
E11i0t ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:49:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that you were able to put him in therapy after that makes you sound like an awesome parent!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:35:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you! I can't undo the past but I'm trying to move forward.
I am happy to see you are taking care of this right now. My sister and I both have violent tendencies, probably be cause our dad was so abusive to our mom when we were little. My mom didn't really know what to do about it. I managed to get it under control starting at age 12. I am 21 now and completely fine. My sister on the other hand has blind fits of rage. We think she might be mildly autistic or OCD. She hits my mom and completely loses it fairly often and is 18. She is now at the point where I dont think it will ever get better. So kudos for you for taking care of it early. You made a good choice.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:25:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We are actually have a dance/cleaning party right now. Well, I am on a break currently, but they have so much more energy than me (and a bigger mess to clean up!). I understand that you think therapy is a substitute for parenting. An hour a week is not really a substitute, though. Sometimes people need help; parenting doesn't come with a manual. His dad messed some stuff up, and I'm working to get us back to normal. I don't think that is a sin...
No you are right it's no sin. I apologize for the over reaction. It is something that is close to my heart. I had parents that would pawn me off and never really helped me. You weren't really supposed to see that.
I know nothing of your situation and was hasty to reply. Again, I sincerely apologize.
[deleted] ยท -25 points ยท Posted at 20:49:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter (she's only 3) had a cat (Lexi) and it died a few months ago. One morning I noticed a small scratch on her hand and I asked her where it came from, she said in the most deadly serious face that I have ever seen a three year old pull; "I saw Lexi last night and he scratched me in the dark and then he flew away." I was so creeped out I couldn't sleep that night in case a killer cat came and cut me up while I was sleeping.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:00:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nyan Cat Strikes
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:01 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:D hahaha:) My cat used to do that, claw me on the top of my head when it was a kitten! When I was a kid (but I don't remember) I came downstairs gushing blood from my chin. My mum says there was a perfectly circular hole cut in my chin and they searched my room from top to bottom for whatever had made it. They never found out and I never told them!
dreamt it, probaly scratched herself while asleep.
Rozen ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 19:51:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My ex and I were driving down the street with her four year old daughter in the back seat. Out of nowhere she shouts "I AM the emperor, everyone must bow down to ME!"
It actually made perfect sense, the kid had control issues.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 19:23:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to ask really morbid questions to my parents. one day my mom was taking me to school and i asked, "mom, say that we hit that person, and his head was hanging by a string. Would he be dead?"
My step-niece spent an evening asking me all sorts of macabre questions. My favorite: "If you hung a guy up by his penis would it rip off?"
koob11 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:19:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah my younger brother did the same thing... He'd always tell my mom that his mind was telling him to do stuff. The weirdest was when he bit her and then said "My mind told me to tell you that's only the beginning."
When I was a young kid, I would lay in bed motionless, eyes wide open, trying not to attract the attention of the hundreds of faces/eyes that were surrounding me. If i so much as moved a finger, they would all stop talking, and slowly turn to look at me, and there would be this loud, hollow metal drum noise that would build and then wane as they glared. If I didn't move, they would slowly go back to their conversations, turning away from me slowly.
I had a reoccurring dream that 4 ghosts were suffocating me, as I stood in the living room. My mother would be on the stairs, (not seeing the ghosts) telling me to get to bed. I still remember every single detail.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:57 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My big sis came downstairs when she was a kid and apparently saw ghosts opening her birthday presents:-/
I had a similar dream, only with spiders and motion. If I moved or took a deep enough breath, they would tighten the webs. If I stopped moving for a long-ish period of time, they would start biting me to get me to move. It felt real, but I would always wake. Only time in my life I can remember feeling 'terror.'
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:37:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have a similar situation, but just because I was forced to watch part of IT from older kids and scared the shit out of me for years. I would lie in bed with the blankets pulled over my head to create tension so you couldn't see me breathing and I would hold my breath. I don't know if I just fell asleep or made myself pass out but I was convinced IT was coming to get me at night .
QuillJS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:55:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is the scariest one I've seen so far.
Maybe you were Lucid dreaming and it was shadow people. I've heard of this happening often to children.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:57:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, shadow people hardley ever happen to people. They are mostly just a story to freak you out... except for the fact that your mind is programmable and and by reading about them you are subbliminally placing them in your mind. (I'm still trying to learn lucid dreaming...)
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:23:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:36 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not exactly lucid dreaming, more like sleep paralysis. Beleive me it is NOT the same... Lucid dreaming is when you can control your dreams, seeing people around you is sleep paralysis. I have had sleep paralysis for years. I can never know when it will come or what will happen. Most of them time I hear things around my apartment, people living, moving around... Or worse... I don't wish that to anyone, because for a long time I tought I was becoming schizophrenic. Nothing worse knowing you are part awake and feeling someone come sleep by your side whispering "Don't worry (REALLY??), it is all real..." (and I don't count all he kids and so -_-").
QuillJS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:08 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How have I been doing this for awhile and not known the difference. Thanks stranger!
When I was 16 I woke in the middle of the night and across was a man standing there who I could tell didn't wasn't "real". He raced towards me and started to choke me. I thought I was gonna die because I could't move but once I was able to force myself to move, I yelled at him and cursed him away. sat up in my bed pissed and yelled some more. lol Hasn't happened since xD Your story just reminded me of this and other similar experiences.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:50:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad, my sister and I have all seen and experienced some really scary things at my mom's house. I was visiting her with my 5 year old son for a week in May and my son woke me up because he was shaking so hard. I asked him what was wrong and he whispered "Mommy, please make the angry dark blue man go away.". We ended up sleeping in the living room with the lights on for the next 2 nights because he was so scared.
My friend was talking to her mother when she was really young, first able to really talk, and her mom asks, jokingly, "Do you remember when you were in mommy's tummy?" (because you know, at that young age, you at least understand you came from mommy's tummy), and my friend replied "Yeah!". So her mom laughs and says "Oh yeah? What was it like?" and she replied, "Well...it was really dark, it was warm, but really wet, and oh oh there was a jump rope."
When I was born, my parents and I lived in a mobile home that had been put on a ranch property a few years before.
From the time they brought me home, weird things started happening. The radio would turn on and off by itself in the middle of the night. Same with the tv. Things would go missing and turn up in weird places, stuff would get moved around.
They noticed that most of these strange occurrences revolved around me. Bottles and nipples would wind up in my crib in the morning when they'd been put away the night before. Toys that were sitting on shelves wound up under the coffee table. They tended to shrug it off as a messy house that came with having baby stuff strewn all over.
I would cry and fuss and the radio would come on and play until I got distracted by the music. I'd laugh and babble when nobody was in the room, as if I was reacting to someone. My parents saw a black shadow moving down the hallway and disappearing into my bedroom on a regular basis. Still they ignored it, logical people that they were.
When I learned to talk it got weirder. I would sit in my room and hold one-sided conversations. I regularly got scolded for getting into snacks that I shouldn't have been able to reach: cookies from the top of the pantry, chips that were in child-proofed cabinets, once I was caught playing with toys that were intended as Christmas presents that had been hidden in the top shelf of my mom's closet. They'd find me sitting in the middle of my bedroom floor having tea parties with nobody, a plate of cookies and a sippy cup of chocolate milk that I couldn't possibly, at two years old, have made myself.
Finally my mom got tired of me saying that I wasn't the one who got the cookies down. It wasn't me. It was my friend.
"Well what's your friend's name?" she asked.
I gave her a man's full name - first, middle, and last - and told her that he lived under my closet and came out to play with me and make me feel better when I was sad. She wrote it off as an imaginary friend, and then my dad got home from work.
She told him that I'd gotten into the cookies again, and that I'd made up an imaginary friend to take the blame. When she told my dad what I'd told her, he flipped. The name I'd given my mother was the name of one of my dad's old hunting and fishing buddies.
A few years before, the man's wife found out he was sterile and left him. She took his truck, his dog, the house. Pretty much a stereotypical country song. He went into a spiral of depression and killed himself.
On the property on which our house now sat. He shot himself in the head and his body had fallen into an open well which had been uncovered while they were prepping the ground for our house to be put down. They filled the well in before they put the house on the property, and my closet was set squarely over where that well had been.
We moved shortly thereafter due to economic hardship (we didn't have the time or money to keep up with the orchards on the property so we moved to a house in the suburbs), but for as long as we stayed in the house, my friend continued to talk to me whenever I was alone in my room and bring me treats when I was hungry or sad.
Throwaway for this I don't want any of my friends knowing about this, it still scares me. When I was about 9 or 10 I swear their were these people walking outside my bedroom these big black shadowy figures, I use to call them the Invisible Men because no else could see them.
So one night I woke up I remember just having these weird feeling in my stomach and I kept having this notion I should go downstairs to my family room so I did. and There were as least 4 or 5 of them in the room, all standing looking at eachother and conversing with one another I can't remember what they were saying once I was in there I just sat silent they all stopped and looked right at me just staring. I remember clear as day a voice in my head saying Run, run now! and I like awoke from this trance and booked in my room.
It gets worse. a month later I wake up sitting straight, the feeling in my stomach is worse and the trance is way way way more intense this time I know I have to go to the basement As soon as I step my foot on the floor my whole leg cramps and I buckle, I crawl back into the bed thecramp stops, this happened for both legs every time I got off my bed. and it wasn't like a cramp like you walk it off it was both legs seized the fuck up and I remember the pain being so intense but numb at the same time? I don't know but I swear it was like something was preventing me from leaving the house.
I told my parents about it, and they brought a priest in, it wasn't until years later my mother told me about all the things she saw happen.
Keep in mind I was 9 -10 at the time and maybe this was all in my head but I still remember it, when that voice spoke it was like all my senses went into overload I never felt in such danger in my life. I know a lot of you will think this is some b.s throwaway account and I can't change that. I still wish and try to convince myself its fake.
jlbob ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 22:19:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:25:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some people (myself included) sometimes have hallucinations on the borders between being awake and being asleep. These hallucinations can stay around even if you move around out of your bed sometimes. I've never had anything quite as strong as you described but I've had a few things happen that completely wrecked my mind until I did some research.
They've ranged from waking up and seeing things lifting up and floating around my room, giant insects flying in through my window all the way up to seeing patio chairs bursting out of my bedroom wall and me physically exerting myself, standing on my bed pushing them back in and sweating, with a bit of 'my duvet is an undead rotting octopus curling around me' in between.
I've read about other people having conversations with their hallucinations for minutes at a time before too.
Auditory hallucinations are also pretty frequent, so the voice talking to you is far from unheard of.
The feeling of breaking a trance is relatable to me, at the end of every hallucination is a point where I realise whatever I was seeing isn't actually there and I typically end up lying down in bed, curled up with my heart pounding so hard as to shake the headboard against the wall.
The leg thing you described could perhaps be something to do with sleep paralysis maybe, I'm not sure because I've never experienced it and remembered it the day after.
Especially at a young age with a childs active mind, things like what you described could be explained by these types of hallucinations.
I have this. Scares the shit out of me. Basically Dementor like shadows (the only word to really describe it is "Shades") swirl around my room and attack my stomach. I'm awake, but I can't move.
wenerd ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:36:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yah, I know. I have a lot of weird dream-related stuff (lucid dreaming, remembering my dreams), so it's more freaky in the moment than seemingly supernatural.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:47:29 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
hmm...stomach...that's where all the cake lives...:)
Trying to stealing my fucking cake, the creeps... mumble mumble.
Love_N ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:27:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to get this all the time, and it was always spiders. Coming down from the ceiling right to my face. I've leapt out of bed, turned on the lights and actually had to consciously reason that they must be hallucinations before they've gone away. This hasn't happened since I started lucid dreaming (hooray!).
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That shit has happened to me a few times too! I am for sure scared it's going to happen tonight after reading all these stories, and especially this one.
Fuck.
Love_N ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:45:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Watch, read, or listen to something that makes you super happy before bed.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sometimes when I sleep naked I wake up and see people just looking at me. And I feel super uncomfortable. Once it was football players all around my bed, quiet, staring at me. Once it was an old man, lying next to me, staring again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:49 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
why didn't you pull the garden chair into the room!? Therefore; proof!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:16 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They were falling on my head! Multiple chairs!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:24 on August 29, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ohh...okay, not so easy to do:-/ but...did they just disappear once they'd fallen?? That's weerd:S
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:23:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had the same type of thing happen to me. From when I was about 9 to the point where I was like 15 I remember seeing this guy walk around the entire upstairs of my house. He was just like this shadow, moving. Clearly defined, but completely silent. He watched me as I slept sometimes.
[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 20:22:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 2 year old was staring off into space with a scowl. I asked him if he was okay. After a few seconds, not even looking, he says: "Knock knock."
Me: "Who's there?"
Him: "...nobody."
His two year old scowl tightened and he walked off to live out his tortured day, at least until nap time.
I'm sorry but this made me laugh harder than anything else I've read. I think it was your "tortured day" comment. It's so hard being 2.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:25:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was afraid I was going to have to find a size 2T Misfits T shirt, tiny leather arm braces and heavy black boots, and start bleaching his hair and painting dark purple eye shadow, kid had himself a deeply emo moment.
Love it. I don't have kids, but the kids I have been around struggle with some serious shit.
One 6-year-old I used to babysit was really quiet during the car ride back from McDonald's one afternoon. Finally he asked, with this really quizzical look and meek voice, "Did Einstein go to heaven?"
[deleted] ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 20:26:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
If that were my kid, there would be no movie. I would have resisted the urge to slap the shit out of her and then proceeded to put her in the car and go home.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think its pretty damn funny myself. I mean, she just really wanted a hug.....lol. And, on a serious fucking note...children very often don't understand wtf they're saying...I know this because adults very often don't understand wtf they're saying.
Yeah, but you shouldn't allow your kid to say "I'll fucking kill you". A threat and foul language? Time-out for sure.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have no children and I don't consider any language foul that says what you actually mean. A threat sure - but again...I don't think the kid REALLY understood what he was saying. Its just not the same. shrug i would have a conversation to be sure.
Exactly- the kid didn't understand because she picked it up from her parents- that's bad parenting. You really shouldn't use that sort of language around your children.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:33 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it could have been because of domestic abuse...which is why mommy didn't scold her:-/
Apparently, I'm the only person who took this to a dark place and thought that maybe she heard that phrase from her dad? :-(
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:01:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh my god, I am LOL-ING. Just the contrast between "give me a hug" and "I'll fucking kill you.
[deleted] ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 20:27:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I've got a couple of freaky incidents which have followed the family.
1)
I was laying in bed next to my wife, who was fast asleep and all of a sudden I could hear someone shouting Daddy! Daddy! I thought it was either my daughter or son, and I went to check up on them both but they were both fast asleep so I went to the bathroom before I headed back to bed and heard someone shout Daddy! Daddy! I thought I heard it come from downstairs, and went down into the kitchen - than all of a sudden the phone rang, and it my mother telling me that my grandma was dying, and I was to head straight to the hospital. Till to this day, I do not know who or what was shouting daddy but I do know it was certainly not my children.
2)
It was the middle of the afternoon, and my wife decided to take my son and daughter out for something to eat as a treat at our local farm shop so I decided to take a well deserved nap. I woke up feeling cold (the heating had just turned off) and I could hear some men talking quite loudly so I just presumed I must of left the living room TV on, and I went it to turn it off but the TV was not on and the room absolutely stunk of cigar smoke - now none of us smoke and there were no signs of any cigars in the living room.
3)
I was living in Munster Germany, at the time as I was in the Grenadier Guards 2nd Battalion and we had been living in Munster for a couple of years, we moved into a new officers quarters at this point in time my daughter had not yet been born. Myself and my wife could often hear our son appear to be talking and laughing to himself in his bedroom so of course we thought he is at that age he must have an imaginary friend etc etc - It was time for him to go to bed one evening and he said he wanted to continue to play with the little white haired boy - My wife turned around and said oh is that what your imaginary friend is called? He turned around and said no, he has not told me his named + everyone knows imaginary friends are not real silly mummy. We continued to still think absolutely nothing of it, than a couple of months had passed and we had made some new friends on base and invited them over with the little boy for a play date with out son - Now I swear to God, and on my fathers grave the kid outright refused to enter my sons bedroom, and when we nudged him inside he screamed in absolute hysterics and kept shouting don't let him near me (we were getting quite concerned at this point) I mentioned it to a couple of colleagues and they said the previous tenants - spoke of the exact same thing and made a complaint to the housing officer so I spoke to the housing officer and he showed me reports of the complaints saying their daughter had too been speaking to someone who she called the white boy - it turned out that a child had died some years previously in the same house from a cot death. We soon moved out of that house once we were told.
biddee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:27:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:15:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
literally NOPE
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:02 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ohhh...thanks a lot, you wouldn't mind dropping by now to tell me everythings ok? It's dark and the light switch it over--> there:-/
___mads ยท 2134 points ยท Posted at 18:49:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm the child in this story, but let me tell you about when I was four.
I'm named after my maternal grandmother who died about two years before I was born, and it's worth mentioning that I was the first grandchild born after her death. I was always very curious about her as a young child... one day my mom laid down for a nap and when she woke up, i was standing at her bedside and looking down on her. Apparently I said "Do you remember when I was the mommy, and you were the baby?"
cue twilight zone theme music
eta: wow, this is like 3x as much karma as every other commend I've ever made before combined. excuse me while i bathe in your upvotes and use downvotes for lather.
My nephew always says that he used to be big like me. Apparently he thinks we age down.
___mads ยท 509 points ยท Posted at 19:26:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's more adorable than creepy. Kids get weird ideas... before the events of my above story, I remember thinking that people 1) hatched from giant eggs and 2)fully grown, so I was born a child and would be a child forever, my mom was born a woman and would be a mom forever, my grandma was born a grandma and would always be a grandma, etc.
I actually remember saying something like that, and my original reasoning. I was fairly certain that I was reincarnated and that I had lost my memory of it happening. I asked mom in all seriousness if she remembered me from before, when I was grown up.
I think it probably creeped her out too.
___mads ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:48:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember thinking something along those lines, but not until later. It's weird how kids understand the concept of reincarnation so early.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:31:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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D3rp1na ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:04:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My great uncle died a couple of months before I was born. My cousin was born a month after me. We would sit around with the family listening to old stories about our family, and we could always recollect CLEAR AS DAY sitting in the living room listening to Uncle Jack playing the piano. The family didn't believe us until we told them where the piano was in the living room, where everyone used to sit, and other details that we wouldn't really know if we weren't there.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:37:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I see the downvotes coming...!
In all seriousness, there's the simple problem of thinking being bound to neurons in your mind, which means that one's consciousness is arguably tied to the body.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, why not? Makes as much sense as the alternative
No, that makes absolutely no sense. Say I just wrote a piece of code... where did this software come from? Nowhere, I just reassembled existing matter. Hell, I didn't even do that. And when I delete it? It's gone. The hard drive is still there, but now configured to represent some kinky-ass hentai or something.
You should check out the scientific evidence for reincarnation. It's nothing conclusive yet - but it's a hell of a lot more evidence than heaven, hell, or just ceasing to exist has going for it.
I can agree it's waaaay more plausible than heaven or hell, simply because there could be a scientific / evolutionary reasoning behind it, rather than "yabbedy, man in the sky, bluuh", but I don't see how it's more logical than ceasing to exist? I just view that as the default view. When you scrap your car, all the metal is now rearranged to be nails, they are no longer a car. When you delete a program, it's gone. When you die, you're gone.
I mean, if you only look at the facts, you see that the conscious you is your frontal lobe, and the neurons it exists of. When the neurons stop firing, there is no more you. But I'd really like to hear where you think reincarnation fits in.
Well those molecules get broken down and spread out throughout the universe. Maybe you're not conscious, but you definitely live on in a way. I guarantee that at least one of your ancestors has blood, or stomach tissue, or bone, etc. inside of you right now.
Now we don't know a whole lot about subatomic particles. There is a possibility that some subatomic particle, or even particles that make up those particles, have a 'memory', so to speak. If someones old brain molecules are now in your brain, and happen to be arranged in a specific way, by pure chance, then possibly random memories or thoughts from someone(even an animal) who lived in the past is living in you, even if oh so temporarily.
Also, not to be that guy, but we can't exactly disprove reincarnation, or even any kind of afterlife.
To get your first point, that is certainly interesting. But it seems like this happening would happen in one in every trillionth trillion person, and can't really explain the anecdotal evidence for reincarnation. That might happen, but it's unlikely to happen often enough to be studied.
And when it comes to disproving reincarnation.. well.. can you disprove that I am, say, Neil Patrick Harris? No, but there's a relatively large chance, that out of 7 billion, that is who you are talking to. It's certainly feasible.
Now, can you disprove that after you stop running / delete a computer program it doesn't go off to software heaven? No, you can't disprove that either, but in this case there's absolutely, what so ever, no evidence to support that claim.
There's no evidence to support I am NPH either, but he is a human, he can type, and there's a chance he could be on reddit.
However, I can't even think of a scientific way for software heaven to be possible. I mean, where do I even start? The software's shipped off to a large server running all software ever created, like an afterlife? That would require humans to build though. And why would we do that? It makes no sense, in the same way that God making heaven or hell makes no sense. Saying there is either makes sense to scare us / lure us, but actually doing it just takes time and effort. And that's even if there is a god... so how would such an after life server come about through random chance and evolution? And why? And how does the software get there? If we're made of a soul, then that makes sort of sense, but we know software is just electrons wissing about the processor. What is human consciousness? Electrons wissing about between neurons.
Sure! I'm not sure if it's been shown that your self is directly in your frontal lobe - I've read a few quotes from neuroscientists saying that it's definitely not in the brain, if you have some more info that would be awesome.
As to reincarnation, I've read a few studies and books on it and there is definitely an observable effect there. Things like children who can remember past lives and know things that it's physically impossible for them to know without being there - and the landmark study on birthmarks and biology here - that page has a few more good links on it.
The way I see it, there's something to this, and it merits more study. It's been a part of eastern thought since Sanskrit was created. It's unfortunate that the "woo woo" spirit side of things seems to cause an instinctive reaction in many scientists and people with otherwise open minds, as it seems like one of those things that is paradigm-changing if it could be more accepted and studied.
As for my personal theory, I think that it's definitely tied into evolution - we could direct evolution and decide how to incarnate from the place between life and death. Set up adaptions to our circumstances in time for them to increase our fitness. Pure conjecture, but it's interesting to think about.
It's interesting to think about, yes, but it's open to sooo many fallacies...
I mean, how do you explain the increasing number of people ("souls")? And, how does this physically happen? There's just no explanation for that, at least we can draw parallels between our brain and computers and see it works in somewhat the same way. And why would you lose your memory? And if you could chose, why would anyone chose to be born in a shitty third world country. Same goes for time, if that's optional.
Oh, and if I knew reincarnation was true, I'd be scared shitless of being born as some aids infected kid in somalia, a poor chicken or something like that. But that's just my fear, totally irrelevant to the science behind it, though.
There's no one explanation - there are lots of explanations of what could happen, but it's all conjecture at this point. Perhaps the memory wipe occurs because you don't want to remember mistakes or misdeeds you committed twelve lifetimes ago - gives you the chance for a fresh start. And as for being reborn into a bad situation, it seems that we learn more when we are born into tough circumstances. Disabled, diseased, struggling - all conditions where we are given the opportunity to grow and learn much faster than someone who lives a bland, western life in an office building.
I wouldn't fear it if I were you - most of the conjecture around reincarnation says that you have some choice in where you reincarnate, and that there is an overarching goal (learning more and growing) that you can count on to give you guidance and direction. For me, it gives me comfort, as if I die I know I will be reborn to continue my learning and my journey. I no longer fear death and thus I am liberated in my actions and life.
As of your last point, well, no, you don't learn more, you have to start over.
But your entire post rests on the assumption / hope that this is done, and designed for you. For your benefit. Etc, etc, which we don't see any proof of in evolution. For this to be true, there would have to be some sort of god or gods looking over this and guiding you. Which makes no sense.
No, there doesn't have to be a god or cosmic entity. I believe in a distant creator god, much like a game character could believe in a game designer. But that'd beside the point - I've based my assumptions on things I've learned from this life and from what I know about the universe and extrapolated from there, like any good cosmic researcher I suppose.
In any event, I take comfort and courage from my beliefs, and that's a positive in anyone's book. Hopefully you can keep an open mind and perhaps this could spur an interest in your learning and growth!
It's been great discussing this with you - cheers!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:23:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah, you dropped one of those lines that they love and its really annoying, by association. I agree with your point, but the way you said it and its association is sorta obnoxious. Anyways, don't go around in creepypasta threads telling people scientific facts. You're killing the mood.
I don't do that at all, I was just lurking this thread more or less, and I came across "I'll believe what I believe and you believe what you believe". That's just stupid and willfully ignorant. And willfully stupid people are the most obnoxious people I can think of.
Show me scientific proof contrary to reincarnation. Show me scientific proof contrary to creation. Show me scientific proof contrary to ki. Why are the people who believe things, even vastly different things like reincarnation and ki, always the ones who must provide proof. I still haven't seen proof of macro evolution. I haven't seen anyone prove the concepts of creation, ki, and reincarnation are not possible. I think it makes those subjects more plausible with science being unable to disprove them when so many crazier things have been proven by science, like atoms. A few hundred years ago the atom was only a belief until proven in the 19th Century.
More or less doesn't sound scientifically sound. Also I was talking about my concerns for lack of proof when science has proven so many wonderful things. (Your "exactly" doesn't make sense.)
Lastly, your logic of burden of proof is flawed. Both side make claims, always. I claim "Thing A" happened or is fact, you claim the contrary. The only burden of proof I have heard about is regarding court when a defendant is being prosecuted by the city/county/state, and then the burden is on the city/count/state for the proof. If a private citizen were to sue another, there is no burden of proof, but whoever produces enough evidence to support their claim will win. (Hopefully)
Well, no. You claim something, and then I say, "huh, there doesn't seem to be any evidence either way". The burden of proof is now on you to prove your claim.
For example, can you disprove my invisible dinosaur, which incidentally is indetectable by any of our senses and doesn't affect it's enviroment? Of course not. I have to prove it's there.
And is it our job to prove people in AMAs are trolls? No, the burden of proof is on them to prove they are who they say they are.
Of course we can try to disprove stuff, but if we fail, that doesn't mean the other side is correct. Sometimes we can prove it isn't Neil Patrick Harris. Other times we can't. But that doesn't mean it isn't a phony AMA, it just means it's more or less unfalsifiable.
Let's quote Carl Sagan: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Well let's use the Christians claims as an example. At one point assuming that the bible is 100% accurate, then there was eye witness accounts and the events that took place were considered facts among the people who saw the events take place. Then after it is widely believed and considered fact, someone had to claim that it was a story and nothing more. We weren't there so as far as this example goes, both parties must prove to the other. Much different than a predetermined set of rules that exist here on reddit.
Oh, I didn't intend for this to have anything to do with reddit, but generally, extraordinary claims provide extraordinary proof. And if everyone saw something happen first hand, then the person saying it didn't happen would be the one with an extraordinary claim.
Seriously though, that's how I feel too. People saying stuff like "well wouldn't it be nice if there was a god / after life" and using that as an excuse to believe is the stupidest type of people, IMO.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:14:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my 1st little bro was young, like 3 or so, he kept asking dad why he couldn't "go back", but he would never say where he wanted to go back to. He would just say, "to the place I was before". "Why can't I go back to the place I was before?" Eventually, after he had asked dad about this multiple times over the course of weeks/months, dad just told him that before didn't matter, because he had to stay here and live a good life with us. Seemed to please my little bro and he never asked about it again.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:15:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What if, haha, there was something to reincarnation. And the younger you are,the more of a sense you have of your past life. :)
djm9545 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my cousins thought the exact same thing! We found this out when he was watching someone put on make-up and said "When I'm a girl, I'm going to wear make-up!" Simon, is that you?
I thought the same thing, at least about being born a certain age. I thought I'd get to be a kid forever, and my parents would be adults forever, etc.
I remember feeling bad for the babies being born into the family, because they'd never get to do the things I could do since they were too little.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:31:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was convinced until I was 8 that because I couldn't remember being born, that I had been manufactured somewhere and was part robot. Robots don't have to listen to adults.
___mads ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:48:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
do you happen to have a best friend/tiger named Hobbes...?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:50:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, but I had a stuffed calico cat named Shaggy who went everywhere with me.
LeazZ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:39:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to think that our names changed after a certain age. Like my adult name will be different than my kid name.
Slightly irrelevent but i love hearing about kids weird ideas.
when i was little apparently i used to believe that i was once a monkey and that everyone individually experienced evolution.
___mads ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:53:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid I imagined the world as a blue ball with my state on it, and that's it. How I knew what it was shaped like, and what a globe looked like, without apparently having seen either of them, I have no idea.
Also, my mom told me how babby is formed by saying "The daddy puts his seed in the mommy's belly", so I imagined my father hoeing her stomach until a flowerbed-sized patch of soil appeared, and then planting a seed in it.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:06:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't recall doing this, but my younger sister definitely did. Being 7 years my junior, I enjoyed spending time hanging out/taking care of her. Once she started talking, she'd say some crazy shit--with detail. "Remember when I was little and you were big and I'd drive you to the grocery store and we'd get bread?" In retrospect, that coming from a 3 year old is questionable.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:30:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Up until 4th grade i used to think babies were pooped out and i even think one time i tried to search "pooping baby" on the internet(dial up?)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to think gay sex was two men rubbing dicks.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it can be...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It can...
Well.
We could try?
Just to make sure?
For science?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you must have been an intelligent child. I spent the first eight or so years of my life believing that gibberish was a proper language spoken by Jewish people.
I used to think that too! My mom told me that when I was riding my tricycle around, I would often tell her "when I get big like you, and you get small like me, I'll let you ride my bike!" Of course, once I realized how we really age, I rescinded the offer.
I'm 11 years older than my youngest brother. When he was around 4 or so I used to tell him about things that happened before he was born. After I finished my story he would tell me things that happened before I was born. They were completely made up stories and he told them as if he was around then.
nadej22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:08:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My niece just told my mother that one day when my mother grows small, they will be able to take baths together.
I used to tell these made-up stories that would always start with "When I was forty..." and I don't know why. I knew I was never 40 and was not of an age to understand reincarnation even if I did believe in it. It creeped my parents and the rest of my family out, but now they all joke about it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:32:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah my little brother used to say stuff like "i remember when I was big and did ____"
and according to him he was born at the age of 4, everything that happened at any point in the past was when he was 4
Ex: "you remember that time when i was four and _____?"
When my younger brother was probably around 4 and I was about 13, he would argue with us that he was older than us. I just want to know their thought processes when they say shit like that.
My kid sometimes says creepy things like that, about my husband when he was small. Like, "When Daddy was a baby, we didn't know what to name him, so we settled on Tim." I think she's trolling all of us, but sometimes it is very creepy. My husband's mother died years ago.
I freaked my mother and grandmother out when I was about 3. I'd randomly stopped playing with whatever I was playing with (dolls or something) and walked up to them and said "I don't like marbles", and when asked why I'd said "they hurt" and rubbed the side of my head. Mum kissed it, asked if it was better now, and I went back to playing.
It stumped them because when my mother was 10 and her brother was 8, they'd gotten into a fight over a bag of marbles and she'd smacked him around with the bag and he had a big bruise. My uncle (her brother) passed away when I was a few months old, and we had no marbles in the house, at least none that my sister and I were allowed to play with (my sister was about 6 months old, though our brother is around 10 years older than us - choking hazards, etc).
Some of these sound more like kids being able to read their parents or perhaps just mothers thoughts or subconscious. Or perhaps there's some sort of access children have to their mothers minds while developing in the womb.
___mads ยท 101 points ยท Posted at 19:51:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is really spooky. Especially 'cause when I was that age, the idea that my parents had names besides "mommy" and "daddy" seemed preeetty ridiculous to me.
On that note, I remember whenever my mom would say,"I'm going to go visit Dad," it would confuse the Hell out of me. Why are you telling Dad that you're going to go visit him? He's right here, you were just talking to him!
___mads ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:48:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's always really confusing for me, even now, because my parents never stopped referring to one another as "Mommy" and "Daddy" in our presence, even though we're all adults, and will switch between "Mom/Grandma" and "Daddy/Pappou (greek for grandpa)" while sharing anecdotes about their own parents.
I was recently at a funeral for my Uncle, and stories would get very confusing for this exact reason. For instance, my aunt would refer to herself as 'Grandma' but then be talking to her daughter saying 'Remember when grandma did such and such?' And I wasn't sure if she was referring to my cousin's grandma, or to herself.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:19:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being that age and having my mind blown that my mom and my dad were not related. It made sense to me after a couple minutes, but it just didn't feel right. I saw them as a little more alienated from each other after that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But then there's people like me who never called their parents by "mom" and "dad", until later when social pressure becomes important and you act like your peers, meaning using the terms instead of the names.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it kind of weirded me out when this one kid would call his parents by their first names.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:37:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter does sometimes say, "When Daddy was a baby..." in a way that kind of creeps us out, but honestly I think she's just a little girl who likes babies. She also likes to talk about when she was a baby, as if she remembers. Kids are cute, but half the time I don't know what they're talking about!
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:32:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i don't want to make you worry about your daughter who most likely is completely normal, but this girl did exactly the same when she was around that age.
rreform ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's what she said.
I immediately looked up to see what joke I missed.
You know in Middle Eastern countries it's a traditional pet name to call the kid "Mama" or "Baba". My wife's mom calls her "Mama" as a term of endearment. I think you just have to accept that life is weird like that and you never know.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:09:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my daughter's imaginary friends is named George, which is her Great-Grandpa's name. He's been dead a long time. I hope it's coincidence and not mental illness...
I used to say something similar to my mom. I always talked to her about how we used to play when she was a little girl. She said that I talked fondly about all these memories I had of playing with her and wouldn't accept the fact that it wasn't possible. I don't remember any of it. But I have a wild imagination and could have very well made it all up and ran with it cuz it got a whole lot of attention from everyone! Now that I have my own child I see that the more i take interest in her stories, the more she embellishes.
Really, it's the way they learn about social structure. This is why kids play "house." They don't yet understand that family structure is a strict hierarchy, so they play around with it until they figure it out. This question from child to parent is actually quite common, and what the child is asking is "are we going to get to switch roles at some point? Are we taking turns at this?" The answer is.... Well, yes, eventually when mommy gets old, you will take care of her. But that won't be for a long time.
Ever since I was little I've been a night owl, when I was four my mom was watching the shining and I was sitting on the couch playing with toys, apparently there is a scene where the kid writes redrum on the mirror, at this point I looked at my mom and said murder, redrum is murder. She is still freaked out about it to this day and I'm 30.
___mads ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 19:27:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, creepy! We're not alone, based on the other comments.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:41:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would say the same to my sister who is 7 years older than me. "When I was older than you..."
I think it had more to do with how she would always boss me around than me being creepy. I think.
___mads ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:50:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, my friends' little brother used to tell her friends that when he was their age, he was going to marry them. I guess kids that young don't really understand the concept of aging.
I've heard stories of kids saying this too. I think the reason kids say it is because they don't understand the concept of mortality, they think we grow to be old and then we become little again. Kids aren't afraid of being wrong so they just guess remember.
rydan ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:59:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my earliest memories is wondering why I was a kid ... again. No idea why this thought had occurred to me.
When I was 4, my mom was single, so I asked her to marry me.
sixdots ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:25:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew used to freak out and hide under the kitchen table when choppers flew above our house. This was four years ago, when he was four years old. He'd freak out just like a PTSD soldier. It was unsettling. He's 8 and pretty much a "normal kid" now, but I'll never stop being a little weirded out by stuff like that.
I don't think its trolling cause my nephew told my brother the same thing and when my brother told him otherwise, he said "don't you remember me? I'm ___" this is really creepy seeing as he named my brother's childhood friend that died when we were kids
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:52:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I said something pretty damn creepy to my parents when I was about 10.
So apparently I was making strange noises in my room and my parents both came in to check out what was going on. The moment my parents come in I scream "Ghost, Ghost! Go away" I had a cross necklace so I put it out in front of them and continue to scream "ghost"
Then I scream "Sit down!" and apparently it scared my dad so much that he actually sat down.
The next morning my parents asked me if I was alright. I had no clue what happened and had no recollection of ever saying any of that.
Apparently, when I was about 4 I used to wake up ridiculously early (5-6am every morning), and watch some kid's show until my mom woke up. This worked pretty well, until one morning, my mom came downstairs to find me hiding under the couch, looking frightened. When asked what happened, I told her there was a man at the window who scared me. She asked me how he looked like- I told her he didn't have a face. Creepy creepy!
Edit: I'll add that as a child, I never had a knack for lying, I was a little too truthful if anything. I never made up any tales, so my mom never had a reason to not believe this one. I'm still very curious what it is that happened!
spyson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:52:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You probably had/have NTS: Night Terror Syndrome. Basically you experience vivid bad dreams and often call or lash out in your sleep. The bad dreams are horrifying but you almost never remember them the next day. I dealt with this as a kid and it is horrible.
kbillly ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:44:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had horrible terrible dreams when I was a kid. I would wake up not being able to breath or scream I was so terrified. But one night, I defeated my bad dreams and that was the last night I ever had nightmares again as a child.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:24:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. I used to have such bad dreams that I was terrified of my own family and sometimes even had moments of speechless and frozen fear in the middle of the day.
One night when I was having a regular nightmare of being chased through my small town by flying undead, I suddenly recognized that I was dreaming. At this point I turned to face them, silently commanded the apparitions to fall to the ground, took to the air myself, and tore them to pieces. Ever since then (I was maybe 11 at the time and am 25 now) I've been a lucid dreamer and fly almost every night.
That's what I figured it was. Do most kids that have night terrors experience it more than once because this was the only time this had actually happened to me.
It happens quite often. Especially if you have a very active imagination. I'd say about 3 nights of the week I had night terrors. It's different for everyone though.
CohanJo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Day terrors are worse, I think. I'd start out playing in the yard and wake up in a puddle of tears after having run inside, to the basement. Throat raw from screams I couldn't hear. The whole time I was running I was trapped inside my own head. In the purest fear I'll ever know, with a single image: a man chopping wood. To this day I want to whimper just remembering it. I'm so glad it ended as I grew up.
Can you please tell us the story of when you were confused with an actual crack head officer?
^ I prefer to read like he is the boss of the crackheads.
Seek out my earliest comments. Bad mean cops pulled me over for being white in a black neighborhood. Screamed and yelled for an hour and a half. Sorry to ruin the fun.
This is my 5th user name. Been here almost from the start.
Dangit...I was just about to ask why he hadn't walked upstairs yet!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time when I was 4ish, I told my parents very graphically how I died in a car crash and "I went through the trees and up in the sky and there were fireworks but I wasn't scared because mommy was there."
I don't have any memory of it, but after my grandma died I said something to my mom when she bought a bunch of stuff to compensate. She said that I said something along the lines of "Don't spend too much, she doesn't want you to do that. She said it's not good for you." when she asked who said that, I said "Mum-mum," which is what we called our grandma. But this was maybe a month or two after my grandma who I hardly talked to at all had died. So I guess my dead grandma used me as a medium to tell my mom to keep an eye on her wallet.
Edit: I was about 5 or so, give or take a year.
teh_tg ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:48:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, kids sometimes remember reincarnation and tend to forget around age 5 or 6. It's like remembering dreams; it lasts for a few minutes then goes away.
We must be twins. I was born 9 months after the week of my grandmother's funeral, and my mother was the favorite child of her mother. They were best friends. I am also the first grandchild born after she died, and my mum told me long ago that I said something similar to her when I was maybe 3 or 4. Apparently I have a lot of the same mannerisms as my grandmother had, and I've become BFFs with my own mother so it's like a mirror of their relationship. When I was younger I always talked about "when I was older" and I never really felt young. So weird.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to babysit a lot. One of the favorite games that these two little girls I used to babysit was for me to be the "baby" and they would have to take care of me. Give me a bottle, give me baby toys, I would crawl around and cause trouble. This game was invented because they were misbehaving and not acting their ages. It worked out beautifully. I can imagine you playing a similar kind of game with your mother and her just not remembering.
___mads ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha, actually, my mom and (now adult) cousins like to tell us about the game "Kitty Cat Barf-Up" that she used to play with them when she babysat. It basically went like this, iircc:
Mom: Alright, kitty cats, i'm going to the store! And remember while I'm gone, don't eat grass. It makes you, y'know... throw up! leaves living room to paint her nails, smoke, etc.
meanwhile, cousins crawl around the living room pretending to be cats eating grass. an appropriate amount of time later...
Mom: Oh no, kitty cats! You ate grass while I was gone, didn't you?
and then she would examine the living room for imaginary cat puke and, whenever she "found" some, would exclaim loudly and then pretend to throw up everywhere.
Basically it was my mom's way of getting these kids to behave while she did whatever she wanted. Also, it's hilarious.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for your "eta:" bit!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I commend on your efforts
hjqusai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was really young, I randomly asked my mom who Greeny was. Greeny was her aunt who died a long time ago and she never talked about. She freaked out
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maraq ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What's creepy is that my older sister said the same thing to my Mom when she was about 4, only she was in the bathtub at the time and my grandmother died long before any of us were born. Also I have a nice whose nickname is your username.
I had a very similar thing I used to say when I was young. I used to tell my brother that I used to be older than him once, before there were cars or planes or lights. I used to frequently speak of how my family came from vikings. I gave names, dates, facts, basically very detailed descriptions of things that happened hundreds of years ago. Keep in mind I was about 4 when all this happened. Then, we did some research on my family. Turns out that my great grandfather wrote a book that spoke of my family's long history of being vikings. I had the names and dates right. I also said some other various fucked up beyond belief things. I was a weird little shit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:47:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad and I used to always share story's about what he would do as a child, so I'd always share story's about what I used to do as an adult
boqueno ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:56:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
hahah so creepy I'd slap the shit out of my ghost kid
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom always told me that when we (me and my 3 siblings, all less than 4 years apart) were little, she could never, ever hit us because she was afraid that if she started, she would never be able to stop.
Anyone who thinks being a mom isn't a tough job hasn't ever raised 4 elementary school kids, hahaha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister talked about when she was the grown up and our parents, grandparents, etc were the babies and she got to take care of them, but she thought it was yet to come and that as she got bigger, they'd get smaller.
My daughter was still about 2 years old xmas day. We were in the kitchen havin the family dinner when the young lady sneaks from the living room to the kitchen and states aloud "Shhh grandma is sleeping..." We were all in the kitchen and my mother said "No, we are all out here, sweetheart." She ran to the hallway between kitchen and living room, started pointing at a picture of my grandmother who had died of cancer five years before my daughter was born, to that very Christmas day. Everyone stopped in shock, myself included. We all looked to the living room and her favorite chair was rocking.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
whoa, this beats the hell out of my story.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck, I can't wait until I have kids so I can teach them to say things that will creep out their mother.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard this story before.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently it's not an entirely uncommon occurrence. TIL, i guess.
Switche ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Nice creepypasta.
Unless it's something you both remember, I just can't put it past selective memory and funny dreaming, though, or just a funny thing a kid said.
People often dream vividly about their dead loved ones, and intertwine their memories of people as they dream, as well as dream things that happen around them during their sleep. Those are known factors of dreaming which make this easy to explain, given the lack of any actual evidence.
The conclusion drawing the grandmother into this is pretty much constructed after the fact given a loosely connect ed language (you yourself set up the context before the punchline), and given the fact that you were purposefully named after her, one can assume a strong connection your mother puts on you and her mother. She's not crazy, she's just putting the pieces together in her head in a dream state, either actually dreaming, or placing meaning on a strangely apropos thing you said for any conceivable reason.
One of my friends swears a similar bedside visit from another friend when we they were both staying at my folks' place:
The "visitor" friend doesn't remember a thing, but he has been known to have vivid waking dreams/terrors which he cannot recall, during which he basically makes no sense. The "visited" friend swears he was there, and told him "there's someone in the room" or something similar, very calmly.
The visited friend doesn't remember responding or reacting in any way, but believes strongly it happened, but no one can be sure. The visitor friend of course doesn't remember this, but believes it could have been one of his little episodes--a completely plausible explanation.
The fact is no one knows what happened, but the visited friend now says that house is haunted--a jump in conclusion that really doesn't make any sense given the facts he himself presented and we all know.
I just mean to say that when it comes to dreaming, and loved ones, a lot of weird psychological gymnastics can occur. This makes for great creepypasta, but I'm a little disappointed with all the spiritual conclusions people are drawing in response to this, like adding this as evidence to their book of invisible forces that govern the world, when it's really just an anonymous story, with no verifiable anything, and plenty of reasonable conclusions.
Assuming your story is real, of course, and you trust your mother, and believe in her sanity, there's still no reason this wasn't just a funny trick of the mind, but given the assumed connection she felt between you and your grandmother enough to name you after her, it makes sense that she would solidify this conclusion out of the circumstances, even if it wasn't just a dream.
Your involvement is paramount to the story, but your memory of this involvement is completely missing, leaving only your mother to decide the facts and connections. Like others, I'm reminded of similar stories/experiences, but drawing any serious conclusions based on it is just wishful thinking and confirmation bias.
There are countless real-world explanations which don't require assuming any unknown force exists. I love a good creepypasta, but it's just not right that others are using this as a selling point for books promoting spiritual connections or trying to explain their own experiences, or invisible forces, based on yours.
EDIT: changed last few words.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually do remember it (i have other clear memories of early childhood, slightly more than average, I think), but seeing as it's a thread about parents' creepy stories about their kids, I leaned more on my mom's way of telling it. It's not creepypasta, I honestly had no idea other people had similar experiences before today.
I'm not religious, and I don't have any stronger belief in reincarnation than I do in a flying spaghetti monster. That said, if it makes other people happy to believe in it, that's fine by me. I'm not claiming to be proof of reincarnation or anything, it's just an AskReddit thread, mang.
Switche ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I apologize for directing the criticisms of child comments at you, and I should clarify that I don't think you've done anything wrong here in your original story, and I'm not really upset or pissing on parades so much as adding my own thoughts into the ring, like everyone else has. I apologize for my tone, I certainly was not going to appeal to anyone in my other comment that didn't already agree. I hope you'll hear me out here.
The conversation that the story spawned caused me to take pause and reevaluate the story itself, just based on my own beliefs, if you can call them that.
The reasons behind my skepticism here lie in the schools of sociology/psychology involving cognitive biases and logical fallacies, which I find equally bewildering as spiritual conclusions. It is an intoxicating school of thought; reading just a little about it, you begin to see the whole world cautiously through this lens as you can see bias everywhere skewing reality.
The study of bias ultimately comes down to believing that we all have holes in our reasoning skills and perception, a fundamental reason why eye-witness testimony is never reliable evidence on its own. Wikipedia has a fantastic description of it opening the article on cognitive bias:
A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in particular situations, leading to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality.
On the surface it seems an easy way to dismiss anyone's argument--and it is often abused so--but it is much more powerful when applied conservatively, and I'll attempt to show this by applying it here.
Specifically from that same article for our purposes, confirmation bias and belief bias both come strongly into play in interpreting this story as evidence of reincarnation. It's not that reincarnation is wrong, it's that believing this as evidence of it exhibits bias in that it both confirms someone's beliefs, and their preconceived beliefs make it more difficult to accept an otherwise reasonable explanation which does not involve those beliefs, which is the perfect definition of both those biases.
I can enjoy a good philosophical meandering just for fun, but I have to stop when people start supporting it as possible real evidence of reincarnation, even musingly supporting it as you have, because so long as there is a possible explanation otherwise, there is no reason to conclude two-fold that souls exist, and that they are passed into others, based solely on the existence of many stories like this one. That is exhibiting a confirmation bias, believing this to confirm their beliefs without properly evaluating each case for any alternative theories than the one implied by the stories themselves.
You seem to be taking a purely agnostic perspective in this thread, which fits what you're saying here and is totally fine, but it's tough for me when I feel like my school of thought deals extensively with this sort of thinking as natural, but flawed when one favors explanations which require many assumptions, such as the belief in souls, and reincarnation, and this and other stories here as evidence of it. One should not have to be seen as arguing that souls and reincarnation don't exist when we're really just talking about whether this is an example of it, and alternative theories should have as much welcome as supporting comments lest it fall to belief bias.
From an agnostic perspective, I can see you defending someone's right to believe what they want. I don't mean to seem like I'm on the other side of the fence there so much as providing another alternative angle, which I also believe is plausible and fits with fewer assumptions.
People are reminded of strange experiences they had, but existing evidence of cognitive bias also explain why these stories surface in memory, when they are only loosely linked. We are reminded of them due to our bias in confirming our beliefs of those stories with this one, but a true link must be found and proven to eliminate the natural bias, or it is not a true correlating story evidence of any theory.
My story has no link other than involving sleep, and someone believing the house is haunted because of it; my bias sees your story and others as another example of my interpretation of that event, so I am reminded of it, though they are dissimilar in many ways. If I presented this same story and told you it is evidence of possession by an old soul which inhabits that house, it would fit in with the bias of others here, but instead I explain all possible reasons why this may not be an example of reincarnation, which logically leaves no room for ghosts without more information. I do this not to confirm my bias, but to include as many contrary thoughts and evidence as possible to eliminate the possibility of any bias. Your story frames a reincarnation scenario precisely, and requires many assumptions to believe the scenario without wanting to.
I hate to evoke Occam's razor since it's often misunderstood and abused in denialism, but it's very appropriate here to reiterate that there are many possible explanations that don't require believing in souls or reincarnation, and those reasons existing make it irrational to even suggest reincarnation without stronger evidence than circumstances which the involved parties were part in creating. A great quote from that wiki:
Possible explanations can get needlessly complex. It is coherent, for instance, to add the involvement of Leprechauns to any explanation, but Occam's razor would prevent such additions, unless they were necessary.
So in order to involve reincarnation into this story as a rational, unbiased conclusion, it needs to be supported better than other theories, ie. your mother has designed the predisposition of reincarnation in consciously naming you after her mother, someone she loved dearly, and through bias, that manifests itself in anything that you do which suggests an actual reincarnation through that naming. Believing this is not coincidence requires believing your mother was somehow preordained to name you after her, and that her reincarnation waited two years before you were born, and reincarnation stayed so closely in the family as the next child--all of which require substantial explanations to fit back into the conclusion. Again, this is not meant as an aggressive attack on your story so much as an alternative, impartial view which is concerned with bias.
You as someone who can appreciate beliefs, and seems to have enjoyed most of the conversations here, I hope you can understand mine on the topic. I don't mean to be aggressive in saying this, but just to present that this is a near-perfect example of cognitive biases, and that is what I find interesting, and I hope you'll look into the topic more, starting with the wiki links--not simply to prove you wrong in any way, but just to say that it's an incredibly interesting topic, which accurately challenges a lot of our behavior, and you may find it interesting.
Now this proves it that reincarnation is true... Have been trying to make other religions understand but they don't get it.. Which authority do I go to to get the holy books of religion changed to include re-incarnation
Gurkaan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I got scared by just reading that. If my kid would tell me that I would shit my pants right on the spot.
I have been asking people for years but noone ever did this! Now I know I'm not the only one. Thank god. This has always been so creepy to me. I did this all the time.
I remember reading on here once that this guy said his grandfather told him he was a time traveller and predicted a bunch of shit that would happen. Then the guy got married and had a kid. The kid had blonde hair, while the parents both had brown. But the grandpa had blonde hair. And the kid told his parents that his name was "something I don't remember", which happened to be the name of the posters grandpa. OP said he never shared his grandpa's name to the kid.
When you have a daughter, give her the same name your mother, so you can break into her house, stand by her bed, and say. Remember when I was the baby, and you were the mommy?
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
*If I have a daughter, or any children for that matter, this is definitely already part of the plan.
My oldest always told me stories of when she was big and I was little. She would get into details and was so serious. I was a young mother and it freaked me out. Especially when the younger 2 never did that. I guess I can start sleeping with both eyes closed knowing she isn't they only one who has said such things.
Jesus Christ! If I were the parent, there might have been some reflexive slapping in self defense. You know, the kind you use to swat away a bee. The really limp-wristed kind...
But that's just me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter did that. She used to make mentions of things like "When I was a grown up I <fill in the blank with information, places and activities>." She was totally serious and if we asked her later she didn't change her story either.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No way. No fucking way. I said this same shit to my dad. There's gotta be something more behind this. Common tv shows/ movies?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:39:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently my sister said this exact thing to my mom. Maybe a common sort of dream or from playing?
So YOU'RE the grandmother! Wow, that's awesome dude
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I actually watched some kind of documentary about reincarnation of some type and there was a little boy who swore to be a grown man born, raisers and died in another country years before. He could tell his parents all about mommy and daddy 1, or his parents when he was living before. He even know about his life and how he died. He would even cry and talk about missing his family. Anyway. Neat thing to watch.
Side note: they did trace it to find out there was a man who lived and died that way by that name years ago the boy couldn't have possibly known. Though when they took him to the island to find the house he dreamed about he couldn't find it.
People who did hypnosis and believe in past lives often claim that you stick with a similar soul group. So essentially the people in your lives are people you work stuff out with. They often claim that role reversal was common. Like one time you'd be born as the child, while your 'friend' was born as the mother, then in the next life the roles would be reversed. I find it really facninating and wonder if there might be some truth to it, since there are some famous cases of kids remembering past lives that can then be verified.
ONinAB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I apparently did this at three. I'm an only child didnt go to pre-school or anything, and necer had an imaginary friends. My mom came to get me after a nap and I was talking non-stop and she asked me who I was talking to, and I said "Annie!" I'm also named after my grandma who died a few years before I was born and who had always went by her middle name Mary, but who's actual real name was Annie.
To add symmetry, my grandmother, in the last years of her life had senile dementia and Alzheimer's. She won call my parents (her daughter and daughter's husband) mom and dad. Complete with memories etc....
Transference maybe?
WDoE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shyamalan'd
dr00min ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know a lot of kids who figure out that they have been here before.
No science can prove it, but I don't think kids would give a fuck about science if they can actually remember living a previous life on earth.
Kids Are more sensitive to "the afterlife." That is not uncommon to have a child act like a deceased family member talked to them. It's as if there is an echo of the family member that only the child can pick up. Something to do with not being told It's impossible yet, so they Are able to perceive it.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:11:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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___mads ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:21:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
awww. that rageface is pretty accurate to how my mom gets when she tells the story... almost goes without saying, she loved my yiayia and more or less believes her to be a saint.
If I had a young kid I'd give them a computer with Linux too. Wouldn't have to spend any extra money, and I have some older laptops that my work decomissioned laying around. Of course, kids, if I ever have them, are a while away.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Heck yeah.
Since they don't already have a bias from using one OS or another they pick it right up as well. She's never had a problem running movies, websites (nick jr) minecraft, etc on her computer by herself.
The only issue I could foresee is if she wanted to play some games that don't have Linux support, or if your family had Netflix and she wanted to access it for some kids' shows.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We do have netflix, but I have another spare computer she uses just for streaming that runs windows.
....I have entirely too many pcs....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess this isn't that creepy but it was more of a huh? experience. I watched my two nephews last couple summers, one was 7 and the other 11. While the 11 year old was downstairs doing who knows what, I was upstairs reading when the 7 year old comes up. He starts searching fiercely through every cabinet, under the table, under couches, you name it. I finally ask him what he's looking for and he looks at me with the blankest look and says "I'm looking for my puberty," and then just went back down to the basement.
Is 16 a kid? 'Cause I think the scariest thing I ever said to my mum was, 'there's someone in the house'. Weird stuff had been happening for weeks - the screws from the blender went missing so it exploded soup, batteries gone, my skylight opened, that kind of thing.
One day I heard him. Turned the TV right up so he'd know where I was (so he wouldn't come in and feel obliged to kill me), texted my mum and then she rang the police.
He got away but we figured out that the 20+ times he'd been in the house, I'd been there too, oblivious. I went to my Dads for a week.
H8rade ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:26:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Straight from a Scooby-doo episode. This guy was trying to get you to think the house was haunted so you'd sell it and move. Someone wanted to buy that house bad. Probably some oil or something under it, maybe gangster/pirate treasure.
I heard him come down the stairs and turned up the TV. He then left and I saw him jog down our path.
As well as the paper in the back of the hairdryer, the opening skylight etc. He was like, playing with us, so weird. We had things of value lying about, never stole. Just moved shit about and was a general nuisance.
I want to know as well, to be honest, it was so, so creepy! We'd just moved in and hadn't gotten around to changing the locks so the old tenants and anyone they'd trusted with a key, as well as workmen, could get in. We'd changed the alarm so no one could get in while we were there - or so we thought!
It started when my mum couldn't find her ipod, and we found it in a random drawer. Then my skylight would be open, so we assumed my little brother was smoking. Weirder and weirder stuff happened - he put my necklace on my toy rabbit (he's a big rabbit).
We suspected someone had broken in a day or so before I actually saw him and when we were talking to the Police realised he could only get in when the alarm was deactivated. He'd figured out my routine, waited til I got home and just fucked with stuff for fun. Proper 'the call is comming from inside the house' shit.
owlish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:59:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The same height as my hedge, dark hair. I saw him just jogging down the path, from behind :(
The police asked all the neighbors and that but nothing came of it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:58:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Weird...
I've seen things like this pop up a few times on Reddit before so you're definitely not alone with this happening.
I wonder what was going through their mind, they probably had no intention of hurting anyone, they just thought it was brilliantly fun to mess with people on such a profound level.
I've posted my story before, so it could have been me!
At the time it was fucking terrifying, now I have a hilarious story. The blender part in particular.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've read stories with other details, and there was a post about a guy thinking there was someone living in their attic but I never saw a followup.
I'm glad you can make some light of it. That kind've stuff would turn my mind into mush for the rest of my life I think.
jax9999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:17:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
could it have been a kid? kids do weird stuff like that.
Aye, and we changed them that day.
Oh God I saw the video of her crawling out of the cupboard that the girl in the fucking ring. I'd cry watching that.
I can't find it :( :( But it was on some programme, '100 craziest something-or-others'. He caught her with the video footage, which would be awful to watch for the first time.
The Paranormal Activity people must have gotten their idea from that hahaha :P That's really scary! What did you see? Was she like, creepy? What happened?
Umm...This is going to sound very weird, but literally everything you mentioned...I had a recurring dream about when I was about 10...the same exact stuff...
So the poltergeist who was creeping into my home was also creeping into your mind.
I'm just gonna point out that I've moved out of my haunting ground. You can't do that.
I literally didn't remember that until you said the things that happened to you, but I remember each of those things specifically. Maybe it was the same "thing"...maybe it was his cousin. I just think its weird, that those things happened in a dream of mine too.
Are you sure it's not deja vu making you feel like you dreamed those things? Deja Vu is caused by your brain being lazy, it normally sees things and tries to drudge up old memories to be like "Yeah I know what's going on" but sometimes if it sees things it's not super familiar it just goes, "Uhh, yeah, fuck it, I've seen that before" and thus you get that weird feeling of seeing something that's already been done. The way you said you just remembered it just now.... Not that I'm calling you a liar, just that deja vu might be a possibility?
I know what a deja vu is and this is most definitely not a deja vu. I remember the dream being black and white. I was walking into a kitchen and all of a sudden, something shot of the blender in the kitchen. Then, I distinctly remember that batteries started flying everywhere around me. Shampoo bottles and soda bottles and every kind of bottle started opening around the house too in the next segment. I mean...every bottle in the house was open. Then a big window in the roof opened up at the end and then everything was black. I know it probably isn't the same exact as the story, but the same exact things happened to me in that dream as they did with Melivora's "Ghost Man."
Although you might be right in saying that it is a deja vu...I'm just saying that I remember this more vividly than most stories from real life, because I had this dream multiple times.
What do you want to know? There's a couple more comments in the thread with more things he did, but we basically figure he was fucking with us for funnies.
We hadn't changed the locks yet (but had changed the alarm, so we felt safe enough) and once we changed them that day nothing else ever came of it. Freaked me the fuck out at the time, but now it's kindof hilarious...
Honestly, the kid probably knows what the monitor is for and his first phrase was to summon you. Children probably pick up that you respond when they cry and you're not around, and then they pick up that you mess with the box once you come in.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:07 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he was practicing for the Aphex Twins video, you only heard part of it!
Why isn't this getting more upvotes!? Hahahaha I am laughing. We are friends.
NTesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know! I know! I'm laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes!
Love_N ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:48:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old niece just said that the other day! She said she wants to go to Africa to see real elephants and drink coffee and be a poacher. Was this in an episode of Dora recently?
I'm not a parent, but my mom and stepdad told me that one night my younger brother, who was 5 or 6 at the time, came into their bedroom with a knife. He stood at the foot of the bed and they freaked out, asking him why he was holding the knife. He said, "The voices in my head told me to."
I'm not exactly sure what happened after that. I know my stepdad took the knife away and put him to bed. He saw a counselor for a little while but he's perfectly fine. It was a strange but creepy incident. My brother doesn't really remember.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:46 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mum told me I would sneak out of my bed At night while they were watching TV and I would walk slowly towards them , never blinking, hair surrounding my face, and I would say "surely you love me" this happened any night they watched tv..
Well I actually remember doing it. But the way I remember it , I was watching myself. This was before my parents even told me I did that. I did a lot of creepy things as a (younger) child.
When I got married my best friend from high school was my best man and his kids were at the ceremony and reception. One of our other friends had been up since 5 AM and just crashed. Layed down on the floor and went to sleep. Christopher comes up to me as we're cleaning up:
About a year ago we lived in an apartment complex that had partially burned down in a fire quite a few years before. One night my 3 year old crawled into bed with us and said, "The little burned girl won't leave me alone." It scared the crap out of me. She never mentioned anything before or since though.
I used to be a pseudo-nanny to a young autistic girl. When she was quite young her mother got her a bunny, Cleo, who died when she was about a year old. Around the same time, over the course of a few weeks, several deer were found dead in a woodsy area behind their house. DNR said they were killed by another animal, but that they didn't feel there was any safety concern at the time.
The family got a replacement bunny and obviously didn't want the kid to know what happened. The replacement bunny lived a long and happy life.
When the girl was around five, we were feeding the replacement bunny. She went to fill the water bottle, stopped halfway to the house and asked, "Do you think the woman who killed all the deer killed the real Cleo, too?"
My middle daughter was 5 when we visited a local gardens, which has a mausoleum for a NZ prime minister. Walking around the formal gardens... She says, in a happy, bright voice "This would be a lovely place to die".
And then skips off and runs around with her sisters. (She is a very bright, happy, carefree girl). My wife and I just looked at each other.
the_pro ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 20:32:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You ever come across a thread that was just "made" for you? My 2 year old and I were driving to school a few months back, and passed by a construction site on the highway. My kiddo saw a construction vehicle, and exclaimed that she saw a "digger". I confirmed that I saw it too, and went back to watching the light at the intersection. She then started telling me about when she was a digger. I was so shocked at what she said, I had to type it all up in an email to myself after I dropped her off a few minutes later -
These were the bullet points of her responses to my follow up questions.
1. Were you a girl or a boy? "I was a digger when I was a man."
2. What did you wear? I took my (head or hat) off. I couldn't understand her from the backseat. I asked her to repeat herself many times.
3. Where did you live? I lived in the dirt.
4. What was your name? Danny (we don't know anyone named Danny)
5. What did you look like? Tall with red hair. (Almost our entire family is brunette.)
6. Did you have any babies? No
7. Who lived at your house with you? I lived by myself.
8. Did you watch tv? Yes.
I tried to ask a few more questions, but she didn't feel like talking anymore. She had never showed me this level of imagination before, or since. It certainly was creepy to me. We pass that construction site almost every day, and she has never mentioned it again.
That definitely beat out the two or three nights that she cried in her crib at night, because she was scared of "Aunt Mary". I have a great Aunt Mary, but I only met her once, and she passed away years before my daughter was born.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:14:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I mentioned this higher up, but there is a theory in connection to reincarnation/past lives that states that children can remember, vividly, their past lives for the first 5 years of their lives, and may not be able to differentiate from memories of this life. It also states that'd it'd be easier for them to see ghosts. So, there's some info for you.
When I was little (not too sure about the age), but I was staying at my grandma's house for the night. My grandma was sitting in her chair looking out the window and holding me to where I was looking over her shoulder. I started to point and say "Who dat?". My grandmother was so afraid to turn around and look at the door. I said it a few more times until she finally looked. Nobody was there.
There was another time when I was younger. I was sitting in my dad's room next to the bed and I was holding my arms out like someone was going to pick me up. I would quickly pull my arms close to me and laugh. Kinda like playing a game or something. To this day my dad still gets creeped out when we mention it.
My whole family has some sort of odd story about things like this. We eventually named the "ghost" Herman.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 19:56:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 12, my parents and my sister and me were visiting a birthday party of family friends. My grandparents (mom's side) were in Canada at the time to spend time with friends and family on their holiday. When we got back home from the birthday the phone rang. I was staring frozen at the phone when my mom came into the room and said "Why are you not picking up the phone?!" and I told her "Because I don't want to hear that grandpa died!!" she told me to be shush so I sat on the couch with my knees curled up to my chest. She picked up the phone, fell silent and after she hung up she started crying and looked at me and asked me "How did you know that!?" I shrugged and the rest is blurry. Weirdly enough though, I know for sure that I felt his presence over the next few months.
When my nephew (3) moved, my sister took him through their old appartment to say goodbye to the rooms.
"Goodbye kitchen"
"Goodbye my bedroom"
"Goodbye mommy and daddys bedroom"
"Goodbye livingroom, goodbye old man"
My sister found the last goodbye a bit freaky, but did not comment upon it until they where out of the appartment. "Why did you say goodbye to an old man? There was no old man there." "Yes it is, he watches us."
I consider myself a fairly skeptical guy, but that freaked me out a bit.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:59:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like your skin... Can I have it? (5 year old step-daughter)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:38:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My wife, daughter and I have been living in our house for little less than a year and have experienced a few odd things happening around the house. We've had our washer change settings, things often moved from where they were left at, noises from upstairs and I've seem our rocking chair moving when I'm the only one at home. So the other day I'm home with my three year old daughter and she's coloring in her room when I realize it's gone too quiet. I go check on her and she drew this on her wall. She said that they were scary faces and she didn't want to see them, hence why they have X's over them. Weirded me out a bit. http://i.imgur.com/vaUSo.jpg
ioncat ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 21:04:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
24 year old dad with a 2 year old son here. I can honestly tell you that the most creeped out I have ever been by something my son did was something totally normal.
See, you notice things as a parent. Things you probably wouldn't ever care to see otherwise. First time moments with your kid will stick with you for a lifetime, and tend to mean a lot more than they really should.
My son is barely 2, and can speak, but never really full sentences, and he only sometimes grasps entirely what a word means. So one night about 2 weeks ago, while my wife and I were watching TV, he comes running out of his room crying. He stops in the den, about 4 feet from us. He stared at the wall for a minute, as if completely and totally confused. Then he notices us and quickly scampers up the couch at mach speed and crawls into my lap.
"Mah-tooz," he says.
Monsters.
We don't know what scared him, I'm sure it was just a dream. He usually called the vacuum a monster, or pictures in books that looked weird. Never anything really scary, just things that startled him or he thought were ugly. But seeing your child genuinely afraid of something totally unexplainable to you is one of the most terrifying moments a parent can have. There is no fear more powerful than that of a toddlers. Can you imagine being that afraid and having no idea whats going on or how to properly express what you're afraid of or why?
The whole incident is something I'll never forget.
The thing that gets to me about kids is their incredible coping and recovery skills. They'll express through screaming, words and/or physical reaction what looks to be bone-chilling fear - fear at a level that would put an adult into psych treatment for a long time - but then thirty minutes later, they're happily drinking juice and eating a cookie as if nothing ever happened. I'm aware that some traumas sink to a deeper level that colors that child for the rest of his life, but as a child who was absolutely terrified of just about everything who turned into a relatively well-adjusted adult, it's really amazing how quickly kids can bounce back.
When I was about 4 my mother walked into my room in the middle of the night and found me passing a ball against the wall. She asked what I was doing, I replied with "I'm playing with James and Sarah." Turns out those were the names of my dead siblings.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:05:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't find it rude of me to ask, but I found this interesting. If I may ask you:
1. How did you hear this story?
2. How did your parents tell you about the siblings?
3. How did your siblings die?
Please don't think of me as rude. I'm just curious.
Curiosity isn't rude.
1. My mother reminded me of it a couple weeks ago.
Do you remember 'precious angels'? My Mom came home one day when I was 10 and brought two of those home. One of them was a male, the other female. I checked out the bottom of them and saw the name Sarah and James on their respective 'angels'.
James died from heart failure when he was 2 and Sarah died shortly after being delivered due to birth defects.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is quite interesting! Thank you for sharing!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:51 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:( That sucks:( Really sorry to read that, Gbwy:)
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:43:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:47:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chances are with things like this that you once overheard even the slightest mention of the name and it stuck in your mind.
[deleted] ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 20:08:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
True story. My son was about 2 years old. He has a half-brother (my husband, his dad's sons) who did not live with us, but did stay with us 3days/2nights on 3 weekends each month, the rest of the time brother lived with his mother and grandmother. Brother had not visited the weekend before, son was aware of this, as he adores brother.
On weekdays, we had a routine of hanging out together in the living room while I had coffee, then he would watch 'toons while I dresses and talked with dad/husband. We did not do this on weekends, as we were usually going out, and especially not on visit weekends, as son and husband were always up and out the door early to go get brother.
This day, we did the usual, me having coffee, us hanging out for a bit. At one point, he looked up at me and said "mama, we has go pick up Brother today." This was weird, because he knew that days I worked we didn't get Brother, so I said "no, sweetie, not today." He said back to me "oh, yes, we must go get him today, you tell Daddy." I remember we went back & forth with this "we go get Brother" from him and a "no, sweetie not today, mama works today" from me.
Cut to about half and hour later. I'm in the bedroom, reading the morning paper and getting dressed. My husband is reading another part of the paper, waking up, drinking coffee. The kid is in the living room watching Barney. I cruise to the Obits, and by the Gods, there's an obit for my husband's ex-wife, mother of my son's half-brother. She had died the Thursday before. Husband's son was with his grandmother, no one had notified us, crazy grandma figured she's automatically get custody or something. She did not like my husband.
Long story short (oops, too late!) we did end up going to get Brother that day, after much craziness, many phone calls, police escort, CPS, the whole bit. Son was not privy to the madness, but was aware that plans had changed and we were going to get Brother. He knew it when I came back into the living room, asking me "daddy knows now to get Brother?"
tl:dr Two year old son somehow knew of his half-brother's mothers death before we did.
biddee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:05:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody has asked...how did the mother die?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:13:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Overdose.
Syrtica ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:14:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Unrelated, but I want to hear about the craziness and "the whole bit". Because that sounds absolutely nuts.
[deleted] ยท 103 points ยท Posted at 19:58:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the kid in this story, but this one apparently made my parents consider calling a priest.
When I was younger (too young to recall this) I used to do this really strange pattern thing, I still have an insanely high ability to recognize patterns and all. Anyway, when I was young we lived in the middle of nowhere so we'd just store old bottles for like a year and then bring them all to a 5 cent deposit thing once we had too many in the basement. I'd go into the basement where the bottles were and line them up in a huge circle throughout the entire first floor of our house. My parents would usually just let me down it because I'd throw fits if they stopped me. Then my mom noticed after a couple times of cleaning this up (I would kick and scream when they took my little creation down) that my circle of precisely 76 bottles followed an unwavering pattern. This wasn't like Big bottle- Little bottle-Big bottle-Little bottle. It was complicated enough that my mom had to take pictures of it to even verify her initial guess that it had some pattern to it. The exact bottles weren't the same every time, just the sizes and types (Big soda bottle, beer bottle, small soda bottle...)
I guess that seriously freaked them out and they stopped me from doing it. Then I got down there one day while they were outside and built it again, they came in and I was laying in the middle of it sleeping. I woke up and said "The house was sad but now it's happy again."
[deleted] ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 20:52:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That just sounds like mild autism.
owlish ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 22:46:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or sealing a gateway to hell.
Neoaris ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:19:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When you said "big bottle, little bottle, etc" I thought you were saying "big butthole, little butthole". i was all like what the fuck
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:59:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, that's epic.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:24:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when I was younger I had pretty hardcore night terrors. I would scream and thrash about and my parents couldn't wake me up. One night my sister heard some noise coming out of my room so she walked in and found me weeping while standing on top of my bed with my eyes closed.
Another night I was sleeping with my dad while my mom had a night-shift at the hospital (she's a nurse). In the middle of the night my dad felt me get out of bed and I walked over to this big standing mirror that they had in their room. It was a good 2-3 feet taller than I was and it probably weighed more than me. I grasped the mirror and then started to tip it towards myself. My dad jumped out of bed before I could pull it all the way over and crush myself. The next morning he asked if I remembered doing that and I had absolutely no recollection.
Not quite creepy n such. But still great story. My son has asthma problems and was in the childrens hospital for a week long stay. He was five. Next to us in the room was a premie baby and her mother. They hadn't said a word in days. A nurse was taking my son's vitals...and he looks at the nurse and says "Do you know doing to much cocaine will make your heart explode." The nurse agrees, I turn red, the lady next to use laughs uncontrolably hard. When the nurse leaves the room I ask my son....where he heard that....and why he would say that. "I don't want to tell you, you'll be mad" "I'll certainly be mad if you dont tell me"
"I know I'm not supposed to watch it....but I saw it on 1000 ways to die."
I just wanted to keep her forever and ever! And that skin is so soft!
I still do it to joke with her now. And she does it back, saying "Not unless I turn you into slippers first." Ohhhh mom.
ObRN10 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 07:05:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to babysit for my cousins all the time when I was in college for extra money. My youngest cousin, Gabe, had always done strange things, like see people and talk to people who weren't there. Two things still creep me out to this day. 1st thing he did while I was watching him that creeped me out: I slept in the guest bedroom right next to his. One night I woke up and thought I heard voices. I got up and walked to the doorway and I see Gabe sitting on the stairs with his arm up in the air. He keeps saying "hello?" over and over. Then he says "its Gabe, what's yours?" All my arm hairs stood on end and I flipped the lights on. I very gently guided him back to his room. It was clear he was sleep walking and I chalked it up to being a dream, until I started to walk out. He said my name and I looked back at him. "yeah buddy?" I said. "that was O", he told me. "he was trying to say hi. He said he misses you". At this point I about shit myself. Owen was my aunts first husband who passed away in a car accident when they were 23. I looked remarkably like my aunt when she was 20. My cousin did not, and still does not, know that my aunt was ever married before she married my uncle. 2nd thing my cousin did was on our way to my grandma's funeral. He asked me if we were going to the graveyard. I said yes. And he says, "oh good. We get to meet grandma's new friend George and his dog." Guess the name on the headstone next to my grandma's... Yeah, creepy as hell. And that's only the beginning of all the creepy things Gabe has seen/said.
ObRN10 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:47:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm reading all this reincarnation stuff... Gabe used to talk about "when he was brown skinned" (he's a blonde haired, blue-eyed boy) how he and his dad got separated from his mom and sisters and had to run through all these tunnels and sleep in basements and closets. He always said he was sad because he didn't find out until now that "his first mom" had died and all of his sisters in the back of a wagon that a mean man with a white beard had started on fire.
I have one of those blond haired, green eyed kids, who used to look at his hands and say "I wish they were dark again." He also kept "looking for his one true love," who he described as having dark eyes, dark skin and dark bushy hair, and before he could read/write, drew a picture of an upraised fist and the slogan "workers unite" underneath it. He had never been exposed to socialist anything, esp. slogans or images. AND... he was born on May 1st, also known as May Day, the day most countries celebrate the worker. There's more (such as his music preferences, distaste for whitey -- only he's white; he made an assumption that dark skin means your a better person, and on and on.) We are very race-neutral in this family. He did NOT get this from us.
I never believed in reincarnation before we had him, but he convinced me. I think he had to have been something like an activist in the black community before. BTW he's 16 now, remembers none of this, and doesn't believe in reincarnation himself. Still likes the type of music typically associated with ebony culture, though.
I don't really fear death anymore, thanks to knowing him. I hope I'll get to go "home" to God, but if I have to cycle around on the wheel again, so be it.
ObRN10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, very creepy indeed. This was a few years ago. Now, he kind of embraces this medium thing. He's never grown out of being able to see and hear things. He's seen many doctors and always comes up clean for mental illness. We all believe he really sees dead people.
Not my kids, but my parents told me that when I was 4 years old, I had a nightmare and screamed: "There's a fire! There's a fire!" About an hour and a half later, there was indeed a fire. A house across the street had caught in flames and there were fire trucks blocking the entire corner. Later that night, I woke them up again saying: "there's flying saucers.. everywhere!" They spent the next hours looking at the sky.
My little brother did something like that once. My mom and I were still up, but he was asleep in his top bunk in his room that was also the computer room at the time. My dad was out picking up someone from the airport as a favor, and for some reason was using someone else's car. My mom and I happen to be in my brother's room with the light on to get something. He sat straight up and said, "No! No! The car!" Then he laid down and was still asleep. My dad came home about 40 minutes later upset that he had backed the borrowed car into a tree. My mom and I were freaked and told him what my brother did.
A different level of creepy, but my 5 year old son said, "How come you get to see my penis and I don't get to look at your vagina?"
He's very egalitarian, my son.
When I was about 13 or 14 I awoke to the sound of my mother screaming in the middle of the night. Like 3am or so. I ran out of my room and found a large kitchen knife lying in the middle of our upstairs hallway.
My mother had woken up to see my younger brother, who was 2 or 3 at the time, standing over her with the knife poised to strike. She freaked out and he ran out of the room and dropped the knife. When we checked his room we found that he had destroyed it, stabbed pillows, cut up sheets. My parents were simultaneously terrified and angry, we moved the knives after that.
edit: I skipped a letter!
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:24:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As if on cue he just ran out of his room and made a large evil groaning sound as I read this.
He's a teenager now and super normal but, I did legit think he was possessed that night. Our family is Catholic too, so there were a lot of rosaries being said that night.
When I was about 2, my grandfather had terminal cancer, and was down to his last few weeks. We had just gotten home from the hospital, and my mom was putting me to bed when I looked her straight in the eye and said "grandpa is going to die in 2 days". 2 days later, we got a call saying he had passed away. I don't remember saying this, but my mother swears to me that it's true.
I'm not a parent, but I used to babysit these 2 little girls, aged 3 and 5. They really didn't like strangers and would normally freak out to the extreme if their parents went out. For some odd reason, they decided they loved me first meeting and would actually cling to me the moment I'd show up.
So, this is like the second time I'm babysitting them. Their parents get ready to leave and the youngest starts freaking out and crying. She was literally screaming for them not to go. I eventually got her to calm down enough to wave from the window as her parents drove off, hugging me and sniffling. I kept telling her that it would be fine, that I was there with her, that we were going to have lots of fun, and that her parents would be back in a couple hours.
She suddenly stopped making noise and just stared at me, with the most serious and piercing look I've ever seen from a child, and said in a steady and sure tone, "I know that one day they aren't going to come back." Out of no where. I just stared back in shock. It wasn't the normal scared sort of reaction, this was a serious statement as if she knew some horrible secret that their brakes weren't going to work or something. I tried to inquire more, and she simply stuck to her statement and reiterated that one day her parents would leave them.
That was around 8 years ago, but it still sticks in my head. This girl lived to play with My Little Pony and watch Disney princess movies and read little kid books. After that, she would just solemnly watch her parents leave each time, expecting that was it.
It may not be the creepiest thing ever, but it was dang disturbing.
Edit: Grammar error.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:47:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Earlier this year my four year old woke up one evening crying. I went upstairs and asked him what was wrong. I didn't understand him at first but after a couple of 'what's' he repeated what he was saying all along and pointed towards the corner, "there!" So I look in an empty corner and asked him if it was bothering him. He said yes. Then I asked him if he wanted me to tell it to go away and he noded his head. I looked towards the empty corner again and said loudly and dramatically for my son "leave him alone!" My son said it was better and then turned over and fell back asleep.
I worked in a daycare center with little babies. Sometimes when the older kids get too annoying for their teachers, they send them into the baby room to "help" us.
One boy, who was about 3 years old, "helped" in our room about every other day. He was very inquisitive about every little thing. One day, I was feeding a baby and he was overly fascinated with her that day. He asked me "Can babies die?" Really, I am not a big fan of kids once they learn how to talk, but I tried to answer honestly, so I said "Sometimes they can die" he responded with "I think she's going to die" I obviously was shocked, and I was at a loss for words, he continued with "she would be so cute when shes dead." I quickly tried to change the subject and I found a pencil and some paper for him to draw with. About 10 minutes later he said to me "I think shes going to die by getting stabbed" and he made a stabbing motion with the pencil. I kicked him out of my room and put him back with his other teachers.
I quit working there a few months later due to an unrelated reason. He should be about 7 or 8 now. I think he may be on the way to becoming a serial killer.
My 5-year-old son made a model of the Titanic, and was playing it sinking, over and over.
I asked, "isn't that scary? What about all the people on the ship?"
"Hehe, yeah, they were scared. Hahaha!"
xeridoo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:13:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your son is just like me.... I hope to one day see him standing next to me on the Keldysh, ready to dive deep into Titanic's hull. I'm telling you, he's gonna be a Titaniac.
My wife and I are having twins in less than 2 months. Thank you all for this.
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 20:05:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have twins. They seem to communicate without speaking. I know it must be facial expressions and eye movements, but it is eerie. Or maybe they plot intricate moments when they're alone. They're only six though, so that might be even creepier if they did.
My friend's little brother and sister do this. They're twins. One day we were watching the two of them and they were babbling in their twin speak (they were maybe 3) to each other at the kitchen table. My friend told me she wondered what they were talking about and telling me about how they spoke like this all the time. They stopped talking, looked at us, at each other, and then started laughing really maniacally.
I can tell you for a fact that they're just communicating through their knowledge of one another, facial expressions, and other body language cues.
I've had known my best friend since 2nd grade (over 12 years). From 2nd grade, we were able to convince people that we could communicate telepathically. Truth is, we just know one another that well. Even today, we can have long conversation just based off of facial expressions and slight hints of body language. They're extremely minute, so most people can't tell what it means, but we know one another so well that we automatically know. It's hard to explain, but it's basically like looking in the mirror and making a slight face. Only you know what that means, right? Well, we know one another so well that we know what the other means when they make that face.
So, basically this isn't some crazy twin thing; it's something most people can do if they know others long enough. Although it's possible only kids are perceptive enough to pick up things like that.
what sort of things to they seem to communicate about?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:16:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I replied to another comment asking the same. But I'll also add that (this isn't creepy, just fascinating to me) they can spontaneously play off of each other when they play. They make intricate storylines (I attribute it to playing Warcraft and lots of reading) and they take turns adding details. I did this when I was a kid, but their storylines flow together very nicely, although they get a little weird, and neither one seems at a loss for a direction the other one chooses. I've read a bit about twins, but it's so cool to witness.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:52 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and when I nod and wink like this, you get the knife! :)
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:12:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry for the delay. Phone wouldn't let me comment on this specific thread. Uhm, so it's like this:
<morning, I'm a teacher so I'm off since it's summer, we have a schedule>
Me: Do you girls want to help with dishes first or work on multiplication?
<girls look at each other>
Together: Uhm, dishes first.
I could replicate this occurrence with more than two choices. If they disagree, often one will speak for both of them, e.g. "I want to . But she wants to _."
They actually rarely want the same food or clothes or things (which can be troublesome), so we often get the above example.
Oh, and even freakier (just remembered this)...
They bot had Blue and Magenta (from the show) stuffed animals. We actually bought several of each to keep various places. The girl carried them EVERYwhere and would not sleep without them. They mainly rubbed the dog's ears. When we would visit my in-laws, then, we would have more than one. Well, over time, maybe age 3, a specific Blue became favored. And they could tell the difference... identical stuff animals, all used for over a year. So we ran some tests (we discreetly marked the favored Blue):
1) Mixed both up behind my back, had them identify the favored Blue on sight. They did multiple times. Always correctly. We looked for some kind of visual cue, found nothing. So, then we...
2) Turned off lights. Let them feel them. Correct ID every time. We felt them all over, no cue. So then we...
3) Showed them to the girls from a different angle (ass instead of face, actually). Correct ID every time. So then we...
4) Turned off light. Let them feel only the ass end. Correct ID every time.
Yes, we did try to get them to explain the difference, but they couldn't explain it. To this day, we have never found a difference, although the favored on has an ear that is rub clean of its covering. And the other twin has moved on to Puppy, a purple Webkinz.
My twin and I did that as well, and still can. I'm not sure if it ever creeped anyone out, but truth be told it was never weird to me or her. They spend a ton of time together in the same mindset, of course they should know the preference whether it be the same or not.
I can do the second thing with my bear. My twin does not have an equivalent item, but we both had the same bear. My parents occasionally tried to switch mine for hers because hers was nicer (I rub the fur off like your daughters do). I could always tell. In retrospect, I guess that is weird.
NTesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not that anyone will ever see this, but supposedly when I was a child, I would stand up in my crib, point out the window, and say, "They're coming! They're coming!"
I would also refer to my child-speak/gibberish as 'their language.'
Ratava ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 20:14:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a baby, up until the age of two and half, my mum would come into my bedroom to find me chatting and playing with no one. When she enquired as to what I was doing, I replied that I was talking to 'The white lady.' This went on for a long time, most nights, until it stopped suddenly. One day my mum asked where she'd gone, and I put my hands over my ears, and started screaming hysterically.
Another time, around the same age, we were driving through a town, past a restaurant which had been a sewing mill a hundred years before. With no way of knowing this, I turned to my parents and announced,
"I used to work here making all the different colours of thread."
When I was seven or eight, I had a similar experience of a past life. I now say I dont just believe in reincarnation but I know reincarnation.
It's real, I have vivid memories of being a seventeen year old girl washed over the sea wall at Robin Hoods Bay in Yorkshire, UK, sometime in the early 1800's.
I was on a school trip, and some of my classmates were with me, and they said I went into some kind of trance like state, and recounted drowning in a bad storm one night. I was also able to tell them how the town had changed in the last 170 odd years.
Also, when I was 5, I very suddenly got into all things Irish, even though my family did not have a single Irish connection. According to my father, I was watching a documentary about Ireland, and turned and asked him when we were going to return there. The only problem with this is that no-one in my family had ever been there, I definitely had not. I also begged my dad to buy me a Clannad album, and began to teach myself the Irish language.
I emigrated there in 2004, and lived there until 2010, when the economy and other family issues forced me to return to the UK.
Not me, but my cousin who is six years younger than me.
So my Aunt had a miscarriage when before she had my first cousin and it really shook up her and my uncle and my whole family in general. Well a year later my first cousin was born, and less than two years after her, my second cousin. One day when my second cousin was maybe four or five her and my first cousin were playing in their backyard, my uncle went out and she was rambling on to her sister these weird comments along the lines of "When I was a star, I ____" and whatnot. Well my uncle was kind of freaked out and pulled her aside to ask her what she was talking about and she smiled and said, I shit you not, "Yeah, when I was a star in the sky! I didn't know if I wanted to be apart of your family yet, so I decided to wait and make sure I wanted to come here and be with you."
My uncle spent the rest of the day shocked and crying. We don't talk about this story in my family ever, because it's just so fucking heartbreaking and confusing. Talk about fucking frightening.
TLDR; My cousin claimed to be my Aunt's miscarried baby, saying that she was a "star" that would watch over them before she was even conceived.
Well I don't have children, but this is something I, and my entire family, remember happening. I was 4 and my uncle, his friend, and his friend's girlfriend picked me up from K4. When I was little, car rides of any distance put me to sleep. This car ride, I had a dream that my uncle and his friends had gotten in a very bad car accident driving to work (which is where they were headed after dropping me off). When my uncle woke me up to tell me we we're at my mam-mam's, I began to cry. I begged him not to go because I had a dream that his friend wrecked into a white car and he got her very badly. I remember in the dream my uncle was covered in blood and and cuts. The 3 of them laughed it off and my uncle said "I'm gunna be okay buddy. I'll even wear my seatbelt. I promise I will be okay." I told my mam-mam and she played it off too. 20 minutes later my mam-mam received a phonecall saying my uncle was in a severe car accident, that they had to use the jaws of life to remove him from the wreckage and he was the only seat belted passenger. The other two had mild scrapes and bruises. My uncle broke every bone in both of his legs, his entire left arm (shoulder blade to finger), his right shoulder, most of his ribs and fractured a few spinal disks. Thankfully, he is still alive, but I still feel guilt after 15 years.
yea. every now and again. But now they come like daydreams. I zone out for about 5 seconds, I see something that's going to happen, then I zone back in. They never happen when I am completely asleep anymore. And nothing has been as serious as my uncle's car accident except for the avoidance of one for myself. Everything is just small things. I could go into more detail of the small things if you like.
I never really got the whole story on this one but i'll give it a bash.
So apparently a few months after i started talking my mum was driving me up to stay at my grandmother's house for the weekend. My mum and my brother were in the front of the car talking about something and apparently i just blurted out "I used to be a big boy in the war, then i died and now i'm a little boy again"
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:34:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's been said that little kids are more likely to experience paranormal shit because they don't have any beliefs that ghosts and stuff aren't real. Weird.
One time, my little bro who was 2 or 3 at the time was supposed to be taking a nap. I was 11 or 12 at the time and heard him talking to someone in his room. Now, my mom's mom died when I was 2 but there are pictures of her everywhere. I went in to see what was up and asked him who he was talking to. He goes, "Oh grandma came to visit me and we were having a nice talk!" My grandma was the shit so I didn't really freak out and thought it was cool that she came to visit him but I mean it's still creepy.
It wasn't my kid, but I was sitting at a bus stop when a car accident happened right across the street. This mother was standing in front of me with her (about) 5-year-old. The driver of one of the cars got out, rubbing his head and looking pretty groggy; the other guy was fine. The little boy turns and looks me dead in the eye, "He was supposed to die."
I heard my for year old daughter moving in her bed and talking one night and decided to take a look. When I walked into her room, she was sitting up and pointing at the corner of her room. She was like this for a few seconds and then she laid back down and fell asleep. I asked her the next morning what she was talking to and pointing at. She said it was an animal and she was telling it to get away from her sister and that it won't come back again. We only had one child at the time. The next week, my wife called me and told me she was pregnant. We ended up having a girl.
avroots ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:53:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reverse: I was sitting at the dinner table with my 2 brothers, my mom, and my attractive 21 year old au'pair(nanny). I'm about 8 years old and I look very seriously at my brother (about 16 years old at the time) and say, "Well, Paul. If you like Jenny so much, why don't you just hump her?" (I thought it meant hugging)
Rather off topic, but as a kid I was persuaded that when you reached a certain age, you switched gender and became a Teenager. This led to quite a few confusing conversations with my dad after I'd asked him about "what it was like being a little girl"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:37 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
hahaha:D That's the best thing I've read on this so far!! I can only imagine what that conversation was like:-p
Nothing said, but acted. I used to wake up religiously at 2 a.m. to take my daughter to the bathroom during potty training as she consistently wet the bed. One particular night I woke her up and took her to the bathroom. She proceeded to start grunting when I told her to go to the bathhroom. She didn't just grunt though she had her head down while doing so remminicint from something out of a movie about possession. She finally sits on the toilet keeps her head down and starts to bounce up and down while letting out a long continuous grunt as if the devil was telling me now wasn't a good time to go potty. Needles to say in the dark at 2 in the morning it was creepy as hell, so I took appropriate action and slowly backed away and woke up my wife. My daughter didn't remember anything. By the way this was in a house where everyone constantly felt like they were being watched.
My kid freaks me out sometimes. He doesn't make a sound, but just almost-glares at me. His eyes are just totally different, and sometimes he'll even get my attention to look at him while he's doing it (like coming up to me and sitting on my lap, facing me).
To be honest, I don't know which is worse -- finding him standing (it's almost always him standing, often in a doorway or in the middle of the hallway that leads to our bedrooms) staring at me, his arms hanging by his side; or him coming up to me and staring me right in the eyes no more than ten-fifteen centimetres away.
I always laugh it off, hoping I'm making a great big deal out of it -- it's super creepy, though... He's a sweet, well-mannered little thing, 99.9% of the time.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:41:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i dunno man...pretty weird...i never had one when i was a kid, but i remember my best friend in like 1st grade having one named "friend boy" until he claimed to get rid of him by flushing him down the toilet...
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:37:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She also runs up to me all sweet and giggling and headbutts me in the nuts.
trying to decide if that is good news or bad news for you for when she starts dating...
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:08:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lost it laughing at the mental picture of a kid headbutting their dad in the nuts at full speed.
TChuff ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 20:22:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night my 5 year old and I went to the local bakery. They make fresh chocolate chip cookies daily. I asked him if he wanted any and he said no. He's a five year old who turned down cookies. I am still in shock to this day.
Grown son calls me at work, which my children never do unless it is an emergency, says without hello or anything "Mom I kinda shot myself in the foot". I teach 10 year olds who are literal therefore my mind was in the literal mode. I see in my mind, blood and him needing medical care. He wanted forgiveness for not studying for an exam I had paid for that he wasn't going to take. Never start conversations like that with your parents.
A close friend of mine once went through a difficult thing. I won't mention it right now what it was because I want you to know exactly what he told me. He had gotten very flustered and angry and belligerent and sad and just full of emotions, negative emotions. I go up to him and ask what's wrong, did anything happen. He looks at me with an angry face and says, "My brother just died." I stand there shocked because his brother was the person who primarily raised him when he was growing up cause his parents were not around. I was speechless and wasn't sure what to say. Someone else was there and he had heard the news before I did and that person told my friend, "Stop, tell him the truth." I'm dumbstruck as to what this could me.
Turns out, his brother got with his ex-girlfriend who was he still kind-of had feelings for (he dumped her) and he replied, "Well, he might as well be dead to me now." I was so livid, I could barely think straight. I wanted to clock my friend right between the eyes at that point.
TL;DR: My friend said his brother died. Truth: His brother got with his ex-girlfriend and to him, he died, but he's still alive. I became so angry because of such a lie.
owlish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mine was just a few minutes ago. My 5 year old daughter came to me, crying, saying her right hand hurt. There's a bruise down the right side of her hand, under her pinky. I asked her what happened, and she said, "I don't know. But I think our car rolled over, and my finger came off, and I was dying in the dark."
My mother died in a roll over crash in the median of a highway at 3 in the morning...eleven years ago, to the day. My daughter knows nothing about this. I searched that median for her missing right pinky the day before the funeral.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:13:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have eight siblings, and she's not seen or talked to any of them for at least three years. We live three states away from my cousins. Also, I've never told anyone about the pinky thing, because I think it makes me sound incredibly strange.
this was my cousin to me during a babysitting gig:
We're sitting there playing a game of super smash bros melee, having a grand old time. Now keep in mind, my cousin at this point is like 6, but he's actually fairly competent at Smash so I don't go easy on him.
We're playing and I win the round, and tell him he did really good. But he's got this look of loathing on his face, and he puts the controller down and looks at me saying "I hope you don't hate spiders"
My cousin had about 5 different tarantula's as pets in that house, and to this day I'm still afraid that he may one day enact his spidery vengeance.
My nephew has a pretty active imagination, so take this story with a grain of salt. My sister lives in an old part of town - one that is notorious for "ghosts". Most of the houses have been there since the 1800s and she lives just down the street from the old courthouse where they used to hold public hangings. Anyway, she and my nephew live in a house there. The first part of the house is really old - from the early 1900s. Their bedroom is in the back of the house, which was built about 20 years ago. She's sitting in the bedroom one day, reading or something, and my nephew is playing in the living room (which is in the front of the house). Suddenly she hears him running into her room and yelling for her.
She freaks out thinking he got hurt, but when he comes in, he asks who the lady is. Naturally my sister has no idea what he's talking about, so she asks, "What lady?". He says, "The lady in the corner of the living room. She tried to push me down."
My sister takes his hand and goes into the living room with him, and he points to an empty corner. He says, "There she is. She's been saying mean things to me."
My sister freaked the fuck out. He does have an active imagination, but he's never done anything like that before (or since). He never imagines people or "talks" to them. This was a one-time thing.
I've read almost all of these posts and it seems like ghosts like hanging out in corners. If I was a ghost I'd live it up and sit in the comfy chair and lay my head on decorative throw pillows.
My best friend has two kids, at the time they were 5 and 2 and shared a room. The two year old woke up screaming bloody murder. She went to check on him and he scrambled to her, and wouldnt stop screaming until she left the room. She tried bringing him back to the room, and he started screaming again. So he got to sleep with mom and dad. About ten minutes later, the 5 year old comes out claiming that "Someone keeps petting my hair." He also got to join the slumber party.
This is one that I witnessed between my grandma and my cousin. He was probably five at the time.
My grandma and I were sitting at her kitchen table drinking coffee and my cousin came in with a twined-up knot of flowers he'd picked from the open field behind her house.
He handed it to my grandma and she thanked him as she usually does when the grandkids bring her things that they've made for her out of whatever we'd find outside.
He said "Grandma this is important. I made it for you because I don't want you to forget me."
To which she responded, "Honey, I'm not going to forget you. You're grandma's special boy." (all of my grandma's kids are "her special boy/girl")
My cousin shook his head and said "No, Grandma. I mean when I die. I don't want you to forget me when I die."
My grandma was almost in tears at this point and told him "Honey, Grandma's a lot older than you. You won't die before Grandma does."
My cousin sighed, looked down at the floor, and then looked her in the eyes. "No, Grandma. I'm going to die in a car accident."
My grandma hugged him and we were all silent, my grandma crying. When she finally let go of him my cousin said, "Remember, Grandma. Don't forget me." and went back outside to play.
Similar story to this, when I was younger I had night terrors multiple times a week. To the point I was eventually put in a sleep clinic for a sleep study. On more than one occasion my parents would find me out of bed sleepwalking. One night they apparently woke up to me wailing in the hall way because "the last boy is playing with my toys." The dog we had at the time refused to enter my bedroom. My mom still asks me who the boy was on occasion and I havn't the faintest idea.
OK my kids didn't say this to me but my friend use to serve tables at the Olive Garden in fayetville AR. and this family of four came in to eat one night. They were dressed like devout pentecostals, very conservative wear, and the children were around the ages of six to nine.
From the time they came in he told me they were a strange family, not much more for talking etc. Anyway the strangest part of the whole night is when the son, around age nine, turns and looks at his mother and says " You've been good tonight mother, I will allow you to continue eating " easily the strangest thing I've ever heard of a kid saying to his parents.
hezod ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:09:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my older son was 6 years old, he met an anthropologist and became immediately entranced with the idea of digging up the past. As I was tucking him in one night, he said "Mummy, when I grow up I'm going to dig up bones and when you're dead and gone, I'll dig up your bones."
Not "said", technically, since she is only 15 months old:
At 13 months, she learned how to make a very convincing "choking" noise and face, holding her breath for tens of seconds at a time while pointing at her mouth.
Then when we come over to try to rescue her in a panic, she will laugh and laugh, and laugh.
ಠ_ಠ
Edit: Worse yet, since the risk of a Boy Who Cried Wolf scenario is so dangerous, we have to respond every. single. time.
Next time she does it (faking) smack her hand. Actually, that's probably bad advice. I'm sorry, that's just got to be absolutely horrifying. Manipulative little girl...
My son was diagnosed with early onset bipolar disorder when he was 6 years old. He was EXTREMELY violent and scary most of the time, but the scariest time was when he was 7 and I found all of the sharp knives from the kitchen (steak, carving, etc) in his room. I asked him why they were in there and in the sweetest little 7 year old voice he said "because I am going to kill you tonight". Yeah - that one left me speechless as I was locking those knives up.
Long story short: he was a very hyper and disobedient child, tried ADHD medication (after he was kicked out of 3 child care centers for uncontrollable behaviors) and he raged for two days. His father and his side of the family is riddled with mental health issues - so the poor kid did not have a chance.
This will be buried but it freaked me out big time. My son is Autistic, 6 years old and doing great :) he now has a baby brother who is a toddler. I put on a safety gate on my eldest sons bedroom door as his room is bigger for his brother to play in when I need to do housework. I explained to my son that the gate wasn't for him, just to keep his brother safe. He told me one night that he was glad he had the gate on his door at nighttime (even though I don't fasten the gate outside his door), when I asked why, he said the scary man who sits on my bed can't come in anymore. I freaked the hell out. He also said the man asks him to undo the gate but it's ok, he can say no now!
Sweet Jesus! I think I've got to the bottom of it now though!
Well, I've asked him further about it casually as I didn't want to make an issue out of it. He hasn't seen 'the man' since we put the gate up. When I asked what the man did when he came in before he told me he would sit on his bed and ask about his day. He told me the man kind of discouraged him from doing things he shouldn't, like his obsession at the time was the Xbox and he wanted to sneak and play it downstairs when everyone was asleep. In my sons words, the man told him it was a bad idea. A few other things like that so maybe he was imagining it and 'the man' was a kind of conscience for him. Like I say, he has Autism and doesn't lie. He's very literal so if he says he saw someone he did, whether it was real,or not to him he did see someone. Either way, it didn't frighten him and he hasnt been back since the gate.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:46:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but my 3 year old brother has said a bunch of creepy shit, one incident in particular stood out to me. He was in our computer room, which is just a little space next to the kitchen with the only way in being the door that leads to the garage which is right next to it, and the only way to see into the computer room is if your standing in the kitchen, kind of like your own personal fap room, but that's a story for another time.
Anyway, he's on YouTube watching Caillou, when he rounds the corner of the kitchen with his pants down. My mom goes up to him and asks what happened, and he says "The man pulled them down." At this point I'm already freaked out, especially since the pants he was wearing were a little tight so he couldn't have pulled them down himself, even my mom had trouble taking them off of him sometimes. We go into the computer room and see that the door leading into the garage is open, I motion for my mom to stand back so I can go in and check it out. There's nothing there. The garage doors are closed and locked and the room is empty aside from all the junk we have in there.
After I poke around for a bit I decide to check the attic, just in case whatever lunatic it could have been went up there. Again, nothing, just an ass load of cobwebs and pure silence. Later on I ask my brother what happened, and he said that there was a tall man standing in the garage asking him to go to him, after my brother just ignored him and continued watching his videos, he said the man came up to him and pulled his pants straight down, then went back into the garage. Granted the kid IS 3 so maybe he was making shit up, but I was scared to stay in the computer room by myself for quite a bit after that.
My 11 year old nephew asked me in all seriousness if I had ever raped anyone. While he was putting on his shoes to go to dinner like it was the most normal thing to ever ask your aunt. Pre-teen boys are weird.
Illyich ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When younger, my brother asked my now SO if girls had hair. It was kind of implied that he wasn't talking about head hair...
Last week, I was having dinner with my wife and two daughters. At one point in the meal, the two girls were chatting about something and I heard Daughter 2 say "Ask him 'What time does the narwhal bacon?'"
I stopped eating mid-bite and stared intently at her. She smirked and asked, "What?"
"Did you just say 'What time does the narwhal bacon,'" I asked.
Still smirking, she said "Well, do you know the answer?"
"Yes, it's midnight, but how do you know that," I asked.
"Dad, you're not the only person who goes on Reddit, you know," she answered.
Seeing my face, Daughter 1 asks "Why, is there stuff on there she shouldn't be looking at?"
"Well," I answered, "That's like asking if there stuff on the Internet she shouldn't see. There's everything. There's everything from cats to porn. There's probably even cat porn," I said, trying to appear lighthearted.
At this point, Daughter 2 looks at Daughter 1 knowingly and nods, "Rule 34."
I wasn't raised to believe in reincarnation and frankly DIDN'T until our oldest son was about two or three years old. One day he asks me 'Mommy, do you remember before?' I was all distracted and wanted him to clarify 'Before what? Before Today? Before right now?' 'No, BEFORE. When I was a man and I went to my office every day and I had a brown briefcase and...' It was very detailed and he had never heard of a briefcase but described it perfectly.'
Fast forward several years until our second son is about the same age when one day he has a full blown meltdown and demands to be returned to his family in China. He says he can't take it any more, he misses them so much and demands that we get in the car and drive to China (we live on an island, this isn't happening--also, he's Caucasian and has blonde hair). He'd never been that upset before. For a few years while he was a toddler he would come running if he heard any music that sounded even faintly eastern and would dance to it with moves none of us were familiar with but were certainly similar to Thai and Chinese dances that I've seen since.
So I have to give reincarnation a maybe.
The absolutely creepiest thing either of the boys ever said, though, was during a middle of the night diaper change. When the younger was about a year and a half he woke up and needed changing. So I took him to the changing table in the other room but kept the lights off to try to keep him sleepy in the hopes he'd go back to sleep easily. I change his diaper and lean down to pick him up and he looks me in the eye and whispers "behind you" I didn't need to worry about whether he went back to sleep or not after that.
gH0o5T ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:45:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not one of my kids but my brother.
When I was about 6 and my brother about 4 we used to share a room. He often mumbled while I was trying to sleep. One day I asked him what he was mumbling about the other night, he said he would hear my grandpa calling his name. Sometimes happily giggling and sometimes furiously screaming. Only now I realise how fucked up creepy this is. เฒฅ_เฒฅ
We lived in this old house that supposedly 2 kids and their mother died in. Some sort of fire killed them and the portion of the damaged house was rebuilt. Now RE: the OP. my little sister was 3 and playing in my parents master bedroom with her little bike (training wheels, streamers, basket etc.) I was in the living room with mom and dad watching TV and we hear her scream bloody murder, that shriek where you know something is wrong or someone is hurt. My parents race to the room and I'm right behind them. My sister is there crying hysterically. My parents are checking her out to see if she was hurt until she says."My bike chased me and wouldn't stop doing it." My sister now has no recollection of this incident but I won't ever forget that one.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:53:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If not you, who on earth is teaching your child about Jesus?
ireneh ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:02:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Where I live, it's normal to send your kid to Catholic/Episcopal school regardless of your religion because they have better educational programs than public schools. I used to be way more religious than my parents because of this.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:15:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If it's America, particularly the South, it's no surprise that she might pick it up.
That's very interesting to hear. I often wonder what my kids (if i have any) would think of me if they were raised with some religion in their lives (like if their mother were religious). Did you recently decide you were an atheist, or is her mother religious?
I wish I could put out a giant PSA here, but for all the people who want actual information on atheism, particularly the skeptical side of it all, look at /r/TrueAtheism. The other atheist subreddits somewhat lack in content.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:02:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure I'm happier than 99% of the Christians I've known. And I would just like to assure you that once upon a long time ago, I felt that... Rapture... The feeling of belonging.... The calm self-assurance that I and my brethren were going to heaven. The feeling that makes the super Christians raise their hands towards heaven with their eyes closed, swaying... I felt it, and I realize now it was utter and total bullshit, and I'm much happier now.
mojo996 ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 19:44:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son is 3 and very interested in the family tree. He also likes to make rather inappropriate advances on a stuffed bunny toy. Put bluntly, he likes to hump it (clothed or not).
The other night after his bath he was naked. He went over and started humping the bunny before we had a chance to get him dressed. He looked me straight in the eye, like the boss that he is and asked "Who's your daddy".
CREEPED> THE FUCK::: OUT@@@@@!
DNAbro ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:29:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting my little cousin when she was about four. We were watching t.v. when she asks me for some grapes. I said sure and went to the kitchen to get them. I grabbed four but when i was walking back, i decided to eat one of them. She wouldn't notice one she never had. So i'm back in the room and i hand her the three grapes. She looks at the grapes, then at me and says: "I thought you were going to give me four."
I'm not a parent, but was babysitting one time when the 5 year old girl said she had to pee. I said okay, so she went to the bathroom. She started to take a little too long so I walked into sink area to find her speaking an ungodly, unknown language at herself in the mirror. It sounded like possessed, backwards latin and was impressively complicated. It freaked me out even more when I realized she was waiting for responses from her "other" self and then even got mad at her self's answer.
When she realized I was standing there, she slowly turned her head with zero expression on her face, and then pissed herself without blinking.
My son jumped on me and said, "I'm hungry for Dad!" Then bit my toe and yelled, "Yum! I feel like a king."
bekahbv ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:35:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a 16 year old and a 4 year old.
My 16 year old - About a month ago, she came into my room at 3 AM. She was visibly shaking and she told me, "Mom, there is a man in my window." I grabbed my Beretta Px4 Storm, 9mm out of my gun safe and went into her room, gun lowered to my side. I walked to the side of her window, looked out and tried not to scream like a banshee. Sure enough, there was a man outside her window. It was her biological father... He was drunk and wanted to visit his daughter...
4 year old - She's just a strange child. Swears there is a monster hiding in her toy box, a ghost in her jewelry box and a goblin that hides himself on her stuffed animal shelf.
Upvote for you for not shooting him in the head. Had there been a man outside my window when I was 16, and if I had lived with my dad, the man probably would have been seriously injured/dead.
My brother was 4 years old at the time. We were sitting around playing monopoly when he shouted "Tonight there is going to be a huge earthquake, and a lot of damage will happen".
That night the Northridge earthquake happened. He woke up and started screaming "I told you so! I told you so!". lol.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:29 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha, that's more funny then creepy ...I told you so:P
I asked my year and a half old daughter what she wanted to have for dinner. She stared at me for a moment and then stated, totally dead-pan, mind you, " Baby feet pizza." Then she cackled uproariously for a solid minute straight. I was terrified. Also, amused, but more terrified. We had oatmeal instead.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:58:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my child. I had friends visiting for Memorial Day a few years back, and they brought their gaggle of children along with them. The youngest, maybe 3 or 4 at the time, was standing on the spot where my mother had committed suicide two years earlier. He started to shiver uncontrollably as if it were the middle of winter, when it was nearly 100 degrees (Fahrenheit). I asked him how could be cold when it was so hot. It passed quickly and he said, "She's happy now." I asked him who was happy, but he just smiled and ran to play with his siblings.
I told my sister (while pregnant) that when she had her first the skies would darken and cities would fall. This was HALF in jest, if you knew her, and the father, you would understand.
Several months later my father yells up to my room, your sister is in labor and we are under attack. It was the morning of 9.11.2001.
Also when I was just learning to talk.. my mom and I were in the car one evening (me in the backseat sleeping in my carseat), and she was driving in the dark on this steep hill. Suddenly, she says, I woke up and started screaming "Stop! Stop!".
She was really concerned so she pulled over, just as this crazy drunk driver came barelling over the hill in our lane.
My cousin was quite a bright & active baby and was always entertaining growing up. When he was first learning to speak some sort of complete sentences, his mom was asking his questions to see what his baby response would be...
So, one time she decided to ask him what he remembers from his past... like when he was born, etc. And she specifically asked him "Do you remember being in mommy's belly"
My cousin responded "Yes mommy, but I died because you weren't ready for me yet."
My aunt suffered a miscarriage before having him...
[deleted] ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 22:11:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a powerfully powerfull curse. She must have been pushed right up to her limits, and in fear at some point in her previous life. It doesn't really sound like it turned out well that time.
Be a good dad and you can wipe that slate clean for her forever.
Not a parents, but I used to work in a daycare. Outside on the playground a bunch of preschool girls tackled me to the ground. They then surrounded me and began to mime a stabbing motion at me all the while chanting "KNIFE. KNIFE. KNIFE. KNIFE. KNIFE"
Took my goddaughter to lunch on her last day of school, we got settled at the table and I told her that she could order whatever she wanted. The waitress approached the table and asked what we'd like to drink. In the most adult voice a 5 year old could do she says, "Yes, I'll take a glass of wine."
QuillJS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:44:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope she said it in a super snooty and classy voice.
My mom told me that when I was around four, I woke up every night for a week at exactly midnight, screamed for ten minutes, and then fell right back asleep without remembering it in the morning.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:20:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was about 3 some of his favorite toys were these little plastic lizards that came in a bag. Like something from the supermarket toy aisle.
One day I see he's got all the lizards arranged in a circle except of one that was laying on its back in the middle of the circle. I asked him what was going on and he says "That one's dead and they're all looking at him."
When I was about ten and my brother eight, we took a family vacation to Colorado Springs. At one point we all went out on a little hike. My brother and I had a great time climbing rocks, jumping off them, running around. Our parents weren't quite as enthusiastic about it as we were though. After a bunch of complaining, Mom gives us permission to go on ahead without them, but be careful. As far as I can recall, we didn't even plan it, we were just on the same wavelength... should we take this opportunity of being off on our own in the Rockies and use it for evil? Yes. We promptly ran away until we were out of sight and let loose a couple of blood-curdling screams. Yeah, the 'rents were scared out of their minds and we were hysterical with laughter. Until we got home and they grounded us for a month.
I work at a summer camp so I'm around kids most of the day. Yes, it is terrifying. This sort of thing happens all the time. One day this one kid was acting up and I punished him, had him write lines. (not the best form of punishment, but i digress) He says he's done, and I pick up the page and start reading the lines. it starts "I will not hit other people" and about 1/2 way through it changes to I will hit other people, then I will kill other people, and the last lines read "I will kill everyone"
Normal happy kid usually. I suppose he had a bad day. Still kind of scary
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:14:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little cousin was playing with some blocks one time. I was the only other person in the room. He stopped playing and asked me how old I was. I told him 12 (he was 4). He thought for a moment and then laughed. I asked him why he was laughing and he said, "one day I'm going to be older than you." I told him I would always be older than him. He replied with, "not after you die." He was freaking 4 years old and creeped me out. Also, I'm still older than him, for now.
When I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend named Jesse. She was my age at the time, 5 or 6, and completely normal. Blonde hair always in a ponytail, and her favorite color was pink.
Except she had no arms or legs.
One night my parents asked me why she had no arms or legs. I told them that she had lived in our apartment previously and was having a sleepover with some friends. Then a man broke in and killed them all and cut off her arms and legs. My parents never mentioned it again.
She also had 100 brothers who all slept in the same bed, stacked on top of one another.
Oh, imagination.
Slasken ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:30:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I posted this in a comment reply way down, but I thought I'd add it to the main thread.
My brother and I used to share a room. I was on the top bunk, his was the bottom. One night, about 2 or 3 in the morning, he says, "Who's that?" Then, started screaming bloody murder. Wanted to call the cops, whole nine yards. He was about 7 I was 9/10 at the time. According to him, a man was standing over my mother in her bed, holding something over her face. When he asked who it was, the "man" turned to look at him with a demon mask on and red glowing eyes.
My brother is 30, and to this day if you mention it he can't sleep at night. Even freakier, is years later, my mother told me that that night, she felt like something was suffocating her, but every time she tried to get up, something would shove her back down. She made me swear to never tell my brother.
Happened to me aswell. Similar thing, guy in a demon mask with red glowing eyes just standing in the corner of the room staring at me. Yelled out for parents to come and dad switched the light on, thing disappears.
Same thing happened months later, my dad being a minister at the time had told me to say a certain christian phrase to it, and it disappeared.
I dont understand how people can completely deny supernatural stuff.
My bio father was a minister too. I've seen some weird unexplainable shit. I don't know if our concept of God is right, but I do think there is good and evil, and I think there are a lot of things that can't be explained unless you take that into account. My mom says when I was little, I used to tell her I didn't want to go to bed because the ghosts would get me. Probably something I watched on tv, but to this day, I can't go to sleep in a house by myself.
derpbear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:48 on October 11, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth be gone"
msf5042 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:06:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is something my friend actually said to his mom...
On 9/11, his mom was driving him to school and out of nowhere he asked her how long she thought it would take someone to run down the stairs from the top story of the World Trade Center.
After the first plane hit she showed up at school to ask him why he asked that.
Not a parent but a few years ago my younger siblings (3, 5, and 7 at the time) were playing outside and they came in and said that they just chased a big dog into the woods. Fun imagination time, right?
That night, our neighbor took a photo of a 800-1000lb grizzly bear in his garage.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Horribly unsettling.
GizmoMo ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:22:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin has a daughter who is now like 15 or something, but at the time of her creepy statement she was probably 2 or 3. Well she went into the bathroom all by herself and started brushing her teeth with such confidence, now this probably doesn't sound that weird but it was because my cousin would normally bring her in the bathroom and brush her teeth for her. When my cousin asked her "who showed you how to do all of this?" my cousins daughters reply was "Grandpa Cookie". Grandpa Cookie was my cousins grandfather who had died when she was a little girl and was never spoken about because he had passed so long ago. When my cousin asked her where she met him her daughter said "Last night he taught me how to brush my teeth and he made me breakfast." These are the exact two things my cousin would do every morning she spent with Grandpa Cookie, he would make her breakfast, then help her brush her teeth.
Not my own child, but my niece.
We had just moved into our new home and had heard some little sounds we thought were nothing. We came to the joking conclusion that the old lady who used to live there was still there watching us and she liked kids. Every time a child was in our house, they would stare up in this particular corner in the den and smile or giggle. So, my niece comes in from Colorado and her first night we are all watching tv in the living room. Suddenly, she jumps up and runs to that corner in the den saying "Hi! Hello!, Hi!" Then we go ask her what she's doing and she says she's saying hi to the lady.
Then, about a year later, my little cousin is sitting in the den with my mom and looks into the kitchen and says "there's a girl in the kitchen and she's going to kick your ass." Then, he said the girl looked like a grandma.
She never kicked my mom's ass though.
MsSupa ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 19:55:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I was 6 or so the first time I watched Poltergeist, my mom didn't know that I had watched it. I woke up in the middle of the night one night, and turned on the tv. It happened to be static, then I heard my mom getting up so I just sat down and waited. When she got into the living room and asked what I was doing, I turned my head really slowly and said "They're here". I've never seen anyone panic like that before or since. Best prank I've ever pulled.
Edit: Hubby was talking to me while I was typing, I'm very sorry. Am I forgiven?
NTesla ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:12:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. I'm really sorry, but it's 'they're'. I can't help it. No one can own 'here'. :/
mb86 ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 19:37:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm pregnant."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ooooo that's gotta hurt
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:01:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Technically I didn't say anything, but I think this applies.
I used to creep into my parents' room in the middle of the night if I couldn't sleep. I'd stand over my father, mere centimeters from his face, long, dark hair falling in front of my own, completely silent, until he'd wake up. He swears I did this three or four times a week, and he literally pissed himself in fear a few times.
biddee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:30:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter has done this once or twice.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:44:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was picking my 5 yr old daughter up from school. And we always talk a little mess back and forth. And I say something along the lines of "well your butt smells" she looks me straight in the eyes and says "oh yeah well your family is all dead and you don't have a home and nobody at your work is your friend" deepest burn I ever got...and its from my kid. Part of me was proud...
When I was a lot younger, I used to get night terrors every night. I remember seeing really creepy shit walking around in my room, like giant ape men and huge spiders, shit like that. It started when I was about 8 years old, but it scared the shit out of my parents because they thought I was possessed or something. Sometimes I'd do really random shit, like walk out of my room, throw my glass of water in the garbage and say "this apple it dirty". You could imagine my parents reaction when I run out of the room, screaming like a maniac, talking nonsense about bugs and random creepers in my room.
I was babysitting this 3 yr old and out of the blue she said, "this is my favorite outfit. I'm gonna die in this outfit. Are you gonna die in that outfit?"
I certainly hope not, was the only response I had.
kromyt ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:34:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a story about something my mom said to her mother.
My mom was about 4 years old. Her mother was giving her a bath one evening. Apparently in the middle of having her hair washed she announced "Momma, there is something under my bed." "What is under your bed?" "I don't know Momma, but it is GREAT BIG!"
My grandmother said she felt every hair on her head stand on end. She proceeded to turn on every light in the house, get the broom from the kitchen and prepared to do battle with the "GREAT BIG under the bed." She wailed and flailed under her daughter's bed with the broom until the "GREAT BIG" came out on the other side...and happened to be my mother's "Dance With Me" doll that was made to strap to a child's feet and they could dance with it...which my 4 year old mother promptly did while her mother tried to get her heart to stop trying to come out of her chest.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:07:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
So, it creeps me out that Superfish1984's kid had an imaginary friend named Dodo as well...
[โ]Superfish1984 65 points 3 hours ago
My daughter had some imaginary friends for a couple years named Dodo, Ghana & The Evil. They just sort of appeared out of nowhere when she was about 2.5 years old. It started with Dodo and Ghana, then a few months later (she was about 3 at this point) she came up to me and told me with a creepily expressionless face: "The Evil is coming over today" and just walked away.
Turns out, The Evil was actually a pretty nice imaginary friend, she just had an unfortunate name.
What I have learned from this thread: kids definitely interact with ghosts on the regular, being a mom is probably going to include some creepy ass moments.
When I was three or four I came down with a fever and had this super intense lucid fever dream that basically consisted of my brother having died somehow and me being at his funeral. I woke up and walked into the kitchen where my brother and parents were and stared at them for a while. My mom turned around and asked me if I was feeling better, to this I replied:
"Why are you keeping my brother around, he's dead." And for the rest of the evening I wouldn't acknowledge my brother's existence because I seriously thought he was dead and they were operating him like a puppet to fool me that he was still alive.
TL;DR: I thought my brother was dead and my parents were using him as a puppet.
I used to be a pseudo-nanny to a young autistic girl. When she was quite young her mother got her a bunny, Cleo, who died when she was about a year old. Around the same time, over the course of a few weeks, several deer were found dead in a woodsy area behind their house. DNR said they were killed by another animal, but that they didn't feel there was any safety concern at the time.
The family got a replacement bunny and obviously didn't want the kid to know what happened. The replacement bunny lived a long and happy life.
When the girl was around five, we were feeding the replacement bunny. She went to fill the water bottle, stopped halfway to the house and asked, "Do you think the woman who killed all the deer killed the real Cleo, too?"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:12 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is something I said to my parents when I was 5 years old.
They told me we were moving out of our house in a few months. I then proceeded to ask them, "when we leave, will our faces be in the walls, too?"
My mom said, "what do you mean Bendrake?"
To which I answered, "the people who used to live here left their faces in the walls."
5_10 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:52:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 22 year old girlfriend passed away, nobody knew how to explain that to her 3 year old son. Her sister is looking after him, and he came down after a nap, telling us about his dream and how an angel named Sara came and took mommy away to live with her in the sky. Nobody had told him anything yet because we didn't know what to say. Her and her family are far from religious, so how he knew what an angel was is beyond me.
My second daughter, starting about when she could talk (2ish), had all kinds of stories about her "old" family, and how she and some of them had died in a fire. It was especially creepy because her story was pretty consistent- she held details about the story for at least a year... made-up stuff generally isn't that persistent.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:02:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"There's a monster in my closet."
Nigga, you gotta deal with that shit on your own.
Hamerd ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:49:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My niece asked my sister one time about my mother. She asked her,"Mom, your mom is in heaven right?" My sister said yes, then she said,"Yea, i know. Shes beautiful and talks to me all the time." She told me in passing once but we never thought anything of it.
A few weeks later im horsing around with me niece and she calls me by my childhood nickname my mother used to call me. No ones used it since before my mother died years ago. Me and my sister just looked at each other.
I also remember when I was young i would have memorys that seemed out of place. Like they happened before I was born. I remember telling my mother that there was nothing but blackness before and after the memory. Id always swore to myself id never forget them, but by the time I was 9 i only remembered the experience.
When I was a kid (somewhere around 5 years old I think) my grandmother had to undergo some sort of surgery. I don't remember much about it beside the fact that it was suppose to be pretty serious and there was a chance that she might not live through it. Throughout the whole ordeal I was calm and collected, and my family couldn't understand why (they were all an emotional wreck). I guess I told them that I talked to a man under our tree and he told me my grandma would be OK. According to my mom I apparently described the man as my grandmother's father who had died a few years before I was born. Long story short, she lived through the surgery (and is still alive) and I have a cool story because of it.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:13:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not our kids (we don't have kids), but my wife was at work at Sam's Club and went into the restroom. She was in the stall when this little boy comes in all by himself, goes into the stall next to her and whispers, I guess to no one in particular, "what's your favorite scary movie?". When no one answers after a few seconds he whispers "what is it??". A few seconds of silence passes again as my wife is kind of freaking out right about then. The little boy then whispers "FINE! I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL!" and then proceeds to sing the Elmo's world theme song followed by the "I love you, you love me..." Barney song. At this point a group of women enter the restroom and my wife quickly gets the fuck out of there.
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:42:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:26:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So you and a friend saw a guy who looked like your dad fishing and when you came back he left? I don't get it...
alexjpg ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:21:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just asked my mom if I did anything creepy when I was little. She gave an emphatic "no!" and said even if I did she wouldn't want me posting it on the internet in case an employer was trying to "track me down". Parents these days.
F_gAy_G ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:47:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I asked my parents, and they both said that when I was 4 or 5 I would stand at the side of their bed and watch them sleep. Exactly like paranormal activity.
mrsMK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, I used to do that to my parents all the time. Mostly my dad because I knew he would sense I was there and wake up. I thought I was being nice by not talking to wake them up, but really I was just scaring the bejeezus out of them.
gjinx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:21:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my boyfriend has a cousin who use to say very scary things when they were kids. She would talk about ghosts and people and shadows. She would talk about talking to them and about who they were. She was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.
My step sister used to have very bad night terrors.
When she was about 4, she saw The Ring.
There were no signs that this movie scarred her, but after about a year, when she entered kindergarten, we noticed all her pictures, no matter what they were of, had a little girl with long black hair in it. Her mother asked her "Is that x?" (x being me, I had long black hair at the time.) and she would say "No.. it's the little girl in the well. x won't be here for much longer."
Ok, so that was creepy, but nothing too bad for a little girl scarred by a horror movie. After a few months, though, she started having night terrors.. she would sit in the corner of her room, sobbing, staring at the closet. When someone would try and comfort her, she would grab them tight or scream for them to get out while they could. When someone asked what was wrong, she would say the girl with the black hair was there.. and point to the corner.
Ok, so even that isn't that creepy, I guess. Little girls have wild imaginations. The really creepy part? She would wake up the next morning scratched and bruised in places she couldn't have done herself. Once, a giant welt in the form of a handprint on her back. We thought maybe someone was hitting her, but we couldn't imagine who would be beating her in the middle of the night for no reason.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:39:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was ~22mo old, we were driving back from the store one day. Driving on an overpass that crosses a 6 lane highway, she said happily, "They're all dead." I replied, "What, Honey?" She repeated, "They're all dead." As I was trying to figure out why she would possibly say that, it hit me that a man had climbed the fence and jumped into oncoming traffic from the overpass less than 2 weeks before. The rest of that ride was very quiet.
I still live with my mother and every Saturday my 6 y/o niece stays. I got up Sunday and walk downstairs and on the stair rail was a teddy hanging by its neck in a make shift noose.
"Her neck is broken!" she said in the most ecstatic tone I have ever heard.
My 5 year old little cousin and her family came to stay with me for a few days. One night she was telling me about "a big scary black thing" that would come and try to choke her. I thought she was just being 5 and making things up so I just asked her of this thing was a person and she said she didn't know. A few nights later I find her by the window and she is crying and I asked her what's wrong. So she points outside the window and says "he's here and he won't stop looking through the window; he's coming" I didn't see anything outside but it scared the crap out of me.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:29:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was on ADHD meds when I was a kid. I was on Dexedrine 100mg. My mother accidentally dosed me twice thinking I had not had my dose that day. I got high as fuck. I ran into my house and up the stairs and yelled at my mother that this entire life was just a dream and as much as it sucked I didn't want to wake up, I told her I knew what was going to happen and I wasn't afraid I just wanted this reality to be the real one and I was afraid I would wake up in a different reality. I felt like I was awaking from a dream. I went to the hospital and everything had an ECG and they found out I had double dosed on Amphetamines. My mom still asks me to this day what I mean when I said "I know it sucks but I don't want to wake up". The part that tripped her out was the whats going to happen part. Right afterwards her boyfriend died from a stroke and my brother was hit by a car. She still thinks I was able to see that happen. I still tell her she is full of shit.
I really don't even know what I meant.
spwmoni ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I N C E P T I O N
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:04:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son is two and a half. A couple of weeks ago, we're all in his room, playing blocks, when out of nowhere, he says to my husband and me, in this really weird, creepy, sing-song voice, "There come the monsters!" ending with a weird, upper inflection.
It was totally creepy. After exchanging uneasy glances, I laughed because I remembered my husband had recently installed the Sesame Street "Another Monster at the End of the Book" app on his work's iPad. I'm pretty sure he was speaking like Elmo.
When I was a toddler, my mom was showing me a photo album of our family, and we came across a picture of her dad, who died before I was born. She started explaining who he was, and I said, "I know him! He visits me in dreams!" Then I told her all about him.
kourogi ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:55:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
"I'm going to eat your soul." In a very creepy voice. He was 3 at the time and spent too much time with his uncles. He's still pretty weird though.
Edit: I just mentioned this too him and he said, "it's still going to happen, someday I'll come to collect."
Such a wonderful son I have.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:03:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My younger sister woke me up in the middle of the night when she was around the same age and also said "I'm going to eat your soul," then went right back to sleep.
Don't have kids, but my parents told me that when my sister was little, she'd draw weird shapes on the walls and when anyone asked her what she was doing, she would stare straight at the expressionless and say "this house has ghosts."
She was probably 4 or 5 at the time, but there had been a lot of deaths on that property over time.
When my daughter was 3, we were conversing while she tried to use the potty. I was going to sit down on the edge of the tub, but she told me I couldn't - her friend was already sitting there. I asked her to tell me about her friend, who she then described as sad, and "big like mommy not little like me." She went on to tell me that her friend was sad because she fell in the tub and has a big boo-boo on the side of her head and has to live in the bathroom now.
alesub ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:12:58 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"With fire, everything is possible" - My 4 year old son, while I was pouring a glass of milk for him.
When my daughter was about 8, she went out to play in the front yard by the garage. I had parked the car outside the night before. She came in and said, "Mommy, there's an angel on your car."
Turns out some kids had put a neighbor's angel statue on my hood as a prank.
Apparently I was the creepy child. I'd say and do things that a "normal" five year old wouldn't.
My Barbies all had high powered careers as doctors, spies and lawyers. Of course sometimes Ken raped them, or they'd get to deep with the mob and were whacked. Sometimes they doctor would start abusing drugs and OD or the lawyer committed suicide.
Sometimes I'd pretend my dollies were my babies and I was the mom. Normal right? Well my mom would ask me how it was going and it was always terrible. My husband the police officer would be shot in the line of duty and now I am widowed. I had to raise these two little girls on my own , and I don't know how I'm going to pay my bills.
HAHAHAHA, I did the same weird stuff all the time. Make my barbies get raped, kidnapped, and murdered. I was like 9 or 10 to at the time. Me and my brother and cousins would play this game that we were slave children and had to poison are imaginery abusive father. Or we were indians and have to run away and live on our own from hunters that would beat/rape us.
I am a guy who played with my mom's old Barbies (she had me at 18 so we kept them around especially since my youngest aunt was still around 8 or so at the time, and then I liked to play with them so they weren't thrown out). I had decided that they were misandrists and they constantly murdered Ken on our treadmill, which to me was a river of hot tar where Ken would never be found again. I had one Ken and, in the beginning, one Skipper, but when I was around 5 or 6 at my begging my grandmother bought me my own Barbie. I kind of hope she didn't get thrown away because I had some good memories with her and wouldn't mind giving her to one of my kids if I ever have any.
Good? I'm not done living it so we'll see in the end. I'm a firm believer in parental control when it comes to television now. There are things that were on the TV that I should NOT have been able to see.
Haha Well, I definitely hope you aren't done living it or this convo would be the next level of creepy. Did your life end up like any of your scenarios is what I meant to ask.
You mean like whacked off by the mob or widowed? SO is still alive (for now) and no. Although I do sometimes abuse my cold medicines when I'm having trouble falling and staying asleep.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I gave my nephew GTA3 when he was 7...he's turned out really well so far though...ya! /And that's with my manic/depressive sister...so...GTA3 is good!
Story of me as a kid: I just remember what happened to me as a kid going through a lot of these stories. Here's what happened to me and my dad, I was age 10 approximately. My dad's mother had just died, and my dad was having horrible night terrors. Ones where my mom would wake up, my brother (approx 16 at the time) would wake up from down the hall and go see what would happen. My mom would be in tears and my brother told me he almost broke down one of the times. Supposedly my dad would be talking to his dad who died about 6 years prior, and it was pretty frightening. He would then switch and start talking to his mom. I think they were both more sad for my dad than scared. I slept through all of this, but really wish I had gotten to experience something like this. Now this is where the good stuff gets to happen..
It was about a week later, my dad was well informed about his sleep issues, as my mom told him as soon as he'd wake up from getting to loud or scaring himself awake. I asked my dad what he would see/hear/and everything, and he said that he saw his dad floating above him while he was "awake" in bed (he was "awake" but really sleeping and dreaming in case you got confused). He told me him and his dad had a conversation and told him a lot of things that my dad had wondered and wanted to know (he never told me to this day exactly what). My dad then went on about how he told his father to tell his mother he loved her and misses her, but that he's happy they're together again. Then, perfect timing, our phone rings, and my dad picks it up. It's his brother, my uncle Butch. Uncle Butch tells my dad that he had horrible night terror the night before (he was a truck driver and had the horrible night terror in his truck sleeping). He also told my dad that he was so messed up he couldn't go back to sleep, so started driving but fell asleep behind the wheel, and when he was asleep he heard their dad's voice, and felt a hand pull his hand to get his truck back on the road (he was almost off the road, but he said it wasn't like he was going into a ditch quite yet).
Okay so now we have my dad and his brother having horrible dreams. My dad just got off the phone with my uncle, relays it to my mom, brother, and I. Brother says they're crazy and just having bad dreams. Mom just thinks it's a coincidence, but she does believe in ghosts. I think ghosts are fake and stupid. I ask my dad if he believes in ghosts.. he says that he believes in them, and that he's had experiences with ghosts in a child-hood friends home. I tell him he's crazy, he says that it's up to me to decide if I believe in them or not and that most people probably would think he's crazy for this story.
As soon as he says that, a huge stack of papers on my kitchen table (my mom does work in HR, and had to bring home time sheets, documents, and other random papers from her work to sign off or whatever... I'm talking about probably 4 huge stacks of paper topped with random items from daily living) go FLYING off the table. Nobody was near them except me and my dad, and we were still about 10 ft from the table they were on. They went completely sideways about 3 feet into a wall and of course dropped. I looked dead at my dad and he was wide-eyed as I have ever seen him. He looked down at me, gave one single huff of air, almost chuckle like, shook his head, and said "see... stuff like that happens for no reason.."
Oddly enough I wasn't even scared. In my head, I thought at worst, it was a ghost... but of my grandmother that I loved. So it wasn't scary as it was fascinating.. Don't get me wrong, I didn't go pick the papers up, I stood frozen in spectacle. Nothing else happened, my dad had a few more dreams, but they stopped. His two sisters also had dreams, as well as his sisters daughter who is (I think) 15 years younger than my dad.
I'm all for saying they were strange coincidences, but honestly... I think this was just one coincidence too many, and too perfectly timed. My dad had absolutely nothing to do with it, and I know this simply because our table was more of a storage unit that only my mom used from work... my dad never went near there, and had no time to plan something like that.
Idk, I'll let you guys decide and give your opinions, but that's the only experience close to something I've been reading in this thread.
TL;DR Dad's mom died, sees dead mom and dad in dream, so do his siblings, when I ask about what happened in dream and ask if he believes in ghosts, things in kitchen go flying.
Also, I'd be willing to answer any questions, this was a super long post, but I remember it really vividly and can answer almost anything you guys have to ask about it.
Edit: Sorry about how long this is... I just didn't want to leave anything out... that's what she said....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you fully believe in ghosts now? I am a "true believer" having seen items move/turn on by themselves as a kid and then as an adult seeing full apparitions and receiving mental images that turn out to be very meaningful to my friends/acquaintances. I'm interested to hear about progression from disbelief to belief.
I definitely believe there's something out there. I don't know if it's "ghosts" like we think of it... late family members, those such things... And I'm not religious at all, so I'm not sure the religious standpoint of demons and things like that convince me at all... But I do believe something is out there, some kind of force, I just don't know what. Maybe it is one (or both) of those things aforementioned.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:34:30 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You begin by meditating; get a completely blank mind. Then, if you had the intention of receiving messages prior to meditating you will start seeing fleeting images. Try to hold on to them. Some will be very weird. Write everything down then ask people closest to you if what you saw means anything to them. Usually it's the "weird things" that validate the image of whatever person/place/object you saw to ensure that you're not just generalizing. The more you do it, then more you get a sense of who the message is for (instead of asking around) and you get better, more specific info that is highly personal/private and only relates to one possible person who has passed away.
argg ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:50:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son who was born 26 weeks after losing a twin sister in utero, has later told us that he died a little bit in the hospital. He's also said his sister comes and visits him and she blows bubbles.
Damn, all these stories make me think we see real supernatural stuff but as we get older and are constantly told it isn't real, our minds just refuse to accept it as reality and we don't acknowledge it
More likely: young, plastic minds are developing conceptions of reality more rapidly and are more likely to make mistakes. I saw and heard weird shit as a kid - especially at night - but now I can recognise that lots of it was the result of night terrors and the like. I've experienced these as an adult too but less frequently and with a more rational mind. Children are more likely to experience hypnogogic hallucinations and they are coming to terms with a whole existence that we take - for the most part - for granted.
It's probably from a common experience of some kind. I'm not a pyschologist but it still seems more likely than ghosts and monsters that only appear to children.
Yeah, as a kid I'd frequently be convinced that I saw/heard something really creepy in the middle of the night. Now I know enough to recognise that I get semi-frequent bouts of sleep paralysis and occasionally have auditory/visual hallucinations with it. It's no longer frightening.
Eh, I've gotten hypnogogic hallucinations and night terrors and other weird crap since I was a little kid. I've seen demons, ghosts, skeletons, aliens, and the Borg among other things. They still happen now. They are really freaky when they do occur. A not uncommon thought process even now is "ok, I know in the past it was just sleep paralysis with some hallucinations but this time its so scary it must be real!". Now, apply that to a little kid who has no reason to not trust their sensory input.
That, along with parents asking leading questions (see the story about the Digger given above for example), and parents remembering the creepy details that fit in some way and forgetting the other details (a common problem also with psychics) and that explains most of this.
Of course, even if one has a rational explanation, they're still pretty creepy.
enharet ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:34:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 6 year old niece, who is a total sweetheart and adorbs, was changing into her jammies after her bath one night. Her hair was hanging in the cutest ringlets and she smelled like lotion and strawberry bubble bath. I was sitting on the floor playing a game with another niece. The 6 year old comes up behind me, puts her arms around my neck and hugs me, She kisses me on the cheek and hangs out for a minute before whispering, "I could kill you right now."
The kid is an evil genius.
Pwnagez ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 20:42:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but when my sister was 5 or 6 she found a butter knife in the kitchen and took it to her room. I went to see what she was doing, loud noises coming from her room, and she was jumping on the bed with the knife. I said, "Give me that, what are you doing with that knife?" and she looked at me and she said, "Imma cut you head off with this." At first I thought it was funny and just took it from her, but later I was thinking where did she learn that phrase and could she possibly have done it? She's 10 and perfectly normal and doesn't remember that all.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok she couldn't have done it a butter knife is nowhere near sharp enough.
This has nothing to do with kids, but is relevant because it happened two seconds ago as I'm reading this thread and getting creeped the fuck out.
My boyfriend absent-mindedly offers me a bottle of Gatorade as I'm reading about kids who see dead grandmas, goes "Want some?" and I take a drink. As soon as I hand it back to him, he says, completely deadpan, "Now we die together."
Fuck me, right.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:02:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother woke up my mom one night and asked 'whose feet are at the end of my bed?'
When I was around 2-3 years old, I would tell my parents that they were not my parents and that I lived in a blue house that caught on fire. They would ask me where the house was located. I would say "Newtown." (Newtown was a town located about 5-10 minutes away from where I was born/living)
While on summer vacation I used to watch my uncle's kids every weekend at the end of the month at my house but I decided it was easier for me to watch them at there home. Everything was going pretty good until night came and the kids left the television room and stood in the other room I kept asking them to come back into the room but they refused and after a while I was getting frustrated and asked them why they didnt want to watch tv. The kids looked nervous and I asked the oldest sister who was 4 at the time what was wrong, she then told me the old man on the chair didnt like us being in his room and wanted us out. Just to say my skin turned white with goosebumps as I decided to head to a different room.
My 9 year old sister randomly said the other day "If you guys decide to eat me one day, make sure to eat my head first because I don't want to watch the rest." Where the fuck does she get this stuff from?
My mom told me that when I was little, after my great grandmother had passed away, she was telling me that she had died, and I replied, "I know." She asked me how I knew and I said, "She told me."
This is more contextually creepy. I was probably about 15 and babysitting a little girl one day, she was between 3 and 4. Not in school yet but could talk. We had a pretty normal evening, played with toys, ate some mac and cheese and then watched a video about baby animals. All the sudden, when we were sitting on the couch, she turned to me and said "You're a bad girl, I hate you. you were mean to me." I responded "Katie, I don't think I was mean to you.. what's wrong?" and she replied "You're bad and mean. You burned me with boiling water. You boiled water and put me in it and burned all my skin and I'm telling mommy and daddy on you." Keep in mind I hadn't given her a bath or done anything more than have her wash her hands before dinner. She went on to tell me how I burned her with boiling water and fire. I was absolutely petrified because 1. this all came out of nowhere, and 2. I was convinced she was going to tell her parents that I had been abusing her somehow. About 20 minutes later, she snapped out of it and acted like nothing happened. I told her parents what had gone on when they got home and they seemed really embarrassed and said something about how they were sorry about it, and thought she was over that habit. never got asked to babysit for them again, though.
Oh, and creepy side story - when the little girl was showing me around the house (before she went crazy), we went into the guest room and she said "This is the room for the baby in mommy's tummy! Katie's room, mommy and daddy's room, baby's room". I mentioned to parents that she had let the news slip about the baby, and congratulated them. Apparently they hadn't told her yet that she was going to be a big sister. Weird little girl.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:26:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a friend who moved to a new flat. The flat was slightly creepy. One day her 4 year old son walked in and said "Mummy, why is the man with the long nails digging in the hall?"
Bricks were shat.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:33:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you live in a town called Gatlin, perchance? They may have been trying to figure out your age.
renn187 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:37:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom swears that I scared the living daylights out of her as a child. Haven't seen her in a long time because of a divorce and separtion, but we used to live in a three-story house in Chicago with a back porch with indoor creepy stairs. According to my mom, I refused to go play outside with my cousins and stayed in that back porch in the darkness, using the faint glow of the kitchen light to play with my toys. She thought I was voice-acting for my action figures, when, suddenly, my bike is thrown down the stairs to the basement level, where it's pitch-black. My aunt, my grandma', and my mom all run to me and start asking me why I threw the bike. I cried and swore that I didn't do it. "It wasn't me. It was my hand." My mom responds: "So you did it! Go pick it up!" I reply with, "No! Something grabbed my hand!" Freaked everyone out. Funny thing is, some traumatic things happened with the separation that actually blocked out some of the memories of Chicago. I didn't know about this story until my mom told me a few years back.
TL;DR - As a child, I claimed that something grabbed my hand in a creepy back porch and threw my bike down two sets of stairs into the pitch-black basement level of my childhood home. Creeped out my mom, grandma', and aunt.
When I was a kid, my parents bought a house and we moved in. I started having nightmares about the room in the basement. I remember seeing a woman dead/dying on a couch from some kind of knife wound and seeing a message written on a mirror in blood.
A few years later, I told my mom about the dreams I had, and she told me that a young woman had committed suicide in that house 6 months before we moved in.
Pretty sure my mom was at least a little freaked out.
My nephew, when he was a wee lad, used to go about and tell people to "kill yourself".
He's sitting right there, I'll ask him if he remembers and why.... he says, "actually, I can't remember. I think I remember having a dream when somebody said over and over 'kill myself kill myself'. What are you doing?"
Well, I'm typing.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:58:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about five years old, I slept with a stuffed koala. For some reason, its eyes seemed to glow red, and I swore that I could hear it whisper to me the various ways it was going to kill me the moment I went to sleep. For some reason, however, I never got up to put it somewhere else, I was paralyzed with fear. I finally told my mother that my koala was plotting to murder me. She seemed confused, and decided to put it away in my brother's closet. Years later, I opened the closet and there he sat, still staring at me. He was a lot less scary in the daytime.
I remember being 4 and I would always say how I used to be a full grown man. I would talk about things I did "as a man". I don't remember anything about my theoretical past life now however.
My mom says that I would say that I couldn't sleep the night of Christmas Eve because angels were talking to me. She thought that was cute, until I described my late grandfather to her in vivid detail. Then shit got weird and spiritual.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:57:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old nephew said this
"I am a monster, I will eat you and remember your name and taste, one day I will be a king and you will be my rascal and I will die but you will die and I will come back and put fire on the castle"
He also said the following.
"Round and round the happy goldfish goes, when it will stop, nobody knows, one day he will be gone and then I will be happy because he will never hurt me"
ph1992 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:32:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not mine and not a parent. But my sister is a teacher at a school for autism. Name has been changed.
Kayla wasn't sharing her toy. My sister goes over to her and says "Now Kayla, you an either lose the toy or share with Tommy. Which would you like to do?"
Kayla looks at her for a while and says, "I think I'd rather just kill her."
Retro21 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:23:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time my kid and I were making pancakes, and they started getting thinner and thinner as we were running out of ingredients. Was looking forward so much to eating them, and she wanted to make it a competition to see who could eat the most. At first I didn't think it was a good idea, but then thought hell to it, it's a bit of fun and she isn't overweight or anything.
So we started and to my utter disbelief she managed to eat more than me. Yep, got to hand it to her, she totally creped me out.
A few months ago we got home from a trip, and my two year old and I were downstairs playing, not having been upstairs yet. It got to be bedtime, and I was prepping him to go upstairs when he said "first, I want to get a broom and sweep out the lady that's in my bed". I stared at him and asked him to clarify that there was a lady in his bed, and he confirmed. He didn't seem the least bit frightened or concerned, just very matter-of-fact. We got the broom and swept his bed just in case he was right, and he was satisfied afterwards.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:19:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This will get buried, I just know it! According to my mom, I used to have an imaginary friend. His name was Barty and being an only child, he was my only playmate when I was stuck at home. My mom walked by my room and hear me talking and asked "Katy, who are you talking to?" I said, "My friend Barty." She then asked me to describe him and the only thing I said was that he had a dirty rope around his neck.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:23:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My family used to tell stories all the time about my imaginary friend. His name was Andy, and instead of just being a friend - like normal kids - he was my son. Everything about him - from clothing to personality to general looks - was exactly my great-grandfather: who died 20 years before I was born.
There were no family stories about him, or pictures of him, primarily because any time he was mentioned my great-grandmother (who I lived with) would start crying.
I also wouldn't answer to my name, I would only answer to Anna - my great-great-grandmother's name. I would describe doing things that my great-grandfather did in his childhood; and I would often ask why I wasn't in Scotland - occasionally screaming and crying. Whenever I went into these imaginary quests, my Gram would lock herself in her room because they were all too real for her.
Today, I am often told by family that I'm the spitting image of my Great-Great-Grandmother Anna.
My little sister was 3 and she was running through the house. My mom asked her why she was being so wild, she said she made a new friend, his name was Sebastian, i thought nothing of it. Later that day i tucked her into bed and she asked me to cover her mirror, i asked why because she loved the mirror, she said Sebastian wouldn't stop staring at her. I covered the mirror and asked her about Sebastian
She said he was my age (i was 14), and had funny clothes, and he was unique (her exact word) necause he was missing half his face and no eyes. She then looked at me and said "you should remember him, he says he remembers you."
It freaked me the fuck out, my mom thought she only had a nightmare when i told her.
I scared my mom a lot when I was little. All of this happened before I was 7, we moved when I was 7 and I guess after that a lot of this stopped happening.
-I used to have an imaginary family, I had my dad who I called PaPa Daddy, and I have 11 brothers and sisters who I played with and talked to all the time. I used to tell my mom about my other home and how I had this beautiful tree in my yard. I was learning how to fly when I came down to be with my mom.
I told her that I had seen how nice of a mommy she was (I have 1 older sister) and decided I wanted her to be my mommy. My PaPa Daddy didn't want me to go down there and said I had to stay with him so one night I snuck out and came down to earth to be in her tummy.
I would tell her that my PaPa Daddy was really mad at me, and I had dreams where I would wake up crying and would tell her my PaPa Daddy visited me and told me that he was mad at me for sneaking out.
I told her once that I was going to go back home, and she told me that she wouldn't let me go back because she would miss me too much. I looked her straight in the face and told her she wouldn't be there to save me. -Needless to say my mother was and is still way more protective of me than my siblings (I'm 23 now) Any school trips that put her away from me, she came with.
-My mom said before I started learning the alphabet I used to write a series of symbols and pictures on pieces of paper and tell her it was my name from my other home. She said I would do the exact same symbols over and over, and once she started teaching me the alphabet I forgot how to write my name. I would sit and cry with a pen and a piece of paper because I was forgetting how to write my name. (She says she saved some of them somewhere, but doesn't know where. I want to see them and see if it is anything and actually means anything one day)
-One time I woke up from a dream screaming that she had died. I told her that she was going to my grandma's house by herself and got in a car accident and died. She brushed it off because with 4 children she never went anywher by herself. Later that day me and my sister were playing with the neighbors, and my dad was with my brothers and my mom was walking out to the car go go to my grandma's by herself and as soon as she sat down in the car she freaked out and realized what she was doing and made me and my sister come with her.
There was lots of other stuff I did, she recorded me talking about a bunch of it on tapes and stuff, don't remember any of those stories. I do remember playing with lots of kids at my house, I can see what they look like in my head. This is the stuff that I remember most but there are DOZENS of stories like this.
I think I can speak for my parents for this one. when I was 7 years old, I was eating dinner with the family, and out of fucking nowhere I go: mom, have you and dad ever fucked? sufficed to say, the remainder of dinner was awkward
Since most of these occur while kids are being put to bed or in the middle of the night, might it be safe to say that dreams are most likely involved and the kids can't differentiate?
When my sister was four she had a imaginary friend named Jason. He was always around, never left. My mother would have to make two bowls of cereal in the morning, one for my sister and one for Jason. I am not sure if Jason actually ate the cereal OK?
Anyway my mom just assumed it was my sister imagination until one day my sister came to her crying and saying Jason tried to choke her. My sister showed my mother her neck and my religious mother flipped and started trying to cast the damn thing out the house with prayer. My grandmother (Who is very religious as well) came over and her and my mother both swear to this day that things started moving around the house and my mother refused to go back into the house when all the laundry flew out of the clothes hamper and across the room.
Zoji ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:41:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me but my mother. When she was around 15 she was taking a road trip through calarado. On a particular stretch of road my mom caught a glance of something that looked to be about 7 feet tall and had beast like body type. It freaked her the fuck out and she turned to her best friend at the time whos eyes were wide open. Her friend asked her if she had seen that thing. My mom said yes and still to this day she says it is the scareist thing she has ever seen and she is a war veteran. She thinks it maybe something called bY the native americans as a "Skinwalker".
DeviTHM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a native american, I advise you to never travel alone.
From wikipedia: Some Navajo also believe that skinwalkers have the ability to steal the "skin" or body of a person. The Navajo believe that if you lock eyes with a skinwalker, they can absorb themselves into your body. It is also said that skinwalkers avoid the light and that their eyes glow like an animal's when in human form, and when in animal form their eyes do not glow as an animal's would.
He actually wasn't that messed up at all, which is surprising because the stairs went down really far and onto a platform and then there were about 5 or 6 more steps after the platform which led to a concrete floor. There's a picture of him a few days after the incident somewhere, and in it he only has two normal band-aids on his forehead. No broken bones, no crazy cuts. Just a couple of scratches.
Would have loved for someone to get a pic of it. With all the cellphone cameras around today, it can't be too terribly long before someone videos/snaps bigfoot.
When my big sister was little she had a habit of scaring the bejesus out of any unfortunate babysitter who looked after her. My nanna was watching her one time. She was casually reading a paper while my sister was playing hide and seek with a new imaginery friend. My nanna asked what their name was, my sister replied 'Grandad' , my nanna said that Grandad wasn't imaginery. Sis said 'I know he's real, but this is my other grandad'. My nannas husband by the way had been dead long before my sister was even born. My nanna tested her to see and asked what he looked like. My sis proceeded to tell her every detail about him including his hairstyle and what clothes he was wearing. My nanna freaked the fuck out as she described everything they buried him in. Sis then turned around and said, 'He's asking you why he doesn't have his glasses'. He was an avid reader and she had kept them as a memento. Needless to say it was some time before she agreed to babysit again.
This isn't that frightening and happened to me when I was about 12 years old I think, but I was once sleeping over at my friends place with 5 other people in the living room. I decided to go to sleep early and when I was trying to sleep, I heard a loud roar and the lights started flickering and I did not pay much attention to it since I thought it was the 5 people playing around and of course they were screaming. The next morning, I asked my friend and his friend what the loud roar was and they said they don't know where it came from and they saw a hand down the hall way near my friends parents room. The funny thing is, the house I was staying at, apparently, the previous owner were a wife and a husband and the wife killed the husband, chopped up the body in the bathtub, and buried the remains in the yard. The house itself wasn't creepy and I didnt have a problem sleeping over there at times. True Story.
EDIT: Sorry if this event sucks but I can't retell stuff that happens to me that well.
Lucchi ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:23:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time, when my younger, autistic brother was six, I (eight at the time) was sitting in the family room watching tv when he came in, grabbed my hand, and took me to my dining room. He then proceeded to point to the back corner of the room and say "see the man? see the man?" We RARELY went into that room even before, I always found it to have a weird atmosphere, dim and quiet but in a creepy and not relaxing way. Needless to say we don't live in that house anymore.
My sister-in-law is currently pregnant. My three year old asked if it would hurt when the baby comes out. No, I said, it won't hurt. Her response: "But what about the blood when the skin comes off?"
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:33:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother recently recalled this story about me as a toddler...
It was in the mid-80's, and for some reason it was just my mother and I in the house late in the evening. There had been thunderstorms, and the power went out. I started crying, so she gathered me up, and put me in the living room for a moment while she went to find some candles.
When she came back into the dark living room, I was sitting there on my knees right in front of the TV with my hands against the screen.
I turned to my mother, and whispered "They're here..." just like in the fucking Poltergeist movie. My mother royally flipped out, and almost lost it.
In hindsight, there is no way that I had seen that movie as a 5 year old, but I had probably seen the TV commercial for it 940 times and was aware of the catch phrase as a pop culture thing.
"mommy, can I have some rope"
"why do you need rope"
"for my trap"
"what's your trap for"
"for miles"- Xavier
Xavier is 4. Miles is 2. Xavier hates miles and has also said "I'm going to kill miles"...
Not sure if it's sibling rivalry or if he really wants to kill his little brother...
qwetico ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:46:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about three years old, my mother and one of her friends went shopping at a local mall, and took me along. I was sitting on a food court chair, eating an ice cream cone, when apparently I said:
"Hey [mom's friend's name], tell me all about diarrhea."
I'm not a parent, but my little sister lived with me for a year. I was sitting in the living room around two or three in the morning when I heard giggling coming from her bedroom. I walked into her doorway ready to reprimand her for being up so late on a school night. What I found was a sleeping girl, sitting strait up in her bed. As I approached her bedside she turned, looking into the closet and said, "I can't do that. What if she's still awake?" WHAT!?
When I was about 4 years old my parents breed hamsters and sold them to pet stores. I didn't understand why the mother and babies were seperated from the father. So I thought I should let the dad see that babies. When put the babies in the father's cage he immediately tired killing them. I managed to save them but when I put them back with the mother she killed them all (event he ones I didn't move).
I ran downstairs crying and woke my mom up with "Mommy I'm a Murderer, I killed them all" My mom had no idea what I was talking about and thought I had a bad dream.
I was legally deaf until was going on 6 years old. After a series of surgeries, tubes, and so on I was good to go, but my ears made me do some strange things at night. I would often hear heartbeats, loud screams, and footsteps before I went to bed, so I would be ridden with the worst nightmares. To make matters more fun I slept walk and had a Nana whom had an infatuation with scaring myself and my sisters with porcelain dolls. As some sort of deep-rooted payback I did Stephen King quality shit as I slept.
Here are three particular stories that my parents would swear by as being the most frightening experiences for them.
At the time my dad had recently started the construction on a pool, so there was a very large (50x25x18) whole in the ground. Both my sister and I would sleep walk, open the doors to our backyard, and walk out the pool--just to stand at the edge in pure darkness and look inside of it. We had a house alarm, so the alarm would start to trigger and my parents would instinctively run outside to see either my sister or I peering off into the void. I don't know what I saw, but I do remember having dreams of running towards a dock to meet a man.
I had some serious lung issues and, as a result, became a long time user of prednisone. It did horrible things to my body. In one particular instance I remember going to bed coughing. The entire night I had dreams about choking. I would wake up in the dark and have drool on my face, but shortly after I would fall back asleep. When I woke up in the daylight I screamed. There was blood everywhere: on my hands, the walls around my bunk bed, and on top of my bunk-bed. I barely could open my eyes as well. My mother ran into the room and saw me covered in blood and scared the living hell out of here. I had ripped some lining in my lungs coughing and started spitting up blood while I was sleeping. All my dreams just seemed to my body trying to prevent me from killing myself in my sleep.
I can't really explain why I did this one. I would often sleep "climb"--that is I would climb on top of things while I was sleeping. Well, one particular night I managed to climb on top of my parents armoire-headboard. I must have realized someone was below me because I just stood still and stared at my parents sleeping while I was standing right on top of them. Imagine my parent's surprise to see some small child staring at them in the middle of the night with their eye's wide open.
(This isn't QUITE an answer to the question asked, but what the hell, it's a decent post.)
Huh. The pool construction hole coinciding with your dream is very interesting. Also, I hope your family did something to inform Prednisone about the whole "I Nearly Died" incident.
I am an atheist living in Texas with my 6-year-old son. He learned about God from his friends at school. One day, he came home and when we were talking about his day, he started crying. He told me that his friends told him that he was going to hell and he was going to burn in the lava. While consoling him, he looked up at me and said, "It's okay. You're going to burn in the lava in hell too."
My 3-year-old little sister and I were watching TV and she randomly turned to me and whispered, "I wanna eat your face," and then she tried to bite my cheeks.
You would think, but we don't like to give my little sister any drugs. If she were on bathsalts, I surely would not have a face. Even though she's young, she can't be quite forceful.
You know when you're a kid and your dad or uncle grabs your leg just above the knee and it tickles like crazy? I had an gf that as a kid had to tell the classroom what they liked about their parents, she told everyone that she liked it when her father tickled her between the legs. Her parents were called into school the next day.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:54:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Driving down a 4 lane highway and is passed by a motorcycle. Dad (friend) says to son (5 years old), "Did you see that neat motorcycle?"
Kid replies with, "Yes. I used to have a red one just like it in my life before this one."
Nothing else was said the whole trip. If it were me I would've just pulled the car over, got out and started walking and never looked back.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:49:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Either hes trollling, or hes trolling.
ddewitt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:43:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't really my story, but still fucking creepy!
Pretext: My great grandpa died when my cousin (who this story is about) was literally weeks old, she was probably held by him a few times, but obviously not old enough to remember him. He lost 2 fingers (his index and middle), but he never told us what had happened, we always assumed he lost them in WWII. He had this creepy monkey stuffed animal, so we always called him 'Grandpa Monkey.'
One day, 4-5 years after my grandpa died, my cousin was talking to her mom and told her she didn't want grandpa monkey to visit her. My aunt asked her what she was talking about and my cousin informed her 'Grandpa Monkey visits me at night and I don't want him to come anymore. He's missing fingers and it scares me.' She then proceeded to show my aunt what fingers he was missing.
The same cousin always had imaginary friends and an imaginary horse. I always assumed they were ghosts.
Sister to our mother, ~2 years old:
"I used to hold your hand while crossing the street when you were a little girl."
Not too creepy...almost kind of cute. Mom also says my sister's personality is freakishly similar to our great-grandmother's...
EDIT: spelling
I'm not a parent, but i worked at a summer camp with younger kids a while ago. One day we were showing them how to tie knots. Typical camp stuff.
As i was walking around, one of the little girls ran up looking very overjoyed to show me her knot.
She said; "I made this for you!"
It was a noose. We never taught that knot.
Toxyoi ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:54:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter has come to me several times, claiming she heard a woman's voice speak the word 'no' or 'fall' & a couple others while sitting alone in her room. She says the tv wasn't on & couldn't think of anything it could have been. The last time, she came running to me, obviously frightened.
EDIT: I was actually going to post an askreddit for it.
I'm not a parent, but I do remember some creepy shit that happened when I was a kid. I was at my grandfather's house just roaming around. I decided to check out his basement, when I went down there I was met by 3 older, real roughing looking men. As soon as they noticed me they stopped talking and I swear to god I never felt such a strong sense of fear as I did when that happened, but fuck. I booked it upstairs to find my grandpa, I told him what happened and he assured me it was just us alone in the house.
I can recall something similar. My grandmother had a warehouse and I remember being back there and seeing someone wearing a trenchcoat and for some odd reason, no feet, he was floating. Now I have a hard time trying to discern if I had a dream like that or if it was a legit thing. It's in my memory that's all I know.
Not my kid, but my uncles, 10 years old IIRC. He's been diagnosed with a few learning and behavioural differences.
He's very possessive over his father, and hates him looking at any other children (he loves kids, and wants another, though his wife isn't up for it). The kid will pull his dad away from oncoming prams at the shop, and he gets to a point where he throws a tantrum if his dad picks up his friend's child.
When my wife and I brought our then 8 month old son over to visit my uncle for the first time, the kid went mental. He was screaming at his dad "don't look at him", "I hate you", "put him down", etc. He attempted to throw a toy at my son. After telling him off, something his father rarely does, he looked at me with cold eyes - I've never seen the expression I saw come from that child before in my life - and told me: "You know I could break his neck and kill him", referring to my son.
The most my uncle did is say "That's not very nice". We left and haven't talked about it since, but that kid is not allowed anywhere near my son. The kid has a history of violence against his pets, more than just rough handling - intentionally breaking a guinea pig's leg - and I see nothing but a sociopath-in-the-making when I look at the child now.
Not sure how relavent this story is to this thread buuut My mother before she died started buying baby cloths. At 17 this freaked me out, so one day I asked her, "Mom, why are you buying baby cloths?" Her reply was, "One day I'll be a grandmother and I want to be ready for that day!" I told her, "Mom, that day won't happen for a while you know this I hope" She died shortly after that in a car accident on her way to work in a snow storm! Last yr during christmas we did family photos and it had been a while since the family all had gotten together like this. In about 8 photos there is a white blurry orb in the photos. Two digital cameras were used that night. Mine and My aunts. The pictures from both cameras had this white blurry orb. I wonder and kinda believe it was my mother however I'm skeptical? Yes, I know this probably makes me look like a nut but I believe in an afterlife but am unsure what an "AFTERLIFE" really is soo yeah just wanted to share that story...
EDIT: Im 27 now and I wonder if or when I do have children if they will say they see my mother and possibly describe her to me or let me know she is their with them? It's a thought and it plagues my mind alot!
After reading this thread, I have come to the conclusion that when children are too young to remember clearly, ghosts will regularly haunt them; sometimes being nice if they are related to the child by blood or being violent if they were murdered or committed suicide. Yup, never looking at young kids the same way. Also, they can remember their past lives; especially if they were killed or died in an unusual way.
My mom told me that when my sister was about four she had an imaginary friend that she played with every day. One night at the dinner table she said, "There's just one bad thing about my imaginary friend." My mom said, "And what's that?"
"She worships the devil."
Dead silence at the table. Then my mom goes, "I think you should get rid of her then."
It wasn't a kid, it was actually my older brother, but when we moved into our new house when I was 13, we were in the basement watching TV, and he kept looking in my direction (i found out it was actually past me into the utility closet behind me) he finally said "I keep seeing something move back there) and me, thinking I was awesome, grabbed some sort of metal pipe, and walked over there and turned on the light, and he says "That won't do anything for you." and I said "Why?" and he replied "Because if it were someONE I would hear it moving." and just went back to watching TV. The rest of the time I lived in that house, I was never comfortable in the basement when the utility closet door was open.
A couple weeks later, in the same house, my mom asked the three oldest kids (my older brother, me, and my younger brother; my sister at the time was too young to even be considered) if we'd been smoking in their bathroom. Being 13, I didn't even smoke, and we all replied that no we hadn't. A couple days after that, I heard my dad talking to someone in the garage, and opened the door to see who it was, but he was the only one out there.
About a year later, it was explained to me that he had been smelling cigarette smoke, for no reason, and had asked the "ghost" to stop smoking around us. Explaining that it was his house now, and he needed to respect that, and not interfere with our lives. Apparently it was never a problem again.
While having dinner with brother and my parents, my 3 year old niece said "I want to take grandpa to the lake"
We reply "we'll that's nice. What lake are you taking him to?"
And she very seriously said "any lake made of fire."
Wtf
My son, age - 1: wakes up screaming in his crib pointing to the bedroom closet. Signs "boy" "fire" repeatedly.
Happens a few more times thought the next year.
Age - 3: wakes up in the morning and asks "can you make the man with no face that's on fire stop watching me sleep?"
Age - 4: wakes up christmas morning and while getting dressed tells me about his new friend.
Son-dad I have a new friend!
Me-Cool! What's his name?
Son-...I don't know, I just call him max.
Me-LOL. OK, where did you meet him?
Son-in my bedroom last night.
( wife peeking around the corner shaking her head "no" telling me that no one was over at the house last night.)
Me-ok...what did u guys do?
Son-well, we were just sleeping in my bed. But then the door shut and it locked. Max and I hid under my blanket because someone outside my bedroom really wanted in and kept crashing I into the door REALLY hard. But then max was brave and ran to the door and unlocked it so I could run to my mommy!
As a kid I used to be scared shitless for a specific type of an old Mercedes Benz. My mom would explain to me that the sidewalk is safe but I told her that on my way to school I was on the sidewalk and it still hit me.
dazl ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:04:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but was babysitting for family friends, two girls, aged 3 and 9 and a boy, aged 7.
The parents were going to a wedding, so I was staying over in their place for the night. It's an older house, built partially in the 19th century, and is beautiful, but creaky and makes weird noises. I was told to expect that, and to ignore it.
Put the kids to bed early, and was watching TV, and heard noises upstairs, so just assumed it was one of the kids moving around, or the house settling, having lived in an old house my entire life. I went to bed, about midnight, after checking all the three kids, who were fast asleep and tucked up.
Fast forward to 3 a.m., and I woke up for no reason, could hear the noises again, so went to check on the kids. The older two were sound asleep, but couldn't find the 3 year old, bed empty. Ran downstairs and found her staring at the kitchen wall, which was part of the old house that had been renovated. When I asked her what she was doing, she just looked at me and said 'Aine wants to go outside and play.'
When I told her parents about it the next day, her mother went pale. All three kids have seen a little girl in the old part of the house on separate occasions, and they've found the kids standing in front of that wall at different times, because there used to be a door there leading to the old farm. When she has asked them why, they keep telling her Aine wants to play outside. They have no idea who Aine is, but all three kids have given the same description of her.
Haven't babysat there since.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:34:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Driving along and as we pass a hotel, my then four-year-old son says "That's a tall building. It should be on fire."
dawn707 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:28:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day my husband and I went out to dinner at an old timey restaurant. My son who was about 2 at the time started singing this oldies song word for word and neither my husband or I had ever even heard this song. He also often talks about "back when I was in high school" and has been doing so since he was about 2, he is 5 now.
When I was a very small child I told my mother stories of when I "was a little old lady" and took my grandchildren on picnics by the river. I even described real places in the area where my mom grew up that I had never been.
My oldest daughter could barely talk when she started mentioning "White Man". As she became more verbal she would tell stories about him constantly and talk about him as if he were right there with her all the time. If I asked her anything she would look into the air beside her and answer "Well White Man says..." Or start of sentences "White Man wants to ..."
Once she started school she talked about him less and less. I asked her what happened to him one day and she said now that she has kid friends to talk to she doesn't need him anymore. I was kind of sad, he had been around for 4 years and I was so used to him being there. I felt like he was her gaurdian and kept her safe when he was gone I lost that feeling of safety for her.
Not my kid but a customers kid. He was a little over two years old and I took a passport photo of him. After the photo I showed it to him, he looked it for a while and then raised his hand to shake mine. When I shook his hand he said "thank you very much, good sir" with flawless pronounciation. I didn't know if was more impressed or creeped out, that's some Shining level shit right there.
My brother also scared the shit out of my mom as a kid. My mom woke up with my brother standing beside the bed smiling, with huge kitchen knives in both hands.
My little sister has always been creepy as FUCK. The first time we noticed was when she explained, in detail, a family friend's death the morning before we got the call. She was about 4. But the creepiest, by far, was when she was about 9. We had just moved into a new house and her bedroom was across the hall from our parents', while mine was on the other side of the house. One night, she pads over and asks of she can sleep with me, which she NEVER did. When I asked her why, she goes "I'm scared of the man in the black coat. I told him to leave me alone and now he stands next to mom's bed."
Wat.
Then, "And that little girl on the top of the stairs won't stop crying. She's nicer than the man, but I can't sleep."
I only let her stay once she assured me they don't hang out in my side of the house.
She also recently did a seance as a joke with her friends, only to end up calling my mom and giving her a message from our grandfather, for whom my sister is named, and describing him in great detail, despite having never so much as seen a picture of him.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:16:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While watching YouTube videos of baby zoo animals being born, my daughter stumbled across horse breeding. That was a disturbing thing that I tried my best to explain.
She wouldn't let it go. She had to know what they were doing. I explained that breeding was about animals making baby animals.
She got quiet,, and I figured with relief that maybe I'd satisfied her curiosity. Uh oh... She still had a few questions.
My child: If animals breed to make babies then how do humans make babies?
Me: Humans make babies the same way animals do, but we call it making love, or sex.
My daughter thought about it, then had the weirdest expression on her face and said with bugged out eyes, "Wow. That has to hurt!"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:21:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was disturbing because she wouldn't stop with the questions no matter how I tried to explain it. Of course her father and older siblings had a blast watching me squirm under pressure.
I know- I'm reading these in my 1890's Victorian house (probably haunted, definitely creepy) and the wind just slammed the window shut. I just about peed myself.
Augan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:40:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And they never stop! I've been reading these for about 3 hours x.x CANT SLEEP
boopah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:40:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son has always been rather hard to handle. He is constantly getting in trouble at school, refusing to do homework, speaking of detailed adventures that never happened, etc etc. He doesn't have any friends either. In fact, the only company I ever see him with is his stuffed animal that he takes everywhere. I always catch him talking, getting into mischief, and even arguing with the damned thing. I'm a bit worried because I'm fairly certain my son is completely convinced his stuffed animal is a real, conscious being. The weird part is he named it after a dead philosopher. My son is 6 years old, why would he name his stuffed tiger after a dead philosopher?
Well maybe if you weren't so cruel and making him shovel the driveway as a 6 year old things would be fine. He also wouldn't make all those weird snowman scenes.
I hate to be the one to say this but think your son may have some emotional problems, if he is constantly having problems at school and he has no friends then he is probably being bullied which would explain why he spends so much time playing with a toy. It would probably be in your best interest to find someone he can talk to so he can have an outlet for his emotions. Or start a comic strip, sounds like you may have some good material.
moseses ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha! I love it.
echiry ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This wasn't my kid, but a friend's (Edit: Apparently Geoff from RoosterTeeth). He'd just told his daughter she couldn't rent some a movie. It was your typical kid-princess movie. The usual "PLEASE PLEASE" happens until this:
Girl: Isn't mommy's nose pretty?
Dad: It sure is honey.
Girl: Well, it would be sad if something happened to it.
Not my personal story, but one of my best-friends dad.
When my friend was born, his dad used to read bedtimes story's to him every single day. But there was one particular story that his grandfather told him that was very dear to him, but didn't want to tell him because he wanted to make sure he was able to understand the story. Well, when my friend turned 4 years old, his dad thought it was time. His dad started reading the story, and while finishing the first page my friend interrupts him and whines "but daddy, I already know this one" His father in shock, asks him "How, I have never mentioned it before?". My friend replies "Grandpa read it to me". Well, his grandfather died two years before he was born. His dad then told this story to his family, and his brother started crying. Apparently his father used to be a common sight at night, in short-spans of flashes as he described it. But it doesn't end there. Recently (roughly 2 years ago) the family was just playing some old LP's. Everything was normal for about two hours, but then something strange happened. The record started to slowly fade and scratching sounds came off of it. Well this record was playing on a shelf above their computer, and then a very distinct old man's voice played through this scratchy voice, and then it dropped on the ground. It just exploded. To this day nobody know what he tried to say. My friend and all his family have never gone back to the house. They convinced their grandma she should leave the house, but she won't speak anymore. Her husband was very aggressive towards her when she was alive. My friends dad says this is because of her beauty, and the glaring looks she got from men in public. He believes that the dad haunts her from the inside so he knows no matter what, she will always be his.
Kinda cheating because I'm the kid in this, but this is still pretty messed up. When I was like 5 or 6 every night (and I mean every night, not just most of the time) I would wake up from a nightmare or just wake up and be so scared at something I wouldn't be able to fall asleep, so I slept in my parents bed. Eventually this stopped and I was able to get through the night. Flash forward 10 years. I'm causally mention how I used to do this to my mom. What does she say? She tells me I stopped having the nightmares after she blessed my room with holy water. I thought she was joking but she was completely serious. Still freaks me out to this day.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:57:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was very small, before he could talk, we were lighting the Shabbat candles on a Friday night in September. It also happened to coincide with my late brother-in-law Howard's birthday. Howard died in a car wreck in 1987, and this was ~2002. As my wife was lighting the candles, my son started humming the melody of "Happy Birthday To You".
See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
grinr ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:01:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3-year old nephew said "I hate you, I will kill you and throw you right in the garbage" with a completely straight face. Completely unprovoked. On a different occasion he went into detail about how he can't wait to cut all the skin off my face.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:18:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
uh... somebody probably needs treatment fast?
grinr ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:20:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His birthday gift that year, that he insisted on? What amounted to a tiny wedding dress. To go with his guitar and toy sword. He also love to sing and dance.
Every time I visit I feel like the Riddler's suit.
This thread has helped me discover that there are a TON of people that have children, that also have online handles like "AssnecK666" and "PeanutButthole34"
Hahaha! that's fucking funny. Best laugh I had all night.
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 18:32:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've got one, but the roles are reversed. My dad used to tell me the reason my grandpa always read books about UFO's and aliens, is because he was an alien at one time. Scared me to death.
I had an uncle from England who said he was an alien from pluto. I didn't believe it until he showed me his license which said like "Resident Alien" on it, or something. After that I thought aliens were all around us and they just needed special licenses.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:33:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A girl had moved from someplace in south east asia and was new to the elementary school and my bus stop. So we were asking her questions and when she told us where she was from I said "Oh! So you're an alien!" I meant "from another country", but she thought I meant the UFO types. She cried a lot that day.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:42:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like that problem might be hereditary. You may want to get yourself checked out.
fs337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
casepot ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:21:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my little sister had this whole family of people she thought were real and she interacted with them and gave them names, and had "conversations" on the phone with them. I brought this up at dinner the other day and no one had any recollection of it ever happening
What are these bricks under my seat? Oh right, I just shat them. Nice one good sir/ma'am.
bafl1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:23:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
About 14 years ago, when my little brother was 2, we had not exposed him to religion of any kind. he was always with one of his close family and had never been exposed to religious comments. I bought a pack of Magic the gathering and we were sorting through the cards while I held him. I got to a card called "Serra Angel". he very excitedly pointed and said, "angel". We asked him to repeat it and brought it up with my family and none of them had ever introduced him to the word. He was able to identify demons. The rest we understood like horse.
fs337 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:29:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 8 I sleepwalked one night whistling Twisted Nerve. My mom woke up to see me strutting down the hall. She got me back to bed. I don't even know how to whistle.
My great grandfather would always ask me if I wanted to go into the garden and squish the potato bugs with him. He would just squish them between his fingers. I always declined (not sure how old I was, maybe 4 or 5). After always declining, my mom and grandma asked me why I never wanted to do it. I told them I didn't want to do it because I could hear them scream...
I'm very empathetic still to this day. I don't know if I could actually hear them pop or squish or what but once mom told me the story, I had a vague recollection of some sort of high pitched noise when he did it. Pretty creepy memory for me.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:47:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a story an old teacher told me about her daughter who is my age.
They had just moved into a new house that was rumored in the community to be haunted and they all thought it was BS and thought no more of it.
So it was my old teacher and her daughter who was 5 at the time and they were making pband j when she got a phone call. Her daughter wanted to continue on her own but couldn't open the jelly jar. She followed he mom into the next room asking for help and she said "just a minute". When she got off the phone she went to help her daughter but the jar was open. Her daughter said "its okay mommy, the nice man opened it for me"
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:53:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this will be buried, but just in case... my daughter had one of those 'womb-sound' bears when she was a baby, and it stayed in her crib. She called it "Stuck-Bear" because it had velcro to attach it to the crib. One night she wakes up screaming, and I go to find out what was wrong, and she told me "Stuck-Bear jumped in my tummy and was making me jump around and around!" and was inconsolable until Stuck-bear was removed from the room...she fell back asleep, but I didn't.
My son was probably about 3 when my wife's great grandmother died. When we went to the graveside service, I hung back in the car a sat with him as he played with his action figures. He looked out into the cemetery and said "What are those people doing over there?" I looked where he was speaking of and there was no one there. "What people?" I asked. "Those people standing there." he said.
At this point I had a weird feeling. "What do they look like?" I asked.
"Monsters." he said in a calm, matter of fact tone.
I don't believe in ghosts or any supernatural shit, but this skeeved me out a bit.
Kealion ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:12:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a repost from another thread, but definitely relevant - When I was about 3, my grandmother passed away. She used to do this crazy laugh that just made me laugh right back at her, and she whould do it all the time. So my mom was putting me to bed and reading me a story when I started hysterically laughing. She asked me what I was laughing atand I said, "Mom, Gammy is in the corner laughing at me!" My mom turns around, looks at the empty corner of the room and looks back at me, she reluctantly continued the story. This went on for a few weeks. One night Mon was putting me to bed, but she had the flu, and I started laughing again. She turned to the corner and said "Mom, I'm sick, I have the flu, and I need to put this boy to sleep." It never happened again
This'll probably get buried, but here goes.
My mom passed away when I was 10 and for several months after her passing, I had horrible, vivid nightmares (as one would expect of a trauma victim) that I couldn't remember after waking up. My dad told me a couple years later that several times he would walk into the room at night after hearing me crying or mumbling while asleep, and would find my bunkbed shaking violently (I slept on either bunk, and it didn't matter which bunk I was sleeping on). It scared him so much he gave the bed to my uncle, who let his kid sleep in it. Immediately, from the first night, my cousin began having nightmares whenever sleeping in it. My cousin claimed my mom had "said 'Hello'" to him and my uncle. My uncle spent a night in the same room just to see if my cousin's sleeping patterns were in any way abnormal. He said that night he had a dream of my mother talking to him reassuringly about me and my Dad's welfare, and he woke up to the bed shaking and my cousin crying. They got rid of the bed, and it stopped.
I live in a strictly agnostic/athiest family unit (by choice, as my parents raised me Christian) and it's the freakiest frickin' thing I've ever heard. I only remember bits of nightmares and my dad being freaked out, personally, but my uncle and nephew also corroborate the story. Groupthink must be some scary shit...
Edit: spelling
My daughter was in bed then came in to tell me she couldn't go to sleep. When I asked her why she told me the man wouldn't leave her alone. She was about 2 or 3 at the time. I just told her to tell him to leave her alone so she could sleep. She said ok and went to bed. Another time she was walking around the house like she was following someone. Then she came back to my room and asked me where daddy went. He had died 2 years earlier. She also would talk a lot to no one I could see in her room. Then she just stopped. Got quite creepy around here sometimes.
When I was a kid, I told my mother that she was going to die when I turned 15.
She laughed it off as a weird kid thing but shortly after my 15th birthday, she had an aneurysm and almost died.
We were all a little creeped out.
lnh92 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:29:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 4 or 5, my mom left me at home with a babysitter. The babysitter was watching TV while I played in my room. She said that at one point she wanted a banana and looked in the kitchen. We had no bananas, so she got something else instead. Maybe 30 minutes after that, I walked into the living room and said to her โI saw something very peculiar in the hall.โ I was a very painfully shy kid so she thought it was weird that I said anything like that but she asked what I saw. I told her it was a banana. She nodded along playing my game then I said โYou donโt believe me. Mr. Patches said you wouldn't. Iโll show you.โ She told me that I went into the hall and came back eating a banana. She told Mom about it when she got home and at the point of her looking for a banana, Mom said something about how we havenโt had bananas for a while. I donโt remember this and no one thought to ask me where I got the banana, and to this day, no one knows.
keko143 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Where did you get the banana?
lnh92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:00:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I literally have no clue. I don't remember this incident at all. No one thought to ask me about until a few years later, and I didn't remember where it came from. Ii was either some would be kidnapped giving it to me, or I brought it home from a home from a friends house a day or two before and kept it hidden.
Welllll, it's not really creepy, but maybe we could use a little levity in here.
I was putting my youngest to bed (not quite 2 at the time) and she started to whisper in this loving kind of way that I needed to have my face cleaned. It was obvious grandma or mom or someone must have dabbed a little saliva on a napkin and cleaned her off but the way she interpreted this was to completely lick both of her hands and slide them all over my face.
Yes, I let her do it, dammit.
It wasn't my kid, but my little brother. We had just moved into our house and the previous owner, who was a widower, had recently died in the house. I was a little creeped out by it, then a few days later my little brother walks into the living room and says to our mom, "Mommy who is the man at the top of the stairs?" I said NOPE and slept at my grandmother's house for weeks before my parents could convince me to step foot in that house without freaking the fuck out.
cormic ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:32:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My five year old son asked my wife about his birthday. My wife answered all the questions until he asked... "When I was born did I come out of your bum or your mouth?" My had no idea what to say to him...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:50:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
frightened as fuck german over here, it's 12:38am and I'm pretty sure it has never been darker
boopah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's 1130pm here & I won't be sleeping tonight.
akif34 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:56:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh yeah again a sleepless night . Thanks reddit !
Well when I was 3 I was being taken to daycare and right before we walked in the door I told my mom "Papa is in the garden" (papa is my grandpa) I continued saying this all day. Come to find out that at around the same as I started saying that, my grandfather had died. We were very close, like visiting with each other daily just to enjoy the company since I was the only male grandchild of his.
Oh dang I left out some stuff... Well, you get to read it then! I had a vision of sorts (This is where is starts to sound really unbelievable but I promise you its all true) where I saw a bunch of flowers. As a toddler I associated cemetery and garden because of the flowers. So being the innocent little me, I thought he was in a garden. But no, he wasn't. I actually don't know where he was... I should probably ask about that.
My girlfriends 10 year old cousin is used to having all of my girlfriends attention when they have family outings. Since weve started dating ive been invited and now my girlfriend gives more attention to me than her cousin. Since then her cousin has begun describing, in vivid detail mind you, how she will kill me. The best so far is "Im gonna stick your hand down a garbage disposal and make you eat the chopped up bits"
bstruve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not so much creepy what they say, it's what they DO... my older daughter, when she was a year-and-a-half or so, she kept staring blankly at this one wall in her room. Would wake up screaming, we'd go in to her and she'd just be staring. After a month of living in that apartment, the house burnt down. The fire started in the downstairs apartment, guess where? that wall!! "Faulty electric in that wall" .....
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:04:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She could have been 'hearing' the electricity. I know I get furious migraines when I'm around those big powerlines, because I can hear that fucking whine/hum/vibration noise from them and it makes me want to punch everything in a fury of pain.
yeah, but it wasn't electrical imo. The people who lived downstairs left 5 minutes before my husband saw smoke filling their apartment. This one woman was very unstable always talking about doing crazy things...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:58 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ha, yep little bit. I think just really strange coincidence.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:18 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, hopefully you don't have wackos downstairs anymore. Anyways, I have no idea about what your poor kid was seeing, but little kids have really sensitive hearing, so she could have been reacting to that, or been bothered by the electro-magnetic frequency waves, (I know it sounds so dumb, but it can affect you in weird ways) or she could just have found that position the most comfortable.
My mother was a CPS worker and one child told his parents "I sleep with a hammer under my pillow". He was 8 and he was known to threaten to beat their skulls in their sleep.
Like a lot of people this is a story about me when I was around 4 and my sister at 4, we are two years apart.
First me, I had constant night terrors, some I would remember incredibly vividly, some not at all, this one I don't remember. My mom tells me that she woke up in the middle of the night to me standing next to her bed staring at her. I stared at her a moment and then proceeded to say, "I'm sorry mommy, they say it's time to die now." Like many people in this type of situation, she completely wigs out. She jumps out of bed, grabs me, and rushes me to the bathroom and starts to dunk my head in cold water trying to wake me up (when having night terrors it's really hard to wake up). Similar events had actually happened several times beforehand where I would refer to "them." To this day I have no recollection of who they were.
And now for my sister. Like other stories on here she went up to my mom and said, "You get to be the mommy in every life. Can I be the mommy next time?" My mom was really confused and replied, "Sure."
I work in social care, and in the unit I work in we have this 7 year old kid. He's definitely short a few screws. Anyways, one night I found him just lying on the stairs. When I asked him what he was doing he replied "someone pushed me down the stairs". Of course, I asked "who would push you down the stairs". He looked me in the face, deadly serious, "It was the clown". Now completely freaked out I decided to see just how full of shit this kid was. He described, in insane detail, just how this clown looked, what he was wearing, everything. I've never been so creeped out in my life.
Not my baby, but we had a little girl die here in a tragic freak accident last month. Her name was Ariana. The little one I knew is Ivy and they were playmates who lived across the street from each other. No one had told Ivy what was going on, as it happened during her nap, but when the paramedics took out the covered stretcher, Ivy waved and said 'good bye, Ariana' and proceeded to cry silently on the doorstep. They were both around three years old.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:05:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my middle child was 3, I scolded her for emptying the entire contents of 2 bottles of lotion all over the bathroom (even the toilet seat, causing me to slide right off and bang my head on the wall when I sat on it :/ ). She's typically a pretty emotional child, but stayed stone faced while I was talking to her. When I finished, I asked her if she wanted to say anything. She says, "yes. You'll be dead soon."
What a lil creep.
momster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
'I don't have anything to live for.'
It's all ok now, but so freaking scary for a parent.
PyloUK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:27:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old often speaks of a "little ghost Boy" that sits on her bed at night and talks to her. She also said that when she grows up she will be a vampire hunter O_O
Man... the more I read the thread, the more I wonder if humans are evolving to be more omniscient during childhood (before the weight of society washes over them).
My dad passed on this gem to me years ago. Back before cable, we got our tv from the antenna, and used a device called a rotor to swivel the antenna around for a better signal, much like classic satellite dishes. My sister is five yrs older then me, and way back when i was just new, my dad walked in from work and found my sister alone in the family room. There was my sister, standing on the dial of the rotor, smiling creepily. And then she says "Hi Daddy"...nice and slow, turning, turning....the memory of it still creeps him out.
Once when I was tucking in my 6yo son he said, very casually by the way, "I know where the knives are...." I didn't know how to respond.
ashes11 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:52:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night my mother had a dream that there were blindingly bright lights coming through the window. She tried to yell for my father to wake up but couldn't move or speak.
When I woke up that morning the first thing I said was "mommy aliens were here last night."
She was sufficiently freaked and didn't tell me about her dream until many years later.
The other day my 4 year old son told me he was going to kill me and put my body in the garbage.
attilad ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:40:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was 2, we were at a pet store watching a boy play with a puppy. I asked him if he wanted to play with the puppy too; he shook his head and said, "I can see his heart, and it's black."
tovias ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:52:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Several members of my family and my ex-wife's family have been in the military. One day my daughter saw my deceased father-in-law's flag that my wife had received at his funeral. My daughter asked me about it and when I explained how at military funerals the casket is draped with an American flag. When it's time to bury the deceased the flag is removed, folded and presented to the surviving spouse or next of kin, in this case my ex-wife.
My daughter looked at the flag for a while and asked, "So if mommy dies, I get your flag. That's awesome.
That was a little creepy to hear the way she said it, but it wasn't the end. Recently, and this is several years after the incident and several years after her mother and I divorced, I introduced my daughter to the woman I'm currently dating (we've been dating a year now). My daughter greets her with, "Oh, hello. It's nice to meet you. Just so you know, his flag is mine."
This just happened a few weeks ago. My daughter is almost 4 years old and one night she woke up only after about 3hours. She was crying/whining so I went to check on her. I tried asking her what was wrong, was she thirsty, need to potty, maybe had a leg cramp but she would only answer with a whine. All of the sudden, she turns away from and says (to thin air), 'I don't want to play! I'm trying to sleep. Please stop.' Kinda creeped me out...
I was six when my dad died, the first Christmas after he died my mom had jingle bells on the front door as decorations. She heard the bells in the middle of the night and freaked out. She came to the door to find a six yar old oleboogerhays sleep walking in the front yard saying. "Come on daddy, it's time to open presents."
I'm 24 now and she has never taken those jingle bells off the front door.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:44:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not said, but did. I did it.
When I was little, I used to sleepwalk nearly every night. Usually small stuff, like pace my room, but one night I was really moving around. My dad hears me on our creaky stairs to the basement, and he gets up to see what the hell I was doing. He found me, in the laundry room, (we stored toilet paper there) ripping up a bag of toilet paper. He asked me what I was doing. I turned around, eyes fully open, stared at him, then continued to rip the paper apart. I was asleep the whole time, and when he shook me awake I had absolutely no idea what I was doing there.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:04:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The same week in May two years in a row, when my son was 4 and 5, he said that when he was sleeping, gray men came and took him out of his bedroom on a light tunnel into a shiny gray room. He was laying down and they were talking to him, but with their heads. They didn't have mouths. He also said they were naked and looked just like him except no privates. Never mentioned it again and didn't remember it a few days later.
My mom told me this one. She used to have a witchcraft set, why I don't know. at least I think it was witchcraft... Anyway, apparently my brother got into it one night because he came into my moms room white faced and shaking and said "mommy I'm scared." He was about 7. She asked why he was scared and he said "The dead people outside my window are yelling at me." She said she went into his room and had to make them all leave, then she locked up her witchcraft stuff.
She is a great person, christian too, so why she had a witchcraft Set thingy I don't know...
Me and my son went out to eat one lovely sunny morning when he was 4. As we're walking out of the restaurant after the typical conversation you can have with a 4 year old he turns to me and says, "Mommy, I see blood on everything. I see blood on the sun, and on the grass, and on the cars..." Creeped me right the fuck out.
I used to say that as a child. I never saw blood but would have bad dreams with very abstract imagery that elicited negative feelings. Since I didn't have the vocabulary to articulate what I was seeing or feeling, I just told my parents I saw blood everywhere as I guess I associated seeing blood to feeling bad.
Still can't really describe my dreams but the closest I can get is imagine a perfect pattern that has a small defect and imagine you have major OCD and can't fix the pattern. Just a really unsettling feeling.
motdidr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Might want to get that checked out... how old is he now?
Eleven. He's always been like that. I have to control what movies he watches and even what books he reads, not because they're not age appropriate, but because he just gets too into anything dark and morbid.
will311 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:49:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I onced asked my grandfather if he was on his period.
Not creepy, but something I did when I was a little kid. My dad used to be a police officer in Virginia Beach, one of the best, but tore his Achilles tendon one day on the job, and had to retire. It was really, really sad for him because- even to this day- being a police officer was the best thing in the whole world for him. It was his dream job, he was fantastic at it, and he always enjoyed being able to protect and help people. He had a lot of friends in the force, and our family didn't have a whole lot of money at the time, and jobs in the area were scarce, so we kind of knew we were going to have to leave. Anyways, before my dad's retirement ceremony, he took me out to get some food at Bojangles or something like that. My mom was going to pick my older brother up from school at the time, so it was just me and him. I was about three or four. We both just sat in silence across from each other at the table when after five or ten minutes I said, without looking up from my food, "It's okay Daddy, I know you'll miss your cop friends." He told me he just started crying right there and gave me a hug. He still tells the story to this day, and still says he's amazed at how much I knew without knowing.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:04:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In a thread full of scary shit, this was a breath of fresh air.
I will never sleep again, or ever have children. I do, however, believe in reincarnation now.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:00:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents like to remind me of this one I did every few years. When I was around 3 or 4, we went out on a boat at night to watch shooting stars. Must have been some kind of meteor shower. I would tell them and point to where the next one would be and every time I would be pointing to the right part of the sky... the weird part is I remember doing it with the utmost confidence, and I don't know why.
My mother told me that the night my father died my sister (then 3 and didn't know he had died) sat up in her cot and begun saying bye bye daddy and waved for about 10 minutes while looking at the roof.
As I try to line up dates I realize I don't know shit about important dates..
Anyways, my little brother was probably 4 at the time, I'm not really sure, but regardless he was young enough to not understand death and what it meant yet. My grandfather had died a week or two prior and we were cleaning out his house and taking care of the yard to get it sold and stuff so we can all move on. Pretty sure I had just finished mowing the back yard and my dad had been trimming bushes, Evan, (little bro) was probably helping dad pick up lawn clippings or something innocent. As we were leaving my dad was tying Evans shoe and saw him jerk his head REALLY fast, and my dad asked him why. Evan said "I saw grandpa." Well, we just go with it. Poor guy. About a year passes and a family friend moves into the house. My dad has told us stories of Grandpa banging doors when people forget to close them because they lack air conditioning or something, I dont really remember, I was privileged enough to not know what he was talking about at the time! lucky me. Anyways, we're going to call the guy that moved in Homie because I dont remember his name either. Homie called my dad in the middle of the night a few nights after moving in. Apparently he had heard banging in the house, outside the house, he wasnt sure. But my dad dismissed it as hoodlums in the streets. It happens again a week later, hoodlums again. The third time it happens my dad remembers that grandpa used to do somethign similar to him and his brothers. Odd stuff..
Homie was a tough guy, had been to prison before but straighten up, still tough as shit though right? Homie had a friend in town, gangster much like Homie's youth, tough, not the kind to spook easily. His name was something stupid too, dont remember, he can be Sissypants. Sissypants stayed the night and ended up sayign prayers over himself over this banging after Homie had told him about it beforehand.
Anyways, these weird things happen more and more and my dad stays the night there, and it doesnt happen. so he really cant help. Homie gets fed up one night and shouts "Dammit Jim, I know this is your house but I'm trying to get some sleep!" Never happened again
TL:DR Brother thought he saw my dead grandfather, weird poltergeisty things happen until the guy that moved in apologized to the dead.
EDIT: After typing all this I realize I might have lost track of what the thread was for but it's close enough.
Another one I can post, I worked with kids for about a year for the county, had a kid tell off another, MUCH larger kid "You eat your neck with your face!"
when my son was around 2-3, he would always play with someone or something that was on the landing of the stairs. sometimes he would stop whatever he was doing and just walk over there and stare at it and smile and laugh. then he would sit on the floor and throw his ball up there. he never really said anything creepy though, but playing with something that i can't see is creepy enough. i don't live in that house anymore but my ex still does. he said it has gotten worse. always noises in the attic, doors opening or closing on their own, footsteps in the hall, knocking on the walls, etc. my son can't remember anything and he doesn't see it anymore.
When I was 3 we were at my beach house and I said "Mum I don't like the white man because he holds my hand too tight." She said "Oh, who's the white man?" I said "You know, the white man, he wears the hat and mows the lawn. When we cross the road he grabs my arm really tight. And he talks funny. He looks just like Uncle Laurie"
When mum was little her grandad used to grab her arm to cross the road, had a mower that stayed at Anglesea, wore a big hat and had an english accent. So mum gets out a family photo and I pointed at him and said "That's the white man". I can still vividly picture him.
My oldest daughter had a "White Man" who was with her till she started school. He never scared us though. He was always nice. She talked about "White Man" constantly.
Weird you both called them white man...
Not my kid but my young cousin. I was 16 at the time, he was 9. We were walking up the high street when I told him I needed to pop into a shop to buy some soap. He looked at me dead seriously and the following exchange happened:
Me: Come on then.
Him: I can't go in there.
Me: ...Why?
Him: Mum said that shop is evil. They make soap from herbs. It's like worshipping Satan.
Me: ...
Spoke to his mum (a dyed in the wool Catholic) about it later and she told me the same thing. SATAN SOAP! (Even funnier is that the woman who runs the shop used to be friends with the mum in comprehensive school. Go figure.)
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:11:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As the creepy child on my family, I'm sure my parents have plenty of stories about me as a kid. I remember a few.
I once got sick after watching the Blair Witch Project, and I hallucinated that the Blair witch killed my dad. When he woke up I was curled up in bed between my parents with a stuffed animal, and I stared at him wide-eyed and said rather bluntly, "I saw you die last night."
Another time I had gone down into the basement to get a toy I'd left down there, and I saw this black cloudy mass with faces in it swirling around the light fixture at the bottom of the stairs (I remember this vividly and I was not at all sick). I casually walk upstairs, find my dad, and tell him, "Call the Ghostbusters. Our basement has demons."
"When I die I want to be mummified. Like the Pharaohs."
After watching The Mummy: "Scarabs eat people alive? That's so cool. I want pet scarabs."
"I hope I'm a reincarnation of Jack the Ripper. That would be sooo cooool!"
And as an infant, when my older brothers would sit me down in front of bloody, gory horror movies, I would smile and giggle. Disembodied limbs were my favorite things, and I would laugh hysterically whenever a twitching disembodied hand was on screen. Thing was, of course, my favorite character in The Addams Family.
All of this occurred before the age of seven. I was a creepy little girl.
wameron ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:17:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Parent here. I used to live in a gated community in California and my son once made a video pretending to be a terrorist using our neighbors kid as a hostage. A few years later that same son began talking to what he said was my late husband as if he were still alive. After I remarried my son hit my new husbands boss with a croquet mallet. I worry sometimes.
My then 5 year-old cousin was talking to my aunt one day, and was discussing (she's very articulate) about how she was going to have a new cousin soon.
My aunt brushed it off as a young child's make-believe story. Unbeknownst to her, my sister-in-law was pregnant, but hadn't told the family yet.
My mom called my aunt later that day, at which point I imagine my aunt looked over tentatively at my cousin (playing with a smile on her face), and was just a little bit afraid of her little girl.
TL;DR: My cousin knew my sister was pregnant before there is any possible way she could have know. Aunt proceeded to be freaked the fuck out.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:11:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This gives me an idea of a prank to play on my future so/family members when we start having kids. :)
My older brother did this when he was about 3, less than a year before I was born. While out at a restaurant with our parents, he walked past a table with two little girls, looked thoughtfully at them for a moment, and said very matter-of-factly, "I'm getting one of those."
According to my mother when I was very young I used to tell her I was abducted by aliens. She says I didnt call them aliens, but "people from the sky with big heads", and that they took me to places in space.
I was hanging out with my friends (to what I remember) and we were at the park. It was getting rather late and dark, so we were finishing up our last games. Before we left, these two kids come by, walking really slowly, and they sit on the swings, and just stared at us. I was curious so I kept my eyes on them and they seemed to have eyes that glowed yellow. The oldest girl of my group of friends asked if they were lost and they responded:
My dad used to tell me these stories of when he was three or four and he had nightmares a lot involving this witch. So one night he claimed this "witch" was standing outside his window asking him to come outside. He kept saying to her that it was too cold outside to go right now, she was persistent and kept on beckoning him outside but my dad ran to go get his dad. My grandad investigated his bedroom window saw footsteps leading away from his window. Well yeah they were all paranoid and decided to board up the windows after that. Well skip ahead like eight years and my dad had his cousins over for some kind of family reunion thing. Well one of my grandad friends shows up to the party. My dad fairly recognized her as the witch that haunted his dreams a few years back, he soon shook it off as nothing though. As soon as his cousin Jody sees her she says to my dad, "Strange, that looks like a witch that appeared in my dreams awhile back."
When I was four or five yrs old, my mum said that one morning I came down to breakfast and told my mother 'thankyou for holding my hand last night when I was having a bad dream'. I even remember the feeling of holding this hand in my sleep. It was definitely a woman's hand so I must've assumed it was my mums. But she said she didn't..
It was when I was 15-ish she reminded me of this and also stated that the bed I slept in when I was a kid was the same my grandma died in a few years before i was born. Which is pretty creepy, but also very sweet, the thought of my grandma holding my hand through a bad dream.
Apparently when I was 3 or 4 I was helping my mom put her winter scarf on, and she swears to this day that a demonic look came over me and I said "I wonder how tight I'd need to pull this to snap your neck."
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:11:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not what he said but last night my 7 year old son just started punching himself in the balls very hard and laughing , I just shook my head and walked away. Then 10 minutes later I found him on the floor curled up in a ball crying, that boy ain't right.
kourogi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:07:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's little sister (about 4) told us that she didn't want to go to the bathroom because she didn't like the man in the hallway watching her. She spoke about the scary man in the hall a lot until they moved. Still get chills thinking about it.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:47:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was around 5 years old I told my mum that I thought my life was fake and everyone was acting their roles whenever I was around. I thought that if I wasn't with someone at any time, they would be watching me with all the other people in the world and waiting for the next time they would need to be in character. It really worried me at the time, I was a strange kid.
Ugh, so long a story and so late to this party, but whatever. I'll still type it up.
When I was about 2 and my mother was pregnant with what was to become my brother, our family of 3 (plus 1 pending), moved to Panama. We were looking at houses on the military base and one was kind of near the edge of installation, backed by a little bit of wilderness-y rainforest. (This has all been related to me as an adult, since I don't remember.) I had never been a creepy kid, but when we saw the back fence, which was concrete blocks with shards of bottles cemented on top, apparently I turned to my parents and said, "The bad man will come this way." We ended up living in a more apartment style place further toward the heart of the base and apparently there were some attacks at that edge around those houses, some of which resulted in murdered residents. That happened about 6 months after we looked at the property.
Once my brother was born, my mom and dad have told me that I would talk for him, like tell them what he wanted or needed. It always seemed to be the right thing, even from the time that he was just a few days old, and as a result, my brother didn't say his first word until he was 4 and a half. I just always told them what he wanted.
When we left the military, we finally settled in our first real house, a Victorian old POS. In this neighborhood, I've had a quite a few run in's with stuff. I never thought of myself as gifted in any way and I didn't think I was too creepy of a kid (my parents agree for the most part), but it's just weird. We had issues for the first 8 years that we lived here in this house, when I was in middle school and high school. When I left for college, they all stopped. I recently graduated college and came home and we've been having issues again. I think it will be good when I move out in a month again. It will be interesting to see.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:21:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What is your relationship with you brother like now?
Once in a while, we seem to have an oddly close mental connection on one or two things, but for the most part, other parts of his personality that have risen that have pushed us apart (rage, hormones, etc). We're close, but he's a guy just entering his 20s. I think he is fiercely independent in ways.
When I was little, pretty much as soon as I started talking, I would tell my parents elaborate stories about my old mommy and my old house. I knew the color of the house, that it was located on a hill, my old mother's first name and hair color, the fact that her husband was older than her, that we were poor and I had a bunch of siblings and didn't feel like they paid enough attention to me. I even knew the city and state I had lived in.. Alaska, Pennsylvania. It sounds like a fake random place name, so my parents shrugged it off as a super active imagination... until the day they were sitting in front of the tv and there was a news report about something that happened in Alaska, Pennsylvania. My mom flipped out.
Edit: I am pretty sure in my stories I never grew up, but I don't remember telling any about dieing either.. more like I just didn't like it there and chose to find a new family. Still weird.
My mom has this home video of me when I was about 4. It was like...2 days before Halloween and my mom was taking videos of us and stuff. So my mom turns the camera to me and i'm just dancin' around in my costume and she says, " What happens in a couple days, Samantha?" I look at the camera and say, "We Die."
o___o
Weedwar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:00:31 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is something done rather than said. I was about 6 and a half and my sister was only a couple months old. I had one of those big poloroid cameras and was taking pictures all over the house. My sister was too little to even pick it up and i remember having it in my hands the whole day. Anyway, in the middle of me watching tv, during a break from taking pictures, a photo popped out of the slot. I shook it dry to see a picture of my sister sleeping on the living room floor. To this day I swear I never took that picture... because she was never asleep on the floor.
God, another one. But it was a story my dad told me that happened to him when I was around 16-17.
I don't remember where he was going, but while he was driving, he started to fall asleep. A passenger in the back seat shook him by his shoulder and yelled his name to wake him up.
He was the only one in the car.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:00:31 on July 13, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, my step mom also allegedly can see spirits, and other supernatural what-nots, and has told him he has a woman following him most of the time. He says he can feel her some times.
When I was a little kid (four years old maybe) when I pulled in the driveway with my mom, she would always say to "wave to daddy" because he would look out the window and wave at us because my mom would honk the horn. Anyway, I remember when one time, we were pulling into the driveway. People in the car were me, mom, and dad. And I look out the window and say "Hey, there's daddy! Wave to daddy!" and I began waving at the window. Why? Because I saw a man leaning out the window staring down at us, he had a stubbleish beard and was just...staring. Didn't wave back. My mom said "But....daddy's in the car, honey." So I just said "Oh." and didn't appear to be bothered in the slightest.
I'm pretty sure the thing I saw in the window is also the same thing that whispered "Madness." when I was walking downstairs.
My teacher's nephew (4) and daughter (3) were talking one night and as he walked past the door he heard the nephew ask her "What do angels sound like? I'm starting to forget."
"And speaking of gifts, I have a story: Several years ago, my friend's wife had a baby boy. They already had a son who was about 4 years old and all he wanted to do was to spend time alone with his baby brother. At first his parents were hesitant, but the little boy was so insistent that they finally gave in. They peeked through the nursery door as their son ran up to his new brother's crib and said: "Quick, tell me what the angels look like, I'm starting to forget."
This is a story about me but when I was younger my mother was really into genealogy. Since this was a little before the dawn of things like ancestry.com and such we spent a lot of time going to libraries and graveyards and suck. One day, when I was about 4, we were looking around a graveyard for one of her dead relatives. I wandered off a little from her and stood right in front of a gravestone. I pointed at it and said "This is my grandma" and proceeded to list off a bunch of information about this lady. The really crazy part was that she was that that was the stone we were looking for.
When I was 7 I told my mom that I was in my sisters room playing with her Barbies when I heard someone say "let me in". She laughed and said I was watching too much Goosebumps, and therefore didn't allow me to watch it anymore. The next day I was sitting in the living room and heard it again only louder. My mom was sitting on the couch so I told her I heard it again. She told me to stop making things up. That's when something banged really hard against the wall directly across from her, causing her colored glass to crash to the floor. I just looked at her and said "He really wants in..."
I don't have kids, but my father got me on video speaking french when I was around 2. I was living in a VERY small town in Georgia at the time... literally miles and miles from anything. There is probably no way I would have known french.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with pens- just to start it off. My father was video taping my family, hanging out in the living room one night. I run off to mine and my brother's room. My father followed me into my room and I'm pointing at a container that holds all of my crayons and such. He takes down the container and starts pulling stuff out. There happened to be a felt tip pen, my favorite. I see the pen and start going bananas, asking for the pen! "Pen, pen, pen Daddy, pen!" He laughs and tells me no. I become upset and start crying, "PEEEEEENNNN DAAADDDYYY!!!" My father then tells me to say goodbye to the camera. As I'm crying, I say very clearly... "Au revoir".
Funniest thing and weirdest thing ever. I always asked my parents how and they had no idea.
I'm not a parent, but last Christmas my baby sister got a nice baby doll from Santa. I believe this was some medical baby doll, as it came with things like shots, a stethoscope, etc.
Anyways, she was playing with it on her bed and accidentally dropped it on the floor. She got really worried all the sudden and went to go check to see if the doll was okay with the stethoscope. When she got up, she said "Baby dead." I told her "What? The baby isn't dead silly!" and she replied with "Baby dead." once more. I gave her a O_O face, and she responded with a most evil :) face. Creeps me out.
my mom told me that when I was 4-5 I used to "hang" all my dolls and stuffed animals from my bed by their necks, when she asked me why I did that I apparently told her "so they stop telling me to do bad things" they took away all my strings and rope from then on. I don't remember any of that and I never had problems hearing voices when I was older.
edit: accidentally some words.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:16:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the kid in this story. Note we were looking through old stuff an I was 4.
Mom: Look at this cute purple bow honey. Me: When I first opened my eyes, that's what I saw an a lady. Mom: Ok honey stop making up stories. (Upon further investigation in the box of old shit sure a hell theres a picture of a nurse holding me with a purple bow in her hair) Mom: How did you know honey. Me: Well I can see can't I. (True story)
So a while back, I'm babysitting my 5-year-old nephew and we've been playing superheroes and supervillains for the last 3 hours. I'm apparently Green Goblin ("Because you're wearing green socks" he says) and he's Spiderman (even though he's wearing a Batman mask). We're both collaborating as we go along, to make a story of what is going on in our game.
I figure it's up to me now to think of another story after the last one ('Spiderman has to find 15 blue things to make a reactor to power the city' because he is learning numbers and I need a chance to eat something)
So I'm like "Okay, Spiderman! So I have all the people of the town under my control!" He's like "GIVE THEM BACK! Graahhh!!" and I say "Well, I'll only give them back if you join me and be my sidekick and help me blow things up!" because I figure it would be fun if we go around doing mischief with him as my sidekick (also I could use it to get him to go outside because it is a nice day).
But alas, he says "NO! I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU!" I'm not up to him beating me up for the townsfolk, so I reply, in my most calm, confident voice possible. "Either you be my Little Goblin or I'll kill all of them. Seriously all of them."
I thought this would create a dilemma for his heroic soul, one that would allow me to bend him to my will, but unexpectedly he stands his ground. "I STILL WON'T JOIN YOU!" As he says this, the smallest bit of a smirk grows on his lips.
I didn't know what to do at this point. I try to summarize the situation for him, so that he might understand exactly what he's doing. "So...you'll... let all the people of the city die just because you don't want to be my sidekick?"
He groans, loudly and says, with impatience "Yeah, I don't care." Lazily, he flicks his hand backwards and rolls his eyes to emphasize to me that he truly doesn't fucking care.
I try again. "Even Mary Jane?"
"Mary Jane? I don't even like her." He gives me an evil, evil smirk.
I give up. Honestly, I give up at this point. I'm kind of in awe at his malevolence. "My GOD..." I say. "You're a better villain than I'll ever be." And I hand him my green socks, in defeat.
The little monster dances around with a sock in each hand, cheering for himself. "YAY! I WIIIIIIN! I WIIIIIINNNNN!" and he makes the sound of a crowd roaring. Then he starts headbutting me into the corner between the back door and the window. I'm like "Oh my god, stop wtf are you doing. I'll give the people back to you." I'm laughing almost too hard to speak. "Is-is that what you want?"
He suddenly stops, "No, you can keep them. Thank you anyway." he says, sweetly.
I pet his head, cautiously. If nothing else I'm glad that he used his polite words that we'd been working on. "Okay. Thank you for being polite." I say.
He smiles at me, genuinely happy, and demands that we play Katamari Damacy. At least he says please.
I decided to go downstairs (1890's Victorian, creepy as hell, probably haunted) and I made it to the stairs and my black cat jumped out at me and made me scream! Then I ran into my dad and freaked out again. Sheesh. I'm just waiting for things to go flying across the kitchen by themselves! (It's happened before.)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently in my house they do...weird, weird stuff happens here. I've had my hair pulled when I was alone in the house, seen a lot of shadowy figures, had a friend claim she saw a little girl walking down the hallway...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent for a few months yet but when I was around three years old I was waiting outside the house with my Mum for my brother to come down the road from school. There were no other people around at all and apparently I looked up at her and said "this is what it will be like when everyone is dead".
One time I was sleeping over at my friends house and we decided to scare his little brother in the middle of the night. We slowly walked into his room. He was sleeping wi the covers over his face so we walked over and pull of the blanket. For some reason he was sleeping with his eyes open (he normally doesn't) Nd he was staring right back at us. We screamed and ran out of the room consequently waking up the whole house.
I have a little cousin that pulled some creepy shit on her parents; "creepy" being an understatement. She tried to stab them in their sleep because they had gotten mad at her earlier that day. Her father (my uncle) woke up just in time and found her next to their bed with a knife. Family came down from wherever they were living because of the incident. She's the cutest thing ever, it's odd imagining her doing something like that. She's 12.
This happened when my niece was about two years old. One evening, shortly before sunset, she motioned for her mom to come closer, then whispered into her ear "dark soon." Despite being completely accurate, and pretty innocuous, this was absolutely terrifying. For several weeks after this she started saying this most evenings just before dark, and not always to anyone in particular. Something about the way she whispered it, regardless of whether she knew anyone was listening to her; it never got less creepy.
My almost 2 year old son always ends up finding the "Show me your genitals" song on YouTube. I try to change it whenever it gets played. Now he runs around screaming "NO GENITALS FOR YOU!" at least once a day.
My 3 year old was in her room playing on day. She came out and asked me if I heard someone say "help me". I asked her if it was the music or daddy. She shook her head and stated that no, of course not I know what daddy sounds like. She said it sounded old like a grandma.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:06:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am not a parent unfortunately, but when I was Seven years old, I was in art class with my teacher and being a general suck up to all the art teachers, I was at the front of the class with her. She was showing the class project of making a picture of your favorite holiday using construction paper. She was holding each one up: Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Birthday, Christmas, and she gets to mine and says, "Look everyone Sarah has done Halloween and can you see the ghosts rising from the graves? Isn't it scary?" and whatever reason I tugged on her sleeve and when she bent down I whispered "You should never be afraid of the dead, only be afraid of the living..."
I got moved to a different class after that.
Kinda late this but,
When my grandpa was a kid his 9 year old sister, Maxine, drown in the dugout, and her body sat in the house for hours until the someone came back to take her body away. Well about 15 years ago, my family still lived in that house and when my brother was about 4 he would come down from the attic saying that that Maxine wanted to play, and complained that she would take his toys. My mom would also hear him talk to Maxine.
He had no idea of her at the time.
I don't remember this because I was juat a toddler but apparently I was in the kitchen with my mother, I pointed to a corner of the room full of nothing and said "mummy, who's that man?"
My daughter was around 4 or 5 when she woke up one morning and said, "I had a bad Mexican dream last night."
Sassage ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:23:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little I had an "imaginary friend" that I would play with in the toy room of our house. Anyways I guess I was around 4 and my family is not religious whatsoever. Had no clue about god or anything. So there I am playing in the toy room when everything goes quiet and I black out. My mom comes up stairs and asks me what happened. I said my friend hit me and took me up to see god... my mom was a little worried.... Whenever I would get in trouble my parents would make me go upstairs to my room and I remember just sitting there on the stairs screaming my head off yelling "You made my friend mad and she wants to hurt me now!"
My two year old was pissed about something one day so she hit me on the arm. I scolded her and asked her "why would you hit mommy?" She looked at me dead in the eyes with the meanest look, pointed at me and said in the most stern voice "cry" without blinking or breaking her glance. One word made me shudder so much.
RyFly95 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was the kid in this situation. I was sitting in the grocery store cart, when I saw the most awesome toy ever. I begged my mom for it, but I didn't get my way. Several moments later, I exclaimed "Mommy! You said the F word!" several people started glancing over. She asks me what she said and I told her its a bad word and I'm not supposed to repeat it. After pleading with me to tell her what she said, and the staring heated up, I said "You said the F word! You said forget it!"
A few days ago my 5 year old son told me that my deceased father was talking to him in his head, and he was teaching him how to pillow fight better...
Kuusou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:27:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just have the one that involved me.
When I would younger I would hear whispers from the room at the end of the hall (The hall was shaped like an L with me at the vertex and this room at the end of the longer side. Although the hall was not that long in general)
They would always whisper (and yes I can remember it perfectly) things such as
"Come here." "Over here." "Come in here." and sometimes "This way."
Even when I think about it now it's fucking crazy. I don't believe in ghosts or spirits of any kind, and I have never had anything else "supernatural" happen to me. I used to SCREAM in order to wake my parents, who were down the other short hall. Usually my mother would come over and see what was going on (It was far too scary to walk out into the hall in order to get to their room) and I would always tell her what was going on.
I'm pretty sure my mother does, and always has, believed in spirits or something to that effect, so I'm sure it freaked her the fuck out on many level. I know they got sick of me waking them up though, but what the fuck was I going to do? I'm trying to fall asleep and people are whispering to me from down the hall all night? FUCK THAT.
A funny little side note though, they stopped only after I moved my room from where I was, to the room the voices came from. It all stopped after that and I never had an issue. I really don't know why I chose to move my room, but I'm glad I did.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Weren't you scared as hell to sleep in the voices-room? I mean how did actually going and sleeping there help in any way?
Kuusou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny, I don't remember having a reason to move into that room (on that day) but I remember taking my bed apart in order to do so. I had to smash apart the frame using this giant nail (like this) as a hammer to do so.
I just took all of my things and put them in there without asking, my mom didn't seem to care.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:28:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 2, I would always talk about my dead grandma. She died a month before I was born, but apparently I would frequently say things like, "Grandma Green doesn't like when you do that." or "Did you know Grandma Green's favorite color was blue?"
This is a story where I'm the kid. When I was in Pre-K, there was a girl that I despised, she was a brat and bitch towards me. So, one day she's playing with all the other girls on in the playhouse, which was raised about 6 feet above the floor. I walk up to the playhouse and say,"ding dong" the girl replies(quite obnoxiously)"What do you want?" I then state innocently," I'm here to sweep the chimney, miss." She then nods approvingly and I climb up. I play chimney sweep for a few minutes, then nonchalantly walk up behind the girl and push her off the playhouse. I don't remember exactly what I said to my mum when I was forced by the school to tell her what happened but it included,"The plan worked" and,"I think she'll go away now." She did go away and I never saw her again. However, my mum started to think that I'd end up in the mafia.
TL;DR I beat up a girl through a perfect scheme and my mum thought I was going to join the mafia.
For a few months my son (2) kept yellingโ"I know that man! I know that man!" We had no idea what he was talking about. What man? How do you know him? Where is he?
It turns out he was saying "Ayรบdame! Ayรบdame!" Spanish for "Help me." He was watching a lot of Go Diego Go. That's what the animals cry out to Diego.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:35:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There is a story about a ghost that haunted my parents when they were younger. Used to beat on their doors, throw folded laundry around the house, all kinds of weird stuff. They nicknamed the ghost George. I heard about George when I was young. Well, years later, the story faded into obscurity, and queue the birth of my little sister. She never heard the story of George.
Well. My little sister, who couldn't have been more than 4 at the time, was walking around in the front yard, babbling away to seemingly nothing. I asked her, "Who are you talking to?"
"God is everywhere." - Child
"Yes that's true." - Me
"God is invisible." - Child
"Yep, that's right!" - Me
"Just like the people that are trying to control our planet." - Child
I was around ten years old and my youngest brother was 3 at the time. He was outside in the garden playing with toys or something and looked as though he was talking to himself. When I went outside I over heard him talking to his toys saying "Die David die!" and he was smashing a action figures face into the soil. ( our eldest brothers name is David)
When I was 1 or 2, my mom was going to sleep in my bed with me that night. I feel asleep and all was right when suddenly, I rose straight up, and said "GET OUT!" and then fell back down and continued sleeping. According to my mom, she "ran out the room screaming and crying, desperately trying to call my grandma."
Not my kids, but me when I was about three.
As I said, I was very little, so I was supervised quite a bit. One day my mom walked out of the room for a minute to go get something; and when she walked in, I was crying for my stuffed rudolph doll that my great aunt had given me. My mom, being very anal about things, told me that it wasn't Christmas, so it wasn't time for Rudolph. I then asked "who gave this to me?" she told me that my great aunt had. I then replied "well she's in heaven now."
my mom (a little wierded out now) told me that it wasn't true, and that I would see her in a few days when we visited her. Later that day, she got a call from HER mom telling her that my great aunt had died earlier that day.
There are many more stories like that. One such being that I told my mom that my great grandfather had joined his dead dog in heaven. She got a similar call as in the other story later that day.
There are more than just these two, but i can't fully remember the stories. My mother tells these stories often to her friends. I still get really sad for no apparent reason sometimes, only to get a call that a loved one passed.
My wife and myself were watching her nephew for a few days. One day he was sitting on the couch with us. And said โ there's somebody elses soul in your bodiesโ (in his normal innocent voice). My wife and I looked at each other giving a nervous laugh. I asked him where he heard that. He said โover thereโ pointing to the room he was staying in.
I went to ask him more but his attention span already gave out, he is 3 years old after all.
Well, first off...I lived on a farm or should I say, still living on the farm. When I was about 7, my parents told me that my grandmother died in the room that I stayed in. Instinctively, I asked them how she died. My father looked at me and told me that she was simply too old, but I could tell something was wrong. I looked at my mother and she just looked down.
During that night, I would think about what my parents told me. The thing that frightened me was actually the mirror in front of my bed. I got pretty tired, so I slept. Around 2:24am, I was awakened by a voice. Like any other kid, I would hide myself under my blanket for protection. I heard the sound of a rocking chair while I was under the blanket. At that moment, I screamed. I simply screamed. My parents ran to my room and asked me what was wrong. I looked at them and told them I heard a rocking chair sound. Right when I said that, my mother was completely silent with a ghastly look on her face. I asked her what was wrong.
She said, "Your grandmother died while sitting on the rocking chair."
Still scares me to this day.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:26:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was a little girl at the school my mom teaches at. The school has a number of children born to Haitian immigrants who practice voodoo. 5-6 years ago I was helping my mom clean up the school library during my summer break from college. The summer program for kids was going on at the same time. I felt a tug on my shirt and looked down to see a girl with her friend. She motioned for me to lean in so she could whisper to me. She said "Is it true that when your boyfriend wakes up he looks you in the eyes, rolls over, then goes back to sleep?" I stared at her blankly, said "No", then walked over to my mom to tell her that I was scared. The thing is, just a few days prior I had been lying in bed with my boyfriend (now my husband) and he woke up, looked at me, rolled over, and fell back asleep. When he woke up again I said, in those words, "Why do you wake up and look me in the eyes, roll over, then go back to sleep?" It was a weird thing for me to comment on and even weirder for a little girl to say those words back to me verbatim a few days after I said them. When I got home I felt really bad for lying to the girl and asked my mom to track the girl down so I could talk to her. My mom went looking for her that week based on my description but couldn't find her. I still regret not being able to talk it over with her.
TL;DR: Little Haitian girl said back to me, verbatim, something weird that I said to my boyfriend a few days prior.
My daughter, walked up behind me, all stealth-like, lightly touched my neck and said..."Is this your Jugular?" Scared the shit out of me.
Also, my 4 year old, announced as I arrived home from work, "I gave daddy a Blow Job!" After I regained consciousness, I ascertained that she had styled daddy's hair with the blow dryer.
I'm going to be the one to ask. What's the fun parade?
murtzor ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:53:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This happend to my mother and sister before I was born.
My mother always used to wake up at night with pain in his chest as if someone stood ir hugged her, and one night she was awakened by a huge pain in the chest and she tried to get out of bed, but it was like someone was holding her back. In the morning my sister asked "who was the big man was who was in the room last night?" I do not believe in ghosts or creatures, but always get goosebumps when I hear that story.
My husband and I took our 4 yr old for a walk down a trail in the woods that leads down to a tiny lake ... a week before we had made the same trip without him. On our solo trip, we went off trail and came across a makeshift campsite and along side it was a pretty dress (baby size) and a set of baby dress shoes. So the following week when we just start out on the trail my son he asks " Mommy, why is that little girl under the water down there?" we were a little freaked out to say the least!
The same kid not too long afterward asks me while we are driving past the cemetary " Why are they so sad in there" ...no one was there...but he described several people to me in great detail.
I don't have creepy kids but I was one. Once my parents were making popcorn and getting to watch a movie when 4 year old me gets out of bed walks into the kitchen and tells my Sunday school teacher mom to be careful because "the bad jesuses are coming out of the floor and watching what you're doing." then I walked back to my room and finished sleeping.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:13:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids yet, but apparently I scared the hell out of my sister and grandma when I was little. I walked away from home and they were looking for me, but couldn't find me. Eventually I came home crying and they asked where I was. This is where it gets creepy. Apparently I told them that I was taken by a man and he pricked me with a needle. I don't recall any of this, and I just found out about this story recently.
I'm not a parent yet but... When I was 3, my mother had her very long hair cut really short. When she got home and sat on a couch, I climbed up to sit on her lap, started to trace the pattern on her sweater with a finger and after a while I said: "My mummy has the same sweater."
"But... I'm your mummy," she said.
"Oh, I see. Ok then," I replied.
From that day, I would occasionally utter a coment like "My mummy sings that, too.", "My mummy has a skirt just like this." or "My mummy cooks this soup, too."
My mother would always try to explain that she is my mummy, that she only had shorter hair now, and I would always reply: "Ok."
Somehow I didn't recognize her after the haircut but instead thought that I had a new mummy, obviously being totally ok with it. Eventually I stopped talking about "my mummy". My mother never really got over this whole thing.
I'm 28 now. I am 100% certain that my mother is my actual mother. We are a large family and the photos, resemblance, blood type โ I never even questioned it, because the evidence of me being her daughter is unquestionable. Still, although I never told her, I do remember that one day, a new mummy came.
Wow. That is wild. I had long hair and my son (about two at the time) would sit on my lap and reach back and twirl his finger in my hair when we watched tv. One day I got my hair cut and when he sat on my lap and reached back nothing was there to twirl. I always knew it was an important change in that moment, but did not realize till now how important it might have been. He still twirls his own hair while watching tv.
I actually registered just so I could reply to this, because I did the same thing when I was maybe two or three. My mom didn't have really long hair, but it was probably about shoulder length and then she got it cut super short. I kept pulling on her face, her ears, her hair, insisting that she wasn't my real mommy. I remember pulling, thinking that it was a mask and I'd be able to take it off. She kept reassuring me that she was my real mom and that she'd just changed her hair, and I mostly believed her. But over the years, I'd occasionally tug on her ear, mostly joking but remembering that twinge of panic, whenever she got a haircut.
In retrospect, I realized that this was her fault for taking me to see Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
When my little cousin was 3, my uncle took him fishing. When they were out on the lake, my cousin looked up at my uncle and said something about "the ghost in Uncle Bob's house" (other uncle). When asked about the ghost, the kid leans in, whispers really quietly, "It hangs from the ceiling fan while he's sleeping."
My uncle asked him what it looked like. He said, in barely a whisper, "it looks like a kangaroo."
jeknee ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:31:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Son, 3, about an ant: "I killed him. He got in my way."
Maybe it's just me but every story about creepy experiences happen before the age of four, which is when kids "lose" their memory. Maybe there's something to be said about all of this.
EDIT:spelling
smempem ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:05:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids say the darnedest things.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:11:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents like to tell this one about me. One night the electricity went off and we were all sitting in the candle light. Suddenly I pointed to a painting and said "Dat fall". About 30 seconds later it did.
One about my brother. My parents saw him standing over my crib when I was a newborn. They thought it was pretty cute right up until he said, "I can break every bone in your body". He was 4.
jm1ce ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:45:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but one of my friend's cousins, Nathan. Short back story: I have a cousin who was supposed to be a twin, but one died before birth. The one who died was supposed to be named Katherine. Anyway, fast forward a few years and Nathan is born with no knowledge of Katherine whatsoever, as the family doesn't talk about her. One day he was sitting in the living room, mumbling to himself and when we asked him who he was talking to he replied, "katherine"
When I was really small, I would tell my mom that I was going to die before I turned 13. It wasn't for a few years after my 13th birthday that she told me how scared she really was.
Also when I was younger I would wake up in the middle if the night with some really bad nausea. Once I actually threw up. The next morning we found our that my grandpa had a heart attack at the exact same time that I puked.
So freaky. :)
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:47:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but I'm a Tour Guide inside a cave system. On one of my tours a child that looked about 3 years old asked me during the middle of the cave tour "Do you see all of the souls?"
Never wanted to go into that room of the cave again.
My friend's possibly 3 year old son at the time was strumming at a guitar while my friend was next to him. Mid "song" he stopped dead silent, pointed to the corner and said, "There's a ghost." He immediately started playing again.
My little sister was the creepy child in this story
Just a couple of weeks after our grandmother had died of cancer we were up stairs of her house then my little sister went into this blank stare then shes blinked and looked at me and all of my cousins and she said grandma says hi and another time in the middle of the night she came in my room and said grandma wants me to tell you good night then she walked out like nothing
Little kids are creepy.
My grandfather died about 3 weeks ago, and we were all going to my grandmoms house the next day for lunch and dinner. When my Aunt arrives she told us her 2 year old son said something weird on the way over. They never told him what happened and on the way over he sai " Pop Pop is in the clouds now." And his mother asked him who told him that, he responded matter-of-factly, "Pop Pop told me last night when he died."
When I was younger, my little sister (maybe when she was 5) used to get scared at night and come to my room and want to sleep in my bed. But, instead of crawling into my bed like a normal 5-year-old, she would stand in the doorway and wait for me to wake up. I'd wake up and see her creepy dark shadow in the doorway. Literally scared the shit out of me every time.
After having two pets die in the span of a few months my 2 1/2 year old was pretty curious about death. We had a chat about how the animals were both very old and had lived a long life and a way to show them we loved them was remember the good times we had with them. One day he came up out of the blue and asked me-
Him: Mommy, did bunny die?
Me: Yes bunny is gone, remember?
Him: Bunny will come back. I saw him, bunny will be back.
Me: Not likely dear.
Him: I saw bunny. Outside by the Jeep.
We buried the rabbit outside right next to where i park, no one had told my son what happened to the body or what was under the rocks by the tree. There was really no way he could have seen or known that particular place was the grave. Not sure if creepy or..
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:01:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
With an angelic smile on his face before ducking behind the couch "we're going to hell" no idea where he heard it... Three years old at the time
Not mine but a friend, we will call her Dawn, had just recently had her daughter and she was on and off with the father, we will call him david. He finally came to see her when she was about three weeks old and fell in love with her. We all sort of thought that he was scared of seeing her because he would not be able to control his emotions and sure enough he was absolutely smitten with his new little one.
That was on a Friday night, Saturday morning early we get a call from Dawn's mom who sounded exhausted and stuffed up from crying, David went out that night to celebrate on his black Harley and we believe was run off the road. He flew face first into a guard rail and the other person never stopped but called 911 anonomylously from a pay phone. It was night and he was riding a black bike wearing black jeans, a black shirt and black cowboy hat, they couldn't find him for an hour. When they finally found him in a ditch he was barely alive and didn't make it to the hospital.
After this we were all pretty shell shocked, no one ever taught the little girl the word "dad" or "daddy" since David had died, we just really didn't know how to handle it I guess. Well about 8 months go by and Dawns dad is playing with the little girl in the kitchen, we were all sitting around the table having coffee and he has her butt on the table holding her under her arms and she was facing him. All of a sudden she starts to laugh and giggle like we had never heard, she threw her arms straight up in the air and started making the motion to be picked up saying over and over "daddy!!! Dada!!! Daddy!!!" We all just froze, there were about 5 adults in the kitchen and we all just stopped completely and froze. We have no justification for what happened or how she even knew the word daddy or dada.
Edit: I accidentally a letter
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:00:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in fourth grade, a friend of mine offered to hypnotize me at recess. I agreed, and after laying in the grass with my eyes shut and getting 'hypnotized', I got up and told her and the other kids around me that all I could see were people in black hooded capes. I had a freak out, and started crying. I then proceeded to runaway to the other side of the lawn, out of sight, and proceeded to calmly catch some rays by myself. I thought I had pulled a good prank.
When class got back in, I was called out to one of the courtyards during class, where the school nurse was waiting for me. Apparently, the girl that had 'hypnotized' me had told a recess monitor, who told my teacher, who told the nurse. I then underwent my first and only psychiatric analysis. I told her that once I got away from everyone, the hooded figures disappeared.
It is still my most successful prank to date.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:03:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone else scared of their own kids now after reading through this thread?
Not me, but my little brother when he was about 4 or 5 said that he was afraid of his shadow because it was evil... Scared the crap out of me for awhile.
I used to have a lot of night terrors when I was 12. Apparently, I do a lot of seemingly lucid moaning and panicking when this happens. They always freaked out my brother, probably because he's seen me have seizures and just hates stuff like that. One time, I woke up calling for my brother, who was already awake, trying to console me. I was hallucinating that on my bed, there was a 12" tall, 6" wide lump in my blanket, which really scared me. My brother was telling me, "Just go to sleep, there's nothing there!" and I would just stammer, "B...but...that thing!" and motion to the lump. To me, it was an error in the universe; an abomination that simply should not exist.
He told me again: "There's nothing there."
"...really? But..."
"Yes, just go to sleep."
At this point, I didn't know what to believe. Slowly, I put my head down, never closing my eyes, and never changing my expression of confused shock.
Ever since I was about 4 I had problems with the paranormal. Starting toys moving and making noises by themselves. It would usually occur around 2am. Our neighbor told us a woman lost her toddler in the bedroom my brother and I shared, after he choked on his pacifier. We didn't really think much of it and moved across town to a larger house. When we first moved in we noticed one bedroom had not been moved out by the previous family. It appeared to be a little girls room. It was odd because nothing was touched. Everything was perfectly in place like she still lived there, except for the barbie dolls on the ground. In further examination we noticed blood stains trailing from the bedroom door, into the closet and then under the bed. The stains were kind of faint, some one tried to clean up. That night my brother and I started moving all of her stuff out of the bedroom and into the garage. We stopped to play with our ghost buster action figures for a while, while sitting in the bedroom. Out of nowhere we both heard a faint voice. Not in the room but outside our window. We were both to chicken shit to open the blinds so we ran to our parents. Of course they said we were just hearing things so we went back into the room. Again the voice came back a lot louder than before. Clearly we could make out the voice saying "HELP ME". We about shit a brick and ran to our parents again. They went with us down to the bedroom and we all just stood there silent. Again the voice shouted "HELP ME". My dad looked at my mom with his jaw down to his knees and proceeded to walk to the window. He opened up the blinds to find a cat. The cat was a HUGE orange long hair. The cat said it again, "HELP ME", and took off. We didn't see the cat again until I met a kid around the block(his back yard bordered mine.), we became good friends. I saw the cat sitting underneath his grandfathers truck. I told him what had happened and he said that his name was Chester, and that he knew how to talk. He knew a few phrases: "help me" "mommy" "don't hurt me" and "hello". I do not shit you, this cat sounded EXACTLY like a human. He also told me that this cat belonged to a girl that used to live in my house and that she was his best friend until she went to heaven. About 2 years pass and my younger brother and I are sitting playing with chalk in the driveway. A woman shows up out of no where and starts talking with us. Normal talk, nothing out of the ordinary until she says "Your sister looks sad you should let her play with you guys". My younger brother and I looked at each other confused. She then says "Isn't that your little sister in the window"? We turned around and saw nothing but our blinds moving back and forth. We looked at the woman and explained that we don't have a sister and a little girl doesn't live in the house. She nearly has a heart attack and asked us to speak with our parents. She told our parents what she saw, and explained what had happened in our bedroom about 8 years prior to us moving in (which would be around 85). Apparently the little girl was murdered by her abusive father he banged her head into the the rod iron fence in the back yard. She crawled down the hall into her bed room to hide in the closet. When her father he grabbed her and pulled her out threw her on the floor at which point she crawled under the bed. He dragged her out and punched her in the face. I think he even went so far as to put a cigarette out on her forehead. She died of blood loss. Her father drove to the desert to blow his brains out. Never heard anything about her mom. Other than the neighbors would hear screams night and day coming from the house. Sorry it was so long, just a lot of explaining.
And yes the house was empty for about 8 years. Everyone knew what had happened there except us apparently.
My step sister's kid told me just yesterday (4th of July) "If I was in the war, I'd have a machine gun, and just keep shooting everybody in the face." and moments later said "Or a bazooka, so I could blow up a baby." Ironically, he has a 5 month old little brother, to whom he quickly walked over and said "I will NEVER blow you up." Not paranormal creepy. But holy shit.
I was staying with my aunt and Uncle. One day I was playing video games with my brother, my 7 year old cousin, and my 2 year old cousin. All of a sudden the 2 year old pointed up at the fan it the room and started to chant 'The which is fan, The which is fan, the which is fan.' It scared the holy hell out of all of us.
I try not to correct people like this, but for the benefit of other redditors who read this 10 times trying to figure out what the hell was going on, it's "witch," not "which."
Do we know that for sure, though? After all, he spoke it. And "the witch is fan" doesn't really make any more sense than "the which is fan." What, did a witch polymerize herself into a fan or something.
or he was saying 'hey bitch fan' -- the kid was just hot and wanted the fan turned on
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"which" is a thing, the child of unspecified gender probably was confused by casual usage "which one?" etc.. and was fascinated by the moving object and was just saying "look its a fan"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It has been reported that some victims of rape, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not WAKE UP. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they werenโt being raped. The only way that they realized they needed to WAKE UP was a note they found in their fantasy world. It would tell them about their condition, and tell them to WAKE UP. Even then, it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and PLEASE WAKE UP.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I went to school with a girl who was always trying to garner sympathy for herself. She was a pretty big Debbie Downer. She told some story in our English class one day about how when she was four, they moved to some house and she'd play with some invisible ghost girl and then tell her mom about it.
My son, 8 years old at the time, comes to me one evening and asks, "Daddy, do wee wees grow?"
(wee wee being the word he used for penis)
I was awestruck and dumbfounded, I had no clue what to say. I was not ready to explain sex to my 8 year old.
I sat in stunned silence for what felt like minutes, but after a few seconds he says,
"Because I went potty this morning and my wee wee was bigger."
I kept myself from laughing, quickly gained my fatherly composure and said, "well son, I guess you know the answer than... Wee wees grow."
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:00:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was four, he stopped what he was doing and started saying, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down! I can't understand you! SLOW DOWN!" I asked who he was talking to, and he responds, "My friend 'Finger.' He lives in my finger. He talks too fast, I can't understand him."
Ever since, I've ensured that we don't accept any jobs that involve being a hotel caretaker whilst writing a novel.
My Sister smacked her Son on the bottom, not even that hard and he started crying and screamed "That's all you got?"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:54:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was three and wrestling/play fighting with her dad in the front yard. Things were getting very spirited, and at one point she jumped up, ran to a nearby tree, broke off a branch and came at her dad with it. Dad told her to stop, of course.
"Sorry Daddy," she said. "I have a new master now."
(She was quoting from the movie Alladin, but still....)
r00x ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:56:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but this involved my kid cousin when I was visiting my Grandma's.
My Aunt was trying to get her kid ready to leave, but he didn't want to as he had just discovered the joy that was Xbox and was evidently a little put out that the Xbox (which was not his) was staying there, and he wasn't.
Aunt explained to him, as she helped him put on his shoes, that they had to go, because XYZ, at which point he fell silent in thought.
A couple seconds later his face lights up like he's found the perfect solution to the problem, and he says:
"Mum, can I kill you?"
Grandma wasn't paying attention, but my jaw hit the table. She freaked out when I told her later, haha.
tl;dr: my kid cousin wanted to kill his mother so he could stay and play Xbox.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:03:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Recently, my not-yet-2-year-old son has taken to walking around the house saying "Mommy, I seeee youuuuu..." even if we're in different rooms.
We were driving home after visiting my parents and my 2 year old was rattling on in the back seat about various random things. Suddenly she said "pawpaw died." She was so incredibly serious and it was horribly creepy. My dad is still alive but man that was some creepy shit.
My kid has a little plastic scalpel from a doctors kit. He was holding it and looked up at me, from under his eyebrows and said, "I'm the cutter-man. I'm going to cut you." He was three at the time. I still shudder every time I think about it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of some horror-movie where some kid was slicing up some old dudes mouth with a scalpel. Think it was Stephen Kings "Pet Sematary"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:23:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. Just the other day, our son was resisting his recent introduction to preschool. He's 2y 9m old, FYI. His most hated time was "circle time". "Too many kids", was his usual response.
Until the other day when he said, "the big lady was going to kill him."
1) he's not in preschool now.
2) I'm not convinced he knows what "kill" means but, wow...
3) Despite pulling him out, I have zero reason to worry about this preschool as we have friends there and all seems copacetic.
xwoe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:31:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, when I was little I woke up one night and yelled for my parents. Half asleep, they called down the hall for me to come sleep in their room with then, to which I replied, "I can't, the man in the hall won't let me".
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:39:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was actually myself. Apparently when I was younger, maybe 2 or 3, I was playing alone in my room, when my mother heard me scream. She comes running and says "Merzick, what's wrong??"
I point at the corner and say, "That man there scared me!" Of course, my mom saw nobody there.
My kid is still learning to talk, byt it creeps me out if I lay in his bed, he'll look behind me and just laugh and jibber like he's talking to someone.
Not me, but a friend. When she was maybe 2-3 years old, her grandfather died. As her mother was leaving the house to go the funeral, she told my friend she would be back later. My friend turned around and said slowly in a creepy voice, "Bring me back his bones."
Not Frightening but fairly WTF. My wife and i were play wrestling entertaining our daughter when suddenly from my 3yo "c'mon mummy make him bleed". We both looked at each other thinking should we be angry/upset/worried but we ended up just laughing our arse's off.
My 7-year old is a tough guy. Not a bully...not even close...but just one of those kids who won't stand down from a fight when he feels he's in the right. I was talking to him about it one day, and with all seriousness he looked at me and said "Dad, I fight so I don't get killed." Talk about escalating quickly.
My 5 yr old daughter grabbed a knife, looked me square in the eye and said "daddy, I'm going to stab you" followed by her standard cute little giggle
Jon-W ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:13:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was probably twelve, I apparently got up and sleepwalked down the hallway. My mom stopped me and asked what I was doing, to which I replied, "The people in line told me to." She asked "what people? Go back to bed." So I grumbled, and went back to bed. I have no idea what the hell that was about.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:14:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My family is Eastern European. Many from "the old country" believe in things like the afterlife, poltergeists, ghosts, etc...
Interesting upbringing.
So, one day while I was out playing with my friends in the Living room my mother & sister were cooking up a bunch of stuff for a gathering we were going to later that evening (Cousins house, no real occasion, just what the Freelancer family does).
So while my Sister is cutting up veggies on the table, my mother is behind her facing the opposite direction... and they both hear this voice say "Excuse me"...
Not a parent, but I have nieces and nephews. When my nephew was about 2 he grabbed a steak knife and ran down the hall with it. He paused at my bedroom door and pronounced "I'm going to cut my throat!" He then put the knife to his throat. We got the knife away from him. But it scared the shit out of us.
pabs123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:15:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of our family friend's kid is known for saying/ doing some really creepy stuff. He was in school ( first grade) and one of his classmates was teasing the teacher, so he promptly steps in and tells him not to be so mean because she's pregnant. The teacher was pretty confused and she tried to explain that she wasn't but he was having none of it. A couple of weeks later his parents got a note from the school saying that their son's class would be having a substitute for the rest of the year as their regular teacher was taking a leave. She was 5 weeks pregnant and needed a break due to complications.
There's some more creepy ones but that's the one that stands out.
When I was about six, my family took a road trip to San Fransisco. As soon as we hit the Bay Bridge, I started positively howling in the back seat. Tears running down my face, snot coming out of my nose, the whole nine yards. My parents thought I'd hurt myself somehow. I was crying so hard that it was hard to breathe.
The only thing my mom could get out of me was "Don't take me to the bad place. I don't want to go to the bad place. It's angry. It hurts. Don't make me go." and the like.
She told me they weren't taking me to the bad place and asked me what bad place I was talking about. I pointed out the window to Alcatraz Island.
I was baby sitting two boys for the first time, and one said, "I'm not allowed to hug the hamster or I'll kill him." I laughed. His brother was very somber and said, "He squeezed the last one to death."
fortvlc ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:21:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My parents used to do foster care. We once had this one foster kid, and for the sake of the story his name was Kevin.
Kevin had this one friend, who was a mother. She had a son and this child was an absolute brat. He always broke and stole my toys, and would get me in trouble for no reason.
One night while Kevin was staying over at her house (after he moved out of mine), he heard a weird noise and it wakes him up. Upon opening his eyes, he saw this child, standing over him and staring directly into his eyes while holding a large butcher's knife in his face. Needless to say, this kid was no longer welcome in my house.
While no words were exchanged, this is the creepiest thing I've ever heard of a child doing.
Tl;dr: Potentially murderous three year old who always broke my toys
There's a large age difference between my youngest brother and me and my other siblings. When he was about 3 or 4 he started wanting to play Xbox like us. We didn't have any "age-appropriate" games for him so just let him play GTA: San Andreas. One time I was watching him and he (I assumed accidentally) ran someone over - I told him to pick up the money which appeared and he responded with "I don't want the money, I just want to make them dead".
talkeme ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little cousin, Brooke, walked up to me and grabbed my forearm, then proceeded to bite it. Then she looked up at me, smiled, and said "Mm, talkeme, you taste yummy", and ran away. She also did this to her mom later that night.
Not my kid but my brothers four year old. She was sitting down playing with some stupid tea set. My brother and I were watching football on the Tele and she looks up and says "Dad?" my brother looks down and she takes a long imaginary sip of her tea and giggles before saying "I just drank your soul!" all happy like. I still get the shivers thinking about it.
a conversation between my two kids I overheard from the other room:
son(6):I don't believe in good
daughter(7):what good means is ........
son:no, what I'm saying is I don't believe that a person should be good
As a preschool teacher: I watched a 3 year old boy play-fighting a plastic otoscope against an elephant finger puppet, as he narrated "the blood goes here" (moves toys around attic area of dollhouse) "and the brains go down here" (throws two toys down staircase of dollhouse.)
As for most saddening, I once had a little 3 year old girl threaten to call CPS (child protective services) on another child when she didn't get her way. What she must have seen at home...
Lucky75 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:29:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night when I was a baby, apparently I was crying, and when my mom asked me what was wrong, I said "Mommy, there's a lady in my room". We found out a few hours later that my grandmother died.....
I'm not a parent, and this is a bit late but I was once babysitting a girl from down the road; I was making her hot dogs for lunch, and she asked me, "Do you think instead of burning the people with cancer, they make them into hot dogs?"
I wasn't sure weather to laugh, or be mortified.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:33:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother, when he was about 6, slept-walked in to the room where my sisters slept. He stood in between their beds while staring at the wall. My sister asked if there was something wrong and all he said was, "It's okay. I'm done now." He then went back to bed.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:34:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my best friend was about three years old she was over our house and my mom caught her staring off into space and asked what she was thinking about. Her reply was "The sound of bones crunching"
tjpoe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:34:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but my 6 year old niece and I are having a conversation about her school. We were talking about good kids and bad kids, and she starts telling me about some evil kids at her school. I ask her what makes them evil and she responds almost immediately with, "they are Jews." I was so confused. My brother and his wife are in no way bigots, so I decided to dig in and find out who taught her this. I asked why she thought the Jewish kids were evil. She responded, "they killed Jesus."
My 2-year old son was talking to someone when I came into the kitchen. I looked around for my partner/his mum to see what they were talking about and she wasn't there. I asked him who he was talking to and he said "I was talking to the lady under the table".
I talked to him about who the lady was; apparently she was nice, and she was wearing a black dress.
I don't have kids, but I got creeped out by my cousin once.
I was maybe 12 at the time, I guess he must have been around seven, and I was sleeping in his room because I had to stay over at his house for some reason. His room had mirrors covering two walls (it was a huge wardrobe), which always used to freak me. I wake up in the middle of the night, and not only is he sleeping with his eyes open (which he used to do from time to time), but from where I am, he seems to be staring up and behind me - into the mirror that I found so creepy.
I call his name to try and wake him up, because I seriously couldn't sleep with him staring like that. He 'replies' by mumbling something incomprehensible, then says, very clearly, 'Why are you standing over there?'
Naturally, I immediately imagine some ghost person looming over me IN the mirror. It was a long night.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:47:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When she was little, my friend would have trouble sleeping. She would get up and go to the bathroom, and there would always be a man at the end of the hallway watching her. She always said hello to him. Later in life, she started sleeping better because she was doing more stuff during the day. One night she woke up in the night and went out of her room, and the man at the end of the hall looked really mad, and he started coming toward her. So she NOPED back into her room. She thinks that he was mad at her for not seeing him for so long.
I don't think she made it up, either. She's really, really bad at lying.
When I was a child I was in the hallway in the middle of the night and screamed for my mother. She came to see what was wrong and I told her there was a six or seven foot tall man made of purple electricity and he was big and he turned his head to look at me. Bricks were shat all around.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
doigel ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:51:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This one is about my Dad. Him, his brother and his cousins would play out in the field at night as kids. He claimed that one night a UFO flew a few meters above him and took off.
He's serious as fuck about it too. He doesn't even try to think of other explanations because he's confident about what he saw. It's weird when he brings it up because it's so casual.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:57:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me and my boyfriend were babysitting his cousins five year old sister. She was playing with the family's new puppy, grabbed his weiner, stared at me, said, 'willy willy willy! Just like masons!' (her 2 year old brother) and walked off. That dam nearly made me gag and pee a little bit at the same time.
When both my brother and I were much younger (I can't remember the ages), we had a deep fascination with George of the Jungle. All we really wanted was to swing from vines like he had, so we tied those strings from window blinds around our necks and try to swing that way. Now, we didn't see the problem in this, but my mom freaked the fuck out.
Apparently my Mom also had a hard time explaining to the school that the bruises around my brother's neck were not evidence of child abuse.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:41:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about three or four, I boarded a plane with my mom. She saw that I was really excited and asked me why. Apparently, I said, "We get to see grandma and grandpa!!!"
My grandparents died before I was born. My mom told me "heaven" was up in the clouds, so I assumed we were flying up to see them.
Of course, she took it as, "We're all going to die."
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:02:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The little sister of a friend of mine once told me that a demon ate her sister.
When I was ten I was staying in a hotel with my parents as we were on vacation. When I woke up in the morning my parents asked me if I was okay and if I remembered anything. I of course did not. Apparently I had sat bolt upright in the middle of the night and said 'oh no, I lost it' really loud a couple of times. Finally, my Dad asked me 'what did you lose?' and I replied 'my dad's skin. I lost my dad's skin'. He then said 'but I'm your dad' and I responded 'I know, but I lost my dad's skin'.
Freaked them right out.
I learned that night that I talk in my sleep when I'm in strange places. The best was when I was visiting Trinidad and was apparently singing in another language at night. Freaked the people out who I was staying with.
My friend had a 4-year-old daughter (Abby) and was getting remarried. The prewedding dinner was held at an old plantation in New Orleans, because she was originally from Louisiana. Later that evening, they realized that Abby had went somewhere. When they found her, they asked, "What are you doing over here, Abby?"
She said, "I'm looking at that man in the tree". When they looked in the tree, they obviously didn't see anything. So naturally, they decide to troll Abby. They asked her what the man was wearing. She said that he was wearing all grey. After a while, they told her to go play by everyone else and forgot about it.
A day later when they were recounting the story to family, another family member looked up this plantation on the internet and found out that the plantation was famous for ghost sightings and that a Confederate soldier had hung himself on that same tree...
GHOSTS ARE REAL.
TL;DR 4-year-old girl says she sees a man wearing all grey in a tree. Turns out a Confederate soldier had hung himself on that tree years ago.
This is a memory that I have since I was at crib-age. I'm not really sure how old I was or how I can still remember this, but to be honest it scared me so much that it probably etched itself on my memory pretty deep. I can still remember details to this day.
So my parents had tucked me in, secured the crib, turned off the lights and let me sleep. In the room, opposite to the side of the crib and about 2 feet away was a built-in-the-wall closet with sliding white metal doors, non-transparent.
At some point in the night I wake up and and notice a faint glow coming from the closet. I lift myself up and see this pair of BIG ASS white eyes glowing in the pitch ass black, right in front of the where the closet is. These eyes look exactly like the eyes of a Sesame street Ernie doll I had.
I proceed to scream my lungs off, so loud that both my parents came in the room running. When the lights came on, I saw and goddamn still remember the closet doors being completely shut.
I told my parents about it and they looked for the doll. It was in the closet.
Mr_Bugg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:25:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my son when i was changing his diaper.. "tic.. toc... tic.. toc... and the time.. is running out... for you".. I, to this day, have no idea where he heard this.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:26:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The time my 2 year old came in to my bedroom at 2am and said "Daddy, I don't want that girl in my room. She's weird." There was no one else there.
When I was little I used to say all kinds of creepy things. A couple times I woke up my parents to tell them an old woman was sleeping with my brother in his bed. Another time I told them I could hear a baby inside one of the walls.
I don't remember any of this.
Pat_s1t ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:28:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but I can imagine my parents got a little weirded out when I was a kid. Soon after we moved into a new house (I was three years old), they started hearing me talk and seemingly have a conversation after they had put me to bed. They'd ask who I was talking to, and I'd say "The girl in the wall."
Turns out not only did a girl actually burn to death in that room back maybe 25-30 years ago, but another family that lived there 10 years later had to move out because their kids would fight over who had to sleep in that room. Apparently, they heard a girl's voice at night too.
This thread has convinced me never to have children. I have no wish to have to tell a little child there is no such thing as ghosts and that they are just imagining things, while simultaneously shitting bricks.
I was two and we were visiting my Grandma. We didn't live nearby so we spent the night at her place. She let us have her bed together, while she took the pull-out couch in the living room.
My mom says she was thinking about how her Grandmother hadn't lived to see me and that she wished she had.
Out of nowhere, I sit up, look to the opposite edge of the bed and say "Oh, hello... Kisses? Okay." then I crawled to the edge of the bed, pulled myself up, kissed the air, then returned back to my mother's side and fell right back asleep.
One night, when I was about 13, I was staying in a hotel room with a friend my age and her mother. Both me and my friend were asleep while the mother was still up when both me and her daughter sit straight up in bed at the exact same time and scream. We then closed our mouths and laid back down at the same time. The mother said she was terrified.
Additionally, I have been known to say strange things in my sleep my whole life and terrify family and significant others.
I was watching my nephew one night, and while I was getting him ready for bed he points over my shoulder and says "Aunty, who is that man"?
Bedroom was empty, and we were the only ones home. I said no one was there but he kept saying "Yes, that man right there" and wouldn't take his eyes off that spot over my shoulder. He was so convinced.
This is about me. When I was nearly 2 years old, my Grandmother had died. Within minutes I said "Why did Grandma fly out the Window?" Not exactly creepy or frightening, moreso curious.
I was about 17-18, and talking to my niece, (10 years younger than me) on the phone. She paused, then asked me - "Auntie, when you grow up, are you gonna sex a boy?" How the hell are you supposed to answer that?!
Nsaney ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:39:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Back in the late 80's my girlfriends kid looked me in the eyes and said: "When my daddy get's out of prison he's going to kill you". Then he tried to kick me in the balls. That is when i realized that relationship was done. The little 8 year old beat me. LMAO
Not my kid, my sister. Years ago she and I lived with our mother in an apartment building. One night, shortly after we moved in, my sister woke up screaming. She had dreamed of fire, said her room was burning. She was totally freaked. Mom soothed her back to sleep after a while.
That wouldn't be so unusual, except that it happened again - the same waking terror of fire. It became a recurring event; I think she woke up from that dream a grand total of four times. One day I came home and my mother was looking a bit shell-shocked. She told me what she had just learned: that our apartment complex, built in 1918, had indeed suffered a bad fire some time ago - in the part of the building that we lived in, to be precise.
My mum was giving my brother a bath one day. He would have been maybe 2. She was saying, in her baby talk voice "Oh you're such a cute little man! Yes you are! Such a cutie pie! Where did you come from, you cute little man!" He turned to her, deadpan, and then gazed upwards saying "Baby was a star...fell from the sky." And looked back at her. Needless to say it freaked her out.
When I was nine, I scared the shit out of my parents and myself in this incident:
I got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. When I went into the bathroom, I didn't turn on any lights or anything, there was just a dim glow from a nightlight. When I went to use the toilet, I looked down into it as I was sitting down and saw a severed hand floating in it. I screamed bloody murder, didn't even pull my underwear all the way back up and ran straight to my parents room across the hall.
They were already up, and really freaked out because of the way I had screamed- I screamed at them that there was a hand floating in the toilet. They ran into the bathroom to see- of course, there was nothing there.
I was so afraid to use the bathroom after that, I went outside whenever I could. My parents actually had a plumber come to the house to insert something in it that 'kept things from coming back up'- so I wouldn't be so afraid. However, I was pretty sure no device would keep a supernatural thing from doing as it wanted. It took years to completely lose the creepy feeling whenever I went into a bathroom. I have since concluded I must have hallucinated it.
"The tables at the vet have to be metal so when they set your pet on fire the tables don't burn."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:33:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read this outloud to my girlfriend. After getting over the shock that a kid would say this she said "well they do cremate animals" to which I responded "but a table is a very ineffecient way to do it, pets tend to run around." I got the response "...you know they're pre-dead when they cremate them."
We put our dog down in November. We thought we explained everything that happened pretty well to our son. He said this like 2 weeks ago. That's the scary part. Was he imagining his dog's body burning on that vet's table as well as everyone else's pets this whole time?
Not me, but a friend of mine. When she was talking to her 3 year old son, she asked how he would feel about another sibling seeing how he already has a little brother, and he responded by saying that he was going to have one, but that it wouldn't come from mommy's tummy- that they would get it from someone else. Turns out they've been seriously considering adopting, but they haven't mentioned it in front of the kids at all. A little freaky, I thought.
I worked at a daycare and child came up to a coworker and touched her belly and remarked how she had a baby in her belly...she had told no one she was pregnant yet.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:07:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently I once told my dad that I had lived in Ohio a long time ago.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:09:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friend is an elementary school teacher, and found this strange poem on the floor of her classroom.
I am so sad. It's kinda bad.
I fell in a pit, I need a hit.
I am so sad. It's kinda bad.
I live in a tree, I need to pee.
I am so sad. It's kinda bad.
I lost my shoe. I need to poo.
I have no food. I am so screwed.
(other side of green construction paper)
I am so sad. It's kinda bad.
I have no pillow. I sleep under a willow.
I ate some lead. I can't see my forehead.
I have a rock. I use it as a clock.
I am so sad. It's kinda bad.
I hate pie. I eat it, I die.
Tankred ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:40:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My godson asked me what I'd do if my house was made of jelly, and I said I'd get a get a huge piece of toast and eat it. He then asked me if I'd do the same thing if it was made of dead people.
My 4 year old niece and I are having dinner together.
Moe: Uncle Chris? Can I tell you something?
Me: Of course. What's up, Morgan?
(She leans in and looks me in the eye just an inch from my face)
Moe: Deep down inside we're only meat.
At 6 weeks old, my son was enjoying his first outing to coffee(edit: he was not drinking coffee). He'd been super well behaved chilling on my knee. When I jokingly asked his opinion on something. I turn to look at him, his eyessnap open and he perfectly enunciates "waa" like as if an adult with a tiny voice had. Then promptly shut his eyes.
I am thoroughly convinced my child can talk.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:55:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have night terrors also. Lemonade calmed me down.
Lopkop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:02:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At age 7-8 my younger brother sleepwalked into the guest room where our visiting aunt was staying. He stood at the end of the bed and woke her up by hollering, "IT'S UNSTABLE!!! IT'S UNSTABLE!!!". He then sat down in a desk chair next to the bed, said "Off", and slumped back into unconsciousness.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:07:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's important to note this was said before he could talk. My little brother (about 2) sat up in the middle of eating and said "there was a big earthquake in 1954, lots of people died", and then went back to eating. My grandfather did a google search and found this http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1954_04_30.php
I have one about my sister actually. One time when she was in about 3rd grade we were playing catch and I hit her in the upper thigh area. She looked at me and said,"rapman543, you almost hit my penis". My parents heard and sufficed to say, their mouths hit the floor.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:21:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am not a parent but my parents once told me that my brother slept walked out the front door into the street where he laid down in the middle of the road at night mind you. Luckily a concerned motorist seen him and woke him up and my brother led the driver to our house then talked to my father.
Mussia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:29:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, here's MY story.
When I was around 3 or 4, my family would go on camping trips often. Usually, I would piss my pants, because my dad always told me Bigfoot was hiding in the woods, and I would always "see" him.
One time, my dad said he was sleeping, and I walked up to him, and said, "He's here, outside the camper." I then followed to shake him until he stayed up with me, watching "Pink Panther" until dawn. (It was later clarified that I was talking about Bigfoot, but my dad still got scared stiff.)
Okay. My other story was about 4 months later, same campground, a few spots away from where the last story took place. I was sitting on my mother's lap, and I looked up. I pointed to a bare tree.
Me: "Mommy, why is that woman crying?"
Mom: "W-what? What woman? Where? What does she look like?"
Me: -Points to the TOP OF THAT TREE.- There.
Mom: "What does she look like?"
Me: "She's wearing black. Mommy, she has no face. ....Mommy?"
This was my little sister being creepy, but I was in the room for it. My Dad and my step mom were planning a trip to Six Flags for me and my oldest little sister. My youngest sister was sitting in the living room with us playing with her barbies(she was 3 at the time) The conversation that was creepy is as follows.
Dad: Well Sunday would probably be the best day for us to go.
StepMom: But no one can watch the little ones on Sunday.
Youngest Sister: It's ok Mommy, the lady in our room with the tie will watch us.
Turns out the first owner's wife hung herself in the attic when her kids died. None of us knew this until AFTER this incident.
I have a friend who, when was little, would whisper something under her breath. She would do it almost constantly, & often with a very serious look on her face. Eventually her parents got her to stage-whisper what she was saying because she wouldn't say it aloud; it ended up being "I killed Mufasa."
jimrie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:55:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but someone I was babysitting. The eldest comes downstairs as I'm watching tv, beside himself in tears. He tells me through sobs, that his brother is yelling. I go upstairs to their room, and the kid bolts upright, starts screaming while looking me dead in the eye. He then proceeds to turn his head, raise his finger and points to the open closet, while still screaming. Turns out the parents forgot to let me know he was going through a night terror phase. Thoroughly freaked me out.
I love how this thread is both terrifying and hillarious. But GODDAMNIT IT'S SCARY!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:04:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
An older girl stole a plastic truck from my 3 year old son and then hit him with it when he asked for it back. He did not cry but he was mad. In the car while we were heading home he told me, "I want to get that girl and put her in a box then beat her with a baseball bat like the dog she is!" Yea, that Mafia talk freaked me out a bit but when I brought it up later to his pediatrician he said it was great since he used his words to express himself and did not become violent himself. Still freaked me out.
When I was a kid I used to call licorice babies people in a bag. I told my mom: "I found people in a bag in the basement." She freaked out because my dad was suffering from severe schizophrenia and had said he killed before.
When I was a kid I used to get crazy high fevers and have wild hallucinations. One time I came into my parents room screaming at them that I was going to murder them of they crossed that line. They were freaked out and slowly got out of bed. But then I started whining that my clothes were sharp and they were hurting me. I started screaming and crying.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:35:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but this is about my boyfriend.
Sleeping over his one night with some of our mates, he ended up crashing on the couch.
In his sleep, he put his hand up, and pointed at every single person in the room. If you moved, his hand would follow, even though he was facing the other way.
Pretty fucking creepy, i ended up hiding behind the couch and yep, he pointed at the couch.
My mom tells a story that when I was young, around 2 or 3, I came to her in the morning and said, "the lights come in my room at night and hurt me." It persisted for a few days and she started getting freaked out, thinking maybe it was a nightmare, or maybe I was being abducted by aliens. She decided to stay in my room one night. I fell asleep with my blanket wrapped around me but during the night I got hot so I kicked it off. The static electricity from the blanket created little lights that would shock me.
About a month or so ago, my five-year-old son walked up behind me, and in a voice akin to the Redrum kid he began to chant "My parents are dead...my parents are dead..." Upon questioning, he said "Relax, Mom. I was just pretending to be Batman."
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:13:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it that no one in these stories ever asks follow up questions to these creepy kids?
motdidr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:58:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So far I've seen one guy who kept asking his sister what she meant by "I'm waiting for the little girl." It was a little girl from a cartoon she fell asleep watching.
ARM9403 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:55:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent but as an 18yr old babysitter looking after my 3yr old neighbour we were playing hide and seek. It was in near pitch black so we could play with a torch. I was hiding under a table and she comes up and lifts the cover, and shining the touch directly into my face, in a sing-song / typical scary movie child voice says, "I found you".
I shuddered so hard, I couldn't look in her eyes for the next hour.
My sister is 13 years younger than me. We were at her grandmothers funeral (she was about 7) and I was sobbing like a maniac. She looked at me dry eyed and said,"Save your tears, you'll need them later." She doesn't remember saying this to me or the motivation behind it... Very odd.
Im late to the party, buy my mother swears this true. When I was two, I was asleep in bed with mom. Apparently, there was an eerie green light coming through the window in the middle of the night that woke her up. My mom says I sat up from my slumber, eyes closed, and said, "Dont worry mom. Theyre over by Shelbis house." Shelbi being my childhood friend who lived about 10 miles away on some hills on her ranch. I dont remember it at all, but yeah, said she was creeped the fuck out.
QuillJS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:39:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember it, but my mother told me I used to listen to the static of a transistor radio.
She said I told her "Grandpa was talking to me."
It would have been more creepy if either of my grandfathers were actually dead, probably.
I went with my friend to Korea for the first time to meet my mothers side of the family and we stayed at their house one night. During that night they gave us a spare room with huge set of dresser/closets in it and we kept hearing noise coming from that direction. My little cousin decides to spend time with us and after about 15minutes of spending time together out of the blue he informs us that there are ghosts in the closet of people who died in them... it was pretty freaky especially since my friend had to translate it for me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:36:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 2 years old me and my family was at a old summer house in Risรธr (southern Norway). A white house with white picket fence right next to a small church and tiny graveyard. Next to the fence, but on the graveyard side, there stood a willow-tree, big enough to cast shadow onto the east side of the house most of the day.
My grandmother says she found me playing by myself next to this fence, beneath the tree, and saying in a loud, curiously deep voice: "Nono Fredrick, go play somewhere else." I had hardly said a word until that point.
I was never allowed to play next to the willow-tree again.
This is just sort of a very loose memory of mine, but back when I was probably less than 5 years old and used to sleep in my mom's bed with her I remember there was this window on the top of the wall that sort of looked into the hallway, and every time I slept in her bed I would see a sort of human-like figure with a big head that reminded me of a watermelon in the window. Of course this was my imagination, but it creeped me out. One night it was a little more creepy than usual, and I remember randomly screaming "I'll admit it, a watermelon has been stalking me this whole time!". She quickly turned on the lights, and asked me what I just said, I just sort of looked at her and she turned off the lights and tried to get back to sleep.
To me this is pretty funny, but I'm sure hearing her son randomly scream something about stalking in the middle of the night sorta put my mom off :P
I don't have kids, but my mom says that in one of our old houses I used to ask her to close the door "because the man kept staring at me" and I would just look down the hall for minutes at a time. But now I do that when I just start thinking off of tangents, so who knows.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:17:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting my 4 year old cousin. When I was putting her down for bed she was suddenly wide awake and said, "Don't let the closet man get in your head too!" and instantly went back to sleep mode.
apparently I used to address some sort of entity in the basement of my old house. I have no recollection of it, but my parents say I would wave goodbye to it.
I went over to my sister's house one day and she asked if I could watch my nephew for a few minutes while she picks up her husband from the train station. The kid was upstairs taking a shit at the time (he's 4 years old) and I suddenly hear him start singing "Happy Birthday"...
I was too scared to go upstairs to see what he could have given birth to...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:11:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am the kid in this story, and I should have probably used a throwaway, but whatever.
When I was very little, I really liked to draw. We had a few cats, and I liked cats, so I drew a lot of cats. Once, while drawing one of the usual pics, a teacher asked me what was happening in the pic. I patiently explained that the cat had been bad so it got broken open and all of its intestines were out and there was blood everywhere. This happened quite a few times, and sometimes they got burned or crushed or hanged or the like, but it was okay, because they were all 'bad' cats. Also, a few of the pictures involved wild cannibal Indians, so apparently I was also kind of a racist. My bad. :(
My nephew at around 2 for a few months used to talk about seeing 'the man', sometimes randomly he would start crying as 'the man' was scaring him.
IYGFAA ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:16:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid(I don't have any) but when I was a kid. I used to wake up in my sleep and say things like, "Please don't hurt me! Please don't hurt me madam! I'll give you my homework, I swear!". This was back when I was afraid that I would be hit by my teachers. Funny and a little bit creepy.
Again another child telling the story but when I was in between 3-5 years of age I used to tell my mother when I thought people were bad people and she tells me I was spot on 95% of the time.Not that creepy maybe but thought I would share.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:10:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to sleep tonight. But can't stop reading these horrifying stories.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:13:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. Here's something that I did about 2 weeks ago.
I was staying at my gramma and grampa's house and we were in the living room watching TV at about 9:00. My gramma gave me some ice cream, and ice cream makes me sleepy. I fell asleep on one of the couches, as opposed to my room upstairs. My grampa sleeps on the other couch downstairs, and he said that at exactly midnight I sat up on the couch, looked like I was about to cry, and said "Is the ocean over there?" (I live in Florida, they live in Kentucky) and pointed to the fireplace, stood up and went upstairs.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:48:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Went out to eat with my parents and my 5 kids and my nephew who was about 12 at the time. We were the only people in the place under 70. As we are eating and I am trying to keep the noise level to a low roar my nephew says "I smell old people". We all busted out lauging. At that point all hope of keeping them quiet was gone.
The oldest said "I don't love you anymore". The first time hurt but after that I said "well, I love you and you can't stop me", then I laughed... Don't mess with the dad. When my youngest was about 2, he told his mom and I that he remembered talking to God and picking us out as parents. Around that time he also said he remembered talking to his uncle before he was born. His uncle died about 10 years before he was born.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:25:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If kids got to pick out their parents before they are born then there are a lot of kids that just think the single 14 year old mom and lazy jerk ex-boyfriend would just be awesome parents.
We live in a small town in Colombia, my father's family was from the rural area of the town, so we used to take walks there with our grandfather, my parents and my little brother. Months after my grandfather died, we went to walk there, suddenly, my little brother stopped and stare at nothing, my dad asked him what was going on, and he told us "look it's Tito* sitting over there" (*that's how we called our grandpa) after a moment of silence he started walking again and never spoke about it again.
penlies ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:02:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old; "Mommy, Daddy has a penis just like Charlie"
I don't know any Charlie...turns out it was the neighbors dog.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:18:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why does Daddy have a dog penis?
penlies ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:37:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You wanna find out?
tuhis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:33:55 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids of my own, but my parents reported me doing creepy things as a child.
I've made a lot of pretty lines on paper since I could wrap my little fingers around a pen or crayon for the first time, and my parents kept every. single. one. of my hundreds and hundreds of drawings, dated.
When I was something around 1ยฝ years old I drew a family portrait: dad, mom, me, and a fourth, small creature. People who saw the drawing often asked if we had a dog or some other pet.
Not too long later, my mother learnt she was pregnant with my sister.
And at one point my parents found two poems on my drawing desk. I was two-something at the point, I believe. Roughly translated from my mother tongue, they were
"There's no worry, no secret
Fall asleep to that
Ah, the scented linden brings good luck"
"Can only see stars in the sky
and moonlight
but in the morning clouds covered the sun"
The handwriting was mine; nobody saw me write them, they were just found on the desk. Whether I had picked the lines from somewhere else, we do not know. But my parents were pretty creeped out by them.
this one is about me. My dad died when I was nine months old, and when i was oh, 4 or 5, I had recurring dreams of my dad giving me a white teddybear in a white room with "clouds on the floor." creeps my mom out because at the time, I didn't know that was what dad gave mom on their one year anniversary.
My son was coloring at the kitche table one night and he was talking to someone but I couldn't understand him. I walked up behind him and said 'who are you talking to?'
he said "grandma'
I said "Grandma's at home'
He said 'No, she's right there' He pointed the empty space above his head towards the ceiling.
I said 'Is she there right now?'
He said 'No, she left' and kept coloring
One time, the kid woke me up, asking for a glass of water. I just looked at him funny, rolled over and went back to sleep. Very creepy. I don't have kids.
This probably won't be seen, but, I have to tell it any way.
My daughter was about a year and a half, and I was pregnant with my son at the time. We were trying to teach her about sharing, babies, and what to expect when the baby comes.
One thing we were working on was how to be quite, "shh, baby is sleeping". That was what we would tell her.
Well, one day, we were visiting some family, and my daughter found a baby doll. She also found a toy hammer. It was a wooden hammer, not that it makes much difference. We were all talking and not really paying much attention to the sound of kids having fun, until we notice that my daughter is saying "shhh, baby, shhhh". We look over, and everyone in the room starts to watch my daughter.
There, my little girl, is beating the baby doll in the face with that wooden hammer, and telling it "shhhh baby, it's ok, shhhhh, shhhh baby, it's ok".
Creepy, and scary. Especially for the new baby awaiting arrival!
She also held a fork up to some one, and with a very scary face said "I'm going to hurt you". And then laughed like nothing happened.
My 2yo was leafing through a Sibley's Guide to Birds when he suddenly stops, points to a crow on the page and says in a calm but creepy raspy voice "Something's wrong."
Just a couple of days ago my 4yo stood behind me naked as I sat on the bed. He started to rub my shoulders, which I taught him to do, but then he started grinding against my back saying "willy willy willy willy willy..." He knows willies are funny, he just doesn't know why yet.
Zaliika ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:35:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was about 2.5-3 y/o she had an imaginary orange kitten named Cassie. Cassie would "travel with us everywhere" and she joined us at a suburban community pool on the 4th of July. My sister and my mother had brought her there and I met them when I got off of work. After arriving, my sister gives me this creeped out look and says, "Deathsmaash, I think you should ask Deathsmaash'sDaughter what happened to Cassie..." I approach my daughter and ask what happened per her aunt's request to which my daughter replies, "Oh she's at the bottom of the pool. She drowned." Semi-shocked but mostly mildly amused I ask her why she's down there. Her reply? "...Because he made me mad."
Surprisingly, her eyes did not glow red after.
edit: I accidentally changed the cat's gender during the story.
I didn't see 'imaginary' at first, and I got sad. Also slightly concerned that you weren't concerned. And a bit confused that a cat was at the pool. I need sleep.
Haha yes I can see how my lack of concern over the matter could have been concerning in that case.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:07:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister came to visit us earlier this year with her three kids. Well my nephew (age 5) kicked a lot in his sleep so my sister asked if I'd share my bed with him because she was afraid he'd kick his younger siblings, I didn't mind.
It was about 3am, he was asleep and I was sitting on the floor watching a movie. The screen went black for a second and I see a reflection on the screen, I turn around to see my nephew peering at me over the bed with his eyes wide. He goes, "Monty told me he doesn't like you. He gonna get you tomorrow. It's going to be red," and went back to sleep.
momster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did Monty get you?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:04:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my first words was "suicide". Started repeating it incessantly and singing it as a one-word song after overhearing it in a movie my older siblings were watching.
prob gonna get buried, but this happened when i was like 2. one night as i was sleeping, my mom was watching me. she said she saw my "Soul" rise from out of my body, then go into the closet. she threw away the pajamas i was wearing that night.
dahknee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:44:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my great uncle was a little kid he had an imaginary best friend named Hap that would get him into mischief. When he got older he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. They also found out when he was older that the native Americans who had lived in their area had a god of mischief and trickery named Hap. There's a lot we don't know about schizophrenia and what that means.
Daneruu ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:53:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Apparently when I was a kid I could tell when other kids were going to die. There were three times. The first time I was screaming at my mom saying a girl was burning. Few days later there was a news article of a house fire. Another time I said kids were drowning in a car-boat (amphibious tourist magnet) and it turned out on the local news that one at south padre island malfunctioned and 3 kids who couldn't swim drowned because they didn't have life vests. Another time I said a little girl was being stabbed and I cried over it for days because the man was "eviler than Ganon" (my stepdad played zelda: oot with me). Never heard anything on the news about the last one.
That was all in the span of a year-ish according to my mom when i was about 3. I can remember getting strange feelings or ideas about things dying from when I was like 5 or 6 at completely random times. Nothing vivid. And I still have nightmares of just random ways of dying constantly. Few days ago I had a dream of sitting on a lawn chair under a tree and a giant spider sneaking down on my face from the tree and stinging me on the neck and dying almost instantly. I could still feel it after waking up. I feel sorry for whatever poor guy that was.
banoffi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:53:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My six year old student was suppose to erase and rewrite a "A" letter, wich was illegible, but he ended up erasing, by mistake, a "R".
Then he said "Oh, sorry 'R', I didn't mean to erase you.". And then he REPLIED HIMSELF with a deep voice, like he was the "R": "Ur sorry? What's wrong with ya bro?".
I said that the Sesame Street letter-of-the-day is extremely common and a trope, so it's unlikely someone who teaches young children would actually post this.
They didn't say they were unfamiliar with the concept, so I don't see how that even comes into it. Honestly, the only thing that made me question whether the poster was actually a teacher was their use of "a 'R'" rather than "an 'R'" and spelling "you're" as "ur." Actually, that made me kind of hope they're not a teacher.
Edited because making a spelling mistake while critiquing other people's spelling makes one an easy target.
The fact that they thought something extremely normal was weird, and the fact they wrote it as if they had never had another student say something similar. Kids say "weird" shit all the time that seems odd to adults that don't work with kids, but that's actually pretty common. That stuff doesn't belong in this thread. Stuff involving people gouging cat eyes? That's creepy and not normal. Stuff involving regurgitating Sesame Street references? It's just kid memes.
Okay, I can see that this really upsets you. I can only imagine that you are a teacher and therefore feel qualified to say what all other teachers should and should not be familiar with. So you have fun with that!
My four-year-old is obsessed with my menstrual cycle. She'll follow me into the bathroom when I'm on my period and ask to see the blood. It's freaking disgusting.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids have no idea about 'disgusting'. She wants to know if you're okay, why there's blood if you're not hurt, probably. Explain it to her in age appropriate terms, and she'll probably grow up well-adjusted and healthy.
when I was maybe 5 years old, I had these imaginary friends -- Johnny and Nancy -- who were maybe in their early 20's (which I considered to be a very glamorous age). Johnny was a real good guy, but Nancy was kind of a bitch. One day they had a fight and Nancy took an axe and chopped off Johnny's head and threw it into the fire burning in the fireplace. That was the end of those imaginary friends.
I am going to write a novel about a satan child and use all of these quotes as dialouge for the child. It will be the most terrifying book of all time and I'll make MILLIONS.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:47:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother never said anything creepy, but he used to sleepwalk really badly when he was 3. We never really worried about it because we always lock all the doors and the house was 'kid-proof'. As it was, he was still at that age when once you get them to sleep, you don't go back in there and risk waking them up for ANYTHING.
Anyway, one typical night in the middle of July, we got a call on the landline about four in the morning from some people we knew, not really friends, we didn't even know where they lived except for that it was somewhere across town. They had woken up to find my little brother, still asleep, in their family room turning on the computer. Even after he woke up he never said a word to them. They called us and we came and picked him up. The whole thing was really creepy though, like I said, he was three and this house was a good 10-15 minute drive away from our house. Oh, and none of the doors to the outside were unlocked.
Tl;dr: Derpy toddler brother ended up across town, asleep, in practically a strangers house in the middle of the night with no way of having left the house.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:54:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when my brother was younger he use to sleep walk very often, but just walking around or sitting up and staring, nothing TOO creepy. But one night in December he stripped down nakid grabbed a knife from the kitchen and proceeded to stab my parents bedroom door with it, when my dad opened his door (very cautiously i might add) and asked what the hell he was doing, he responded with "i am searching for winter"
When I was about 4 or 5 years old, the movie "Chucky" terrified me. My mom has always enjoyed her messed up sense of humor, so she decided to buy the doll to freak me out.
One night, I wake up to the doll in my bed with that creepy face staring back at me. It obviously freaked me out! My mom told me that I must've went into the kitchen that same night, took a butcher knife and made Chucky hold it. She woke to find the doll at the corner of her bed with the knife held high.
This doesnt exactly fit the requirements, but when i was around 8 or 9 (cant remember) my parents took me and my sister and my cousin on a trip to italy (we're all from kuwait).
We got 2 hotel rooms this one night, one for my parents, and one for me my sister and my cousin, i was laying down in a little extra bed we requested and it was REALLY dark. at some point i saw (or actually thought i saw, active imagination) a girl walk out of the bathroom and dry her hair, but of course it was really dark so all i saw was hair and what looked like someone drying his hair. i woke my cousin up (who was on the bed close to mine) and told her, (my cousin and sister are both in their early twenties) but she didnt bother to look, and just told me theres nothing, go to sleep. so i did.
I still dont know what the heck i saw or if i saw anything at all, but its an experience that i would not forget :)
molkhal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:22:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How many times do I have to tell you to stay away from the minibar? They charge if you pick them up and you're a minor. You shouldn't be drinking somewhere in Italy! You could always wait till it's legalized in your country. It's only a matter of time.
My Wife and I are pregnant. My three year old told us twice within a couple of weeks that she had a dream. In the dream there was a "screech and a crash" and that "Mama kept crying... 'My Baby' ... 'My Baby'"
That is the creepiest thing our daughter has said.
EDIT: Who would downvote this? It is precisely what the OP was asking for.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cause you prefaced your statement with the usual self pity comments.
My 3 year old was coloring in her Dora the Explorer coloring book and colored in Dora and Boots' eyes completely black, then said to my wife: "Look, Mommy...
Well I remember as I kid, I was tripping balls that entire night and was just hearing things and the walls were warping and the fan was running all around the ceiling. I, scary shitless, ran into the living room and started cryin in my dad's arms, "I don't wanna die." Repeating it over and over, he told me it scared him that I was 3 complaining about death.
TomB69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the child in question with this story. It was when I had only just learned to talk maybe 18 months or so, just started saying a few words. One of the first words I knew was "moon". My mother and father were driving back from my grandparents late one night with me in the backseat. They thought I was asleep, but then I started saying "moon" and looking out of the car window at the full moon. But wait you say, that's not so weird you might think. I wasnt just saying it in a normal 2yo voice, but much deeper. My mom has imitated it since, and it was so guttural and raspy that it even freaked the fuck out of me years later. and it didnt help that I was repeatedly saying "moon' in this guttural voice.
Once, my cousin told me she could see my aura. Can't remember what color it was. Another time, my grandmother was choking (not seriously though) at dinner, and all she did was calmly say "Grammy, if you die right now, you're going to hell." Shes done a lot of creepy things. Her real mom gave her to her mom when she was little, so she was raised thinking that her real mom was her sister. Real mom was a meth addict. Could explain things.
When i was 4 or 5 i was really into reading. i would have stacks of books on my mom's bed and just sit there for hours. One night when i was in the room alone i saw some glowing light. i turned to look and see a shiny glowing humanoid figure carrying my books and walk/float towards me. I heard it say it wanted to read with me even though it never moved its mouth. I freaked the FUCK out and ran out of the room. My parents tried to play it off to me as an angel who wanted to read with me and I believed them, but ever since becoming an atheist I don't know what to believe...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a twin, and when my brother and I were way younger, around 5 probably, we used to share a room, and my said we used to always mumble in our sleep back and forth as if we were conversing. my brother however used to also wake up asking mom why grandma was pulling on his shirt wwhen he slept, our grandma died a couple years before this. he told her he used to go places with grandma. and she would teach him stuff...my twin has always been incredibly smart, so my mom still thinks this is the reason.
My grandmother passed away on my 5th birthday and the sibblings(mymom,aunt,uncles) decided not to let the grandchildren go to the funeral so we don't have our last memory of her dead. I still remmeber one night, but my mom says this happened for a year almost three times a week. I was laying in bed and would wake up in tears and not really know where I was and would be talking to something. Just looking around talking to invisible objects. The incident I remember is the night after my grandma's funeral, she woke me up and read me a book she always read to me. She told me I had to hold it open and turn the pages. I also remember waking up in one of those fits and seeing the buttons on one of our couches starting to bleed. I still to this day cannot sleep alone in the dark.
According to my parents they woke me up from a nap when I was three and I ran from them and was absolutely terrified of them several hours and cried and stuff. Must've been terrifying for them
Moment0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a really distinct memory from childhood which was as confusing for me and made my parents skeptical about me... Also I wonder if it's similar to the types of delusions that are causing all these other creepy ass stories.
I used to sleep with my parents and this was when I was probably six. I remember looking at the fireplace in my parents bedroom which was when the hallucination began. I had some form of tunnel vision and started seeing shadowy figures in my line of sight. I heard speech, yelling and extremely loud music. My parents didn't hear or see any of it, and as far as I know I don't have any major schizophrenic or personality disorders.
The logical side of me assumes it was a simple mental what the fuck. I suppose there was nothing real that I was really connected to (lost grand parent etc.) and I wasn't that smart, so it didn't present itself in a very concrete way.
I experienced things like that as a child as well (and still do as an adult but less often). I suffer from a combination of sleep paralysis and exploding head syndrome.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:39:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHOA...this seriously happened to my wife and I just this morning! I was sitting on the floor trying to get my daughter ready to go out. My wife was sitting on the couch with my daughter, who is 2 years old (my daughter, not wife!). My daughter is thrashing about because she doesn't want her shoes on...stops...looks me dead in the eyes and says..."Daddy, he's coming home!" She repeated this at least 4 times...FREAKED me the heck out. Needless to say I wasn't so worried about the shoes after that.
becpuss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My kids were fighting, so I told my 4yo son to go and tell his sister that she smelt of puppies covered in sugar wrapped in rainbows, he came back moments later do I asked him if he had said it he replied "yeah I said it all and also that the puppies are dead" then he sniggered.
I was four when my family of six was moving to Georgia. Between moving houses, we rented an apartment and stayed there for a few months. I know this because we had it on camera; I started singing this song that went something like, "there were pee-ple in the car and if they went onto the street... Nah nah nah... No one got killed... But someone got killed." I continued in my high baby voice, singing tales of dying people.
Everybody's reaction was most likely, "Wooobbuffet? ._."
I'm not a parent, but my younger brother is a total sociopath. When he was 4 years old (I was 10) we were eating dinner. He picked up my dads fork and said "I could kill my sister with this. Would I go to the jails for that?" I don't remember a whole lot from my younger years, but that memory sticks out. I get nervous whenever he picks up a fork now.
We had just bought a home from an elderly couple and my daughter was 3. A few months later my daughter and I were eating dinner and my back was to our french doors. My daughter asked me "Mommy, who that man on our back porch? He keeps saying "get out of my house." I froze and the only thing that came to mind was to tell her to tell him to go the light.
I never turned around and looked for myself. I tried to find out what happened to the couple after we bought the house but I couldn't find anything.
Most nights he would go on sleep rambles, but sometimes he would act extremely strange. He shared a bunk bed with my other little brother, and was on the top bunk, so everyone would know when he was sleep walking because we would hear him climb down, how he did this while asleep, I don't know.
One night I woke up at around 2am and heard the creaking of his bed, and recognised it as my brother walking again, but it didn't click that he was actually asleep. So I hear him coming downstairs (My bedroom is on the ground floor) and assume he is getting a drink from the kitchen or something. Then I hear my door open. I'm WTF'ing at this point and look over the side of my bunk bed (own room, desk underneath) and see him standing beside my ladder, looking up at the top. He turned his head like he was watching me and stared. His eyes were open and glazed which made it even stranger. My mother had heard him going downstairs and came down after him, just got to my room and was shush-ing him and trying to quietly wake him up. He turned his head to her and told her that 'She didn't belong there, leave.'
Not my kid, not even my friend's kid, but my friend's niece who in all other respects is a frilly, glittery, maribou-y little girl who loves dollies and dancing and is not morbid or dark in any way. Apparently when she was about four or so she mentioned to her mother that there was something in the ceiling, and when her mother asked what it was, the cutie-pie little moppet replied very matter-of-factly: "Blood."
If my adorable little child announced to me out of the blue that there was blood in my ceiling I would burn my fucking house down and immediately move 1000 miles away from the still-smoking ashes.
ahleih ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was four I was in preschool. I knew my great-grandmother was ill, but being four I didn't know how sick. My uncle tells me that, on the day she died, he came to pick me up at preschool since my parents were with the rest of the family at the hospital. Apparently before he could tell me, I ran away from him, up the slide, and hugged the air. When he asked what I was doing, I said I was giving Nana a hug goodbye.
Prior to seeing Paranormal Activity, this happened:
My daughter's room is down the hall from ours. We leave our door open at night, and there's a night light in the hall, which shines into our doorway enough to see lightly.
One night, I hear a noise. I pop up enough in bed to look across the room if it's her. I see nothing, so I lay back down. About a minute later, I hear a small thump. I lean up all the way this time, to see a form of some creature in the doorway of my room. Think, the grudge crawl...
I reach down next to my bed, where I keep a baseball bat, hop up out of bed, and before I swing I have a moment of "being more awake", ans say..."Beth?". A small voice says, "Yeah dad?". She was doing a weird yoga move in my doorway...I almost died. But...wait...
Two hours later, I wake up to her standing over my side of the bed...just staring at me. Smiling...weird. I say, "hon? What are you doing?"...she says, "Huh? oh nothing"...and left the room.
My 3.5 year old nephew has been telling these stories since his family moved here, when he had just turned 2. At the house they rented for a year, he would come flying into his parents' room, bawling about the "frogs" in his room. He'd explain they come in through the walls, and they are tall, and they have guns, and they have huge eyes and they stare at him and (I think) talk to him.
He started sleeping with his parents again to combat this; every time they'd get him back into his room, the frogs would visit. It crossed over into their new house as well, only in his new room there is a certain hole the frogs enter and exit from. He's more comfortable with them now, and talks about them matter-of-fact like they are just part of his nighttime routine. The way he describes them to us in detail looks remarkably (to us) like Grey aliens. Since our family is a bit steeped in supernatural/alien stuff it's really off-putting and creepy to all of us.
He also has this house. He's asked his mother before, "When are we going home? I want to go home." She clarifies: The house in Iowa (where he was born) or the rental house here? He says neither. "My real home. The house in the woods." The kid has never been to any houses in the woods, and he can describe this place like he's been there, and the story is always the same every time just like it is with the frogs.
Another time, they were entering their house and it was a bit dark prior to his mom turning on a light, and he jumped, and said, "Oh, you scared me." His mom asked who scared him. He replied, "Oh, it's just the little girl." He talks about her a lot, but he also has mentioned that she is just in his head. He also has voices in his head, talks to himself or laughs to himself and when asked, he replies with something like, "Oh, it's just the voices. They're in my head." (cue I see dead people jokes)
Or (gosh my nephew is a weirdo), the times he's cried in his parents' arms, screaming for his mom or dad. He'll be in my brother's grasp, screaming he wants his mommy - and she comes, but he says no, he wants his real mommy, and steps away from them both crying for his "real" parents. It's usually before or after this that that house in the woods gets mentioned, iirc.
I really want the kid to be trolling us but I spend a lot of time with him, and I can tell when he's being a dipshit and when he's serious. I am sad to inform that he's serious about all that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably too late for anyone to see this, but here it goes:
My sister (aged ~7) was frustrated at my mother for not buying her a new Barbie. She was crying and yelling at my mom until we finally got home from the toy store. She had quieted down and uttered one last thing to my mother before going to her room: "I'm not going to cry at your funeral."
Coming from a girl at that young of an age, everyone just kinda sat there in disbelief. It's one of those stories that always comes up at family reunions.
Not my child, but me: Eric Clapton's son had just died from falling out of a window. My mom and I heard the news on the radio, and I remember saying something to the effect of "Good, I don't care. I hate that guy's music." I can't imagine what my mother must have thought of me. I was 8.
lucw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well it isn't my story, it's my dad's, and it isn't very creepy as much as it was very startling.
So my dad lived in the 60s, and that was back when they had large milk cans. A thing to note is any sound made inside one was amplified greatly. So my dad thought it would be funny to put an alarm clock inside a can, set it to go off in the middle of the night, and put it by his brother's bedside. His brother woke up to the ticking of the alarm clock, and he imediatly thought it was a bomb. The police were then called, and they searched the house to find no bomb.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my grandma told me about how my dad and his cousin would always talk about when they used to live in ancient china together and share the same details. to this day both of them swear they never collaborated any of it
My oldest son used to make everything into guns. Sticks, legos, megabloks, whatever.......it was a gun. He'd play by himself a lot, running around the house/yard, yelling at imaginary enemies, encouraging imaginary friends, fighting all kinds of battles. He'd include dinosaurs, tanks, police, helicopters, and airplanes, too.
He was pretty mean to his sister (18 months younger), and one day he got in some big trouble for stabbing her with a stick. No, he didn't break the skin, but she got a bruise and a scratch. I swatted him on the behind, and told him that he had to stay in his room for a while, because hurting his sister was not allowed. He was about five years old at the time.
I was doing housework, and heard him talking as I was sweeping up outside his door. I stopped to listen, and I heard him say, "Kids can kill people, too."
My mom refused to have gun toys in the house, no matter how much my brother begged for them. She figured it was a lost cause when she heard "Bang, bang, Mama!", turned around and saw that he had bit his sandwich into the shape of a gun.
I refused to have toy guns, because guns shouldn't be toys. However, if my kid is being creative enough to MAKE something into a gun shape, then I don't mind him playing with "guns." My mother never understood.
When I was about 2 or 3 my Grandma took me out in my pushchair. As she was walking along she heard me say "Grandma, my eyes are bleeding". It turned out that they were just watering because of the wind (a problem I can't seem to get away from even as a 20 year old), but needless to say she was pretty concerned.
My mum had a kid between me and
my older brother (i am a middle child) mum said she used to always ask me who I was playing with (I was a loner of a kid always playing "alone") I'd often reply with "my sister" one day I told her sis said I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her, spooked the hell out of mum cause she only wanted a boy and girl so they had planned to stop having kids after my first sister. If she hadn't have died I'd never have been born. Gives me goosebumps today as well.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter is not one yet so just babbles but sometimes she'll just stop, look past me into the hallway, smile and maybe wave.
This happened when my youngest cousin was 8 and I was just graduating high school. She asked me my age and asked about college and seemed contemplative. Then she looked me in the eye and said "You're going to go to college and then you're going to graduate and then you're going to get married and then you're going to have a baby and then you're going to die."
This story is actually about my sister, but she used to sleep walk when she was younger and one night it was storming outside. A crack of thunder woke me up and I saw her rise out of bed in a way I didn't think was humanly possible. Her legs barely bent. Then she looked right at me and said "the big man just dropped a bomb on the house." She then walked out of the room, came back 20 minutes later and laid back down. She didn't remember a thing the next morning.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:56:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once upon a time, when I was 6 years old, I had long, blonde hair and had a white nighty, which I'd wear on warm summer-nights. On such nights, my parents would turn on a mosquito-lamp in their room.
Whenever I woke up in the middle of the night, I'd walk over to my parents' room, pat my dad on the head, and he'd automatically sit up straight so I could crawl behind his back and lay inbetween him and mom.
On one particular summer-night, I once again woke up and went to my parents' room. I pat daddy on the head as usual, but he had some trouble waking up. I decided to pat him on the head, again, and instead of sitting up straight, he opens his eyes and looks at me.
There I was, standing silently in the blue light that made my hair and nighty light up (so to speak). He nearly had an heart-attack because he thought I was an angel/ghost/spirit who came to get him.
It was the last night I'd ever be allowed to sleep in their bed.
When my father was a child, his family would frequent their friends' house for dinner. At one point, my dad was playing with toy cars in a room while the other child he would play with was helping set up dinner. At one point, he remembers a man sitting on the bed, smiling at him nicely, playing with the cars with him. At one point, he comes out of the room and says something to the father of the household, mentioning the man on the bed. The father was described to be a large, almost threatening looking man, if you didn't know him better. His reaction was a face drained of colour, jumping up to run into the bedroom. There was no man in sight, and the window to the bedroom was closed. My grandmother never explained the situation to my dad until he was older. She told him that, before their friends moved into the house, a man once lived there with his wife and daughter. At one point, they couple got divorced and the wife took his daughter away, to never see him again. Out of depression, the man had committed suicide. It wasn't the first time this man's ghost had been seen. My dad told me about this not too long ago. He still believes in ghosts.
Edit: I have a few more ghost stories, but they involve me and my sister being the children. They're a bit scarier, but no one ever believe me.
radalie ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:56:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Several stories. When I told them to my parents, I explained further, but in order to keep to the topic, the first thing I said to my mom after each event is at the end of each story.
One time, when I was maybe four, I was terrified of troll dolls. I had an odd nightmare where my bed was transferred from my room to the attic and a troll doll stretched arms at me and pulled off my blanket. At one point, I woke up because it was too col, and my blanket was at the foot of my bed. I would have thought I kicked it off, had it not been nicely folded. Took me a half hour to get back to sleep.
What I had told my parents was "Someone took my blanket off of me last night."
After that, at one point during a party, everyone was downstairs and I was sent upstairs to get something from my parents room, which is right across the hall from my room. When I went up there, the sun was still up, windows across the room, so I didn't turn the light on. I was a short kid, so when I see a shadow about twice my size, larger than anything else in the room, in the corner across from me, I ran out and told my mother. She looked startled but ignored it as my imagination.
What I had said to my mom was "There's someone's shadow in your room."
A few years later, I was alone in my house, away from the hallway I was always afraid of. It led to the bedrooms. Between the bedrooms was the entrance to the attic. Never liked the attic, but luckily, to open it, you had to climb a ladder and push the cover up and to the side. Later, when my parents came home around midnight, I ran to the bathroom after holding it for so long. My eyes were drawn up to the open attic. My bedroom door, which had also previously been closed, was wide open. I slowly walk to my parents, who had been in the kitchen the entire time, and they knew nothing about it. We hadn't touched the attic since Christmas a few months before and the ladder was in the garage. They began feeling a little nervous. There was no one up there. My dad just closed the attic as we tried to ignore it.
I had told my dad, "I think there's someone in the attic."
Years afterwards, just a few weeks ago when I told my family about it, my mother had remembered most of it. She was still a little scared about the attic one. My sister then told me, about how when she was my age, she had had a clown lamp that would play a tune it you pressed his foot. It had broken at one point, not doing anything as hard as you tried. Then, one night, it woke my sister up, playing the tune. She tossed it into the woods behind our backyard. She also told me about a dinosaur shaped pencil holder that had woken her up when it fell from a shelf.
Apparently, my mom said my sister told her, "I think someone else lives in my room." This was before my sister and I shared a room.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A childhood friend of mine shared a bedroom with his little brother. One night he noticed that his brother (about five years old) had packed rolled-up towels along the bottom of the bedroom curtains (which I remember were fairly thin and just a bit too short for the window). He'd also taped the curtains shut as high as he could reach.
When he was asked, my friend's brother said it was because of 'the peeker'. Naturally his parents got involved at this point, and questioned him further. Apparently he'd woken up in the wee hours for two nights in a row and seen a hunched figure at the window glaring up at his bunk. The man had a 'broken face' and a 'wavy line mouth', whatever that means (I know, for me, it was all the more terrifying because the choice of words were so vague and menacing) (note, I lived two houses down and was about 12, so this had me terrified for a while).
He said that on the first night he whispered as loud as he could to try and wake his big brother on the bunk below, but he wouldn't stir. The man at the window 'opened and closed his mouth' and 'went away'.
On the second night, he woke to see the man in the same position, staring up at him, but now he was working at the edges of the window pane, frantic and angry. He was frozen with fear, fell asleep, woke up to find the man had gone.
My friend's dad examined the window from the outside but saw no evidence of tampering. He backed his car into the darkest part of the driveway and sat out there all night for the next two nights with a claw hammer, waiting for this 'peeker' to show up. He never showed, of course.
In retrospect, I think it was a repeated sleep paralysis episode.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my nephew hadnt been enrolled to school yet and was talking about a volcano that he saw erupting... hes only 5 now was probably 3 then.
we also bury all of our dead animals in the backyard our daschund we had for about 15 years died before my nephew was born. He must have been around 4 again and said he saw a brown guy in my backyard with a big nose talking to him
My niece told my Mother one day that she was going to "Cut [her] face off", because she turned off her tv for nap time. she was about 3
mrland ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting a two year old one night and I just put him to bed. About an hour later he walks out of the room naked, looks me in the eyes and says, "I'm going to light you on fire." he turns around and walks right back to his bed. I couldn't stop laughing.
My son said a lot of really fucked up shit when he was 3-5. One I remember vividly, he said to a girl at his school, who was actually his friend and he liked: "I'm going to dig a hole in the ground, deeper than 6 feet, all the way to hell so no one will ever find you." and later he said something about bringing a gun so she could shoot her parents.
Day care teacher here and I have two stories for you.
We had a little Asian boy who would sporadically do the throaty voice of the little boy from the grunge. Someone taught him that and found it amusing but it was still creepy.
This one is worse though... Another little boy was very hyper and running around the room. After telling him to use his walking feet and no running 3 or 4 times I finally just scooped him up and held him on my hip to get his attention and say no running and such. Well being that I abruptly stopped him from getting out his energy I guess he kind of snapped. This 4 year old boy grabs my neck with two hands and in a whispered growl of a voice says "Hold. Your. Breath." After I put him down and began confronting him about his behavior with a passionate " you can never put your hands on someones neck" he proceeded to respond with a genuinely innocent "who's neck did I put my hands on?". I was pretty Baffled.
mcnibz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:01:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old nephew punched me in the stomach when I was pregnant and asked me "is your baby dead?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:01:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night my wife was helping my 4 year old daughter to tidy her room before bed. My wife went to put a chair in the corner and our little girl says "Don't put that there, my Daddy is there... my dead Daddy". Freaks me out but at least I'm not the dead one!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This didn't happen to me but my mom. I was just a kid when it happened.
My mom had a water bed she was sleeping on and she woke up and a man that looked like he was in his '40s was standing there. (I imagine him wearing a fedora hat but I don't know when those came out.) He didn't say anything but she said he was "as clear as day." Another time my mom saw a little girl standing right beside her too. She was wearing white and didn't say anything. Then she just vanished.
gaspy90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I had a bad sleepwalking problem. There would be nights where I'd walk into my parents bedroom and just stand there humming. When they'd wake up, I would literally just piss myself.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We have a really deep skylight in our kitchen ceiling. Our 3 year old has said for the last year and a half or so that a ghost lives up there, a female ghost. I do know that an older lady rented this house for many years before we moved in so wondering if she didn't move out!
This was the daughter of an English teacher I had a few years past. The mother was so creeped out by her daughter that she would bring in home videos of her daughter speaking to herself and her imaginary friend and play them for the class.
Her imaginary friend was the creepiest part. In one video, the mother asked her daughter what her friend looked like. "He's red all over mommy, with big horns and a tail. His tail looks like an arrow." Oh, and his name was Buttons, or something similar.
So of course our teacher was convinced that her daughter was communicating with Satan. I've forgotten the majority of her daughter's other quotes due to the passage of time, but one that sticks with me is especially unsettling. Her daughter was just quietly playing with her toys, until she suddenly throws them down, turns to the camera, and rasps out, "And the people will rise up and SHINE!" this was said in a completely different voice than anything she'd said before, like she was possessed by Buttons. She then giggled hysterically for like five minutes straight afterward.
Needless to say, I made that teacher love me so that her hellchild would spare me once unleashed upon the Earth.
HotDex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We use the standard line "If you don't start helping me clean up by the count of 3, i'm going to put you in your room and shut the door"
One day, out of nowhere, my daughter asked me to play with her legos with her, I said "No I can't, i'm making dinner." She said "Dad, if you don't play with me by the count of 3, i'm going to put you in the oven and shut the door"
My wife and I are convinced the parents of Adolf Hitler experienced similar events.
My brother used to sleep walk a lot as a kid. One night when my parents and I were still awake he came into the living room and said "I want to be opened ... " D:
when i was a little kid i had an Elmo toy and a frog toy and they started talking to each other in the middle of the night.
rounced ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I should preface this by saying that the house we lived in at the time was an older war time home, presumably built by a returning soldier.
When my daughter was about 2, she was upstairs having a nap in her room while I was downstairs making lunch. I started hearing some strange noises from upstairs, but I shrugged it off as my daughter waking up from her nap. A few minutes later I hear my daughter talking to someone, bear in mind it's just myself and my daughter in the house, my wife is at work. I'm not overly concerned at this point because my daughter was and continues to be something of a chatterbox, but I head upstairs to see what the situation is.
I step in to her room to the sight of her sitting up in her bed, facing the wall opposite the door, having a conversation with seemingly no one. I ask her who she is talking to and she turns around and says "The people Daddy". Kids being kids, I play along and ask her what they are saying as I pick her up to take her downstairs to have lunch. "They say they don't like us". After that feeling in the base of my spine went away, she had my attention and I asked her who said that to her. "The people Daddy, don't you see them?" was her answer.
Cue me turning around, looking up, and seeing the antique porcelain dolls my wife's grandmother left her staring directly into the deepest parts of my soul. NOPE.
I have a few more stories of strange happenings in that house, needless to say we no longer live there.
I was the kid in this one. My dad told me that one evening, when I was about 4 years old, I stared away from my father and asked if he remembered "that time we drowned together on that boat." He asked me what I was talking about the next minute, and I had already forgotten. He believed in reincarnation, so he thought that was the creepiest and coolest thing ever - I don't remember it myself.
I was visiting my bestfriend and her family last year. We were in the kitchen cooking and drinking wine and her husband said something to my godson that was sort of mocking him. My 4 yr old godson grabbed a knife that was just set down and started walking toward him and said something to the effect of "I'm going to get you" with a creepy little smirk on his face... all three of us were really freaked out by this.
I guess when I was a kid I would get up and stand there staring at my mom, and another thing it isn't scary but, my mom says I used to say words that would be at a college level which is just weird this is when I was 4 or 5
Apparently when I was 4 I used to open the bathroom door while a member of my family was on the toilet and tell them my imaginary friend was behind them, then walk away leaving the door open.
yooie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
On a Train, my 7 year old niece says to me, about her younger brother, "after he dies, can i cut off his head and keep it in my room?" giggles and awkward smiles from everyone in earshot for next 5 minutes, until we all shuffle off at the station...
When my son was barely talking I was trying to put him to sleep and he starts staring behind me and says "Say Hi to da man." and I say of course, "What man?" He says "Da man up there. points With da wings."
Sorry, but winged angel or no I freaked out and we didn't take a nap that day.
From the time I was 2-5 my bed in my room was always on the wall to the left as you walk in the door. When I turned 6 my parents repainted the walls and moved my bed to the opposite wall that had my closet on the other side of it. From that night on, until I was about 8 and the moved my bed back to the other side of the room I would hear scratching above my head through the wall.
I also used to have infrequent night terrors from about 7-13 years old and my parents told me later about all the stuff I would do or say. One of them apparently was about one month after they originally moved my bed the first time. They said they woke up to find me standing at the end of their four poster bed and I told them, "The man says that I took his spot, and now he won't let me sleep there." Another time they told me I ran into their room yelling and jumped into their bed screaming that our cat was back for revenge to kill me (our cat had died in the basement of our house a week before and I had always thrown shoes at it because it was mean) and I had scratches on the back of my leg.
Another time when I was at my grandparents house I was in their old creepy room that was always dusty and had really old furniture and a huge bajillion pound bible by the fireplace and I kicked the bible closed and my great-grandfathers grandfather clock went freaking berserk and didn't stop chiming until someone finally opened the bible again (that clock hadn't worked in over 40 years my grandmother had told me).
My sister and 2 year old niece were over at my house a few months ago visiting. When it came time to leave my niece was telling everyone bye. She's walking down the hallway to go to the side door and she can't quite reach so I'm following to help. She gets to the doorway of our computer room, which is extremely dark, and stops. She gets the biggest smile on her face, turns and waves and says goodbye before promptly walking away. I turned the light on and there wasn't anyone in the room. Scared me enough to where I didn't go past that room without walking a little faster and getting creeped for the next few days.
The other night my godson told me to hold still and he put a toy stethoscope to my chest and after a moment I hear a click. while pretending to listen to my heartbeat he had put a toy gun to the back of my head and pulled the trigger. He then proceeded to laugh like a madman for a full minute. The child is 5
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
French here. Some of the books look pretty dark, but these are kids books, so there's probably nothing offensive in them.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 5, I decided that instead of being the good guys in my make believe story, my 3 year old brother and I were going to be the bad guys just to see what it was like. I went pretty far with it, imaging a whole world where we murdered dozens of children and kept them in a basement. I remember not particularly enjoying the game, but I wanted to see it through to the end. My dad walked in just as I was telling my brother to "look at all the dead little ones" that we'd filled up the downstairs office with. All he said was that we we should go play a different game outside in the sun. That seemed like more fun than continuing our game, so we obliged. I can only imagine the conversation that he and my mom had later that night, trying to figure out if we were going to grow up to be mass-murdering psychopaths.
I used to babysit three siblings, the oldest, boy, 7, the middle child, girl, 4, and the youngest boy, infant. The 4 year old girl would every once in a while mention how she had an imaginary friend who was very old, brown, and fixed shoes. Her mother didn't like me to encourage her stories, so i'd brush it off. About a year and a half after the youngest boy was born, and almost a year since her mentioning her brown friend, she randomly told me, "you know, the brown man who fixed shoes went away, because god gave me another brother." I refused to sleep there afterwords. I just couldn't make up in my mind how she would even know people back in the day fixed shoes.
When my little sister was about 8 or 9 - kinda late for this sort of thing - she said our mother was trying to poison her. Every time we sat down for a meal she would ask Mom if there was poison in it. Mom would say no, there was no poison in it. Then my sister would eat. She says she has no recollection of this but the rest of us do.
My 2 yo daughter has a habit of sitting silently in her door way, crossed legs and head bowed... in the middle of the night when i go past on my way to bed... sounds innocent enough but scares the shit out of me
When my sister was around 3, she would tell us stories of Uncle Eric. We don't have an Uncle Eric. But, according to my sister, that's because we weren't her real family. Uncle Eric died when she was 5, in a plane wreck. He was her favorite uncle. One day after his death, she was climbing a tree overlooking the pond in her backyard while her real family was having dinner. She fell out of the tree and into the water and drowned. Uncle Eric came down and "rescued" her and took her to live with him. Somehow she ended up with us instead, and this was no good. She kept telling us how she wanted to live with him again. Then one day, she didn't mention him. When we asked about him, she had no idea what we were talking about. To this day, she doesn't recall ever talking about an imaginary Uncle Eric.
Yillpv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My mom is not a redditor so I will write this for her, a shortened version of the way she tells it to me:
"when you were really young, like 4 years old, I had a morning paper route. I was driving really slow through a small town at 4am and it was still dark. You were in a dead sleep in the passenger seat and all of a sudden you woke up, turned to me, and said "I'm evil." It scared me half to death! We later found out that town is notoriously haunted with an abandoned school."
so there you go, I guess either I am evil or I was possessed by some demon child. Nevertheless, she enjoys telling that to every boyfriend I bring home :/
My daughter was about 2 when she started Saying "John...John..." one afternoon. Husband and I were confused...we didn't really hang out with any Johns. Trying to figure out who /what she was now adamantly referring to, I said "John who? " and she announces "JOHN GILL!"
I look at my husband to see if he heard what I'd heard. He looks as surprised as me. John was a cousin of mine who had died maybe 10 years before. I certainly had never discussed him inherr presence, if I'd even said his name since she had been born. He was quite a bit older than me. So I said "where's John honey?" and she ran into the hall and pointed out the window. Soooo eerie.
Not my kid, but anyways. (I work with kids)
"I want to put my hand through the window. And make it bleed. Make it bleed"
He said this with no emotion whatsoever on his face. Just a blank expression. Then he would run off.
I must have been 4 or 5 years old and had just got into bed with my roland rat teddy (circa 83) and to this day i am still convinced that this toy bit my finger, I remember recoiling from the shock. My brother and mum were in the room too obviously they did not see a thing.. I still have the toy at my bedside, needless to say he never bit me again.
Also when i stayed at my grandmothers house a few years after, i was being tucked into bed again and the room had a kitchen next door which also opened into into the bedroom while still having another entrance in the hall way..Anyway, this bastard gorilla arm was reaching through this gap in the kitchen door. my mother swears she could not see anything.
My family is very religious, i'm not as much as i used to be. But i still hold the faith, well apparently when i was a kid we lived in kentucky for a while, and my mother told me i refused to go into the basement even with my mother next to me. She told me i refused to go because of the people in the basement, she said i used to talk to the people in the basement, even after she blessed i never went past the first two steps or go down there at all.
Then there was a time we lived in germany, we had two bathrooms, i would talk to someone from across the room, we could hear the sound of a man peeing and there was only me and my mother, this freaked my mother out so she blessed and i told her the man had left. There was also another time living in a separate room at my grandmothers that a big black mass fell from the ceiling with an audible thud we ran to get my grandmother, who lived right across from us, she came and looked through everything but didn't see anything so she blessed everything and that mass had been seen before by my mother while babysitting my cousins. Now my grandmother used to tell me i was a more open child i tended to notice the things no one else did, my grandmother would always keep. Blessed items in our homes and gave me blessed pendants and necklaces after those experiences, we never saw any of those things again. My grandmother explained to me once , that children are pure looking glasses that spirits mean or nice, communicate through children. Because they are not jaded to the world and see everything with open eyes and ears. I'm not religious but i still hold to the faith and i don't go anywhere without my pendants or making sure my rosary is in my car. So yeah
Tl;dr i was a kid who encountered a lot of spirits till my grandmother blessed me and gave me blessed items to carry.
I was with my kid cousin, unpacking my grandmother's stuff out of some boxes (she was moving). My little cousin, aged around 6 or 7 at the time, was just walking around, bothering me a bit. I humored her, for the most part, but not really paying attention to her as I was unpacking stuff.
She disappeared for a few minutes, then returned holding a fucking nail gun that must have been lying around.
She looked me dead in the eye, gives a cold smirk, and said, "You have no idea how much this is going to hurt". We were alone, and I would have been seriously fucked if I hadn't been so fast on lunging forward and grabbing the nail gun out of her hands.
My mum told me recently that as a child, I was obsessed with death. Constant questions and things. I am worried by how creepy I seemed as a child, now...
When I was a sophomore in high school, I babysat this 3yo boy named Foster. He was very bright, and extremely well behaved. One evening, just before it was time to get him ready for bed, he knocks all his little toys off of his table. This startles me, so I look over just in time to see him slowly climb up on the table top and crouch there on all fours. He looks terrified.
I ask "Hey buddy, what's wrong?" He turns his head to look at me for a moment then whispers "Something's gonna happen..."
Easily the most freaked out I've ever been.
Remember those things that you would do in Elementary School where you would lay down on a giant sheet of paper and someone else would trace your body so that you could decorate it? Yeah, well in Kindergarten our class did one of those. Contrasting from all the other kid's designs of rainbows, flowers etc. was mine, which had only the words "THE END IS NEAR".
"At least it was spelled right."- Kindergarten teacher
Just ignore the aligator in the bathtub mom. I'm taking him back out to the swamp after I eat.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:18:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a journal that is from when I was about 3. I couldn't write yet, so my dad transcribed what I said to him. One of the entries reads "I'm really tired....of eating people." I wish I could see the look on his face when I said that, as it was the only thing written for that day.
When I was four my mother's boyfriend at the time was over for the night. After being put to bed around 9 apparently I woke up around midnight to deliver a message to him. I walked out of my room in my whitey tighties and down the hall to both of them while they were sitting on the couch. Got right in his face and pointed my index finger at him and said,"I'm the boss of my house and you are the boss of your house. Remember that and don't touch my mom or you will regret it". Then I walked back to my room and fell asleep. From what she tells me he always asked my permission to hug or kiss her if I was around from that moment on. He didn't last more than a few months after that.
My three year old daughter looked at her mom and said:
"I love you so much I'm going to ground you up into coffee and put you in the freezer!"
We don't make any jokes nor talk like that around her, so we have no idea where that came from...
tre101 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know I still get told about this one now from when I was a kid, I was 3ish and we had just come from a wedding of a close family friends daughter. The family were talking about stuff from the wedding and I butted in with "you know they're just going to get divorced anyway" I was a mean child.
My aunt told me about something my cousin did once. They were visiting my great-grandmother, we called her Mama Lee, when he was about 3. My aunt put him down for a nap on a little cot in the dinning room, and like everyone does he rolled around for a while trying to go to sleep. When she got him up he asked her who the man was that was following Mama Lee around the house. She asked him what he looked like and he proceeded to describe in great detail my great-grandfather who died a couple of decades earlier.
Ok, there are too many damn posts about children talking to relatives they have never met. Someone have an explanation, or are you all gunna let me shit myself tonight?
Kaaraii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:20:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am the kid and i did this... Back about 2 houses i used to have a room that was painted like a castle , all to myself. My bed was a queen (i was a bulky kid at around 10) and apparently i had been moaning and stuff during the night , so my parents came in. My mom had asked "What are you doing, Kaaraii? Go back to bed" What happened next i have no recollection of and i got in shit for it for the next week. Apparently i had yelled "NO YOU GO BACK TO BED YOU STUPID BITCH"
I'm pretty sure i learned the phrase from my father but to say it when i was asleep? Creeps me out to this day, i feel like i was possessed or something.
My 4 year old niece scared the shit out of my wife and me. We were babysitting my niece and she was in her grandma's room. She comes running out while we're on the couch saying that there's a "monster by the door of the room near the hallway". My wife and I were like "wtf? What did she say"? My niece kept insisting that there was someone standing there so she didn't want to go in the hallway back into the room. My wife goes over to the door and says "see, nothing's here". I asked my niece how did the monster look like and she said it was a little boy.
She hasn't said anything since then about it when she visits.
when my youngest sister was little she had an imaginary friend named analina. analina was an orphan because her parents died and whenever you said anything like "oh that's so sad" she would make up a morbid story about how they died, and tell it as she continued to play. examples: bit by snakes and died from their poison. their house was torn apart by a tornado and they were stabbed by flying stuff. etc.etc.
I'm not a parent, but my mother used to tell me that when she was pregnant with me her and my father lived in an apartment that was reputed to be haunted. She woke up in the middle of the night to an apparition that looked just like me at four (I had not yet been born), looking sad and holding a cigar box like container. She asked what the ghost (or me) wanted, who looked at her and then disappeared.
My Mom told me once that when I was about 3 or 4 we were on the street and I pointed and shouted 'look Mom, wooden guys.' Apparently I was pointing at a group of vertically challenged individuals. They weren't impressed...
Not really creepy or frightening, unless you find small people creepy...
My brother is gay, and our father is a conservative Christian. We were all together and my son turned to my grandfather and asked, "Is there any pain in heaven?"
My grandfather responded, No.
My son then says, "Well you don't believe that Vince(My brother) is going to heaven, how are you going to be happy when you know your son is burning in hell?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my cousin was younger she was at my aunt's house and they were cleaning out the attic. My cousin was standing at the bottom of the stairs to the attic and when my aunt asked her what she was looking at she said, "The people want to come down stairs." My aunt asked her what people and my cousin proceeded to walk into the living room and point to a picture of my deceased grandparents and said, "Those people."
Then my aunt called my mom and told her about it and my cousin saw my aunt on the phone and asked if she was talking to my mom. When my aunt said yes my cousin grabbed the phone and said, "The people are coming to visit you."
Ever since then we've had a lot of strange things happen at my house.
My daughter is 7 months old. I get a call from the her mother last night kind of freaked out. She tells me she thinks the baby sees things. I told her no no its she a baby and they might seem like they are looking at things they aren't cause they are jut observing. She continues to tell me in the middle of the night from a dead sleep my daughter opens her eyes turns her head to look up and starts belly laughing. This is weird because A) my daughter sleeps like a rock B) because she just starts laughing not to long ago and she NEVER belly laughs and C) she fell right back to sleep after laughing
I have this younger cousin (she was probably 5 or 6 when this incident occured) who is very outspoken and obnoxious. One day, we were watching tv or something at my house and chatting. She suddenly goes quiet and looks at me and says, "I'm gonna kill myself so I can be with grandma again." The expressionless look on her face scared me shitless. She hasn't killed herself, and she's a perfectly normal kid now.
My 3 year old daughter and 5 year old son were recently squabbling in the back of the car:
3 year old: when I'm older I'm going to cut your arms off
5 year old: when I'm older I'm going to saw yours off, cos it'll hurt more
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Not a parent, but a few months ago I was babysitting a two-year old. As she was sitting in her high chair, she started screaming, "What is that? Who is that?" I asked her what was wrong and she just turned to the window behind her and whispered, "Outside."
I'm not sure if I'm qualified since I'm not a parent (I'm pretty sure I'm not), but I'm going to share my story regardless. When I was around 4 or 5 years my parents at that time had already split up, so I would spend a couple weeks with one then the other and so on. While with my mother, we came across a picture of Jesus in a book (Neither of us are religious, and I don't remember the context of the book itself) so she asked me who he was. I said "That's Jesus! I know him." She asked me how I knew him, to which I replied "We play together all the time." She asked "So he comes over then?"
I have no memory of every playing with Jesus, but what I said after was "No, I go over to his place."
Once again, I'm not a religious person. I don't remember ever being one, and neither is/was my mother. This is just a story she shared with me a couple years ago.
I don't remember this at all, but my mum swears by the story and insists on telling it at family gatherings, but around 1996 we went over to Ireland to see family, and days after coming back I sit on my mums knee and ask her "What's wrong with uncle Anthony's heart?" He died of a heart attack that day. Weird huh? I was only about 3 at the time.
This is a story about me as a kid. I used to always stand in the mirror of my Grandmothers house and point and talk to it, when I was like.. 4. My Grandma asked me who I was talking to. "The old lady stuck in the mirror" then I blew her off and kept talking. I thought this was weird, because it seems like a lot of other kids say they talked to an old lady..
Moved to Mexico, had no kids furniture yet so our son (2yrs old) slept in the bed between my wife and I. In the middle of the night he wakes up screaming and pulls the blankets off the bed, my wife and I are like "wtf is going on?" and put him back on the bed. We try to put the blanket back on him and he refuses to touch the blanked and begins to scream bloody murder. That was the only time we ever used that room, moved all our shit to the guest room and moved out 6 months later. We figure it was a nightmare, but his scream and genuine fear was enough to put a big NOPE on that room.
I don't have kids, but a kid just said something fuckin' creepy to me today. I work at a movie theater, and this kid said to me and his mom, "If you are bad in the movie theater, they put you in the popcorn machine and cook you." Creepy.
While driving home from the grocery shopping and stopped at a red light my three year old said, "I want you to go faster mommy." I explained that you have to stop at red lights or we might get into a car crash and get hurt. They he says, " I want you to crash your car, I want you to get hurt." This was topped recently when I told him to be careful when he is coming down the stairs or he could get hurt or even die. He said, "I want to be dead." This thread makes me feel a little better knowing that other kids say some pretty fucked up stuff too. I think he is just trying to provoke a reaction. Maybe he gets bored with our daily routines and is trying to stir shit up.
gensolo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not so much creepy but when I was around 2ish I believe I stood up in a Morrison's and pointed at my grandfather and called him a "dirty old man". No one knows where I got this from or what set it off.
I don't have children of my own, but this is one about my little cousin.
A few years ago my grandfather died, and he was cremated. Most of the children on that side of the family were very young, so we didn't talk about it with them.
However, on several occasions after my grandfathers death, one of my cousins, who was only about 4, would go up to my grandmother's room and sit in front of the closet laughing and talking.
She always said she was talking to grandpa
That closet is where his ashes were kept, and there was no way she knew that.
mkj5251 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:43:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a friend in high school who, when looking at houses to buy with her mother, went in one house and kept asking who the little girl in the red dress was. There was no little girl to be seen.
I don't know what I think but I have heard that children are supposed to be more connected to the paranormal.
I was about 3-4 at the time, don't remember this at all, but my parents have told me about it a few times.
For 4 nights straight I would sleep talk in the middle of the night screaming, bawling, crying bloody murder, even when my mom came in. She would go to my bed and ask what's wrong. "That man is here again! Why can't he leave!" She would ask what guy and I would just keep repeating "that man."
The 4th night my dad decided he had enough, so he got out of bed to help my mom out. As soon as I saw his silhouette in the doorway I completely lost it. With tears streaming down my face, I shuffled as far back to the corner of my bed as I could, pointing at my dad, and screaming at the top of my lungs "THAT'S HIM! THAT'S THE MAN!!"
Apparently all those mornings I would wake up not remembering what happened, and after that last night I never had any fits like that.
My son was about 4 1/2 when he said ''Mommy, when you get shot in your head, I promise I'll jump off that cliff with the green rock'' . He said this in the most calm, comforting, matter of fact way.
This is still the most disturbing thing either one of my children has ever said to me.
When I was 4 my mom took me to the cemetery for the Day of the Dead's mass. She briefly explained that there were buried people there and we were there to honor them and her father.
While she stood there watching the mass she sees me on the corner of her eye just scraping the earth with my little fingers. She asks me what I'm doing and I say: I WANNA SEE IT!
jarydf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:45:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We often walk through a cemetery near our house. It is a nice park like place. Not creepy at all. My 3 year old knows that it is a place where peoples bodies go when they die so their friends and relatives can visit them. Sometimes we walk past the head stones and she asks me to name the people as we go past. Then one day she says "Daddy will you visit me when I am in a cage underground?" Err...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young (probably around 10, I can't remember specifically), I had a habit of talking in my sleep. My brother used to complain about it when we shared a room but after he got his own room I didn't really hear about it from my family anymore. Then one night my mom found me. I had gotten out of bed and walked all through the house and down the stairs to the front door. I was unlocking and opening the door, and when my mom stopped me and asked what I was doing, I turned and looked up the stairs and said "i'm trying to find a place for it". Thats all. I don't remember getting out of bed, walking around, or saying anything. I just couldn't stop thinking about how traumatic that would have been for me as a child to suddenly wake up outside at 2 am being 10 years old and not remembering how I got there. I have no idea how far I would have gone or what I would have done if my mother hadn't woken me up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember walking out of my room and locking myself out of our flat at age 4 or 5. My dad, who worked and sometimes slept in the basement came up the stairway in the morning and found me sleeping. Uncomfortable but I never did it again
This is something my little brother said to me, he was 6 at the time. One day I had come home from school and was taking a nap on the living room couch. He wakes me up and stares right at me and says "I found something on your computer. You're gross." I was kinda of freaking out for like an hour trying to figure out what he had found. It turns out he just found some old chips beside my laptop. Scared the living shit out of me.
edit: accidentally a word
Can't remember the whole story, but my teacher's sister had an identical twin who died before birth. One day the girl asked something to the likes of "what happened to my sister?" and, when questioned she said "you know, in that dark place." Is that even possible or is my teacher b.s.ing?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
how old was the girl? Maybe she picked it up somewhere or someone told her that she could have had a sister
Once my mum walked in on my sleeping walking in the kitchen once. I'd managed to silently carry a chair into the kitchen, climb up on a bench, and was rummaging through the cutlery draw when she found me. When she asked what I was doing I told her the Coke bottle told me that I needed to find the giant knife. I remember it was very important that I find the giant knife, and I had no idea why she was so upset.
Once when i was probably about 8, we had moved to a new city close to us while our house was being re-modeled. I sleptwalked down a flight of stairs, went to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and went to my parents room and told them that "Justin (my brother) has all the knives and won't share, this was the only one i could find." Then i walked out. When questioned about it the next morning i just told them i was having a dream about cutting my dinner and my brother not giving me a butter knife.
While reading some of these posts to my sister a fellow Reddit member, she recalls a story about me. I never heard this story until now.
Apparently when I was around 4 years old I woke up around 3 in the morning screaming a crying hysterically. I was clearly upset. When my parents asked me what was wrong I explained that either I had to die or everyone else in the family had to die. Until morning my parents had to try to calm me down and tell me no one had to die.
Creepy shit.
cocato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day my Grandma and I were playing cards, I should also mention I didn't like losing. Though me being a child lost, I apparently didn't take well to this and said with a very straight face, "It's okay because you'll be dead soon."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but I remember saying this to my father: "If I sleep with amanda, will I get pregnant?" Amanda was my sister, I am a male, and I was about 4ish
I'm not a parent, but when I was volunteering at a school for children with cerebral palsy in Israel I had one girl say some really disturbing things to me. The one that frightened me the most was when I was about to leave the school to ride the bus back to my apartment the girl looks me straight in the eye and says, "I hope you don't die on the way home." I was always a bit nervous riding a bus in Israel because of the bus bombings that happen once in awhile there, but I was tempted to just walk the 5 miles back to my place that day.
I'm not parent but I did do my share of creepy shit when I was a kid.
My parents told me this story of something creepy I said at a sleepover. I used to sleepwalk a bunch. When I was 5 or so I was at a sleepover at a friends house. Apparently I started sleepwalking and when his mom asked me what I was doing I said something along the lines of "I'm looking for the light in the darkness" and walked off. Pretty sure she thought I was possessed or something.
GIMR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:04:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was two, My mom, my brothers, and I lived with my Uncle and Aunt. My Uncle was in the process of building a tree house in the backyard. All he had finished was the 12 Ft. ladder leading up to it and the floor. There were no walls or ceiling.
My mom woke up one morning and couldn't find me. She started to freak out and accidentally looked out the back window and found me sleeping on the 12ft high floor of the tree house. We have no idea how I got out of the house or how I got up there. I didn't say anything, but it's still kind of creepy. She took a picture before taking me down. If people are interested I'll find the photo and scan it to Imgur.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:11:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When i was younger i used to share a room with my little sister. One night she started saying she thought there was something in her bed, about 5 seconds later she goes crazy and throws the sheets off and run downs the hall screaming. I go over to her bed, the "thing" that been in the bed with her had most likely been her own pee, seeing as her sheets were badly stained.
I was dating a woman who had a four year old son . She and I had an in joke where we would quote a line from a porno we had seen out of context. While we were careful not to say it in front of the boy, like most 20 year old couples, we weren't careful enough and he overheard us saying it and laughing. Being the aspiring little stand-up that he was, he added it to his list of jokes unbeknownst to us until later that day when he was coloring at the dining room table and quietly singing a new song he had made up which consisted of him singing over and over "oooh oohh baby... I think I'm gonna cum! oooh Oohh baby... I think I'm gonna cum!"
It took what felt like weeks to get him to stop saying it. Like a typical, high spirited, four year old boy, telling him to stop just made it all the more alluring. We finally just stopped reacting to it and then he got bored with it and the only time he tried saying it outside of the house was to the elderly man next door with the defective hearing aid so he didn't get a reaction out of him either so then he dropped it in favor of saying "Bada Bing!" which we made a point to laugh hysterically at so that he would become fixated on that.
jjabi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:22:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 4 years old, almost every night after midnight I started to scream and woke up my mom and dad. They found me sitting on my bedside staring at window opposite, I didn't react when they called my name or even when they touched me, I just fell a sleep when they put me down. I've heard that was one of creepiest things in their lives, and not to mention it happened almost every night...
I also have story about my little brother, when he was about 5, he ran from his room at night, and opened my parents bedroom door, and yelled mom. Mom woke up and asked what was wrong, he told him that "My father is a dog". My mom started to laugh so hysterically that my dad woke up too. That is funny one to mention to my brother now when we are older.
I don't remember this at all, but apparently on a long drive to see some relatives , I had fallen asleep in the car, and suddenly I sat straight up eyes open and stared at my mom and said " He wants it back." she had no idea what was going on and said " what?" and I repeated what I said at first an laid back down to go to sleep.
Twair72 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if this counts as creepy but it sure as hell scared me. I was at the beach a few months ago and was sharing a bedroom with my little cousin (5). He talks a lot in his sleep, mostly about nothing and so quiet I can't hear him but one night he was completely quiet, I noted it and finally fell asleep unhindered. In the middle of the night I woke up to his face not 2 inches from mine, I recoiled and asked why he was still awake to which he replied, "I'm watching you like the man in my room watches me at home" I asked if it was brad (his father) and he laughed like a crazy person and said "No no, my real dad" wtf does this mean
I'm probably too late to share this: When I was a four, I had a wide imagination. I also liked playing by myself and I thought I was playing with white and red dwarves in our backyard. One time, I was having a fun conversation with myself and the "dwarves". My grandma living with us saw me. She freaked the fuck out and thought I was possessed (I was laughing alone, and telling jokes to no end etc). She called my parents from overseas and started to watch my every move. Coming from a largely conservative catholic background, she also called the local faith healer to exorcise the "demons possessing" me and they started chanting prayers and stuff.
I don't believe this story up to this day as I have no recollection of anything with my dwarf friends. (If they really DID exist, I should have a greater collection of dwarf jokes by now)
I had a bunch of imaginary friends as well, my parents just thought it was cute, I would talk to them, play with them, even try to share my food and sometimes apparently, I'd just sit there and I could swear I remember the toys moving around and I was just waiting for them to take their turns. It's so hard to believe now, but you never know..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent here, but when I was six I said some creepy shit. My mom said, and I do sort of remember it kind of, that one night I was horsing around in my parents bedroom. I was jumping from bed to bed to couch and just being an annoying six year old. Then apparently I didn't make the jump from couch to bed one attempt, and my knee crashed into the bed so hard, it broke the frame. While my parents rushed to see if the bed was okay (I know great parents, right?), I crawled to the corner and started to scream "I didn't do it! It was the devil, it was the devil!" They let me sleep in their room that night because I couldn't stop shivering.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son has an imaginary friend named jake. He talks about jake telling him to do naughty things like making messes. One day, out of the blue, he said "mommy, jake told me he died once.". The next day he said that he wished ghosts weren't real. Tl:dr my son sees dead people.
I dont have kids but my best friend and I were out one day with her daughter in the backseat. My friend was saying something and from the back seat we just hear this tiny voice say "I'm going to kill you" I looked back only to see this creepy smirk. My friend then yells at her and tells her its not nice, you dont say things like that. Her daughter only replies with "But I really will" again, with a creepy smirk.
She also has her own little language and anytime her mom asks her what shes saying she says shes talking to her little brother. Her little brother died almost a year ago.
I had no recollection until my parents told me the next morning, but one night when I was about 14, I came home drunk and passed out immediately in my bed. I woke back up somehow at like 1 am still drunk and my parents were still awake. I knelt down at the front of my bed post and began to pee onto my carpet. My parents rushed over to my room after hearing me peeing and they screamed "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" So, with a dead look in my eyes, I simply told them "They told me to do it." To this day they think I took some crazy drugs to make me do that.
I'm not a parent but I received a text about something my nephew said the other day "I just found him standing in my room in pitch dark. He was kind of out of it, so I picked him up to take him back to bed. He pointed behind me; down the stairs and said "he make you fall down the stairs" I asked him who would do that? and he kept point into the darkness saying "the bug man".
I was 400 miles away at the time and I still had an inkling of nope.
When my daughter was 2, she would point at a spot in the corner of the living room and say "the butterflies are hiding in the wall." After a couple days, I wanted to know what the dark little speck was, so I looked closely and saw what looked like a tiny hole with little white eggs inside it. I didn't wait for them to hatch to see if they were butterflies, but how she knew they were eggs from so far away (other side of the room) and that insects hatch from eggs is the strange part. The way she would say it though, it still creeps me out to think about it.
When I was 7-8 I would wake up early (5-6) and want to go.. do stuff, play my PS1, eat food, bathe, but I wanted to ask my parents first if it was okay. I also didn't want to wake up my parents because they were sleeping and that would be rude. The result was that on more then one occasion my parents would wake up to see me staring at them waiting for there approval for me to go do stuff.
EDIT: Not like, at the doorway staring. I was like, 3 inches from your face staring.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:38:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 11 dad woke me up and I ended up rolling over and going back to sleep. I walked out into the living room 4 hours later after I woke up and he was like what happened? I said "Sorry I woke up on the wrong server". He gave me a really weird look.
My baby sister was a very outgoing child who used to sing all the time. When she was around 3, my mum and I decided to sneak up on her to see what kind of songs she sang when she was by herself. We cracked open the door to find her playing with her tea set, talking to an imaginary friend. She just stared at the space in front of her, nodding her head when my mom finally gave up and opened the door fully. Mom asked, "Who are you talking to baby?"
My baby sister said, "My sister. Mom, she looks just like me." I almost fell over. I looked at my mom who went pale and looked like she was going to fall over. My baby sister's twin died. We never spoke about her, nor told my baby sister about her either.
ITT, people don't understand the question, start telling ghost stories.
jawnz77 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:41:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was around three years old or so, I used to have full fledged conversations with an "imaginary friend." no one thought anything of it until Easter. My uncle's birthday fell on Easter that year, but he had passed away a year before around the same time. Everyone was walking on eggshells around my grandmother because she was close to tears the whole day. In the car ride home from a family party I spoke up and said "It's okay, Mommom. Uncle Marty is okay and he knows you're thinking about him today." entirely out of the blue. Freaked everyone out in the car because I would not have known to say that being only two at the time that he died.
xMikeh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:42:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A bit off topic, but creepy none the less. When I was 14, my sister was 10. She had a pet mouse that was pregnant, but it died. My mom and I were gone, we got home and I guess while we were gone her mouse died, so she got it in her head that she was going to "I have to save the babies!" She had that mouse pinned to the table and opened up. It was awful.
kardde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:42:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few stories about me and my sister. When I was 2 or 3, my great aunt died. I had never met her before, we couldn't go to the funeral. A week or so later as I was watching TV I told my parents, "Aunt Rose wants you to know that she's okay, and you shouldn't worry about her."
One night when my sister was 3, she started talking in her sleep in a perfect British accent (we're from NYC.) She was saying things like, "But mummy, I don't want to go back to England. I want to stay here and play with the elephants!"
Another time we were walking to the park, my sister was 5 or 6. All of a sudden she breaks away from us and runs towards a brownstone with a spiral staircase. She runs inside, and as we catch up to her, she's talking to an old lady. The lady says, "Rachael, we've been expecting you!" The building was a library for the paranormal and occult.
kardde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't remember. The librarian, I guess. My parents were understandably freaked out, not only about my sister running into a strange building, but that they seemed to know her there, that we left in a hurry.
It was a few hours after I had said goodnight and tucked my son (2 years old at the time) in bed. I heard him jabbering to himself in his room so I opened the door and asked "who are you talking to?", to which he responded in a low-whisper hiss "my toysssssss". I backed out slowly.
There are so many redditors who remember what happened when they were 2 years old. I do not remember any incident before I was 6-7 year old.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a nervous flier. When my son was three, we were getting on a plane and all of his pervious enthusiasm washed away instantly as we approached the door of the aircraft. I was carrying him, and he stuck both of his arms and legs out as wide as possible so that when I walked through the door, we got stuck. I finally turned sideways to get him through and he screamed, "We will die if we get on this plane! Fire! There will be a lot of fire!" I forced us all on the plane anyway, but I sat there having one long anxiety attack the entire time. Obviously nothing happened and my kid is just creepy.
I know I'm late to the party. I have seen all these posts about kids referencing their parents dead parents.
My mother told this story as she remembers it. When my brother was about 2 maybe 3 years old, my mother and father were playing with him. My brother had a strange attraction to my dad's class ring that his father gave him when he passed. My father gave it to my brother but refused to give it back,
My dad said "Alright William(That's his name) Time to give my ring back"
My Brother "No It's my ring" My dad thinking it's jsut a normal 2 year old territorial thing he asks again.
"That's daddy's ring, please give it back"
My brother: "No it's my ring, I gave it to you when I died."
My father and my mother where freaked out. Was my brother having a weird moment or was he channeling my passed Grandfather.
I should note that both my grandparent on my dad's side died before me or my brother were born. It's still creeps me out even talking about it.
bhea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5-year-old son said "I love you forever" to me, and I responded in kind. He was content with it for a few moments, but then grew serious and told me this: "But you can't live forever. Someday you'll turn to dust and blow away in the wind."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my mother was pregnant with my sister, whom she didn't know was going to be a girl at this point, I (about 5 years old) told her that "she should be named Sally." Normal, until my sister was born exactly 100 years apart from my great grandmother, named Sally, who I had never known existed. A weird coincidence.
My friends little girl came running up to me one day and hugged my leg and slammed her head into my groin... which was awkward. I just reached down and ruffled her hair, at which point she turned to her parents and said....
"Tommy touched me"
If they weren't stood there at the time, I'd be in jail now.
HarleyQ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:04:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in highschool I was baby sitting my niece 2 and my nephew 7. My niece had been acting horribly that day so I spanked her and sat her on the couch so I could finish cleaning. As I walk back to the kitchen her brother goes "Don't you spank my sister!" I made some comment about making him sit on the couch too if he didn't calm down.
Well a few minutes later I'm standing on the other side of the kitchen bar washing the dishes and he goes "HarleyQ, do you know why I yell at you." in the most calm voice he possibly could have. So I was like "No Seth, why do you yell at me." in the same tone he responds "I yell at you because I love you HarleyQ." I mumbled "huh, and that's why you'll beat your wife some day Seth.." and just told him ok.
My son was about 3 and came into the house with muddy shoes and made a mess. I told him when he gets older and has a house of his own I was going to come over with muddy shoes and do the same thing. He said no your not I won't let you in and I am going to send my dog after you and he is going to tear your hair out. I said alright then I guess I won't be coming to your house.
Not my child, but I have two cousins who are young, yet wise beyond their years. One was at a funeral for our great uncle. I take her up to the viewing and she looks inside, unaffected. All the sudden, she drops to her knees, takes her fist, and bangs on the casket while yelling, "WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!" She then turns, looks up at me, and giggles. Deranged and awesome.
edit: She was 7 at the time.
priss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:05:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter used to sleepwalk when she was 3-5 years old. She would come into my room regularly, and stand crying by my bed until I took her back to her room. One night, as I was tucking her back in, I told her that we all need our sleep and she really needed to work on staying asleep in her own bed. She looked right at me and said "Mommy! I AM asleep!". Creepy as fuck.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:05:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5 year old son said he wanted to cut his own head off.
Well when my little brother was younger and I had started school, he had no one to play with so he would just sit in his closet for hours without the light on. One day my dad asked him what he was doing, because he had overheard my little brother talking to something and my brother replied "I'm talking to my shadow friends, they live in the walls. They want to meet you daddy." After that my dad put a lock on my brother's closet door so he couldnt talk to his "friends" anymore.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:07:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old told me this past Father's Day, "I'll slap you on Father's Day." Not really disturbing, and was probably deserved with my constant nagging, but was funny nonetheless.
Don't have a kid, but my little cousin once took me into my grandmas room while I was babysitting him. He pulled a calendar out of a hidden spot behind the bed that was just photos of naked men. Then he started flipping through the calendar going "Look at the penises with me, that one is HUGE." He's now in High School, on the football team. I'm saving this story for the perfect moment. (Note: It was creepy that he somehow managed to find the calendar, and then wanted to sit around and talk about the size of the penises with me. He was about eight at the time I think.)
I'm not a parent, nor does this have anything to do with my parents, but I was a kid when it happened, so whatever.
When I was about 9 years old or so, one of my friends and I were out in the yard in the evening. I was looking the other way when my friend suddenly got really scared and said that a guy appeared out of nowhere in my neighbor's driveway, snarled, and then vanished. He described the man to me, and I thought he was crazy. Later that night, though, I looked out the window and saw a guy who exactly matched my friend's description walking down the street past my house. It was really late at night, too, at a time where no one ever goes out for a walk. My friend and I didn't play outside for months after that.
kneel23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:12:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Daddy? I hope mommy and grandmom/grandpop die so I can live with you forever
This is what my parents told me. When I was about 2 or 3 my parents noticed that my eyes would roll up into my head randomly. They took my to the doctor but nothing was wrong with me. A couple days later I stop doing it. We went on a trip to my grandmother's condo in Florida. Once we got there I started doing it again and my parents were really creeped out. One night my dad walks into the living room where I had been playing with my toys and I was just sitting there alone with my eyes rolled up in my head making a noise with my throat similar to the kid from The Grudge. He says hes never been more scared from a child before in his life.
I'm not a parent, but one day I was watching my niece of about 4 years in her mother's home. It was just us, and we were looking at old family pictures. We came across one of my deceased grandma, and as she stared at it, she says, plainly and simply, "Hey, that's your grandma! She's funny."
There was no way in hell she knew who the lady in the picture was. I knew for a fact she had never seen a picture of her before.
PyloUK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was a tiddler, about three, we were taking him to my dad's house. As we were pulling into the street he seemed to realize he was somewhere familiar so I asked "Where are we?" and he smiled and said "Trish's house!"
My mum's name was Patricia but the only person who called her Trish was my dad as a pet name and as far as I know he hadn't spoken the name since she died ten years before my son was born...
One day, we were going on a family outing (I was 4, she was 6)so we went outside and were about go down the cement stairs leading to our driveway, I had my hands in my pockets, because it was cold outside. My sister pushed me down the cement stairs, and when questioned about it later, she simply said "I don't want her in the family any more." but then again... when I ask her now, she says the same thing. -.-
A friend of mine always felt that she would have two children. She also often had a dream of encountering two opossums hanging upside down. When her daughter was two/three she randomly said one day, "Mommy, I am the opossum from your dream."
My parents told me that one day they walked into the living room to see my 4-year old brother sitting on the ground in front of the tv, holding his foot and punching it. When asked why he was doing it, he slowly turned his head towards them to reveal an creepy angry face and said, "Because they're LYING to me." He then turned back to his foot slowly and continued assaulting his poor foot.
My son (3): "Daddy, I'm dead!" (playing "Get the Invisible Bad Guys")
Me: "I guess I have to dig a hole out back."
Him: "Noooo...you have to dig a hole out front!"
WTF? My three-year-old can counteract my own gallows humor?
I'm calling cool on it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:24:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me when I was young, around 7 years old, I'd hear noises in my room and that I would try and communicate with them. One time she heard me say "If you're a demon, don't hurt me. Let's be friends. But please don't scare me." and I went back to sleep.
my little brother used to have an imaginary friend he called "bobby." we all thought it was funny. one afternoon, i had to babysit him and we were on the top floor of my dad's creepy house. my brother was around 3 years old if i remember right. i was on the computer and he looks at me and asks, "who's that man standing behind you?" and i said "w..what?" and he repeated the question and pointed behind the computer chair i was sitting in. i said time to go downstairs and play something outside.
My ex left me and I was fired within a 24 hour period. She left me the debt, the house, the kids, and away she went. I thought the kids were taking it well, until I uploaded pictures from the digital camera onto our desktop.
My 6 year old daughter took a doll, one of those battery operated real appearance, cries for food and a diaper change dolls, took this doll mom had got her, and painted and magic marker'd bruises and cuts and wounds all over it...she then took this (incredibly realistically looking mutilated) doll and took photos of it...under water in the bathtub...behind the tire of a car...with her foot on the doll's throat...and then, finally, in the trashcan...
I flipped my shit...regained composure, and asked her what the photos were about...she said, "I was angry." I tucked her in to bed that night, and noticed the family photo was missing from her dresser...found that weeks later while cleaning her room...it was her, mom, and me...but my face had been scratched out...
Story from when I was a child. I lived in Bulgaria at the time. My grandparents came to visit from Russia. I couldn't understand what they were saying (they did't speak bulgarian), so I constantly threatened them "speak bulgarian or I will shoot you with my dad's pistol" This was when I was 4 ish.
My younger sister had a pretty rough bout of strep when she was around 5, I was 9. She was running a high fever, and my mom was tending to her to make sure the fever didn't get higher, and if it did, we would go to the hospital.
It was just the three of us in the house, and my mom called me in to keep the washcloth on my sister's head while my mom made some dinner. So I sit there, and suddenly my sister rolls her head towards me, opens her eyes, then uses her hand to open one of her eyes really wide, and says "You gotta keep your eeeyyyeee open."
Obviously, I was utterly freaked out and ran to my mom crying. And of course, my sister has no recollection of it. To this day, it's still the creepiest thing that has ever happened to me.
Not my kid, but a child who I had as a camper when I worked at a summer camp. This kid was a five year old boy who the senior staff of the camp knew had some issues, so they stuck me, the 18 year old counselor, as his personal counselor to make sure he was okay.
Keep in mind that this is not a special needs camp, but a normal camp, where parents for some reason think it is okay to send their special needs kids. At first I didn't mind, but as the summer went on it became more and more apparent that this kid had serious issues. He, on numerous occasions, threatened to kill me and the rest of his family, and often described how he would do it. Most of the methods were outlandish, one that i remember in particular was that he would shoot us all with cannons.
He also was very abusive to the other children; He pushed them into walls and hit them, but the worst incident was one day, he and some other kids were playing with play-doh, and he took one of those plastic knives that are used to shape the play-doh and started trying to saw off another five year-old's head.
TL;DR - 5 year old kid describes how he will kill me and his family, attempts to decapitate another camper.
Laius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:30:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about three my mom and aunt were talking on the couch and I was sitting on the floor watching t.v. I am told I turned to them and said, "George is dead." My mom asked me who George was and I told her he was my dad. It turns out he wasn't dead, but he was my dad and I didn't meet him until I was 17.
She claims to have never talked about George in front of me.
With all the children who claim they see people when they should be sleeping, it may be lucid sleeping
It doesnt explain much of how they know certain things about dead family though, but its a hunch.
Nephew's friend who is a little 7 year old girl says to me one day at a birthday party "I want a puppy. A dead one." she says other creepy things but this stands out.
My mom likes to tell the story of the two of us leaving a hospital. While walking through the parking lot I say to her "I wonder what a human heart tastes like."
For some reason I remember this happening even though I couldn't have been older than 5. The thought was inspired by a bronze sculpture in front of the elevators of a surgeon's hand holding a heart.
When one of my daughters was about 8 years old she wanted to play basket ball in the driveway. She was sitting in the family station wagon and said "Hey what's that thing dad does so he can push the car out of the way" (that would be shifting to neutral). Fortunately she didn't have the keys.
I've noticed a lot of stories in this thread that have to do with children mentioning times when they were old. I can vividly remember countless times when my sister was younger that she used to tell us stories of "back when she was older." This line eventually grew to be a running joke among members of my family, however after reading this thread those memories immensely become pretty creepy. I can't recall any of the stories or even discern any of them being memorable, but the thought that my parents might have been having us just laugh off the creepiness makes it almost more terrifying. After all, what is more terrifying than the unknown?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:34:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Brother said this to my mom during winter (he's currently 5 but in this story he's 3) They were hiking in the woods in our backyard when my brother laid down and made a snow angel. He's never done this before or talked about it. See, my mom's mother died before I or he was born, but I've seen pictures of her. She had my moms blonde hair and the two looked very alike. My mom asks him where he learned it. He replies "The other mom showed me how when I was sleeping, she had yellow hair like you."
TL;DR My dead grandma supposedly teaches my brother how to make a snow angel in his dreams
Raakuth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I constantly get told this story by my parents so I thought I'd share it here.
When I was 5 I used to have very vivid nightmares and I used to not be able to sleep for another 2 or 3 hours after waking up because practically everything in the room began to scare me (everything from my toys to the colour of the carpet). One night I was awoke after having one of these nightmares and my parents were woken up by me crying. By the time my parents had got out of their room they saw me at the top of the stairs (no longer crying) looking down towards the front door, they asked me what I was looking at and I said "The lady at the door". My parents then opened the door and began to look around for this 'lady'. They didn't find anything and when they returned I had fell asleep at the top of the stairs. I never had another one of those vivid nightmares again after that night for some reason.
While at the dinner table with our two kids (then 4 and 2) there was a noise outside. Trying to get them riled up a bit my husband asks, "What was that??" My daughter (4) says, "It's just a ghost." I asked her what ghost and she tells me, "The one from my room. The little boy."
Ummm, huh? I was a bit freaked to tuck her in after that! We lived in a house built in the 20s at the time and later found out at least one person died there, so maybe there was something to it. ;)
One morning my niece was riding her tricycle in circles in the living room (already a little creepy) and told me the monster in her closet was at work and, "Be back soooon." Still creeps me out thinking about it. Something about her tone when she said soon.
One day I explained the rain to my 2 year old daughter. The next night she stood by her window saying "They're coming! DADDY! They're coming!!" I would ask her who and just get the reply of "I don't know". I asked her where they were coming from and got "The sky." Holy mother of god, pack your things we're leaving!!
I eventually figured out she was talking about the rain. Just took a while to realize it. That went on for most of the night until it did start to actually rain. Now I think she can predict the weather.
udntsay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm an aunt not a mother BUT there was one time I was taking a shower and my mom was taking care of my nephew. Hes only 3. But he walks into the bathroom and says he has to use the bathroom, but then he starts trying to see me in the shower. I tell him to stop and he starts getting determined. I yell for my mom and I hear him try to lie about it... and then he proceeds to say that he see's mommy and daddy in the shower together all the time.... wtf...
iahaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousins 3-4 year old told her "that things will be different when your dead". Total straight face and everything. She's an angel now but that child was the devil for a few years
Freaky creepy TLDR: So what does an erection feel like ?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was 3 he was taking a nap in his room. I work from home and while I was working he creeped into my office with me hearing him. My back was to the door. I turn around just in time to see him raise his plastic baseball bat in a swinging motion getting ready to hit me. I grabbed the bat swatted him with it and asked what he was doing. He blinked a few times and turned around and walked away. I didn't sleep very well the next couple of nights. Kids are creepy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:41:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Edit: without me hearing him.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:52:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's just fucked up, if he actually was meaning to hurt you, it could be copying something he saw on TV though.
when i was maybe around 7 - 9 years old, i remember i told my mother once, "maybe i'm so afraid of needles because in a previous life i was a heroin addict." and then i ended up using pain killers. and now I've been clean a little over a week.
I work at a daycare, and there is a four year old boy who was playing with a toy saw. Later, I heard one of the girls yelling he's trying to get my baby (doll) and I see him trying to take it from her. I go over and ask him why he wants the baby and he says so he can kill it. My only explanation is that at the age of 4 this boy has played many video games involving killing and has seen movies such as Chuckie and other R rated movies and they have absolutely no effect on him, meaning they don't even scare him.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:26:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a dude I'll back this one up.
I wasn't allowed to play violent video games or watch violent movies (not even Power Rangers) and I still said stuff like this with my friends. A co-worker of mine remarked a few days ago that she's amazed at how little boys just seem to obsessed with guns and such.
utunga ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:46:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My son once said "Did I die?" with his eyes welling up with tears. It was actually quite cute but a bit heart wrenching to see his face - he was truly worried it might be true.
Full context:
Me: You know your great grandfather, was a real calligrapher, he had beautiful writing..
N (four): Do you mean B?
Me: You too, N, B's Great Granddad is also your Great Grandad
B (six): He's dead now
N: Did I die? (eye's welling up with tears)
.. Such a face to see!
When I was a kid I was friends with this big family of Christian people down the street. Think like the Duggars on TV, all the girls only wore skirts and never cut their hair, mom and dad always having more kids etc. One of the girls had a birthday party so my mom took me to the toy dept. and let me pick out a gift. I picked out this mystery stuffed animal thing, it was kinda like a bear but not quite. It was freaking sweet each of its hand and feet did different things (One was a mirror, one played a song, etc) and the tail was a hairbrush. I gave it to her at the party and she seemed to like it. A couple days later the mom came down to our house with her daughters (which was weird they NEVER LEFT THEIR YARD) and asked to see my mom. They brought back the toy because it was a demon. It would dance around Vicky (the girl i gave it to) at night and speak in tongues and draw symbols in the air. It also tried to rip out her hair with the tail. My mom let me keep it and I was happy because I thought it was cool as hell but I started having weird nightmares about it, Im it was because I heard what they said but when I was a kid, I knew it was a demon like they said and I got acid out of the garage and melted that sucker in the backyard on top of a big rock.
Sama3l ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:53:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually remember when I was 5-6I had recurring, vivid dreams of being enslaved. Some really creepy, dark shit involving forced labor, whips, and beatings. Really frightening. I also remember them getting to the point that I thought they could have been memories and not dreams as they were so strong.
One morning before breakfast when my parents were up I asked if we had ever been enslaved or beaten(and probably mentioned the recurring dreams). I don't remember their answer or making a big deal out of it but now that I think if it, I should probably ask them if they remember this, as I imagine it would sound pretty creepy if your 5 yr old son asks you if he's been beaten/enslaved before.
Of course, while creepy. I did not mention that, among other things, they involved Team Rocked so I doubt it was a past life or anything. Just strange in hindsight.
when my mom was pregnant with me, but before she knew, my older brother, 3, told her,
him-"I'm going to have a little brother"
mom-"no you're not, why do you say that?"
him- "yes I am, grandpa told me"
our grandfather died a month before my brother was born
The creepiest part of this story is that your Grandfather liked to watch his daughter/son have sex.
Arluza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:55:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here is mine. I was probably 3 or 4. I have never before or since this story took place sleepwalked. I had a dream than a man on fire was at the foot of my bed. He did not seem to notice me until I looked into his hollow eyes. He then turned into a tornado and chased me through my house. I tried to wake my parents, but instead of the smart thing where I go to the bedroom, I go into the bathroom in the hallway. It loses sight of me until I taunt it. I run from the bathroom, into the living room, and hide behind the couch. I barely fit behind there. He sees me, and I run into the dining room, where a cardboard cutout of my mom was sitting, feeding a bottle to my sister. I tried to make her do something, but she didn't respond (Cardboard.) I then hid between two couches, and watch Cardboard mom go flying away in the tornado. I woke up between those couches. And when I went back to my room, there was a burned picture of a tornado, which I couldn't have had because we didn't have any weather photos EVER.
Arluza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think so. This event happened when I was 3 or 4, and I'm 20 now. I think I am probably mis-remembering parts. I ended up finding a picture of the burning man online a year back. It was an enemy in the TMNT game for the NES. I never could beat that fire looking man.
I thought of another one. My Mum told me that when I was little, like 3 or 4, I would to cry for ages, really intensely, and when she asked me what was wrong I'd tell her I wanted to go and be with Aunty Katrina. This happened several times. Katrina was Mum's step-sister who died in a car crash at 16. I wasn't born until around 7 years after it happened.
From when I was 3 to when I was 7 my parents told me that a man named Herman was waiting outside for me to assure that I didn't leave the house at any time without them. They said that he wouldn't be there if they were there, and ended up having a bit of fun with me. The whole time I had believed the whole thing. I saw Herman many times and thought I had a conversation with him outside of the window a few times. When I was 6, on Christmas morning a family friend (that I had never met) who had a striking resemblance to Herman came in the open front door and I was so terrified. I ran into my parents' room and shouted "Herman's here! He's going to kill me!" They tried to calm me down and tell me that he wasn't real, but their words didn't matter to my entirely frightened childish mind. I told them that I had talked to Herman a bunch of times and that he told me that he was going to kill me. They realized that they had really fucked with me and slowly started getting me therapy and removing the character of Herman from my head.
I ended up repressing those memories until my parents brought it up in a joking manner at christmas last year. I was 18 and I was more terrified for my life after remembering Herman than I was when looking down the barrel of a loaded gun while being targeted by gang members for a drive-by. Thankfully they backed out before shooting.
TL:DR - My parents made a character up named Herman, and his purpose in their eyes was to make sure that I didn't leave the house. They told me Herman was coming for me to scare me from leaving. One christmas I saw a guy that looked like him and freaked them out by revealing the many conversations that I had with the entirely fictional Herman. I repressed these memories until my parents brought it up last year at christmas. I was more scared for my life than I had ever been when the memories came back, beating out almost being shot in a drive-by.
I use to have raging night terrors when I was about 8-10. One night I woke up, went to the garage, got a hammer, and made my way out the front door. I was walking to the local park that myself and my mom lived next to at the time. Luckily our house had an alarm that activated after I opened the front door. I made it out to our driveway in just my boxers and a hammer before my mom came running out to stop me. She asked "Honey what are you doing?!", and I replied "They have me trapped in a cage at the park, I have to go free myself." She pulled me back inside before I could make my valiant rescue attempt. Night terrors are horrible experiences at the time, but they make hilarious/disturbing stories to tell years later!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:01:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:03:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting two of my younger cousins, I'm the oldest grandson by a considerable margin on either side of my family. I was babysitting a boy of about 9, and a girl of about 5. The girl wanted permission to eat a bunch of raw cookie dough, I told her no and she promptly replied "Well, I'm going to go kill myself then." I scolded her, and said I didn't want to hear her talk like that ever again. I asked her brother if she ever talked like that before, shortly thereafter. He said "Everyone talks like that."
I wanted to read something before getting some sleep so i came here.
Fucked up my plans.
Not going to bed anytime soon now...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:04:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but when I was around ten my friend's 5 year old sister came up behind me while we were playing video games and started humping my neck violently.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I wouldn't say this is "creepy" but it's slightly shocking coming from the mouth of a 5 year old: My son has an issue with aggression. He gets upset very easily. The therapist taught him breathing techniques to try and keep him calm when he gets mad. One of them was called "gentle puppy breaths." One day he was really ticked off about something (who knows what) and I was telling him that he needed to chill out and to remember his "gentle puppy breaths." He then yells @ me "FUCK THAT GENTLE PUPPY!!!" I had to excuse myself for a moment cause I was Lol'ing so hard. I told his therapist about it... she didnt seem to find it as amusing as I did. (FYI: he's 8 now. Still a brat but a lot better when it comes to aggression, lol)
Edit: Wow, now that I actually read the comments in this thread, I realize that this is NOTHING compared to some of ya'll fucked up stories! -shudders- Disregard this, lol
After accidently biting my lip, I walked up to my mom and told her "I like the taste of blood" as my smile revealed smears of blood in my mouth.
I was fond of nibbling on metal, so the flavor made me smile at the time.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:13:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I constantly ask my youngest where he left his time machine, one day he just came up to me and said, "they came back and took it, we're not allowed to use it anymore".
My daughter was 3 and she carried her baby doll upstairs to her room. Just before I go to check on her, a box with something in it comes flying down the stairs and lands at my feet. As I look up, she's standing there with this completely serious look and simply states "Baby was bad, Momma..I had to punish her. " She then calmly turns around and walks away. Same child busted her older brother in the face with a big metal dump truck "cuz he looked at me funny. "
She's 14 now, in a gifted school and speaks 3 languages. You would never think it was the same child, although I worry for anyone who pisses her off when she grows up.
When my son was having a night terror, he looked me dead in the eye and said "THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU." Right after that, he woke up. Nearly shit myself.
When I was 5 I was dissing in my dads truck at night and I saw a man walking on the side of the road. Me:daddy whos that? Dad: idk me: oh....run him over
When I was 12 years old, my little sister was 5 years old. One night, she wanted to sleep on our downstairs couch. Around 3am, I awoke to her screaming. So I went and picked her up, and proceeded to take her upstairs to mom and dad's room. On our way up the first five stairs she was sobbing. But once we got on the landing by the front door and turned to go upstairs, she freaked. She pointed at the top of the stairs and screamed. Then she buried her head in my chest, crying vehemently. I got scared. But I went up, not seeing anybody, whispering "hello? anybody there?" I got to the top and turned down the hallway, when she looked up over my shoulder, and screamed again, saying "He's coming!" I quickly turned her over to mom and dad. I didnt see anything...but using the stairs at night time was never the same for me.
About 10 years ago, my kid was about 4 and playing Ocarina of Time and from the living room we hear "Mom! The Deku Tree wants me to come in his mouth!"
His mother and I just looked at each other and let it pass without comment. One of the few times we were both speechless.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:22:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I apparently really freaked my brother out once when I was about 9 years old. My brother came home from work around midnight (he was 16, working closing shift at a fast food joint). I had fallen asleep on the living room floor watching a movie, and he sat in the chair and started flipping through the channels. A few minutes later, I pushed myself up on my hands, looked him in the eye, and said, "Be afraid. Be very afraid." Then he says I started laughing and I just slumped back to the floor and continued to sleep.
I should note that I have been a sleep talker and walker my entire life. Even now, at 31, I often get out of bed in the middle of the night, stand over my fiancee, and point at him, saying repeatedly, "Spiderspiderspiderspiderspider."
Not a parent, but I was at my friend's house with her then almost 2 year old sister asleep upstairs in the cot. We were getting something to eat and we just heard the most blood-curdling scream you could imagine coming from upstairs followed by a thump. Thinking she's tried to get out of the cot and fallen, we ran upstairs to find her sat in the cot staring up at the wall, bawling her absolute eyes out. We tried to take her out but she began to kick and flail and kept pointing up at the wall and burrowing her head in her hands. Then she suddenly went completely silent. No crying, no screaming, no shouting. But still staring at the same fucking wall for about 5 minutes like she was hypnotised. We quickly phoned my friends mum and told her about it, she said it keeps happening from time to time but this was the first time it's ever happened during the day. I'm still scared to go anywhere near the girl.
When I was around 5 I saw my grandfather at the foot of my bed one night. We talked and the next morning I told my mom that he had visited me. Later that day we got a call saying he had died...
When I was a child and I was taken to my great grandmother's house for the first time, I looked at her and called her "Bucka". No one had ever called her that besides her father. No one even knew he had called her that. I was only around three years old. I wasn't told this story until I was much older. I wonder how I knew that.
This is creepy and cute at the same time. My son has cortical blindness (Also known as CVI) and when he was very young had virtually no vision at all. We could have juggled fire batons in front of him and he'd not see it. When he was in his swing he would look directly AT something near the ceiling and CRACK THE FUCK UP. And it was always up near the ceiling and it was always him looking intently. Normally when we held him his eyes were kind of unfocused, but not when he was looking at whatever this was. We'd even lean over him and wave our hands and nothing, he would still keep looking up at whatever on the ceiling and laugh his fool head off.
We figured whatever it was was friendly and liked to make babies laugh. Good thing it didn't want to murder us.
MrJango ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:28:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Hello friends. I have blood on me." - My 4 year old daughter
I know this thread is about how parents creepiest moments, but, this is something that I want to share.
It was about 3am. My father was working and it was just me and my mother (in separate ends of the house). In my dream, something was screaming, but, while dozing in and out, I still heard screaming. When my brain registered this as my mother screaming, my brain started thinking that my poor mother was getting raped. We didn't have any guns, so, I got the closest thing to it. A lysol can, and a metal hanger.
I bang on the door, freak out my mother, then open up the door thinking "I'm going to rape this guy with a hanger while they can't see cuz of lysol in their eyes, then kill the fucker, that's fucking with my mother."
While thinking that, she wakes up, and starts cracking up. I guess I must have looked really weird having a death grip on a hanger with lysol on the other hand, all the while, being in my underwear.
Apparently, my family is stricken with whatever "disease" that causes Night Terror's. I've freaked my wife out, and have also had to wake up my brother two or three times in his life so far.
I thought of another creepy kid story. A few years ago before my fiance moved into the house with me, he had a dog that had gotten sick and died. This dog had been with him through a previous relationship with someone who had kids. Well, when the dog died he got a phone call from his ex the next day saying her son got up in the middle of the night talking to someone, and when she went to check on him he had moved over in his bed like there was someone else with him. In the morning she asked him about it and he said that J (the dog) had come to sleep with him.
They live half way across the country and had not been told about it yet. Her daughter also told her she had a dream that same night that J had come to play with her.
Got a pic from my 5 year old from school where he's showing me all the jedis he drew and he says, see all the blood everywhere? This because they forgot it in the movie! I need to find d this because it's mostly like a crazy person just drew circles with red crayon for 45 minutes
Is anyone else thinking, "Why the fuck do all these two year old children have such excellent communication skills?!?!?" It's creepin' me out.
Anyways, my sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia last year. She is 13. She had been having some severe breakdowns in random places like the mall and restaurants because she was positive people were staring at her and saying she was ugly and had a big head. One night, she came running out of her bedroom holding her ears and crying. When everyone went to see what was wrong, she kept trying to explain it but couldn't and she kept speaking louder and louder. Eventually she said "He keeps telling me to choke myself and..." and she turns around and yells at the end of the hallway "just leave me alone. Go away and leave me alone." She has been put on medication to stop voices/hallucinations/paranoia and such, but it was a rough few months.
tenkei ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:51:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Recently my 2 1/2 year old niece has started seeing and talking to the shadow people who live in her bedroom. She is unclear about how many there are, but she says there are two small ones who play with her and her twin brother (he says he sees them too, but doesn't talk as much as his sister) and at least 1 big one. Sometimes they scare her and her brother. My sister said the other day she heard my niece talking to herself in the hall way. It sounded like she was having a heated conversation with somebody, but she could not make out what she was saying until my niece yelled "NO! I want mommy to carry me!".
Playing Super Mario Brothers with my four-year-old brother. I die, and he cracks up laughing. I ask him why he's laughing, "I like it when you die. It's funny and it makes me touch my pee-pee".
I used to say really awful things to my dad. Like, "I hope they turn your penis inside out and make you a girl" and also, "I hope they take you to a deserted island, take off all your clothes, and let all the ants crawl in your nose". I was about three, and I don't know who "they" were, or why I wanted them to do stuff to my dad. He was always more lenient with me than my sisters.
I lived in a really old home growing up. You know the kind with the creaky floorboards and what not.
When I was 4-5 I woke up in the middle of the night and stood in the middle of the room. When my mom walked by she asked what I was doing. I said " I'm looking at a rope". After we moved out of that house I found out that before we lived there someone had hung themselves In my room. I was really glad I didn't live there any more.
My brother when we were having a family meal in a pub (I was 8 he was 6) he went to the toilet and took a long time in there and I remember my parents feeling a little cautious about the time it took him but soon later he came back he sat down and just said calmly like it was nothing, 'After thinking about it I think condoms are camels willies.' There were just silence and we never found out what he was doing in there and what made him wonder that.
FUZiON- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Look at me! Look at how large the monster inside of me has become!"
My former co-workers niece(7-9) said this during a walk: "That's a nice cat...... I wonder what would happen if I killed it."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:07:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Two kids (twin sisters) I was babysitting one night stared at me, completely still, and deadly silent for ten minutes while I was cooking for them. When I asked why, one of them calmly said, "a man told me that if I stare really hard at someone for a long time they burn."
When my nephew was smaller, he would always look to the corner of his room and say goodnight to 'Gamma Betty' before he went to sleep. 'Gamma Betty' is his great-grandmother on my side of the family who died nearly 15 years before he was born. He then one night told us that she watched him sleep from her rocking chair (which was now in the corner of his room), and described what she looked like and how she knitted, something she did in that same chair years ago. We were incredibly warmed and a little freaked out by the experience.
Kaytala ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:11:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not scary but still kind of inexplicable. My great grandmother was a semi famous artist in Canada and my parents have a few of her originals in their house. The one hanging in their bedroom is a lake scene and my brother and I when we were really little always used to tell our parents that our favourite part of the picture was the boat. Thing is, there is no boat in that picture. We both stopped saying it when we were about 7 years old. After awhile, my parents got genuinely curious so whenever a kid under about 7 years old came over (one of our friends or their friends kids or whatever) they would ask them what they saw in the painting. Every kid they've ever asked has said there was a boat in the picture even when no one has said anything about it. If my great grandmother were still alive, I'd totally ask her about that.
Kaytala ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
ummm I'll see if I can find one. I make no promises.
Edit: K so I looked online and couldn't find any (I didn't think there would be any pictures... sorry!). BUT! I shall ask my parents if they can email me a picture of it or something. If for whatever reason they cannot, you may need to wait until January and as long as I remember this, I will deliver.
Edit 2: BTW if you're interested, her name was Mildred Valley Thornton... Yes I realize I'm totally identifying myself here but wutevz
Shortly after my daughter's second birthday, we were at the table having breakfast. Out of nowhere she said, "Ken went home". I said, "you mean Grandpa Kent?" He had been at our home for her party. She said "no, Ken went home mama" I pointed to the obituary and picture of my brother Ken who had died 6 months ago and said, "this Ken?" and she said "yeah Mama, he went home". I about shit myself.
aderde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:18:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but when I was 2, I said my dad would die when I'm 18. He hasn't yet, but there's still 11 more months until I'm 19. For once in my life, I really hope I'm not psychic.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:18:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks everyone, now am to scared to take a piss.
Kunzar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:18:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not a parent, but a sibling. When I was about 12 years old, my sister was just turning 3. I woke up to someone calling my name. I was home alone with my sister since my mother had work and couldn't get the day off due to the post office requiring her to work. Anyways, it sounded like a large man yelled my name. I woke up thinking "That was strange...". Went to the kitchen to pour some cereal and my sister is sitting there with a glass full of milk talking to herself. Not sure how she got the glass, or the milk, but she was motioning towards the door and asked "Can man get me more milk please?".
Edit: Another story that I forgot about until I read more of your stories. My stepdad's father died 10 years before my sister was born. My family took a trip down to North Carolina. While we were there we kept hearing my sister talking to someone in the other room (she could barely form a sentence at this age). We had assumed its just an imaginary friend and moved on. As we were leaving, in the car ride home, my sister tells her father "Grandpa says he was happy to see you were doing well, and he wishes he could have played in Kill Devil Hills with you like he used to when you were a kid". We were baffled, because no one told her what he looked like, or that he ever went here before. We pulled out a picture of Grandpa, and she pointed at him and said "thats him!". My stepdad broke into tears. :(
inkybod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:19:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to see a 'tree-man' in the corner of my room. He was always crouching upside down kinda like spiderman. My mum says that when I first mentioned him she asked me what he did and I replied 'He's just watching. Always watching'. Freaked her out.
I had pretty much forgot about him until my early teens when the LOTR films were released (no I never read the books) I about crapped myself at the site of my tree-man who, turns out, was an Ent.
I think it was some weird repeated dream, she thinks it's some guardian angel.
TL;DR the 'always watching' tree-man from my childhood was pictured perfectly in LOTR
nepidae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:19:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you my mummy?
timpij ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:23:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I lived in an old house in San Francisco that had been subdivided into multiple small, thin and long apartments. My 2 year old daughter's bedroom was towards the front. Several times I was awoken by her crying, a few times be her screaming in terror. When I would ask her why, she would always tell me the same answer: "That ghost keeps coming into my room and telling me scary stories to make me cry." When I would ask her what kind of stories, she would look away and stop talking to me.
Kids are great trolls, I remember when I was a kid I told my parents about a mouse the would come to me in the middle of the night and talk to me. I don't know how or why I made it up but I think after the first reaction of my parents I kept it going because it was fun to see their reactions.
I was watching my 3 year old niece. We were at the dining room table... She was coloring and I was creating a character for a table top game. She was talking to me... And then looked over my shoulder, and said "Will you please stop bleeding like that?" " and then went back to coloring.
(I'm the kid in the story - my parents remind me of it, but I can't remember it happening, just that they knew it did)
My brother and I are twins, and when we were younger - about 4 to 6 years old, my mom would leave the door open to the bathroom when we were in there taking a bath.
Nearly every time we were done with the bath, we would tell our parents that we saw Indians walking back and forth down our hallway. We did said it all the time to them.
Eventually, they started looking into the house that we lived in. Turned out, it (and a few others) were built on an Indian mound... No one knew about it until they researched it from what we said.
Yesterday my two year old daughter: "I have baby boobies. Daddy, I have baby boobies!"
Me: "I flatly refuse to discuss your breasts for another 10 years".
Last year my 2 year old fell out of our second story window and nearly died. The first night we brought him home from the hospital I put him in bed with me. He pointed up to a corner of the ceiling and said "angel". We are not religious and have never told him about angels.
xeridoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:33:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but no used to babysit my cousin. When she was about 2, I was babysitting her so my aunt an uncle could have a date night. My cousin had never said a word before. After putting her to bed, I go downstairs. Two minutes later, she stats crying so I go back up to her room to check on her. As soon as I turn on the light, she stops crying, looks at me and says, "They're here for you." I asked her who she meant, and she pointed to the corner across from her crib. It was pretty freaking creepy, and needless to say, I never babysat her again.
rach92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:36:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Since my mother doesn't have a reddit account I'll tell this one for her. When I was first learning to talk I couldn't quite say "fresh air". So everyday when we were supposed to go for a walk I'd ask to go out for some "fresh ears". To anyone but my own mother I'm sure it was terrifying.
My family has a weird history of kids seeing my mother's mom who passed away from breast cancer. It started with me. When I was around 3 or 4 I was with my mom walking to my bedroom and I just stopped and stared. My mom asked what was wrong and I said "whose that?". My mother looked but didn't see anything. She didn't think much of it until she was showing me a family album. I pointed to a picture of just her mother and said "oh that's your mommy." Apparently I already knew who my grandma was even though she died years before I was born.
This happened again with my little cousin. He was in his room by himself laughing. His mom walked in and asked what he was doing and he said "Grandma is tickling me". She asked if it was his dad's mother (who was still alive) and he said "no, the other grandma". My aunt said she never told him about her mother because he was too young.
Most recently my youngest cousin has had similar experiences. He knew my grandma when someone showed him a picture and has said he played with her.
We were all around the same age but were living in different states. I am the only female to experience it. Shit is cray.
When I was a senior in high schoo I was lying in bed asleep. I awake to find my sister standing next to my bed (my sister is 2 years younger than I am) her hands are behind her back. I tell her to go back to bed. (Her bedroom is right next to mine and the kitchen is right across from our bedroom) she says ok and I watch her walk into the kitchen over where the knives are kept I hear the clank as if she just put a knife back in the drawer and see her walk back into her room. Freaked me the fuck out. I didnt sleep so well the next few nights.
Yillpv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:48:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was once swinging slowly in a park and a girl, probably 7 years old came up to me and used some paper optical illusion to tell me about Jesus. She said that things aren't always how they appear. Freaking creepy.
When I was eight years old I went on camp. I'm told that during the middle of the night I started repeating over and over "Fuck off you wanker" for a solid 15 minutes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:58:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Father told me that when I was around 4-5 years of age, He woke up on the couch to see me walking toward him with a child sized rocking chair above my head chanting "Maya the Bee" "Maya the Bee"...odd.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time my friends little sister came up to me, gave me a hug and whispered: "I'm going to kill both of us." Haha...children say the darnedest things huh? looks around nervously
Around six years of age and famil. friends asked how my father was, I said he was stressed about the new sluts in the car. Thankfully they figured out I'd confused struts with sluts, rather than assuming he was a modern day jack the ripper.
Growing up, my best friend had spine cancer that resulted in her hair loss and being unable to walk. One night(I was about 7), I dreamed that we were back in our kindergarten class together making crafts. In my dream, she could walk again and had grown back all her hair. She told me that she was better now and she didn't hurt anymore.
The next day, I asked my mom if I could go see my best friend(she lived across the street). My mom started crying and told me that she had passed away that night and I immediately started crying and told her about my dream. I am 23 now and I still remember my dream and my friend vividly.
Do you think that it was your friend who came to visit you and let you know she was ok? I had a similar experience. My father's friend had died and I guess it was a few days after but I had a dream and my father's friend came to tell me that my father loved me very much. I guess at the time I wasn't really talking to my dad or whatever or was experiencing some problems with him. But that freaked me out. I mean never did have another dream like that again. Weird.
I absolutely think that was her way of telling me she was okay! I ended up telling her mom about my dream and she had me retell that story at the funeral. So I guess it ended up being a mass message of sorts...
When I was between the ages of 4 and 7 I lived in a house that was attached to a small family doctor office and used to serve as a morgue where thy prepped bodies for funerals. My mom says that I used to have an imaginary friend named Kevin (the creepiest ghost name ever) and we would talk and play knee hockey together. My mom, sister, and stepdad all have told me that I said that Kevin told me he killed his parents with a shotgun when he was a kid. I never remember him though.
Fyrus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:09:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Marking this thread as further reasons for why not to have children.
Also, why do all your kids see ghosts? The fuck is wrong with you kids.
somebob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:10:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5 year old son recently stated that he was going to "fart into the cat's butt until it blew up" and smiled and skipped away, cramming his face with cheeto's.
I was speechless.
I was babysitting my currently 6 year old cousin about a year ago and I had put his little sister to bed and about a half hour after I heard her talking which she couldn't do at the time. I told Seth (6 y/o) to be quiet because I heard noises from Emily's room and he said "Don't worry, she's just talking to the ghosts."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:20:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 4 , my step dad and I were out on the porch, I looked up at the stars and said "that ones name is angel, she's coming tonight.
I also told my mom that the # seven was a terrible person and she shouldnt talk to it.
phridoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:47 on August 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well in fairness, 7 ate 9 so yeah, 7 does have a questionable character
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:16 on August 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha what a way to brighten up my blue day! I've learned since then that I have synesthesia!
I don't have kids, and I'm too young to have them, anyway, but when I lived on Westwood Avenue, I would always see a dark shape that looked like the guy on the neighborhood watch signs.
He would wander around in my room and mess with my toy cars. I asked him to stop, and he did.
Occasionally, I would see him when I was eating at dinner, and I asked my parents who he was. I think it freaked them out. I still have a dark shape that darts around my room.
I dated a guy who had a 3 year old daughter. The house he lived in was fairly new in a cookie cutter development, but it creeped me out for some reason. (The house was in a cul de sac and he had lived there for 6 years and had had 12 new next door neighbors during that time)
Anyway, he had a baby monitor in her room and most nights after we put her to bed we would hear her laughing and talking and playing for about an hour. One night she came downstairs crying and when we asked what was wrong she told us that the little girl upstairs wouldn't play with her.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had to read a few of these to make sure I wasn't crazy and that lots of kids experience weird shit.
My daughter was too young to talk, but was starting to kinda walk and toddle around the house. She learned to blow kisses without ever seeing someone do it (we didn't let her watch tv at that age, at all since we didn't, and we have no family or friends in the city we live in so my wife stayed home full-time with her). We would often catch her blowing kisses up towards a specific corner in her room above her bed.
As a fairly young baby she would also often look at wide open spaces in her room, and seem surprised, while you could see her eyes tracking things like she could see something.
Many instances of "what the fuck? can she read my mind?!" came up between 2 and 3 years old. Where late at night when I was putting her to bed and just thinking about my day at work/classes or things that happened to me, and she would break the silence by asking a question related to what I was thinking about. Things like "is _____ your friend?", and "why don't your friends where hats at school like you do?".
But I think a lot of it can be attributed to kids dreaming and having crazy imaginations.. sometimes it just lines up. My daughter has been seething mad at me or my wife for things that happened in her dreams that she couldn't distinguish from real life.
When I was a kid I remember having very vidid, realistic dreams of seeing people near my bed or floating above me at night. I remember explaining one time that I saw a clown and he just sat there reading a newspaper near my bed. The reason I remember that one is because when I told my mom she took it very seriously, as opposed to the others, and because they still talk about it 20 years later at family gatherings if they think I can't hear them.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day, my mother asked me if I wanted a little brother or sister. I told her that if I had a little sibling I'd throw it out the window.
My little sister was about two at the time this happened and I was thirteen. I lived an hour away at my mom's house and I would come up for the weekend sometimes. It was Sunday evening and I was getting ready to go back home, so I said goodbye to Taylor and started to walk out the door. Then, this adorable little girl with the most adorable voice, says "YOU WILL NOT GO. YOU MUST STAY HERE FOREVER." Now it is understandable that she missed me when I left, but the creepy part was that when she said this, it literally sounded like some sort of demon. I don't know how she made her voice so terrifying and monstrous. She had murder in her eyes...I just kinda stared at her. Then, once again in her adorable little two year old voice, she says "'Cause you gotta come play dollies with me!" and merrily skipped away. It reminded me of a fucking horror movie with those creepy demonic children in them.
Apparently once when I was younger I slept walked into our family's living room, started going through our utensils, and when my dad woke up and ask me what I was doing, I said "I'm getting ready" or something like that.
Well is happened to my older brother and explains my own reluctance.
When my brother was a baby ( around one-ish or so), during a visit to Mummum's house (it's an old house in Brooklyn NY) he Fell down the stairs and to this day my dad swears he never caught him, it was my grandmother on my moms side that did. What makes this freaky is that my moms mother has been dead since August/September of 1965. She broke neck falling down the same steps my brother went down. ( note mummum is my grandmothers older sister).
As a child, whenever I visited the same house, I would never go past the kitchen ( floor plan went like this: entry hall, living room, kitchen and I don't remember past that because I never went beyond the kitchen). I was literally afraid to go beyond it. The stairs that lead to her death were just beyond the kitchen.
The shitty thing about my grandmothers death is that only May, my mom lost her father due to open heart surgery. ( he was born with a heart disease but live a very normal and fairly active life). My mom was 7, her bros were 8 and 2 and sister 4.
When my son was about 5-6 weeks old, he was sleeping in the bed next to me, but started stirring, so I woke up. The lights were out, and he was cooing, so I just laid there listening. Baby sounds are sweet, and he hadn't made a lot of non-crying noises up to that point. All of a sudden, he goes "hellooooo" clear as day, in the Hannibal Lecter voice. I flipped my lamp on in a millisecond, not sure what I was expecting to see, but knowing I didn't want to be in the freaking dark anymore. He went right back to cooing, and never made that particular sound/word again.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:34:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Soaking up every damn word in here, been lurking for 4 hours.
Will not leave the room til sunlight breaches through the darkness
My daughter is six years old and she spends one week with me then the next week with her mother. We alternate back and forth each of us having a week. My daughter was talking to me the other day telling me what would make her like my house even more than she already does. So I ask her what it is and she tells me that she would love it if her half sister at her moms house could live here instead. I smile and tell her I don't think her mother would like that. Without even thinking she says, "Not if she is dead". I had to think for a minute what the right response to that was.
Not my child but my little cousin when she was about 3 or 4. One night my Aunt had put her to sleep and was downstairs watching television when she heard a loud banging coming down the stairs. She walked to the stairs to find some children's books she had bought for my cousin about Jesus. She looked at the top of the stairs and saw my cousin standing there with a very serious look on her face. My Aunt asked, "Honey, why did you throw your books about Jesus down here?" My cousin responded, "Because Jesus tells me to kill people." That story really freaked everyone in the family out.
I'm not a parent but I do have a quick story about my friends son.
One day my friend surprised him with a teddy bear, everything went normally for a while until my friend asked her son what the teddies name was... He replied-
"Frank The Cutter"
And still to this day, when you ask him his bears name, he'll answer with that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:06:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My six-year-old niece was playing with my brother one day and was saying she was going to get his nose and throw it away (like when adults pretend to have a kid's nose).
So he says "But then I wouldn't have a nose!"
and without a beat she says, "it's ok. We can get you a better one at Walmart."
This is not something my daughter said but what she did when she was 2. She woke from a nap and sat straight up and did the creepy head turn with a scary grin on her face like some possessed doll in a horror movie. I noped out of the bed.
T3v3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I stayed with my mom for awhile after my second was born, and it was the same house we had lived in when my sister died at 18. My daughter has always been a rather serious and quiet baby. So when I started putting her in the floor to start playing, she would stare at the corner of the living room and smile and babble. And it was always the same corner, like she was having her own private show.
My eldest, who is two, likes to talk in a lovely sounding demonic voice every now and then. It's hard to tell though if she's talking to her toys or if someone's in there with her when we put her to bed. I wouldn't be surprised though, the place we live in now was owned by a man who was very religious and died of colon cancer after living here for at least 14 years.
jawska ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sister is the closest thing I have to a kid (and she's 2 1/2 years younger than me.) This happened when she was about 13.
In the summers back when I was in high school, I would stay up all night watching Adult Swim's anime run. My sister would sleep on the couch and wait until I was done, and we'd go upstairs to our shared room together.
One night, I tried to wake her up from the couch and she was obviously still in sleep mode. She tried to lay back down on the arm chair and then a kitchen chair. Finally, I got her on the stairs and went up. She stopped halfway, turned around toward the dining room and said, angry, "Are you coming?"
"Sis, I'm here," I said.
"Not you," she said. "The little girl."
I grabbed her hand and whisked her right up the stairs. I sat her on the bed and demanded what she was talking about.
"The little girl!" she kept insisting. Finally, she added, "InuYasha's sister."
Just gotta question them a little more until you get some answers or you'll never sleep.
motdidr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, most things here can be explained by dreams/overactive imaginations, and kids especially have a tricky time discerning dreams from reality. It's not unusual, even adults can get "sleep paralysis" and have the most vivid, swear-it-was-real experiences.
Still creepy though :)
And I think a lot of people forget that even though young children might not be able to speak, or even be "totally aware", they still hear and pick up on things. A lot of stories involve kids knowing names or events they couldn't possibly have known about, but a lot of them may have been overheard or somehow absorbed.
Brains are crazy awesome, and the relatively unfiltered kids' brains can come up with some pretty freaky things.
Well I don't have a kid, but I figure I'll share the story of myself getting baptized, because I know that my parents were likely frightened/freaked out afterwards.
I don't remember most of the event itself honestly and I was around the age of 3, but once I got the "holy water" put on my head I had this burning pain there and freaked the hell out. I just kept yelling, "It burns!" until my dad finally took me to the bathroom to wash it off.
The priest (or whoever) told my parents it wasn't a big deal, but we always get a kick out of telling people about it and I get to say I'm like the anti-christ or something.
JoMa4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 2 year old son used to stare out the window of his room saying he saw a "broken boy". Creeped me and the wife out.
This thread is perfect for my family, this kind of shit happened to us on a constant basis when there were still little kids in the house. My mom and aunt often talk about this one time when my brother had done something so my mother used her common empty threat of "You're not going to get any presents for christmas." While crying under the table he suddenly stopped and plainly said, "Fine, Auntie (blank) will buy me presents." Said aunt had died several years before he had even been born and my brother hadn't even begun speaking in complete sentences yet.
On another occasion while next to said aunt's picture he began to say "(blank)'s alright," repeatedly.
And on top of that when I was younger, I was with my grandmother in the kitchen and began to point at nothing and repeatedly said "Pop pop (what we called my grandfather)." This was about year after he had died.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading 3/4 of these stories, the last remaining desire to have children has been scared straight out of me. I'm glad I'm not sleeping alone tonight.
I used to tell my parents that I was from another world. I am not sure where I was from but it scared my mom. To this day, I still have vivid memories from things that were more than likely impossible for me to know or remember, such as interstate signs that designate going into another state and the funeral of my dad's uncle who died a couple years before I was born. A couple of my nieces and nephews had similar experiences, we are all around the same age as well.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to wake up, see my parents standing over me, and when I'd ask what was wrong, they would vanish. I also had a recurring dream in which the next relative to die would be standing in our 'old house' (we still live in the same one but it's been extensively remodeled) having a party with all my dead relatives.
I was playing 'gypsy' using my snowglobe as a crystal ball and said bad things would happen the night before the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
I once got out of my crib (I was two) and distinctly remember watching all the cupboards open and all the stuff come floating out to orbit around me. My parents found me surrounded by all that stuff, which I could NOT have gotten out of the top cupboards.
I have frequent deja vu, to the point of telling people where they can find misplaced objects in their house that I've never been to before.
Dad has/had the ability to sense things from items that he would handle and focus on.
The lights at my grandma's house have flickered by themselves and in response to talking/asking questions since my grandpa died.
There's a child's ghost haunting my preschool. He used to haunt the church until he 'followed' the class I teach into our room. (We had water damage in the classroom and had to use the back hall of the church as a temporary classroom.) He moves things, we see him out of the corner of our eyes, doors open by themselves, it's ridiculous. We named him Phinn.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm actually the daughter of a reddit parent.
My dad said when I was about four he would yell for me and I would come out making a deranged face and say "Loren isn't here anymore" in a creepy voice.
late to the party, but im still going on the dance floor. My friends mom takes care of these two little kids that are about four years old and one day while she took them to the park, some guy went to my friends mom, pointed at the one we'll call Jeff and said he has a ghost with him that tells him not to cry from pain. Following day Jeff gets his neck caught on a closed window, somehow the window closed on his neck while my friends mom wasnt paying attention, and as she freed him from the window he was dead silent. This four year old did not cry from pain and this was about a day after the park incident. Following day after the window my friend goes to jeff because hes talking to a closet for some reason. "What are you doing jeff" Jeff replies with "shhhh, hes sleeping in there", my friend goes into the closet and theres nothing while Jeff is smiling
wiegie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While brushing our teeth one morning, our 5 year-old daughter came in and asked, "Which one of you is going to die first?" I was shocked into silence. My wife said, "Aw, honey, you don't have to worry about that. We'll be alive for a long time." Daughter then leaned against my wife and whispered, while looking sideways at me, "I think he's gonna die first." More shocked silence from my end.
My 5 year old Daughter and my Mother were having an argument (don't remember over what), then my daughter said to my Mother "Do you want me to set you on fire?" My Mom was shocked and said "Whaat?" My daughter just giggled and said, 'Just kidding!"
When I was little I always talked about how I had another family I lived with before I was born and every time my parents were mad they told me I could move out and go to my other family
well this is something i said to my parents...i was probably 4-5 i guess, and it was christmas eve of the earliest christmas i can remember. my bedroom was at the end of the hallway and my bed was directly in front of the door, so i could look all the way down the hall and see the christmas tree...i couldnt sleep because it was christmas eve and i saw "santa claus" delivering the presents...what i saw or told my parents i saw was the gift boxes floating through the living room...my parents told me later in life that they had a lot of weird "haunting" type stuff happen at that house and they moved out pretty fast...
I was watching my niece and nephew, and had to start up the grill. The knob on the gas canister wasn't turning, so I told them to wait inside, I had to go to the garage. I was going to get a hammer to see if I could loosen the valve.
That's when my nephew stated matter-of-fact I was 'Going to blow up'. I promptly ditched that plan.
When I was about 9 months old I would constantly be out of my crib in the middle of the night. My parents never figured out why. My mom was a preschool teacher for almost a decade and has had many creepy kids but there was one who told her they were going to lock her in a house and set it on fire to watch her burn.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why the FUCK did I read this thread before going to sleep!?
arfool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:09:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent but I'm friends with a girl who looks after kids for a living. Went to her house today and this really smiley otherwise lovely little girl kept telling me "she wanted to die" and even asked me to kill her.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:29:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when I was 3 years old, I fell asleep on the couch one night. Later that night my mom heard me crying quietly from down the hall. apparently crying quietly was unusual, as I was quite loud most of the time. When my mom asked me about it a few days later, I said "two men were talking to me".
I have no recollection of the event, although this isn't the only time I heard voices as a child.
I was playing with a hammer when my little cousin who is 4 asked me if I was going to kill people with it. Earlier that day he was throwing darts at the back of his brother's head.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:36:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My six year old said (during a discussion of what we would possibly buy them when they were older, specifically a go-kart) "You'll probably be dead by then - you're older than everyone (in the family) so you will die first"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:00:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old was staring at our dog on my lap and than asked all of sudden "have you ever seen a dead dog?"
bxturbo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:01:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL kids say the darnest things!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:55:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I asked my mom this, and apparently I was once at a McDonalds and I saw a black kid, and I asked my mom, why did the kid have dirt on his face....i guess I never saw a black person before lol.
My daughter screamed at me once. She screamed so hard she almost fainted. That is the only frightening thing she have done (but she's only 4 weeks old.)
When I was in junior kindergarten I was sleeping in my parents bed. My dad was sleeping in my room, I believe I had a fever or whatever. So deep into the night I wake my mom up and shes ready to get advil for me. Then I ask "Mom, why are so many kids here? And why is Paul looking at me like that?" Didn't realize how creepy this sounded till I went over it in my head
When my daughter was two the whole family was hit with a 24 hour flu. We were all literally puking the whole time. When it was over my daughter woke up and said, "Mommy, I had a bad dream. We were all puking and had to clean up the puke with more puke and it wouldn't stop. It was even on the walls." That was her longest coherent conversation at that point. I didn't know if I should have been proud or completely grossed out.
akatze ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:43:10 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriend's daughter, when she was about 3, was asking why our dog, Jack couldn't talk. I explained to her that dogs can't talk, and she said when Jack dies if he's been good he'll become a person and then he can talk to her.
On other occasions she's insisted that when Jack grows up he'll turn into a person as well.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:58 on July 13, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently I'm late to the party but here goes.
While not something he's said, my wife and I thought that my son had visitors when he was a baby. We liked to sit him on the couch when he was old enough to sit and he would look at the corner of the living room and then giggle wildly. He also liked to talk to the same corner but would rarely talk to my wife or I. Even now (he's a little over 2) he'll sit in his room at night sometimes and talk and giggle at nothing. It's a little creepy considering my parents told me that I used to have episodes with people in my room and night terrors.
Okay I don't have any kids but I really really want to share my stories:
-When I was three my grandpa passed away and at night and in my dreams he would show up and talk to me. We would just chat and he would always say "Tell your grandma I said I love her and miss her" and I would always pass on the messages. He never went to my cousin, who was four. Just me.
-A couple weeks ago my two year old nephew and I were laying in my bed one night. My lights were dim and the door was open. He was talking and out of nowhere he stares at the doorway and says "That man needs to go. That man needs to go." I looked at the doorway and of course no one or nothing was there. I tried asking him what man, what he looked like, and what he saw but he never spoke of it afterwards. He just went on to keep talking about the zoo.
I was trying to come up with a really special way to celebrate my wife and I's 20th anniversary. My 14-year old son, stopped eating his bowl of cereal, looked at me dead in the eyes and told me, "when you're nailing her from behind, pull her head back towards you and lean just next to her ear. Then slow down and right before you blow whisper "the spirit horse will come for you my friend" and then fall back, throw your legs in the air and give your own face a chowder bath."
Again, I am the kid in this, but when I was about 10 I could never bring myself to look out of windows at night (particularly into the garden) because of a recurring nightmare of a figure slowly approaching me from out of the pitch black. When I explained this to my parents, they couldn't muster their laughter, so I took my "vengeance". I placed a scarecrow at the end of the garden (so it was just visible from the house), then when my dad went to "shut up shop", I heard this yelp when it caught his eye.
Out of curiosity, were these kids talking about past lives all born normally? Mine did that and he was born by c-section. Someone sometime suggested that birth trauma usually wipes previous memories.
When I was about 3 years old we had just moved into a rancher in VA from Hawaii (my dad is military). The neighbors across the street told my mom that the original builder/ owner of the house shot himself in the master bedroom. For the first six or so months that we lived there, I would stand at the end of my bed screaming at the wall "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" and it would go on for a good thirty minutes. All sorts of creepy shit happened in that house. But that I remember clearly. The spirit eventually became less hostile towards my family and started helping us out. When someone was trying to break into our car the spirit woke my mom up and she turned on all the lights. The next morning there was indication someone was trying to pry our truck door open. Once my parents were having a small argument in the kitchen on opposite sides of the room. Next thing you know an Otis Spunk Meyer muffin flies across the kitchen out of the bread box and hits the wall. Needless to say they both stopped arguing and went about their chores. Creepy stuff.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:30:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, when I was six, I used to sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, screaming and crying. When my parents came over, to calm me down and ask what was wrong, I started rambling about how there was a perfect sphere somewhere.
To this day, no fucking idea ._.
Vacation in Greece to see my family there. My cousin's kid, 6 at the time I think, doesn't talk to me til the last day and then when I have to go to catch the plane home he throws something at me and yells in his funny Greek Engrish, "You do not leave! You do not go! If you go I KILL YOU! I KILL YOU!". this continues all the while hi dad drags him away. I was scared the entire flight home in case there was some kid about to snipe me or blow up the plane.
I don't have any children, but one evening when I was 17 I was in charge of babysitting these two little girls (aged 3 and 5) overnight. At about 9pm I put them to bed and went downstairs to watch TV on the couch, with the baby monitor on the table beside me. They were both quiet for a while, but then I started hearing the 3-year-old talking to someone over the monitor. She was talking in a hushed voice, saying "Please get out of my room! Leave me alone.." I assumed that her sister had come into her room and was bothering her, so I went upstairs to tell them to go to their own rooms and go to sleep. I peeked in the 5-year-old's door, but she was sound asleep. So then I stood outside the 3-year-old's door for a while listening and heard her continue talking to someone. I opened the door and she had a guilty look on her face. I asked her who she was talking to, but she wouldn't say anything. She just asked if I would cuddle with her because she was scared. So I laid on her bed with her and told her to close her eyes and try to go to sleep. She closed her eyes tight, and then started mumbling frantically. I couldn't understand what she was saying but she sounded very frightened. I laid with her in bed until she finally fell asleep, and then I went back downstairs. About an hour later I heard the little girl's voice over the monitor again and she distinctly spoke the words "Please don't hurt Amanda". (Yes, I am Amanda). I was very spooked the rest of the night...
Not my kid, but I've got two younger brothers who are 20+ years younger than me (my Dad remarried - started again after the trial run that was my Sister and I) so anyway, one day I was playing with one of my brothers (he was about 2ish at the time from memory) and he turns to me and says he doesn't want to sleep in his room anymore. I ask why and he says "because of the circle, I don't like it" (I may be filling in some of the gaps in his language here), I say "which circle do you mean?", he says "the one you can only see at night." So, I say, let's go to your room and you can show me where the circle is, so we go to his room and points to the middle of the floor near his bed and says it appears at night. Now there's nothing on the floor and only one light source in the room which is the main light - blackout curtains on the window and it's highly unlikely a gap would create anything circle-like. Freaked me the fuck out.
A couple of months later I was babysitting, putting them to bed and noticed this wind up Fisher-price projector thing on my younger brother's crib (which is in the same room) it's never worked, but the front of it (big plastic circle) was glowing in the dark - suddenly all made sense. Drew a big scary face on it and left them both to it.
tl:dr - Aliens
xcbro12 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:20:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time my kid was sitting in his high chair and he started talking about how he could save me all this money with Etrade.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:16:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Expected: cute but creepy things that a child would probably say
My parents told me this about when I was younger, about 4 or 5. They always stopped on our road trips to view historic landmarks. My dad was crazy nuts about anything to do Native American. They told me that on one stop I left their side and went and stood several yards away. They kept me in their sight and watched while I apparently was just staring up at the old trails above where we were. Finally my dad approached and before he could ask me anything, they said I turned to him and said "Do you see all those people? They look so sad." and pointed up at the trials where there was nothing. Because both my parents are gone now I can't be certain where exactly it was but the sight had something to do with the Trail of Tears.
Not a parent, but when we first moved into our house 11 years ago, my little brother was three. Shortly after moving in, he said that he had made four friends, named Lius (Lie-us), Dius (Die-us), Arack, and Ton (I honestly don't know if those are the proper spellings for those names). He claimed that Lius and Dius were "Black, like [his] black grandma". Our Grandmother is Native American. He started misbehaving afterwards; breaking glasses, disobeying, etc. Sounds normal, but he was telling us that his friends were telling him to misbehave. We then found out after a couple of years that our town was named after a Civil War general who slaughtered many native americans in the field that was behind our house, and when they were building a wal-mart there back in '06, they dug up a Native American burial ground. Also, one time he said that "The soldier is looking for his bullet". A couple of days later, when my dad and my brother were digging in our back yard to make a garden, they dug up a rifle bullet.
Not a parent but I have a lil nephew who's about 3 and one night I was watching her for her mom. When it was bed time she refused to go to bed and ran away screaming. I asked her what's wrong she said " The old lady in my closet doesn't like me" I asked her, " what lady" and she replied " the one who watches me sleep" I told her it was just a bad dream and she took my hand and said almost whispering "she's watching us right now..."
Freaked me the hell out.
lover0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:00:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My boyfriend's daughter looked up at me with the creepiest look, Kind of like the ring, and told me "My daddy's going to kill you" and just walked away
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:43:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:40:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
r/nosleep. Looks like I'm going to be using a nightlight.
I have a 2 year old Autistic son. The reason I feel the need to inform people of his Autism, is because he doesn't talk. He is the sweetest, happiest, most innocent I've seen to date. But, he has done something that makes me question my own sanity, among other things. What happened literally made my eyes water while I was telling my wife about what happened. Ok, maybe not literally, but almost.
Anywho, here it goes.
About 3 weeks ago I was up really late, as I always am, doing a combination of things like playing video games, getting some work done on my laptop and of course, lurking on reddit. I firmly believe my house is haunted, as does my wife and a few previous roommates we've had. It doesnt scare me most of the time, but there are moments that really bother me. I get horrible feelings from time to time and that is what is most bothersome, aside from shit being thrown around in front of your face. But, back to the story. I was up late, everyone in my house was asleep, as they all have to get up early for work. It is dead quiet other than the very low volume of the TV with the game music in the background. Out of nowhere, my son (who sleeps in his room, with child safety doorhandles, and a crib that I thought he was unable to get out of) walk down the hallway in the dark and just stare at me. I didnt hear his door open, and its a pretty loud door that was maybe 15 ft away from where I was sitting. As i start to take my laptop off of my lap to get up, he turns and runs down the hallway back towards his room. I get up and walk down the hallway and dont see him, and his door is closed. It weirded me out, but i didnt think too much of it because i was more concerned with getting him back to bed and figuring out how the fuck he got out in the first place. I open the door to his room, and see him sitting in the corner of his crib, facing the wall. I ALSO see what looks like a young child under the covers in his crib. It stopped me in my tracks. I was scared for him, terrified of what was under the blankets as he doesnt have any stuffed animals or anything that could even come close to creating that effect, and frantically trying to think of the right way to go about dealing with this situation. Out of nowhere, still facing the wall, he starts laughing hysterically. I immediately go to my room (literally right across the hall) and wake my wife. I bring her into the room where we find our son, under the covers, fast asleep. I wasnt gone for more than 15 seconds. Then I awoke from my slumber. :)
ade494 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome story. You had me
MMikula ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:20:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Am I the only one that thinks the whole idea of ghosts is bullshit and that there is a logical explanation for everything? If people who died became ghosts, taking into consideration the amount of people that have existed until now, ghosts would be constantly having an effect on all our lives if they could have any effect.
I have thought about this recently, and I have come to a small theory, it is most likely not correct, but it follows conservation of energy law. I feel like, even if a body is dormant, there is mental energy. If a body suddenly shuts down, what happens to the mental energy ("soul", if you like)? Is it still active and absorbs itself into the ether over time (ghosts)? Or is it like a hard drive, just imprints on the brain that need electrical stimulation to function? Thoughts anyone?
MMikula ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my neuroscience lecturers said outright at the start of the first lecture. 'There is no such thing as a 'soul' or anything like it, no higher mind floating around you'. It is all just your brain. When you die, your body stops taking in energy (food) and converting it for use across your body. The energy that was in your body when you die is transferred to the environment; heat, fluids etc. leave the body and take away energy.
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well it's not really a theory, since there isn't much evidence or reasoning behind it.
When you're dead, everything in your brain slows down until you can't think anymore. The kinetic energy from the particles in your brain is converted into heat, friction and other forms of energy. This already follows conservation of energy.
I realized it wasn't a theory after I posted it, and more of a thought.
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But a ghost believer could easily argue that ghosts only stick around for a finite period of time.
MMikula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:06:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Even so, the number of people dying every second would mean that even if the ghosts stuck around, for arguments sake, for a year, that's a pretty reasonably period of time, nice and whole. The massive number of people that died in one year would still illicit the same effect i.e. mass ghost activity.
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How about only some people turn into ghosts?
MMikula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If there was any set criteria for ghosts they would all present similar features yet there are massive discrepancies between reports; a third may say, for example, the ghost was translucent, a third full bodied and the remainder claim the ghost was invisible. Basically you have to believe that there's a finite period, mixed features and a certain reason for becoming a ghost. Furthermore, we are just animals so why aren't ghost cows and insects seen?
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I believed in ghosts I would argue that a lot of other people are wrong. I personally would only believe in invisible ghosts. And animals may very well be ghosts, but we just can't communicate with them.
MMikula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't really say supposed invisible human ghosts were communicating with us by any means which would be incapable for that of a chimp ghost for instance. Even a dog ghost would be capable of slamming doors (if that's what you mean by communication) or causing weird things to happen. Hell a horse ghost running through your house could probably muster up enough anger to make a vase fall off a shelf.
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But a chimp or horse wouldn't be in your house. They'd be in their natural environments.
MMikula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of houses have stables adjoined. Yet funnily enough, no horse ghosts. Also what about pets? No ghost fish are seen in tanks which would be very easy to spot if it were to occur e.g. a big tank that had 2 fish in, one dies, there aren't phantom bubbles appearing ever or anything like it.
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ghost fish don't need to breathe to survive. And what makes you so sure that there aren't any horse ghosts in stables?
MMikula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No but I'm sure ghost humans don't need to slam doors to survive in fact they apparently don't need to survive at all. As the 'proving' or not disproving of ghosts relies on constant nonsensical rebutalls when logic is given (such as this), I shall now return this and say that gost fish would get a kick out of producing phantom bubbles.
I shall provide logical explanations fr ghost horses when someone reports something so asinine.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:25:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To explain most of the "supernatural" sighting in these stories, young children have hard time comprehending what shadows are. When kids claim the see other people at night it is generally because they are seeing shadows dancing and don't know what else to call them.
I just submtted a question to AskReddit, and the question was, "what would you like to name your child?"
And in that question I felt so eager to have a child...
That confident feeling of getting a child ..... it's gone.
jwhh91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: People talking about their own creepy things said as a child, instead of parents typing about their own children.
My first born had a problem with killing cats when he was younger. We first found out when the police showed up at our door. When we asked him about it he just shrugged and said "They hate me too".
No, I think it is our fault really. We've rightfully taught him that domestic cats are a complete waste of life and only beloved by some humans because they are infected by Toxoplasmosis, a neuron-parasite which renders the victim affectionate to cats, yet severely hinders cognitive function. Thus, the dull-minded "cat person".
Um, so, even if you do happen to believe those weird ramblings about cats, you should probably still keep an eye on the little scamp. The Mcdonald Triad isn't accepted by everyone, but it's a compelling theory.
Then again, I love cats, so maybe I'm just extra creeped out by your spawn.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:06:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Warning- this story is depressing. I'm not a parent, but a few years ago I was smashing this girl who had a kid (technically a milf, props to me). This kid has, sadly, never met his father. This was a PURELY physical relationship. She was a stressed out working mom, I was a pre-med student. We were both stressed out, both needed a nut every so often. So one night we bone while her kid, 4 years old at the time, is at home. The next morning, we are woken up by her kid running in the room and jumping on the bed. He jumps on me, gives me a big hug, and say "daddy!"
I felt SO BAD for this kid. Happy ending (giggidy)- she is with someone now who willingly takes on the fatherly role.
I guess my daughter was about four. (sleepily, very sadly.) "My magic doesn't work here."
Now, there's a long complex backstory I'm not sharing here, but I'm a pagan that believes in reincarnation. And there was no way at that time she could have known that, even if she could have understood it.
So while I was definitely freaked out, it was only for a second. I answered honestly as I understood it. "I know, honey. Magic doesn't work very well here. Don't worry about it; go back to sleep."
it's the nice way of saying you believe in absolutely retarded shit and should be euthanized for the good of society
ebski94 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:58:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mum said when i was younger i used to say bad things to my metapod on my pokemon yellow as he sucked i was about 5.
Vessix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit I had to re-read that comment about 3 times to understand it. Use some punctuation next time?
ebski94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
im 6.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:30:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ebski94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he was called poopsac
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:40:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day, on the way to school my son said "I just saw a spider!". okay, ot weird apart from it's a pretty rare occurance., On the way home from school (the next day) he said "I can't stop the callums [his friend's] voice in my head!". At this point I thought "shit, he's schizophrenic...". That really scared me. I was pretty frightened for a while but I just kept telling myself that it was actually my own mind joining the dots in the incorrect way.
Thankfully, there hasn't been any other signs ever since and he's a relatively normal kid,..most of the time :-)
I remember when I was really young (probably around four or five) I used to think I was a sixteen year old in my past life. I hate to ruin the party, but I made it up because I thought teenagers were really cool when I was little. But some of these stories are pretty creepy.
DRpinky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:42:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me, but my 6 year old brother said this to my parents the other day. He was listening to the news about the election and started asking about the presidential candidates. He asks my mom a series of questions about their names, their party affiliations, asking if anyone had won yet, their political preferences, what they believe in, etc.
After this, my mom asks who he wants to win come November, and he says, and I quote, "I want Mitt Romney to win, because he is the white guy."
I have never been more afraid for my brother's safety around black people.
My 3 year old brother came up to me the other day, looked me in the eyes and said "you're not my master"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
not a parent, but when I around 5 or so I would play with barbie dolls. Must've scared the shit out of my dad.
ziem0n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am not a parent myself, but many a time have I heard the story of my aunt as a young child.
She grew up in the late 70s and early 80s, in a pretty well-off family including her, my dad, my uncle, my paternal grandmother and her new man. When she learned how to speak, telling her good night would become the biggest fear in my grandmothers life.
She would go tell her good night and tuck her into bed, upon which my aunt would start crying, screaming and rip her hair in despair, whilst asking a question. Namely, "Why did you kill me when I was young? Why could I not live?". This kept going for about half a year, where my grandmother decided that she'd had enough of it and stopped tucking my aunt into bed before sleep.
She never speaks of it to this day, although both my uncle and my dad acknowledge it and always bring it up while we're discussing eerie stuff.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fucking macarroni. I think I will pass on sleep tonight. And on kids. Forever.
Not a parent, but I'm a boy-scout, and there is this one first-year in my troop that has trouble talking, with grammar, and probably isn't right in the head. We go on a camping trip one weekend and he's swearing a lot and says stuff like "'X' is so fucking weak" "Shut the fuck up" etc. One day we go kayaking on the Susquehana, and at the end, he lifts his shirt up, and tries to suck his nipples. He says he wants to make milk. He thinks that if he's gay he'll be able to make milk, so he tries to sleep on top of my friend in our tent and says he wants to have sex with him. I didn't get any sleep in fear of him creeping up on me. Guess what, he wants to make milk so he doesn't have to get up and go to the refrigerator.
koshka_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:10:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my brother was about 5 our grandad died and my brother said he didn't want to go to the funeral. A few days after he woke up my parents to say that our grandad had come to say goodbye to him the night before, and had sat on the end of his bed and put him to sleep.
Another creepy thing involving my brother is that one time when he was about 8 he claimed that the "Easter bunny" had come to visit him, and he was a 6 foot tall man in jeans and a shirt. Weird.
tl;dr my brother is creepy.
Neffer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:12:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I don't remember it well but when I was around 5-6 I walked into my parents room after having a nightmare. The nightmare was I was on a rooftop on a really high building and I believed I could fly so I tried to fly and obviously died. Turns out that is how my Uncle died and I described the building and stuff and it was pretty accurate. My Dad went mental and started crying (it was his brother) and my Mom was just in shock.
I don't even believe in that sort of thing, I think I must have over heard them talking about it or something. Scared the crap out of them anyway.
My dad said that as a kid in the night I would, no matter what, find a way to get to his bed (I sleeped in a separated bed with those fences, you know, the thing with sticks) and sleep next to him. He said that I would often unscrew the sticks that were preventing me from escaping the bed and just jump on his bed.
My oldest daughter is afraid of nothing. She's more outgoing than my wife and I are and is generally ready to take the world and kick its face in. She's also not really that affectionate. She'd rather run around and go crazy than snuggle.
One night, we were all hanging out in the living room. Out of nowhere, she walks over to the patio doors and just stands there staring out into the black motionless. After a few minutes, she turns around to face us says, "The dark is trying to come inside now."
She had never been afraid of the dark in her life, but she was terrified now. She ran over to me and just wanted to cower in my lap, repeating that the dark as trying to come in over and over again.
Of course, a few minutes later, she was totally fine. You win this round, troll daughter.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
This'll get buried, oh well. When my FIL died, my kid was too young to understand death so after a couple of attempts at explanation that only confused her more, we dropped it. My husband went alone to the funeral, as it was in another country.
On the evening of the day of the funeral, out of the blue my kid started screaming that there was a man in the hallway. She was pointing and yelling. I went to to check and there was nobody there, but she was adamant and was really frightened. She said the man looked like daddy, but she lacked the vocabulary to describe him further and kept telling me to go make the man go away. After I turned on every light in the house she was satisfied that we were alone and cheerfully went on like nothing had happened, but I didn't sleep a wink that night.
My mother told me a story about my name. When I was about one and a half years old and just started to talk with sentences, my parents would always ask me random questions like how old was I, or what was my favorite toy, or which parent I loved the most. The usual questions parents would ask their child, I suppose. But when they would ask me about my name, I answered "Kate" every time with serious face and claimed it WAS my name. They swear to me, I have not heard the name before. We didn't have a television at that time and I was always with my parents when I got outside to play. No one ever said the name before to me. They were frightened and very curious why I would think my name was Kate.
Years later I legally changed my name to Kate and couldn't be more happier since.
Salamok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:04:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She didn't say a word but i just caught my 5 year old snapping a surgical glove over her hand as she approached her pillow pet with a very serious expression on her face.
my 2 year old turned to me one day and said "I love you - but you aren't my real mommy.....my real mommy lives in Canada........" (he had never been in Canada - nor had ever heard of Canada)--
My cat died suddenly this past March of a heart attack - turns out he had a heart condition we were unaware of. One day my friend's 5 year old son says to me, "I saw your cat last night. He told me he had a problem with his heart that no one could help."
When I was about 5 I told my parents that the piano was talking to me. I remember telling them the weird sounding word that it kept whispering to me. We were Jehovah's Witnesses so they believed it was demons and they even had someone do research on the word to see if had any origin. They couldn't find anything, and I am sure it was just my overactive imagination. Still... childhood was a creepy time.
my brother slept walk like 7 times in one year and each time it was the same thing
he'd run back and forth across the bed's (our beds where pushed together to make a really big bed) then run to the door and push his back up against it slowly peek over then scream extremely loudly "no daddy please don't" then fall down, stay there for awhile then get up and repeat
further, every one of the children has fallen, hit there head on the same door jamb he stood near and needed stitches,
and we saw figures walk that hallway at night, we where terrified to approach them, parents couldn't see them
it finally stopped when we had our pastor come to the house and bless it
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gaga.....he's eight months but I was afraid he was going to be a fan of lady gaga.
Jendraz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:32:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're all kidding right? Please tell me you're all kidding.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:22 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Dad and Sister have told me a few times about an instance where i was arguing with my Mother, from what i recall they say I was abouy four. My Mom a hateful spiteful woman ask a four year old "WHY WERE YOU EVEN BORN!" Dad said my response to her was in the most demonic voice i could muster as i shouted "TO MAKE YOUR LIFE MISERABLE!" before cackling and retiring to my room. Dad thought it was hillarious, my Mother was convinced i was the antichrist.
We have foster kids. One day one called 911 on himself and said he was going to kill us. We had to trade him in for a new model. He said it was because he didn't like it when we made his bed every morning.
5abrina ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:57:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Trade him in for a new model"? That is really dehumanizing and sick, and not even remotely funny. People like you give all foster parents a bad name.
When I was 4 I found an unopened envelope on the floor by the front door. The front read 'to nicola' (my mums name) I grabbed it and said 'its from toms mum' my mother went up stairs to read this letter and alas, an anonymous letter informing her that my father was having an affair with toms mom.
cgos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:26:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not said. But one day, my son who was 14 at the time, came home with a REAL katana that he bought from one of those discount, odds-n-ends stores. Even though it was cheap, it was still made of steel and sharp. He thought it was cool but I was pretty unnerved by it. I wouldn't let him keep it in his room for at least a year and he was not allowed to take it out of the house.
To be fair, it probably had a single-alloy blade. Those katanas suck.
cgos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:43 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This wasn't about an evaluation of the sword. It was about a 14 year old who comes home with a big sharp sword.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:07:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ive notoced several stories that seem to refer to children referring to past lives. While my son is only 6.5 weeks old, one ofthe first thoughts upon holding him, was the possibility of reincarnation.
I can't really describe why I thought of it, but looking into the eyes of my newborn son, I just felt like he knew more than just...absolutely nothing. Like he was someone who just found themselves in a newborn body!
My sister told her then 8 year old son with Aspergers to pick up his toys; he replied "I'll kill you in you sleep!" Sad thing is, she's crazier than he is.
Not a parent yet, but -- When my cousin Pete was 3 years old, he threw a fit and started crying. His mom scolded him for it and he stopped crying and abruptly said "mommy, you was a baby and you cried!"
I have a cousin who is adopted from birth, and he is about three now. I was reading to him from a dinosaur picture book a few months ago, and I asked him why he thought the dinosaurs died out.
"everybody dies" he said.
achshar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is not what i thought it to be. I NEEDED TO SLEEP TONIGHT!
Khizrr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of the family has a child who talks about how he'll murder his mother daily. Not like Stewey from Family guy, this kid is seriously demented. He's 7.
Im not a parent but when I was about 3 or 4 I apparently thought there was a little boy named Nissa who lived in my closet. I don't remember this but my mom brings it up occasionaly and talks about how much it used to creep her out. And I also screamed a lot in my sleep and said a lot really fucked up things. I was a strange child to say the least.
Kull44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
elmo0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was really little I was in the bath with my mum and asked her 'Mummy whats that piece of string?' and I was so desperate to find out what it was there for. Oh dear...
listix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I remember one thing that might have been creepy to my parents. I was small, maybe 3 or 4 years old. There was the toy room were I kept all my toys. The thing is that in one of the walls I about 20 or 30 obituaries. I was kinda sad when we had to move and they took them away.
mheyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"they're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!" she was sitting in front of the tv with nothing but the popcorn screen looking back at us with her hands on the screen really creepy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you my mommy?
NTesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this one is my niece (5) since I'm to young to have kids. back story: I still sleep with my childhood teddy. Anyway my niece was like "Auntie can I have some ice cream?" and I was like "No,because you haven't ate dinner yet." and she said "Fine then I will kill you." me thinking its cute just because I know she won't do it. and she says "I will take your cute mother fucking stuffed dog and rip off it's head and put her head up your ass and her body down your throat." So I'm just like 0.0 and she says "You scared?" And I nod and she said "Go get me ice cream now." I gave her the ice cream. I think she learned that from her grandma or me or something but it sure was creepy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My niece (Age 5) to her grandfather:
Niece: Benepo (her imaginary friend), NO! Go in the
Grandfather: What happened?
Niece: Benepo told me i should kill everyone upstairs and burn the house down.
I was sitting in the back of one of those SUVs with a third row with my 3 year old cousin once. In the middle of the drive, he sat up and looked behind us into the trunk, then turned to me and asked, "so where did you hide the bodies?"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent and not said but; My little sister used to stand in to corner of dark rooms with hair covering her face like the girl from the ring.
When I was younger and Pet Cemetery had first came out, I had seen it with my mom and had picked up dead Gage's "Come play with me daddy! First I played with Jud, and then I played with mommy. We had an awful good time. Now I want to play with YOU." bit and would say it in dark car rides. My mom and her friend would get creeped out and turn the over head light on for the rest of the drive.
Also, after watching Child's Play one day, I was outside playing with a friend. I had somehow gotten a hold of a butter knife and was trying to stab my friend.
A buddy of mine was walking through school a few years ago.
He was crossing through the library and was held up behind a special ed. class. One of the girls turned to him, looked him in the eyes and said "Find me"....Than "Ill be waiting"
My buddy was so freaked out he left school and went home.
My son was around 3 or 4 and we had been watching a lot of X Files and stuff like that. As I was tucking him in one night, he asked when we were going to go home again. I said 'home?'. And I don't remember his exact reply but it was something to the effect of that other house, that can go in the sky. He must have overheard too much tv as he was falling asleep but it creeped me out so bad. (he had never been on an airplane at that point so my mind immediately filled in alien abduction).
raw420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day I decided I wanted a baby sister, being the youngest and only daughter. My mom kept telling me it wasn't going to happen. I didn't know she wasn't able, I thought she was keeping a sister from me. So I decided I would have my own baby sister. And scared the shit out of my parents. I didn't understand how babies were made yet, I just knew kids came from pregnancies. So I went about planning, and shopping for my "child/sister" until I realized I was spoiled because I was the youngest and decided I don't want any more siblings. They remember and fear this to this day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did wierd shit in my sleep as a kid. One time my dad walked in on me standing on my bed at 2 in the morning staring blankly at a wall. Other times I would stand silently in my parents doorway until they woke up. Turns out I had Sleep Apnea, got my tonsils taken out, and it never happened again.
"I'm going to kill myself". guess which douche bag said this to his mother when he was little.
fuzzy13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was 5 when my grandmother died. After being at camp all day, my mom sat me down on the stairs to tell me that grandma was gone. I look up at my mom with tears streaming down my face and proceed to ask her how long it would take for grandma to turn into a skeleton.
arch88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother told me this story. We had just moved in to a new house and my room was still being painted so my bed was set up in the living room. Well she went to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and saw me sitting up brushing stuff off me. She asked me what was wrong (I was still asleep) i said" the little ppl wont get off of me.
Me: What do you want to do when you grow up?
Kid (6): I want to be a killer
Me: why do you want to be a killer!?
Kid: I don't know, someone's gotta do it...
yooie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my mom used to work with a disturbed child... He once told her he was going to cut off her head and hide it in a trash can.
My three year old daughter (who obviously had never seen the shining): There's a little girl named Babba who lives in my mouth.
smr312 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i wait for the day i have kids and one of them asks "How much life insurance do you have" then i know im going to have to watch my back. kids are creepy, few months ago i went to visit family up in middle of nowhere buttfuck canada. I woke up to find my 3 and 6 year old cousin stareing at me, in the middle of the night, in a dark basement. needless to say i was scared shittless
When my husband was around 2, he apparently looked at his mom and said, "I'm glad I chose you." She said, "What do you mean?" and he said, "When all the kids were in heaven picking their mommies, I'm glad I picked you." Sweet, but very weird.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was told that one night which I still almost don't believe my parents but the details never change so I guess this did happen. Well, one night when was 8-10 or so I had gone to bed early but my parents were still up doing whatever. Well my mom was in the bathroom with the door closed, she was washing her face, when all of a sudden she hears what she describes as a light scratching at the door. Wondering WTF was going on she begins to think over possibilities. Well mind you she has a face full of soap and has to keep her eyes closed so she is kinda freaked out. The scratching continues, slowly gaining momentum, at this point she is yelling at the door for a responds. None was given. She continues her freak out, and by the time she can get the door opened the scratching has stoppped (lucky).
She screams.
Here is little ol me standing right in front of the door. Apparently I had peed all over the door, just stood there draining the main vain all over the place. I can only imagine the puddle and the terrible cleanup. As for me I trotted right off to bed without so much as a word.
When I was younger, I sleptwalked a bit for no apparent reason. The first time I ever slept walked I was around 7 and my dad told me what I did afterwards. Apparently I walked down into the kitchen when it was pitch black, pulled a large knife out of the cabinet and walked up to the very top landing of the stairs and started playing with it while staring at the door.
I'm not a parent, but my younger sister freaked out our parents when she hallucinated on Benadryl.
She was sick, and was having trouble sleeping so my mom gave her a little Benadryl so she'd fall asleep easier. Later that night, I heard her get out of her bed (we shared a room back then), and run out of the bedroom and down the hall. I thought "Okay, she's sick. She probably went to the bathroom or something." But before I could lay back down, I hear her run back down the hall and throw open my parents bedroom door.
I could hear my dad freaking out and shouting "What's wrong? Are you okay?" And the whole time my sister is sobbing, and she throws herself on the floor and screams "I'm scared, they're going to get me!"
I'm standing outside the door, freaking out, and she runs out the door again. I caught her and told her to calm down, and she started crying again. She fell asleep in my bed later, fever broken, and when she woke up the next day she had no idea what had happened.
We didn't know it had anything to do with Benadryl until it happened again a couple years later. She never hallucinated like that before, and hasn't ever again. No more Benadryl for her...
Voozi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Granddad on my motherโs side passed away before both me and my sister were born. Supposedly he would have this saying when saying good bye to someone which he would say every time. When my sister was six she got a toy phone for Christmas and told my parents that she was talking to Granddad, intrigued they asked her what he said to her and she said what he would say when he would say goodbye to people when she had never met him before. Pretty strange and also caught on video somewhere.
Ambry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well my little cousin got a picture of a little girl off of the mantlepiece that she used to be friends with and pointed at her. She said "This is Amy, she's going to become a boy but I haven't told her yet."
Then she just casually walked away and left me thinking and thinking about what my she meant o.o
Nothing was said exactly, but once I came upstairs to find my 3-year-old daughter standing silently at the other end of our long hallway, facing me, with he dark hair matted with sweat and hanging in front of her face like that creepy girl from "The Ring". She wouldn't answer to her name or move for what felt like a couple minutes... freaked me right the fuck out.
My cute little 8 year old daughter gave me a card she made herself on Mother's Day. She said that if a burglar ever came after me she would grab a knife, stab him 'til he was dead, and then burn him with wood. 8 years old and already understands the concept of hiding the "evidence".
Wasn't creepy but my 5 year old son told me as I was driving us home that when he grows up he's "going to get one of those things....those things.....you know, a wife. So I won't have to ever drive".
My daughter used to tell us stories about the time she was with her "other mommy from a long time ago"... this was when she was 3. whenever we tried to ask her more about it, she would always tell us it was before the kangaroos ate me. :|
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I basically raised my little brother; we're quite a few years apart. When he was really little, he would always get mad if we called him his actual name. He'd get upset and scream, "My name is Ralph!" He did this for months. I thought it was one of those weird little kid things, but one day he said, "Ralph drowned in the yucky pond at my Daddy's house. He's in there if you look. He died where I was born and now I have to be him." My brother never met his dad and had never seen his house (which has a very yucky pond). He was conceived in the house.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Around 4, I had a dream I bit my sister's lips off. I ran into her room and walk her up to ask her. She still reminds me now when I am 22. Now, I wish I had looked instead of waking her up and asking.
I use to stay the summer at my grandparents farm. When I was 7 i slept in the guest room, and they had like 17x12 painting of my great great grandfather, and I woke up the next morning at 5am with my grandfather but I was carrying the painting. Told my grandfather he came to me last night said he was cold, walked across the room to the closet and got a blanket. freaked my grandfather out because for some reason this great great grandfather of mine, hid in a cellar in Germany and for the days/weeks/months he hid, he complained about being cold.
Not a parent but my little sister used to have the scariest/funniest night terrors.
One year when we were on vacation and all cramped up in one room, my sister -maybe 7 at the time- suddenly sat up in bed in the middle of the night and screamed "The Sims are coming!!!", then ran into the bathroom closed the door behind her while we ran after her, slammed the toilet shut, and screamed at the top of her lungs.
Never let her play The Sims again.
clown_6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My step children are 4 and 5. One night i heard a sound in the living room, and being the man of the house, went to investigate. Sitting next to the sliding glass door was my 4 year old staring blankly out of the glass. When i asked what he was doing, he looked up at my and said "i was just talking to the man with the dog"... no one was out side and i was really confussed. He then just walked away not saying another word to me, and layed back down. Still to this day, i figure he must have been just sleep walking... i hope
When I was little(3 or 4) apparently I slept in the doorway of my sisters room. I didn't remember it so I asked why and she said "You would start rantingabout demons and things being possessed". It scared the shit out of me because. I was at the time 10 and had just learned what those things meant.
It's a popular story in our family... my Great Aunt's son, Dale was a young boy who later in life would dabble in black magic... when he was just 2, he raised up out of his bed as she walked in to check on him... grinned maliciously and pointed at her and said, "I'm going to scramble you like eggs" and laid right back down and went back to sleep.
Background: my grandpa on my moms side owned a dairy farm and was a milk man, he passed away before I was even 1.
I just asked and my mom said that I was in the bathtub one night when I was about 2, I looked up at her and said "I'm the milk man!" And then went back to what I was doing before.
She said this freaked her out because it was so random, and my grandpa was a milk man and I was young to know.
pas18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother in law has a guest bedroom in her apartment, and one day while she was in the kitchen, my 3 yr old daughter came out running and crying hysterically from the room, saying that there was a little girl by the window with white hair. When grandma went to investigate, there was nothing there, of course. This happened 2 other separate times while my wife was there also. Still gives me the chills.
At my grandmothers in Colorado. She lived about 20 minutes from Durango. I put my son, who was 3 at the time, to sleep. About 20 minutes later he calls for me. I walk in to the room and he's laying on the bed with wide eyes. I ask what's up and he says he thinks he saw a man outside the house with a chainsaw. I proceed to pretend to play it cool while secretly freaking out on the inside. For about 10 minutes I walk the house securing each lock. It was just my grandmother, my son, my sister and I. Men were in town for the night. It was pretty frightening even though I was pretty sure it was a dream. Pretty sure...
Not my kid, but a friend's 6 year old looked me dead in the eyes and said "I'll cut your head off shamelessone." She was serious as a heart attack too, creepy.
I am child-free so I'll flip reverse this situation, but-
When I was little I used to have problems sleeping, and as my dad often worked away I'd creep into bed with my mum. APPARENTLY one night my mum woke up to find me sitting upright in bed and staring at the mirror, whispering to myself. When she asked what I was doing, I turned around and shushed her before turning back and talking to the mirror again.
Not my kid, or even something they said, but I was at a party about a week ago, we were in my mates garden and we looked up and saw the neighbour's kid stood in the window with a lighter in hand just staring at us. Creeped us all out.
I know I have plenty, but none pop into my mind immediately..... I'm no parent, but I'm an older brother by 9 years....
I belive my brother was 3 at the time and I was 12. I had a few friends sleep over one night, and we relaxed, played random games, talked about random shit, the stuff 12 year olds do on a sleepover. At about 10:30, we decide to go to bed, so we all start going upstairs to my room.... There was a long hallway with a window that was currently at my back that led to my room, and it was nearly pitch black at the time. In the middle of the hallway was this very little silhouette with a pirate sword in it's hand.... The peices didn't click immediately for me, and my first thought was it was a demon or something, but instantly I realized it was my little brother. This is what freaks me out the most.... When I asked him what he was doing up, he said "The man in the window watching you was scaring me."
It couldn't of been me in the window because I never looked at the window, or at least I don't remember looking.
Afterwards, me and my friends back in my room, they continued to tease me saying my brother was a "Demon brother" and other 12 year old things......
My 10 yr old after meeting her camp counselor said "atleast they're not cannibals " :/
zerokra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i am not a parent but have a childhood memory... my sister and i were at a friends house. we were all between 8-10. the friends father was asking us what our favorite dinosaurs were and when he answered triceratops my sister proclaimed him the "king of horniness." perhaps more awkward than creepy.
Another backwards one. When I was maybe 2 or 3 years old, I was playing with my dad in the living room (with toys or blocks or something, I don't know exactly what), when all the sudden I just stopped what I was doing and looked past him over his shoulder and asked "Daddy, who is that?" He said that he turned around and there was nobody there. In fact, there was nobody else in the house besides us two. I'm still convinced I saw a ghost but didn't recognize what it was back then.
Maybe memories are encoded into genes and when you're younger accessibility to those memories is greater than when you've aged a bit and had experiences that 'overtake' genetic memories.
Other way around...I was about seven, and my dad and I were debating right before I was about to go to bed. I didn't like what he was saying, so I said, "Screw you." He was shocked, to say the least.
Younger brother was 3. A friend of mine asked him
"what's at the end of the universe?".
Brother replied "salt".
"yeah but what's after the salt?"
"cheese"
"and after the cheese"
"salt"
My 8 year old came home from an overnight with a friend, and asked me what a pedophile was. WTF? WHY?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember this vividly. When I was four and my younger brother was two. My parents were doing dishes in the kitchen leaving him and I to watch television. My brother snuck off and somehow managed to sneak a carving knife out from the kitchen. He the proceeded to chase me around the house with it threatening to cut me up and kill me. I was running for about two minutes before my parents realized what was wrong...my brother could have killed me...I still have nightmares about this...It was traumatic for me.
Just a few weeks ago, my 3 year old brother said to me and my family "Is the ghost going to come in and say Goodnight to me tonight?" I was so creeped out, and I tried asking him more about it the next day, but the only answer I could seem to get is that it says Boo. Not sure if there is any truth to his first story now -_-
I had night terrors as a kid that involved my arms feeling like they were really skinny, like just bones. Several nights my parents had to hold me by both my arms while I screamed "I can't feel your hands! Why are my arms so small?!" Over and over again.
When my little sister was about 4/5 she kept talking about things she did with 'the grandma that's dead'. It was so creepy, because it would pop up really randomly when we were talking about e.G having a BBQ. She'd suddenly say "Oh don't you remember when we went there with the grandma who's dead?". When we would ask her about it more as in when or what the dead grandma was called, she would get really annoyed and shy and would refuse to talk about it more. It creeped us out so much. She's 8 now and doesn't talk about it anymore,but I don't know if she remembers it. She also doesn't have a dead grandma..
My brother told me to say this but unfortunately I did not say it (I really wish I did, like if I had the chance to change one thing in my past, it would be so that I could say this.)
My family was having a dinner the day before my baptism, I was 4-6. My brother told me that the priest would be putting my head in holy water and proceeded to tell me to say, "OW! IT BURNS!" Unfortunately my mom and dad were sitting right there, my dad spit out his wine and began to laugh, my mom got pissed and told me not to say it (she threatened me with hell or something).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of the only things I remember of being a 4-5ish year old is seeing a disembodied head dangling from a dead tree in our garden every night. I always assumed it was the moon shining through weirdly or something. Then I changed rooms with my sister and her room faced the same way. She screamed all that night about a head outside her window. I'd never said anything about what I'd seen to anyone.
My dad and my uncle are 3 years apart. My dad says, to this day, the thing that creeped him out most in his life is how my uncle slept with open eyes from age 7 onward. My dad would walk into the room and my uncle would be totally drooling-deep asleep except for wide-open eyes staring at the door.
djhoen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my boys when he was 5 or so told me that he tasted his own poo. I told him never to repeat that to anyone as long as he lived.
ExTuhC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was younger my friend was staying the night. That night we had a horrible thunderstorm. In the midst of the thunderstorm I woke up and my brother was jumping on the bed sleep walking ..the lightning flashing on his face as he jumped up and down smiling and staring at the wall. I quickly glanced at my friend like "are you fucking seeing this!?" But he was fast asleep. I laid my head back down and pretended it never happened.
hank87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a camp counselor, so I'm going to take some liberty with the phrase "one of your kids" because I have a good story. Last year we were playing Telephone, and one 7 year old kid really excitedly raises his hand saying he wants to start. He whispered, "You have no reason to live." to me with the most innocent smile imaginable.
"Mommy, when you die, can I have all your jewelry?"
"Yes."
"Can I have your car?"
"Yes."
"And the house? And all the furniture?"
"Yes, of course."
"What about Little Sister?"
"Yep. You get her, too."
Creepy little kid. I just wanted to creep her out right back.
Tohsyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading all of this I don't want kids anymore ..
lFLEA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me when my brother was like 2 or 3 on his birthday which is Christmas, my mom said, you have the same birthday as Jesus and he turned around and looked at her with a straight face and said I am Jesus.
My grandpa on my dad's side of the family died when I was 2 or 3. My parents said I used to sit in front of the TV while it was off and tell them that grandpa was talking to me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I never heard this happening, but this is a story my dad told me when my little sister was barely learning how to talk. She was my half sister, and her grandfather (not mine) had passed a year before. My dad had put her to bed three hours prior, and he himself was about ready to head off to sleep, but then he saw the light to my sister's room had been turned on, and the door was open just a crack. As he approached the door to see how the light had been turned on (she was still in a crib, I think, or something like it. The point being she was unable to get out of bed to turn the light on) she heard my little sister giggling as if she was being tickled and said things like "Oh Grandpa, you're silly!" and "I love you too Grandpa!". He never heard it again from that night on, and needless to say he didn't sleep much that night.
My son's bathroom shares a wall with the kitchen. My husband was giving our son a bath while I cooked dinner and showed him that if you knock on the wall, Mommy will knock back. FUN!!
Well, it was adorable, but the next day my 2 1/2 year old kept knocking on walls and demanding they "Knock Back!!". It gave me a creepy feeling in my tummy.
I'm not a parent. In high school, I occasionally kept my friend company while she babysat her very young siblings, a little girl and little boy.
She went to the bathroom and left me alone with them. They rarely spoke, but as soon as she was out of earshot, the younger of the two, the little boy, looked at me slowly and said,
"it's almost dark. Things happen when the sun goes down."
It still creeps me out just to think of the way he said it.
When my nephew was 8 years old, he lit his snowsuit on fire and it caught the house on fire. When we asked him why he did it, he said "to kill the bugs. Bugs crawl all over everything and make them bad."
The snowsuit was new, used once and hanging on a hanger on a closet door to dry.
He is now 24 and one of the creepiest creepers I've ever known.
I grew up on an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. My parents divorced when I was rather young and my father raised my younger sister and I by himself. Living in the middle of nowhere meant we didn't have cable tv and we didn't have dish so it was very easy to turn the tv to one of those alarming static/snow channels. So when I was about 4 years old I apparently was sleep walking and made my way down stairs. I turned the tv on to one of those annoying channels which startled my father awake. He went in to the living room to see me sitting there staring blankly in to the static. He asked me what I was doing and without breaking my focus on the tv I just said "I have to do this." He shut the tv off and carried me back to bed but said it creeped him out too much to go back to sleep. I was a cool kid.
This is not a story about my kids as I none yet but a story of what I have been told I did when I was four. We were up in the mountains at my grandparents cabin and were cleaning the cabin. I was given the job of sweeping off the front porch because I liked to sweep but was not very good at it. Now here are some things that you need to know about the porch, it is about a six foot drop off the front and a three foot drop off the side into a planter. My mon was watching me sweep the porch and turned around to grab something. I took this opportunity to fall off the deck backwards into th planter. My mom runs over and in a panic asks me if I am ok. I being the evil genius that I was at that age said the following phrase: "mom, I cant feel my legs". My mom goes into full panic mode and is ready to rush me to a hospital. At this moment I start laughing uncontrollably and get up thinking it was the funniest thing in the history of the earth. Needless to say my mom was pissed and made my dad watch me for the rest of the day.
TL:DR I fell off a porch and told my mom I couldn't feel my legs.
Earlier today I was driving to the store with my 3 yr old daughter in the car, and we drove past a cemetery/church. From the spot on the road you couldn't see any of the headstones, and anyway the ones in that particular section are very plain. Well just as we went through the stoplight there, she started talking about the pretty Angel. I have no idea what she saw but she was very insistent about seeing it.
When I was a little kid,I told my mom "goodbye" as she was tucking me in one night. She asked where I was going and I replied "I'm going to heaven tonight"
When I was a little kid I said that if I were president of the world I would just kill all the poor people, to address the problem of overpopulation in developing countries. (I was kind of an overly well-read kid) My mom didn't know how to respond to my genocide plot.
Not creepy, nor frightening, just kids:
I was at a wedding, talking to a couple of guys i hadnt seen in a while. Then suddenly my cousin of 8 years old kicks in the door, posing valiently, pointing his finger at me and yells: "GRAB THAT PANTIE-SNIFFER!" Proceeded by chasing me, laughing maniacaly.
Then again, my cousin is raised by Disney Channel and Cartoon Network. He's basically a living quote-machine
ccm596 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, as I am not yet a parent, but something I said when I was younger: Every time I wouldn't get my way, I would confess my wish that I were dead. That must have been scary for my parents, as I was little and kinda stupid, ya never know what might have set off my actual going through with it. Incidentally, this attitude has followed me into adolescence, though its not for not getting my way, and I don't proclaim it regularly, haha.
ccnova ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm reading many posts about kids seeing people in their rooms and such. What the fuck is going on here?
The list is far, far, far too long. Pretty high on the list though has got to be when my 17 year old daughter asked me to watch this, saying it was the funniest thing she'd ever seen.
Oh, I was a single dad of 10 years with 3 teenagers at the time.
Sick senses humor are genetic, but that was fucking terrifying.
I'm not a parent, but when i was in 8th grade, I went to a party at a friends. At about 5 AM, everyone was asleep but i couldn't for some reason because i felt like was being watched. I closed my eyes for about one minute. When i opened them, the kid who threw the party's little sister was standing over me with a foam dagger. I screamed so loud and woke up 4 people but she ran away and they didn't believe me. I still get made fun of for that.
I had pretty intense terror mares (or night terrors) as a child. The first time it happened my parents had no idea what it was. I must have been about 5 years old, they were watching tv and I just appeared at the living room door seemingly awake. I took one look at my mum, let out a bloodcurdling scream and started crying hysterically. My mum tried to console me and apparently I lashed out, hitting, punching her, scratching her face all whilst screaming "YOU ARE NOT MY REAL MOTHER! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY MOTHER? YOU'VE KILLED HER HAVEN'T YOU? WHERE IS SHE?"
My dad had to basically pin me down until I woke up. I had no recollection.
When I was about 2 I apparently told my mom that I was reincarnated. Unlike many of the other stories in this thread I didn't say it in a kid way like "I remember when I used to be big." I said "Mommy, did you know I was reincarnated?" Freaked her out bad.
For as long as I can remember I have believed in reincarnation. I think that people continue on in different lives until they get "it" right. I don't know what "it" is, but ever since I was really little I have had this strong feeling that I am really close to finding "it."
Still no idea how else I would have known the word reincarnation at such a young age. No one else in my family believes in it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I (the child) was 8 years old apparently I threatened to kill my dad in his sleep. According to my mum he didn't sleep for a month. :P
BobJ143 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I once slept walk and pooped in a trash can when I was 5.
Not a parent, and definitely not as creepy as some of these. I was helping with some kids (kindergarten age) and a boy in the class came up to me and told me that someone watches this other girl in the class when she sleeps. I asked if it was a parent or grandparent and he said, "no, from the window." He just walked away after that. A little strange.
I'm the kid in this story but once when I was like 2 or 3 I was being taken care of by one of my mom's friends, and when she told me to do something I replied "You want a piece of me?". Boy do I still hear that one a lot.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had this imaginary friend named Naylor. He was like a shadow, but like a metal shadow. He came (as I had things manifest from my imagination when I was younger) whenever I got a chill, a brief chill. Now one night, I get the chill, and was drawn out of bed. I walked down to the basement, and to a crib we kept in the back. I saw Naylor and ran to him. He told me(I was I think 4 or 5 and prone to audio hallucinations) that he was trapped in the crib. I was banging on it, trying to free him. Parents woke up, and I started screaming "Free him!" over and over. They turned on the lights, and Naylor was gone. I sobbed. That was the last time I saw him, until about a year ago, I swear I saw him in the hallway. And he was ANGRY that I hadn't freed him. Now whenever I get a brief chill, I freak the hell out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My kid looked outside and just said "ghost is sitting on chair"
My son, who will be three in August, said the following completely out of left field: "I'm going to kill someone that I haven't met yet". What. The. Fuck.
A family who is very close to my family (they are like family) - live into a house to this day. They are an honest bunch and are not the type of people to bullshit.
Anyway, when I was about 13 - the 15 year old boy told me stories of how his room was haunted. One night, he was falling asleep and felt something on his leg, like it was tapping him through the covers. He woke up and for a split second, he saw an old lady right literally inches from his face staring at him. Immediately then he closed his eyes and tried so hard to sleep.
Soon after that, I had to sleep in that exact same room with my brother and the sweat that came off me made the bed damp.
His mother was also a spiritualist at the time and is still now so the family weren't fully creeped out by it.
*sorry if it seems off topic, I've seen so many weird stories, been wanting to share this one for a while!
My Nan passed on a story about the time when she was driving around with my Aunt with my little cousin in his baby seat, and he started squealing and yelling for them to stop because a truck is about to hit them. Aunt told my nan hes done this on a few occasions.
Forksss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids of my own but when I was very very young, I always woke up earlier than the rest of my family and I would just lay down and waited for my mom to get me out of my crib. Every morning I would hear two different voices calling my name. One voice was like an old Italian lady's voice, and the other was an old man's voice. I used to think it was my father's dead parents trying to talk to me and I wasn't scared at all. I kind of just used to giggle and respond 'what?' and all i heard was just these voices saying my name repeatedly. I grew out of this after the age of 6 and I told my parents about it and they said it must have just been my imagination. Idk.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bloody nose? Used to happen to my sister all the time. She'd stay asleep and subconsciously rub it off before she woke up. Took us a while to figure it out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when she was in high school and I was about 6 or 7
Wut?
Fah-Q78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yea I'm a dummy, I deleted it
Tamrin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my eldest daughter was very young (3 or 4) she told me she wanted to be the 'Evil Overlady of the Universe'. I'm still not sure what she was watching that triggered that.
When I was around 8 years old, me and my cousin were playing in my grandparent's room which had a patio outside. My grandparent's house is pretty old and we always were a little scared of that room since it had a lot of pictures of ancestors in it and it used to terrify us. My cousin was 4 years older than me, but he told me about how he's seen a demonic black shape right outside the window at times. I thought he was just trying to scare me, but that night..I shit you not, I saw a demonic shadow forming across the window and I was so glad the door was closed. We just started screaming at the top of our lungs, and the shadow disappeared, but when we told our parents what happened, they just exchanged nervous looks and told us to go to bed. I'm seriously still scared to go in that room, but the house is about to be sold and to this day, I can't tell what happened there.
Not my kid, but when I worked at an after-school program, one of my kindergarteners' 3-year-old brother had an accident and lost both of his legs. For several months after the accident, the kid would occasionally make comments to me and other teachers, like "Hey Miss CatMuffin, guess what?" "What, kid?" "My brother's feet are in the trash can."
Not inexplicably creepy, just his unsettling way of dealing with his brother's tragedy.
When me and my brother were about five and six, we had a playmate who live a few doors down. Anyway, the kid died (I think it was a reaction to anaesthetic) but about a week later we told mum we were going down the street to play with Ricky because he was calling us. Freaked mum right out. It doesn't help that Ricky lived opposite a cemetery and that's where they buried him.
I don't for a minute believe we heard Ricky calling us (I don't remember the incident) but I can imagine the effect it would have had poor mum at the time.
Another related incident, mum went to his funeral and I drove her to tears asking questions about it afterwards. She screamed at me to shut up. The only time she ever really screamed at me.
I probably scared or confused a number of adults when I was 2-4. Every now in then when we'd go to Walmart or, god forbid, the Mall, I'd awkwardly stumble to some person who felt like my mom, and walk like I was in a house of horrors until I noticed my parent- whom did not notice I was missing- walking the other way. The grandmother tried laughing it off, but I'm fairly sure the horrified look on my face made her feel like a pedophile...
I was on playground duty (therefore no, not a parent but bear with me) and a year 6 girl comes up to me and, a couple of sentences into the conversation, says: 'When you die, can I cut you up?'
Odd looks were exchanged. I told her I'd promised that honour to someone else. That was the day another year 6 told me my death would be swift and painless.
My grandfather died when I was around three years old. Well the day after he died my mom was giving me a bath when suddenly she felt a chill then the hairs on the back of her neck started standing up. I then looked over her shoulder and smiled while squealing "Hi grandpa!" over and over again. She pretty much flipped her shit. Another time my little sister when she was four ran into my room and informed me of the "crawling shadow man" in her room.
My at the time 7 year old daughter tells me one day that when she goes up she's gonna be an assassin. I'm like...Why? That's not a nice thing to be. She said: Don't worry mom, I won't put a bullet in anyone under 18. No kids. Ever.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Do you know what she has done, your cunting daughter?" Creeped me out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kid I babysit for has psychosis and early onset schizophrenia. He's 7 and he talks to spiders that live in his veins. I found him watching a storm one night and he said "I love the rain", then looked back at the sky and said "they all do too." He also can't eat spaghetti because he says it comes alive and turns into worms in his stomach.
Finally, one time I went to the bathroom and when I came out he was in the kitchen holding a knife and looking at the ceiling, crying.
Creepiest thing a kid has ever said to me wasn't even a real word. I was babysitting two little boys age 3 and 4. Before bedtime we are getting ready, pajamas etc. one turns to the other and speaks in a gibberish language that i swear does not exist. Think ewok mixed with Icelandic and a dash of demonic Latin. Then the other one ANSWERS in the same freaking language. Full sentences. Scariest fucking shit. Next sentence they switch to English and carry on with no recollection.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Our (then) 2.5 y/o on the way to drop Daddy (me) off in the airport.
"Uh oh. Daddy go in sky. Daddy plane fall down. Daddy head turn red."
:(
RyanMB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was in line once at a concession stand and this kid who was probably about 6 years old walked up in front of me, looked up stared and made a gun motion with his hand pretending to shoot me making no sounds. Needless to say I didn't think it was that funny at the time because he had the most dead serious face. Then he just walked off.
RemyJe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son was four when he declared that he was a "bad fucker.".
Flarehl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Am I weird for actually wanting a child so I can hear them say creepy things? It seems worth it, until they grow and start saying shit that I dont care about.
My cousin's son went on a rampage of creeping everyone out when he was two. It all started with when he went to his grandpa's funeral, whom he'd never met. He sat in the graveyard, throwing his hands forward. When my cousin asked what he was doing, he responded with, "Fishing!" Then, my cousin asked, "Who taught you how to fish?" to which he responded, "Grampa!" while looking up and to his right. Later on, he was watching TV in the bedroom by himself, and he screamed. My cousin said he rushed into the room, asking, "What happened?" His son was shaking and looking at the window. He pointed and said, "Scary! The man in the window!" Needless to say, my cousin snatched him up and left the house. After that, he developed an imaginary friend whom he called "Cal." The whole family played along with it for a while. One night, he approached his mom and said "Mom...Cal is sad." She responded "Aww, why is he sad?" Then with a completely serious look on his face, he responded, "'Cause he died."
These are just a few of the events that happened while he was two, but as soon as he turned three, it all stopped - just like that. If you asked him about Cal or fishing, he would just give you a puzzled look and wouldn't know what you were talking about. He went on to become a normal kid, and nothing has ever been mentioned in our family about these events since.
tldr; My cousin's son scared the crap out of everyone when he was two...which I would think is too young to have been trolling all of us...right?
When I was a kid, my little brother, 3 years old, had Leukemia. We'll call him Bobby. He was in the hospital with a little girl his age who also had some sort of disease affecting her blood that was killing her red blood cells and turning her blood pink. To my knowledge, they never knew what was causing it. Anyway - my brother died, and soon after, the little girl was doing better, so she got to go home, and her mom heard her in the other room talking. She walked in, and she was on a toy phone. When her mom asked whom she was talking to, she said "It's Bobby. He says not to be afraid, and that I'll see him soon." It creeped her mom out. Right after that, she took a turn for the worse, and died within weeks.
andrepd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This one is mine. I always rolled around a lot in my aleep. When I was about three I was sleeping one night and apparently I had a nosebleed. Well then eventually my dad walks in at some point to check on me and, as he describes, his heart skipped a beat. Or several. My face was covered in blood, due to my rolling around and stretching and stuff. So was the wall, the sheets the pillow, and apparently even the fucking floor. Then I stir, and he realises I'm ok.
While giving my so a bath when he was about 2 or 3 he told me about the old lady that talks to him and plays with him sometimes. There was no old woman. We were living in a house where the previous owner an old woman had passed away in.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:02:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I got a couple about me when I had very little sleep.
When I was about 9 years old I remember seeing a pale white women in a white gown(was not my mom and did not resemble anyone I knew) walk down my hallway till she reached my room and stared at me. I was awake because I was watching an episode of Outlaw Star at the time and this ocurred shortly after the sleep function turned off the tv. I froze, terrified for no fucking reason. She just kept staring, I don't remember her eyes or face. They were just a blur wrapped in shadow. Anti-climactically she just kept walking down the hallway towards my parents bedroom after staring at me for a good 2 minutes. I did not say a word and did not move, i just stayed there staring at the ceiling until it was time to go to school.
When I was 13 or 14, I apparently showed up in my sisters room with a butchers knife in my hand and some cheese on a plate. After not answering her questions for about 30 seconds I simply asked if she wanted any cheese. When she said no I walked out of the room without saying a word. It was 3am and I don't remember doing this lol.
I have more but I dont feel like going through them all.
There was a house in our neighborhood that had a major fire about 5 years before I was born. There was a boy and a girl who lived there. The boy survived the fire but the girl died. The house was repaired and a new family moved in When I was around 5, I started telling my parents that we used to live there and that I had a sister and she died in a fire there. They never told me about the fire so needless to say it totally bugged them out.....
baby sister sleep walked in to my parents room at around 3am when asked if she was ok she quietly and with wide eyes replied "i'm just looking for my body".
also she said she doesnt like old people up stairs they watch her and follow her around.
we live in what was once a nursing home.
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Well, I'm an older sister, but my brother (4 yo at the time) once said to my parents, just out of nowhere, "So... you guys aren't my real parents, right? Like my real parents died and you guys are my new parents?" The look my parents gave me (assuming I told him this... which I didn't) was branded into my 8 yo mind.
It wasn't terribly creepy but when I was like 9, my brother's friend had a younger brother of about 4 or 5 that would constantly threaten to kill me. He would come downstairs with a knife and say "Where are you hiding, you better tell me because i'm going to kill you today" and he would walk around laughing all crazy and stuff. He did this pretty much every time I went over there. Never made good on the threat, obviously.
When I was young I actually recall waking up, walking into my mother's room in the middle of the night, waking her up and saying, "mum, there's a man in my room and he wants to play manhunt." and I can actually remember doing it, but can't quite remember why. In the morning I remember asking my mum if it actually happened (maybe it was an extremely vivid dream), but she confirmed it.
I used to live in a trailer on top of a hill (that we later learned had someone die in it and was on top on an indian burial ground/site). My brother, being just born eight months prior, slept in a crib in my parents room. One night my parents were cuddling and what not and my brother says in a creepy old man voice "Feels good!". Creeped my parents out for sure. That place was just creepy in general.
My step brother when he was 3-4 would sit in this room of a old house we lived in and play with spoons and talk to " The little girl " for hours on end and laugh and play and aparently the little girl used to go for car rides and everything
once asked him more about it he said shes protecting the house from the angry man etc was odd
Also one night hes asleep in back room i hear foot steps run down hall way ( Child steps ) i think oh hes up go look nope still asleep this is around 2am mind you.
And hand prints showing up on everything high places low places everywhere tiny tiny hand prints.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Alright I'll bite. When I was 9 years old I vaguely remember standing up in bed and jumping. I did not say anything at all, I can remember is seeing blue things in the ceiling and feeling like something was taken from me. My mom came into the room and asked me what I was doing. I came to and said I don't know and simply went back to bed. I could swear that appartment was haunted there was alot of freaky shit going on in that house.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My roommate's kid walked into the bathroom once while I was pooping and said "Watch out for the giants that are in the toilet" He then calmly skipped away.
icemage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow reading half of these comments shocked me, please excuse my language but that is fucked up.
bg86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was 2 he requested to watch some show on tv that I don't even know he knew existed. I asked where he heard about the show he told me my deceased grandma's nickname. She had never been mentioned around
him by me out anyone else and it is not a common word that he would have just thrown together with Grandma. Still creeps me out.
One night, I woke up and laid on the ground outside in a star fish position. My mom asked me what I was doing. I said, "They're waiting for me." She doesn't like it when I stare at the night sky now.
My seven year old son told my wife that her dead father (who my son has never met) visits him in his dreams, and told him that someone is going to murder my wife in our own home but not to be scared.
I mean what in the o.0
jasome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:27:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
while reading all these, my 6 yr old girl comes to me for hugs and kisses. I tell her not to ever say anything creepy to us. "Why not?" Because it would be creepy! "OK." She reaches over for one last hug and kiss, and as she's leaving she says, "I kissed a woman. That means I love a woman." I just looked at her and thought, I told her not to say anything creepy, didn't tell her not to say anything weird. Normalcy for our house.
This is about me: When I was three and it was Martin Luther King, Jr Day, we learned about him and his assassination in preschool. I talked to my parents about it and, disturbed about him being killed, announced "I want a gun. So I can shoot all the bad guys!" So my parents calmly and clearly explained to me that people are more complicated than just good and bad, and there would be no way for me to know who were the "bad guys". I confidently said these two words: "I'll know."
After reading a bunch of these posts I dont ever want to have children. Theyre going to kill me or see ghosts their entire life.
samw11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Our 4 year old told us, completely out of the blue one afternoon that "Auntie Barbara has gone to Heaven to be with Jesus".
The following day we found out that our friend's Mum (Auntie Barbara) had lost her battle with cancer.
There is no way she could possibly have known that & we are chicken-shit and have never discussed death with her. Where that came from, I will never know & tbh I'm not entirely certain that I want to!
well i don't have kids but this happend to me...
when i was a kid like 2 i used to wake up screaming blank face just screaming. my mom would ask me what is wrong and i would just keep screaming and in my house at the time there was a ghost...
When I was young, I was in the process of trying different ADHD meds to see which would work for me. One of them worked great- my grades immediately improved. But it also kept me from sleeping and consequently made me really mean. My Mom says I looked at her one day when I was angry and hissed "You just wait until you go to sleep." They took me off of that medication the next day.
Cubitt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't really that creepy, but my parents once told me that when I was about 3-4 or something like that, I said to them "You've changed the curtains in the living room"
But they changed them before I was even born D:
Kinda weird I guess? I'm pretty sure I actually remember this happening too..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I stand corrected, shortly after I commented earlier, my 2 year old son repeatedly snatched my kitten from me and yelled "MY LUNCH!!"... he's not allowed near the kitten anymore
My mom said when I was three, I used to have conversations with myself when I was alone. when asked who I was talking to, I would always reply "Grandpa Ben", my grandfather who died when I was two and who I am named after. Needless to say, it really freaked my mom out.
_iDa_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's 3:30 in the morning in Finland and these Ghost stories are not helping! I just took sleeping pill.
Even though I don't have children I feel the need to share a little story that happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
I am 23 and my youngest sister is 5. I was in my bed sleeping when I woke up. Something felt a little off so I looked around my dark room when I noticed two eyes staring back at me. I realized pretty quickly that it was my youngest sister so I asked her what she was doing. She responded by saying "I was watching you sleep." I decided it was time to get up for the day.
Back in my old job my co-worker's 4 year old used to like going to my office to draw things, and one day she was drawing a little girl and a dog in front of the house, I asked her if that was her and if that was her puppy, she said no that the little girl was Sally and that was her dog, when I asked if Sally was her friend she said yes and that Sally lived with them and the dog didn't like to play in the morning so they only played at night. I told her Mom about it and she said that she has an imaginary friend named Sally but that the dog was new. Kids are creepy.
3 year old son "I am going to kill you mommy" * maniacal laugh*
To clarify at the time he thought kill was the same as to hurt.
Rmw5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was about 3 my husband would leave for work about 2:30am and she would frequently climb in bed with me after he left. Our bedroom was a addition & the windows faced out to the driveway. One morning my daughter sat up & smiled & said happily "daddy's home!" & I said 'no honey, he's at work.' & she responded "well then who's the man at the window?" I did not sleep another second!
sundaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My younger brother had a really elaborate alternate personality.
At 4 years old, he would dress in odd ways (pants on head, and things like that), put on a strange accent, and call himself a different name. He would deny knowing his real name. He even had this big back-story about how his whole family died in a fire, how he grew up in this other place.
My daughter was about 5 years old when I was having a conversation with my wife about my grandma. She was writing or coloring at the table and not really paying attention or so we thought. She then turned to us and in the most serious voice days "Dads grandma is going to die in two weeks." My wife and looked at each other wide eyed and asked her why she said that. She seemed to think nothing of it and went back to coloring. My grandma had a stroke 2 weeks to the day afterwards. She was in a coma for 3 days and then passed away. True story.
My mum and my little brother, probably 4 or 5, were in the mall one day when I woman walked past them obviously crying. My brother, very confidently said to Mum "See that woman there? She's crying because her husband just died." Mum said it wasn't just a throwaway comment, but that he was pretty adamant.
Ilaynam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to work at a daycare when I was in high school. In the room, we had a puppet theater with a basket of puppets. One of the boys, who was three at the time, picked up the police officer puppet, threw it on the ground, grabbed a fork from the kitchen set and started stabbing the puppet vigorously. When we asked what he was doing he turned those sweet eyes up at us and with a giant grin said "I'm killing the po-po!"
Sounds like that kids parents don't think too highly of the police. Kinda a dangerous idea to cultivate in a young mind.
Ilaynam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. His parents were absolutely ridiculous and his brother who wasn't much younger than me (I was 17 at the time) had just returned from jail for his most recent felony charge.
When I was around 4 my older sister (8) caught me sleepwalking. I wandered into her bedroom in a bunny-ear cap and proceeded to use the chair in the corner of her room as a urinal. She grabbed me and dragged me down the hallway to use the bathroom, where I proceeded to throw up dark red. Apparantly the Ghostbusters cereal had a ridiculous amount of food coloring in it. SO my poor parents woke up to my sister screaming, and me all groggy, covered in piss and with what looked like chunky blood down my shirt and on the floor.
Kubea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ironic that it was Ghostbuster's cereal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me this:
She's a preschool teacher and apparently at the preschool there is a ghost of a young child, around 4 years old. The ghost likes to be on the play ground, wash hands ect. There's this one girl that comes to the preschool everyday and she doesn't talk. But she'll randomly go to a table and sit at a chair. She'll then point at the empty chair and say "bokito" over and over. Then later she'll go somewhere else, point at an empty space and say bokito. :<
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I took a little kid(4) to use the bathroom at church and while he's on the toilet he asks "how do you kill a tree?" So I asked why would u want to kill a tree? He says, "because if you kill a tree it can fall and kill someone and look like an accident." ........I just said oh....okay
When my brother was very little he had an imaginary friend named Johnny. It wouldn't have been weird if it weren't for the fact that the man who previously owned, lived, and died in the house was named Johnny. There would have been know way he could have known this.
About a year ago my grandfather died of lung cancer. and about 2 months ago my grandma finds my 5 year old cousin in her bedroom talking. When she asks who he's talking to he replied "im talking to pap. He's all better, and he can breathe now..."
I was babysitting the neighbors' three year old awhile ago, and after asking him twice to go clean up the mess of toys on the floor that he made. After saying "No!" to me multiple times, he finally blurted out, "I'm gonna go get a knife and....and...cut you!". I told his parents when they got home later, and let my little sister babysit them from then on.
Kubea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:52:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait to sacrifice your little sister. You're a great older sibling.
One time I was watching TV with my little brother. I was about 16 and he was 2 or 3. He was playing with some papers and things and suddenly got a really serious look on his face, grabbed an empty CD case and pointed it at me, saying 'SIX SIX SIX', then went back to playing like nothing happened.
Everytime i take a new gf to meet my mum, she tells them about the time she caught me in the bathroom, with a pair of scissors, about to cut my nuts off, because they kept getting hurt.
mrmeth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a friend and his little sister used to sleep walk usually she would walk into her parents room and just stand at the foot of the bed till someone woke up and noticed
Well I am gonna go turn every light on and never sleep again. If you need me I will be in /awww
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
BLOW TREES GET MONEY BITCHES AINT SHIT-my 9 year old son after getting into hip hop. Seemed like a great thing for him to be into music right until then.
Not a parent, but when my nephew was 4, I was teasing him every time he looked away i would tap him on the top of his head, and after about the 5th time he turned to me and says "would you just fuck off already?" That was the first time I heard him speak.
I know you asked parents and I am simply a sibling but apparently my brother said to a psych that he had a spider in his head and it talked with a deep voice.
Arx0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it bad I want kids now just to study their demonic past life experiences.
I'm not a parent, but i've my own story. About two weeks after my first moving experience (being around seven) I always saw an abnormally tall man walk back and forth my doorway. It terrified me and I always complained to my mom and sister about it, it went away about a year later.
Let's just say I was not pleased whenever I found MarbleHornets YouTube channel a while back.
It was around the time the first Lord of the Rings movie came out, I was about 6/7 and I used to pretend I was Gollum. I'd crawl around on my hands and feet and do my best Gollum impression. So one night, I got into bed, top bunk of a bunk bed I shared with my little sister, and went swiftly to sleep. Later in the night, my mothers boyfriend came up to check on us and when he opened the door, I apparently sat upright in bed, basically flipped off the bed onto the floor, "scuttled"(his word not mine) across the floor into a corner where I crouched there, staring, wide eyed at him with a huge, evil grin across my face. He closed the door and went back downstairs.
I woke up the next morning back in bed and to this day don't remember any of it but it scared him enough that he never came to check on me once I was asleep again.
When my friend was little (around 4 years old I think) she used to have night terrors. One night her parents found her downstairs running around and screaming. Eventually, they calmed her down and she said that she was trying to slay a dragon. The night terrors went on until she was about 6 and they scared the crap out of her younger brother.
One time when my brother and I where in elementary school we would walk around a courtyard at our Sunday school and tell younger kids that he is coming for you. One time this 1st grade started yelling and said, Sometimes i see him when he thinks I'm sleeping!", We and after that time we never did it again.
This is more cute than anything. When my daughter was about 4, she was getting curious about death. We had a goldfish die, and she had only recently learned of the concept that life ends. We wanted to be as open and supportive as possible(I remember learning about death, and it was traumatic as fuck), so my girlfriend asked our daughter if she'd like to go on her annual Mother's Day visit to her grandmother's grave. She asked me later what a cemetery was, to which I told her 'it's a place where, after you die, they perform a ceremony and place you in the ground.' and her instant reply was 'and then you come back as a zombie and eat brrrrrraaaainnns!'
Washing the floor rugs of the living room. My mom and I were moving the now clean but sopping wet rug over the patio table to let it dry in the afternoon sun. I had rolled the thing up, hefted it up on one shoulder, then threw it over the table. It made a wet, slapping sound, and I turned to my mother and noted "It's like moving a dead body!"
My easy to smile mom actually went a little pale, and didn't comment. Now that creeped me out.
My boyfriend's little brother had kind of a creepy streak. He was mostly a nice kid, but once when he was about 5 he came up to me and said, "Did you know if I stabbed you, you'd die?". And another time he had these red tinted sunglasses and he put them on and said, "Bloody!" and took them off and said "Not bloody!" about 3 or 4 times.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I work at a garden centre, so children aren't an every day part of my job. But, a week or so ago a grandma was shopping with her grandson. He took a liking to me and started talking to me when I went to put a hanging basket I had been dead heading into the greenhouse. I love talking to kids, so I took the chance to slack off and talk to this young boy whose maybe 5 years old. At first it's standard things little kids talk about -- ie: "did you know I have two sisters? Their names are ___ and ___" -- and he was pretty adorable -- the look of shock on his face was priceless when I told him I was also a little brother (while wide-eyed and slack-jawed he asked "how big your brother").
Anyways, he was telling me about some story he heard about people burning cars. This is clearly something he's been mulling over, and he cannot comprehend why someone would set fire to a car. To him, this is the worst thing a person to do. So, as he's done telling me about these people setting fire to cars, he calmly says "if I ever found them, I'd take a knife and cut off their heads."
I simply told him, "that's not very nice," to which he responded "no... maybe I'd just jump on them." I told him "that's still not very nice," he eventually decided he'd just push them. I decided I'd settle for that.
I found it pretty funny, but I didn't tell my friend I was working with what he said. I didn't want to ruin her image of the cute little boy who was just dying to talk to me. I don't think too much of it because I know that kids that age don't really comprehend death until they've experienced it in someway. But, if in a few years you hear about the killings of some guys that wrecked some cars, you can bet it was that cute boy named Hunter.
My close childhood friend used to live in an area where Native Americans were known to bury their dead. One night I slept over at her house and we both went downstairs at the crack of dawn to get breakfast. Her little brother was staring straight out of the window looking at an empty field. He turned to us and said "Who are those weird men in the Indian costumes?" It scared the crap out of both of us.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:36:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 2 I used to tell my parents things like "Raikus is in the wall daddy." and I would follow things across the room and point. Later my Dad learned from some Indian or Hindu friend that it was the name of a demon.
Arx0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:36:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few years back some of the family and I went and stayed at a cabin deep in the Adirondacks. The youngest kid, one of my cousins, was about 3 or 4 then. About the 3rd night, it was particularly foggy out, so we retired early. I remember waking up randomly in the middle of the night, hearing a loud thud/scratching noise against one of the walls. I quietly peeked out the window to see what it was, and I couldn't see much over the fog. I disregarded it, as it was probably a raccoon, and I laid back down. Then I heard a voice outside. It sounded like a small child. I was worried that one of the kids snuck out of bed and went outside. The Adirondacks are teeming with wildlife, including black bears and coyotes, so naturally I was worried. I grabbed my flashlight, and gathered my nerves as I opened the front door. a billow of fog wooshed in, making everything 10 times creepier. I went around the side of the cabin, by my window, and as I approached it, I made out a shape. It looked like a small child. I was relieved. I asked my cousin if he was alright, but he didn't reply. He didn't even turn to look at me. He just sat there in the mist, stone like. I got closer and shined my flashlight at him. He was sitting there, surrounded by what looked like drawings in the dirt. I picked him up to take him back inside when I saw it... He was sitting in a pentagram. My heart sort of skipped a beat when I saw it, and I accidentally lost my hold on my cousin. He screamed and crawled away, under the cabin. I still can't get the scream out of my head; it was blood-curdling. When my breath came back to me, and my brain recovered from the shock, I went into panic mode and sprinted back inside to wake the others. I turned the lights on and told everyone that he was missing, and was hiding underneath the cabin for some reason. Everyone was worried, and as we were about to head back into the mist, out came my 3 year old cousin holding his stuffed Snorlax, from out of his bedroom. I stood there in disbelief. What the hell did I pick up out there? MFW I realized I was Satan, and I was the one that drew the pentagram.
gaasem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading through these comments, I'm tempted to ask my parents if I had any sort of imaginary friends or creepy experiences when I was younger.
Then again, asking them might freak them out as is.
When I was little I would talk about how weird it would be for everything to be black and white(reffering to black and white movies). My mom thought it was hilarious.
Not me hearing But apparently as a child I used to sleep with a knife under my pillow and when asked about it I said "It's in case one of them comes into my room at night."
My oldest son was about 3. My wife and I were sitting with him in his bed after reading a book. There was silence for a moment then he turned and looked at the open door to the room and with a slightly alarmed look said "why is that man screaming?". After the hair on our neck went back down we asked gently "what man?". He smiled and said "I don't know" and we left it at that.
I on the other hand have had and still do have hypnagogic hallucinations since as far back as I can remember. My lucky parents got to witness:
Me screaming in my room telling them to get the bat out. I saw a small bat with glowing red eyes flying around my room. Obviously nothing there.
Me standing at the window of their room for quite a while in the middle of the night. They thought I would eventually leave so they didn't bother me. They fell asleep and I was still there an hour later. I remember it myself as I was looking out their window seeing a vast open view of space with stars, galaxies and everything. Thing is they said the curtains were closed.
There were other hallucinations back then and they still happen to this day although not as often.
When my sister was a kid in China (6-7 years old?) she told our mother that after she (the latter) died and was cremated, my sister would have her ashes made into a chair, with wood of course, so she could sit on her every day.
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welp, I'm not sleeping tonight. Not after reading these comments.
My little brother age 5, about two years ago, would tell my entire family at dinners (which we ate together at a table like a good family) that we were not his siblings and that our parents were not his parents. He said that he was Jesus' son, and that he felt sorry for us and gave him to us so we would be happy. He's still convinced Jesus is his father... And that he has no middle name
Do to the stunning amount of reincarnation stories here, I thought I'd share this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my sister was little she had this best friend who drowned. On the anniversary of his death (no one told her it was) she told my mom the fairies were talking to her, telling her he would be okay now. Another time she used her play phone and when my mom asked who she was talking to, she said his name and that they talked a lot.
drgk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when I was a kid I used to talk about what it was like living with the angels. My grandma was so freaked out she wouldn't babysit me till i stopped.
This is actually a story of something my sister said to my Mom once. My Mom had just gotten to the top of the steps when my sister came down the hall. Seeing Mom, she asked "Mom, do you have a will?".
Mom got a much tighter grip on the railing and the wall and asked "Why?".
A child I was babysitting at my house was staring out my bedroom window and shaking her head whispering "I'm here. I'm only looking."
When I asked who she was speaking to she said "I'm talking to the trees."
A friend of mine had just passed away from a motorcycle accident. This friend has a somewhat unique name, I have no other friends with that name and know of no other people that my son could have possibly known with that name.
He came up to us one day and he told us that he was playing hide and go seek with his friend name "Christian." That was the name of my friend who had recently passed. I thought hmmm, ok, could just be a coincidence. I think the next day or so he mentioned him again. He said that his friend Christian was in the tree and talking to him.
At that point I hadn't gone to the site where he had died (friends were going and putting flowers). I finally went with my family and son and we left flowers there for him. I never heard my son mention that name ever again, not a peep, not even until this day. It was pretty crazy to say the least.
My parents told me that when I was about 5 they were having a conversation when I suddenly interrupted them to say that I knew which one of them was going to die first. Thinking I was joking they laughed and asked me who it was going to be. Completely deadpan I said "It'll be dad of course. He'll never see it coming". I still have no idea why I said that or even saying it at all.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just wondering, what do you guy's kids experience? Do they watch TV/watch movies? If so, which ones? There seem to be a lot of reaccuring themes and I'm interested in the topic.
One I can remember from my own childhood: One night my mom and I were returning to our house, I was around 8. I froze in my tracks on the front porch and refused to go any further. My mom asked me what was wrong, and I said, in a really strange voice "they've pinned the door. The Pygmies have pinned the door." I then had nightmares about evil Pygmys for several months after.
My grandma (super religious) claims i saw ghosts as a child. One i can vividly remember, (One of the more creepier ones) happened when i was 6.
I lived with my grandma as my mom lived on base with my dad. I slept on the couch right under the window and i can remember always seeing a man just standing on the sidewalk. One night i didn't see him and strangely my grandpa had a horrible stroke that night. The next night, i left the hospital with my uncle and stayed at the house. I ended up sleep walking and standing in the same spot as the man for about half an hour till i yelled, waking my uncle up and he came out to get me.
When my brother was a baby he didn't talk much and my parents were a little concerned. One day, my mom walked into his room to check on him and he looked her in the eyes and said in a gravely voice "Gimmie more milk momma."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up in a house built in the early 1900s. My mom always likes to tell me that when I was little, I would ask her and my dad why there was a little boy crying at the bottom of the stairs. I don't believe in ghosts anymore, but my mom sure knows how to resurface fears. I have quite a few scary stories from my house.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but I was babysitting my neighbors 5 year old boy when he said the creepiest thing I've ever heard a child say. After going to the bathroom, I walked out and the boy was sitting infront of the door, deadpan expression. I was kinda like "Hey, whatcha doing buddy?" He replied, in complete seriousness, "I was just checking if the man in the toilet talked to you, too." A little creeped out, I said something like "What man?" and I'll never forget what he said.
"The man who always watches me go doo doo and wee wee." Needless to say, I never babysat there again.
LP2B ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is creepier than anything I've ever read in r/nosleep. I am legitimately freaked out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have read so many creep stories, I now think that small kids can either see dead people or remember their past life.
ImDotTK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but these experiences are from my life.
When I was young (No idea how old, but it was under 3) I walked up to my grandmother and started talking to her about the time she wore a nice yellow dress while standing at the door way when she was about 8.
That moment I was talking about was more then 50 years old. She told me that I had described it as if it was her father talking to her. I can't recall a single thing.
And then in 2006 she died. But before I even found out, I had a dream that I was in a car with her, driving down a never ending road into the sunset. There was a burnt out tree a few kilometres ahead and she had a massive tube going into her neck (She had to be put on life support and heavily sedated, and this is what my 10 year old mind came up with)
I awoke to my father knocking on the door and him speaking to my mum. I just sat there, sitting straight up in the middle of my bed, and when he came in to talk to me I just said "I know"
This isn't my kid but me, one night when I was maybe 8 I had a nightmare and screamed at the top of my lungs and told my mom how I saw her and grandma at a cemetery and how I thought they were going to die and she got me to calm down and go to bed. When she woke up she got a phone call saying her best friend died in her sleep. I didn't go to the funeral.
When I was a kid, my parents didn't get creeped out by what I said, but more by what I did.
If I was awake before them, I'd sit near their bed and just stare at them until they woke up. It worked pretty well. Eventually, I started doing it to my friends, too.
It's a wonder no one ever had me exorcised.
well thank you reddit, i dont think i want to have kids anymore...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Boyfriend: As a small child growing up in germany he was caught digging holes in the snow by his father. When asked what he was doing he replied "Digging graves for the children". He was about 4 years old. Apparently his parents think he overheard them talking about his fathers time spent in Bosnia as part of the Canadian military. Either that or my boyfriend is seriously disturbed.
so, when i was about 11, i had my tonsils removed (they were nearly the size of grapes, but this is besides the point). anyways, about a week later i still had a high fever for whatever reason. my mom wanted me to sleep in her bed because she got worried i might need to go to the hospital because of my fever (yes it was that high!). so one night, i had a very intense hallucination that of course scared her. i sat straight up instantly and started saying "I'm sorry" repeatedly and then she asked what i was sorry for, i replied with "I'm sorry about the [something rather creepy, i forget what though]" this is where i burst into tears. she says it's okay and asked me what [the creepy word i forget] was and i said "the brush strokes (of paint) on the walls are too uneven. im sorry. i need to fix them." i then get out of the bed and pick up the lamp next to me and rub it against the walls very hastily. my mom jumps out of bed and gets my dad (who is sleeping on the couch) and tells him that i need to go to the hospital. when they walk in to the room, i stop hallucinating and realize what I'm doing and i say "wait wait wait what. i don't need to go to the hospital. that was weird." then we just go back to sleep after i take some Tylenol.
i remember every detail of it and she does too. i think i might have some sort of subconscious OCD about paint on walls...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was just a few weeks old, my mom noticed that the moment it was midnight, I would shriek and cry like a maniac, just uncontrollably like I was dying. It was RIGHT at midnight... like on the minute she said. It happened for a week straight without fail and she got seriously spooked. So my mom told my grandma, and she collected a bunch of knives and put them underneath my pillow to scare away "demons". And the next night I stopped shrieking.
Seriously, I'd smack my mother if she suggested something like that to ANYONE. I'd report the parents who thought it was a good idea to some sort of portectiony whatever as well. That's downright stupid.
Although not my child, my 3 year old niece was annoyed at her two older sisters and come to me and said "I'm going to put them in the fire and watch them burn". Needless to say I became the cool aunty after that.
Not my children but I was helping my GF babysit once when the young boy (8ish) looked at some knives and asked "Could those knives kill someone?". Normally that would be an awkward question but nothing too crazy. This kids tone was just ridiculously creepy
Oh, my experience was in florida in 1990-93ish and the dark man wore a hat or something on his head that kind of looked like zorro's hat from the 70s. Does anyone know what kind of hat that is? And if there is ANY type of association with Florida?? Would be kind of cool if he was like a local hero in the 50's or something...
I am only curious because this being was not threatening at all and I would often get really scared that I would see this 'entity'.
When I was about 2/3 years old I would tell my mom a man with a black long coat and black hat would come in through my window at night and play with me. He had the same hat as you are describing. I only know this because for some reason I can remember what he looked like. And he wasn't threatening at all. My mom said that she would hear me in the night playing, get up and I would be out of my crib playing on the floor. She also said weird things would happen around the house and I would tell her he did it for fun. My mom, my dad and my grandpa (who used to live with us) all say this was a daily thing and every night he would come in through the window. Hm I find it odd that you see him in Florida. This was when I lived in Calgary Alberta. Weird stuff!!:)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:34 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've worked at a daycare center for many years, and there was once a child who would eat ants. It took us a good 3 months to get this behavior to stop :-/
Well when I was about ten my grandmother passed away. The day before her funeral my dad, stepmother, and myself stayed at her house since we had just moved to south Carolina and had no place to stay. It was around 10:30 at night when all of a sudden my dad called me into the next room that he and my stepmom were sitting in. When I got the the lights were off and as I walked in I started to say, why are you sitting in the dark when all of a sudden the lights go on, needless to say I screamed like a Bitch and ran into his lap. The lights went off and on periodically for about ten minutes. I honestly believe it was my grandmother telling us she was ok now.
Walking through a rough part of my town with my 3 year old nephew. He suddenly pipes up with the question of "why are some people black?" so i explain to him that for a long long time people live in different countries and their skin is a different colour because of the sun. I was very proud of my explanation.
I should mention at this point that in no way am i, his parents, or anyone i know of the nature to teach him the content below. The only thing i can think of is that it came from his old fashioned grandparents on the fathers side.
He thinks for a bit, and i can see his cogs turning, then he suddenly pipes up with "i don't like black people. I think they should go back to where they came from."
My heart stops and i look around. 3 big BIG black guys are watching me and i have no idea if they heard but i ran. I ran like i was being chased by the nemesis from resident evil. Then sat him down and had a talk about why what he said was wrong.
I thought i was never gonna get out of there alive.
No. Because there is no difference between colour of skin, sexuality, religion or gender. That's what i believe and also what i would like him to believe.
So about 20 years ago, my son came home from the playground and said he had gotten in a fight with some other boys. He said it was ok because he was going to "hang them from their insides on the basketball hoop."
Naturally I got scared, so I said, "you're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air."
I'm afraid of flying, so I made him take a cab all the way from West Philadelphia to California.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Timbo15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent myself but a friends little girl (about 4-5) told a story that her parents took her from Japan to the US and had to smuggle her in her moms vagina.
xbryn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe in ghosts personally, but my boyfriend told me a story once that made him possibly believe in their existence, having to do with his little cousin. A few years ago, he was at a funeral for his aunt (at least I think it was his aunt), who had been in a car accident and died. They were at his late aunt's house, mourning, when they heard the dog barking upstairs. I think the dog and his aunt's son were in the son's room, which I'm told was cold compared to the rest of the house. Apparently, the dog was barking at a spot in the center of the room, and the child was crying, I believe, and saying that his mommy was there (in Spanish, though). I'm pretty sure this is...circumstantial, but it's still pretty creepy.
Right after my second younger brother was born, i remember going to my mom and telling her i had just talked to god and he told me that she was going to have another baby. "Oh no sweety, i think we are done having babies now." she said. 18 months later, my youngest brother was born. P.S. Now im an atheist.
brreadd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but my todler cousin. I asked, "What do you find worse? Saying curse words all day towards your mother, or bombing a whole city?" The answer was saying saying bad words.... Parents need to teach their kids some morality.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 4 or 5, I would always sleep with my mom because I could never sleep by myself. One night, I had my arm hanging off the bed while I was trying to fall asleep and I felt a licking feeling and I said "Stop, that tickles." My mom asked what tickled and I said the licking. We had no pets.
My friend's mom runs a daycare out of her house. I was sleeping in the basement and the first kid of the day showed up at about 6 AM and came downstairs. Seriously the weirdest kid ever. He started making up songs, one of them said something like "Take a butterfly, stick it in your bum, take it out, and it will feel... so... dead!" I actually have audio of it. So creepy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was around 3 years old my dad was standing on our cabin dock, holding me. Apparently I was giggling and waving out towards the sunset. He asked who I was waving at, I said "Grandpa!" and kept waving and laughing. My step Grandfather who was very fond of me had died fairly recently.
I'm a step parent, so I didn't get to be there when he was little- though I love him to pieces now and he's almost a grown man...anyhow - my brother and I both used to freak our mom out. When we were toddlers, she says we told her past life stories. I have a vague memory of doing so. My brother would tell her stories that started off "When I was out West..." and mine always began with "When I was big..."
boopah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My father-in-law passed away almost a year ago, a little after my son turned one. He's two now, and about a month ago he started regularly saying things like, "poppa's up in the sky." And coming out of his bedroom laughing saying "poppa's funny!"
His death was really sudden and difficult for everyone to deal with, so my son has very rarely heard anyone talk about his Poppa, and he was definitely too young to be able to remember much about him, so when he says these things it usually catches us off guard.
My son told me he would flay me to death and skin me. He has been hauled off in handcuffs and is under house arrest.
awe300 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What if one day you woke up and your nipples were completely gone...?
like no scars or anything, just flat skin
and then once you leave your room you find out your dad died last night
and then several days later, you find out that for your entire life your dad had been sneaking into your room while you slept
and sucking on your chest to make to gigantic hickeys where your nipples should be
because you were born without them
not for any sexual reason, just so you would fit in
When I was younger, little boy, my older brother's friends loved me. They always asked my bro what I was doing and stuff (Don't worry, they didn't actually stalk me). One day at dinner, when my brother mentioned one of his friends asking about me, I sayed to my parents, "I think I have groupies."
I didn't get what was so funny about it.
I remember being a little kid and laughing at the people who were jumping out of the windows of the twin towers on 911. I was 8 and didnt understand what was actually happening but that must have freaked my mom out
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This whole thread is full on NOPE. Ahh well can't stop now.
My 6 year old nephew (sorry, no sprogs of my own) made a bumble bee out of play-doh. He looked at it and exclaimed: "Squish the bumble bee!" and flattened it between his hands. I told him I felt sorry for the bumble bee, and made a new one with remnants of the old one. He looked at the new bee, grinned and said "Zombie bumble bee! I know what to do with that!" and proceeded to TEAR THE PLAY DOH APART!
I know who I'm going to stay with in the zombie apocalypse.
When my daughter was 4 she had sat down next to me at Christmas dinner and asked who was the old lady that smelled like roses that wore the white dress with flowers and a blue sweater and had white hair? She described my great great grandmother to perfection. My grandpa cried and asked her what she said. She turns and says to him and slowly said," for her not to worry because she wouldn't let any bad things happen to her." Weird thing is that the day my daughter was born, they buried my great great grandmother that morning.
When I was a child, we were on vacation in a town we had never visited before. Anyway, my parents found me a babysitter while they went to a show or something. Evidently when they picked me up, I kept talking about going somewhere with Mike. The girls who were babysitting me hadn't taken me anywhere (that I know of), and I hadn't slept (I'm a vivid dreamer and used to get those mixed up with reality sometimes). Everyone has since passed it off as a figment of my imagination. The creepy part is I distinctly remember someone, not my parents, carrying me to a dark colored Saturn sedan that night. Not quite sure what happened, seeing as we didn't know anyone with that sort of car at that time, and we didn't know anyone named Mike who lived near enough for this story to be true. Weird, no?
I was told by my family that when I was about 1, I used to scream every night and have my eyes fixed on something, even though there was nothing there. The screaming stopped the day I got baptized. Freaks me out till this day!
One morning my friends son woke up and said "Tank is sleeping with his eyes closed now. We can't play with him anymore" Their cat Tank had died in the middle of the night. He never saw the dead cat or heard anyone talk about its death.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a few things I remember from when I was a kid:
1) I grew up in Alberta, Canada and when I was about 4 years old, there was a government-owned telephone company named A.G.T. that had commercials featuring a humorous Albert Einstein character. Anyway, every time this commercial came on, I would stand up, walk over to the TV, and stand in front of it, trying to cover the TV with my body. Then, I would fall into a weird trance and begin to dream. In the dream, I'm in a large room with my family in one corner of the room and the Albert Einstein character at the other corner. I was standing somewhere in the middle, trying to walk towards my family, and suddenly the Einstein man was right behind me and would grab me up in his arms. I would start crying and he started carrying me away from my family, and I could see in my mother's eyes that she was upset and was trying to get me back, but she couldn't move. At this point, I would come out of the trance and I would wake to my family trying to tell me to get out of the way of the TV. I remember telling my family what had happened, but they told me that I was just dreaming. The thing is that I remember doing this every single time that commercial came on TV. Weird.
2) I remember when I was about 3 that me and two of my sisters all had our own beds, but we slept in the same bedroom. All of our beds were oriented in such a way that our feet pointed towards the large window that was fairly high off the floor. Well, one night, I was looking through the pictures of a Dr. Seuss book with the lamp on by my bed. I was the only one awake, as I often stayed up late. The window was open, and I remember hearing a woman laughing in the distance, and the laughing seemed to be getting closer and closer. Soon, I heard it right below the window outside, and then a woman climbed up the window and sat there on the windowsill with most of her body inside the room. She looked at me and cackled. I nervously chuckled back at her. She laughed again, and I laughed back. She then turned and jumped down, and I could hear the laughing getting more distant. I tried waking my sister (who was sleeping in the bed right beside mine), but it seemed like she wasn't waking up even though she was usually easily awoken. I just lied down and tried to fall asleep. I told my mum the next day that a witch came to my window, but I was told that it was just a dream.
3) Again when I was about three or so, I remember waking up very late one night after having wet the bed (don't judge me!). The room was pitch black. My sister and I slept in the same bed at this point (poor her!). My dog was sleeping at the foot of the bed. The door to our room was open to the living room, which was also dark. I sat there awake for a few moments and I suddenly began hearing loud drums, as if a person had a complete drum set in the living room, except most of the percussions were snare drum and cymbal sounds. My dog began barking loudly and growling. When I first heard this, I got really scared, so I shut my eyes tight. Amazingly, as soon as I shut my eyes, the drumming stopped entirely (but the dog continued barking). I kept them closed for a few moments, and when I opened them, the drumming was still there as if I had just un-muted the sound. My dog continued barking, but I shut my eyes tight, pulled the covers over my head, and must have eventually fallen asleep.
4) Last one. In the same house as story #3 and around that same time, I distinctly remember waking up late one night to go to the bathroom. I have no idea what time it was, but to get to the bathroom, you had to go into the living room, through the kitchen, past my parent's room, and then into the bathroom. I remember walking into the bathroom, turning on the light, and standing there urinating. I looked up at the smaller window above the toilet and I saw what I would describe as about 2-3 Smurfs with very large eyes looking into the window. I recognized Papa Smurf, but I don't know who the other two were. They looked really dazed or something, they didn't seem to be the happy-go-lucky Smurfs I was used to. When I saw them, I quickly finished up and ran out of the bathroom and back to bed. That's really all I remember of that incident.
Well, that was it concerning the stories when I was really small. I'm so glad that I eventually grew out of those years where it seemed like anything could happen, no matter how weird or scary. I feel so sorry for kids because I know that they see all this weird, creepy stuff that us adults don't see anymore.
BitKid4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm just curious, was that "Albert Einstein" character a cartoon or an action figure like thing that you'd normally see on something like Robot Chicken? Because those action figures creep me the hell out and I have no idea why.
I was about 5 years old and our house was being added to and painted. I was gung ho about it and wanted to help. There I was one afternoon in my little overalls and workboots painting the siding on the deck and supper time rolls around.
My mom comes out to get me to come eat and I look at her with a stern look like any from Clint Eastwood, put my hands on my hips and say: "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!" then continue painting, but then my man tummy was hungry.
In the middle of the night my mom opened her eyes, to see a man eye level with her that just started screaming in her face. She then rolled over my dad and slammed into the wall. Well my dad grabbed his knife and jumped up expecting to see an intruder, finding nothing. She said the only reason she got back in the bed was so that he couldn't get her on the floor.
EDIT: My mom often saw things like this until we moved.She hasn't seen anything since.
My nephew when he was about oh... 5 or 6. At the local wimming pool with his mother when all of a sudden he exclaimed "I like lesbians" and trust me, this kid doesn't so much "speak" his mind as shout it
I see a lot of stories here about kids seeing things or hearing things no one else sees and the parents said they were creeped out.
There are no such thing as ghosts, spirits or invisible men in closets.
None have been ever captured on film that can be even remotely proven. That sci-fi show is bullshit and those jackasses should be shot.
Children have active imaginations and lack experience to figure out simple matters.
Adults also have even more active imaginations and lack the will or intelligence to figure out simple matters.
My children have told me at a few times over the years that they saw someone or heard something. In one case my kid came running into the bedroom telling me people were talking to him in his room.
Creepy right?
My wife proceeded to tell him all about spirits and bullshit like that and sometimes people can hear voices. I love everything about that woman except that belief system she has.
Real world skeptic here.. found out after just a few minutes of listening that it was the neighbor on her porch talking to her older son. In the summer she sits on her back porch and smokes, the older son comes home from second shift and they chat out there sometimes. The neighborhood is quiet and sound travles, my house is 60 yeard old with no insulation, when sound hits the house it reverberates in the walls and it sounds like it's coming from the closet.
Case closed and verified.
There are a half a dozen similar instances in my kids life, each time I explained it to them. My children do not believe in ghosts, spirits or god for that matter and now are able to rationalize what is going on around them.
Some of you, if you haven't taken the time to figure this stuff out, should be ashamed of yourselves for the John Edwards followers you might be creating.
Regardless of anything else I do as a parent, I think this is a HUGE win in terms of parenthood for me. My children will grow up healthy happy and not worried about boogeymen.
That said, the creepiest thing my son ever said to me was:
"Do I get your car when you're dead"
I said yes and he grinned and walked away.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Woah.. that's.. that's like using logic. Is such a thing even possible?
Some of you parents need to get your children checked for esp sensitivity. because if they are they are going to see stuff you will never see in your entire life. ive been a sensitive my whole life. used to scare me until i went to; a therapist and got help and they explained it to me. there are such things as the unexplained and "sensitives" notice it more. True story
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:20:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've never masterbated so furiously in my life before
I read all the stories and I'm scared. I've been up for hours and the little noises are scaring me.
I can't stay up much longer. My weiner is exhausted. They are here. Oh my god th-
Jamamp ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:51:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The ending of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas gets me every time. It's not a very well-known movie but I would highly recommend it. Very immersive story relating to the Holocaust.
Jamamp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my goodness, I totally meant to post this in that other thread about movie scenes that "get you every time". Thanks for the heads up!
35nnnn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:24:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When i was about six, i got into my father's charcoal stash, which he used to light the grill when food need grilling. Being the post-toddler i was, i would take a piece and make drawings under the deck, usual birds and guns and the usual six-year-old shit.
However, one day, after comig home from a rigorous day of public education, i decided to impress my parents by showing all of the words i knew. On the side of the house, i wrote, in first-grade grammar, "i be dead, you die soon."
Believing that a child of my age could write that, my freaked-out parents called the cops. Needless to say, i got in quite a bit of trouble, all with a lecture from the police chief.
Fuck da popo.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did they really need to call the police? I mean you were their 6-year-old kid and they were responsible for you. You learned a new word, they should have teached you the meanings
35nnnn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:56:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess i misphrased that: they werent sure wgo write it, so they called the police. After that, i told them it was me.
Once, when I was a little kid, I did some incredibly creepy stuff that never actually happened, and we were all creeped out and stuff. Then a relative of mine, a cousin maybe, totally did something that mimicked that behavior, thus validating my original story!
momster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What creepy stuff did you do?
[deleted] ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 20:06:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Daddy, why does the man have no pants?"
Oh wait, that wasn't my kid, that's what someone else's kid said the last time I went to the park.
Not that anyone is going to see this but, EVERYONE GET THE FUCK BACK HERE RIGHT NOW AND EDIT YOUR POSTS WITH A TL;DR! Fuck this thread and it's book long fucking comments. You guys suck.
Edit: I was wondering which one of my comments was bombing. I thought someone might get a laugh out of this. I mean I thought I was clearly being over the top. I guess next time I must go even further over the top so you guys can realize that I am kidding.
motdidr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:56:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when I was two I said to my mom, "When I'm 22, I'm going to pretend that I said something with completely correct grammar and syntax. Reddit will surely believe that a two year old could say something this complex, because they are all fucking Downies." Then my mom smacked me for saying "fucking." Isn't that story just wild? No lie.
My daughter is 18 mths and I was beginning to believe maybe she was a little slow from reading these. Glad it's not just me who thought some of these kids speak surprisingly well!
l3un1t ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He wasn't my son, but this kid I tried to help told me that he could see dead people.
This is a story that involves me as a child, age four.
My mother was driving us home after we went on a camping trip, and a tornado was coming our way. Eventually, the twister was upon us, and we had to take refuge under a highway overpass. Once we had done that, I asked her in a serious, deadpan, matter-of-fact voice:
"Are we going to die?"
She responded: "I don't know."
After some unknown amount of time, the storm passed, and we went home.
Yoso11 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 19:37:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man I wasn't expecting "Creepy things kids might see you don't" I was thinking like a kid coming home one day being like "Mommy why do I enjoy killing bunnies?"
So this one time I woke up in the middle of the night and hear this creaking and shuffling noise coming from down the hall. This was unusual because I never wake up in the middle of the night and there's usually a complete absence of creaking and shuffling in the hallway. I then hear one of my kids start crying, and that never happens either because I always tell the little bastards to shut up and then raise my fist up and make my Unhappy Face at them.
So I get up out of bed, my fist ready, and what looks vaguely like my youngest son is already standing at the very end of the hallway, mostly in the shadows so I can barely make him out. And, for some reason, he's standing completely still and has his back turned. So I call out, "Why THE COCKSHIT aren't you asleep, Elroy? You want another epic ass kicking?" Then suddenly, he jumps like two feet in the air and takes off further away into the house, knocking shit over.
I start to chase but I pause to look into my kids' room. I do a double take because all my kids are in there, my youngest son still crying. I asked him what the hell was going on. He looks at me and says, "...the Oompa-Loompa took our Tonka car." I looked down at the floor with a shudder. That fucking R/C Tonka car cost me a cool 80 bucks.
Then I felt a sudden, distinct chill and my son, this time almost whispering, asked, "Dad.....who is The Dark Lady standing behind you?" I turned around slowly because I remember asking my father the same question when I 8 years old one stormy night in the rustic New England cottage I had dwelt as a child. It was my mother. She had gotten a bad sunburn earlier in the day. "BITCH," I told her, "stop sneaking up on people and watch the goddamned kids!"
I pick up my aluminum bat and shout after the fucker who took my son's toy, "I don't care if you're 7 years old! I'm taking $80 outta the side of your skull, motherfucka!" That was when the backdoor window shattered, accompanied by heavy grunting. I jumped through the opening and gave chase. From somewhere in front of me, I hear an indescribable howling that was unearthly or possibly the two neighbor dogs fucking in the approaching alleyway. He took a turn, then another, and then another. He was trying to shake me but I didn't give up. Oompa-Loompa, mere 7-year-old, indescribable entity, pair of fucking neighbor dogs, or whatever else lay ahead...it was not getting away. I started running full speed and could finally see my unknown foe ahead...
The next morning at the breakfast table, my morbidly obese wife started nagging me about all the commotion from the other night. I told her to chill get me my hot chocolate and Kix. But she was insistent and wanted to know how things ended up. So I pointed at the headline in the morning paper: BODY FOUND AT WILLIAMTON CREEK. I read aloud "43-year-old Carl Powers, who suffered from severe dwarfism, was found dead this morning lying in the river. His body was covered in bruises and several bones were broken." I gestured proudly towards my bloody bat in the corner of the room. "See? I took care o' everything." My wife nodded approvingly.
Then my youngest son spoke up. The words he said stunned me into silence: "...that doesn't sound like the little Chinese woman who took my truck last night."
1N7B ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:07:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I told my big sister about all of the people walking through the hallway in our house, like I was barely able to see them but they were there, hordes of them. Was brushed off and was told it was just my imagination.
Until my little brother told her the same thing, not knowing I had seen these things. He said he could see them walking from room to room, all in old fashioned clothing
This happened to me when i was about 11. My bedroom, my younger brothers (8 at the time) and my moms bedroom are all at the end of a hallway. All doors were open, and i see a shadow walk across the hall. I thought oh its dark my eyes are playing tricks on me. Three seconds later my mom says, metalman421's brother why did you get up, do you need something? And my brother says im in bed, i thought that was metalman421. We have never spoken of it again
when i was little i used to ask my parents who the man wearing the hat was. (i'd say black man though because it was more like a shadow person maybe) My parents think its my dads dad as he died before i was born.
When I was pregnant with my oldest son, Hubby and I went to Germany as sort of a belated honeymoon. While on the flight over, the baby starting moving for the first time, and I felt him almost constantly for the next several days - until we toured Dachau. He went still and I didn't feel him again for days, until we went to an old Roman museum in Augsburg. creeped me out that my unborn child was affected by the atmosphere of the place!
Considering my daughter is only four months old, perhaps the strange stares and giggles she was making while I was describing my nightmare to my Fiance'.... It was about Cthulhu.
After reading the comments in this thread, I'm now convinced that all little kids are mediums, and really fucked up dead people like to possess small children and fuck around with their families :(
My son runs in the door on a Saturday afternoon and exclaims: "Dad! I just got to pet a moose!"
What the hell? How? Where? Takes me to an apartment complex across the street where some local yokel is feeding an adolescent moose heads of cabbage and a gaggle of neighborhood kids are standing around petting it.
When my son was about 3 or 4, he said to me, "I like old people. I like their skin."
Sukutak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Brother, not kid, but.. for about two weeks earlier this year, my little brother would do this thing where he would unplug/cover up any of the little lights that are on late at night, whenever he and I were the only people up. The only light would be from my computer screen, and it was really hard to see anything past the bright screen, when it was almost pitch black everywhere else.
For a while, he was content to just try to creep up on me and try to scare me by jumping out from behind something or so. One of these days, he was being so annoying that I turned off my computer for the night and went to read in my room. He grabbed my wallet or so from my dresser while I was on my bed reading, and when I tried to grab it from him I managed to hit my head on the foot-board of the bead, pretty hard. So I'm lying there on the bed, in a lot of pain, and I look up to see what he's doing just in time to see him flash a smile, turn the lights off, shout "Suffer in darkness!" and slam the door, leaving me in a completely dark room, still in too much pain from the head thing to easily get up and put the lights back on.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:17:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok i was like 3 and i came up to my mom and I said mommy there is a man. my mom said what man. I said the man. she said can i said can i see the man. I said the man is hiding. creepiest thin i have said to my mom.
boyt53 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:40:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son said to me "I am going to take all your ash's when you die and give only a little Dan(brother)" Yeah...Idk.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:29:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's okay to flush your socks down the toilet if you don't like them.
I find it interesting, all the stories about people who (or whose children) did or said something creepy involving a dead friend or relative who they had never seen before...
Don't you all have family albums laying around? I mean, I get it if nobody told you that your great great uncle Chester wore red suspenders and did terrible things, but odds are, if he wasn't completely estranged from hiw whole family his entire life, that there are some pictures of him just sitting around. And it's not like your grandma is standing next to the photo albums with a semi automatic, 24/7, yelling "NO! You can't know what he looks like!!!"
Odds are, you've seen a picture of the person, or picked up information in some other way, and you (or your family) have just forgotten. Just makes for a better story to say it never happened, I guess.
IMO, it's still creepy when your kid brings up "The Molester," (or any other dead person) whether or not he knows what the dude looked like.
Once I babysat a kid and we were drawing with chalk
he said "Is that your boyfriends name?"
"Yes"
"I want a baby brother boyfriend"
"You do?"
"Yes but we can't because my mommy is to old"
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:14:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit. You did not put acid in your childs applesauce.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:16:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck is wrong with you? It is a person's choice to use any sort of drug, not yours. ESPECIALLY when the person is just 3 years old. That can really hurt a person's development.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 20:18:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Trust me, if there's anyone who knows a lot about LSD, it's me. It is still not good to introduce any psychoactive chemicals to developing brains, especially those of 3 year olds. Do not try to justify yourself.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey man I'm really sorry for being so irate. I'm coming down right now an I really didn't mean to be so rude. I may disagree with your actions, but I have no right to police or criticize them. I'm sure your son is lovely and I'm sure that you are a wonderful father. Sorry again bro :(
Doesn't matter. It's still careless and irresponsible. One more reason there should be an IQ test for people to determine whether or not they're intelligent enough to have children. I hope you're real proud.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:07:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:27:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What worries me about this is how completely neutral he is. He says it like its a normal story about parenting.
I'm sure he knows he'll get shit for it, as he should, since he is a shitty person, but still. It's more creepy that you gave him acid than him having a standard response that someone on acid would have.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of these posts are about children who experience these things at night. Chances are most of them are experiencing these while half asleep, and are confusing them with real life. They're not used to what dreams are or how they work, so they assume it's normal.
As for the kids seeing dead relatives, I have no idea.
When my boyfriend, Derp, was really young, he thought that when people grow up they have to change their names to either mom or dad. One day, little four year old Derp ran to his mom crying and said, "Mommy, I don't wanna change my name to Dad when I grow up!" It must have been the cutest thing ever.
Ps. My boyfriend told me this story, that's how I know. I promise I'm not a creeper.
lagarco ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:55:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This will get buried but when I was little (5-7?) I saw fairy dust, as if a fairy had just disappeared in time for me not see it. I also flew around my room, I jumped off the last step on mu bunk bed adder and flew around, went to the toilet, tried to jump again and fly but it just didn't work.
This is a more recent one though, last year my sister was having a birthday party so we had a bunch of kids and adults walking around the house. I saw a man walk into my sisters room so I went to see if they were ok, but when I walked in the room was empty. I know I didn't imagine it because I went to the room to find out who the 'parent' was. Creepy shit.
When I was little I had quite a few experiences like that and so did my friends, I think I had a very strong imagination. I'm still convinced that I flew though!
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 21:20:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck all these fucking karma whores trying to make jokes out of genuinely eerie stories. Sometimes me and my friends exchange scary stories after we smoke weed and if you were there trying to make fucking puns and generally killing the mood we would think you are a douche.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:20:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
REDRUM REDRUM... wait that a movie
Lpup ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 09:56:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a kid (6-7), I would wake up in the middle of the night crying. I was sharing a bed with my brother -12. I sat up told him, "It's O.K. , I won't hurt you." I had no recollection of that the next morning. He told me that I woke and said weird things like that often.
Another time my brother was sleeping on the couch and I found a fireman's hat. I ran downstairs and busted his head open with it. He told me later when i woke up about it.
I was sleeping in my bed and i woke up to see me sister standing over me with her hair in front of her face(like the girl in "the ring")
*she is almost 5 now
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:38:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young, maybe 9 or 10, I used to sleepwalk often. My mother woke up one night to find me standing by the front door, my shirt on the ground, scratching at the door saying "let me out, let me out!" Not terribly creepy, but definitely eery.
[deleted] ยท 1312 points ยท Posted at 21:42:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my 6 year old daughter came downstairs from her bedroom and said "Dad, i think Kacey is dead", that's my 3 year old daughter. Of course i ran up to make sure Kacey was ok, at which time my oldest daughter raided the cookie jar.
PwNeDoScAR ยท 519 points ยท Posted at 02:13:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your daughter is a goddamn GENIUS.
MFJeremias ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 14:02:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or a sociopath. Fingers crossed for genius.
jj_yossarian ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 18:17:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think a sociopath would have killed Kacey so she could have more uninterrupted time with the cookie jar.
MFJeremias ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:07 on September 27, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:08:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Those often go hand in hand.
Dusk_v731 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:40:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Evil genius.
coontin ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 03:13:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Takes the name Cookie Monster to a whole other level.
TheAlpacalypse ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:06:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You actually have a cookie jar?
Level_32_Mage ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:29:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
where else is he going to put his cookies?
TheAlpacalypse ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:11:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am confused how he owns enough cookies to last more than one sitting.
Level_32_Mage ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:25:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least she went for the cookie jar and not the thin mints in the back of the freezer.
I've said too much.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So he can torment his kids.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:46:10 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Level_32_Mage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:20 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like your words.
DreamCarver ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 21:44:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Such win. Such win.
SamFlynn2012 ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 00:21:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Clever girl...
do-not-throwaway ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:36:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's awesome. I remember one day my daughter wanting the jewelry at the other end of the coffee table from where she was sitting. I told her she had to eat first. The next thing I know she drops and entire spoonful of food on the floor. I stand her up to move her chair and clean it up, next thing I know...she's playing with all the jewelry.
I eventually put two and two together, the little shit.
Dmash422 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:28:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is how evil geniuses start out.
linguist_who_breaks ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i can see idra saying this as a kid.
i'll see myself out...
zem ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:03:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://oglaf.com/wolf/
Feldew ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:43:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you beat the piss out of her for lying?
PC_Komputer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:05:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I 'ave a littl' scheme...
CagedElephant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:37:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit your kid is smart.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:49:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SKILLS!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:20 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well was she dead?
EndiveMassacre ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:01:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my 75 year old daughter hobbled into the kitchen while i was nuking some pizza pockets and said "Dad, I didn't actually travel back in time to help you find mom, I am your wife from the future, and I'm DTF!"
Creepiest thing I ever did with my wife was F. เฒ _เฒ
[deleted] ยท 461 points ยท Posted at 23:41:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 16:26:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
The__Inspector ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 14:40:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe she was the only kid to live there.
masterm ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:52:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There must be more to this!
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 01:18:27 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ThaMastaBlasta ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:17:07 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You need to get out of this house.
shentaitai ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 11:26:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You probably shouldn't watch "American Horror Story."
Anonymous_Thomas ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:43:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You sir, have the vocal reflexes of a true boss.
Fexil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:59 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sixth Sense? Lost Boys?
panshaker ยท 1072 points ยท Posted at 20:38:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was changing my 2 1/2 year old daughter's diaper when she reached up and touched the side of my face. She looked in my eyes, and said, "I love you, but I never should have married you." It was a week later that I realized the babysitter had showed her "The Fantastic Mr. Fox", and that it was a line from the movie, not something my wife was practicing saying in the mirror.
auntjomomma ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 22:35:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol That must have been awkward.
fun_young_man ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 02:00:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it creepy to change a kid's diaper when they can talk?
freakydude92 ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 02:53:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Not so hard, daddy, I don't want to get a rash"
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:57:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I just threw up a little.
theMoonRulesNumber1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:55 on August 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
-love,
/b
TheInternetHivemind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:17 on November 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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samantha42 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:06:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once, when I was at my grandmother's house, I needed my diaper changed and she wasn't sure quite how the disposable ones worked (she was a strange woman). I don't remember this, but apparently I told her what to do as she changed me.
fun_young_man ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:28:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard similar stories. I remember when I was 3 or 4 I was in a play group where a kid that was older then me was still in diapers. My young brain found that quite scandalous and neglectful at the time. Looking back on it that kid probably had developmental disabilities. I didn't last long in that playgroup anyway, it was to shady and was run by a domineering asian lady.
samantha42 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:55:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, until I read this thread I thought it was pretty common for kids to be potty trained between 2 and 3 (both my sister and I were), but the more I look into it, it seems that the opinion is split between 1 to 2 years of age (the average before disposable diapers came about) and 2 to 3 years (which started with the onset of affordable disposable diapers and new parenting styles...basically the 80s, when I was born). Of course there are some people who that doesn't cover, but it seems there are two big groups.
I have no idea if this just applies to America or the Western world in general. I'm sure the majority of humans are still potty trained between 1 and 2, as those people use cloth diapers and it is in the parents' best interest to not have to constantly wash diapers.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:43:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
or not have to buy disposable ones.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:26:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Disposable nappies are very expensive and horribly wasteful.
snobocracy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:43:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hu Flung Pu?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And by strange you mean 'old fashioned'?
samantha42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:39 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, she was very strange. My dad found out years later from a cousin that her father was a terrible man who beat his wife and daughters. My grandmother was the older child, and when my great-aunt was born, the nurses bound her mother's legs together until the doctor arrived, causing the baby to end up with brain damage from lack of oxygen. Her father would not accept that any daughter of his was mentally challenged, so my grandmother covered for her sister throughout her childhood. She was constantly beaten for my great-aunt's mistakes, and it obviously affected her deeply. She was never quite right, and my dad says that after his father died, she nearly went off the deep end. I still loved her, though. Unfortunately, I never did really understand her until after her death.
tl;dr: Not old-fashioned, but abused and messed up. :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:36 on July 26, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She was 2.
TheThunderBringer ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:02:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The sitter did the right thing; that's a fantastic movie
kindersunrise ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:01:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading the scary "reincarnation" stories, I feel really good reading this one that ended up with an explanation. A cool one too! That's some good memory
Rhesusmonkeydave ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:12:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Screw the supernatural stuff, the innocuous little comment I could destroy my life over is freakin scary. That's like the seed of a Greek Tragedy right there.
heeeeehee ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:55:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've got bad news. That's not a line from the movie.
UpBoatDownBoy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:03:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Great movie.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:47:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good movie. Better book, but still a good movie.
Mugiwara04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I could find this bit in better quality. Damn I need to go buy this movie.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:05:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's currently in my top twenty movies.
I make it a point to only keep DVDS that I love. I rank them by order of awesomeness.
Drive is currently in the #1 spot. I wonder how long it will stay there.
Mugiwara04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, if I did that I wouldn't have a Jenga tower of DVDs in the TV room.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOL. Really, though...how many times are you going to watch Norbit?
It's a coaster. Get rid of it.
I actually have sold most of my DVDs at CEX. Good way to get a few cents while getting rid of the trash.
Mugiwara04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well some of them are there for valid reasons, like box sets of Farscape and various other old TV shows that are actually loved.
But I do agree the actual DVD section needs some drop-kicking. I'm gonna be jettisonning some of the anime at an upcoming conventions, too (con is awesome, it has a "garage sale" where people can sell their own crap!)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey hey...whatcha got?
Give me a list, I might be interested.
franticcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
any interest in a DVD exchange subreddit, if there isn't one already?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me, but maybe others might be into it. If I own a DVD, it's because I love it that much.
Cornwalace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What's your top 10, and are they in Netflix?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:47:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I should mention that the top ten are based on both general awesomeness and frequency of viewing. Sometimes a few on the list get knocked down a few pegs.
Farther down the list I have Blue Valentine. A REALLY good movie, well shot, and freaking depressing. I've only been able to watch it once.
I also strongly recommend Cyber Ninja, if you're into terrible, terrible movies.
hypotheticalhighfive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
man, i effing love Drive. If you like that you should check out the James Caan movie called Thief from the 80s. I think it must've inspired Drive cuz i got the same vibe from both
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ooo, thanks I will!
Drive was great. Well shot, pleasing to watch.
gtfo-atheist-douches ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:23 on November 12, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Said every book reader ever.
nicnax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
awkward.
YourCurvyGirlfriend ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:12:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The most terrifying part of this post is that you were changing the diaper of a person that can speak in full sentences.
you_need_this ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 08:14:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
2.5 years and a diaper? wooo, good parenting right there
itrollulol ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 02:07:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why is your 2.5 year old wearing diapers!?
you_need_this ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol I just wrote the same thing, you have 11 downvotes, my kid at 20 months had no diaper. doesn't seem like good parenting to me, jesus christ 30 months old and a diaper, wtf???
itrollulol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:21:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. There's no set date, etc, but at at the 2 year mark it's time to take a look at your parenting.
you_need_this ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
2.5 years... that really blows my mind, the only guess i have to your downvotes is because those people are not parents.
I bet when this kid is 7 years old, they are still using a stroller, those people make me want to punch them.
Midgers ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:10:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love how you guys just call this person a shitty parent without knowing the circumstances. Maybe the kid has an issue, maybe they've tried really hard to potty train and the kid just isn't interested. There's a lot of reasons other than "shitty parent."
itrollulol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:24:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Until something else is said I'll just stick with "shitty parent". Thanks for your comment, though.
Midgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a friend whose kid was just recently potty trained at around 2.5-3. They're not bad parents, the little girl is just a complete shit about it and refused to use the bathroom. She knew how, she just refused. If they left the diaper off of her, she would pee all over the house and shit on the floor out of spite. No amount of punishment or rewards for using the potty helped.
itrollulol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:34:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I suppose they never struck her? That will sort that issue out fairly quick.
Midgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dunno man, not my kid nor did I know everything about the situation other than a story told to me by the parents. They had a young son too young to be potty trained, so I suppose it was easier to just keep them both in diapers. ./shrug
you_need_this ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:40:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
seems like shitty parenting to me
you_need_this ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:39:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the definition of shitty parenting
Midgers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:51:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, its not my shitty kid. I'm not disagreeing with you I was just trying to point out that there could be other reasons. I guess mine was a terrible example.
you_need_this ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:14:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
upvote for that...
not sure if you have kids or not, but yea... there could have been problems, but USUALLY it is bad parenting if a 2.5 (this really blows my mind..) year old is still in diapers. Same with the parents that have 5/6/7/8? year olds in a stroller. I saw what must have been a 7 year old fat kid in a stroller, i almost threw up all over the top of my one kid that is a year old and walking, my other kid just looked at me (younger than the stroller douche), and gave me the wtf dad look.... bad parenting pisses me off
Midgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No I don't have kids. I guess what I was trying to get at is that you just can't take a situation at face value and call it shitty parenting if you don't have the full story.
you_need_this ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
on reddit it is never the full story, ever. we use what we have to make the "best" comment/decision we can
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:01:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That film is far too weird for kids.
Koshercrab ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:47:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have to disagree. Any kids movie from the 80's or early 90's would trump Fantastic Mr. Fox in regards to weirdness.
Lereas ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:37:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I watched The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth as a younger kid. Not still in diapers, but rather young. Definitely way weird.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:23:13 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough, I just found it so weird and awkward!
D49A1D852468799CAC08 ยท 2696 points ยท Posted at 19:37:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm watching you make my sandwich so that when you die I will know how to do it."
[deleted] ยท 2271 points ยท Posted at 20:39:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, that is sound logic.
NovelTAcct ยท 105 points ยท Posted at 23:33:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Adorifying.
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 00:06:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think you responded to the wrong comment.
Heimdall2061 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:49:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It is, isn't it?
NovelTAcct ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, seems like it.
CriticalHalt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I still had to upvote due to the quality of your new word.
do-not-throwaway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is absolutely the single most wonderful word I have heard this year. I will be stealing that from you. ;-)
Bluedemonfox ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 21:11:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't make it any less disturbing.
[deleted] ยท 71 points ยท Posted at 21:30:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity is optional when it comes to logic.
philip1201 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:34:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Way better than the other way around, but way less common, unfortunately.
ohmegatron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:57 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity is logical when it comes to options? options are human when it comes to logic? logic is human when it comes to options?
SkyNTP ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:41:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have seen a trend on Reddit of a lot of rage comics about children casually mentioning or even threatening adults with death. I think some/many children of a certain age learn about death from a logical point of view ('sleeping'), but haven't yet developed empathy (or experienced loss?) to understand the the consequences of death.
EarthRester ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:30:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Children, until around 10-11, are essentially sociopaths. It's why I'm not against spanking. Expecting your 5-7 year old to consider other peoples feelings just doesn't work because that requires a whole new set of social skills that they don't even know how to use. However, they understand the downside to having mommy/daddy upset at you.
anlupe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:36:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
terrifyingly logical. this thread is making me kind of scared of children.
Carrotsandstuff ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:54:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are right to be scared of children. Children kill(dreams).
NipponGlory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:40:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't ever have kids, kthx.
EarthRester ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:43:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Please consider your own advice.
NipponGlory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I got a vasectomy when I was 16, thanks.
EarthRester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's a relief. Just avoid any career that involves child rearing.
biitchhplease ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:19 on July 16, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, my younger cousin will play with his Simba/Mufasa toys and act out the part where Mufasa dies. But then Mufasa will just wake up and come back in the game.
arefx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:58:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's the reason I keep begging my mom to show me how she makes her sauce and meatballs!
henfruit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:37:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, but, does the person watching them REALLY have to wait for the person making their sandwich to die?
plumber_of_females ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:47:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YEP. This is my policy with my woman. I always tell her, "You handle my sandwiches; I'll handle your plumbing."
LAC1987 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:21:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/008/549/If%20you%20know%20what%20I%20mean..png
Also, wow. Relevant username.
Koyo123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:02:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Careful, fellow man! I fear SRS will have a field day with that!
plumber_of_females ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:15:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SRS? That's one shit-hole this plumber won't be visiting anytime soon.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 01:56:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like we even want you there
like you wouldn't be banned upon entering
shanoxilt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:27:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom didn't want you but due to our conservative government she couldn't afford an abortion.
Zhang5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:49:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's pretty much the entire learning process. You're not going to be around forever to do things for me, so I better learn how to learn to do what you do for me.
LAC1987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, that was my reasoning for learning to do laundry.
Iloldalot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not just that, but basic survival. What if a guy killed mommy while he was at school? Kid has to eat
blackaddermrbean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
depends on what type of meat, he wants to use.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Considering you know how to make a sandwich before you parents die it sounds like he's going to kill daddy D:
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DM;GS
mypetridish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sandwich
Jennfizzle ยท 1635 points ยท Posted at 20:40:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's 49% adorable
51% terrifying.
imthetruestrepairman ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 21:34:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like the presidential election this year..
loves_being_that_guy ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 21:36:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
49% adorable???
imthetruestrepairman ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:11:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ha! Thanks for that... I realized after I posted that my statement was a little dicey, and then decided "eh... fuckit."
adavis2014 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:12:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
51% terrifying
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:19:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
100% practical.
ICaughtThePlague ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:38:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That still makes it terrifying
CJMills ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:03:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like terrifying has a controlling share in the company.
Bypass814 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:41:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
seaweed
50% sea
50% weed
markrobbo96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:31:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Majority wins.
Imagoodboy_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:53:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and 100% Reason to remember the name!
ProtoKun7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The child is obviously Disaster Girl.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least there's no active threat, merely a weird acceptance.
musiclover55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And 100% true.
D49A1D852468799CAC08 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does knowing it's a six year old girl change the percentages?
Jennfizzle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know... I think it just confirmed my analysis actually... Pretty damn cute, but creepy to the core. :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Adorifying.
30YearOldRedditor ยท 147 points ยท Posted at 21:10:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little I told my parents to make sure to leave me their car when they died so I could go to the store to buy eggs.
I-heart-naps ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:22:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love how it wasn't "food", it was specifically eggs.
esbe0735 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 20:57:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not creepy, that's logical.
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 21:01:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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Muezza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:53:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
batman
CocoSavege ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:40:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Creepily Relevant
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:06:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that is so awesome lol. i used to tell my mom and dad when they'd leave the house, "DON'T DIE!"
EveryVillanIsLemons ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:03:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Teach a man how to fish and he'll never go hungry or something along those lines.
Summtgguy ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:22:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for one night, set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:08:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man an insult and he'll hurt people for a day. Teach a man to insult and he'll hurt the people who made fun of him for never learning to fish.
Radishing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I got pretty hard at that.
colonel_mortimer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't teach a man to fish, and feed yourself. He's a grown man, and fishing's not that hard.
tforge13 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:38:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Excuse me, how do you remember your username? It seems absolutely nonsensical.
Edit: no I don't want your upvotes how the hell does he remember the thing?
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 19:52:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username.
RedCrusader ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:04:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Care to elaborate?
boopboopsoup ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:10:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's the longitude and latitude to that damp corner in your basement
Yodamanjaro ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:33:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We already know who you are.
QuasiStellar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:43:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you. That scared the shit out of me for a quarter of a second.
Yodamanjaro ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:49:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe people are still falling for it!
QuasiStellar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just got facebook last week. I'm new, okay? :(
Yodamanjaro ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:20:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not Facebook, this kind of thing has been posted to Reddit since I've been here. You're a Redditor for over a year and you seem to be active on it. You've got no excuse.
QuasiStellar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/kB3KX.jpg
Yodamanjaro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:31:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here, I hope this makes things better.
QuasiStellar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have been here long enough to know to hover over links, my friend.
Yodamanjaro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's good, but I actually posted something good. It's eye bleach, which is pictures of hot women. Definitely worth the click. Don't believe me? Google that shit, it will tell you the same damn thing.
QuasiStellar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. I've never actually clicked it before since it always comes up in threads where people are talking about spacedicks and I don't want to take the risk.
Yodamanjaro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:44:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
People often link it because before they click eyebleach they usually see something disgusting. Eye Bleach is there to make your brain forget the shit you just saw 5 seconds ago. Definitely worth the click, my friend. Seriously though, I don't joke about shit like this.
QuasiStellar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:46:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I clicked it. It's quite nice, thanks.
Yodamanjaro ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:49:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Anytime, good sir.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who's also new to facebook, how exactly does that work?
Yodamanjaro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It just redirects you to your browser's cookie that refers to the FB account you're signed in as. If you have automatic signing not on then it would redirect you to Facebook's login.
LeftoverBoots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In my defense, I'm currently watching Taken.
xXD347HXx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, that downright scared the shit out of me. Well played sir. Well played.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:04:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I upvoted you purely because I feel for how bad it must be to have to type in your username.
ShinyBaubles ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:09:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, kid logic.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:11:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, atleast he knows that he can't depend on you forever.
s3harp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:29:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Imagining Stewie from Family Guy saying this tilts the scale from adorable to homicidal.
Koolice989 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:37:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How do you remember your user name?!?
DoWhile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your kid gave you fair warning.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the hell do you log in?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit Enhancement Suite, probably, or they can just remember long things, which isn't too hard for some.
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How do you even remember your username?
somedelightfulmoron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If my kid says that to me, I shall proceed to teach him/her how to do the laundry.
amheekin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have your username memorized?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck do you remember your username
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you actually remember your username?
Velocipanda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the hell do you remember your username?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's awesome that kids come up with this shit. If a cat or a dog could have that level of logic I'd be amazed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I would be proud if my child said that.
derpy_lurker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How do you remember your username?
TGray115 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like your username.
baconbackflip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the hell do you remember your username?
Bieber_hole_69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, Bruce Wayne had to learn to make sandwiches too.
toast_toast_toasty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
at least you know he really likes your sandwiches...
Emerson3381 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's even creepier that your son was 23 years old when he said it.
Catapulted_Platypus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What does your user name mean?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Those of you who are thinking about commenting about his username:
How the fuck have you missed the "save login information" prompts that all major browsers have?
cuttinace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:44:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How do you remember your username?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I said something similar to my mother a few years ago. Oops.
The_Atheist_Tiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck....... do you remember your username
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:22:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
95% of kids these days would not prepare themselves for the world like this.
95% of parents don't see the need to, either.
You've got a keeper!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...when was the last time you forgot your username?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Teach a man to fish and all that jazz....
AdonisChrist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought about my parents dying a lot more as a kid than an adult.
because then you don't know if you can take care of yourself, but you're usually pretty sure you can't.
LouSkyWaka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...how the fuck do you remember your name?
Painted_Seven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow that's uhh... interesting... haha...
On another note, how do you remember your user name?
wasintme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DAD???
ImprobableScenario ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"After learning the arts of sandwich-making I had no more use of him.
So I killed him."
sryguys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I find this absolutely hilarious and I'm not sorry!
downvoted_for_sexism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess that is the whole idea.
DirtyStanBoozie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck do you remember your username?
LeftoverBoots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How do you log in?
Existance_Failure ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the hell do you remember your username?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when i was a real little kid and went to my mom's bed for whatever reason, she'd ask me what i would do when she died. so much for comforting me from my nightmares, mom
curlefry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How do you remember your username?
thingsyoushouldntdo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This and the following comments were funny, and so worth upvoting. That being said I would have upvoted anyway, just because they have so many fucking upvotes already. It`s nice being part of something.
lotrmaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
not as bad as, "I'm watching you make my snadwich so that after I kill you I'll know how to do it"
(not that I'm saying that's likely to happen)
Horkersaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think the usage of "when" is what really makes it special.
Hjackbull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How do you remember such a massive name when you log in? :O
Derpizzle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck do you remember your username?
layvee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:56 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
daddy, im dying
MaGomez7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck do you remember your log-in?!
LerithXanatos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But that's sweet and true!
Redcard911 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:10:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is your username your WEP password?
Ayleir ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your username. It sucks.
Nathan561 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to watch my mom make my food, mostly sandwiches, so i could attempt it.
vegitalander ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
your username???
Superfish1984 ยท 1152 points ยท Posted at 20:31:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter had some imaginary friends for a couple years named Dodo, Ghana & The Evil. They just sort of appeared out of nowhere when she was about 2.5 years old. It started with Dodo and Ghana, then a few months later (she was about 3 at this point) she came up to me and told me with a creepily expressionless face: "The Evil is coming over today" and just walked away.
Turns out, The Evil was actually a pretty nice imaginary friend, she just had an unfortunate name.
Ihaveafatcat ยท 554 points ยท Posted at 00:00:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That last line made me laugh out loud. Poor The Evil.
redacted187 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 10:00:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thank you for taking the time to type out "laugh out loud" instead of "lol". We need more people like you on the internet.
Muezza ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:28:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol, so rite
keozen ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 14:35:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My face is making an expression of severe disapproval
Muezza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:46:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha
megabreakfast ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:12:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My ass just fell off; I was laughing so much.
astronomer7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:08:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was rolling on the floor.
SoftShock2294 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:58:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm lazy so I just pronounce it "Theevil."
Muezza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNL0KfD0nts
SoftShock2294 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well played.
yawgwin ยท 141 points ยท Posted at 04:01:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dodo, Ghana & The Evil is an incredible band name.
Scarfington ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:42:57 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to make this happen. I want it to be a punk/grunge band with Dodo as the lead singer.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:12:51 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... dot tumblr dot com
hg13 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:15:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sister had an imaginary friend named sam when she was three. I asked her where sam lived. She replied "she lives under your bed. She doesn't like you"
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:45:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds scary. Maybe I'm just imagining it from a movie where a child gets taken advantage of by an imaginary friend, but my mom always told me "The devil doesn't appear at your door with horns and a pitchfork."
hawleywood ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:25:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SC?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:37:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yep
hawleywood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Greenville representing!!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Soul Calibur?
Dammit_Rab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:51 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Boobs?
Superfish1984 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope he has more subtlety than to name himself 'The Evil', though ;)
I am happy to report that my daughter is now 5 and The Evil still hasn't cause any problems. Actually, we moved about 3 months ago and she hasn't mentioned The Evil or any of her imaginary friends since we moved. I guess they stayed behind on the other side of the Atlantic.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:56:19 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're waiting. You know that feeling being watched? The shadow that moves in the corner of your eye? You know it's there.
Lizlove9369 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:48:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughters imaginary friend is named Nimbo. He shot her handsome prince and says the b- word so I've banned him from the house.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:20:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good on your daughter for not discriminating against The Evil based on name alone.
Superfish1984 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It goes to show, you can't judge a book by its cover.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:57:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha, Ghana
SolidCactus27 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:51:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Evil. How does a little girl come up with that? It's amazing!
Cat226 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:42:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, thats awesome.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:45:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your kid has a hilarious talent for naming things
Superfish1984 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:08:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She does have a certain knack for storytelling.
Gairloch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe she just mispronounced it and it was actually The Weevil.
flocculus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin also had an imaginary friend named Dodo, I wonder if it was the same imaginary person.
Stormwatch36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did that when I was a kid. I had an imaginary friend, then after a while I decided he should have an evil alter ego. I'd be curious to see how common this is in kids with imaginary friends.
Viscount_Disco_Sloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the movie "session 9"
XxFrozen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just lost my shit, that's amazing.
Kaskademtg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Read this, noticed you have 666 points... Hmm....
grospoliner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I bet The Evil loves pancakes
sstephens93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"And I will name you: The Evil"
http://okayface.com/okay-face.jpg
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You mean Toby?
swimmyy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:26 on December 22, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had an imaginary friend named Ghana when I was younger! He was a purple mouse.
pkmntrainerRed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, even as adults we tend to misunderstand what Evil actually is.
Studmystery ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:05:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvotes for the happy ending!
[deleted] ยท 1670 points ยท Posted at 20:23:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Getting my two and a half year old daughter out of the bath one night, my wife and I were briefing her on how important it was she kept her privates clean. She casually replied "Oh, nobody 'scroofs' me there. They tried one night. They kicked the door in and tried but I fought back. I died and now I'm here." She said this like it was nothing. My wife and I were catatonic.
Cyprah ยท 1258 points ยท Posted at 23:23:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother said something similar to my grandma.
"I like this mummy better than my last mummy. My last mummy locked me in a room and I drank some paint and died."
ironmaiden2010 ยท 428 points ยท Posted at 00:30:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm starting to believe in reincarnation...
BlackNarwhal ยท 643 points ยท Posted at 00:54:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maby theres somekind of spawnkill rule... Like if you die before you're 5 you get reincarnated.
[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 01:03:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Could be a TK thing.
tocilog ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:45:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And we're all just characters in some MMO played by divine beings called 'souls'.
Neuran ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 09:43:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, then my "owner" loves metagaming and spends a lot of time playing MMOs in his/her/its MMO :P
astronomer7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:09:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, it's like how your Sims can play video games.
Moopies ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:02:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh....
...fuck
sstephens93 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:40:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My "soul" must be a real cool guy, considering he tends to go afk leaving me at my computer for hours on end.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:05:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If that's the case, then I need a damn respec fast.
lolofthedead001 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:22:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And what if this was one of those Easter egg things you see in a video game where they mention something like this.
RickGrayson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:15:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should watch The Nines
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:39:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Checkmate atheists! If there were no God, why would we have spawn protection?!
honestlyconcerned ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:27:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[Precedes to throw child off roof]
jeroxy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You just made me spontaneously burst - out laughing. 30 seconds of consecutive laughter. I love you.
someredditorguy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:02:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some actually think of it as the opposite - if someone dies not fulfilling their life goal, they are reincarnated and get to complete their task as a young person (then die with a soul at peace).
ajkeel ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:10:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Boop.. boop.. boop. beeep
SeknIris ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:14:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Go get 'em champ?
Zippyllama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I can't get the stupid ExciteBike music out of my head.
serioush ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:53:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So if we kill all children before they turn 5 they will live FOREVER!
TylerLew89 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes...100%
aKiDnamedMowgli ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:03:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats actually kind of cool to think about
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:31:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This makes way more sense to me then a virgin giving birth to "god's" son
[deleted] ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 02:25:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 03:28:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He did not forget. His father wanted to debunk the story and hired a skeptic to help him debunk it, and the skeptic admitted he couldn't. They wrote a book about it together. The kid actually went to a squadron reunion and walked right up to people and identified them, calling them by nicknames, etc. Gave very specific details of "his" shootdown that his fellow airmen corroborated.
I'm a very skeptical person and this blows my mind.
HolyShazam ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 13:39:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A review from Amazon I thought helps give a rational skeptic's assessment of the book and story:
Thumbz8 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:09:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to remain skeptical, but I believe in reincarnation much more now than before.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:13:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ditto that.
dilithium ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:14:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love this kind of stuff. it makes me think we're just not imaginative enough to come up with an explanation that makes sense in our world, so we resort to "must be reincarnation".
Wawis85 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:22:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Made me think of thw shell silverstein poem about old people going into a machine and coming out as babies again...
bluestones ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:51:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
its how religion started. we were unable to explain something so we created something simple and general enough to cover almost everything. now we know we CAN explain things people who understand it have no reason to believe in god(s). there is probably some perfectly good explanation for these phenomenons but we don't have the tools to yet so we fall back on the simple and general explanation for things which will later be proved wrong.
ironmaiden2010 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, fuck.
TunaTurner ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:55:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now that's a hoax if I've ever seen one.
IDOWHATIWANTIDGAF ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:26:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Quantum physics may very well allow for non-linear time (I'm a big goose so I'm probably butchering this), or things in the future determining the past. Possible explanation?
wentwhere ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 10:13:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I have a story like this. When I was 12 or 13, my family was on vacation in San Diego; I'd been born in Iowa and moved to Missouri when I was about 5. So my family walks into the train station in San Diego, and I suddenly remembered being there before, right as I walked up to the door and over the threshold it hit me. But I remembered being there as a little boy (I'm female), in what feels like the late 1800's or early 1900's. I was wearing a brown suit with short pants and leather shoes, and a cap, but it was hot in the train station. I remember sitting on a wooden bench waiting for a train, across from two older women who were fanning themselves and talking about the heat. I remembered looking up at the dust in the sunlight coming in through the windows in the ceiling, through the wooden beams, and when I looked up, the wooden beams were there. I walked across the whole open space talking to my parents about how I remembered all of this stuff, and then I walked up to a little historical display with a black-and-white (sepia, I guess) photo from when the station was new, and it had the wooden benches I remembered sitting on in it. I have NO CLUE where the hell this stuff came from. I kind of write it off as a 'weird feeling' but it really shook me at the time. I wasn't remembering a story, I remember looking at my short legs in front of me in itchy pants, and the smell of the varnish on the bench. I don't remember an entire life though, just those moments in the station looking at the dust, listening to the two women, and waiting for the train. I can't explain it at all.
edit: I looked up 'boy's suits' with years 1890, 1900, 1910, and 1920, the 1920s clothing looked closest to what I remember wearing. After looking at extensive lists of hats from the 20s (I had no idea what to search for as far as clothes went but I remembered my hat), I figured out that I had a flat cap, which, according to wikipedia, was worn by 'fashionable young men' in the 1920s. Wikipedia had a postcard with a picture of the station on it from about that time: http://i.imgur.com/uimWr.jpg I was wrong about the windows being on the ceiling, but the windows near the ceiling. I remember sitting and facing the train platform, and it was late in the day because the light was orange and coming pretty directly into the windows. I want to say I don't believe in reincarnation, but wtf. It wasn't like I was thinking about a boy, and what his life might have been like. It was like I couldn't stop remembering or thinking about it if I had tried, not like I was considering facts one at a time but like I just suddenly knew a whole bunch of new stuff about myself. To be honest I kind of want it to happen again, it was a pretty unique experience. My 12/13 year old brain didn't appreciate it for what it was.
Zippyllama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:08:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So you can solve that whole 'which hurts more' debate? Tell me wentwhere, do you remember getting kicked in the junk?
wentwhere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:26:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have no memory of a nutshot but I have always known in my heart that it hurts way more.
sophelle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:39:14 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps that train station is where you died? You should ask, if you ever go back, if a kid of approximately the age you think you were died at any point in the late 1800's/early 1900's, and then try and find photos and shit. It might open up more memories.
brerrabbitt ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 10:51:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had life skills that I "remembered" when I joined the navy such as knowing how to put my uniform on correctly without instruction. I remembered flashes of wearing the uniforms before, along with uniforms that are no longer used.
Reincarnation? I don't know, but it was strange.
wagashi ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:28:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"He shall know your ways as if born to them"
modprofessor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:15 on October 23, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it does!
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 01:49:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a Hindu I believe.
ZapActions-dower ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 00:35:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There does seem to be a weird about of stuff like this...
NotMud ยท 99 points ยท Posted at 00:43:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You sound like you have a cold.
acslaytaa ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:23:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You made my laptop fall off my legs. Where can I reach you about damages?
wanderso24 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 01:06:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
Optional1 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:12:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hyperthymesia case here, means I have a photographic & involuntary memory. I retain memories from childhood mostly, and although i was a smart kid, I often remember screwing with my parents by talking about a past life, often saying things like "When I was a grown-up I have a kid just like me who killed me" and i remember sitting in my treehouse, with a friend who told me he often did the same thing. THis is possibly common amongst children. I knew I was smart but pretending to get simple facts wrong in order to be cute or gain attention seems to be something many of us did.
ironmaiden2010 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:27:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but a lot of these are very weird!
aerodynamic27 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:04:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
child says "I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age neither."
masamunecyrus ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:41:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, there is a branch of psychology that researches exactly this. Work has been published in peer reviewed journals and is quite remarkable.
jconnor1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw this a few weeks back, it was really interesting. Apparently children who do have memories of past lives start to forget them after about 5 or 6 years old. The Boy Who Lived Before
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
They say that children have stronger spiritual connections than we do. A few years a go, at the beach, my sister asked us "When's Aunt caroline going to get here?" even though she had never met, or even heard about the woman, didn't even know her name.
EDIT: My brother, just last year, started telling us his name was, something starting with R, I can't remember the name, Rokka or something. We googled the name to find out what it meant and it turned out being the name of some super samurai, this was right around the time he also expressed interst in Bruce Lee movies, martial arts, and sword fighting.
EDIT: Also, when my sister was still in the womb, we were expecting twins, but then the doctor said she had both of them miscarriage. A week later when she was supposed to go in and have them vacuumed out or whatever they do, they did another scan and found one of the twins was alive. sometime after that, they said it was a miscariage after all, and this happened a total of 3 times(one more).
EDIT: My mom's wiccan.
ironmaiden2010 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:47:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember my mom telling me when I was younger that she thought I had a "psychic connection" to "unknown beings" and that she could tell when they were around, because I would drop everything I was doing and zone the fuck out..
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 01:24:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is when you do a search for deaths due to drinking paint. How many could there be? I'll look...
Welp, turns out humans have a fond taste for chemicals. Nevermind.
Cyprah ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:19:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He went on to explain that it was blue paint, if that narrows it down? :\
Iratus ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:32:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm afraid not. Blue chemicals are pretty tasty, aparently.
Level_32_Mage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:34:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats why Kool-Aid hit it big. And windex.
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 01:35:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, what if kids are actually remembering their past lives and eventually we just forget as we get older? WHOAAAAAaaaaa
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:13:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My aunt was reading a book about reincarnation once. She said she read that babies cry because they are remembering their death from their previous life.
Telmid ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:19:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if she read it in a book, it must be true!
amazinglyanonymous ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
Heroshade ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 00:23:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Question. Do you live in Mid-World?
asherdante ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 01:25:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are other worlds than these.
ApocryphalCanon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:52:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fair question!
mvincent17781 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 01:08:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry, British people, but I'm just picturing dead Egyptians in bandages.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:12:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't realize they weren't talking about a wrapped up mummy until I saw your comment. Thanks for spoiling it.
LordMaejikan ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:37:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's some deep shit, Tommy.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:17:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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LordMaejikan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Rescue me, i think. Season one, maybe.
kneeonbelly ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:57:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here I was imagining some kid having a past life regression that he was some sort of pharaoh...then I got it. You're from the UK.
Cyprah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:07:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually I'm not, but I'd like to visit there one day
kneeonbelly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, my apologies. I guess I assumed that "mum/mummy" vs. "mom/mommy" were used exclusively in the UK. Today I learned.
Cyprah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In Australia we also use 'mum/mummy' :)
misterjta ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:51:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. When my sister was little (like three or four), she explained about how she used to be black until the soldiers came to raid her village and how she died when they shot her family and set fire to the hut.
I'm still not sure if she somehow encountered the concept of Africa on the radio, or what. And she doesn't remember it anymore.
Arx0s ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Child, you have the devil inside you' !
xXD347HXx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:49:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation is a very interesting thought. I believe in reincarnation.
SometimesRhymes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably shouldn't have laughed as hard as I did.
Kajjy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed at this way more than anybody should have.
BroXplode ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck [5].
etwas_naht ยท 1060 points ยท Posted at 23:21:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The rare occasions in which small children have alluded to having violent experiences that led to previous deaths freak me the fuck out.
The most detailed one I ever heard was actually delivered second-hand through my friend's mother. Apparently beginning around the time my friend could form sentences until he was little more than 2, he would go on and on about how he was a Native American named Conchon and that after his wife and son got sick and died, he moved to a mountain to live by himself with his horse. He died of a broken neck when he fell into a ravine. Weird shit, man.
renaissance-man ยท 710 points ยท Posted at 23:32:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually a sad story. Poor Conchon.
etwas_naht ยท 252 points ยท Posted at 23:58:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it? Apparently he would add pieces to the story all the time. I can't remember all the details, but it amounted to a terribly sad story of a very lonely man.
Edit: And, interestingly, my friend has no recollection of this.
red_280 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 01:43:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And this is why its so important to have your cameras out to record this stuff. It'd be nice to have concrete evidence of these cool incidents rather than just people relying on random anecdotes.
planetmatt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:53:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, the X-Files was secretly commissioned by digital camera manufacturers.
Klavier ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:28:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I am researching reincarnation thanks to this thread. It's a bit creepy considering the children know things in detail that they could not possibly have known unless they were actually those people at some point.
etwas_naht ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:01:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's odd when there are not only those oddly precise details, but adult elements, too. I think that's part of what really freaked out my friend's mom. He would talk about death as though he had this very clear understanding of it (which isn't unheard of for a child, I suppose, but it seems like it would be for a 2-year-old). And he would talk about food he ate and such and describe terrain pretty precisely. Very, very odd if she's not embellishing the account too much.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:33:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She probably will be biased and embellish. In any case, how do you know the kid couldn't have picked up inspiration from elsewhere? Kids are absolute sponges when it comes to knowledge. That is their purpose - to acquire knowledge. The way they learn and acquire language is phenomenal. This leads me to believe that it's perfectly possible for a two year old to see a movie or two, hear an adult conversation or two, and internalise that.
etwas_naht ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:31:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I addressed this in a comment somewhere in here. I've always been skeptical of her unfettered astonishment at the whole business. I mean, they had cable.
Maybe it's also useful for me to point out that I in no way believe in reincarnation or "past lives" in the supernatural way that some folks like to conceptualize them. The eerie, or at least interesting, part is how it all seemed so organic, when there is obviously some reasonable explanation.
That same friend and I had 4-5 Violent Femmes songs and 5 or so Sublime songs totally memorized by the time we were 6. Our mothers were baffled and outraged by all the drug references and foul language. Our fathers found it hilarious.
The_Govenment ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:17:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:03:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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scudsdoutmywiddly ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:10:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who frequently gave details of a past life, I can confirm I have absolutely no recollection of the life I supposedly lived before this one, but I do remember one time when I was about five giving a detailed story of being a viking executing someone. I used to always give very detailed stories of when I 'was a viking on the ship' and they always went together. I said that I was part of the same family and what not. Later found out that my family actually was vikings hundreds of years ago, and the names I gave were real people. Again, I have absolutely no memories of the viking days, just the one time I told the story.
AshNazg ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 04:03:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Genetic memory? There's little to no basis for it in science but it'd be cool if it existed.
The_Govenment ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:16:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That would be interesting and ACTUALLY make a little sense.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:04:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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scudsdoutmywiddly ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:22:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't hear the names. No one in the family had read the book on the history and what not. And it's not like they were common names today, they were old scandinavian names and what not. Not saying I'm some weird reincarnation child. Just saying it's weird
planetmatt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:52:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It would make sense because so many people believe they used to be Napoleon of other famous people. Since thousands will have be descended from these people, that explanation would make more sense than a single soul being reincarnated.
I would like to know if any kid has ever claimed to be some famous person who was known to never have children.
The_Govenment ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:32:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that would really be insightful
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:36:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When you look at the maths, we're all pretty much descended from everyone who lived historically anyway.
The reason is..each person has two parents, four grand parents, eight grandparents and so on. The numbers quickly stack up beyond the number of people who ever lived. So, clearly, there has to be overlap.
Barnowl79 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:41:48 on December 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The overlap is from sleeping with cousins. Ask Richard Dawkins.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:14:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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scudsdoutmywiddly ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:20:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a few theories based on reincarnation relating to family ties and intelligence level. The main thought is that through each life people gain knowledge, atleast that's the goal. Every new life they're born with the knowledge of the past lives, basic facts, common sense, and a general sense of understanding the world better than some other more immature souls. This is the reason you see such immature teenagers and then you see kids who put them to shame. It's not necessarily their fault, their soul just hasn't been around long enough to pick up enough common sense. This is just the stoned thoughts of a 16 year old who thought too deeply about his freak thoughts when he was young though. I could be absolutely wrong and have a retarded theory, but I like it.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:38:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like your theory but I don't believe it. I think that variations like that in humanity are a necessity to keep us balanced. Like the political left & right, people who are introverted or extroverted. Plus the way you are raised makes a massive difference to how you turn out.
scudsdoutmywiddly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:26:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
True. Like I said I'm just a kid who got stoned and thought up a theory that I thought was kinda cool. I agree with what you're saying though about the necessity for balance in the different types of people.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:34:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You probably heard people talking about it or explaining it. It's perfectly possible that a relative talked about that stuff to you without your parents knowing.
scudsdoutmywiddly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like I said, no body even knew the book existed. Plus the stories I told had such detail that it is unlikely I could have just repeated it from being told, and there were a lot of stories. You don't have to believe me, but yeah.
bouchard ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:43:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We rarely remember our childhood fantasies.
TheAlpacalypse ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 03:05:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You call them fantasies. Maybe the "white light at the end of the tunnel" is the opening of your next mothers vag00
somesouthernguy ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:43:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man. That means every stillbirth is the result of someone giving CPR and screaming "DON'T GO INTO THE LIGHT!"
TheAlpacalypse ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:47:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think we have some crazy connection, because my brain came up with that while i was reading the rest of this thread before checking your comment...
brofist
bouchard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:57:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or maybe visions during near death experiences are caused by the way neurons fire as the brain dies and it's idiotic to make up new fantasies to explain those of children.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see why this is downvoted, it's the plausible explanation, even if it's not funny or romantic.
CagedElephant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you should take the stick out of your ass.
bouchard ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:50:16 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or maybe grown adults should stop pretending that they're five year olds.
CagedElephant ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:24 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You realize they weren't talking seriously, right? Are you so insecure with your own identity that you feel the need to lash out at anyone who doesn't fit your norm? And you're kidding yourself if you think adults don't enjoy fantasy discussions and other such "5 year old" activities from time-to-time; just because we know more than a child doesn't mean we can't wonder from time to time. You seem like a pretty miserable person, I'd hate to be your child.
I_am_computer_blue ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:29:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Poor horse
Driftco ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:24:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Conchon means Mattress in spanish.
CaptainHilders ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:24:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't. You're thinking of colchon.
Driftco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, your right!
CaptainHilders ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But you know, that's the first thing I thought of too when I read that name. Made me giggle a little bit.
Driftco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, me too. Which is exactly what I needed because these are some creepy stories. Upvoted for the correction.
CaptainHilders ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! And yeah, I don't want to sleep tonight O_O.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:22:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bad luck Conchon.
L-I-V-I-N ยท -58 points ยท Posted at 23:34:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"actually"?
leviticus11 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:50:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How'd you get so many downvotes?!
Wintertree ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:39:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I felt left out.
L-I-V-I-N ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:23:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seemed like a reasonable question to me.
leviticus11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have a bot or something? Jeeze!
[deleted] ยท 101 points ยท Posted at 00:32:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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RoyallyTenenbaumed ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 01:29:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
10/10, would visualize again.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:32:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Pepperyfish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:34:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sure the camera is in my moms room and she is sleeping right now but first thing tomorrow
The_Govenment ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:50:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Its first thing tomorrow :D
Pepperyfish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ok since I took with an Iphone it wasn't exactly steady, I might be able to take a better quality photo later on when the light is better. http://imgur.com/jvNgm
The_Govenment ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
weird...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:39:57 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Pepperyfish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:06:54 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I posted it as a imgur link can't you see it?, well here it is again http://imgur.com/74uJO
The_Govenment ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Scary...
blahblah02933 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:02 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Look up Ian Stevenson he does research about children who remember past lives. A lot of times if someone died in a violent way they will have a birthmark mimicking the wound from the previous life. Its really interesting because the kids always remember their most recent past life so sometimes he can find medical files from the past life that have pictures of the wounds and compare them to the birthmark in the current life.
Pepperyfish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:12:55 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt that would work with me considering we have nothing but plane crash, the current family favorite is WW2 pilot considering how many people were killed by sharks during that war.
blahblah02933 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:26 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I didn't think you could do that I just thought you might be interested in knowing a lot of people who remember past lives have birthmarks of where their wounds were
Pepperyfish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:02 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh yeah I actually saw a documentary one something like that might not have been him, but there was a kid who had a perfectly circular birthmark on his stomach and his uncle who had died like a few months before he was born was killed by a shotgun blast to the gut.
100_points ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 00:18:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait--so this is actually a thing? Is there a name for this phenomena? I've never heard of it before.
pfohl ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 00:32:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation and near death experiences normally fall under parapsychology. Obviously there hasn't been anything definitive but it's worth looking into. These sorts of things are widespread throughout different world cultures. If their false, there's probably something causing it within our psychology that would be illuminated.
I really don't have an inclination (I like Sagan's views a lot) either way but it's always reflecting on mysteries will always be revealing.
nadiajeann ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 01:09:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My father is a firm believer in reincarnation; he grew up in a small village in Lebanon and is part of the Druze religion, a very small sector of Islam that you are born in to. After reading these (creepy) posts I asked him about it, and of course his answer was reincarnation. The interesting thing that he noted though, that is absolutely true, is that all these children claimed to have died from freak accidents. According to what my dad believes, he claims that a child will remember his past life more vividly if the person beforehand died suddenly. When someone ages and dies peacefully, in most cases their memory is already gone (ie. Alzheimer's, dementia, etc) so the next life (the child) really doesn't have any specific memory...just thought I'd share! It's truly an interesting phenomenon, especially in cases where young children are talking about things they have never been exposed to before.
perhapsody ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:21:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard that too. My mom and grandma were big into Native American tradition and Edgar Cayce's books; reincarnation was just kind of an accepted truth in our household. Glad you posted this.
Apparently when I was an infant, I was flat-out terrified of fighter jets going over. Other loud noises didn't phase me at all, but the moment the jets started (we were military, lived near the air base), I'd just lose it. Coupled with the claustrophobia I appear to have been born with, my mom always wondered if there was some violent death-memory there.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:35:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For the sake of science; How does your father explain the increasing number of souls in the system?
nadiajeann ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 01:46:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I myself always try to look at things in a scientific light as well. When I asked him the question, he first inquired where there is proof stating that there are increased "souls." Yes the human population increases every day, but a head count by no means says that souls have increased, just bodies. The same souls are recycled over and over. In the Druze religion they also believe that souls can by reincarnated from outside of our own realm as well; outside from Earth essentially. They consider the entire universe. He also stated that when people consider reincarnation, they sometimes omit the natural disasters that have occurred that have killed thousands of people at the same time, so right there that's already thousands of souls possibly being reincarnated. Hopefully none of this sounds condescending, because he by no means wanted to sound this way, but this is what he grew up believing and I respect that. He has never pushed his beliefs on me, which is great, but it certainly is an interesting thing to consider. Some stories (like the ones on this thread) are pretty mind blowing.
Scoldering ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:39:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think Buddhists would be inclined to say that life is an infinite and ever-changing thing, and that a bird may be reincarnated into a human or a human into an ant depending upon karma. It's all a never-ending cycle of death and rebirth until you become enlightened.
blahblah02933 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:03 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Brain Weiss who writes books about using hypnotic regression to remember past lives say there are more relems for souls to live and learn in than just earth. Some day earth might end but there will be other places for souls to go.
pfohl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's interesting, various smaller religions are fascinating. Where you raised in it at all?
Both of my grandmothers died in the past eighteen months and both were in hospice programs. So as a family member I was recommended various books. The thing that stuck with me most was considering death/dying as a process not a singular event. (Obviously that is different to those who die in an accident.) There seems to be some of that wisdom there.
nadiajeann ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:22:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope; my father moved to the states in the late 70's and married my mother who was raised Roman Catholic. I did not have a religious upbringing whatsoever. I actually consider myself at the moment to be agnostic and I try to be open minded about everything. I was able to understand both religions in my household. I didn't have to go to church, read the Bible, or anything like that. My mom just believed in being a good person and Heaven and Hell, she wasn't an extremist about her religion, which is awesome. Honestly, there are a lot of Druze in Lebanon, but it IS a small sector of Islan. I don't think they really do anything to promote the religion at all; I am pretty sure you are born in to it. Their main prophet is Abraham and they firmly believe in reincarnation...even in my dad's village, they took it so seriously that when someone they knew passed away, they would spread news to nearby villages in hopes of finding their passed loved one again in a newborn. It sounds a little intense to me, but I respect his beliefs. :) And what you said about death being a process....wow! I think those words are going to stick with me as well; very powerful.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If he accepts that dementia diminish the memory, how does he explain the memories of healthy brains being 'transferred' to the new body? I think that either there is an external 'store' and brain disease erodes your ability to access it, or there is not.
ealexhall ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:50:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More philosophical buddhists don't believe in reincarnation as in we're just a continuation of you in different lives. They think that the world just continues and the world produces others. I dunno, I watched this today.
Might be a bit off, there was marijuana involved in the making of this post...
ekaceerf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Way to blow my mind
ealexhall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No problem, bro.
PuckGoodfellow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:39:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Before I Got Here: The Wondrous Things We Hear When We Listen to the Souls of Our Children"
jax9999 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:39:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my grandfather used to say i was an old soul. basically reincarnation, and sometimes, when i look at my nephew, i see him.
dannypdanger ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 01:14:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Admittedly, this is all third (fourth?) hand, so I in no way vouch for its validity, but my mother told me this story once that a woman she worked with told her, about how her son used to speak French in his sleep, even though he couldn't speak French while awake. It turned out he had been having a series of dreams where he was a French fur trader in colonial era America (or pre-colonial?).
Whether or not some/all of this was exaggerated in transmission from person to person, I can't say. But I always thought it was a really bizarre story.
mugs79 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:20:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would wonder if an actual French speaker could understand any of his sleep talking, or if it was just gibberish she thought sounded like French. Still though, adds to the creepiness of all of this.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:42:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. My SO woke up the other night talking gibberish. I know, I'll claim it was some language that no one can ever verify!
Neuronut ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 00:13:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They say that if you ask a young enough child who they were before they'll be able to tell you their past life. It's really interesting!
Shikra ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 00:27:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I could remember past lives. My current one has no interesting stories to tell at parties.
Also, I wish I went to parties.
WhatWouldJesusSay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:33:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Really?
So I thought you said you'd had enough partying to last you for a dozen lifetimes?
Two and a half is not a dozen.
Shikra ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:37:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe if I could remember my past lives I could also remember past parties...
Neuronut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. Let's make up interesting past lives and then go to parties...if we can find any.
The_Govenment ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I know what to do if I have children
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, because children are mental sponges and have good imaginations.
iLoiter ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 00:54:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it may have to do with the fact that children sometimes can't differentiate their dreams/wild imaginations with reality. That's why they are creepy little fucks.
etwas_naht ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:04:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Very true. And I have always been skeptical of my friend's mom's certainty that this all magically came out of my friend's head. I mean, come on, they owned a television.
AlienSpecies ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:58:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've considered this--among other explanations--but when a child is 2, they're not often alone. Certainly my kids weren't watching movies without my awareness. When they said stuff like this, I thought back on how they'd have gotten that info and didn't come up with anything. Before it happened to me, I would have guessed the kids were coached even if subconsciously.
CottonStorm ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 00:36:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was so sure I was about to get Bel-Air'd.
dearnutmeg ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:40:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any scientific explanation to why kids would create these memories?
Tatters ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:37:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It might be possible that a very young child's brain during early development has difficulty separating subconscious \ conscious thoughts. So what they are seeing is essentially a very vivid walking dream. As they mature, the brain would be more able to separate those types of thoughts which probably explains why most adults no longer have thoughts like those. Just a hunch though, I'm by no means qualified to answer.
onthejourney ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:15:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Check out Brian Weiss's work, particularly "Many Lives, Many Masters."
It mirrors some of my experiences as a counselor. Mind blowing, reality shattering.
etwas_naht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Much appreciated. Have an upvote.
RicoVig ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:16:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Little children usually say that because they don't understand the meaning of 'death.' They think that if you die, you can go to the doctor and get 'fixed'
but yea, the Indian thing is still pretty fucking weird.
ray_quazawski ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:24:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Still doesn't explains why the kid remembers something that didn't happen.
Unicyclone ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:28:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A dream, perhaps? My brain has come up with the weirdest shit while it's supposed to be resting.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:43:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but the kid was around two years old. I doubt he'd know about native americans and the rest of the stuff. Its still freaky though. My brain comes up with crazy shit normally but when I'm sleep deprived because of insomnia,that is when the creative shit comes out. I only wish I could remember to write down everything word for word to have good/crazy stories.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:27:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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etwas_naht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You and me both, man.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:27:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
According to my father, when I was a toddler I had a nightmare and woke up screaming, and told him about how I was stuck in a burning building with a bunch of people jumping out windows. Keep in mind, we lived in an incredibly rural town in Portugal at the time and had no television or internet, so there was no way the concept or image of a burning highrise could have gotten into my head. My father thought it was weird, and wondered if that could have been how I died in a past life or something.
etwas_naht ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:12:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's interesting -- I've heard about a theory that memories of the experiences of our human ancestors could have been hardwired into our consciousnesses, sort of in the way that instincts get passed through generations of animals. And since our dreams mark the point at which our minds are more open and tend to process problems, those memories get thrown into the mix and pervade the narratives of our dreams. So, when children dream about being chased by animals or monsters, or having other similarly primal dreams like that, they are tapping into vestigial memories from ancestors waaay back (like, at the run from wild animals all the time stage) and analyzing them. So if there's anything to that, maybe that's part of the reason why kids seem to have access to memories they could not have actually developed in their own lives.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's an incredibly interesting theory, but how could that be scientifically tested? Have there been studies about it?
Also, I'm trying to figure out your username. Backwards - than_sawte, or German - something_not?
etwas_naht ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
German! It's from a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. He verbs the noun -e Naht, which means seam or weld -- basically, a connection of some sort. So it amounts literally to "something drawing nearer/becoming fused."
Here's the poem (it's title-less)
*
Ich bin auf der Welt zu allein und doch nicht allein genug,
um jede Stunde zu weihen.
Ich bin auf der Welt zu gering und doch nicht klein genug,
um vor dir zu sein wie ein Ding,
dunkel und klug.
Ich will meinen Willen und will meinen Willen begleiten
die Wege zur Tat;
und will in stillen, irgendwie zรถrgernden Zeiten,
wenn etwas naht,
unter den Wissenden sein
oder allein.
*
And here is an okay translation (courtesy of I don't know who):
I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
to make every hour holy.
I am too small in the world, and yet not tiny enough
just to stand before you like a thing,
dark and shrewd.
I want my will, and I want to be with my will
as it moves towards deed;
and in those quiet, somehow hesitating times,
when something is approaching,
I want to be with those who are wise
or else alone.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:01:25 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Das ist cool. Ich mag das... mucho?
etwas_naht ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:50:57 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Und das will ich mucho upgevoten.
etwas_naht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:58 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, now I do remember part of how it was tested. Apparently it had to do with the sectors of the brain that were active during the dream. I forget precisely what part of the brain was active, but it had to do with a portion that was related to more basic functions, different from the areas that conventionally fire during dreams.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:42:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to date this guy, and we took a little camping trip together to get away one weekend. We were hanging out by the river when my boyfriend just stopped what he was doing, crouched down and grabbed some arrow heads from inside the rock crevice. It was so weird because neither of us had ever been to that river or town before, and he couldn't have seen the artifacts before hand because it was so deep down. He said he felt like he left something in the hole so he just stuck his hand in and pulled them out. It was incredible. I guess he left them there in another life!
ildabears ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:16:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed when I read Conchon and thought it was a joke, then I read the rest and it freaked me out.
biddily ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least my little sister (aged 2 at the time) didn't rant about her death - it was more she just ranted about her previous life. 'Before I lived with you I lived in Chicago and rooted for the white sox.' Creepy shit man, creepy shit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:36:22 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody should search for a bunch of these sort of stories, and then see if the person they claimed to have been actually existed.
But not me. I'm... lazy.
EntWifeDessa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:05:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder why they say things like that and tell amazingly crazy stories like that? Is it past lives or imagination or influence or mental disorder peeking through? Someone; with kids/PHD in psychology of Children/Smart with lots and lots of around children experience explain this to me!
Narwalsbacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:40:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Afterlife?
SuddenlySpuds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know a woman who's kid won't go anywhere without wearing two pairs of socks. Anytime you try to remove the socks, he'll scream and shout and resist. His mom had to change them in his sleep. She once forgot to put them on him, and he wouldn't move or say a word until she put them back on, like he was paralyzed.
This woman, being sort of spiritual, took the kid to a fortune teller. The fortune teller said that in a past life this kid was hung by his feet and tortured, somehow. She said this without even knowing about the socks. I don't know how much truth there is in this spiritual stuff, but that seemed pretty convincing.
I think if there is such a thing as a past life, it makes sense that kids are the most aware of them. Maybe as we get older, we begin to forget? I don't know, but it's definitely kept me awake and thinking some nights.
ILoveMyFrita ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my mom says my bro and I used to talk about being in mommy's tummy and saying it just wasn't his time. Also I would talk to thin air and not like imaginary friends... And that I died in a fire And my bro drowned... I wish I could remember that!
jmarks7448 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I got chills and fear tears
Skizorbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard a theory before that your greatest fear as a child, or even as an adult, is whatever you died from in your past life. For example, my greatest fear is fire, or my house burning down while I'm asleep inside, so I could have died in a house fire in my past life.
etwas_naht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard that, too. I had a phobia of cashews for about 7 years. Maybe that had something to do with my past life-death.
mynameisCESdamnit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The word Conchon means Mattress in Spanish. Poor Mattress.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my sister went to play with a neighbor's kids (we had just moved into a new neighborhood, so they didn't know much about us). anyway after play time their mom confronts mine- telling them she's so sorry madeline's real mom, dad, and baby brother died in a fire blah blah blah
muistan7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story isn't really a child related one but to relate to a type of past life thing, my grandpa told me one. He does have Native American heritage, and a lot of it. He told me he's had a certain dream several times where he was a Crow indian and a "white man soldier" was chasing him down. He then sliced him on the chest with the sword he had. The reason why this was so strange because apparently, in the same spot where his dream self was sliced at, my grandpa's hair is parted there as if it were a scar. There is no scar, just hair parted. It was interesting to hear.
Iridiumarrow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's very odd. When I was little, 2 or 3, my twin sister and I would talk about our "past lives". I too claimed to have been a Native American. I still have the image of myself being an Indian with bison around me except I didn't look like me. Freaked my grandmother the fuck out, lemme tell you that.
Ralain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like reincarnation...
AlienSpecies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know that it's rare. Both my kids did when they were around 2. No one in my family has a similar story so IDK.
profcath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son started telling his grandmother about a visit to a slaughterhouse. It was in an old barn. Animals were hanging from the beams, and the blood drained on the floor. Some were gutted; some still whole. He described tools on the wall. He told her about my reaction. None of it happened, yet he was adamant. Absolutely bizarre.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My six year old told me a tale of where he lived before he came to be who he is now, and wove a majestic tale of a planet with no crime, flying vehicles, earthen homes, and keyless ignitions. He even told me the passcode to start the vehicle he owned. He was killed when a flying vehicle crashed into his home.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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etwas_naht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently he did. He used the word "Indian," which I changed to rule out confusion. And he did not specifically use the word "ravine," just described one. The whole narrative was in child-speak, but his meaning was apparently clear.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But there is probably nothing supernatural going on.
For reincarnation to work and the kid to have memories, you'd need somewhere those memories could be stored and retrieved. Your memories are stored in your physical brain. When you die, it rots and they are gone. There is no evidence of anything resembling a soul or any external entity that stores memories.
Obviously we don't know everything about the universe, which is why I say 'probably'.
I had a dream about death when I was very young and the memory of it now is as vivid as any real life memory from my early days. I think it's highly likely that these kids had a dream and/or saw a movie at some point that they came to believe really happened. It's condescending to say kids are fanciful creatures, but any human being can be tricked into false memories if you know what to do, and little kids have less knowledge about the world to help them decide between what is real, what is feasible etc.
ImpDoomlord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...woah.
that_pie_face ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These type of things make me wonder how intelligent young children really are. Maybe they're geniuses but most just can't communicate the thoughts going through their minds.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:17 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
somebody should check that out...If Conchon was real and nobody found his body....you'd be famous for a) finding him and b) proving re-incarnation!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:02 on August 26, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WE NEED TO FIND HIS BODY!!!!
Kaiosama ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 21:49:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is some creepy shit. :(
jellohead ยท 105 points ยท Posted at 23:21:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of the common things (who was that famous researcher at harvard who did all the hypnosis?) is really young children remembering past lives. I used to not buy into all that, but now I'm not sure.
A kid up the block who's only 5 remembed a past life where he claimed his house caught fire, and he died when he was a teenager. Sure enough a little digging we found the story and he was able to tell us things that we could ONLY find on the public library microfilm.
Thorns ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 23:50:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
._.
Wow, I didn't know this was a common thing. I remember when I was very little (about 3 or 4) I told a waitress at Bennigans about how I had another family before being separated when our house caught fire. I remember prattling on about this story after we left the restaurant and my sister was carrying me through the parking lot. My family thought I was just making up some nonsense story based off a television show (seeing as I'm not adopted/ had not experienced fire outside of the kitchen setting). While that is probably all it was, I do find it odd I that would have a strong memory of telling a story that out of character (as most of my stories were centered around Disney Princesses and the Muppets) after all these years....
Now this thread has me spooked out @_@
wes337 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:10:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was younger, my mother told me I did nearly the same thing. Always talking about my "family before this family". SPOOKY
ZapActions-dower ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:36:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it comforting to know that you might have another life after this one?
wes337 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 01:08:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No! This one is good. Chances are you'll be born into poverty and struggle everyday just to avoid starvation.
ZapActions-dower ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 01:15:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Then get your ass to work making the world a better place!
onthejourney ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Check out Brian Weiss's work, particularly "Many Lives, Many Masters."
It mirrors some of my experiences as a counselor. Mind blowing, reality shattering.
Elguybrush ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 23:43:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Details, man. Details!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:50:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OP will surely deliver...ಠ_ಠ
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:09:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/ppHjv.gif
WhatWouldJesusSay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Creepiest comment so far, no contest.
brainburger ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:36:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What things?
patmcrotch42069 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:05:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm one of those kids all grown up, it's weird it's like any other memory but it hasn't happened.
onthejourney ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:13:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Check out Brian Weiss's work, particularly "Many Lives, Many Masters."
It mirrors some of my experiences as a counselor. Mind blowing, reality shattering.
rain_wizzard ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:14:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What.... The flying fuck balls !???????
JesusOfSuburbia4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:43:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's one I haven't heard before
niinjaniinja ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:36:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lying on the bed, preparing to sleep.. Thanks for the nightmares
Lieutenant_Crow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, now you'll have stories to tell us tomorrow, return the favor :D
freakydude92 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 23:24:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did she ever make more comments like these? Did you asked her why did she say that?
Please answer, these kind of reincarnation stuff jus fascinate me...
JR_MaRtiNi ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:44:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Make an ask reddit about it!
figyg ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:34:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant
Neuronut ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that was very interesting! I wonder how many other people can remember their past lives.
ColonelMoran ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 23:16:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude at least it sounds like your daughter was one hell of a fighter in her... Past life? I'd have been extremely horrified and mildly proud.
Tfish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:49:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know how good of a fighter she could have been considering she lost the fight.
ColonelMoran ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:56:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well she was most likely outclassed, and according to her story still managed to successfully thwart said attacker/s from their intended purpose.
Correlate: the Spartans at Thermopylae.
Tfish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:06:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I'm planning to rape you, and then end up killing you in the process I'm probably not going to stick around to have sex with your dead body. Actually even if they did have sex with the body she wouldn't know because she was already dead.
I don't know if I'd say she thwarted them from their intended purpose unless she like killed all of them, and later died from wounds sustained during the fight. Even if she did stop them from raping her, she met with a fate arguably worse than that.
Correlate: Burning your house down to stop someone from robbing it.
patmcrotch42069 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:14:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She never mentioned them having sex with her. So that first bit is all your imagination. I don't think dying is the worse outcome there, going down fighting is dying on your own terms and I think most people would prefer that over getting raped. The suffering doesn't end when they finish up.
ColonelMoran ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:52:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh ok I see so the 2 year olds hypothetical past life should definitely have just let it happen and there is nothing commendable in someone whose instinct is to fight back, my lesson here is learned.
ZapActions-dower ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More like the robber burning your house down while you defend it from being robbed.
misterbrisby ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 22:50:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation?
Mickey_Meatballs ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:38:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's the 'old soul' theory; past lives. So...yeah.
Viscount_Disco_Sloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've always wondered why I always get all teary eyed over WW1. None of the other wars I cant think of bother me in the slightest, but that one always gets me.
tmelee ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:44:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. That. That's terrifying.
alrightalready ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:28:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://catsmeatshop.blogspot.com/2010/09/victorian-slang-primer-no2-scroofing.html
It was used commonly as slang.
In 1823.
Kaiosama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:56:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, the fact that a 2 year-old used such an archaic term so out-of-date is disturbing.
MiniDonbeE ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:51:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Nightmares"
BuddhaSpader ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:42:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Im speechless, confused, but now I understand why there are no comments to this. You won this thread.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What. the. shit. Reincarnation?!?!
orangepotion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:42:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My toddler did say things like that when we were visiting old family, and claiming that one specific artifact was his and that he had been cheated out of it. He then said the name of the surviving spouse, "tell him to give me back my boat."
Veery freaky.
L-I-V-I-N ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:45:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is what Ian Stevenson would have called a "case of the reincarnation type." Sadly, he died a few years ago. I'm not sure if anyone has continued his research, but if so, you should get in contact with them.
Ihaveafatcat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:47:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god. That is the worst thing you can hear from a two year old.
Harley297 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Scroof: to go about living with friends at their expense. Best definition I could find on the internet. Its Victorian slang.
shewhofaps-wins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:57:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NopeNopeNopeNopeNope
Storyforu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:35:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your child was apparently a Victorian waif in her previous life.
jax9999 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:37:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when i was a very little kid i used to tell my family about my real family and how we all died in a car accident. my grandfather shrugged it off as me being an old soul. i don't remember it at all.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:24:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's actually a lot of stories like this. there's a youtube video I saw a few months ago called "The boy who lived before." I just hope it never happens whenever I have children, I'd have no clue how to handle it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qXmgUexYo and here's the video
The_Govenment ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It would be freaky to have to deal with, I would just flip out and be like NOPENOPENOPENOPE
littlemusicteacher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son was also around 2 and a half when he finally told us why he had always feared/disliked uniformed police officers. "The bad police man killed my friend when we were in jail." No, we did not watch police/crime shows in front of our son or expose him to any negativity about police officers. We were shocked by his certainty and didn't pursue it with further questioning. He is 17 years old now and doesn't recall any of this. Oh, and he has no residual aversion to police officers! : )
mugs79 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't usually read to far into these sort of casual ask reddit threads, but I saw this title and though, 'this thread will deliver.' You have delivered.
aardvark445 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:26:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Past life experience. Not uncommon. If you ever get a chance during a quiet moment, ask her about when she was big. If shes not already too old, it might come through.
brainburger ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 23:38:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or... childish babbling, a combination of half-understood TV and dreams?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:10:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, seriously. Kids are like tape recorders, they see bits of news, television, etc. and might not understand it, but can repeat it. If there was something to past life kids stories, there would have been irrefutable documentation by now.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, because you never really know man.
SimpleDan11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you ask any follow up questions? Or was that the end of that?
lowrads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I died. But then I got better."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Viddy well now parental droogs. Off to bed my lovelies.
Edit: Your kid is a reborn btw
Niftypifty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dafuq?
cultured_banana_slug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like she's been watching weird movies and having strange dreams.
Pillagerguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:47:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your Two and a half year old is god damned articulate.
onthejourney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Check out Brian Weiss's work, particularly "Many Lives, Many Masters."
It mirrors some of my experiences as a counselor. Mind blowing, reality shattering.
ColumnMissing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck, reincarnated baby.
TheAndyChrist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole.
consolas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
2 and a half years and speaking that good already? that is amazing
Carnivalgames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hide your drugs a little better next time, looks like she found em.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least you won't have to worry about her when she starts dating boys.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If reincarnation exists, then fuck.
lunaticlola ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Memories of a past life?
darkwavechick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your daughter remembered her past life....
ed2417 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My ex's nephew at three did something similar. Parents brought home a frame from a department store stuffed with a generic picture of a sailboat. Kid asks where they got the picture from. They told him and then asked why he was interested. "Because that's the boat I died in."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
scroofs
Angry__Jonny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
anyone able to explain something like this happening?
_Mr_E ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe this is a true story.
Cire4ever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Past life?
DoYouWantAnts_Lana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
your two and a half year old has an amazing handle on the english language.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe since they're so young, they are reminded of their past life. (some of my friends believe in reincarnation)
jrghoull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
did you ever figure out what tv show or movie it was from?
silvertongue91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This seriously freaked me out when I saw it. I can't imagine how his parents felt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids don't know the difference between dreams and reality for a good long while, so it's possible she's remembering a dream.
joebos617 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure I was a viking in a past life. I remember having dreams about being a 16th century sailor when I was really little.
smokebreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is, by far, the most frightening thing in this thread.
mangeek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What's her birth story? Sounds like she wasn't ready to come out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
why would a 2.5 year old know what death is? that is especially creepy if you never taught her what death was.
AMBsFather ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a father to a girl, this shit is sad yet terrifying.
Actinistia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I made stuff up when I was little, mostly about being a kid who died from the spanish flu around 1918. The thing was, even though I was a precocious kid, I hated medicine and was more of a mythology kid. I scared my parents shitless while I talked about inflamed lungs and how temperature affected my brain's ability to grasp what was going on. I ended it by telling my mom my last thoughts were about how fuzzy the world was. It ended up being an adverse effect of having a pre-med student babysitting me. Good times.
CatFiggy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Um. Will somebody please tell me what "scroof" means?
StinkyGrogan69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mum told me once that she and my dad mentioned hiking in the mountains when we were planning a holiday. I was three at the time and said "I like mountains. My other mummy and daddy took me there once."
TaserMcThundercock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Replying to this comment so most people see it - I'd recommend watching the documentary "The boy who lived before" which was created by Channel 5 here in the UK. It's along a similar vein of a young child who seems to be able to remember aspects from a previous life and his family trying to understand it. I found it very interesting.
Here's a link to the 47 minute show: The boy who lived before
stabsthedrama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am very intrigued in the idea of maybe un-suppressing these "memories" later on in life. I wonder how this kid would react 20 years later when put under hypnosis and asked about it.
Pyryara ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, I just learned a new word (catatonic).
invaderdom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister would say that her real mommy and daddy died in a car crash but it's ok because she loves her new parents too. This was her story up til she was like 3 I think and then forgot
D0G_DISH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's a documentary called "The Boy Who Lived Before" that talks about a couple of cases similar to this. The boy remembers living on an island near to his home and remembers his past mother. You can find it on youtube and google video.
NattyBroh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation_research#Children.27s_memories
Apparently this phenomenon has been studied in children.
reunite_pangea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:33 on July 15, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
did anyone else read that in an Irish accent?
modprofessor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:25 on October 23, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is terrifying....and reminds me of that 1970s novel and film Audrey Rose. When really young kids say things like that you do have to wonder about reincarnation. Truly. I can understand your catatonic state after....
HeyOP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:52 on November 23, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oil on panel, "Scroofs"
robo2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Catatonic... nice
CityOfWin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:09:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You shouldn't go catatonic when a demon is around bro
PuppyBreath ยท 1392 points ยท Posted at 19:01:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin's kid when he was around 4 or 5 came into the bathroom as I was straightening my hair. He closed the door, looked at me and said: "I don't want to kill you."
Creepy. He's 13 now and whenever I tell him the story he just laughs his ass off.
gdrocks ยท 831 points ยท Posted at 19:29:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I don't want to kill you...but if you don't get me some cookies your ass is grass, PuppyBreath."
Torger083 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:02:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha! "Your ass is grass..." I haven't heard that in at least 15 years! Gold, Jerry! Gold!
You_butt_pirate ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:59:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Puppy breath really fits there for some reason. It has a nice ring to it
jordanminjie ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:15:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna start calling people puppy-breath.
MadJim8896 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:20:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it just me, or does the "PuppyBreath" at the end of that sentence get read the same way "doll face" would if it were there?
THE_PENGUIN_KING ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 20:48:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just lost it and woke up my mom who was taking a nap. She's giving me a weird look.
boopboopsoup ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 21:06:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
tell her you won't kill her
ThirdFloorGreg ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:25:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't want to kill her.
SoftShock2294 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:56:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There is a huge difference between the two, really.
Coolio226 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 02:01:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for pointing out that large, and disturbing difference. sarcasm
SoftShock2294 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:21:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody asked you to be a dick. Why do it?
Coolio226 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:58:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea... Look, fuck it, I don't know what I was thinking, and I wasn't trying to be a dick. Don't even ask, I dont have the answers.
SoftShock2294 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:21:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hugs. All better.
Coolio226 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yay!
mikeramey1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:37:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want some cookies.
Timmcd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, you have no way of knowing if PuppyBreath is a girl!
Thats-Awkward ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:22:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"...straightening my hair". More than likely, PuppyBreath is female.
Timmcd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My joke was that you are implying PuppyBreath is a girl, because only girls make cookies.
gdrocks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:12:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
..my reply was gender neutral...
PleaseWithC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm very amused at the thought of his/her child calling him by his Reddit username.
drocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hi
gdrocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, Hi there!
ratesjokes ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 00:52:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
2/10
synapsesynopsis ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:33:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he wants to kill you.
TheTacticalApe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But he explicitly said that he didnt
vulpyx ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:29:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
just curious, is your breath like that of a puppy or does it smell of puppies because you just ate some? ಠ_ಠ
SphincterNuts ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:20:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He's laughing his ass off only because he is waiting for the right time...
PuppyBreath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:O
jfrusco ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:42:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Looks at username. DAWWWW :D
successadult ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:04:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'd rather someone let me know they don't want to kill me than have them actually want to kill me and not tell me about it.
PuppyBreath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Touchรฉ.
NotTrying2Hard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He laughs because he was joking.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:27:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that's.... nice of him?
KeepTrack_cakeday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who would want to kill a puppy's breath???
ildabears ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, at least he didn't want to kill you.
blueberries ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this kid saw Family Guy a little too young and just thought it was normal for babies to want to kill their moms.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What about his massive erection?
sophelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:05 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't want to kill you!
FuriousLamb3 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:11:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I. Love. Your. Name.
ClitorisMaximus ยท 2657 points ยท Posted at 19:57:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sons were about 2 and 4 when their pet goldfish died. I attempted to use the situation as an opportunity to discuss death and mortality. After I finished my explanation, my four year looked up at me with his big, blue eyes and asked, "Mommy, someday, will you die?" My heart filled with love and a little sadness, knowing this was one of those pivotal moments when the first bit of childhood innocence was lost,and I told him yes, someday, mommy will die.
"Good," he said with a totally deadpan expression, and walked out of the room.
Later when we were about to flush the fish, he asked if we could eat him instead. I said no, we don't eat pets because we love them, and he said, "When you die, I'm going to eat you."
Ratava ยท 1804 points ยท Posted at 20:13:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I wonder what my generation's children are going to think of the Internet when they grow up. How easy will it be to trace out your parents' lives? With a quick Google, they'll find things about their parents that they never would've learned otherwise. For example... Someday, your sons might discover that their mommy used to comment online under the name "ClitorisMaximus." How will they feel?
[deleted] ยท 1110 points ยท Posted at 21:41:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Dammit, grandpa! Stop upvoting my r/GoneWild posts!"
I feel sorry for our children, having to share the internet with us.
boomerangotan ยท 410 points ยท Posted at 23:01:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There should be a different internet for each generation. Just cycle them every 20 years or so.
CouncillorDayv ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 01:50:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The internet was invented back in Roman days (Romans invented everything, you know) and they've been cycling ever since. We just get tricked into thinking that computers are 'recent inventions' and the internet is the natural modern conclusion of all this.
Also, aliens walk among us and at least 5 different governments want to kill me.
BushMeat ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:02:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
love your designer tin
foolfoil hat!bartonar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:47:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
its called a tin foil hat because it foils their plans!
FullyOtto ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:34:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It might lower teenage pregnancy.. think about it.. make it 25 or 30 years and everyone would wait until the 25th or 30th year is up before they have children so the kids wouldn't get put in the same internet as them.
Lieutenant_Crow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
mm, the issue would be that people who might ordinarily wait would feel pressured into having kids instead of waiting another thirty years.
wastingmylife5evr ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:10:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That'd actually be hella interesting. See how each community develops and evolves. An entirely new 4Chan every 20 years.
bartonar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:48:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Watch as one breaks through and wages war against the internet of their parents.
SoftShock2294 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:59:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're a genius.
PuppSocket ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:13:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
isn't that what IPv6 is all about ... ?
Jason133 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:09:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is so true. I want my kids to have a normal username without numbers in it!
Ninja_Spike ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:04:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Then there will be reposts that they don't they're reposts. Inception...
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:08:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You accidentally a word
Bighogoncampus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You sir, are a genius :)
ikdutak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:48:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i wish i could upvote this twice, just sayin
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:27:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck that. Almost everyone in my generation is a moron.
Barnowl79 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:51:03 on December 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Brony_Starstruck, you are the only hope...dear god.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 01:31:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol
Ratava ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 23:37:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I really hope Reddit doesn't one day let people see what we upvote
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:56:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You already can, but the user needs to enable it.
http://reddit.com/user/Hawkheart/liked
http://reddit.com/user/hawkheart/disliked
1upwastaken ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:47:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I upvoted. Then it hit me how creepy it is for an old man to look at his grandkid's gonewild posts...
Elementium ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:10:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd enjoy freaking them out.. be like "Hey kids watch out on some of those websites, I think I remember posting some nude pics one time.."
Imagine what it would be like tip toeing around porn hoping you don't see your parents.
You_butt_pirate ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:57:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You feel sorry for us? We feel sorry for you! My generation brought you the likes of Rebecca Black
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:33:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry. The way things are going, by the time many of us have kids of Redditing age, there'll be no internet left.
Youthsonic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:56:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yo, that was really poignant
stonespiral ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used this once today already but I can't help myself,
"Leonard Likes this post!"
nowshowjj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
tagged
syth406 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Each generation should have their own private interwebs.
Ignazio_Polyp ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 22:16:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They will have been archived by then. That means you can't vote on them!! LOL NOOB.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:23:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, he's saying that in the future his granddaughter (or son) will be posting on Reddit at the same time he is... and he'll upvote his grandchildren on gonewild. It's touching, really
spidyfan21 ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 22:26:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NO TOUCHING!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:27:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:36:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here is tissue
[deleted] ยท 1446 points ยท Posted at 21:54:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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shadow1515 ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 23:17:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Out of curiosity, how'd you get started with that? My wife likes to write erotica, but she's never even posted any of it online, let alone publish it, due to insecurities (not related to the subject matter, she just doesn't think it's good - I wouldn't really know, since it's not my thing really). I'd love to be able to help her attain her dream of getting paid to write.
appropriate-username ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 00:32:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have her post some of it on reddit....Oh, wow, there actually is an /r/erotica , seems perfect for that kind of thing.
sunwriter ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:36:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not hard to get into. Just write something, polish it, have a few others read it and get feedback (preferably someone with experience in writing, editing, or something along those lines) and edit it some more. Then you just take the plunge and submit it to a publisher or, if you know what you're doing self-publish it.
Source: I've published 6 erotic-romances and work on the editing staff for two erotic romance publishers.
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:50:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Polish it? Even if I had the time, I'd still be Russian it.
menomenaa ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey-o
coldsandovercoats ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:44:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would love that job. Do you have a degree in English or journalism or anything? Or is it just one of those, "Loved it so I applied and it worked out" things?
sunwriter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:51:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm finishing my degree in English at the end of the summer. I got lucky. I applied to work with a new publishing house that was opening up, passed their test, and got hired. It pretty much snowballed from there. I met with some different publishing houses at conventions like Authors After Dark and was able to network and find new jobs. Original house has since folded and I'm now working with two well respected houses.
Alpha-Leader ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does it pay well?
sunwriter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:40:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I get paid pretty well. I average anywhere from $1,000-$1,300 for about forty hours of work. However, since I'm currently a full time student, I don't work forty hours every week. Can't wait until I'm done school and have the time/energy to work 40 hours every week.
AbsoluteElsewhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:30:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cool, I edit for an erotic romance publisher as well. Wonder how many of us are on Reddit...
sunwriter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:37:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of us were on here.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:41:11 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
IF YOU GET A BONER THEN IT IS GOOD.
Lereas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Consider that the author of 50 shades of gray was just writing twilight Slash fic that got really popular, and now is a millionaire.
Deseao ยท 87 points ยท Posted at 00:40:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Suddenly your son eating you takes on a whole new meaning.
bl1nds1ght ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 01:03:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wooooooow. Just gross enough to make me smile.
butters_owns ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:34:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Laughed more at this comment than the one you replied too.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 21:57:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 22:00:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:44:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, please do an AMA. I was just about to write you when I saw that it had already been requested.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:38:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd also love for you to do an AMA!
MaxMcI ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 22:10:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can you do an AMA? also, links to your work?
Cycle_Breaker ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:07:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not to be redundant, but, Please do an AMA. :-)
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 00:12:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like the point was exactly to be redundant.
AustinYQM ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:43:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
50 Shades of WTF
LordMaejikan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:35:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Link please?
I'm kind of in that sort of mood right now.
Panda_S3X ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:28:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
เฒ _เฒ really, mom?
talk about the awkwardness.
Leeleebug ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:04:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh? Anything that I might know??
Icalasari ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:55:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My future children should feel ok if they need to tell me anything, because at least they aren't as fucked up as I am
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:10:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Hallc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
See exhibit A: Chandler Bing.
ColumnMissing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome! What stuff have you written?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ColumnMissing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:04:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually like reading regular stuff. It's sad that fetish stuff sells best. :(
Marimba_Ani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You use your real name for the erotica? I though pseudonyms were the rule in that line of work.
Cheers!
dml180283 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does 50 shades of grey make you furious?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:55:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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dml180283 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read 5 pages and threw it away. It was like a mildy retarded teenager wrote it. I read here on reddit, that it was originally Twilight fan fiction. So it makes sense that it was written so badly.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or, eventually, a whole world of masturbating...
lyrrael ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad writes erotica on the side. There is a whole world of wtf out there for me. I totally feel your kids' future pain.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you... uhmm... by any chance...
Jesus_luvs_Jenkem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How's the smut business, Jackie?
pdmcmahon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:14 on September 21, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't know, Dude. I'm in publishing.
Batman_Von_Suparman2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Since you said your kids were once 2-4 Im guessing they are older now. Once they start being interested in sexual things have you thought about using your novels as a example?
CagedElephant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:52:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Any tips for a 17 year old wannabe erotica writer? Such as: How the hell do I explain this to my parents.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:56 on November 13, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Point and game!
DANCE_WITH_BEARS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your name will make them WTF more then anything.
[deleted] ยท 1076 points ยท Posted at 20:55:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dude, I just found 412 pictures of my mom doing a duckface and that my dad spent his whole time making a load of misogynist comments on reddit.com
Alpha-Leader ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:19:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't need reddit to know my dad's misogynist comments.
[deleted] ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 21:23:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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BreadHimself ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 21:36:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ooh Dad...
beaverboyz ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 21:40:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
classic dad
TryingToSucceed ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:49:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Classic Schmosby.
PretendPhD ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:19:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no YOU'RE schmoopie!
tikatwit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe we're still using dude in 2032... My 2012 self hopes that something new and completely random comes along. Like "Jedi, I just found 412 pictures of my mom doing a duckface and that my dad spent his whole time making a load of misogynist comments on reddit.com"
Also, pretty exciting that in 2032 we will still be able to count to 412 (Zaphod Beeblebrox would be happy to know this).
jellohead ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:04:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you believe search results would return anything relevant from 20 years in the past? They won't. The only place I can find any of my internet for even 10 years is on the way back machine.
EvilFucker ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 23:12:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't go through and delete old Facebook posts, and Facebook is still up and running in 20 years, there's no reason that today's stuff wouldn't show up, especially with the timeline feature as it stands today.
stankbucket ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:43:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's assuming Facebook is still around and relevant. The internet has this way of cleaning house over time, like designed bit-rot.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ten years is about right, since that's when it really started to take off. The internet is 'bigger' now. Also, you have the way back machine. Do you think that will not be there in some form in the future?
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 21:27:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've already found out more than I want to know about my family heritage with Ancestry.com. I don't want the future generations of my family finding all the links to all of the screen names I'll ever hold in my entire life. The 1999 Yahoo Chat days were something no one needs to know about me.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:12:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:20:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Luckily, without providing an accurate screen name you'll never know what happened the first time I ever lived alone, with a mic and webcam. But I'm sure everyone's imagination would be nearly correct.
FishStand ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 22:24:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You did song requests on Yahoo?
[deleted] ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 21:10:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I believe I may start a game of Civilization as the Romans and pretend that I am ClitorisMaximus, the living God of my people! You just made my day better.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only if you force your world into a millennia long war and then post on reddit about it.
notsobsequious ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:28:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And reading your statement has made me a better person. One hundred Upvotes
Lefthandedsock ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:31:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a child of internet savvy parents, I would really rather not know anything about their online ventures and I sincerely hope my future children will feel the same way.
notsobsequious ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:29:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh lighten up honey. Just be happy your parents ate still sexually active. It bodes well for your future.
Lefthandedsock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:38:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My father is dead. Please do not respond to this reply.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was this directed solely at notsobsequious or are the rest of us not to reply either?
Lefthandedsock ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:06:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I don't mind. I just hate when people call me honey and I didn't want sympathy from him/her.
savageboredom ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:17:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've spent some time thinking about this and what that will be like. Even though I have a healthy relationship with them, I honestly don't know much about what my grandparents are really like, just who they are in front of me. Nevermind what they were like when they were yoing. Same, to a somewhat lesser extent, with my parents. But our generation documents absolutely everything. If they're willing to go through it, our kids and grandkids are going to know exactly how we felt and what we were thinking about all sorts of mundane bullshit.
astronomer7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In a way I do wish I knew those things about my grandparents and beyond that. I've never been able to know them (three of my grandparents passed away before I was born), and I would be curious to know more about them... anything at all, really. My parents didn't seem to pay attention to anything at all, so when I ask I get pretty much nothing. XD
savageboredom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:00:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, me too. I love my grandmother, but I wish I knew her as a more fleshed out human being. People are so much more interesting than what's on the surface, family members included.
Sometimes our parents and grandparents leave behind journals and diaries for us to go through, but we'll leave rich multimedia experiences.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:10:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck... I... I... never thought of this.
must reconsider my entire life
puss_parkerswidow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:13:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Having been raised by ClitorisMaximus, I bet they will laugh their asses off. I know 3 young men raised by a very raunchy and funny mom. It seems to have ended up just fine. They do not seem traumatized or embarrassed. Her creative punishments come up in conversation often and they are so good, they make me want kids for about .2 seconds.
astronomer7 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:41:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Creative punishments?" Do tell.
puss_parkerswidow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:02:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
best one I recall was anytime the boys were an ass in public she made them sing the punishment song, and that was the Carpenter's song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDPMmaHWj1I
top of the world
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seconding this. Please do tell. I've been told by multiple people that my personality is like the mother from Meet the Fockers, so I'd really like to hear how someone with children integrates a similar personality.
puss_parkerswidow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am new to Reddit, so forgive me if I do not yet understand the rules, I have said this to another poster. My favorite story of hers is that whenever her boys would act like an ass in public, she would make them sing what she called the punishment song, out loud, and in front of everyone, and it was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDPMmaHWj1I
cookedbread ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:18:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It'll be weird watching "I love the '10s" or whatever in the future and them talking about the duckface like it was the equivalent of wearing bell bottoms in the 70s.
nameeS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:28:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're ruining my internet experience.
BlurrySandwich ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine it will be similar to how you don't want to be facebook friends with your parents. No one will want to be digitally associated with their parents in the future either.
notsobsequious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:23:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god. I have a teenager who also loves Reddit. Thank goodness she does not know my moniker. I can be pretty inappropriate at times.
douchetag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:05:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant.
Dandistine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The sons will probably post in a few years under the names BigusDickus and RonHugenDong.
makesan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He wouldn't want to eat her either.
eranigan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome... That's funny...
bochelimaximus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a pleasure to meet you ClitorisMaximus.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I knew it was gonna come to the awesome username. I imagine this raging horn. It needs to be eatin
downvotesmakemehard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Buy stock in therapy clinics. NOW.
SimpleDan11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention they are going to eat ClitorisMaximus
Sarah_Connor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That mom was a milf in her day?
Ratava ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're one to talk, Sarah_Connor!
Gruffyd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Instead of saying that when they were young that they helped build the space shuttle, they'll be going on about how they came up with YOLO
Hotdog_Water ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:27:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant
Zecriss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Think of what it will do to our politicians careers xD
cptspiffy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I literally stopped going to one of my favorite forums because of some of the things I posted there. By the time my daughters are old enough to be savvy, there will be no links between me and that place.
peskyprehensilepenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:34:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe they'll finally understand how truly special their parents are.relevant user name
patmcrotch42069 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a fucking rad-ass username! I don't normally read usernames, I would have missed that if I didn't read your comment. It would probably feel good knowing my mom was a baller.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I anticipate it will be something to the effect of
"You mean the internet had things other than Coke ads and internet banking?"
JAsherP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope Myspace is still around in 20 years.
rachface636 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you should have a million up votes for that one. I wish I had magic wand to deliver you more. I'm still laughing.
curlycatsockthing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Opa would search our names on Google and he found a page from that mentioned my mom's high school and said that she was married to a guy who was insanely obsessed with her when she was younger. She isn't married to him. Haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:44 on August 15, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And thats the story of grampa I_FISTED_JESUS. He died of a a mysterious infection on his forearm.
dinnercoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:07 on October 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dear god I'm crying.
dydus ยท 681 points ยท Posted at 20:00:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can you do an AMA? "My son is Hannibal reborn AMA"
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:55:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know the top comment will be "PROOF"
SpermWhale ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:12:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More like, my son inhaled a few grams of bath salt. AMA.
johnjohnson559 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:46:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'll be eating your liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
NicoleAmina ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also add in your erotica writing career . Sounds like a winner to me.
Catapulted_Platypus ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who is "Hannibal Reborn"?
dydus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:00:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is Hannibal. Hannibal Lecter is introduced in the 1981 novel Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and a cannibalistic serial killer.
MadeOfDust ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 21:33:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More like Cannibal.
DiamondSoul ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:36:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thatsthejoke.avi
Wartburg13 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:58:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WOOSH
๐๏ธ MoNkEyxJOSHH ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 21:09:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the best one I've read so far, or at least the funniest :P
CaptainHaggles ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 20:33:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck.... No kids for me.
sarah_cate1 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:24:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This takes on a whole new angle when I consider your username.
r3dwash ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:35:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Around that same age my little sister told my grandma that when she died my sister was going to make a necklace out of her bones.
astronomer7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:44:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So they could be with her forever...? Maybe?
monoclemayhem ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 21:22:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Eating ClitorisMaximus? Sounds like an Oedipal issue perhaps?
Grand_Theft_Audio ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:32:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you're going to want to keep your eye on that one.
bazanzai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:49:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At the moment your post has 666 upvotes. Your son confirmed for Damien.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:54:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A parent called ClitorisMaximus... hmmm?
Prathmun ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:28:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How else would he grok you in fullness?
eonge ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:47:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All he wanted to do was to grok you, c'mon.
BigTortoise ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:35:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think your kid likes you.
brielem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
best story so far
The_Lemon_Law ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That....that's enough of this thread for me...
Ninjitsuzukai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh my god...did you find him a psychiatrist?
theoldfamiliarsting ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:16:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I suspect you've left some Heinlein sitting around.
jrghoull ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:12:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
upvoted and thanks for the laugh. Horrible for you, but from a listeners perspective, it could be seen as completely hilarious how you tried to do the best you could on a very important day, and that things then backfired in a very creepy way.
Perk-a-Derk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least he's willing to wait?
opus13th ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:25:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dafuq did i just read
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:46:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So, er... is your kid cruel to animals?
leopardmoose ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:50:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Please pass my up vote on to your son, in the form of a high five!
llII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You were going to flush the fish? Down the toilet or what? Don't you have a garden or something where you could have buried the fish?
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:45:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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llII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My God. I couldn't do that, let alone when it was my pet. ;_;
carlotta4th ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:26:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably the modern equivalent of a burial at sea... except, it's flushing the fish down the toilet.
llII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:31:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel that flushing a fish down the toilet is more like putting it in the trash than a respectful burial.
carlotta4th ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:57:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It totally is. After finding nemo came out many kids started flushing their fish down the toilets... one water company actually had to come out and make a statement about it.
Lieutenant_Crow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:08:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh gawd that's awful. Also kind of hilarious.
Mellytonin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's so he can go back to the ocean!
LOOK_MA_IM_REDDITING ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:33:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm. I've buried fish before, and woken up to the yard being dug up by stray cats.
llII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, wouldn't have expected that. O.o
Lieutenant_Crow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, raccoons would've been my bet.
ClitorisMaximus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We buried a hamster months before and our dog dug it up and ate it. So, yeah, with Mr. Fairytale, we flushed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So... your son really fucking disliked you then?
thefuck1187 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh kayyy your kid is a total bad ass and I love him.
QQexe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
relevant
Tollaneer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have created Painis Cupcake D:
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WTF...
AnonymousPirate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and there are 666 points atm
AllDurianDiet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
true story, this post had 666 points when I viewed it.
motney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. You win. My kid's shenanigans are cheeky and fun compared to that shit.
UnacceptableUse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Crosses discussing death on mortality off list
SG-17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day, hopefully soon, the answer will be no. For everyone.
Myrandall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wat
itsSparkky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just can't leave this with only an upvote. This story was awesome.
incraved ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
alright, that's fucked up.
ChuckleCrackers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... I never want to have children.
HairlessSasquatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Should probably dispose of your child
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you need to watch "we need to talk about kevin"
m1kepro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You might need this.
ayasmith7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh my god, this is totally creepy. Sounds like something I'd hear from a horror movie, like pet cemetery or something.
InnocuousPenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...
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lernington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
20 years from now
Jayfire137 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is he named Damien by chance?....
crazychildruns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That actually made me cry with laughter. I then read it out to my parents, but had to stop, as I had started crying again. Soo funny
bimmercire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
quick hide them bath salts!
WilliamHatespeare ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that if you really love your pet, you should eat them when they die. Not only would they do the same thing to you, they would consider it to be a high honor.
twisted_by_design ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sooo, your son is going to eat clitoris? Dead clitoris? Maximus
Acetylene ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not nearly as creepy as some of the comments here, but a while back my four-year-old daughter and I were visiting a friend of mine, and during a conversation about pets, the concept of death came up. My daughter asked the obvious questions four-year-olds ask about death, and I explained, as gently and positively as I could, that yes, every living creature dies, it's a normal part of life, and we miss our friends and family when they die but we remember the good times we had with them and move on and make new friends. My daughter said, "When I die, you will be sad."
Creeped me right out that she jumped to her death and my reaction to it first, instead of the usual childhood concern of being left alone.
Trail__Runner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is the first reddit post I have ever read where I have laughed out loud.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
on the topic of lost childhood innocence, just wait until they find out your reddit username
theglitchmodulator23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
your son is fucking metal
skinavish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Has he read Stranger in a Strange Land...?
wolfmann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Weird timing for me... just buried my sis in law yesterday. She had a 3.5 year old.
Big_Bouncing_Titties ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ClitiorisMaximus talking about parenting, only on Reddit
MedSchoolHopeful ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At first I was kind of creeped out by this story. Then I realized that when she dies her son is going to eat ClitorisMaximus and it made me giggle.
Bricely ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You sure you don't got a a little Anthony Hopkins in the making?
Vegeta_is_king_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The fuq did I just read
jmurphy42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just read your story to my husband, and my 3 yr old overheard. She yelled "That's not nutritious!"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Totally reminded me of something Stewie Griffin would do
I_Look_At_Explosions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've got to admit, I cracked up at that. You've got some creepy ass kids!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you feed him vegetables earlier? I bet you did.
Leminnes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Congrats, you're raising a male Azula.
saintutzman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
is this a troll? holy fuck
Periun56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Citadel_97E ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. I fucking lost it at "I'm going to eat you"
theycallmemorty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's his special way of telling you he loves you.
Carnivalgames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn bath salts are getting to him.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder what type of mother has a username called ClitorisMaximus?
finallymadeanaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you use the experience to teach him how to cook?
Blissfully ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed so hard at that. What's he like now?
MgIaCyAcH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't like this thread anymore :o
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tha p cray
Atheist101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that kid needs some serious help
SoftShock2294 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually shivered when I read the last line.
Iloldalot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've got a number for a good psych ward, If you're interested
ildabears ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is his name Stewie?
BeefPieSoup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, that must have hurt. I am so sad for you. Did you ask him why he said that?
TheMcBacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just keep him away from bath salts
Heckler4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
winner
Phoenix930 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant Freudian username?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I just woke the house with laughter.
YGMIC ยท 1407 points ยท Posted at 19:37:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Backwards, as I remember saying this to my dad when I was little.
When I was probably around 6 or 7, I had no idea what sex was or how making babies worked. I just thought that if you loved someone, you'd eventually end up being pregnant and having a baby. So one day, I randomly said to my dad "one day I might end up having a baby with you". Which probably creeped him out no end.
[deleted] ยท 1338 points ยท Posted at 21:23:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1152 points ยท Posted at 22:00:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Freud just rolled in his grave... from joy.
[deleted] ยท 638 points ยท Posted at 22:03:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 22:05:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You... I like you...
Lihiro ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 23:39:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, Emilleigh's dad.
kujustin ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:09:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Things only people in college say for four hundred, Alex"
Wolfman87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
hahaha! Not weird at all!
Suppilovahvero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now that's what you call a twist!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of the kids back in my childhood would always keep exclaiming, 'Mother-fucker, father-killer!'. Looks like roles reversed in here.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:30:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Alex1920 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Viewed when he had 169...close enough.
XD003AMO ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:26:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh haha Aww man... its at 375- Screw it, upvote time X)
Piogre ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 22:40:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Freud just rolled in his grave with his mother.
sunflower24 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:23:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. He also named it the Electra Complex. Thank you Freud and you Greeks out there.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:10:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it was Carl Jung who proposed the Electra Complex. Freud came up with the male equivalent before Jung and called it the Oedipus Complex. Besides the different genders, there are some other differences in the theories as well.
sunflower24 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:09:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Sigh. I guess I know more about the play from both Aeschylus, and Euripides then the whole Complex itself.
G4m8i7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:16:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only about 3/4 of the way -- his massive erection stopped his going any further
ZENmotherfucker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
RIGL
fauxnom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well no one likes sleeping on their boner.
Ceberus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ha! I got that one!
NaricssusIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He probably has a huge boner too. So that would produce a sort of hollow knocking sound.
wabbajackoff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Freud just rolled over in his grave... to hide the boner you just gave him.
VikaWiklet ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 22:03:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 4 I told my parents I never wanted to get married - I wanted to stay and live with them and be their maid.
oshen ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 22:29:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
they should consider that offer.
cheshirekitteh ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:48:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a parent, I would seriously consider that offer.
snuggle_fish ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 22:37:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was like 4 or 5 when I used a pot lid as a shield and a plastic golf club as my sword and challenged my dad for my mother's hand.
I am a girl.
InnocuousPenis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:43:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is your mom hot?
snuggle_fish ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:50:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't call her a MILF, but she's not bad for being in her 50's now. Good genes for me~
InnocuousPenis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:54:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thankyou. That was all I needed.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:17:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Hey mom? I don't like you... Dad doesn't like you either, we're wanted...."
EmilieAnomalie ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:33:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually completely normal behavior at that age. It's not that children have sexual feelings for their parents, they're just starting to see how the two sexes pair up and mom or dad are the most readily available and they already love them.
annefranksexdiary ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:03:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Electra complex.
fatgirlIRL ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:47:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This brings back so many sad memories...after my mom left my dad used to cry in his room, I'd go in and rub his back and tell him not to worry, that when I was old 'nuff I'd marry him.
onehotpocket ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:18:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who would dare downvote this.
CapnMerica ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:31:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reverse Oedipus complex.
Andrewticus04 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:35:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, the famed Xelpmoc Supideo. Quite.
InnocuousPenis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:42:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So much win. I like you. And I'm stealing this.
CapnMerica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What you did there, I see it.
fisher694 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I nearly googled it. Nearly.
keyboardlover ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:08:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And now Emilleigh is all grown up...
sfachime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Electra or Antigone?
jezebel523 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wanted to marry my dad when I was very young. I thought Mom would marry my little brother. It was like I wanted to be his favorite, I guess.
prettyprincess90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought I was going to marry my dad too.
nanikun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sis said the same thing when she was about that age. Except my mom replied that she would have to divorce dad first. And then my sister started bawling.
jesus_lied ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
soon...
ItsPronouncedTAYpas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I said the same thing to my stepdad. Gah.
dinosaurjones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:43 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
666 upvotes...
diehabitat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oedipus would be proud.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:08:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like textbook "electra complex"...interesting.
grospoliner ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:55:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gender-swap Oedipus
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:33:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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NeonCookies ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:56:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little I thought I was supposed to marry either my dad or my brother when I grew up. Seems like it's a pretty common thing to think.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:16:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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NeonCookies ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:54:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Naw, don't worry. At that age all you know is that you have to marry someone. The example couple I had was a Male/Female relationship, and I knew that you love the person you marry. The two males in my life at that point whom I loved were my brother and my father. I think it's a fairly typical response, especially for young girls, to want to marry their daddy. I don't know about boys thinking they'll marry their mom/sister, but I wouldn't freak out unless they're still playing this game in 5-10 years.
Seicair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom tells me about once when I was.. I dunno, <5. Maybe <3 (before my brother was born.) I don't remember it at all. I asked both of my parents "How long have we been married?"
z3m ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:05:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOL. My parents had a couple friend and the husband had a big beard. For some reason, when I was 5 I thought that was super cute. Once, at the dinner table, I announced to the table that I wanted to make babies with him, lmao! My mom said, in front of everyone "That's very sweet, but "Bob" is already married to "Lisa"."
"So I'll kill Lisa and Bob and I can live happily ever after like a fairy princess."
Silence...
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:24:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew proudly declared that girls were gross, but he was going to marry me when he got older. When my mom asked why his aunt wasn't gross (seeing as I am a girl), he says: "She's not a girl. She's a laaaady."
michaelochurch ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:53:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope his name's not Craster.
apetresc ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:59:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, are you a guy or a girl?
YGMIC ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:05:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Girl.
tony1449 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 21:25:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is still very sweet if you look at it with the context you gave, it means you loved your father very much!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:15:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:18:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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aSpanishGoat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:44:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad there was at least one light-hearted one in here.
fatoldcrazycatlady ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:01:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably more common although still creepy but me and my brother planned to get married most of our lives...
bound_morpheme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And now you're a fat old crazy cat lady.
Xenasis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_complex
Let us hope you also did not want to kill your mother.
YGMIC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, I did not want to kill my mother.
Xenasis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or so you thought!
Remember, Freudian psychology is all subconcious.
Obviously Freud has since been questioned, if his psychosexual stages ARE stages people go through, you DID subconciously want to kill/remove from the equation your mother.
aliceinreality98 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:14:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Even more so if you're a guy.
rjm194 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 6 or 7 I said I wanted to marry my sister. I didn't get the concept of marriage, or sex.
emmaleth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When a man and a woman love each other very much...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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YGMIC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:55:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My boyfriend is fine with me saying things like that to him. :)
Cyprah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I really want to know what his response was.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have another "backwards" story. I was really really young (5 or 6), sitting in the living room with my mom. For whatever bizarre reason, my young mind assumed at the time that any country that wasn't the US was an enemy of ours... so I asked my mom out of nowhere, "Mom, if we're the most powerful country in the world why don't we just nuke all the other countries?" She looked at me like I was a psycho, and I didn't understand why she was so mad
corbettdarling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to pick flower petals like Ariel did in The Little Mermaid, saying, "Daddy loves me, he loves me not! Daddy loves me, he loves me not!". He was my first crush, weird as it is. *like 4 years old.
bh3nch0d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awww in a weird way that's actually very sweet
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I recently had to have the "where babies come from" talk with my seven year old. I got about half way through my monologue, and she stopped me with an upraised hand and said, "Dammit, mom. I really don't want to know this!"
Pannecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats normal. My baby brother until he was about 8 told my mom everyday he was going to marry her. He thought people had babies in their hearts when they loved each other and the heart babies would drop to the belly to come out.
so he'd say everyday "Mommy we're going to have babies in our hearts"
Sad thing is now he draws Swastika trees and he probably won't be able to have any kids....
TouchMyFacecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FREUD
ce1337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my sister was 2 or 3 (I was 15 or 16 at the time), she told me, "Maybe one day we can get married."
And there were a couple times when the power was out, or the lights were just off, that she would turn to me and say "Isn't this romantic?"
Guitarist689 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know. Before I had "The Talk" with my parents, I thought thats exactly how it worked. Just fall madly in love with someone and when you were ready you ad a baby. But unfortunatly I was wrong o_o Weirded me out man
reddit_somewhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Similar story- When I was little, before I had any idea what sex actually was, I used to jump into bed with my mum and say 'Let's have sex!' I meant cuddle. Mum now tells this story to everyone and I nearly die of embarrassment EVERY freakin time!
reddit_somewhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Similar story- When I was little, long before I knew what sex was, I used to climb into bed with my mum and say 'Lets have sex!' I meant cuddle. Now she tells that story to everyone and I nearly die of embarrassment EVERY freakin' time!!
YGMIC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:32:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother used to do things like that, when my mum was giving him a kiss goodnight he just says "we've been snogging" when I walked in. She then had to explain what snogging meant to him. Lol
I-heart-naps ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I literally laughed out loud. Your poor dad...
[deleted] ยท 281 points ยท Posted at 20:27:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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armacitis ยท 106 points ยท Posted at 22:30:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In your case,anything your kid says to you is the creepiest.
Pannecake ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:32:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I posted this up in the thread a little earlier, but after 3 kids my mom wanted to stop and had a dream that a blonde little girl with green eyes came to her in a dream and begged her not to stop, otherwise she'd never be born.
My mom is thoroughly convinced that I was sent by God so I could be born.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And you are the blonde little girl with green eyes right?
Pannecake ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:45:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was born with black hair and blue eyes so she figured I wasn't her, but the hair all fell out and grew in blonde and my eyes changed to green... but by then she was already pregnant with my sister. But yeah according to her I'm her angel baby.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:06:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What.
Pannecake ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:20:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents thought it was weird too. I thin black hair and one day it all kind of shed???? and a few months later it grew in a fair blonde colour. I've seen pictures before of when I was a few weeks old and my hair was REALLY dark and then a few months old and my hair is white blonde.
Also some babies are born with blue eyes and they change to the colour they are meant to be later. My niece has hazel eyes but she had the most gorgeous blue eyes when she was born....
cuddlebuddy012609 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:31 on September 18, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That happened to me too. (The hair, not the eyes.)
I was born with stark black hair, and it all fell out, grew back in blonde, and is now a medium brown color. But as far as I know my eyes have always been this color.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow that's so creepy.. Any idea on how it could change?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:12:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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rubixpubes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:16:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and the other way round! I was born with white blonde hair and now have very dark brown hair..
Pannecake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:28:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
have no idea. But it was dark and then light, it got darker as I got older, kind of an Ashen blonde now. My mom said it was weird, my hair wasn't too thick or anything and I kind of just shed it like an animal does, went totally bald for a while and then grew it in light. Like maybe I wasn't the angel baby... but wanted to be :p
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeh, well, you're an angel now anyways
Pannecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad would love to believe that ;)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why wouldn't he? :(
Pannecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
because I live in sin!!! With my boyfriend!!!! and I drink alcohol!!! and gamble!!! and....write erotic fiction!!!
B) yeah I'm that kind of awesome!!!
tradjazzbaby ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:25:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time I woke up (I have no idea what I had been dreaming of) and my first thought was "need to check on the twins." (As in babies, not my breasts.) It seemed so natural and normal that it almost felt like a physical shock when I remembered a second later that I do not have children. I don't intend on having any either.
allyouneedistea ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:16:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm clinging on to this story as proof that time travel will happen within your(/our) life time.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:14:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You mean Sam Becket's lifetime...
aliceinreality98 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:04:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What did he look like?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:22:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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AmiDamnit ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:24:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Draw a picture? To help you remember, I mean.
NotFromMars ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:51:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a dream like that too, I had a kid named Ben and he was the cutest thing ever. I've always really liked that name, and ever since then, I've been pretty sure that if I ever have a son, I'm naming him Ben! I can't really remember what he looked like though, just that he was about 3 years old in the dream.
mezofoprezo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:20:14 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dreamed I had a baby named Gloria, and throughout the dream I was really confused, not because I knew I didn't have a baby but because I would never name my child Gloria.
Okuhou ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:43:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is adorable and creepy all rolled into one
scullymeister_3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:37:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats some creepy shit you got going on there...
independencebaby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:19:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't particularly hope that the last dream I had about a future child is true. That child had three heads.
Damn pregnancy dreams.
TigerTigerBurning ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:55:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Go to a sketch artist!
McSteezeMuffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:40 on November 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hallucinate too sometimes when I wake up. It's soooooooooo weird cause sometimes I'll imagine my friends or my classmates in the room with me, and if my classmates are there then I get all embarrassed cause I think I'm falling asleep in class and everyone is watching me ha.
sdavis213 ยท 504 points ยท Posted at 22:43:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While Playing classroom with my three year old brother he made an off handed coment about being in my mothers belly twice. I was amused and said oh really. He preceeded to tell me in amazing detail being inside our mother. He told me about it being warm and that he liked it but he always felt sick. One day he got so sick that "they" came and told him he had to leave. He didnt want to so they promised him he would get to came back again and back to our mom. So he left and they let him come back again and this time he didnt feel sick. I lost my mind and started screaming for my mother. He told her the same story then after she stopped crying we were not allowed to talk about it. I was ten and I was old enough to remember that she had a miscarraige almost 1 year before my brother was born.. Side note im not religious but my brother always kinda makes me wonder.
BoughtreeFidee ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 22:58:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to believe.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:11:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I pirated this poster for my brother's birthday. He's big into UFO stuff, and this is the same poster Spec. Agent Mulder has hanging in his office on The X-Files which was my brother's favorite show at the time. Best gift I've ever given him, I think.
NoOriginality ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 02:18:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I got goosebumps so hard I got what I am now calling a "scared boner"
hawleywood ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 03:11:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Fearection"
BohemianD ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:03:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"She put the fear of god into my boner."
NoOriginality ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:31:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Someone make this into a horror/porn
clearly_i_mean_it ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:04:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a lesbian who is particularly unfamiliar with "the penis"... do these things actually happen?
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 05:34:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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clearly_i_mean_it ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:24:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel a bit like an anthropologist right now. "Hmmm... tell me more..." pulls out notebook
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 12:30:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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astronomer7 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:20:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My boyfriend enjoys doing this. Sometimes we'll be talking on Skype and suddenly the computer starts going up and down and he gets this grin on his face.
clearly_i_mean_it ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:51:12 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WAT.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:45:14 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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clearly_i_mean_it ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:33:23 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lesbian status confirmed. No offense to your penis - I'm sure it's very lovely.
comfypants ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:42:42 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I loaded more comments on this thread hoping to find out more about this story but instead I'm taught about boners. Internet.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:16:46 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This won't last very long at all!
BrosephineBaker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:57:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Boy did that freak me out and slightly delight me when a penis did that.
Minky_Dave_the_Giant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:33:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes they are floppy, and sometimes they aren't. That's all I have to say about that.
IAmTheSixWordUser ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:25:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Those parenthesis...comedy gold right there.
starlettemax ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:00:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Please say more about this, I've never heard of it and it seems like something about which I need to know more.
reunite_pangea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:16 on July 15, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
fear boner dude. watch "the league."
jordan042 ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 02:57:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother has a kind of similar story. When she was a kid, and even for a while as an adult, she would have a recurring dream in which she would just be floating in a dark warm place, and then there would be cutting near her and she would wake up from fear. This dream recurred often as she grew up. Once, as an adult, she was mentioning it, and one of her sisters said "You know, when mama was pregnant with you, she had a tubal ligation." (This was because my great-grandmother's husband was abusive and had forced her to have 8 kids.) After this, the dream never recurred, and my grandmother has stated that she believes it was a memory from the womb, and that she has always been very pro-life ever since.
Rae_hers ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:45:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...holy shit. This is the first story I've commented on in this entire thread. wow. Just... I don't know what to say. Thanks for sharing.
greaseballheaven ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 05:37:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I believe in reincarnation, and I'm pro-choice, because I know that those souls come back in one way or another, it just wasn't the time for them to be born and grow up when these women conceived them. My mom had an abortion when she was 18. Her mother was severely mentally ill and abusive, and she would have been bringing a baby into a horrible situation. She told me about it when I was 11. I always knew that I had an older brother, and a few years later she said that she had a dream after the abortion in which she knew it was a boy, and he is safe now.
bcraven1 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:03:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom had a miscarriage before I was born, it was what motivated her to concieve me. She believes that I am the reincarnation of that fetus. So same story, except that I never said anything like that. haha
Pannecake ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 04:17:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thats odd. My mom had three kids before me and thought it was time to stop, consulted with my dad about it, they both agreed that three was enough. A few weeks later while my dad was in boot camp she had a dream where a little blonde girl came to her beside and held her hand and cried for ten minutes straight, my mom tried to console her, finally she calmed the girl down and asked what was wrong.
The little girl said "Don't stop, because I won't be born."
She said that shortly after she thought she was pregnant again, she hadn't had her period and every test she took was coming up negative, she took close to ten because she was so sure. Went to the doctor and the first blood test came back and she was pregnant. I was born with black hair and blue eyes (in the dream the girl had blonde hair and green eyes) so she figured that she still hadn't had that baby. at 2 months all my hair fell out and a few months later it started growing in blonde and my eyes had changed green, by then though she was already pregnant with my little sister (we were born 16 months apart)
She said when I was about 6 or 7 I looked just like the girl in her dreams and that god sent me down to make sure she had my little sisters and brother. Oddly enough they planned to stop after my youngest sister (she had been born with severe health issues) and she had a dream she was holding a baby boy in a red blanket and handing him to my dad to be blessed (my parents are mormon) a few days after my dad's vasectomy my mom already regretted it, thinking she had to have that baby and found out a week later she was pregnant with my little brother.
Who oddly enough on the day he was meant to be blessed my mom couldn't find the white blanket she used for the rest of us so she grabbed a blanket from the top stack and it was a red blanket she had made while on bedrest with him.
sparkle_bomb ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:40:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's kinda creepy. :/
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:58:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does it feel weird knowing that your little sister was conceived specifically because your hair wasn't the right colour for a while?
Pannecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
doesn't make me feel weird, obviously my mom needed to have that baby according to her, if anyone should feel weird its the ones that followed me
MrScritchey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:37:07 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's seriously an awesome story! Thanks for sharing.
NoOriginality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think this one is just as weird as the original post :O
NoOriginality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Weird coincidence to go with a weird story :O
Shecallsmeceezy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:41:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
By far the most amazing post I've read so far...
Cuora ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:56:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't stop thinking about this. Did he explain why 'they' were?
Amaelyn ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:25:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
tingles up my spine
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:43:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude makes me wonder too
blockblock ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:41:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And this is the winner. NopeInfinity
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:38:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story creeps the hell out of me, even though I'm completely non-religious. My mother had two miscarriages. Makes me wonder.
Reaper_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Put this in /r/nosleep.
Invisinado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How else does he make you wonder? Do go on, this has peaked my interest.
sdavis213 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:07:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He would often tell us about traveling through tunnels of light when he went back and forth from our mom. He talked about it like it was a legitimate way to travel. Like we are running late no park today kids. My brother would be like what about going in light. Around the age of five it started to scare him. He got the idea that if they made him leave once they would again. He would hide before he fell asleep and that progressed to boobie trapping his room. For two years you couldnt walk into his room at night without knocking something over, stepping on something, or finding my brother in a box of somekind. I know my mom has a few pics. I will see what I can get.
Nikeiroid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:20 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Woah...
pencock ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:19:43 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like bullshit. Your brother must have heard the story in some form from someone close to the family, perhaps your mother.
sdavis213 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:37 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The story is very true. Take what you want pitch what you dont. Thats always been my motto. My mother however , no she didnt say anything to my brother even close to this. If you knew my mother you would be laughing your ass off . She is actually 45 years old and sleeps with her lights on. She will not talk about it at all it still terrifies her, along with all bugs , bats, ghosts, or any other silly thing that cant hurt her . Lol
flowerscandrink ยท 493 points ยท Posted at 21:57:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was 4 years old. One morning I heard her door open and shut. That usually meant that she would be coming to our room to lay down with us. She never came in, but shortly after I heard her voice. Hoping she would go back to sleep I let her be for a bit. Then I heard the door open and shut again. This time I decided to go into her room and see why she kept getting out of bed.
I walked in and she had her eyes closed.
"Sweetie?"
"Yes, daddy."
"Why did you get out of bed?"
"I didn't, I was trying to sleep but he wouldn't leave me alone. He kept talking to me and asking me questions."
"He? Who is he?"
"The little boy that was in my room."
"Umm, sweetie that was just a dream. There is no boy in your room."
"I know that. He just left."
"Ok, well what was the little buy doing?"
"He was hanging from the fan and asking me a bunch of questions."
"How was he hanging from the fan? With his arms?"
"No, with a rope."
Scariest fucking moment of my life. I asked her about it about a year later and she said she doesn't remember.
slenski ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 02:01:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck man...
I'm just imagining your annoyed daughter looking at this kid smiling and talking away with a hanging limp body, spinning in circles and asking questions.
shivers
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:35:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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palpablescalpel ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:09:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was scary without the fan on, but him spinning around and around and smiling is just funny to me.
railmaniac ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:46:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Right, now imagine his body spinning with the fan but the head remains straight focused at the little girl.
And smiling.
Minky_Dave_the_Giant ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:57:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Too far, you've made it less scary now. Understated is best kind of scary, well, as understated as you can be when talking about dead little boys hanging from ceiling fans.
railmaniac ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 11:20:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
M Night Shyamalan twist: The boy is actually alive. You are the ghost on a spinning bed.
Seannn8706 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
potential novelty account?
railmaniac ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:43:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
M Night Shyamalan twist: I was a novelty account all along!
Taodeist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I... that's... crap. I NEVER WANTED TO BE ONE OF THOSE!
TheGreatWhiteNinja ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm imagining something like the chicken from the I regret nothing .gif
Stregano ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
also, how fast is he spinning? Is he spinning fast enough to where his body starts to go horizontal a little bit?
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:24:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm currently sitting on the can reading these stories getting increasingly terrified. I'm in a bathroom located in my house's basement. After reading this I now know I will not be leaving the safety of this throne room for some time. My legs are already numb.
snobocracy ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 13:20:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
9 hours have passed... still staying put?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:02:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude.. hemorrhoids.
Amaelyn ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:19:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
did you find out if anyone killed themselves in the house? like...by suicide
flowerscandrink ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:35:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The house was built new before we moved in, so no. Before my daughter was born, my wife's brother (she is my ex now) killed himself. No hanging though.
Her great-great grandfather killed himself also. Not sure of the method though.
Shecallsmeceezy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:50:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welp, looks like no sleep for me tonight...
imnotyourpenis ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:49:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I've gone through this whole fuckin list, and this one gave me the chills.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:03:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Korean fan death?
flowerscandrink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hah. I only know about this because of starcraft and my subsequent love for Korea.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:59:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'M TRYING TO FUCKING SLEEP HERE!!!!!!! GAH
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:54:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck. Please tell me you're joking. I'm not sleeping tonight.
flowerscandrink ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:18:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, not joking. How do you think I felt?? Sleep tight!
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:11:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
happy cake day you fitness fag
flowerscandrink ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:13:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hah! I didn't even realize it was my cake day. Not sure if getting upvotes for creepy daughter or because of cake day.
RamblinWreckGT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvoted from me for the creepy as hell story, your cake icon was long gone by the time I came around.
YeahButDidHeDied ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:22:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
D:
Pixshel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:28:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
MonstrousVoices ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, that gave me the fucking chils.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:55:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm removing all of the fans from my house now...
YaHachuTebya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:20 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why did the door open and close twice, if she never got out of bed?
Crazytacoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:00 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just said to myself "it happened".
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:49:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, all the hairs on my body stood on end, thanks for turning me into a damn porcupine!
Second_Location ยท 1791 points ยท Posted at 18:20:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My kid was in the bathtub one night with the bathroom door open and I was puttering around in the next room. She called out and said "hey mommy, who was that blue guy who just walked down the hall?" She said he was tall and thin and featureless like "the shape of those men on the bathroom door like at a restaurant". Creeped me out!
[deleted] ยท 1054 points ยท Posted at 19:20:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slenderman has joined up with blue man group
Guyot11 ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 21:43:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
fuck that shit i'm out
DeathToPennies ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:52:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I demand a photoshop.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 22:24:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slenderman still haunts my mind. I never had a movie make me so paranoid
XtaC23 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:09:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What movie?
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:07:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:21:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Marble Hornets. It is a Youtube movie that.
herzkolt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:35:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a movie ? D:
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:40:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine they are referring to Marble Hornets
herzkolt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:45:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I googled that. I want to watch it, but... well, I prefer to sleep.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:04:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would recommend it, although the quality of the entries is inconsistent sometimes. It's getting near the end so now is a good time to catch up
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:44:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dang, the last entry I watched was 32. Perhaps I will catch up this week.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It is supposed to appear like a true event so that is why they are like that. There have been some entries that make me shit my britches and others that leave me waiting to.
BlackjackChess ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:36:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not that scary unless urban legend-esque stuff is scary for you.
Fernando_el_Justo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:52:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some people are making an actual film, as well.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't seem to really find anything about that movie. I see just the IMDB page. There is also another movie that seems to be about Slenderman called "The Tall Man". I would assume either it is about him or the Tall Man from Phantasm. Given that they say he abducts children I would say it is Slenderman.
short573 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I believe there is a film on youtube called windigo that is about slenderman. its 1hr 30 mins long. I only watched about 20 mins due to a time constraint but it looks pretty good so far.
Fernando_el_Justo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:31:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll have to look into it, I've only watched a good bit of marble hornets. I dunno how many they've made since I watched it, bout a year has gone by. I do read some /r/slender_man from time to time, can be some good stories on there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They've gotten up to 60 something.
short573 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:24 on August 11, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should look into the original creepypastas. I find them creepier than the videos. EverymanHYBRID and TribeTwelve are other series of videos. EverymanHYBRID being the best as they can actually act, while TribeTwelve being the worse do to its crazy storyline, but it is interesting none the less. Check those out. Waste a chunk of your life
masterwolfe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a big bag of nope waiting right there for me!
timeandspace11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
isnt it like a 47 part online series?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:21:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I said movie because I couldn't really think of another way to describe it. They have about 50 something up now.
IWasMisinformed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
60 was posted yesterday.
beyondtoday ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:32:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
fuck you, i had forgotten.... no sleep for me now
_shazbot_ ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:24:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm blue da ba dee gimme twenty dollars.
Cire4ever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:58:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd pay for that...
THUNDERCUNTMOUNTAIN ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:07:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I shudder.
BlackjackChess ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pissed off my family from laughing so loud. You win this round, gaunten.
CagedElephant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:54:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Marry me.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:31:19 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell, why not?
CagedElephant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:19 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Quick, we need a rabbi.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:35 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I honestly wouldn't know where to find one in Sweden
jokubolakis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:35:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I WOKE MY MOM AGAIN, FUCK
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:34 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FAAAAAQ! DON'T THINK ABOUT HIM! DON'T THINK ABOUT HIM!!
BabyJ ยท 2066 points ยท Posted at 19:12:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, it was just Tobias.
[deleted] ยท 1522 points ยท Posted at 19:35:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No one to worry about - just your friendly neighborhood analrapist.
FalconPunch43 ยท 89 points ยท Posted at 20:19:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can just taste those leading man parts in my mouth!
ERhyne ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:48:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So many poorly chosen words in that sentence.
mrmcmaine ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 00:53:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing you don't understand the reference.
ERhyne ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:56:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing you don't understand my reference.
EDIT:
Michael Bluth: [looking at a gift basket Michael received] Didn't you get one of those, too? You bought Lindsay at the same auction.
Tobias Fรผnke: I'm afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run if you will, so I'm afraid I have something of a mess on my hands.
Michael Bluth: There's so many poorly chosen words in that sentence.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 22:39:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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soawesomejohn ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:17:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should really just get yourself a tape recorder and record yourself saying things for a day. You might be surprised.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:40:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I seem to have blue myself, and shot my wad prematurely.
lolbats ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:31:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who wants a banger in the mouth?
apackofmonkeys ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:28:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I'm sorry, you Yanks call it a sausage in the mouth!
quackkhead ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 20:16:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just blue myself.
copyandpasta ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 21:02:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
11/10 redditors would love it if you taught us how to do that.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:09:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Take yoga for about a year and you become flexible enough to suck your own dick
copyandpasta ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:20:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/1yLhO.gif
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 23:28:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I took a big risk clicking that link
finallymadeanaccount ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:51:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My, she has a big mouth
Mongoose42 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:43:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's gotta be a better way to say that.
brokendimension ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:42:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I thought he was a full on rapist.
BebopBigShot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
floral-rapist,
philanthropist ?
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3v1evM74g1qc9uw9o1_500.jpg
swedish0spartans ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:06:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Therapist?
Vault-tecPR ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:43:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And analyst!
funke_the_analrapist ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:00:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
adamdeluxedition ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:14:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahahah always sunny reference? Please take all my karma!!!
EDIT: that was fullonrapist. I'm retarded.
hornytoad69 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:34:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just blue myself.
MumBum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:37:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least he's friendly.
Kristycat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:18:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't all never nudes friendly?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He's a very polite rapist
MumBum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Never met such a guy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not the pronunciation I'm worried about
YourFriendlyRapist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:47:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You called?
SPER ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:55:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think its pronounced "Philanthropist"
str1keupthe8and ยท 786 points ยท Posted at 19:36:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, Tobias! You blowhard...
listen_hooker ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:01:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, exccuuuuuusssee me!
Wedge-Antitties ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:02:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i'd like to kiss that man between the cheeks
brebun ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:12:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean bluehard?
TheShader ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:14:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Would you like a banger in the mouth?
tovarish22 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:41:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh...right, I forgot; here in the states you call it 'a sausage' in the mouth.
ItTastesLikeBurning ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:34:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In the states we just call it a sausage-in-the-mouth.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:39:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You sir, are a mouthful
kerune ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He blue it again. =\
Manlet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's got to be a better way to say that.
crithosceleg ยท 549 points ยท Posted at 19:18:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He just blue himself.
Sauderkraut ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:36:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's got be a better way to say that.
msd2099 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:08:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
theres got to be a better way to say that
Likeasthewaves ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:21:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tobias you should really start carrying a tape recorder and hearing some of the things that you say...
tovarish22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:40:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Okay, you know what you do? You buy yourself a tape recorder, you just record yourself for a whole day. I think youโre going to be surprised at some of your phrasing."
FTFY
denizenzero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:12:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Doing a series rewatch, and saw this episode last week. Man, do I love that show.
Likeasthewaves ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:41:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The funny thing is, that comment made me start to re-watch the series...
BosskHogg ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:34:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You really should record yourself.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:20:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
after prematurely shooting his wad
jimmyjohn88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:16:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Prematurely.
keyboardlover ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:22:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I figured if I blue myself early I'd be nice and relaxed for a nine o'clock dinner reservation.
thegoldar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
With a blue little window.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's gotta be a better way to say that.
addlemanjr ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 20:24:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"A colored man tried to break in!"
"Colored? What color was he?"
"He was blue...."
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:33:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
a community and arrested development reference on one comment... well done reddit well done
BabyJ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:37:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't watch Community, so I guess I accidentally did something.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it was a comment above yours, I worded it poorly.
JeddakofThark ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:59:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a reference to a television show I like. You are clever for making this reference and I am clever for recognizing it.
multi-gunner ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so easy to please. Arrested Development references will always get my upvote.
Tentacolt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:16:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I spent so long thinking "Tobias is a hawk, not an andelite".
Second_Location ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:27:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
He just blue himself. EDIT: You beat me to it. I admit defeat. :(
CMDRtweak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:58:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_exermAXkU
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOL !
emajor1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BznwsT6r_tM
occupybourbonst ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DOUCHE CHILL!!
Call_Me_911 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or mrs. Featherbottom.... No relation.
WhatAreFriends ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you, I just got over that movie.
Ifunctiononkitkats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Arrested Development, not PA3.
dargolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As if it's not creepy enough already, now you're writing my name.
IntoTheRack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He does have cat-like abilities.
drsebaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He just blue himself.
snorfburger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He blows hard.
imur_e-god ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, Chuck Testa.
vagacom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When she said that its who i pictured with his glasses
theotherpena ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I JUST BLUE MYSELF
Sarah_Connor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy jesus - that is what we call the ghosts in our house: "Toby"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I literally just finished this episode on Netflix, opened a new tab for Reddit, and clicked on this thread. How relevant.
awesumjon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just looked up definition of Tobias.
So don't worry Second_Location, it's just Tobias.
arvinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I just blued myself.
-ogre- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who is tobias
BabyJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A character in the show Arrested Development, who has unrealistic expectations of becoming an actor and lands a gig as an understudy for the Blue Man Group.
Amie89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just blue myself.
Pugovitz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He just blue himself.
GandalfLundgren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DOUCHE CHILL!
dkomaran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You sure it wasn't Dr. Manhattan?
gregmax ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 19:18:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i blew myself
Klashus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:31:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your name is toby
XelaO ยท 1186 points ยท Posted at 18:27:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the Greendale human being to me
x-tophe ยท 440 points ยท Posted at 19:08:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it was just the dean trying on the suit.
[deleted] ยท 446 points ยท Posted at 19:15:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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x-tophe ยท 383 points ยท Posted at 19:32:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sweet deans.
cplcupcake ยท 543 points ยท Posted at 19:46:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/8h3uB.gif
bigsz ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 20:20:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is my school! It's called Greendale and I'm the dean of the ENTIRE SCHOOL!
vousetesbelles ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:35:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd love a back rub, who's asking?
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:52:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Needed more dean.
Cock_Sucker_McGee ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:45:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
Brophages ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:39:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. How often is that .gif actually appropriate for a conversation?
Cock_Sucker_McGee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who am I to Disagree?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I had more karma to give you
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah god my seizuhgdhhbkhf
QJosephP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cool deans.
x-tophe ยท 88 points ยท Posted at 19:32:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dean-a-ling-a-ling!
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:08:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Naylor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:58:26 on December 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my cousin has his phone set to play "Pop pop" whenever he gets a text
FriscoBowie ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:25:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dean-by*
Aquamentus92 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:19:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe it was candleja-
HumanoidCarbonUnit ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:13:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awww it isn't that creepy.
jimicus ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:19:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Greendale? Isn't that where Postman Pat lives?
mcartier91 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:30:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the postman pat theme song is now stuck in my head
transmogrified ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:43:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
โซ Postman Pat! Postman Pat and his black and white cat!
Early in the morning, when the day is dawning, he picks up all the post bags in his van. โช
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:35:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you, I'll never get to sleep now!
Peartnoy518 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it a bad thing that I have no idea who Postman Pat is? Or is it just that I'm american?
jimicus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sju7H9dvsOA
shoes_of_mackerel ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:29:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Greendale Human Being
unfair_advantage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Til postman Pat's cat and guess with Jess are the same cat....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel I should have something witty to say about the british, but I'm coming up blank.
shoes_of_mackerel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"You all have horrible teeth and speak funny" seems to be the usual one.
offthecane ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:57:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or just Tobias.
DeathToPennies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the aliens from signs.
ryan2point0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread needs a little more spare Chang in its pocket.
BillBrasky_ ยท 1345 points ยท Posted at 19:09:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When I was a kid I used to see a guy I called "woodstock" walking around all over the place. I'd always see him just as he was about to round a corner or walk out of site. He would always pause, look back at me, and then round the corner. I always thought he was motioning me to follow him.
I called him Woodstock because he was made out of lumber. My parents just laughed it off, but I can see him soooo clearly. Of course, I grew out of it at around age 7 or 8. I was really freaked out when I was 13 and he came back. We're roommates now.
EDIT: We're not really roommates, he was either a figment of my imagination that has persisted into adulthood or, mots likely, some kind of lumber ghost sent to avenge the deaths of his tree brothers.
thisisludicrous ยท 546 points ยท Posted at 19:25:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Avenging the tree brothers, definitely.
Reddit_Script ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:28:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Either that or schizophrenia!
fs337 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:09:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If only you were a novelty account
Anonymous_Thomas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:00:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Woodvengers: Captain Oakmerica, The Incredible Trunk, The Invincible Ironwood, Tara: God of Thunder
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my minecraft guy is gonna have a big problem then....
Aiyon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:52:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, they're logs, not lumber. You never Lumbed them.
Militant_Penguin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Someone should probably inform r/trees.
waresmarufy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this reminds me of the trees from Lord of the rings
thisisludicrous ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:02:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ENTS
Phukc ยท 531 points ยท Posted at 19:28:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As an expert on lumber ghosts who are sent to avenge the deaths of their tree brothers, I can tell you that yes, it is definitely one of those.
neric05 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:03:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Hi, I'm Rick Harrison....and THIS...is my pawn shop.
SELLER: So I have this leg of a vengeful lumber ghost ...
RICK: you lookin' to pawn it or sell it?
SELLER: Sell it; it's just taking up a bunch of space in my house and my wife wants it out.
RICK: Hmm...seems legitimate, but around the late 1800's people started faking these things all the time, let me call in my guy Phukc, he's an expert on lumber ghosts who are sent to avenge the deaths of their tree brothers.
brbegg ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:04:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The best I can do is 5 bucks.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:00:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lumber ghost here. I can confirm this.
HillbillyBen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:43:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Excellent career choice there.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:51:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
do an AMA please!
Whodatjedi5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know a guy who is an expert on lumber ghosts who are sent to avenge the deaths of their tree brothers.
jobosno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because if he can't save the trees...
BoernerMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wheres Lies_About_Expertise when you need him...
dysflexic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why do these type of replies make me lol so hard? Hysterical.
xxf1sh3rxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
based on what my expert friend said, I cant do any better than $55
MacAndTheBoys ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:17:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As an expert on experts on lumber ghosts who are sent to avenge the deaths of their tree brothers, I can tell you that indeed, it is positively one of those.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:14:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This comment is bad. And you should feel bad.
craycraykitteh ยท 766 points ยท Posted at 19:14:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wat.
rockne ยท 683 points ยท Posted at 19:35:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think he meant "most" likely.
whiteandnerdy1729 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:25:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing you explained that. I was so confused.
lemonwedge123 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:24:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oooohhh, now I get it
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:01:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I appreciate your sense of humor, sir or madam.
Neuronless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I second this.
crotchtothelopkins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hate to use the clichรจ, but that actually made me laugh. Congrats, and thanks.
TonightsSpecialGuest ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 19:50:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky and I went horseback riding, but there weren't any horses around? Anyway, Brasky throws a saddle on my back and rides me around Wyoming for three days. Well, wouldn't ya know it, my stamina increased with each day, and I develop tremendous leg muscles. So anyway, Brasky decides to enter me into the Breeders Cup under the name Turkish Delight. And Im running in second place, and I'm running, and I break my ankle. So anyway, they're about to shoot me. Then someone from the crowd yells out, God bless him, Dont shoot him, hes a human.
Foghorn225 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 20:03:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What in the seven hells did I just read?
123draw ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:33:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are a series of snl skits about Bill brasky consisting of a group of men recounting tales of their adventures with Mr. Brasky. If I wasn't on my phone I'd post a link but you should be able to find them easily.
BillBrasky_ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:16:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Context
TonightsSpecialGuest ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:22:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Brasky. You son of a bitch.
andytuba ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:58:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll just put a checkmark up by "wat."
fratgirl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:50:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TO BILL BRASKY!
DookieDemon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:01:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bill Brasky? God bless 'im!
Toxyoi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:59:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's the hardest I've ever laughed at a 'wat' reply.
StinkinFinger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:02:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I get it. He's CrAzY!
Betterman92 ยท 157 points ยท Posted at 19:26:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids can often have visual and auditory hallucinations when they're young, but as far as I know, they disappear once they grow up a bit, and aren't of any real significance.
Leechifer ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:33:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When they come back after we're adults...well...we have a name for that.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:16:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think we need to start harvesting it from children, Dark Angel (1990) style: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099817/
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:26:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it possible that auditory "hallucinations" in the third person persist throughout out life?
I'm asking for a friend.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:53 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean? As in voices?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, I now just realize that the voice I had in my head when I was young was probably just that. I felt like I could hear what it was saying, but after it was over I realized there were no words being said. It was usually as I was just about to fall asleep, I always pictured the voice to be of some demon or something but I was never really sure because of the lack of words I was able to interpret.
zero_iq ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:36:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's called a hypnagogic hallucination. Perfectly normal and very common, even among adults.
During sleep paralysis, impressions of 'demons' and 'presences' are common. My own theory is that it's a watchful subconscious part of the primitive brain projecting its fears into the environment in your half-dreaming state.
Throwaway1Trillion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:58:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, just call them hallucinations. That's the ticket.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:03:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NICE TRY, GHOST!
Micosilver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I still have those, right after I go to sleep.
Maverick119 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the reassurance, I needed it.
lvnshm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
EASY COVER-UP.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:43:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it interesting that these claims are somehow perpetually beyond the reach of any kind of scientific probing? We have plenty of tools which could see more than the visible spectrum of light and hear more than what our auditory range allows us to.
karelian_ ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 20:55:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well duh. Scientists (or any kind of critical thinking) give off negative vibrations that scare away woodstocks and blue stickmen.
BillBrasky_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:17:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What if we set up my spectrum analyzer to a logging mode and then have a seance without me there to influence the results, but I later get to analyze them?
pyropaul555 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:53:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
video camera?
BillBrasky_ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:56:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, I want to take the ghost hunter equipment and make it into serious dataloggers for analysis instead of just being like "I got a spike!?!?!!!!!111!"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is there would likely be a strong correlation between the intensity of their "evidence" and the number of people conspicuously out of frame when filming.
AnthillNapalm ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:45:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Sensitive" in this context usually just means "prone to hallucination". In terms of their senses, kids operate within the same ranges as adults, minus hearing (they can hear higher frequency sounds than adults can).
Mewshimyo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:13:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think what most of it is is that kids don't have the same heuristics (or as many) as an adult; they don't have as many experiences that would teach "hallucination or trick; disregard!" and so they persist.
AnthillNapalm ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:44:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think you're totally right. My issue is that this is interpreted as them being more "sensitive" in some vague way as a means to lend legitimacy to whatever superstitions the speaker ascribes to. "Sensitivity" is a non-issue in any meaningful sense in this situation, but they aren't good filterers and don't make strong distinctions between real and imagined experiences.
Mewshimyo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:47:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. When I hallucinate, I know I am... bananas don't sing!
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:55:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They don't? Fuck.
mjethwani ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or may be they are so innocent that they can see and hear things we cannot
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:28:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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BillBrasky_ ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:18:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Rarely... like less than once a year. I always assume it's something like deja vu more than anything else, but the feeling that overwhelms me is pretty intense... I still try to follow him (last time was a WHILE ago) but never see him past the first corner any more.
Last time I saw him he was carrying a bucket.
seeandwait ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:14:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The bucket is carrying the souls of those the Lumber Man has hunted. Just stay out of the woods and you'll be fine.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does it freak you out? Or is it something you're used to since it's happened since you were young. Super interesting, I'm not sure I believe it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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BillBrasky_ ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:26:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Nah, it's not like a problem or anything. Otherwise I'm a perfectly lucid and cogent person. If only those damn voices would stop tormenting me...
EDIT: above post was referring me to a psychiatrist
LtOin ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:49:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All you have to do is do what they say then they will stop pestering you. I did it and I'm as happy as ever!
Well my internet time is up, they only allow me 10 minutes in here.
confetti27 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:19:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dont think enough people understood what you were going at here which is unfortunate. I personally laughed really loud if its any consolation.
sparklyteenvampire ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 19:34:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, I see Woodstock all the time. I thought I was hallucinating.
the_rush ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:53:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
same.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was you mother, by any chance, impregnated at Woodstock?
oboedude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
elaborate please?
boqueno ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:44:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/IWPuJ.gif
notacrackheadofficer ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:48:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope he never [puts on shades] ...leaves.
oh yeah
gynoceros ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:10:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Heh. "oh yeah"?
You've never seen the show, have you?
notacrackheadofficer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not.....reeeeeealllly....
gypsybill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm picturing something more like this
Knezzy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:05:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Boring. He was actually your spirit guide. You totally neglected him despite his earnest attempts at enlightening you. You "grew out of it" because that was the popular thing to do.
Way to sell out :/
BillBrasky_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:09:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I tried to chase him and follow him all the time but he was always one step ahead of me. I remember that when I'd chase after him I'd see him just leaving whatever room I made into next... I could never catch up to him!
KaitKindly ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:45:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"We're roommates now." I read this like it was said by someone rocking themselves in a corner on the floor. 8(
itsraininghamm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More like John Nash style.
JohnnyVNCR ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:16:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
upvote because I'm scared for you
Bnoob ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:41:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did... did you ever follow him?
Also, have you gotten yourself checked out for schizophrenia?
IMPENDING_SHITSTORM ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:15:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had something similar. Used to see a white/clear character, who was really small. I'd always say "He's playing over there! Messing with the [insert random furniture] Haha!". My parents laughed it off, until last year when another family member went to a seance. They got into contact with a long dead family member, who weirdly had the same name I called the spirit (I can't remember what it was exactly, but it was a very unusual name that I'm pretty sure I made up.)
tdring16 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:55:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
have you ever considered you have schizophrenia? It does not seem like that big a problem for you now but you might just want to see. That is the only way i can explain what you just described
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:12:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so you're telling me that you have a viewable imaginary friend that traveled into adulthood with you? can't say im not jealous.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:28:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Schizophrenia.
giggs123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:28:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Option B seems like the most reasonable explanation.
Eastman342 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:37:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sleep will not be had tonight.
Arx0s ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:06:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We here have a name for that: schizophrenia.
railroadwino ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:10:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aaannndddd I had to turn on the lights.
mmmjon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
what the fuck did i just read
E-Squid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to write a story about this fellow.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:12:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like he could be part of a splinter group.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or maybe he's just board.
BillBrasky_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wood someone get this guy a trophy?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps knot ...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But there's no point in pining away about it ...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Schizophrenia is a hell of a ride.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
or schizo.
IamVasi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:19:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is some r/nosleep shit D:
babyfacedmanchild ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To BILL BRASKY! He's a ten-foot tall beast man, who showers in vodka, and feeds his baby shrimp scampi!
He cut down a forest with his bare hands as a child, and befriended its ghost!
BILLLL BRASSSKYYYYYY!!!!
farchewky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:32:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"when you see the wicker devil in the tree afterlife, tell 'em Jake said 'hello'!"
FreddeCheese ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:37:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So hows the crazyhouse treating you?
ShallowBasketcase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is so weird. When I was a little kid I used to see and talk to "The Lady" in our bathroom. I don't remember any of it, but my parents do, and they say it freaked them out, especially when they mentioned it to their neighbors, and they were told the woman that used to live in our house died in that bathroom.
I'm always a little freaked out that maybe one day I'll start seeing her again.
kingbot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is pretty interesting and I would love to hear more on it.
ToughLoveHaiku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You seem fine for now
but maybe see a doctor
for insanity
BillBrasky_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thank you brocephus
if I could read, I'd read your
haiku but I can't
thecatsmasher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw woodstock one time I ate a whole bunch of shrooms.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait. I also had a lumber ghost following me. Name was Ombombomp. I think I lost him in Venice when I was five.
iamtheowlman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You must have lost your shit during the Last March of the Ents in The Two Towers.
BillBrasky_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was actually more like 2x4s... stick lumber, screwed together into an anthropomorphic being. I just tried to draw it but I suck at drawing so I deleted it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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BillBrasky_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No! Although I did have a childhood ADHD diagnosis, I only took ritalin for a month before I begged my mom to take me off it. So I dont' think it's a factor.
IFeastOnYerDownvotes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So do you ever follow him?
khaleesi_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That'll be Tree Beard.
TheLastRealUnicorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just the spirit of an elderly ent.
totoro11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HOLY FUCK. My brother told me almost the exact same story once. Woodstock, walking around corners and gesturing. Fucking creepy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that is fucking terrifying. this whole post is fucking terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does he have green hair? If not then he is no tree man.
mydadsahero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I had an imaginary buddy called John Hoobert when I was 5. He lived underneath the maintenance truck parked out front on the street in Fort Huachuca, Arizona - the electronic signals processing center of the US Army. Like the NRO. I used to lay underneath that truck for hours and chuckle with John about stuff. Nothing wrong with imaginary friends. They generally agree with you, but you can bounce idea things off them and hear the other side. When you grow up they tend to be lyrics of songs, poems, things you've read. Imaginary friends tend to stabilize a kid. Nothing wrong with that.
Gothbot6k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ask him if he wants to smoke!
mamadragonfly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have an Ent following you?
SpermWhale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:06:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In fairness, Nicki Minaj is also just a fragment of imagination.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not creepy or unusual at all.
ohmegatron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As woodstock, I'm sorry if I scared you.
ilikpankaks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and that is why you don't smoke pot. lumber ghosts come for you.
myachizero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a good premise for some obscure anime.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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BillBrasky_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To that I will say: "Endosperm in your perm).
VonBrewskie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit dude. I had an imaginary friend named Woodstock too! I'm not trolling you. I'm dead serious. I just called my mom and asked her if she remembered my friend Woodstock. She just made a tsk tsk sound and said "yeah, I remember Woodstock. We were worried about you for awhile there. You used to say he'd stand outside of your window when you were going to sleep and watch you. It didn't scare you though. And he never showed up when anyone else was there. I'd catch you talking to "him" out in the backyard sometimes and watch you as you played with him. It was a little weird, but your doctor at the time said you'd grow out of it so I wasn't concerned. He hung around until you were 10 or so. You just grew out of him eventually." Your post really tripped me out! I haven't thought about Woodstock in years. Great. He's probably going to come and haunts me again...
astronomer7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have the Tree Man... I used to see him at night when I was thirteen or so. And then I had recurring nightmares about him. He was kind of an angry thing. >_> I'm sure he was a figment of my imagination as well, but a powerful one.
claytonafun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely avenging his tree friends.
lumberghostexpert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lumber ghosts are quit vengeful. I would know.
jellohead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The jokes on you. If you look through a book with thousands of UFO abduction cases one of the most common is a tree like beings that seem to be made of brown bark. I know someone that had an experience like this as an adult and I genuinely believe him as he's a cop/state trooper.
jnethery ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I... think you might be schizophrenic, brah.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In some descriptions, "hobs" are dumb guys made of wood, who like to take children.
BillBrasky_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's nice and scary:)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just thought you'd like to know you were possibly stalked by the bumbling child eating woodmen of olde.
PromethiumX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry its just Mokujin from Tekken
2scoops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he was an Ent that escaped from Home Depot.
zaxomophone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Smoked a few too many bowls and now the Ents want their revenge, huh?
lisa888 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He's probably an Ent.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds about right.
Trololrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had something like that when I was younger. He was an old fashioned camera on a tripod, but he was green with orange trim and a face instead of a lens. He would always pop up in the hallway and room across from my bed and teach me the alphabet. He had some friends, one of which I clearly remember to be a very shy and easily frightened ghost (just a white sheet with eye holes and a frowny mouth hole).
fubuvsfitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My lifelong friend swears to see the same kind of thing. A shadowy creature always turning the corner...
XSavageWalrusX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
woodstock the ent.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I pick option two.
jrghoull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dude...maybe you should have some sort of brain scan? to check for tumors or what have you. I don't think kids can generally TRULY see their imaginary friends.
purple91gsr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought he would have been a small yellow bird.
spacemanspiff30 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shouldn't have burned those Ents as a kid.
Mycomar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes on DMT trips im following some lady through a cave hallway just as you described seeing woodstock.
PC_Komputer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...Aliens!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, one of the most randomly hilarious posts I've seen.
FistofaMartyr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
its your gaurdian angel, bro
Alphadeadpool72 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Had the same thing when I was little. Turns out my grandmas house was haunted. It's been a couple of years since it was blessed, but I still don't like going there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In the Native American side of my family, when there was a mess that was made or doors left open, they would always blame the stick Indians. This was when my grandmother was young.
It is interesting how the stories tie together. Maybe "woodstock" wasn't a figment of your imagination...
Damplastbil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's creepy. I used to have a dream when I was young that a "treeman" would see me from outside my house and start moving towards me, had this dream multiple times.
scullymeister_3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He is an Ent coming to avenge the trees that fell at the hands of the Orcs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Woodst
shalafi71 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well my jimmies are rustled. Woodstock was also the name of my imaginary friend. He wasn't made of lumber in the 70's though.
Scarfington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:45 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is a fantastic story or comic idea. Woodstock is a great name for a lumber dude. I imagine him wearing a hat even though you didn't mention one.
KingDuncantheBrave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:50 on November 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's scarier than most shortscarystories
[deleted] ยท 89 points ยท Posted at 19:24:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was probably the Slender Man. This shit freaked me out the first time i watched it
mollyeah ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:01:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i'm not gonna click that link
Arx0s ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 20:09:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't bother. It's retarded.
lessthan3d ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:04:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nopenopenope
The_Dirty_Carl ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:04:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A youtube video is the worst format for text.
pharoon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:07:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for destroying my plans to sleep tonight.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:17:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
This is actually really scary for me because when I was 8, I kept having dreams of a tall man like that with no face. In fact, I drew a picture after the dreams and included it on the cover of my journal for art (when I was 8).
swimmingisfun ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:03:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's quite impressive for an 8-year-old.
eVaan13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:06:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know who is slenderman and i'm not opening your video link until i see daylight.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:54:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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pitlord713 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
omg get the fuck out of here with that shit. you are the biggest tool
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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pitlord713 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 00:46:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no because your acting like a god. that u know everything because u study science, that u understand things that are not within the realm of human understanding because u spent a couple hundred hours in college classes that teach no practical understanding of anything, but only spit theories to us. and to top it off, u claim rationality like a complete tool and try to make it to be a bad thing.
the fuck is wrong with u?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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pitlord713 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
see here, that last sentence there, its so wrong. its not ur inability to enjoy ghost stories, its ur stuck up attitude about being "rational." I bet ur a fucking idiot in real life to top it off
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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pitlord713 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
omg man are you fucking retarded or something? its not the fact that u dont enjoy ghost stories that makes u stuck up, its the fact that u declared that ur fucking meaningless science degree and self proclaimed rational make u not enjoy ghost stories, as if ur too intelligent for something like that
thats the second time uve tried to throw a loaded question at me. are u so stupid that u have no reading skills? ur not coming off as very rational to me
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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pitlord713 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh man, i didnt think ud actually do it. i didnt think youd actually try and link spelling on the internet with intelligence. but there ya go. ya went and did it
here i was about to type something about how i like how u havent turned away from a fight. but god damn, that really sealed the deal there bro
Arx0s ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:09:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a shitty slideshow full of fake pictures played to the tune of a Requiem for a Dream. How on earth did that freak you out...?
andeverybreath ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god oh god oh god oh god.
Leechifer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:32:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wat.
wow. Kinda cheesy and low-budget, but still creepy.
DOWNWTDASICKNESS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:37:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
fuck you i had just forgotten about slender man
ThunderMammoth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:43:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit..... That's creepy
Coleabbott98 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a slender man story, I am 13 now and living in a new house (very relevant) but when I was around the age of 3 I began to have very disturbing dreams of a dark green man, very tall with a dark face and 3 long arms. I had a dream of it walking through my wall, sitting upon my bed and comforting me. I believe myself to be a rather lucid dreamer because every night it got closer and closer and I became more uncomfortable. One night I saw it come in so I jumped out of bed and ran, it seemed to not even see me, as if I were in a dream state and he were in a state of reality, and I (the real me) was still asleep I watched as it stroked me for several minutes , then it began to lift me up and carry me. I ran to myself and shook my arm rapidly. A moment later I awoke, standing upright in the hall way. We moved houses soon after and I frequently see this "slender man"in my dreams. I do not acknowledge it nor does it acknowledge me. What do you think?
imabigsofty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks i didnt really need sleep this week anyway
UsernameSayWha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THANKS FOR SCARING ME FOR LIFE
ray_quazawski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Get it right, its scarring. If you were scared for life I guess you have very good memory?
Shibboleeth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, so death and the pied piper all in one?
Evilintentions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you. Now the Slender man is going to get me
Carsonlt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I shall terrorize my friend with this. Heh
ResilientFellow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, I just watched it. Creepy shit lol.
1N7B ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds a lot like the mothman type of being
khaleesi_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is the most convoluted documentary I've ever seen.
multi-gunner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The rampant misspellings and shitty grammar freaked me out so much I'm now hiding under the covers.
Snak_The_Ripper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Home alone and 18 making me an older child? Nope. Nope. Nope.
DontShadowbanMeAgain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT?
I really hoped for marble hornets.
That thing is the most amazing ARG ever. It gets new updates every couple of weeks since some months. That shit is so great
TechnoL33T ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What's funny is that the audio from that video camera that supposedly had the video destroyed was all in mono except for the "slender man" voice which was in stereo. Clearly fake.
wealthy_waffles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you should watch the youtube series Marble Hornets. Its fantastic
Danny_Calico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if I want to watch this by myself.
Prisoner-655321 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:18:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I something to that effect when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. I was sleeping when suddenly I was wide awake with eyes wide. There was a green glowing featureless figure leaning over me. I was terrified but called out my little sisters name hoping she was fucking with me. No response. The. I swear to you, in a moment of courage, reached my hand out to touch it. It went right through and this green man about six/seven feet tall stood up and ran out my room. After a few seconds I screamed and went to run out the same door to my parents. But the door was shut, it was never closed when I slept. I hit the door with my face which woke my father. I quickly told him there was a man in my room. He checked the entire house with a large bat. Mom & Dad allowed me to sleep in their bed fora few nights following this encounter. Still think about that night often, even 25 or so years later.
Second_Location ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Freaky!
ARRchipelago ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:41:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just Indrid Cold.
rravisha ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:53:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slanderman!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:01:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
First thing that came to mind: the blue man Tracy Jordan saw in 30 Rock.
BeeKeeperReno ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:08:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nosferatu...
geckofishknight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this is going to give me hardcore nightmares holy shit
Qubit103 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:25:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slenderman
charrsasaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was just blue man. Blue is the new green.
insectopod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't help picture you being some old guy on a scooter just puttering about in circles in the next room.
Second_Location ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Get offa my lawn, you damn kids!
Shareni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Get offa my swamp,you damn kids!
KaitKindly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I would have been more amused than creeped out to hear that the men's bathroom icon was finally stretching his legs. XD
mrbooze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you have a Blue Man Group infestation. If you see one, that means there are a dozen more you haven't seen.
A_Generous_Upvote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's the blue spy!
Nimanzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Doctor Manhattan
Magna_Sharta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I knew there was something sinister about these fuckers...
FJSpoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upon reading this, I could only think "Slenderman" Which honestly, despite being an internet legend, would creep me out to if a child had said it to me.
tomius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This guy?
maxd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My two year old daughter says she sees scary baby ghosts all the time. She does a shocked face and points. It's pretty funny, and slightly creepy.
stuntaneous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was your lack of supervision.
c3fighter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids, it's time to pack up your things....
breezyfog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
!!!!! I saw a very similar thing when I was little. It would hang out in the hallway outside my bedroom door. I would cry myself to sleep in fear while hiding under my covers.
Years and years later, I found out my sister saw the same thing, in a different room of the house. :/
mondomojo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So it was like a stick figure? You should ask for some details if she can remember, paranormal stick men encounters are numerous.
JanCarlo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This really freaks me out, because as a kid, I used to see someone like that quite a lot.
erikwithaknotac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the slender man!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's fine, she was just on acid.
Whinywetpants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me of that guy who sees people. He did an IAMA on here but I can't find it. He said usually they just watch him. He didn't think it was schizophrenia or anything. If anybody could link it that would be great.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was I the only one who thought Dr. Manhattan?
brotorious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me a story about how, when I was young, I would ask to stop and "play with those kids over there" whenever we drove by this cemetery. It was one of those cemeteries where the gravestones were flush into the ground, so you couldn't see the tombstones, but people would regularly leave flowers on the graves.
My mom would say that "those aren't other kids, just flowers," but I would insist that I could see kids playing.
Fast-forward a decade and a half, my mom is at work with one of her coworkers who mentions that she was at a funeral of a family friend whose kid had just passed away. She said he was buried in the children's section of the cemetery. The place -- you guessed it -- where I would supposedly always see the kids playing.
tl;dr: I don't remember any of this, but apparently I used to be able to see the ghosts of children playing.
datoverder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dr. Manhattan?
nixygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kid has Synesthesia. My daughter has it and growing up she used to see things like this all the time. She (still) called them 'awake dreams' and it is FUCKING unnerving being with her when she has one! One scary 'awake dream' I recall her having when she was around 5 was her seeing Rocky & Bullwinkle tapping on her bedroom window asking to be allowed in. She is completely coherent and awake when these occur.
As an adult she still has these 'awake dreams' but recognises them for what they are. One recently involved the girl from the Ring was floating above her doing that clickity clack sound she does. Fuck that!!
who-said-that ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Two words: pajama slenderman
Aniolla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the observers....
pragmatao ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is really weird because my son often talks about "blue people" he sees while staying at grandma and grandpas.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slender man
iCespedes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
There was this kid I knew back in '98 (age 6), who would tell of these dreams about an empty beach with navy waters and dark sand. A beach just before sunset would be a perfect example. On this beach there was a Black jeep. The black jeep would just sit there with a surfboard rack on the back. This rack was minus 1 surfboard.
This kid LOVED the idea of surfing. He would talk about it nonstop for years. He firmly believed he could surf, so one day, his parents took him to the beach, gave him a board and waded out the shallows to teach him. Much to their surprise the kid took to it like a pig to mud. When the parents asked the kid how he knew what he was doing the kid cryptically replied, "I used to do this all the time!" Then paddled off.
McPeaches ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slenderman is near.
Mechanik_J ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least your kid didnt describe shia labeouf... Now that would be scary!
snowflaker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
one time, i was watching the dogs of some people i barely knew. they lived on the corner but i went to the house on the wrong corner and tried the key. didn't work, door opened anyway, hmmm... walk inside, "this place is different at night i guess," i think to myself, until i hear a child rub-a-dub-dubbin in the bath laughing with her mom. eyes went wider than the average person's wide eyes and i got the hell out of there fumbling with the door on my way out so i know they heard me. i felt bad for freaking them out. but i'm over it now.
coleosis1414 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you run and immediately tell the Blue Man Group about this? Because that's like the entirety of the concept they went for in their complex rock tour.
aSpanishGoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the grapist to me. Maybe your son is color blind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgiEQXGetI
IM_IN_YOUR_BATHTUB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hee was the distraction.
Dean97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Blue Slenderman?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was Doctor Manhattan. That creep.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wrecked my parents existence once because I saw a man out in the forest. He was hiding behind a tree and as green as a praying mantis. There is/was a trail down to the beach from the campground at Dash Point State Park in Washington State. We had decided to take this trail against our parents wishes. This guy he looked like an overgrown praying mantis. My cousin and brother were with me and my cousin saw him too, my brother did not. We ran like all hell. It was supposed to take about an hour to get to the beach, we made it in 15. I'd never run so fast in my life. When I got to the beach we were all out of breath and my brother was crying. They asked us what happened and my brother only cried that someone was chasing us. Me and my cousin countered that someone was not chasing us only watching us. They thought it was some pedophile until I described him, I said he was tall, about 8 ft tall green like a mantis, with long long arms and long legs, he had a long face (longer than Sarah Jessica Parkers face) and pointy elbows. Slanted eyes like a chinamen, no colored eyes, they were just black pure puples. I knew it was a male just by the feeling I had, he looked at us not even with curiosity or hate, but just with knowing. I drew a picture with my cousin who was older than me and a better drawer and it scared the living shit out of our parents. I can still see him in my head, at least 8 ft hidden behind a tree just watching us. I think it was a hallucination due to someone suggesting that the woods were haunted. I sure as fuck scared the shit out of my parents though.
Prosopagnosiape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:48 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you still have the picture/care to recreate it? I always wonder if one or two of the stories like this are some kids having seen an alien or something.
Jaboomaphoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of this. Sweet Dreams
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it was tobias funke
irving47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tell her the truth. "It's the shadow people, honey."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slenderman.
BaroForo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! I used to see a blue man, too! When I was 3 I used to scream and cry every night because of the blue man in my closet. It freaked my mom out and drove my dad nuts. Finally, my sister came in my room one night after I had ran out screaming and pretended to push the blue man out the window. I never saw him again.
Nyrb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:06:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just blue slenderman.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, between this and MissAnthropy, I am outta here. Gonna get my wife to chase the monsters away.
eneron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I used to live with my older cousin, her three year old little boy said the exact same thing. He would color pictures of him, and said he lived in the attic.
I hope this is a coincidence.
loceryl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I used to see a featureless man like that outside my bedroom door at night. I had to wait for him to go away before I dared to run in to my parents room.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If someone said this to me, I would honestly think the kid was talking about a robber. It's hard to know what a kid is actually talking about when they can sometimes be poor at describing things.
TrentHelsing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you find any organs in plastic bags in a body in a tree...Packing is not necessary, grab the kid and drive.
ARKIX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, I used to see a similar figure, only all white, in my backyard as a kid. My sister and her friends (and a couple of my friends) all saw it on different occasions.
BrainSlurper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh Dr Manhattan!
lady-claire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
what? :O are you my sister? because my sisters kid also saw a blue man walking past the bathroom door! freaky!
baconbackflip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was the blue spy from TF2.
Skwink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was freaked out by G-man at first too, but you eventually learn to love his voice.
Aztecius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:47:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pixelated Dr. Manhattan. Next!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slender Man! D:
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just some asshole in a morphsuit.
ExiledSenpai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why was your kid taking a bath by herself?
Blowmewhileiplaycod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was just Kyle... You know, about this tall?
Silque702 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps she saw a stick person-
wick36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young I used to see a black stick figure looking guy like the things on the bathrooms outside the house and I thought for sure it was going to kill me.
Scared the hell out of me the several times it happened. :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
little kids apparently see spirits and auras.their innocent minds are much like those of animals, except more self-conscious. (At least that's what i read a few months back...)
Animated_Imagination ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slendy... O.O
Pinkiepie69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:50 on July 21, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dammit I told uncle slendy to take a break and visit uncle endy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did she just see Avatar?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, didn't mean to startle her. I'll be more careful next time. Promised.
teslarules ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slenderman!!!!!!!!!
that_pie_face ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've had dreams of a person who she described. Its been years but it still scares me.
[deleted] ยท 249 points ยท Posted at 20:04:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was 18 months old I was carrying her past the kitchen counter. She started screaming, really screaming in pain -I was in a panic checking her out her to see what was hurting her. There was nothing -I then noticed her eyes where fixed on the counter - I looked down and saw a large carving knife had been left out - I quickly carried away and she stopped. It's always bothered me.
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:26:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That gave me pit-of-my-stomach disgusted chills.
Neoaris ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:41:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once found a knife stabbed into the fence behind my house. Old, rusty, not anything of ours. No one in my family said they put it there.
fwfe23ff2 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:19:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I found a cleaver in a tree in my back yard once. Turned out the neighbors' kid was using it to hack down the chain link fence that kept them from playing in the storm drain. Seemed to be no malicious intent in the end, just didn't want to take the busted cleaver back into the kitchen I guess.
Neoaris ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:23:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was a property a fair distance away from any other house, the only other kid I knew about lived 3 blocks south of me, and didn't really head up that way much. We had a fair sized lawn that evidently took a large amount of unauthorized traffic.
Spncrgmn ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:39:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Most kids hallucinate when they're that young. Don't worry about it.
M_C_Kracken ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 01:23:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn hamburger helper mascot.
taybot5000 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:53:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
reading this at work. customer just came in the door right as I was finishing the story. definitely gasped and got chills everywhere. good times.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:38:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of those things that stays with you - luckily never had a repeat - she carves the Turkey now!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:29:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't give me a panic attack!
Guitarist689 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe she just had a fear of knives at the time, just would never talk about it. I had a friend who's cousin was scared stiff of knives. Except for plastic and butter knives of course. He just never liked how sharp they were
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was so instant - it scared me to death - I'd never thought about previous life until this moment. (I have since come to the conclusion I must have been a real shit in a previous one!) We never had a repeat of that but she is a real "old soul" - she is an artist now uses scalpel blades all the time always been wise beyond her years.
AssnecK666 ยท 1184 points ยท Posted at 18:48:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son when he was about 2... he had a weird fear of being abandoned, which there never was an incident of him getting lost or any type thing. He asked my wife if we have ever forgotten him anywhere, which she replied no. He responds "oh that's right, it happened when you were small and I was big"
[deleted] ยท 573 points ยท Posted at 19:07:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This same sort of story has popped up a few times so far in this thread. Does anyone have a logical explanation for why it might be so common, or should I just assume the weirdest?
sirlearnsalot ยท 534 points ยท Posted at 19:34:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking that kids want to know what it's going to be like to be adults and they simultaneously want to know what adults were like as kids. It's sort of their way of addressing the entire aging process at once. It doesn't quite seem linear to them I think.
mopspops ยท 434 points ยท Posted at 20:28:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense to me. Whenever my cousin would get picked on by the older kids in the family, she'd scream, "You better watch out when I'M older than YOU!"
fishingoneuropa ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:04:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's funny, my dad always teased about our age, as we grew he would say, now you are half my age, soon you will be older than me.
emikochan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sounds pretty morbid, only way for them to be older is to die first
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wat?
emikochan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:03 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when someone dies they stop aging in the traditional sense.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:58 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't get why the kids would be older if they died first.
emikochan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:26 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
if the parents died first i said.
ohmegatron ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:18:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do that too, when my brother was picking on me and stuff. And I'd say "I can't wait till I'm older than you are".
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:02:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did this to my older brother, He's still older.
mrmcmaine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did the exact same thing.
wabbajackoff ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:29:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
People think time is a fixed set of linear points. When in reality it's really a wibley-wobbly, timey-wimey ball of...stuff. That sentence got away from me.
powerc9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:14 on July 13, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dr Who?
wabbajackoff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:47 on July 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Depends who brought the jellybabies.
mycatkins ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:34:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Another science mystery solved! Thanks reddit
jackk225 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:28:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
awe c:
UmUhIdontknow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:02:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being kicked out of the living room when my (much) older brother had friends over. I said to my parents that when I was his age I would kick him out for a change! Then my parents pointed out that by that time my brother would be in college. Crap.
So yeah, the concept of aging is confusing to some children.
voyaging ยท 107 points ยท Posted at 21:02:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OR REINCARNATION
boomerangotan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Fixed
quintessadragon ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 20:30:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My father believes in reincarnation. I don't, but sometimes there are incidents that make me think.
colinsteadman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:34:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dont either, it makes no sense. There are billions of people alive today. Go back far enough and you could count the human populations in the tens of thousands. So you might ask yourself, where did the extra billions of people materialize from? The truth is far simpler, we all live once and when we die, thats that.
HelicopterPenor ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:49:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It could be universal rather than just on earth. i.e. Mr. Alien dies and comes back as a human...
Lukerules ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:55:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that what the Scientology AMA guy was saying?
KullWahad ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:47:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Animals? I don't think it doesn't make sense for the reason you listed.
dsi1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Then you just scale it up.
I'm not sure if there's an accurate measurement of this anywhere but there has to be more biomass on Earth than there was 100 years ago, much less 1000, and especially after the last ice age. Where did these extra 'souls' come from?
Scale it up to the universe and you still have the same problem. (unless galactic-tier disasters are happening all the time and we just haven't observed it somehow)
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:55:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a believer in reincarnation either but that's kind of a silly way to "disprove" it. Who says that all "souls" were here since the beginning (whenever that was)? Maybe right now there are few ancient souls and plenty of noobs? Or maybe time is not linear for "souls" at all? You could reincarnate as Jesus! But first I will reincarnate as you!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:22:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember reading a short story where there was only "God" and one "person". This person would return to earth at a different time period as someone else after each death. They were the only person to ever exist. Pretty interesting.
Edit: Found it. http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
KullWahad ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:27:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say there's probably less in the form of animal life. An acre of the amazon probably contains millions and millions of insects, and hundreds of small animals.
If you go far enough back then, yeah. At some point you end up with a lifeless world/solar system/universe.
astronomer7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:40:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I do believe in reincarnation. I won't try to convince you that I'm "right" because I may very well not be, but I do believe in it. As far as I'm concerned, it could be any living creature, not just humans.
colinsteadman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be interested in hearing why you believe. I don't mean, try and convince me, I'd just like to what makes you believe in it?
astronomer7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:24:26 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I honestly would consider myself agnostic, in a sense. Part of what I believe is that I very well could be wrong. There are so many religions and systems of belief that I make an effort not to rule anything out. Personally, though, reincarnation has always made sense to me. Everything in the universe is constantly changing, on every scale - from microscopic organisms to solar systems. So the idea of an afterlife where if you were good, you will live happily forever in a magnificent place that never changes and there is nothing but eternal joy doesn't seem natural to me. Nothing against anyone who believes that, of course, but I've never truly connected with that concept.
I believe that the best goal in life is to try to understand others. I feel like my purpose is to learn how other people feel and learn to relate to them. So the idea of reincarnation makes sense - to grow as an individual by experiencing all kinds of life. To live an impoverished, neglected life as well as a very privileged one, or to live as a mosquito who gets squashed or a deer who gets hunted. All of these experiences contribute to the development of a well-rounded being.
Of course, we have no real knowledge that proves or disproves any of this. I just have a feeling that says that that is true. I don't find it any less likely than anyone else's theories or beliefs on why we're here or what happens after we die.
TotallyMcGoatally ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:06:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's possible... Maybe most people come back as insects or bacteria.
IWillNotBeBroken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Most of them are empty, hollow shells of people, not real people.
Barnowl79 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:12:38 on December 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a lot more fun to just admit that we don't know. No one alive knows what happens when we die.
colinsteadman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:44:46 on December 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed, but one thing is for sure, we'll all become instant experts one day. ;)
Themehmeh ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:36:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like it's just a normal part of the constant game that is early development. Like when the kid is playing house and someone dies. Jr needs to cope with something he might or might not have experienced because he's trying to figure it out, so he pretends he was big and thus not vulnerable. The parent becomes small because first, to a kid, all big people do is take care of them all day. And second, Someone taking care of someone else is more brave than someone alone.
Starbuck8757 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:25:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents said I tended to ask a lot of oddly specific hypothetical scenario questions when I was little. (e.g., "So when our car crashes into that tree, how will we get home?"). One of the weirdest ones I had though was asking about my older brother (3 years older than me). "So when I'm Jacob and Jacob's me, will I get to stay up later too?"
kidkvlt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/r/fifthworldproblems
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:53:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Names are just labels. Siblings often have to take turns. It's not totally irrational.
dolphinparty ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:08:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being a kid and thinking everyone more than two years older than i was as a 'grown up'
I think it just takes a while for the concept of how people slowly change over time to sink in.
computerglitch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:48:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So they're thinking four-dimensionally?
IWillNotBeBroken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:30:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now they're thinking with portals!
AFatDarthVader ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:23:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense to me. I once asked my older sister how long it would take for me to catch up to her in age.
Kaiosama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:27:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Either that or reincarnation is real.
Eastlin53 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Makes you wounder if time really is linear? or we are just the ones experiencing it that way.
peachesgp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:33:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or the kid had a dream where he was big and they were small.
ophello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're remembering their past lives.
CheshireSwift ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, my girlfriend's kids are smart but they REALLY struggle with time, apparently it's pretty common for them to take a while to understand it.
NurseApril ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of children go through this chain of thought. My daughters both have done it. "and when I was a grown up.." etc.
IVEGOTA-D-H-D-WHOOO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think some might have a poorly thought out conclusion that adults age backwards and kids age forward. I used to assume that all adults were always just adults. Everyone around my parents age or older was just always an adult to me.
Yillpv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe like in the old video games you exit the screen on one side and enter it on the other, like its one big loop rather than a line, but you can't see where it transitions.
Lereas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think time was linear for me until I was about 5 or 6. It just was.
koolaidman89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:55 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother used to say things like: "You can beat me now, but when you get little,.............."
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:38:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dreams. Lots of kid have dreams of them being the parent, particularly rebellious kids
venusdoom135 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:08:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My theory is that if reincarnation is a real thing, then maybe these kids have brief memories of their past lives, and as they get older, those memories are forgotten due to all the new experiences and new things they're learning.
t-beau06 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:38:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Think maybe it stems from a chikd's desire to be an adult and emulate their parents? If you want to read of crazy shit a child has said, read the little hans case that Freud published. Crazy little child.... Anyways, that might be a cause of the whole "when you were small and I was big" thing. Kids have crazy imaginations and I just generally don't believe in past lives.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:21:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:41:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You could probably write a movie/book about that.
dahknee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:29:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when I was a kid i believed in past lives and would say that I used to be a little boy who was attacked and killed by a bunch of dogs, hence my irrational fear of dogs when I was a kid. I think I just made it up though.
Bucket_head ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the boy was afraid that his father would castrate him for desiring his mother
karmakit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Herberg Graf#Little Hans on Wikipedia
samgret ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The 'Little Han's' study is more a study on phobia's and their origins. Freud also comes up with the Oedipus Complex. His findings are also very un-reliable as Hans' dad did the interviews and Freud just interpreted it.
Teregram ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:16:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Freud was batshit insane. So there's that.
samgret ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, i reckon he didn't have a very nice child-hood.
Kiacha ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:18:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Both my kids are convinced we start over when we die, reincarnate as babies. I have no idea why, but to them it's just common sense. I've read other parents here saying the same. Perhaps that's a clue?
Roromatx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:35:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a kid I always thought that I died in the past. So when people talk about past events I reply with "Oh yeah. I was still dead that time."
jobosno ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:56:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember wondering at a young age why parents were allowed to be parents, and thought people grew up suddenly at different phases instead of gradually. So in my dreams, it only made sense to me that if I was good, I could skip straight to being an adult. My parents were usually teenagers in these dreams.
The things I remember.
mojo996 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:55:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
children have very little concept of reality versus fantasy. Dreams really are real to them and there is evidence that when the play pretend, they really do SEE what they are pretending. Its as real to them as the computer in front of you. This leads to lots of odd conversations. Its hard to trust anything a toddler says about the past because reality is so fluid to them.
Proportion is a big deal to children as well. Who's big...who's little. They also have a good sense of the absurd. My guess would be its very common for children to have wild dreams where Mommy and Daddy are small and they are the big ones (probably helps that parents often play the 'so big' game with their kids).
To make a long story short..its probably nothing. Kids just say and think strange shit.
walkingdude3138 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:48:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dreams. Young children only really know their family, so those are the characters who populate their dreams. They re-hash what they went through the day before in their dreams, just like adults do. So they dream of whatever game they played, story they overheard, or lesson they learned that day and screwed up the character roles... My humble opinion.
account932 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:56:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Souls-Scientific-Search-Proof/dp/0684851938
KnowoneSmokeone ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:10:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a special on tv. Apparently, it's a phenomenon called past live sydrome or past life memories or something close to that. On the show, there was a little boy who swore he was an actor from the 30s. He even went so far as to point himself out in film. No one in the family knew who the man was and the kid "recalled" quite a few correct memories and details. I think I'm skeptic but, if it's real then that's cool too. Im gonna go google around and come back with some links.
Rex8ever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would imagine that this is a innocuous statement. Kids say a lot of things that are very simple assessments of the situation - like my son wondering why we can't just turn the lights on outside so it won't be dark, and go for a bike ride.
Kids also like to play pretend, and they play house a lot. Most little kids love to pretend to be a parent with a baby. So they could just be remembering a play session.
scstraus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:27:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids love to fantasize about role reversal with their parents. It's a reoccurring theme in my daughter's play with us.
"Okay papa, now you be the baby and I be the papa".
I_Have_Many_Names ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:12:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My oldest (4) says stuff like that all the time. "when I was bigger, I drove your car all the time" and similar things. They make it sound like they are remembering the future. I think it's just a lack of understanding of the passage of time as well as an undeveloped understanding of verb tenses. My son also talks about things that happened yesterday by saying "last year".
I think the concept that your child is remembering future events as if they have experienced their whole life already and are just going through it again would be interesting. My favorite part of that movie would be when the young child would talk about his/her wedding day, birth of their children, or some other big events in their life. Another great part would be them asking for something because it was always their favorite and you just can't get that thing anymore.
NotHereToArgue ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:57:22 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my son had a similar thing when he was young -around 5 or 6 years old. He was utterly convinced he was an alien from a planet called Bo, and had been sent to earth in a human body to see what it was like. He drew maps of the planet and everything. I think maybe kids just have a great imagination, and are trying out their place in the world. Maybe. Either that or he really is an Alien.
ManInTheMirage ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:23:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The kids are remembering their past lives, although the details are a little fuzzy. It's a well-known fact that past-life memories are not completely forgotten until the preteen years.
cynope ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:02:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the kids just dreaming.
xluminex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:28:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This shit is starting to really, really fucking scare me.
lucy__b ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Read 'My Name is Memory' :)
adaminc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We are made out of meat, that is why.
ericaamericka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids dream and don't remember that it's a dream. Could be the explanation.
kapu808 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In early childhood, kids have no concept of irreversibility, so it wouldn't feel odd to them to suggest something that deviates from the reality that people are born small and grow and age and die.
newtownkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
its actually quite common for young children to have memories of apparent past lives, this isnt the first time ive heard of a child having memories of a deceased grandparent. Even spoken of things only their parents and grandparents knew about. too lazy to source it for you so youll have to do your own digging.
s0nicfreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation is true, kids remember it until we convince them it is not.
TheGingerHarbinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I reckon its because when a child thinks about the past when there parent was younger, they automatically think that the opposite must be true for him, because they are too young to understand that generations don't work in binary opposites.
It also might be because they cant comprehend not existing/ being born, so it is the only logical explanation to them.
depleteduraniumftw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation. Do some research on it.
It's more common then you know.
spencer_duley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids are just dumbasses
twitchwitches ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is gonna make me sound like an idiot, but reincarnation?
Thizzymonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It seems like proof of reincarnation to me. Dr Ian stevenson from the university of Virginia school of medicine spent years researching the subject specifically with children. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation_research
irregodless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My best guess? Its probably relatively common for kids to have weird dreams about being big, or having some sort of role reversal imaginings. Kids like to play mommy to dolls and such, and they don' t really know anyone but their parents, so it seems fairly plausible that they imagine themselves in the parent role to the only other personalities the kid really knows.
thisiswhywehaveants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Piggy backing on the comment below, I had (actually still have) very realistic dreams. Sometimes things will pop up as memories and then I realize it was a dream. So I think that's a possibility too.
HairlessSasquatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What i want to know is how does a 2 year old form this kind of sentence? My son is only 3 and a half and he only started speaking in broken sentences at 3. Of course he was speaking at 2 but it was mostly just a few words here and there or he was stating he wanted something and would say "milk" "cookie" "bath" etc
awe300 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well if we all are just the universe experiencing itself, maybe we're just the same consciousness in different states of existence
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's all the same person. It's a conspiracy. A karma conspiracy.
Diabolicism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Several scientists have done studies into reincarnation, with alot of surprising things coming out of the studies. This world is a weird place.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of the theories of reincarnation/ past lives is that children will remember them clearly for the first 5 years or so, then abruptly forget them.
sicknick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some people believe that kids souls are so fresh they still have recollection of their past lives. They are apparently very susceptible to psychic phenomenon like talking and seeing people from the other side because they dont understand they are here now. just saying, there are people who believe that. this thread has some prime examples of this.
wepadadaban ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dr. Ian Stevenson has done about 40 years worth of research into children and their recall of past lives.
Really interesting.
frishack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:14:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
childpastlives.org
Neuronut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Many people believe that young children remember their past lives more vividly. As they age they remember less and less of that past life. I believe that's what's happening with most of these cases.
polysepalous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I creeped my sister out sometimes when I was three. I would say things like "Well, when I'm older than you..." I remember my thinking at the time: I just didn't understand that we wouldn't, at some point, take turns to be fair. I didn't have an understanding of only living once, how we got where we were, and that death exists. I figured we had to take turns and share with everything else, why not be the older sibling 'next time'?
Zecriss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think they associate size with activity, because they hear "acting like a big girl/boy" so often. So maybe the kid was doing what he was supposed to be doing and AssnecK666 & his wife left him alone.
lmRay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
theres alot of cases where kids do this. its kinda weird but many people believe its a kind of reincarnation. heres a youtube vid about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6M-nXjh_9I
AdmiralJowlins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't understand death as a little kid. I just figured when you became obscenely old, you would reverse direction ad infinitum. I couldn't wait til I was older than my mom so I could tell her to clean her room.
TheBeardiestGiant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I that these children are having lingering memories of past lives they have lived. But, then again, I subscribe to r/Buddhism.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation seems to be the likeliest possibility to me.
Asyyd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Psychological thing with kids, they also want to marry the parent of the opposite, and kill the parent of the same sex at ages 4-6. Just subconsciously (Freud)
shmian92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
yarrmama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's fairly common before the age of four(ish) for some reason. Both my kids were about 2.5/3 and neither of them remember now (11 and 22).
empieta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dreams.
Tel0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Children have really good memories for scripted thing, for example a t.v. show. But they also don't have a solid concept of self yes and that can sometime mess with what they know. And this is the idea I go with personally. Although there have been many situations, like these, form parents who claim there is absolutely no way the kid could have herd this so it really could be something else.
Emir_of_Schmo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:18 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I recall a theory that you're reincarnated with the same group of souls each new lifetime. For example, your best friend in this life may have been your child (or sibling, spouse, parent, etc) in a past life. I find the idea comforting.
ahmad123321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like someone said before, maybe reincarnation. i remember being little and my dad trying to tell me about heaven and hell, and being young i said when you die you turn into someone else. we as a culture are conditioned to believe in heaven and hell, being rewarded in the afterlife... but as a child who hasnt be conditioned, the impulse is you turn into someone else. a few of my friends have had the same experiences, but now consider themselves "religious"
viscounttime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Many Masters Many Lives" by Brian L. Weiss has some answers that seem to make sense. We have many lives often times surrounded by the same people in different forms. I have had many experiences that back these sorta theories up so maybe theres some truth to them...
http://www.brianweiss.com/thebooks.html
electric4224 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:36:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation :P
yepyep27 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:46:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
previous Reincarnations are still fresh in the kids' minds.
CyruzUK ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:23:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The logical part of me wants to assume that the child can somehow access the mothers memories...
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 19:46:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that is not logical.
MeltedTwix ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:44:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well it could be logical, dependent on how memory is stored. Memory transfer, or things like instincts which can be seen as memories (child naturally afraid of loud noises despite nothing making them be afraid of loud noises, etc.), is a complete possibility genetically.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is what you said possible? I guess. I'm not a scientist. Is it logical? Not really. It's not the first thing I would think of when trying to figure out why kids say weird shit.
MeltedTwix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_memory_(psychology)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but that's not the most logical way to resolve why the kids said those things. Like, it is not the first thing I would think of.
cynope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The kid still wouldn't be able to access his mothers memories after being born as in this case.
Furthermore, the genetic memory is considered to be less specific and to come from a much longer chain of generations than just the mother.
MeltedTwix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If reincarnation was a thing, that might be a nonissue! :B
I don't really care though, I just wanted to point out that some form of memory is passed down genetically. Although, it would be unlikely to remember a phone number or something else that specific.
Kaeltan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he was the kwisatz haderach.
CyruzUK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I qualified that statement with 'wants' meaning I have no fucking idea.
[deleted] ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 18:57:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he had a weird dream about being lost.
AssnecK666 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:10:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
yeah maybe that was it, but he had weird questions at a young age. He asked our priest a question, that even stumped him. He had to go look it up
Edit:spelling
Phukc ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:38:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well dammit man what was the question??! I need to know!!
AssnecK666 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 19:43:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
small back story, I am Russian orthodox, no local churches where we live, so we go to a Greek orthodox... they believe in theotokos, the mother of god....
He asked if god, Jesus and the holy spirit are one, and Mary is the mother of Jesus, than how is theotokos the mother of god. And as a follow up, if God created everything, how does he have a mother... he was 6 when he asked this..
Phukc ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:47:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow.. that is a very deep question for a 6 year old to be asking...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think so. I just think most kids that age are discouraged from asking such questions. I am not the only person I know of who had dismissed the idea of god/santa etc by 6.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:08 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it? I remember denouncing Christianity when I was 8, I'd already thought about it for years.
Dylanthulhu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What was the priest's answer? I'm curious.
AssnecK666 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:17:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
initially he stated that he did not know and it was a good question. He had gotten back to him, but he could never find a "logical " answer. They them talked about faith and believing based on that.. I guess admitting that there are times when you can't find an answer and having faith was adequate for my son.
Slayer5227 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:49:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't seem like the church goer, AssnecK666
AssnecK666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:53:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ha. Not a regular. Im comfortable at this one. But not really a fan of organized religions in general. If my kids want to go, I'll take them, and have them form their own opinions.
Slayer5227 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:56:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Parenting, you're doing it right.
AssnecK666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thank you very much...
inej5364 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What was the question?
Juscuz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What was the question?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
AssnecK666 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:48:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no, but that's what I like about this one... he told him he didn't know, instead of some lame ass answer
dandy-pants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What did he ask?
Staplingdean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like what kind of question?
7moCielo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What did he ask?
AssnecK666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the question is a few comments down under phukc's comment
aroymart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No one? Alright I'll ask!
What did he ask?
AssnecK666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
its below. A bunch of people asked
aroymart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ah sorry, mobile wasn't showing me everything
AssnecK666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no prob. Mine does the same
HOZZENATOR ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 19:28:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Username relevant?
AssnecK666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ha.. quite possibly.. he was pretty mad at god lost three grand parents within a year. That's why he wanted to talk to the priest...
spidyfan21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That might be where the fear of abandonment came from, losing grandparents I mean.
shishnit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Game?
[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 18:52:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
was your wife lost as a child?
AssnecK666 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 19:10:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no never
F-rn ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:27:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that she knows of...
AssnecK666 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:34:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just asked her. There was a small incident on main street of Disneyland. Wandered away from her dad, he knew where she was, but she thought she was lost. Lends credit from the post about the mothers memories.
uriststabbypants ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:26:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
AssnecK666.... Grreat name.
AssnecK666 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:34:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thank you. Small tribute to the jerky boys, and Satan.
lessthan3d ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not that she remembers...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
was pretty werid then eh
beardless_captain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As far as you know..
AssnecK666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yeah found a small incident listed below
Whodatjedi5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Im curious about this, as well.
llill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he saw it on tv or read it in a story, and he put himself in the role of the parents and you as the kid because he wanted to see what it was like? That could create the false memories in his head.
AssnecK666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
read, no... maybe on a program...
llill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Another post said it might be him starting to learn empathy so he dreams about situations with reversed roles.
GunnerMcGrath ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:38:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can only assume that it's a common dream for kids to have, like dreams of falling or teeth coming out, which mean something pretty basic. Kids probably can't totally differentiate the difference between dreams and reality.
AssnecK666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh thats quite possible. It was just weird as hell
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:53:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew went through a phase where he'd always talk about when "he'd get big and we'd be little."
zorua ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:15:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had something like that every time I was going down to my grandparents for the weekend, mum would drive a 60 mile drive and before we'd leave she'd fill up the car with diesel or w/e. And everytime I used to be in the car alone and then the car would drive off and go so fast and I couldn't stop it it was so scary. It was like I was sleeping but I was awake at the same time. Stopped when I got to about 6 though.
pikapie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
reincarnation man...reincarnation...
wigwam2323 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:17:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister would always say that kind of thing when she was little. One time I was in the car with my mom and her, and she said, "Mommy, remember that time when you were a baby and I gave you a bath?"
O_O
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your username reminds me of something from a late 90's chat room.
AssnecK666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And what is that?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like a screenname
AssnecK666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah...
willbradley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It comes from the very earliest of ages, almost an instinct. Babies can't fend for themselves so they cry whenever they need anything. Crying for help and fearing abandonment are tied together.
worthwhileredditing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I may know a cause, as I thought this as a child. I saw this thing on sesame street where Elmo was a baby and they showed the aging process of him and his mother but to dodge the whole death thing when Elmo's 'mother' became elderly, they just switched her back to a baby. I thought that's what happened!
foreskin_piss_bomb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is this some kind of universal kid thing? My daughter did it too.
TechnoL33T ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Engrish
HumanVelocipede ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my younger brother was really little he use to tell my mom all about when he was an old man and he smoked a tobacco pipe and some other weird stuff like that.
Lady_Maha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Its your son Benjamin button?
ediddy206 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:47:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was really young I would have these dreams where my mom, dad and sisters would adandone me then I'd wake up in my bathroom just bawling my eyes out.
XD003AMO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom was telling me a story like that that happened to my grandpa before. When he was really little, he said to his aunt "Remember at that party when somebody ate the last piece of pie and you got mad?" Confused, she said yes.) She had only mentioned the party to him once before.) He responds, ashamed to admit, with "Well.... it was me who ate the last piece... not ----" This party happened before my grandpa was born....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was the exact opposite as a kid. I loved freedom but ended up getting lost and separated in a gigantic fucking museum when I was about 5.
Fluffi_McPhee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to say things like this....I don't think we had any details but always used to start conversations with 'when I was big....'
elk_attack ยท 1427 points ยท Posted at 19:44:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a music teacher, who took his 4 year-old daughter to an old theatre in Alaska. She started crying immediately when she walked in, so he took her outside- and she stopped crying. He took her back in, she started crying again, so he took her outside again. He asked why she was crying, and she said: "That's where the people with no eyes watch you."
ddalex ยท 1197 points ยท Posted at 20:49:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Easy one. She'd seen decorating statues, common in theaters, that after greek fashion, have no discernable pupils.
http://rs.musee-rodin.fr/filestore/3/7/5/4_1812f2e6c7f4977/3754_8a8973786c13fea.jpg
They look like they watch you, and a child has no trouble confusing them with real people. I know, because I used to be terrified of those statues.
elk_attack ยท 410 points ยท Posted at 20:50:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a huge possibility, thanks for the input!
jerzmacow ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:41:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever you do, DON'T BLINK!
Smackenstein ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 21:14:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Someone else posted drama masks, another likely possibility in a theater.
CapnMerica ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:43:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If they have the Archaic smile, they would just be staring with "no eyes" and smiling.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:54:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you that is terrifying.
CapnMerica ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:02:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's art.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:09:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know, I know. Don't worry, I appreciate it; studying ancient Greece at the moment myself so I understand the context.
But still, it's creepy as hell.
CapnMerica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry if I sounded mean. I wasn't trying to. I was just saying.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's all good, it's all good.
CapnMerica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I noticed that we are both captains.
LadyFajra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now kiss!
Rizzz ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:58:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck. That shit's the stuff of nighmares.
CapnMerica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually the stuff of Greek sculptures of the Archaic period.
hmmmyellow ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 21:38:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Weeping_Angel perhaps?
Radishing ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:10:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NICE TRY, WEEPING ANGEL!
serenduckity ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:09:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't Blink!
wedapeople ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:39:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't blink
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:34:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck I am now scared of Greek statues
Gypsy_Liz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:22:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Either that or she's seen the weeping angels for what they truly are. DON'T BLINK!
Nyrb ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:56:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't blink.
fishfishmonkeyhat ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:57:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DON'T BLINK.
gornzilla ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:20:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
After Greek fashion, they would've been colored and had pupils. The all white versions are a British thing. They'd clean the colors off.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:52:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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QuickToJudgeYou ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:58:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And kind of flamboyant if you look at the link above. Greece must have been the San Fran of ancient Europe.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:01:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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QuickToJudgeYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And therein lies one of the fundamental differences of the genders... I would find it overwhelming to wandering around a city decorated like that. Like a bad acid trip or something.
subdudeman ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:08:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Therein lies the fundamental differences between two random people, not whole genders.
I'd be totally down with colored statues and buildings, and I have testicles.
QuickToJudgeYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Possible klinefelter's syndrome
tarkadaal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not solely British - after all there are plenty of (formerly painted) Greek & Roman marble statues that were never possessed by the British that are also scrubbed white. The reason is that when many of these artifacts were rediscovered, they had been buried or the paint had completely oxidized so the statues just looked like they were covered in dirt. Archaeologists of all nations in the 18th and 19th centuries assumed that the statues were meant to be white marble and cleaned the "dirt" off.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:42:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Internet detectives prevail again!
Godolin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man, those guys would make great horror movie monsters.
xyroclast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact: Apparently those statues used to be painted, and consequently, had eyes at the time. (the authentic ones, anyway. Not the reproductions.)
CFHQYH ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:48:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As long as you don't blink, you're fine.
Coolio226 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:05:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, I hate them, just because I've seen a weeping angel episode of Doctor Who. Those things are the creepiest shit.
mrnuknuk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the scary as fuck doctor who episodes with the Angels. Don't blink.
GOD_Over_Djinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TL;DR: that's where the people with no eyes watch you
girlinthelake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This picture just got a shitload scarier..
vefobitseq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Those are still scary statues man.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
these maybe? http://stuntbox.com/images/posts/no_eyes.jpg
newtype2099 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
at first, all I could think of were Weeping Angels. then the neckline finished loading...
Arx0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh thank you. I got instant goosebumps from reading elk's story.
seenitcoming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They don't have pupils because back when they were new statues they were painted to be as realistic as possible and they would paint the pupils in. This was back in ancient greece, and over the years the paint faded away.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Naw, it was slenderman.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I almost shat myself when that picture loaded... thanks for that.
masklinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Which is not actually greek fashion: the statues were originally painted (usually in pretty gaudy colors), the paint just flaked off over time leaving only the sculpted stone.
kulykat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Both of my brothers had a strange fixation with statues of all kinds, and the belief that they were fossilised people/animals/etc.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be completely terrified of mannequins. Especially the ones who are just a torso.
I kept dreaming that they chased me. They came in white and black. The black ones were rarer but were faster and more dangerous.
I was a fucked-up kid.
Jaberworky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
just remind me of Weeping Angels...
The_D0ctah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't blink
Shawnyall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So long as she doesn't blink, she'll be fine.
cantCme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
About the no pupils bit, is it possible that they were painted on an the paint faded?
Radishing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:12:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not just possible... it's what actually happened.
SecretfulWoman ยท 651 points ยท Posted at 20:41:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These perhaps?
elk_attack ยท 277 points ยท Posted at 20:49:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You just made this whole story seem silly rather than scary.
ThatGuyYouKindaKnow ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 21:06:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, I see a new Doctor Who special on the horizon now...
shasian99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They did gas masks already, and I don't know if my mind could handle Another episode like that one.
Aphataeros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://inkincstudios.webs.com/beast-below.jpg
shasian99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well there goes my sleep tonight.
Aphataeros ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:53:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:-)
Chokkiss ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:37:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you kidding? Those masks are frikkin' terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:44:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
are you kidding that just made the story a million times more scary kinda like the angels from doctor who. this whole post is terrifying by the way. there is no way I'm going to sleep tonight.
kneeonbelly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:02:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Silly...and tragic.
csonnich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Most kid stories like this are.
lordfurious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no, those masks are scary as fuck!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
those masks are still pretty fucking scary D:
Pontiflakes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:54:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She would shit at the sight of Hexadecimal.
xyroclast ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:03:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Any kid in their right mind would be terrified by those.
VileContents ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:07:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was sure that was gonna be a picture of the "Weeping Angels"
MentalProblems ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:10:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FUCKING WARN ME
SecretfulWoman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:22:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THE PICTURE IS OF DRAMA MASK THINGIES THAT ARE HAPPY AND SAD. Better?
MentalProblems ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:38:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I SAW IT AND IT STARTLED ME HIGHLY FOR SOME REASON.
SecretfulWoman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OH MY!
MentalProblems ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HOW DO I GET OUT OF ALL CAPS NOW? YOU HAVE DOOMED ME.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:27:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I DONT KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!
Cock_Sucker_McGee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:39:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOUD NOISES!
Lieutenant_Crow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:27:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OH NO
sunsoaker1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
they have eyes
SecretfulWoman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see any of these.
somedelightfulmoron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense now.
ThatJanitor ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:26:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know that feel, bro. I used to HATE those masks when I was lil'.
[deleted] ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 19:48:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chills.
GapingVagina ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:49:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha I thought this said Chili's. Chili's: where the people with no eyes watch you.
niinjaniinja ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:22:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
specially in alaska
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:21:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're ...
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multiplying
Aiyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you losing control?
pe4nutwiz4rd ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:56:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Couldn't that have been the laughing and frowning theatre faces?
Steellonewolf77 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:07:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i was really creeped out by those when I was a little kid.
GrantSolar ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:00:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably referring to Comedy & Tragedy
Dr___Awkward ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:14:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TBH those masks look more like Anal Rapist and Anal Rape Victim than Comedy and Tragedy.
DiamondSoul ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:19:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I won't be able to look at those masks without laughing. Have an upvote.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why are they funnier now that they are about anal rape?
lifeofbri ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:30:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Aw, honey, if they don't have eyes, then they can't see you. They can probably smell you, though."
jlbob ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:07:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Any idea what theater?
elk_attack ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:15:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
nope, sorry :/
I mean, how many theaters do they have in alaska? Like, three?
jlbob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:18:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ouch, i'll be sure to remember this crack come time when people ask us for oil :-(
EvilAnagram ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like the drama/comedy masks?
elk_attack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahah yes. Someone already pointed that out.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus...
Podwangler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Nope. Nope. I am usually the most rational of individuals, but this thread is seriously putting the shits up me.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:03:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps she was talking about theatre masks? I have a collection in my bedroom and full grown adults think that they are creepy, I could only imagine what a 4 year-old would think.
FuzzyGunna ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:54:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dafuq? Creepiest so far.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What is that supposed to mean?
a_wizard_diddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Okay fuck that, I'm out.
UnacceptableUse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm done for today goodbye
shoots self
Myrandall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ಠ_ಠ
Note to self: Avoid Alaskan theaters
GrandMastaGrizz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
are you talking about the Theatre on 4th?
HothFirstTrumpet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a professional musician. In a lot of theaters/concert halls, you can see lots of heads, but no faces from on stage because of the lighting. It makes sense to me!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Another explanation could be that in the darkness of the cinema, peoples facial details can't be perceived as good and it looks like they have no eyes/faces
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She just knows about the angels.
ThatsAmoreEel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Girl with no eyes, who can she be? Girl with no eyes, seems to be looking at me.
Culottes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OMFG I know this story!!! My drama teacher in high school was also from Alaska and told this exact same story about a friend of his, only it was his niece...
Just, out of curiosity, what was the teacher's name?
Edit: He told a much longer version, with more context, but that's EXACTLY the same line the kid delivered. And she made an imaginary friend shortly after this event that was not exactly the most friendly...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Which theatre? (curious Alaskan here)
Ron_Paul_Forever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe she meant the comedy and tragedy masks.
radiokungfu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These, perhaps?
scoutingtacos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:10:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, that one was scarier than all the others in this thread. Why does this not have more upvotes?
cakezilla ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They are blind but they "see" his music?
KayaXiali ยท 1510 points ยท Posted at 19:45:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old was laying on my chest a few weeks ago and she said "I can hear your heart, Mommy. It was much louder when I was inside there with the poops that didn't come out yet".
Vozadam ยท 143 points ยท Posted at 21:53:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Poop is sentient and talks to fetus'. The only rational explination.
flossayy ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 23:38:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This will make me laugh for days.
planetmatt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mr Hanky?
[deleted] ยท 145 points ยท Posted at 20:14:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thats hilarous
[deleted] ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 21:24:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This made me laugh so hard.
finallymadeanaccount ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 00:58:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did the poops come out?
CreamedButtz ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 00:58:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not yet.
isaacwisdom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:23:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn McDonalds!
Tulki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We have to rescue the poops!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
did the poops died?
jordah ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 23:21:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Amazing that she went straight from heartbeat to poops.
baconbackflip ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 23:20:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh dear... You still have poops in your heart? That's disgusting! Babies are made there!
SimpleDan11 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:46:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is fantastically fascinating
fatoldcrazycatlady ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:18:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The sound of my mums stomach gurgling and heart beating used to freak me out so much...
finallymadeanaccount ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 01:00:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me, too. But never enough for me to wake your mom up, I just liked to rest beside the bed while she was asleep with my head on her stomach and listen. And when I was done, I'd leave and go home.
jaskmackey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:02:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What else does she remember from being in there?
incraved ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 22:34:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wth, she can actually remember when she was inside?
KayaXiali ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:43:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it has more to do with that I'm pregnant again now and she's constipated all the day so she's hyper aware that babies and poops both can spend a long time in that general region. The creepy part to me was that the concept of hearing the heartbeat from the inside and that it would be much louder is fairly abstract for a 3 year old. But, no, I don't think she literally remembers it.
GaGaORiley ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:10:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I once read a fascinating article about babies hearing sounds in the womb. Alas, this was way before we all had internet, so I'd probably never find a link.
The one that stick in my mind was a guy whowas a symphony conductor with an inexplicable affinity for the string parts of the music, who learned that his mother had played a string instrument (violin or cello, I forget) before he was born and all through her pregnancy, but put the instrument away when he was born and never played again.
vulpyx ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 23:51:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't really understand why you got downvoted.
WGMindless ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:11:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's a stupid question, I assume?
Of course she can't remember being inside her mom.
Clown_Shoe ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 00:39:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being inside her mom
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
why do all these threads degenerate into fucked your mother comments? WHY?!
Clown_Shoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Low hanging fruit ):
mikeyb1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey-ooooooo
thesecretofjoy ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:10:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember reading a book or article when my oldest daughter was not quite two years old, that suggested children can remember being born and if they are early talkers, they will sometimes talk about it if you ask them. So I asked my daughter "Do you remember coming out of mommy?". She got this VERY indignant look on her face and said "It SQUEEZED MY HEAD!!" I told my (now ex) husband about it when he got home and he didn't believe me. I'm still irritated about that.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:01:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, children will often create memories based on other people stories or experiences (even if the said child wasn't there) and adapt them to their own lives. Real conscious memories are not developed until the child is about 3 years old.
I don't want to be a buzz kill, but that's the science, yo.
jackk225 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
noo. her head. :c
frenzyboard ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:05:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A baby's skull is made up of separate bone plates so that they can compress during labor.
This is why some people have asymmetrical faces, and why one ear is often lower than the other.
jackk225 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:44:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know, I remember my little brother had a soft spot on his head when he was born. Still, it can't be comfortable .-.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:53:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
seems legit
cheshirekitteh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:51:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is freakin adorable.
lavra ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:41:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's not so much creepy as amazing. I love hearing children talk about how they remember being a baby, but I've never heard anything like that.
tinned_peaches ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:47:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is my favourite :)
thesecretofjoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:09:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember reading a book or article when my oldest daughter was not quite two years old, that suggested children can remember being born and if they are early talkers, they will sometimes talk about it if you ask them. So I asked my daughter "Do you remember coming out of mommy?". She got this VERY indignant look on her face and said "It SQUEEZED MY HEAD!!" I told my (now ex) husband about it when he got home and he didn't believe me. I'm still irritated about that.
abenton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:44:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think by "it" she was referring to your vagina.
thesecretofjoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:57:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think you're a fucking genius.
Shnizz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:56:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's adorable.
CrackHeadRodeo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:09:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There is some scientific basis to this.
prettyprincess90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:22:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My poops came out. Now I have lung problems.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's fucking hilarious.
I guess poop is finite, seeing as you only poop as long as you live.
Asyyd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOLOLLOLOLOL
jmsrobertson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Am I the only one who thought the child was referring to a time before they pooped?
chipchipp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HAHAHAHAHAH PERFECT
HelloGoodbyeBlueSky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That made me aww. :)
Perma_Hexx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They say geniuses remember being born.
Tattycakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So she's talking about hearing your heart before she was born?? o_O Is this memory or imagination?
StandingTheGaff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's really cool; have you talk to him about how he got here and kinda synthesising the idea or do you think he might actually remember your heartbeat?
jesuschalupa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:46 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wut.
drunkhooker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha that's awesome
Harrison337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, child logic.
NathanielSuperfly ยท -47 points ยท Posted at 23:26:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You want your daughter inside you? Ew, if the sexualization of children stimulates you then you may want to seek help before summer break is over so the little kiddies at school don't make fun of you.
youarealldumbasses ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 23:54:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you high?
[deleted] ยท 245 points ยท Posted at 21:37:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
A little late, but I have a good one: When my oldest brother was 3 or 4, he fell into my cousins' pool. The pool didn't have a ladder and was several inches to reach to get out, no way for a 3 year-old that has ever swam in his life to escape. Well, while all the adults were talking they hear him screaming and splashing, and then silence. When they ran to get him, he was standing right next to the pool and he was soaking wet. When they asked him what happened, he said, "I fell in the pool and couldn't get out, then a shiny man pulled me out."
That one will always give me shivers.
EDIT: I'm a really crappy story-teller.
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 10:58:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your cousin is a sadistic Sims player.
TheCannon ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 00:56:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. Elvis saved your brother.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:14:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Trying to make up for dying on the toilet, I guess.
Anonymous_Thomas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:49:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You sir get an upvote for making me laugh more than anything I have read on reddit today.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:54:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Silver Surfer saved your brother.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:11:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Elton John saved your brother?
quaggas ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:07:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The pool didn't have a ladder? Are you a Sim?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:13:12 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess they figured they could climb out.
JaredNC86 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:54:55 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was it the sweaty Mexican gardener?
McSteezeMuffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:00 on November 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bhahahahah!!
teeth4brains ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was two I somehow managed to sneak outside while my mom was preoccupied with my grandma. When they found me I was soaked from head to toe and was laying on the top step of the pool with my head on the concrete crying. They say I had to have fallen all the way in but no one knows what happened from there.
scullymeister_3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Could have been an angel
Lies_About_Deleted ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:57:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cause look how death missed his ass
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:03 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
unbreakable, what you think, they'd call me mr. glass?
Guitarist689 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:23:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you ever think that maybe he was talking about, perhaps, God saved him? Or maybe God was sitting on his shoulder or something like that?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:56:20 on November 18, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is obviously extremely late, I was going through my top comments as a cake day treat. And yes. That's what I think. I don't think it was God, I think it was one of his angels that did it.
Guitarist689 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:14:06 on November 19, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
happy cake day!
[deleted] ยท 448 points ยท Posted at 19:52:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 21:55:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stuff happens to me like that. I hallucinate being pulled out of bed only to wake up when I hit the floor, and I really just fell out of bed. Or, I hallucinate something and I wake up somewhere in the house. Could be a waking dream/hypnagogic hallucination.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 00:45:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 01:09:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I cannot tell you all the shit I've hallucinated... I can list some, though. Giant spiders climbing onto my face and smothering me, dismembered, bloody corpses strewn all over my floor, a headless zombie man trying to pull me out of bed, cloaked skeletal figures staring at me from the foot of my bed, ghouls, a banshee, a little girl telling me a story, more zombies, more fucking spiders (hallucinated spiders hanging from my ceiling, carpeting my floor so it was crawling, FUCK)
shady_mcgee ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:22:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a giant (12" legs) dream spider crawling on top of my bed moving from my legs toward my face. I woke up right when the spider was on my chest but still on the blankets. I jump up, flip the blankets over to cover the 'spider' and punch the sheets about six times to kill it. My gf was sleeping next to me and is woken up by this and freaks the fuck out.
tl;dr: Killed a fake spider
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:07:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was expecting that to end with you repeatedly punching your gf.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:21:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I've got a second reason besides this thread not to sleep until I eventually pass out
LurkVoter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:15:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man oh man. You have a great opportunity here. The next time some horror presents itself, you have to confidently proclaim that: "YOU ARE BUT A CREATION OF MY MIND, EPHEMERAL AND IMPOTENT. I AM THE MASTER HERE, BEGONE!"
Man that would be badass if it banished them.
hystericalwisteria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have regularly banished dream haunts by screaming at them. I feel all my "power" gather up in my core, and then I shout, usually just a very simple, "NO" or "STOP", and it blows them away like some kind of fus do rah. I always wake up feeling so empowered, which is pretty silly, but I don't care.
iEATu23 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:41:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That would make sense. In /r/luciddreaming people have said what happened to them in a dream related to what they were actually doing. So if their blood flow was cut off they would feel bugs crawling on them in their dream.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 01:07:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I have dreams where my room is being wrecked by an invisible force, but I wake up and I'm the one knocking shit over. I've destroyed lamps, tables, and even my own bed in my sleep. I had one dream where I was running through a dark forest, and all I could hear was this woman screaming this awful, unearthly scream, and I woke up running down the hall and I was the one screaming like I had never heard myself scream before.
Fucking sleep disorders. They make weird shit happen.
Jwalla83 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:55:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't want to offend you, but you sound terrifying when you're asleep. Like, I'd be your friend... but you couldn't pay me enough to have a sleep over. Very interesting though
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:22:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mostly, I'm harmless - I just sleep-talk almost constantly. I've been told I lead angry World of Warcraft raids in my sleep, and that when I'm not doing that, I'm swearing like a sailor and bitching imaginary people out.
Simie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:48:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd pay to see someone sleep raid..
astronomer7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry, but the angry World of Warcraft raids made me lose my shit. Fucking hilarious...
roastedbeef ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:11:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Right, OK, not sleeping tonight.
Ratava ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:09:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. I could not have dealt with that.
G0PACKG0 ยท -23 points ยท Posted at 20:41:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously?? You comfort the kid until he falls asleep? Do people on reddit really believe in paranormal shit?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:59:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the kid was two years old - hopefully hasn't been exposed to horror tropes in film and tv
it's no so much a matter of necessarily believing in paranormal shit but can also be seeing the reflection of our primordial conscience in the young
either way its creepy. also screams at night = creepy and thuds
G0PACKG0 ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 21:18:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am weird shit like that doesn't bother me. I literally sleep through anything, I go to bed and wake up at 6am, doesn't matter when I went to sleep or what day it is I am up by 6 am every day of the week. I never wake up during the night.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:52:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, good for you. However, your personal reactions to situations are not going to be the same as the rest of the world's, so don't be so quick to judge when someone says something that you think is strange.
G0PACKG0 ยท -16 points ยท Posted at 21:55:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just still find it hard to believe that people think ghosts and shit are real
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:52:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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G0PACKG0 ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 23:01:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
she turned on the lights and called her father....because of something that her child said which sounded paranormal. If you call your daddy because of a bump in the night you should have thought about growing up before having kids.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:50:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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G0PACKG0 ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 23:56:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't wake up from night time noises.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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G0PACKG0 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 00:26:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why? I have no one to protect except myself.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:48:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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G0PACKG0 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 00:52:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I live in a pretty small town in central Wisconsin zero crime (except for some weed and a newer heroin problem) My neighbor across the street is a cop and 2 doors down on my side of the street is a cop. I live 100 yards from the County Cop Shop. I don't pay for it but the Brinks Sign is in my front garden (the house had brinks when I bought it). If they want something from my house they can have it and I would tell them that. I pay for insurance for a reason. I sleep most nights in the summer with every window and door open in my house. I am not too worried about it.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:03:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I find it hard to believe that there's idiots out there who think being gay is a sin against god, and that people believe antibacterial soap makes their immune system stronger.
You have to keep an open mind about all the crazy shit that people believe.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:46:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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G0PACKG0 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was talking about the mother making such a big deal out of it
zserfvbhuik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:06:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, I agree with you. Your son is scared about a "dead man" in his room and instead of comforting him, you freak out more than him?? This is wrong in so many ways
Lonely_Nurse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:10:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love that you called your dad, I would have done the same!!
tome101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So, this?
AgentGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why didn't you call Ghostbusters?
the7thkat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
all my hair stood up on end when i got to the blood and cuts bit...
FloobLord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was that age I had a dream that my seagull mobile turned into Elmo with claws and fangs and was jumping down on me. Night terrors suck :(
SpicaGenovese ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:40:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's some good talking there for a 2 year old
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:05:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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makemearedcape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:08:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I taught two year olds and a few of them were pretty well spoken. And a few of them were basically mute. It was weird.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:28:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NICE TRY, Paranormal Activity 4 PR team.
Tropicalfirestorm ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:59:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
bullshit
[deleted] ยท 1750 points ยท Posted at 19:39:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 162 points ยท Posted at 20:45:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a software engineer too and I think sometimes I might know what he means
jrghoull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
as a guy who is in his early junior year as a software engineer...care to explain? Just the long nights of not knowing the solution to a problem?
[deleted] ยท 1400 points ยท Posted at 20:48:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should stop doing graveyard shifts.
guacamonster ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 22:30:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Such a dead end job...
OfTheWater ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:18:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cadaver there be something worse?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:14:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He should just bury the hatchet and make up with his kid already
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 00:26:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 00:56:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
man, these puns are killing me!
smellthyscrote ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:00:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stop it, you're killing me!
I'm not very good at this.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:43:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Little graveyard humor there
Spk4420 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:01:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here's some humor, I used to work in cemeteries being a vault man and such, used to bury the bodies; I've never heard a complaint and six feet under, we all get along. Heh
shewhofaps-wins ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:44:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He's dead serious
kneeonbelly ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:50:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But the pay is just to die for.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:53:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ZeDestructor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And many engineers prefer working the graveyard shift because that's when you're most productive. Especially Software Engineers.
PsychoticTherapist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...
Dr_-_Toast ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:32:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ba dum tss
henfruit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:48:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dohohohhh
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... budum tss... I guess...
Ihmhi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:23:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa, it makes sense though. The kid probably heard his dad say "Man, I had to work the graveyard shift" and just put 2 and 2 together!
sociallyoblivious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(โข_โข) ( โข_โข)>โโ -โ (โโ _โ ) YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
tmotom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:33:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Missing plug-in. Fuck.
gravedigger04325 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're a real bitch sometimes
GoodToSeaYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad was a graveyard snift IT for Qualcomm, didnt understand what graveyard shifts were till I was 12
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 22:15:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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brainburger ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:33:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Eh?
punsarenotfunny ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:08:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YOU ARE A FUCKING HOOT
JeffIpsaLoquitor ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:38:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And stop coding in dead languages.
gepeupel ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 22:43:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
proper reaction..
onehotpocket ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 22:16:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I see what you did there.
Ikhtionikos ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 20:52:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Insert 'you're not the father' joke here
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 21:26:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Insert horror story about a wife who cheats on her husband with a handsome but creepy funeral worker who later kills her and their child so he can be with them forever here.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:39:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Twist, he kills the mother and child so he can be with the father forever.
gte910h ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:38:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OH that's easy. 6 feet under/dexter crossover
Dr___Awkward ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 21:17:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny because the joke wasn't the only thing inserted
BipolarBear0 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, you beat me to it.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:12:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is that code for "I couldn't think of a 'you're not the father' joke so pretend I told one and just upvote me"?
[deleted] ยท 99 points ยท Posted at 20:11:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Both are depressing jobs.
SpacemanJim ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 20:57:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed. Fighter pilots are some of the most dull people you'll ever meet.
fighter_pil0t ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 21:13:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Verified
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:15:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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bananalouise ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:45:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The fighter pilot I know isn't dull; he's just crazy.
Lieutenant_Crow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Adrenalin junkie kind of person?
bananalouise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:50 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking of him more as a dubious life choices kind of person, but you know what, his being an adrenaline junkie would explain a few things.
lawless6776 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol whut?
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 21:19:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Smarag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
hotspeakers didn't say it was depressing for your friend.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Smarag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You cannot think of people who get depressed as a result of people fighting wars?
mmusaji ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fighter pilot, funeral worker or software engineer?
10gags ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:15:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
to be fair, he didn't say "like you" he said "like daddy"
DiamondSoul ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:28:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pxnsr/
smokey_smokestack ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:11:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At first I thought you were telling me how stoned your son was. Carry on.
ErikDangerFantastic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:17:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist: pjdavis was the mother all along.
pungellin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:08:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Directed by m knight shalkhbgwlhblkjhr
birdlaw64 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:57:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure he wasn't just confused with what you do? Or does one of his family members work in funeral services?
amanzilla ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Graveyard shift? I thought my dad stood guard at a graveyard for years...turns out he was a forklift driver.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:27:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he was speaking metaphorically.
shewhodoesnot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:44:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha! He's probably just confused about your job. I remember when I was younger, I used to tell my friends that my daddy was the 'carpenter's messenger'. In actual fact, he ran a small furniture company, so he was very hands- on, so he had to visit the workshop all the time.
AnAngryBitch ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:00:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You and your wife need to sit down and have a heart-to-heart chat right now.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:22:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A stylistic way of saying that you are in a dead-end career?
OmegaVesko ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:43:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's the pasty skin that gives us the look.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:05:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm concerned that your son is a (6) in this conversation.
PDXFuneralChick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:06:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't knock the "funeral workers"! You're all going to need us someday...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:47:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
same thing
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:46:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, you probably work with a lot of people who are dead inside.
ChchResident ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a software developer who had a similar experience. When one of my friends asked my four year-old son what his dad did, he proudly told them I worked in a toothpaste factory.
endercoaster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is what happens when your shop uses waterfall.
calladus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:01:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, software engineers have that unhealthy pale look.
Maybe you need more sun?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you might not be daddy....
RaganSmash88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Tall Man impregnated your wife bro.
redninjamonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maury Povich paternity test or it didn't happen
S2H ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You went on Maury too, eh?
ConnorTheDimosaur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was your son 6 years old or at a 6?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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goodguydick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you meant your son was at a [6].
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he just thinks you're dead inside?
Reusable_Pants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did he see you participating in a funeral? He may have assumed that was your job.
throw_a_weigh11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He's been watching too much six feet under!
EXAX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Engineer by day, funeral worker by night.
Underoath2981 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should stop getting your son to a 6. It's probably not healthy.
AMBsFather ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try Maury.
sparklesandspills ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he knows something you don't know about paternity.
zackkitzmiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Up boats for software engineer.
Fuck. I'm drunk.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you design Vista? That may explain the kid's misconception.
BipolarBear0 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:12:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your wife cheated on you.
Buglet91 ยท 785 points ยท Posted at 19:20:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin is autistic & I watched him so much when he was little that he called me 'Mom' for a few years...anyway, one day he's talking in his odd babble, & I'm talking back to him like "Oh yeah? Is that so? Well okay then, whatever you say..." when he says in a complete sentence "Go away, I'm talking to myself." he was only about 4 & hadn't ever spoken a full sentence before & didn't do it again for another probably 2 or 3 years.
[deleted] ยท 153 points ยท Posted at 20:30:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually fascinating. It gives some insight into how autistic people must think.
Buglet91 ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 20:51:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As I said, it's a title given to a very wide range of symptoms & severities. Like SIDS could be just about anything but they're not entirely sure what so they just call a lot of different things that. The main characteristics are developmental delays & antisocial behavior, but my cousin LOVES people, he will walk up to complete strangers & strike up conversation like they're his best friend. He has started to shy away from other kids recently, but we're pretty sure it's because they can tell he's not "normal" & are mean to him.
But anyway, he doesn't think like other autistic people because truthfully none of them really think alike, they just don't think like we do. If anything, we're the weird ones that should be classified because we all have similiar thought patterns & logics, where they do not.
GreatBosh ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:45:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've recently started working as a habilitation tech. for families with special needs, so far just autistic children, and it's really been an eye-opening experience. I'm working with my third recipient and they've all been very different. It blew my mind to see the difference between the first client (seemed like a shy, somewhat awkward teen) to my second (non-verbal, lots of self stimming). Working nine hours a day with somebody who is non-verbal (just throat/mouth noises) is very....trying. There was definitely a time or two when I could've sworn the kid actually said something. If you don't expect it, it will seriously creep you out for a moment.
Buglet91 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:49:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, it freaked me the hell out when he spoke a full sentence to me & I had to think about it for a sec to decide if he really had said it. My cousin isn't too severe, technically he has fairly severe Asperger's Syndrome, but very mild on the full autistic spectrum.
Deus_Viator ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:37:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Might i reccomend reading Speed of Dark by Elizibeth Moon? From everyone i've asked it does a pretty good job of portraying the (or one of the) mindset of an autistic person. Plus, it's a damn good read anyway.
GreatBosh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm definitely open to suggestions. I don't feel like the training I got was especially helpful (I believe it varies by state, I'm in NC). I will look into it, thanks.
Yourmomsagoat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:29:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I work with an adult with autism. When he is in control of his body, his vocalizations indicate something very specific. I asked him if he wanted coffee once and he signed 'yes'(his sign language is often not indicative of his actual desire) but the preceded to freak out and started yelling and pacing. I asked whats wrong and he FCed "no thank you, no coffee right now", then immediately calmed down. I agree, it is often very trying with the occasional reward. I am still coming to terms with him being a human being just trying to live his life to the best of his abilities. Edit: changed words for clarity.
GreatBosh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, I know exactly what you mean. My previous recipient would sign for yes/no and had a certain sign when he wanted something (none of this was ASL, just his own signs). I started getting to know what he wanted and what he didn't, but often times I just had to come to terms with the fact he was going to get very upset and I wasn't going to be able to do anything. Sometimes it's tough to balance the 'I'm working with a person with autism' with 'I'm working with a 13-year-old boy, kids this age can be jerks.' My current recipient is non-vocal and uses a communicating device. Sometimes when I think he is just spacing out or not paying attention he will put me back in my place with a few well formed thoughts on his keyboard. Everyone is different.
Yourmomsagoat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:52:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. FC doesn't work for every person, but for some people it's a miracle tool. I would love to work with children with autism, I bet that's somewhat more rewarding then grown men who are set in their ways or "the damage is done". I have been floored by what has been typed out by some of the people I work with.
graymansnel ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:52:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Im autistic... (I'm serious I have asbuegers also I can't spell it lol) my brain never shuts up... Idk if it's like other people but there always a beta or a song in my head and on top of that there like this back thought... It's ussaly about something weird and the only way I can stop it is by playing a game.. (or something REALLY intense IRL..)
sweetthang1972 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is normal. I usually have a song, a backthought that is a little hazy, also maybe a dialogue, all unrelated.
graymansnel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:36 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
o ok i just kinda thought that it was just me... or me being a drummer.. and as much music that i hear
sweetthang1972 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:05 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well, Im no doctor. It may be messed up as fuck and we just both have it.
ILoveMyFrita ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 02:28:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think low people with severe autism is interesting, their minds are working differently yet they are still people, they're still human! I would love to see two autistic people socialize actualy, not for a show just because it would be cool and you could learn a lot.
greaseballheaven ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:51:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No shit they're still human. Christ.
ILoveMyFrita ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well some people ignore them and treat them as if they weren't, they treat them as aliens often. To some they are not humans! it's sad.
greaseballheaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:56 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, to some, but not to most, and certainly not to the people you should align your views with.
ILoveMyFrita ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:36 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I align my views with no one, I think on my own terms and frankly I dont give a shit if im down votes.
jonjoe ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 05:12:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother and sister-in-law adopted a little German boy. By the time he was four he had never said a single word and we all thought he was never going to speak.
Anyway, on his fourth birthday my brother and his wife decided to throw a a party for him. He was having a great time smiling and laughing all day until his mother gave him a mug of juice. He put on this weird sour face and said "Ze juice iz not to my liking."
We were all dumbfounded and just stood there open mouthed until my shocked brother asked "You can speak?" My nephew replied "Of course I can speak." My bother then said "This is amazing! Why have you never said anything before?" My nephew replied "Vell, up until now everything haz been satisfactory."
katzenbart ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:38:33 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, seriously? The first thing this little German boy says is about how he dislikes juice (Jews)?
Keep an eye on him.
Buglet91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like this story :)
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 20:31:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my wife was 3 apparently they were a bit concerned because she hadn't down yet. Until one day her mom came into her room to find her taking to her dolls. Full sentences. Apparently she just didn't talk in front of people.
cheshirekitteh ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:03:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son is 5 and has a pretty bad speech delay- he can talk you up and down, but you just may not know what he's saying. Usually my husband and I can understand (most of) what he says, but not always. I'm having a hard time deciding on whether to put him in kindergarten this fall or not. kids are mean.
labellavida ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:00:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think you should go ahead and do it. If anything, I think school will actually help his speech delay. Yes, teasing may be a problem but just talk to the teacher and explain the situation beforehand. You can always unenroll him. You could also try speech therapy if it escalates.
cheshirekitteh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:06:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He's been in speech therapy for over a year (we didn't have insurance for a while.) We plan on using the therapist at the school as well, we've heard she's quite good.
bookgirl_72 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:27:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son's speech was very delayed. He was just starting to talk when he started kindergarten. He had been in speech therapy for a couple of years already and his therapists advised us to go ahead and enroll him. He never had any issues with teasing, at least that I am aware of. There's a lot of kids at that age that still don't have all of their speech sounds, so more than likely he won't be the only one with speech issues. That's just my 2 cents, good luck to you and your son.
cheshirekitteh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That helps, thanks.
cristiline ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wasn't nearly that late, but I apparently practiced by myself much more eloquently than when I realized there was anyone around.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, I think it was 2. she was reading at 3.
YossarianPrime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:26:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am starting to wonder if I was born with hyperlexia. I was reading at 3 as well and was always 3-4 grades above my class in reading ability all through school. Apparently, from the wiki article research I just did, hyperlexia is very common in ASD children.
Deus_Viator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for the Catch-22 username.
Bad_Fruit ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:50:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is actually pretty typical for autistic kids. My son used to do the same. He made up his own jargon, which was very expressive. He didn't talk in complete sentences until he was about 5. The first time it happened, I about fell over. And then, like you said, he didn't speak a sentence again for a long, long time.
hm1085 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 22:18:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My autistic cousin did the same thing I never heard him say a complete, non-garbled sentence and then randomly one day he goes "I'm going to wash my hands." Everyone was shocked.
gbakermatson ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:07:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I don't think I've ever seen someone use an ampersand before. When did you develop the habit?
Lessbeans ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Had to go back and check, of course. And there it is.... in almost every response.
Buglet91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Several years ago, in high school. When you hand-write just about everything, you find your own shorthand stuff that you can actually get away with. It just carried over into my typing.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:19:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Creepiest one here, by far. Just think of the implications of that: he understood English perfectly well, but never told anyone, and never cared enough to use it.
Buglet91 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:15:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To this day his mom still doesn't believe me. Nobody could get him to do it again for years. It was so odd that it was totally creepy. He didn't say anything scary & he didn't say it in a scary way but it was so odd that it scared the hell out of me.
astronomer7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that's creepy, just interesting.
pdfpdx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:57:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I work at a school in Thailand. We have an autistic kid in grade one of our English Program. Most kids in his class don't speak much English except for a few simple phrases. They are just beginning. This kid had never said a word to me or responded to any of my questions unless I spoke Thai to him. I assumed he didn't understand much English, but last week I was eating lunch with him at school and he started talking in almost fluent English about his delicious chocolate cookies. It was pretty cool to see him break out of his shell a bit and was a total surprise.
SocialProgress ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As the aunt of an autistic niece who frequently babbles like this and is four years old.... What the fuck.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Buglet91 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 20:21:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You misread my tone, it's kind of like when you talk to a baby when they babble & you encourage them by talking back, not condescending like whatever I'm not listening...& some cases can work like that but then some don't. Autism is a very broad spectrum of symptoms & severities. At that point he would mumble & put in a couple of words to get his point across. Like he heard us speak in full sentences but he didn't know what the words in between the main ones meant, but he would mimic us by mumbling nonsense words between the word of what he wanted. Like instead of "Will you please pour me some milk?" he would say "Mmmbldesastklaksdfk MILK?" he also had echolelia for a while so he would repeat us so instead of "Hold me" he would say to him "Hold you" because we would say "Can I hold you?" He didn't start using full sentences until he was 7 or 8, & even then it was usually only to quote movies or repeat us. He's now 12 & generally doesn't speak in full complete sentences, but instead just uses fragments.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:48:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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charkoalz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:10:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just, wow. It's great to see something like that. It kind of opens your eyes.
Buglet91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He loves the computer, youtube is his favorite thing, but he can't type because he has trouble reading and spelling. He likes to play with the keys if you open up a Word document but he gets bored, begs for youtube, & then you have to sit with him to type things in & make sure he's not on anything bad.
synapsesynopsis ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:06:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am sorry, you misread my comment as well! I was not trying to sound condescending or anything the like, rather I was asking a question as to whether or not speaking to someone with autism in a more eloquent manner speeds up their understanding of language.
s0nicfreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:21:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That actually doesn't encourage them, though. The way to encourage them is to really talk to them and try to understand them, so that way you are rewarding the clear and correctly used words.
Buglet91 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:28:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We did, when he would mumble & add the word we would subtly correct it like with the milk thing we would reply "Would you like a glass of milk?" and then "I would love to pour you a glass of milk." So when he was actually communicating we always made sure to speak in full clear sentences, we only replied with the "Baby talk" responses when he would babble to just make noise, trying to encourage him to talk but not really knowing what he's thinking so you can't really converse with much else.
greaseballheaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother also said "hold you" to my mom anytime he wanted to be held until he was about 4, because anytime he would lift his arms towards her she would say, "do you want me to hold you?"
Edit: Thought it'd be worth mentioning that he isn't autistic to my knowledge, and he's 11 now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a few autistic cousins and they all did the made-up language thing as well. I've heard that it's actually quite common for autistic people to make up their own language.
PoopingProbably ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is the creepiest thing in the thread. I have a sister with a few disabilities and when I was a child I always thought how scary it would be if she suddenly acted normal for just a second when only I was in the room.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like this story, as i have AS my self.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My seven-year-old little brother is autistic. Many times when I try talking to him during one of his spells he gets angry and tells me to let him talk with himself. It's heartbreaking and cute to watch him.
[deleted] ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 20:47:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Buglet91 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:52:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, I do that a lot. I'm not sure why but I prefer the symbol over the spelled out word. I feel like it visually breaks up the ideas better.
willbradley ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 22:51:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't; you should use periods, commas, spaces, and carriage returns to separate ideas. The ampersand makes you seem ADD.
Buglet91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I type as I would write, & I write as I speak. Anywhere I would verbally say "and" I just type "&". I don't do it in anything with a formal context, like work emails, I always go back through & replace them all with the word.
willbradley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just letting you know it comes across as schizo and not as a good separation of ideas/thoughts. Writing conventions exist so everyone gets the right idea when they read.
nikogeeko ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:42:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy cow, I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out!
MrsAnthropy ยท 2072 points ยท Posted at 19:14:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was putting my daughter to bed one night when she was around two. She said, "Mommy, who's that?" "Who's what?" I asked. "Those people talking to me. In my closet. Who is that?"
I just about shit myself.
[deleted] ยท 1584 points ยท Posted at 20:28:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"That's just R. Kelly, dear."
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:37:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
drip drip drip
astronomer7 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 22:36:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THAT FUCKING STORY
PeenTang ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 23:02:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was more thinking "drip drip drip, pee on you"
blueskiesandaerosol ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:41:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Which story?
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:48:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For your reading pleasure.
astronomer7 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:04:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YES THAT. GOD FUCKING DAMN IT MY CHILDHOOD.
:(
blueskiesandaerosol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, thank you.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:32:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or was it sully and mike?
saintutzman ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:02:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Tom Cruise, come out of the closet..."
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 00:02:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"IT AINT ME."
Kelly, we have you on tape ...
"IT AINT ME."
Muezza ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:14:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I ain't no senator's son."
TooBrokeToGiveAShit ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:56:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THEN I PULL OUT MY GUN!!! Tell me why he in the closet... or ima cap dis bitch!
Etheo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:48:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"And that's Tom Cruise right beside him, see honey?"
IamAJordan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:54:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wish i could give you more than just one upvote, my good sir
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, good sir! Have an upvote!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:42:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Its the remix to ignition hot and fresh out the kitchen. Moma rolling that body got ever man in here wishin.
xerox9000000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sippin on coke and rum, I'm like so what I'm drunk. It's the freakin weekend baby I'm about to have me some fun.
SHOMERFUCKINGSHOBBAS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:57:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...and a few of his friends
lehcar_slohcin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:41:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And Tom Cruise ;)
ThatMonochromicorn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
R. Kelly taught me to never date white women because they will just cheat on me with a midget,midget,midget,midget,midget.
spacemanspiff30 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You don't have to worry, he's not coming out of the closet. He likes hanging out with Tom Cruise too much.
Anonymo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What's that noise in the cupboard?
Dr-Farnsworth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. Cruise get out of the closet
loggymayne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Urinating everywhere?
ScandalousBitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Loool! Funniest thing I've read all night _^
LeftyBigGuns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You almost made spew lemonade. Ha!
Snowboarding612 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tom Cruise
sociallyawkwardpoet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:27 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ha. Most genuine laugh I've had on reddit. Thank you sir.
synapsesynopsis ยท 1693 points ยท Posted at 19:38:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
๏ผโฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ๏ธต โปโโป
That's it, I'm done!
DemetriMartin ยท 1529 points ยท Posted at 19:58:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Flip it back! I need a place to hide!
[deleted] ยท 1269 points ยท Posted at 20:31:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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loves_being_that_guy ยท 1103 points ยท Posted at 21:10:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
โฌโโโโโโโโโโฌ
| ใ( ยบ _ ยบใ) |
You just need to lose some weight.
Godolin ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 21:44:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, you got a wider table. Don't get me wrong, self-improvement is a great answer. But mathematically, your table it larger.
loves_being_that_guy ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 21:46:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
โฌโโโโโโโฌ
ใ( ยบ _ ยบใ)
Am I slim enough for you? Maybe you'll love me now Godolin :(
Godolin ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 21:48:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Looks don't matter to me, baby. Just grammatical correctness.
loves_being_that_guy ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 21:51:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sigh. You have a way with words, Godolin.
Godolin ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 21:56:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Doh. You must love being that guy.
appropriate-username ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 00:34:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
JUST MAKE OUT ALREADY
32Dog ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:26:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, the camera zoomed in and he stepped back a little,
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:06:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Linguistically, Idk if sooo??!?
cloudkiller2006 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 23:20:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
โฌโโโฌ ั(๏พะ๏พั)
Why do I have such a small table!?
jasondhsd ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:33:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No no, you need a a table with chairs and a table cloth so you can lay across the chairs and be hidden by the table cloth!!
loves_being_that_guy ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 00:38:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
______________
|โฌโโโโโโโโโโฌ |
/| ใ( ยบ _ ยบใ) | \
Need to go to the store to buy chairs.
ghettajetta ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:54:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Off topic kinda, but can someone tell me how to make all these posts stop having squares with letters and numbers in them? Like this
Monocle_Lover ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It would appear that the emoticons arms aren't showing for you...
ghettajetta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but why are they not showing for me?And how do I fix it?
Monocle_Lover ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:02:50 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was hoping someone would see my analyses and give you an answer. It could be your keyboard language, or your browser language - one of the many language settings (or font settings) don't have that symbol. But I could be completely wrong and just made a good guess.
Sorry I couldn't help :\
ghettajetta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:15 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are a kind soul. One day my emoticons will have arms :/
Monocle_Lover ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:04 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If it cheers you up, they are strange arms any way, curved, not bent. They don't have elbows.
ghettajetta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:06 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I get home I am tagging you as explains font errors to the less fortunate.
Eilinen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:55 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haven't had to do this in years, but try switching your browser- and OS-charsets to UTF-8. You probably have WESTERN [string of numbers].
Wonderturkey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:39:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love you guys
Lamhchops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Best comment thread ever.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the actual fuck just happened?
WhatThePenis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:45:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh...don't be tha- nevermind.
billnyethephysicsguy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:40:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You just love being that guy, don't you?
Mewshimyo ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:14:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So cute! o.o'
TheCloned ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed way too hard at this. I imagined that you tried to have the guy putting the table back, but fucked up the formatting. So you just roll with it instead of fixing it.
whereisitt ยท 1533 points ยท Posted at 20:12:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
โฌโโฌใ( ยบ _ ยบใ)
zyphelion ยท 1612 points ยท Posted at 20:20:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(โฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ๏ธต (\ . 0 .)\
Get outta my way!
TheAbeLincoln ยท 1475 points ยท Posted at 20:29:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(\ . 0 .)\
Don't worry, I'll catch you
TheTaoOfBill ยท 1359 points ยท Posted at 20:44:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(\ . 0 .)\
No you won't.
loves_being_that_guy ยท 1167 points ยท Posted at 20:51:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(\. 0 .)\ ใ( ยบ - ยบใ) (โฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ๏ธต (\ . 0 .)\ ๏ธต (โฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏI'm Saved.
I saved everyone... I think...
[deleted] ยท 1116 points ยท Posted at 21:00:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
๏ผโฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ๏ธต สnฦโพสษษฅสโพฦuฤฑวqโพsวสol
But you couldn't save yourself!
loves_being_that_guy ยท 1072 points ยท Posted at 21:04:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
หษษฏษนษส ษนoษ วsol oส วษฤฑl วuo สnq วสษษฅ ฤฑ สษษฅส สวษนฦวษน สluo ฤฑ : /(. 0 ./)
deathcomesilent ยท 88 points ยท Posted at 21:24:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus, all that was cool.
[deleted] ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 21:43:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 21:56:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My hand hurts from awarding all these upvotes.
hypnoderp ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:48:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This right here. This is why I Reddit.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:44:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
JAJAJAJAJA
mdgraller ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:15:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, "awarding the upvotes;" I catch your drift ;)
holystar64 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:53:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I also enjoyed this thread, I'll tell my stuffed animals about this.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:25:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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CraineTwo ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 21:31:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Those are some bold words.
Wait...
^ Those are some bold words.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:00:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Really?
Really?
Out of ALL the amazing posts that has been posted on reddit in past years in various topics, out of all the useful posts full of information posted in subreddits like askscience or people with a specialized field of knowledge posting in askreddit and the like, or the astronaut who did an ama, you pick a stupid fucking table flip meme comment thread as THE GREATEST THREAD EVER?
13853211 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And it didn't even include a penis joke.
Piogre ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:42:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
your mom included a penis joke.
linkseyi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:46:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I literally, got on top of my monitor to read this.
MysticKirby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:18:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At this point it just becomes an unreadable mess. D:
You_butt_pirate ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:00:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I upvoted your comment based on the direction of the text
Argentina891 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:04:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
๏ผโฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ \๏ผ-_-) \ ( OO)
TheKittenConspiracy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While trying to read this Followed by this
Southtown85 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so lost
adonorocks ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:04:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was entertaining.
solidpancake ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:58:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you by chance from Australia?
JmjFu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
IT'S BECAUSE AUSTRALIANS ARE UPSIDE DOWN HAHAHA
ImThatGuy95 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody love's to be me..
supermallory ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:40:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no, everybody love's RAYMOND. you're a close second.
yasemann ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i love reddit.
z3m ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
UPVOTES FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 22:01:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well
pirate_petey ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 00:06:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:47:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Flipped so hard he turned Australian.
uniquecannon ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can die happy having read this comment thread.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:02:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Save yourself
triforcegirl ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:23:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just noticed your username and decided we should get married.
ThatGuyYouKindaKnow ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 20:59:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You just love being That Guy, don't you?
Shawnyall ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:11:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Happy cakeday, uh... John? Sorry, I forgot your name.
vocaltalentz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Larry, if I recall correctly.
Cadmond ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:19:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
hi five for cake days!
ThatGuyYouKindaKnow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(\ยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ
Cadmond ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
\ ( ยบ - ยบใ)
bownskie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey you're that guy that was at that place. I think I kinda know you.
synapsesynopsis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:08:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so confused.
albert_camus69 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:26:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
turns out this is the way to to read chinese
trickyager ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 20:44:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Le sigh. Upvote upvote upvote upvote upvote upvote.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:24:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(๏พ `ะยด)๏พ Wait for me Karma train
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(\ . 0 .)\ ใ( ยบ - ยบใ)
Opps.
Babkock ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 21:20:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah well I can tri-force
Nightfang96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i'm sorry but that was hilarious, upvote for you my good man! :')
BoernerMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wow never seen that one before haha
i7omahawki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:00:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
โฌโโโโโโฌ
(ใ9_9)ใ
flips_table_again ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:12:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
๏ผโฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ๏ธต โปโโป
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 20:28:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly relevant username
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 20:13:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
โฌโโฌใ( ยบ _ ยบใ)
It's ok, I've got your back.
TWIZZLERZ911 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:25:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You were beat by one minute. GG WP
FrogDie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:34:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Demitri Martin is fucking awesome.
I love the 'this guy is too early to rave' character.
jcooke212 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 20:23:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
โฌโโฌใ( ยบ _ ยบใ)
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:35:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you're not actually Demetri Martin, I will be very upset.
zero_fks_given ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 20:23:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry about that, he gets a little carried away sometimes.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:54:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you actually demitri Martin?
bamfbanki ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:47:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DEMETRI MARTIN!
astrograph ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:53:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you have to stop flipping desks at work!
wait a minute... you don't even work here!!
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn it I just wanted to sleep once in peace!
Slayer5227 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I lost it at this string of comments, well done.
herder_of_kittens ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 20:47:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh my goodness - I came here to tell the story of putting my daughter to bed one night. I asked her, "Do you want Mommy to read you your story?" "No." "Do you want Daddy to read you your story?" "No." "Then who is going to ready your story?" "The man in my closet." It took all of my willpower not to scream so loud.
This makes me wonder - maybe there really are people who live in children's closets...
Drozzbear ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 21:50:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you not seen that Monsters inc documentary?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:13:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not only does my room have no closet, but my bed lies directly flat, on the floor.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 21:11:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When I was a kid I used to hear voices that seemed to be coming from across my room at night. I can still vaguely remember how the voices sounded. There was one voice that was high, another one that was lower. I couldn't make out what they were saying, and could tell by the way their voices sounded that they were not human. They visited often, and I remember going downstairs one night to tell my mom that "they" had come back and I couldn't sleep. My mom brushed it off and to this day I have no fucking clue what I meant by "they".
Simba7 ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 22:43:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not two years ago I started hearing voices, murmuring at first, but then they got louder and louder as I laid there in bed. I began freaking out. Even though the voices were too soft to hear properly, I could tell they were coming from inside the room. This, naturally, freaked me out and despite the fact I wasn't able to make out any of the words I began to attribute sinister meaning to them. This only freaked me out more, so my searching grew more frantic. I got up, turned on the lights, looked all over my room. Eventually I narrowed down the origin of the voices to my computer, which was clearly off (unplugged laptop with no battery in it).
It was at this point I considered the notion that I might be going crazy. I calmed myself down and started the computer up. The voices got louder, and then stopped. I, thoroughly confused and a little bit scared, searched "voices coming from computer" on Google...
...and that was the night I found out my computer speakers pick up some AM radio station when set to a certain volume.
Atlanta_Camel ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:29:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...Rush Limbaugh?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:07:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
logic always wins.
H3g3m0n ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:26:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have heard stories of people having the springs in their mattresses or the filling in their teeth picking up radio.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:54:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Creepy. What do you mean by still?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:17:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I mean I can still remember how the voices sounded. I should reword that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:28:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How did they sound like?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:41:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sort of like a throaty grunting sound. It didn't seem like a human could have made it.
boomerangotan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
โ /r/nosleep
FeepingCreature ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Neighbours or people outside? Or a TV?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sounded like it was clearly in the same room as me.
crazyex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I swear I used to see a green alien peek around the doorframe at night and look in at me. It didn't happen often but I remember it well 30+ years later.
The closest I can describe it is sort of Greedo-like, but a different shape and sized head, with some structures on the side of its head.
I never told anyone about it.
TheGnome546 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:17:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Call the Doctor.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:34:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just closed my open closet. not that i'm scared, or anything. no. no, not at all...
...if I get nightmares i'm blaming your fucking kid.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:38:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tony's the little boy who lives in my mouth.
z3m ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:56:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When I was a kid I had an extremely vivid imagination. I was also extremely religious, which got out of control when my best friend moved away and my parents converted from judaism to wiccanism (which I didn't really know much about, I just thought we weren't going to temple anymore) when I was about 8. I continued going to temple with a lady I knew from there who sometimes babysat us and read the bible constantly.
I believed I had 2 angels that followed me around and they told me things. I saw them plain as day and can recall exactly what they looked like. I'd been "seeing" them for as long as I could remember but around that time they were ALWAYS there. My parents thought I might have a poltergeist following some kind of weird events.
Over the years they "taught" me different stuff, which is weird because it was actually all true and I found out later on they were elements of tai chi and i ching. They also taught me how to astral project and by the time I was in 7th grade I was so good at it I believed I could drop out of my body in less than 30 seconds.
My father was gone by this time and my mother talked to my rabbi several times about my condition. Weird stuff sometimes would happen, that was probably coincidental but because I was talking about people who weren't there she was freaked by it. Plus, I was too old for imaginary friends at this point. Finally, in my freshman year old high school - after some really weird shit and running away - my mom took me to see my aunt who is a "psychic healer" and her and her friends did an exorcism on me.
It didn't do anything. The vision got more an more intense after that, though. Finally, somewhere in my sophomore year I was diagnosed as schitzophrenic and put on meds. The visions went away, but I was miserable. Went off the meds and they never came back, though. I've been told I'm not schitzophrenic since then. Not really sure what it was about, especially since I'm atheist and I don't really believe in ghosts. But, may be I'm wrong. Or may be it was just a security blanket for me and I have a powerful imagination. But, I also remember seeing dinosaurs eating Golden Gate Park when I was a kid, so... Kids sometimes just see shit. I think it's like how if you look at an optical illusion it's basically just your brain shorting? I think kid brains are still so new to the world their brains just see shit and short out and think they saw or heard something else.
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:32:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
im thinking that your parents wiccanism went wrong and demons took over your body.
z3m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if you're joking, but just to say the visions were there before they converted to that and they never told me they'd converted to wicca until I was a teenager.
Mischieftess ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 20:20:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should correct her grammar, "No, who are they, sweetie."
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:25:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well what happened?
MrsAnthropy ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:03:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I tried to remain calm and said, "There's nothing in your closet, sweetie. See?" I opened it for her and explained it was just clothes and toys and books. I asked if she thought there were people in there or if she was just using her imagination. She said "I don't know." She hasn't said anything about it since then.
Frokost ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:08:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It is the Silence!
hoopstick ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have to do that sometimes for my five year old, and EVERY SINGLE TIME my heart skips a beat as I stick my head in the closet. One of these days there's going to be someone in there, I'm sure of it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dayuumm!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd freak out
wentwhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is there anything behind the back wall of the closet, like a television or speakers or your bedroom, that she could be hearing?
Vitharr ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:31:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lot's of kids hear voices.
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:29:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i hear voices... is that not normal??
Vitharr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:03:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, for kids its not abnormal. Young children sometimes hear voices, especially when it's silent. for example a child would complain it can't sleep because these persons won't stop talking. Most children don't experience this as scary but just as something that is anoying at worst. This typical goes away when they get older.
aMillionLasers ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:23:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids yet. but my parents told me, I once sleepwalked into the living room at night with the most horrified look on my face they've ever seen. They were unable to wake me up and I didn't say a single word. they finally brought me back to bed. I can't remember anything.
MrsAnthropy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:28:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We have a family history of sleep-walkers and talkers. I guess my uncle was found outside next to the mailbox several times. My daughter talks in her sleep now. It hasn't been anything especially creepy, but one time she yelled out that our dog was eating all of her toys.
aMillionLasers ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:42:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you know, the thing is: that's the only time I ever sleepwalked. :/
time_to_narrate ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:37:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I made your comment into an audio story.
http://soundcloud.com/time_to_narrate/mrsanthropys-daughter
hoopstick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Alan Wake, is that you?
MrsAnthropy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:38:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is fantastic. Thank you, sir. I'm honored.
Insignificant_Being ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:10:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're just monsters. I hope you told her that.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:34:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reading all these comments makes me afraid of having kids.
Alfozatoss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:16:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't r/nosleep god damn it I was not expecting this sort of torture with my closet 5 ft away from me :(
smash790 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:34 on December 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same here :(
wtfapkin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:49:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn children and their paranormal thoughts. I swear, my children will not have closets. Or any room under their beds. And nightlights a plenty.
Crims0nHawK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
now I don't want kids. thanks people, thank you very much.
gaylover69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
pff who needs sleep anyway
pengor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who was it ?
chefman777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
.....Narnia?
kuraichouwa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sister said something similar. Our bedrooms were next to each other upstairs, and when I was a teenager (she was around 6 maybe?) I went upstairs to go to bed. As I passed her room I noticed she was awake and staring at the corner in her room. I asked, "Sarah? Go to bed dinky." With a deadpan face she stared straight at me and said, "But the old lady is staring at me."
All the hairs on my neck rose and I took her to my room for the night.
DoD_DusK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friends Mom ones told us at dinner (they dined with our family) that once when my friend was a baby, she took a shortcut over the graveyard (It's normal to do if you know the way. Only like 25 meters of walking beside tombstones, nothing worse). And then my friend suddenly asked; Why is the Old man behind you gonna take you away? She turned around, saw nothing and ran like hell.
I am not sure how legit this story is, but it still gives me goose bumps. And yes she's still alive and well.
rhoswhen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well who were they?
Munstrom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the start of an upsetting movie :(
MiniDonbeE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OH MY GOD NO THIS BROUGHT AWFUL MEMORIES OF THE MOVIE SAW.... The scene where the girl tells her mom there's a man in the closet and she gets freaked out, she tells her there's no one, she leaves then it turns out there really is a man in the closet. FUCK I HAD FORGOTEN ABOUT IT.FUCK ME
Popin17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. Rogers strikes again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Mommy, Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet."
woahhhface ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A similar thing happened to my sister with her daughters who were 4 and 10 at the time, sharing a room in the attic. My sister said that weird things were happening before throughout the house, but that this event is what really creeped her out. She was putting the girls to bed, and the younger one wanted to read a story. Well my sister got about half way through when she heard some footsteps walking up the stairs, but she saw that no one was there when she heard it reach the top step. My sister shrugged it off as just her imagination, but after the story was over, the youngest asked her, "Mommy, who came up the stairs?" Well, that was weird enough, but then later that night, the two girls came running down the stairs, the younger one was scared and crying, saying that they were hearing voices in the closet, and the youngest one said they sounded mean (which is why she was crying).
Kiltsoftly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god. No thank you. My son tells me he sees black ghosts upstairs. Could be shadows...
willed1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Similar thing happened with my sister when she was little. Apparently she pointed out of the kitchen window and asked "why was that man in the white suit looking at us?"
SIM_Curly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was Toby!
theevildjinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Our son is 21 months old, and we find that the easiest way to get him to sleep is for one of us to lie down with him in our bed until he drifts off, then we transfer him to his cot in his own room.
l was lying there in our bed with him a couple of weeks ago, lights out and curtains drawn, and just the two of us in the house. Just as I thought he was about to fall asleep, he sat bolt upright in the bed, and turned his head to look up at the bare patch of wall above my head. Then his face lit up with a smile, the same one he does when he meets someone he recognises. I don't believe in the supernatural, but at that point my hair was standing on end. There are no paintings or pictures on the wall, or even patterned wallpaper, it's just matte white paint.
Then after no more than a minute of staring and smiling up at nothing a couple of feet above my head, he waved "bye bye" to whatever it was he (imagined that he) could see, and then he lay down and went straight to sleep. I didn't move for half an hour.
Sdg68 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is terrifying.
finallymadeanaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tom Cruise?
Darclite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mom, Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet.
LemonadeLala ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:29:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Those might have been auditory hallucinations. Google: "More than 20% of Irish children 'hear voices'" and you'll find the article. I remember hearing whispers when I was little. Completely forgot about it til I read that article.
Soft_Needles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I had really active imagination when I was a kid. My mom was putting me to bed when I told her that the barbie's face was moving. She looked at the barbie and of course it was still. "Oh honey, its nothing, go to bed." As she went to say goodnight to my brother the barbies face became a demons face and she grew horns. Then she whispered that if I talked again she kill everyone. My mom at that point turned of the lights. I quietly cried the whole night under my blanket..
There was another time when I heard a little man enter out apartment and for some reason he had an axe. I stayed in my bed paralyzed with fear. I hear his little foot steps approach my room, very slowly but surely. He also was laughing and saying things like, Im gonna get your little toes haha. I think I blacked out from fear.
The time when I scared the living shit out of my parents was when I was 6 or so. I was taking a nap during the day. When I woke up, I looked up on the ceiling and saw a little trap opening in the roof. It was opening and little hairy demons were looking down. I got out of my bed and tried to explain his to my parents. Then I tried to explain how in one hand I was holding a feather and in the other 20 bricks.
My childhood was filled with fears for some reason. I slept with a flashlight until I entered high school...
inspectordeazoteas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Along the same lines and perhaps a little late... My two young kids (the two with the current missus, aged 6 and 9) share a creepy "feature" with their old man... They hear someone calling out their names in the middle of the night, sometimes is a masculine voice they say is similar to mine, and some other times a feminine voice unlike any other voice they've heard before. I used to hear the same until I turned 14? I think.
MrsAnthropy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. I heard a voice occasionally saying my name until I was in my late teens. It was an almost imperceptible voice. I mentioned it once to a therapist and she went bananas, wanting to have me tested for all sorts of things. But I think it's really quite common.
xCaffeineQueen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know I'm extremely late to this discussion, but my daughter does the same thing! She just turned 2.
I decided to do a ghost radar app and have tried multiple ones, and the name that has come up on every one is Tom. Every once in a while my daughter will say "Hi Tom!" randomly, and when we're leaving it's "Bye Tom!" as she looks and waves behind us. Freakin creeps me out! I plan on asking her who Tom is the next time she says hi or bye.
Potential_Pandemic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A while back I heard somebody say that the reason kids see all this shit and we don't is that kids don't know what to categorize as rational or not, and as they grow up the adult will teach them that certain things just shouldn't be there and that they're making it up.
This leads us to believe that these things are actually there and we have just built up a subconscious reaction to seeing them as that they're not real, so our brains won't process them.
TL;DR We still see them, but our brains think they're not real so we don't see them
A_Buff_Hamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tom, come out of the closet!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mom! John Travolta won't come out of the closet!
defenestration1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I see dead people...
GandalfLundgren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Should've used a sand wedge.
Shiniholum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WERE THERE PEOPLE!?
Alexander2011 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't leave us hanging! What did you do?!
crofter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's not unusual
http://www.intervoiceonline.org/2577/young-people/parents/dont-panic-if-your-child-is-hearing-voices.html
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck
faitswulff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I said something very similar when I was a child, except the voices were from the grates. Turns out I was having conversations with the people living in the basement.
helm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's little people
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppppppppp!
charbo187 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
might want to get her checked out for signs of schizophrenia....
voyaging ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:45:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You may wish to take your daughter to a psychiatrist/psychologist to test for schizophrenia.
whiskey_sour ยท 1903 points ยท Posted at 19:31:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once I was taking a nap on the couch. I was waking up, and just as I'm opening my eyes, I see my 2yo son walking toward me with a serious look on his face. He leans in close and whispers, "It Happened." He then leaves without another word.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, WHAT HAPPENED??
AndroidApe ยท 800 points ยท Posted at 20:00:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
did you not ask him what happened?
Only_A_Username ยท 1257 points ยท Posted at 21:20:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this would be a vital step in finding out what happened.
issius ยท 1274 points ยท Posted at 21:27:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 1 - Ask what happened
Step 2 - Learn what happened
therestruth ยท 169 points ยท Posted at 22:46:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not that easy with two year olds. I would ask what happened and get answered with "I want monster trucks"
appropriate-username ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 00:30:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I like turtles"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:00:59 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I like trains"
HunterUrban2 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I like trucks." FTFY
MonstrousVoices ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well obviously what happened was he decided he wanted more monster trucks.
QJosephP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:20:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because one is not enough.
AxumArc ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 22:57:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 3 - have her open the box?
wishbee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And that's the way you do it!
zoralee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:24:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You must not understand how 2 year olds work. Step one will not always (or ever) lead to step two when dealing with a toddler.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:12:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
SpermWhale ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 22:13:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 5 - Taxes.
Fox_Here ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:59:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 6-Off shore bank accounts (please note, step 6 is reserved for corporations and rich people)
SpermWhale ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:41:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 7 -
Buysupport a candidates for Senate, Governorship, and Congress.superfusion1 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:02:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 8 - Rule the world with the rest of the illuminati (Note: I may have skipped a few steps)
SpermWhale ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:19:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 9 - Redeem the sin of everyone.
upvoteOrKittyGetsIt ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:23:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 10 - Tell the world how your entire empire was built upon the phrase "It happened".
DanielMallory ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:41:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!!!
ConradFerguson ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:17:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Joke's on you. Step 11 is break a combo.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:51:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 12, reassemble the combo...better.
DanielMallory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:28 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NOOO
DanielMallory ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:19:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damnit!
abenton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, you lost me after step 1, can you please explain?
grouch1980 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Omg I havent laughed that hard in ages.
abittooshort ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 3 - ???
Step 4 - Profit!!!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 3: Make her open the box
And that's the way you do it!
It's my dick in a box!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:59:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 3. Profit
Chonci ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 3 ????
Step 4 Profit
An0n_Sequitur ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 23:48:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 3 - Profit!
R0SH ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 23:49:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 3- ??? Step 4-profit
jimmyjohn88 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 00:17:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Step 3 - ???? Step 4 - Profit
anameisonlyaname ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:48:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your username is a bit like my username. We should put this in /r/mildlyinteresting.
Only_A_Username ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:55:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would be down for that. You can do it, if you'd like.
anameisonlyaname ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wasn't actually going to, but your approval pushed me to it.
wpiman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:34:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Big bird always says asking questions is a great way to find out stuff.
philogynistic ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 22:07:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well in all fairness , what the fuck would you know pal? you're only a username behind a computer screen, stop giving out life advice.
Guyot11 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 22:12:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well that escalated quickly
philogynistic ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 22:29:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it was a joke. that failed. horribly.
EntWifeDessa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm using this IRL now.
poofacemcgee ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, now we all know who wears the poopy pants in that family.
ukiyoe ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 21:50:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And waste time to get sweet karma?
abelcc ยท 1856 points ยท Posted at 20:06:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He pooped.
GrislyGrizzly ยท 142 points ยท Posted at 20:49:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He definitely pooped.
mastermindxs ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 20:57:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He most definitely pooped.
cakezilla ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 21:07:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody poops.
Yabba_Dabba_Doofus ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 21:14:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody poops but you.
bohemianmichfestie ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 21:14:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
You're a naughty child and that's concentrated evil coming out of you.
LeRouxMaster ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:47:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In the form of poop.
avelertimetr ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 21:25:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Girl's don't.
VenomousJackalope ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 21:40:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I downvoted you for your misuse of the apostrophe, not your comment.
avelertimetr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I profusely apologize to you and all the grammar nazi's out there.
VenomousJackalope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:52 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Irony?
avelertimetr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:12 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Facetiousness.
wenerd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:10:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I upvoted you because your comment was funny and the extra apostrophe was probably a typo, and you're probably not an idiot.
avelertimetr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it was a Sunday morning brain hiccup.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 22:00:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
they poop the shit
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:27:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:56:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
most likely
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THEN WHO WAS POOP?
Ijustdoeyes ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He most definitively pooped.
xyroclast ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 22:58:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He EXTREMELY DEFINITELY POOOOOOOOOOOOOPED
InvasiveAlgorithm ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 21:38:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pathetic. I like to believe I have a clever sense of wit and all that noise, but I'm not particularly the guy who laughs aloud to everything I find funny.
Yet I fucking burst out laughing at a well timed poop joke...
Kharanlol ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:56:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
same here
lizgger15 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:06:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
abcdefghitran ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:39:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I ask my dogs, they never tell
Dcoil1 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:20:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I do this when that happens
monkyboy74 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:12:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
who painted that picture originally?
Dcoil1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:11:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wish I knew, it cracks me up
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:13:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He pooped in the fridge, and ate a whole wheel of cheese
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:59:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not even mad. I'm impressed!
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:22:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love that you have 1300+ points for two words, one of which is "pooped."
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:00:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I pooped laughing
elperu27 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:53:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit I lost it
he_eats_da_poo_poo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:30:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now that's what I'm talking about.
xXD347HXx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:56:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What a highly relevant username.
ta1901 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:30:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I concur.
kirbytycoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:13:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He pooped really bad...
PhairyFeenix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:56:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHERE!
xorn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I missed
mitchbones ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:06:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have 666 points and I don't want my upvote to ruin it >.<;
ColtonLA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A hammer
Jobboman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sneaky poo.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Shit Happened."
nylolexchange ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 20:13:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He had a poo in the pantry.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:35:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I once did one behind the sofa when I was young.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:53:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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Ruvaak ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:54:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So did my brother.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:35:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Ruvaak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, duh. Everyone has.
mcnick12 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:09:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well of course...It, It happened.
LandOfHalloween ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:15:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Crossing over
rocketman0739 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:33:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHERE DOING IT
WHERE MAKING IT HAPEN
Paraboxia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:39:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if I can just... Just sort of reach out and...
NoAttentionAtWrk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:50:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shit happened?
I_Has_A_Hat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:24:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You woke up, duh.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:39:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His balls dropped...obviously.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:48:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you eventually find where he pooped?
ShallowBasketcase ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:51:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story is better than The Happening!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It.
Paradoxou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He shat himself obviously
bjconnoisseur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he moved the island.
Wraithpk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The grass is trying to kill you
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Happening
MyLifeIsPointless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think he shit himself.
coldvault ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Duh! His first period. Dawww.
OhMyTruth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You didn't ask him?
angriers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel that your son has learnt the meaning of 'suspense' from you.
the_emptier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry but I'm laughing hysterically at this.
opiv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
his anus is bleeding!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard.
HairlessSasquatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He shit himself
mmob18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think your two year old son is on his period.
You should be proud.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably got his first period... :P
InnocuousPenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It.
ayasmith7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha.. this response is both creepy and funny. made my day :)
shepdashep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The happening?
ahmediza7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"The Happening"
DJDHD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he pooped his pants
DOC409 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Spoiler: the kid was M. Night Shamylan.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm imagining you as the Templar from Diablo 3 right now
jpda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He pooped!
team_bacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ಠ_ಠ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He shit himself.
a_random_hobo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:34:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He probably shit.
DracoAzule ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:12:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He got laid. Kid works fast doesn't he.
[deleted] ยท 937 points ยท Posted at 19:22:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have night terrors when I was around 2. Vivid nightmares that involved walking and talking in my sleep. Consequently, I often spent the night in my parents bed. One time my mom woke up and saw that I was missing. She found me standing in the living room. She tried to pick me up but I backed away and screamed, "Wash the blood off your hands!"
Said it creeped her the fuck out.
brittytheboss ยท 462 points ยท Posted at 20:15:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, Lady Macbeth
finallymadeanaccount ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:54:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's been hundreds of years, woman! Get over it!
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:56:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol this thread is better than /r/nosleep.
Rizzz ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:04:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in 6th grade, I was Lady Macbeth in our school play. I was worried about forgetting my lines, so I would practice them incessantly throughout the day and while I was falling asleep. My mother came into the room to check on me, and heard me muttering about not being able to get the blood of my hands or some such thing. Freaked her right the hell out.
JB_UK ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:24:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lady_Pieface ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If we should fail?
NyanShark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
*lady macbeth's child
shaker28 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:50:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My older brother used to have night terrors, which were creepy enough on their own, but we shared a bed which made it worse. There were a few times I'd wake up to my brother screaming only to be punched in the face for being a monster or whatever the hell he thought. Needless to say, I'm a pretty light sleeper these days.
synapsesynopsis ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:43:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It creeped me the fuck out! i got chills reading that.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:22:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gersberms...
Matthias21 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:07:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
AHHHH COBRAS!! COBRAS!!
Salger12 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:21:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to sleep walk too. I would pee in random places.
Black_Lace_and_Butts ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:09:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was watching a five year old over night once, and he started screaming and crying at the top of his lungs in the middle of the night. It of course woke the whole house up and his siblings were kind enough to inform me that he gets night terrors. I didn't want to make him feel worse, so I held him and told him that everything was okay. He kept screaming that they were trying to stab him. He woke up after a whole five minute ordeal. While totally explainable night terrors are terrifying for more than just the dreamer.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:15:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My three-year-old has night terrors. She'll be screaming, thrashing, crying (the awful, body-wracking sobs that come with lots of gasping and hiccuping for air), while begging me to save her from all kinds of monsters (which she describes in disturbing detail). In the morning, I'll ask her about them, and she remembers nothing. I'm extremely grateful for that, because I would not wish the pure terror she appears to be experiencing during these episodes on anyone.
justokre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What do they look like?
MissKatbow ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:58:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me of one time when I was a kid and I was staying overnight at my aunt's place. I used to get really bad fevers really fast, which happened while I was staying there. It was so bad this time that I started hallucinating and I remember seeing my uncle and brother (they were watching tv together) as skeletons and I started screaming and told my aunt. She must've been a little freaked out.
estellecat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:43:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you can remember vivid details of the nightmare, it's not a night terror. Not being able to remember the dream is actually one of the diagnostic criteria for night terrors.
Not saying you didn't have bad nightmares -- just that they wouldn't be classified as night terrors, even if you were screaming, walking, etc
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:08:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I don't remember them...the doctor did diagnose me with night terrors. But I've also been plagued with bad dreams, always. I used to dream Jesus was trying to kill me.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 22:05:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus loves you, he wants you to join him in his kingdom... FOREVER.
gbakermatson ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:10:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...Kinda sums up Christianity. My perspective, anyway.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:29:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I expect this in theaters soon.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:27:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same. Psychiatrist diagnosed it as night terrors.
I had a Lady Macbeth dream, too - I had blood all over my hands and I tried desperately to wash it off, but it just kept multiplying and the sink was filled with blood and the walls were smeared and I kept trying to wipe my hands with towels until they were all bloody and left in a heap on the floor.
crazy shit.
giantsfan793 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:40:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you did something you feel guilty about. BAM
noahgordon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:12:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This reminded me of Lady Macbeth.
callooh-callay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, she thought you knew that she had convinced your father to kill his boss.
SHFFLE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was your mother McBeth's wife?
Rabid_Llama8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you happen to have a history of Sleep Apnea?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No.
xxtoejamfootballxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Night Terrors happen during NREM sleep aka, not when you are dreaming. So you most likely having nightmares, not night terrors...sorry I'm that annoying Psych Major.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mmk.
ANALRAPE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
how were you so articulate at 2yo?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a girl; also I'm smart. Also I could've been a bit older, they just started at age 2.
dreadredheadzedsdead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck! Never having children.
HelloGoodbyeBlueSky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damned spot!
YWxpY2lh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sibling had this too. Glad to know it's more usual. Later it faded.
wardypants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you named Lady Macbeth by any chance?
Scarfington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:56 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
kids commonly have night terrors and the like, you were probably sleepwalking. That's still creepy though.
[deleted] ยท 105 points ยท Posted at 19:56:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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the0jakester ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:12:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister had the same thing. A man in a top hat and a suit. She would see him all the time. When we left town to visit family for the summer she thought she would get a break from the creepy ghost, but she saw him there once after about a week. the rest of the family never really saw him. all i saw was a leg just as it went out of sight through a door frame into her room. So it looks like male angels are classy as fuck.
Black_Handkerchief ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:29:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Either that or TotalBiscuit has a part-time job he hasn't told anyone about...
MiniMosher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:03 on July 10, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Observers from the fringeverse?
gay_away_jay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:11 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slender man is going to a party
Fidgetstic ยท 772 points ยท Posted at 19:04:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My ex and I took our kids over to my dad's house and we were up stairs in one of the empty rooms playing. The closet door opened a little bit on its own and my three year old jumped up, ran over to it and said "it's grandma". My mother died before he was even conceived.
thefuck1187 ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 21:50:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same here my 2 yo son was in the shower with me and he opened the shower curtin and was just stairing. I said what are you looking at he didnt even turn his head and he said just grandma. Ive never mentioned any thing about her or anything. He calls his other grandma me me. So it totally freaked me out. She passed 6 years ago.
abcdefghitran ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 00:22:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember seeing my dead grandma when I was 8-10 late at night in the bathroom mirror. She was serious and frowning, which creeped me out the most since she was always smiling and happy. She passed away when I was 6. Only in that bathroom though.
nontamopiu ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 23:14:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Great, now I'm afraid my future kids are going to see my dead relatives. ಠ_ಠ
Monocle_Lover ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:02:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My kids definitely are. My mother is a Sensitive. However, she stopped breathing at 3 days old at the same time as her grand mother passed away.
My sister didn't stop breathing or anything but she can see dead animals - sometimes. Not as clearly as my mother. Sometimes she needs my mother to confirm it.
patrickthrowayze ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:22:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What does being a Sensitive mean? She could see dead relatives? This kind of stuff is super fascinating to me, because my mom and uncle claim to have seen dead relatives and have known when somebody died before being told. I can't see how any of that is real. I want to ask you All the questions!
Monocle_Lover ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:32:48 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Crap, I just wrote this all out and accidentaly exited off the tab. I'm so mad. Well here goes a freakin gain. Not your fault.
She doesn't like being called a psychic but I am sure it's similar. She has done both of those things - seen passed relatives and dreamed someone's death prior to it happening.
I just went to ask her about the prediction, she said it was a week prior and she didn't recognise her relative so the prediction couldn't be passed on. Sure enough, her Uncle was flung from a car and broke his back and the people in the other car and his own passengers died. Just as she had predicted.
I believe it because she told me that after I came back from my grandmothers funeral in Gisborne, New Zealand to Auckland, my Nanna came back with me to see if we were happy because she hadn't heard anything. This was really upsetting to me because I had been asked several times to write her a letter but I was too busy with my teenage social life to do it. I have regretted it ever since.
Also, a few years ago, I got dropped off home from my then boy friends cousin. After he left, my mother told me she saw a very angry Maori chief with him. He was standing there yelling, apparently. My mum was able to determine that if this guy didn't stop doing what he was doing (she didn't know what it was) that he would die and that it would be an impact wound. He was a naughty boy, from what I knew of him. He did Meth and beat up his girl friend. He had a daughter and a little girl on the way. So it was imperative that he grow up and deal with what ever it was.
Recently I have been hanging out with my ex's family again for his nieces 5th birthday. Earlier this week her mum came to get me but she needed to go to the dairy so she left her 7 year old son with me while I got ready, my mum then told him his Poppa was with him, that he loved him and he was very special to his poppa. When his mum came back, she told him that her poppa wasn't very happy with the men in her life.
Turns out uncle and her father have been real idiot drunks. I don't know the details, I was in the car when she told her sister that night when she went to drop me off and said, "Yeah, I think she was talking about uncle _____, remember what happened?"
"oh yeah sis!"
I was also dropped off another night by said 5 year olds Dad and his new girlfriend. Mum saw that she had a young Maori warrior with her, an acestor that had no European influences about him, he was speaking pure Maori. We were able to determine the words
Whanau: Family Mea Nui: important (possible) Aroha: Love
Mum was also able to determine that the girl in question has to overcome something before she can move on. Then her guide will be happy.
So yeah, those are some experiences I've had. My mum gets a head ache from her readings which is why she only does them for friends and family.
However, I told my boss from last year about my mum, she asked for a reading and I said I'd ask my mum. Mum said she'd need an item of importance, it didn't need to be expensive, just important to my boss. So she gave me a couple of bracelets.
From that my mum was able to gather quite a lot. She had an issue with her family she needed to solve, she has a hernia in her stomach which causes her some grief, things like that. It made my boss cry. haha.
Is there anything else you'd like to know?
Holy shit that was an essay.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:47:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Similar story. At a wedding, my 2 year old niece was sitting alone at a table smiling and laughing like someone was playing with her. When her mom asked her what she was doing, my niece goes "I'm playing with Auntie Roshan."
Aunt Roshan passed away before my niece was even born.
Fidgetstic ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:52:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for making this the last thing I read before I go to bed.
[deleted] ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 20:19:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it was your SO's mother. Do you think of anyone but yourself? JIMINY CRICKETS, MR. SELFISH
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:59:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:54:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was kidding, but I'm sorry about that. :(
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 20:21:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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39wdsss ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:26:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
uh.. she did... she said that..
achshar ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:14:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
reincar.. never mind.
SG-17 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:22:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was your mother Bruce Willis?
A_Plea_for_Ethan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:22:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's some weird stuff dude.
fishfishmonkeyhat ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:06:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That explains how he could mix her up with a closet!
Shecallsmeceezy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:44:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chills...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:58:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My older brother saw my dead grandmother alot. I put it down to living on a mountain top with clouds rolling through all the time and my crazy auntie always bringing tarot cards over.
Lyte_theelf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:12:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, I always used to ask where my step brother was. I didn't have one, ever, and having one was never discussed in our house, but I kept asking. It weirded them out.
It was really because I had heard the term somewhere and couldn't fathom not having a family member of any kind. shrug
[deleted] ยท 954 points ยท Posted at 19:05:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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crithosceleg ยท 1069 points ยท Posted at 19:35:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And that's the point you don't know whether to be scared, or offended.
[deleted] ยท 132 points ยท Posted at 20:14:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Rule of thumb for survival: If you are told a ghost does not like you, you should be scared.
_shazbot_ ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 22:30:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a ghost in my house once that kept doing things to indicate that it didn't like me. I put party rock anthem on loop and left the house for three days. Haven't heard a peep from that fucker since.
TechnoL33T ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:58:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like you pushed that sand raker off your world.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:55:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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railmaniac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
People who are haunted but can also not stand annoying music?
maimer__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
play dubstep for 3 days straight and the house will implode.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:32 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's interesting.....there's a theory that ghosts are caused by umm...'super-sound' :-/
Shirosynth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Next time on Ghost Hunters..."
MadGeologist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:58 on November 26, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I keep playing Beatles. Am I some ghoul's target?
ohmegatron ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 22:17:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Rule of thumb for survival: don't ever be scared of anything. Be wary, be cautious, avoid it like the burning plagues of hell, but panic is not a survivors tool.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 22:17:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Except if you're a hot girl in your undies or a black dude. Then you better go and investigate that shit.
snaresamn ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:27:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Rule of thumb for children: If your child has an imaginary friend, you don't need to be scared.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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alrightalready ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:28:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...wut?
Nah_Im_Playin ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:23:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Oh my god Oh my god.. Hey! Bitch.."
shadeshadows ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:05:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Well tell that old bitch she can suck my nuts, 'cause I don't like her!"
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:23:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Bitch!....I think"
snowflaker ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:25:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"well maybe if she got to know me, maybe?"
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:43:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
trust me she knows you and your masturbatory habbits.
VenomousJackalope ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:53:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Scaffended.
HelloGoodbyeBlueSky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:30:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am a perfectly nice person, you twit!
Narrenschifff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why not both?
PShireman ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:56:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh no you didn't! Julius, hold my earrings!
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:04:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just imagined you yelling at the old ghost woman saying "Yeah, bitch, but I can make him a sandwich. What you got bitch? Nothing!" I laughed my ass off at the very thought of such a thing.
Super_Human_Samurai ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:40:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm not to fond of that old bitch either!"
StrangeJesus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:37:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who, her?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:51:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you man.
dhmmm ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:16:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is making be strongly believe in ghosts...
dondon13 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:36:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Creepiest part is that she doesn't like you... Chills...
Ayavaron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:41:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey. I remember being a kid and I also remember what other kids acted like. Sometimes you'd say "So-and-so doesn't like you" to somebody in order to be possessive, or because you're angry about something, or maybe you just don't know what the words mean. I know that I said things like this when I was younger than six years old.
Can't you easily picture a little kid getting jealous over a pet liking someone else more than him or her and yelling "BUT HE DOESN'T LIKE YOU!"
I also remember saying I was "allergic" to any food I didn't want to eat, and I "hated" my older brother and dad for some reason.
So I guess my point is that even if it is a ghost, your little brother saying she doesn't like you isn't anything to worry about. Kids are just assholes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:05:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
neighbour?
Cire4ever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She doesn't like you? Wth, what'd you ever do to her? What a bitch..
RhinoMan2112 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
AAAAAAAAAAND thats why i'm not having kids.....
Sandem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think you should read the correspondence Story to know, what could be happening.
Panda_S3X ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
don't worry, we still like you
tif23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was it Bloodstains?
[deleted] ยท 1473 points ยท Posted at 20:09:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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temp09098 ยท 320 points ยท Posted at 23:06:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of a TV special that aired 20 years ago, that mentioned a similar unsolved mystery.
It involved a wife who had frequent dreams about herself touring the inside of her "ideal," make-believe dream house. And whenever she had this periodic dream, of walking through every room and corridor of this "wonderful" house, it always involved the exact same type of house. This inspired her enough to the point that she excitedly goaded her husband to help her begin house-shopping to find some new home to move into.
But at one of the homes "for-sale" that the couple decided to check out, the wife immediately thought it looked uncannily like the one in her dreams. Then when the real estate agent and homeowner walked out to greet them, the homeowner was stunned....because the wife looked exactly like the apparent "mystery woman ghost" who the homeowners repeatedly spotted around the house, that freaked them out enough to put it up for sale in the first place.
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:24:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone explain why when i read this kind of shit I randomly tear up???? Like I don't feel afraid currently but tears are consistently running. What the hell??
wamsachel ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:52:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I randomly tear up when I poop (even when the said act of pooping is coming along nonstrenuously). True story, and one that I hope cheers you up.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:28:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So I'm not the only crooper (cry-pooper) out there?
wishbee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:48:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ME TOO. I've always wondered why it happens!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Strangely... yes, yes it did. Thanks =)
glasstapper ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:29:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have panic attacks occasionally, and I tear up with almost any great emotion, sad or not. I think some people are just way more sensitive to emotion and this kind of thing makes us anxious.
hystericalwisteria ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:51:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I do it as well. Any time I am talking about something intense--if it is sad, or scary, or especially when I am recounting something that happened to me that was frightening (even if I am not at that moment afraid), I cry like a madwoman. Not like sobs, just tears flowing like waterfalls. I agree with glasstapper on this.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:08:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yeah isn't it weird?? Like you aren't really crying but tears just keep falling out.
SophiePT ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 00:19:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Astral projection.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:57:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is Reddit. People only believe in logical explanations here. Hell, I don't think anyone here even believes in the concept of an eternal soul.
SophiePT ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:04:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably depends on which Redditor you ask. Also, not sure if this was a point you were making but, astral projection has nothing to do with the eternal soul.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:25 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol, there was no connection whatsoever, I was merely making a point.
SophiePT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:28 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gotcha :-)
CoitusSandwich ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:31:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You say that as if being logical were a bad thing.
poop_friction ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:35:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love logic and all, but being too skeptical really stifles the magic and mystery of life, you know? I know everything can be explained, and that doesn't mean I don't like a good logical explanation, but it's fun to wonder and imagine, man.
Reddit can be so obsessively skeptical to a point where asking questions and having a little fun with your imagination (even in a thread like this) is downvoted and criticized to oblivion.
CoitusSandwich ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:05:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough, but I'd disagree with your point about everything being explainable; we humans collectively have come to know a lot, but there's still an incredibly vast amount that we don't still know about: the universe, human nature, and the nature of existence, for example.
When there's already such an enormous trove of things to wonder about, giving even a single thought to topics like the existence of ghosts, or of "eternal souls" -- for which there isn't even a shred of real evidence -- seems pretty mundane to me, and not very constructive.
But of course that's just what I think. I'll have you know that I'd never go about downvoting opinions that I disagree with!
fishdontstink ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 05:46:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If believing the "magic and mystery" of this story is your only means of exercising your imagination, then you need a new creative outlet my friend.
poop_friction ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:18:34 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're honestly just proving my point about reddit, why so negative? I'm actually an artist so I have many a creative outlet, thank you very much. I just happen to love spooky unexplainable things and let my mind wander amongst their mystery.
fishdontstink ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:30:52 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I take it back... you are too creative. Stop making it so hard for me to be negative!!
Thumbz8 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:27:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not really logical, it's more pessimistic.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:03 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it's not a bad thing. But logically speaking, why is the concept of an eternal soul so hard to accept? This may be a stupid question to you but I'm genuinely curious, so if you would take the time to answer, I'd really appreciate it :)
CoitusSandwich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:21 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No problem at all! I'm not sure that this is a fair restatement of the belief in eternal souls, but here's how I take it: that there is some non-physical component of our being that inhabits our physical bodies, and has some role in giving rise to human consciousness (plus maybe a bunch of different functions, depending on the nature of your particular belief). For me, it's not so much that it's hard to accept that belief. It's just that I don't feel there is any good reason to believe in it, firstly because there's no credible evidence to support it, and secondly because choosing to believe in it doesn't seem particularly constructive to anything.
I initially had a bit more written down here, but I thought Iโd like to hear out your thoughts about what Iโve said first, so I can try to address them. I might also prefer to refer you elsewhere, where you can read up on the same ideas being articulated much better than I ever could. So, tell me what you think!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:31 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'm definitely glad to hear you say it. But on the subject of reincarnation, I actually do believe in it, or at the very least, I don't believe it's completely impossible. Reading some of the stories in this thread (some, not all) leads me to believe that memory of a past life is the only logical answer to some of the weird things these kids did.
laserbeanz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Buddhist here high five
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:54 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha stay awesome fellow Redditor :D
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When you astral project, it feels like you are a gas, just floating accidental-like on a breeze. To me, since the first time it happened to me, considering my body a vessel is logic as I have left it many times. If only Darwin had experienced this, perhaps it would have a place in atheism.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:35 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe, who knows? I for one would love to hear a logical, rational explanation for why this happens. I don't deny that I am a spiritual person, but in this case, simply saying, "God did it!" is not really enough for me, if you know what I mean.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:33:09 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My only explanation (personal theory) is that we have a soul and our bodies are vessels. Not like a soul in the biblical sense, I just can't think of a better term for it. I believe we are electricity inside. Whenever I astral project (which btw is not a talent, I have no idea how I do it, it kind of just happens to me), I travel very quickly, like electricity does. Every destination is an instant arrival. Unfortunately, none of these experiences are tangible and therefore can not really be documented and/or studied effectively. The best example I can give is emotions. Think of a time when you were really happy and couldn't stop smiling and then you ran into an unhappy person. Just being around them drained you (more or less depending on how well you knew the unhappy person). That is your positive energy being taken over by negative energy. Please forgive my grammar errors if I made mistakes. I need a pro bono editor stat.
EDIT: I mentioned Darwin (who is pretty much the voice of Atheism today) because if he had experienced the things I have, he could have never logically ruled energy and the astral plane out completely without being a hypocrite. With that I believe Atheists would be open-minded, but not to the point where their brains fall out (i.e Westboro/Phelps).
TL;DR I believe we have electric "souls" and am fully aware of how crazy I must come off.
snowlion13 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:12:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the hard part of doing it is getting your head disattached, i couldnt do it
SophiePT ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:06:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. This is about to sound very ridiculous but when I was younger this was a show called "So Weird" on the Disney channel where a girl was basically a paranormal Sherlock Holmes; in one episode she dealt with a girl who could astral project. After that I researched it a lot and it seemed really complicated, I could never let me my mind go like that.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:40:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is crazy, and definitely the most believable story I've read. I'm convinced that people can see other people's dream states now.
Asynonymous ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 01:07:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If that's believable I have some power bracelets to sell you.
EmilieAnomalie ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:38:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just make sure you test their strength before they try the bracelet.
Thumbz8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Placebos work
snowboy437 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What's funny is this specific story was specifically stated to be a "TV special that aired 20 years ago.
EDIT: Having read on, I learned this episode was based off of a real-life reported case.
miss_tori ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:13:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is actually the plot of a NightGallery episode called "The House" based on the short story of the same name by Andrรฉ Maurois
*Elaine Latimer has dreamed of driving on a country road and coming to a beautiful house. In her dream she knocks on the door but no one answers, so she leaves. She has had the same dream for years, and on her final day at a sanitarium she recounts the dream to her doctor. Leaving after being cured of what ailed her, Elaine finds herself driving in the country and discovers a familiar road, at the end of which is her dream house (literally). A real estate agent is also there and tells her the house is on sale, as it has been many times previously -- all the owners feel it is haunted. Elaine isn't put off by that and buys the house immediately. Now she is home for sure. *
demalition90 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:29:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
they bought it right??
would seem very wrong if they didn't,
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:17:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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yunatifa ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:13:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was Fact or Fiction.
dirt3h ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:24:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, this was a folk tale, it was on a TV show called beyond belief: fact or fiction. Where they basically showed weird stories throughout out the show, some fake some "real," this story was a fake one.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:59:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
BEYOND BELIEF: FACT OR FICTION!
Inky109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What was the special called?
temp09098 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:41:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Something like "Fiction or Real" or something. It was just a one-time airing. They presented a series of paranormal situations, but the "gimmick" was that the TV viewer was expected to "assess" which stories were real, and which were totally made up by the writers. At the end of the program, half the stories would be revealed to be false and made up, but the other half of the cases would be revealed to be established reported cases. This particular case was purportedly one of the real ones.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:53:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's called Fact or Fiction. I used to watch it all the time as a kid.
noebeawesome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to watch that show too! It was like, an after school routine for me.
Inky109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! I found it now, it's quite interesting.
Infallible_Ibex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is a great way to get the house you want.
Arctic741 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ohh I think I saw that one
DallasLynn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction!!! I effing love this show!!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:47:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When she moved in, did she ever see the mystery woman ghost?
RupertESnagglehoof ยท 112 points ยท Posted at 21:53:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story freaked me out more than all the other ones I've read so far. Maybe because many of the other stories imply children seeing the deceased, but this involves two living personsโฆ thats some weird shit man.
jellohead ยท 167 points ยท Posted at 23:13:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read a book on out of body experiences 10+ years ago. Everynight I tried to follow the instructions, finally I had the experince described in the book. I literally flew home (over 2,000 miles away) (this is my experience) and floated through the roof of my parents home. I saw them sleeping, and it scared me and I was instantly back in my body.
About 10minutes later I got a call from my mom checking, because she thought I had died. She apparently had seen my ghost in the kitchen across from the bedroomโฆ
It made me shiver.
Dustintico ยท 107 points ยท Posted at 23:23:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The reason I don't attempt this is because apparently you will sometimes see frightening things looming over your limp body in the bed.
nope
lCt ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 23:36:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep paralysis is fucking terrrrrriiiiibbllle.
lacolina ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:43:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Every once in a while, I dream that I've just woken up and I'm completely unable to move. My room, my bed, and everything around me look completely normal. I spend a few (dream) minutes panicking and trying to get out of bed, but I can't even blink. Then I realize it's a dream, which makes me "wake up" but this dream usually happens in a few layers where I keep thinking I've woken up for real, but I'm still dreaming.
LearnToWalk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:16:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've gone through several bouts of this. I think maybe it was during troubled and/or confusing times... not sure.
Hrodrik ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:41:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is called sleep paralysis, and it happens when you're under stress, etc. Happened to me a few times. The first times I thought I was paralyzed, tried to scream for help and only whimpers came out. Then I learned to just wait for it to pass. Never hallucinated though, thankfully.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
LearnToWalk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:45:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that sounds about right. It would also happen when I was lying in bed late with no particular reason to get up. Maybe some internal struggle about not really wanting to finish sleeping.
Hrodrik ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:48:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I think the causes of my episodes were bad sleeping habits and anxiety (I had a couple of panic attacks at about the same time I was having these).
jellohead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:49 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not sleep paralysis, trust me they are way different. In out of body experiences, i've successfully been able to see things that you'd only be able to verify from an airplane.
mipadi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For a period of a few years, I had that happen to me almost every time I took a nap. Say I took a nap on the couch; I'd dream that I was napping on the couch, and within that dream I'd have another dream. Then something would "wake me up" (so I awoke from the inner dream); often it was because I "heard" someone come into my apartment. But I couldn't turn to look at them, or move at all. I'd hear them walking around, but I could't do anything. Eventually I'd realize I was still asleep, and then awake from the "outer" (first, or "real") dream.
The scariest dream ever, I dreamt that (as usual) I was napping on my couch. I'd fallen asleep smoking, and lit the couch on fire. I awoke (in the dream) being burned alive. Scared the shit out of me, and that prompted me to awake from that dream.
I hear some people actually see crazy, scary shit when experiencing sleep paralysis, but that's all that's ever happened to me. But it was unsettling enough that I stopped taking naps for a while. Hasn't happened to me in a couple years, though.
Zecriss ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:12:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's only happened to me once- I DID see someone looming over me. I recognized the figure, and it may or may not have really happened. But it was the scariest moment of my life.
I was half-sleeping in my room in this really old house. I could tell my friend David was coming up the stairs, and that he was probably going to ask if I was sleeping. I was planning on pretending that I was sleeping, and then jump up and startle him. He turned the corner and starting coming towards me, but it seemed like he was moving super slow, and the old floor creeked with every drawn out step. And his figure (I could see through the door) was shadowy, as the only window that was shedding light was behind him.
That's when I noticed I couldn't move. I knew because I was trying to move my hand to someplace that I could push myself up all at once so I'd have better chances and surprising him- but I couldn't. So then I tried moving my leg, and I couldn't so then I tried moving anything I could and my face started quivering. David's figure stepped into the room and I thought for sure he must be planning to kill me and all I could manage was to curl up into fetal position. I stayed like that for the longest minute or so of my life, still unable to move, and then I passed out. When I woke up (I don't know how long after) David wasn't there.
He's not the kind of guy who would admit to looming over someone, so I don't think I'll ever know if it really happened or not, but it was scary shit.
mrmcmaine ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:01:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Got any stories you don't mind sharing?
lCt ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:31:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sure. I had it consistently for a 2 month period. The first was a hooded figure standing at the foot of my bed. I woke up couldn't move and this thing was just looming there. When i unfroze I screamed like a little girl and slept with the lights on for the rest of the night. 2 weeks later, I was sleeping on my side facing my fan. I slowly opened my eyes and bending over me was the same hooded figure, I wasn't frozen this time so I kicked it and destroyed my fan. That was the last (Oh God I hope) I saw the hooded figure. After that 3 times i awoke with a white lace covering my face and slowly backing away. I know I was asleep but dude that shit SUCKS. I was afraid to go to sleep every night during this period. Talk about scumbag brain man.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god that's horrible. I've experienced sleep paralysis a few times but thankfully have never seen anything this creepy during it. The most creepy thing I experience is the freaking out upon realizing I can't move.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:35:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:08:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I, too, hate it when I wake up to my grandma choking me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:07:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When it happens to me, I get a sense of impending doom, coupled with LOUD LOUD noises, like metal bars being twisted, or a car wreck. Then I wake up.
putaturdonit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you've got Exploding Head Syndrome.
I have this, albeit less frequently than in my early childhood. I only recently discovered that other people don't hear deafening noises while they're sleeping.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It doesnt happen often, only when I wake during sleep paralysis, and even then only a handful of times. But that does sound unfortunate to frequently go through.
fbea ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:23:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I get sleep paralysis quite often and have had it as early as I can remember. I have had ridiculous hallucinations and looming eerie feelings of being watched. Particularly when I was young, I would experience Alice in Wonderland Syndrome where I would feel like I was shrinking or everything around me was growing. While terrifying at times, other times I'd have fun with it. When this occurred I was awake but I believe I was between sleeping and being awake - I wouldn't quite call it sleep paralysis. I vaguely recall one instance when my environment was shrinking, I saw/felt the presence of nymphs of sorts just hovering and spiraling around me.
If you've ever seen Henry Fuseli's painting, The Nightmare, the feeling that I get during sleep paralysis is as if something heavy is sitting on my chest. But also, there's varying degrees of being sucked into the sleep paralysis (for a lack of a better description). For example, if I'm lying there and feel like I'm getting sleep paralysis (I can usually tell that I'm slipping because my mind is alert, but my body is slipping into paralysis) I may or may not try to fight it off. As I became accustomed to my paralysis and hallucinations, I'd have fun with it since the vibrations was kind of a fun experience (when I didn't have an evil presence lurking around). Other times, I've seen a little girl floating in the corner of my bedroom's ceiling, I've seen "The Devil," which was NOT fun - there was just a purely evil aura that just made me want to get the fuck out of my bed (which was not possible since I'm usually paralyzed).
I've seen Jesus before. It happened when I was a sophomore in high school during French class. There was a break and I was tired so I laid down on two seats for a powernap. What happened then was that everything was white and I saw the silhouette of Jesus. The light's intensity decreased a little and I could make out the beard, white clothing and an arm that was stretching out to me and I felt pure warmth.
In another instance, back during my Freshman year of college, I laid down on my bed after playing WoW (back when it everyone was playing the game) and closed my eyes momentarily. I reopened my eyes to see a two dimensional black silhouette of a cartoon-like guy's head wearing a Indiana Jones-style detective hat. Below that were flickering characters and numbers that I couldn't decipher or even recall because it was changing too quickly. When I looked to the left, there were two 2D silhouettes of dragons that intertwining with each other.
Typically, as I've been growing older, the sleep paralysis is just paralysis coupled with the vibrations. The hallucinations are infrequent as they used to be when I was younger. Although I believe it was within the last week that I think my hallucinations have progressed into auditory hallucinations for the first time. I freaked out when I thought someone walked into our house (I heard the door closing), but I felt helpless because I was paralyzed despite the fact that I wanted to check our door to see whether someone had broken into the house at night. When I came to I immediately (and cautiously) walked downstairs only to realize that no one was around. I think it was only a few days ago that I freaked out once again when I thought a mysterious figure was standing by me near my feet, who I also thought had broken into our home.
clevernamehere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:41:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For a period when I was having episodes most frequently, I woke up with a feeling of immense dread, I could see my body from a perspective just above and to the left of my head, but not far up. I'd see these weird fingers clutch some part of me and my body felt way too heavy to move, and it suddenly seemed nearly impossible to breathe as well. So hard to tell yourself it is a dream and get out of it. Yikes. I feel funny just remembering it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel funny just hearing it. Weird fingers clutching you. NOPE
royalemperor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had it once. The entire time I dreamed about hearing cars pulling up to my house and people screaming and yelling to get inside, knocking on my window and door.
railmaniac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's also terrible fucking.
[deleted] ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 00:13:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My twin sister claims she would often have out-of-body experiences and would see 'things' as she traveled around the room. I would fall asleep in her room with her at times if we were up late watching tv and she would report the following morning she would see me laying on her floor and would describe how I was sleeping and the different ways she would call to me or try to do things to wake me up. She would see beings in the room; they were still but ominous. She said she would sometimes see objects but was too weak to lift them or in the case she had seen a box: open it. She would explain these events in great detail.
We are in our mid-30s now and you would not imagine a more rational, polished woman. She will tell you all of this without any apology.
Edit: 3 Great Lakes, The Wright Pils has had an effect on my typing.
ta7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:23:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd love to hear more stories!
beernerd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:04:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Great Lakes? I love the Fitzgerald.
kfour ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 23:36:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep paralysis can be freaky shit.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 23:38:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Dustintico ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 23:42:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know it's our brain being wack and doing wack stuff, but that doesn't make it less terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:50:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. Sorry.
And, yeah, true. It's no less terrifying.
galindafiedify ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:14 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so."
DJBell1986 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 00:04:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad said when he was little he got grounded for something and was lying on his bed starring at the ceiling when all of sudden he started floating above his bed and he turned around to look down at the bed and saw his body lying there with no face. It freaked him out and he was instantly back lying down on the bed.
My mom has said she has gotten up went out the front door and casually looked in her bedroom window and saw herself sleeping then felt like something was pulling her backwards and she woke up.
FreckleException ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:25:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've been reading all of these and just now realized that this has happened to me. I've gotten ready for work numerous times and came back to my room to see myself still sleeping. In that moment I'm automatically pulled back into my own body and most likely turning off the alarm on my phone.
SpicaGenovese ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:29:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That happened to my sister. She read books and practiced, but when it came time to actually "leave" she sensed things waiting to jump into her body.
dozzler93 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:26:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, that just reminded me of Insidious ... Now I'm definitly not going to sleep tonight ...
zedoktar ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:52:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There is a reason the old magical orders and most grimoires have banishing rituals. Or maybe its all bullshit. Who knows? I know I used to have sleep paralysis and see critters, and then during one attack I ran through a banishing ritual I had read somewhere... it worked. I didn't have sleep terrors again for a good five years. So make of that what you will. Purely psychological? maybe.
Dustintico ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:35:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It makes perfect sense that it works, via placebo effect. You wanted it to work and believed it would, so your psyche changed a bit and boom, no more 'critters'.
fratgirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welp there goes my plans to try it.
digitalpencil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
out of curiosity, are the techniques learned basically just lucid dreaming induction?
Dustintico ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:33:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Similar, but instead of realizing you're dreaming partway through, it's being aware of falling asleep and 'leaving' your body instead of entering an off location dream.
I_DEVOUR_CHILDREN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK this reminds me of insidious
Howzitgoin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:28:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of the movie Insidious. I am currently NOPING.
Cycle_Breaker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:39:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What is this book you read, regarding out of body experiences?
jellohead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:53:44 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
by Raymond Moody.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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LordNero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me too.
appropriate-username ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:42:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
....What was the book?
zserfvbhuik ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:47:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you remember the name of the book or the author? I'd be courious.
jellohead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:53:29 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was by Raymond Moody, he's dead now, but he was a pioneer in the field. Look up his books on Amazon.com. Try to keep an open mind. I promise if you try to have an out of body experience for a month and read up on them they will absolutely happen. My friend who is much more skeptical and hates anything 'unexplained' decided to try it with me for a month, he seems to have better out of body experiences than me and can actually see things and verify them regularly. So I think there is something to it. (he asked me to put something on the roof) and verified it, and it can't be seen by anyone (playboy poster on the roof) then an apple in the gutter. It creeps me out because I worry I'm gonna see him floating outside my window one night.
zserfvbhuik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:16 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is extremely interesting. I'll definetely look it up, thank you for telling me that, I would love if I could do that one day. It's so absurd that he actually saw the objects on the roof, I don't know what to think.
[deleted] ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 22:40:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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NoStrangertolove ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 22:51:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd chalk it up to a neat coincidence and move on.
There is no magic in my life. :(
IWillNotBeBroken ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:38:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Life is the magic
TheCigarMan ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:53:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I believe there's a quote in Harry Potter just for you...
Aiyon ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:56:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
-Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
TheCigarMan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:05:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Harry was painfully reminded of Dumbledore's idea of "a few words."" :')
Aiyon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:11:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Alas! Ear wax!
You cannae out-Dumble me.
TheCigarMan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:59:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed I can, but let us not circlejerk this thread too far off course, eh?
Aiyon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:39:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aww, okay. To be fair it's a good source of relief by the time you get this far down.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was indeed, thank you. I'm home alone reading this thread and noping all the way through it.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:06:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't be sad, it's safer this way.
andash ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:31:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection
Give it a try. I don't know what to think about it, but I'm certain many people have had some kind of experience related to this. Is it merely dreams or imagination? Most likely. Still seems pretty fucking cool
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:17:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps the mother heard her son speaking, and she dreamt she was floating in the kitchen by suggestion.
cheshirekitteh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:45:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Truthfully... I think there may be something to this. A lot (well, most.. okay 99%) of adults have preconceptions that this type of event isn't real, cannot happen, etc. but kids this young don't have those negativities yet. They're much more "open" because they haven't been exposed to most things that leave lasting impressions on us as adults. They haven't had the opportunity to form their own opinions yet, either. Who knows if it's real, but who's to say it's not?
joseph346 ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 22:48:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your wife saying "one of those weird dreams" seems to imply that wasn't the first time. Did your son know that she sometimes had dreams like that?
opiv ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 22:29:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
by far the weirdest yet, its not that he sees something that isnt there but that he sees something that is later verified, fucking weird
the0jakester ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 22:38:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus fucking Christ. Why are kids so creepy? What else do they see without telling anyone? what did we see as children?
hoopstick ยท 104 points ยท Posted at 22:58:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad died when I was four, and I used to have recurring dreams almost every time it stormed where he would come to my bedroom door, give me a smile and a wave, then move on. Years later my mom confessed to me that she loved the rain because for a few years after my dad died it always seemed to fill the house with the smell of his cologne, but it stopped after she met my eventual step-dad.
It's probably just a weird coincidence, but even the skeptic in me wonders sometimes.
Delirious5 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:33:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My father died four years ago, but the house will sometimes smell like the cigars he used to smoke.
boomerangotan ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 23:06:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Even more creepy if you consider most kids go through an "imaginary friend" phase.
frostbyte8bit ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:03:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HOLY CRAP. I never really thought about just how creepy that is.
atla ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had two imaginary friends. They were ghosts. I made them up so I wouldn't feel left out -- I consciously remember this (as in, I would brag about them to my similarly-aged cousins and giggle to myself when they would claim to see them too).
However, the Man that I saw outside my door every night? That I vividly remember not making up, even if I didn't talk about it until later.
J-Fizzle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:55:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Please elaborate on said man.
atla ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:50:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry this is so late. I really, really couldn't do this at night.
So, when I was little (4-8 ish) I was afraid of the dark. I slept every night with my bedroom light on, the hallway light on, and my door open. After a little while, I started seeing this...man, standing at my doorway. Tall, completely black (sometimes it had reddish or orangish eyes). Sometimes you could see hands, other times you could only see a sort of emptiness -- almost like blowing air -- where the hands and feet should've been. Sometimes he carried a Grim-Reaper type scythe, other times not. It wouldn't move -- just stand there.
There was, however, this instinctual terror I had of it. Seriously bad mojo vibes. You might be thinking, oh, sleep paralysis -- but I could move. I would be able to move my head, I remember on more than one occasion pulling the sheets up further, hoping it wouldn't see me. I didn't, however, ever roll over (because who wants to make that much commotion when something like that is there?), nor did I ever run for my parents or call for them, even though they were in the next room over (because it was still closer -- they couldn't do anything to help me, and if it was real I'd be screwed).
Eventually it got so bad that I had to move into the guest bedroom. It's mostly gone away, except I have never slept in that room again, and I really don't like sleeping with my door open (the rooms are right next to each other, so same hallway). I also get really freaked out when in that hallway at night -- alarm bells at the freaking wazoo. It gets worse when I go near the place where he stood, and goes absolutely nuts if I go into the room after sunset.
And I made sure it wasn't my parents. One night, I asked my dad if he'd dressed up and stood outside my door last night, or if one of his friends had. That freaked him right out, let me tell you.
Also, miscellanea:
I always got the wiggins when I sat at the top of the stairs. I could feel someone touching my arm, my shoulder, even though no one was there.
I hated, for years, being alone on a given floor. It was a thousand times worse being alone upstairs. Sometimes I would have mental breakdowns and start bawling if I had to go upstairs to bed while my parents were downstairs.
You know how most four, five, six year olds think their parents can do absolutely anything, protect them from anyone? Not in this case. With all the surety a small child could muster, I knew that my dad could take on robbers single-handed, vanquish the monsters in my closets...but I also knew that nothing could help me with the Man. Nothing, not even my parents.
I get bad vibes in my house. Like, primal fear, heart-pounding instinctual there's-a-lion-lurking-right-behind-you type fear. Even today (as you can see, though, it was a lot worse when I was younger). This happens to me in very few other places -- I don't, for example, get scared like that when I go to hotels, or to friend's houses.
So, that's it. I'd be happy to answer any questions, or receive any theories.
J-Fizzle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:43:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do your parents still live in that house?
atla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yup.
J-Fizzle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:46:57 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should try sleeping in that room again and try catching it on video or something
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 02:03:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
really, most? go outside bud. off reddit. lols
nowshowjj ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:53:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember seeing a lot of things as a kid. My mom fills in the rest of the creepiness with stories that I don't remember. My childhood was haunted as fuck.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oooh do tell!!
nowshowjj ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:53:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of the stories I usually tell is from when I was about 4 of 5. My mom, dad and myself were checking out a new apartment. The landlord was showing my mom and dad the master bedroom and right across the hall was where my bedroom would be. I wandered off and stuck my head into what would be my room and across the room, were two heads that peeked out from the closet, one a pure black, nothingness and the other a bright yellow head. I freaked the fuck out and went running into the master bedroom and told them what I saw. They walked into the other room and into the closet and saw nothing. They invited me to go look but I said no.
Of course, my parents rented the place anyway. I only slept in the room. I would take my toys and play in the living room and I always had to have the hall light on when I slept. That room always gave me a bad vibe. My mom says she would wake up in the middle of the night and the light would be on in my room and I would be playing with some toys. When my mom asked me why I was awake, I would say that I was playing with someone but there was clearly no one else in the room.
That's only a couple of the many things that happened in that apartment and in my life in general.
Pteraspidomorphi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have memories from since I was 2 and I assure you I saw nothing out of the ordinary.
Lampjaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw you die, the0jakester.
latenightmonkey ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 22:45:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it possible that your wife semi-consciously heard your kid say "Mommy is floating in the kitchen" and that then stimulated the dream?
mindspillage ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 22:54:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or that she completely consciously heard it and decided to fuck with their heads.
Pucker_Pot ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:10:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This. This is what happened.
geekamongus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:44:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Possible, but very unlike her. That, and the fact that this was not her first such dream. She had them pretty frequently before we had kids. Floating out of her body, sometimes feeling like something was messing with her, pushing her up higher and further away.
pokker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:11:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or that she died that night and a demon took her body?
snowboy437 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Poster says his wife mentioned her dream the next morning. Her body was there.
ElRed_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:55:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That would be my guess/hope.
andash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Alternatively she spoke in her sleep
Thankful_Lez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:55:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or that the kid asked "Mommy, what are you doing?" and the mom replied (in her sleep) "floating."
IrrevrentHoneyBadger ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:38:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, out of all comments I've read, this was the most disturbing for me
nozonozon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:45:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I agree completely. This is a little different but I remember flying as a child. I know physically it couldn't happen but still the memory is pretty solid.
lemonzezt ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 22:38:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reality is deteriorating in such a real way that the next generation of children can actually be in two or more realms at once. Whohohoooa
angry-bird ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:21:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i'm calling walter
SuddenlyTimewarp ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:53:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
something, something, cortexiphan?
perhapsody ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:51:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One Sunday morning when I was in high school, I woke up at my usual school time, went down to my mom's room where she was working on her computer, and lay down on her bed to snooze a bit more. It was about 8am. I had an incredibly vivid, disturbing dream with no scenery, plot, or context, just my best guy friend crying hysterically, holding me so tight I could feel his hands hurting my arms, and sobbing over and over, "He's gone, he's gone, he's dead."
Freaked me the fuck out, but I've had night terrors and vivid dreams all my life and chalked it up to that.
Monday morning, I walked into school and learned that my friend's stepdad had shot himself in their garage on Sunday. My friend found him there right about 8am.
Piogre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:44:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sleepwalking? sleepwalking with a really floaty walk?
ghettajetta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
we can only hope
carlrey0216 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:52:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm really just going to tell myself that you're a troll and there's no way that stuff like this goes on. For the sake of my sanity, for the sake of my sleep tonight and for the sake that I don't want to be floating around all willy nilly when i have kids.
geekamongus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:56:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I do enjoy a good troll every now and then, but this is an I-shit-you-not experience. I promise. Sorry for the freakiness.
spaceman_spiffy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:00:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's it; I'm done with this thread. I'm going back to upvoting pictures of cats.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:14:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This further solidifies my belief that very young children have an extra sense, in that they can see things older kids and adults cannot. I am the oldest in my family with a few younger siblings, and there have been numerous occasions where they would see things that were way too far out to be made up.
Examples include: A dead woman in the parking lot bleeding - M. Knight Shyamalan plot twist: A lady matching my sisters description EXACTLY died the previous day by being hit by a car in the same parking.
Same sister would also be found sleeping on the very edge of her bed at night. When my mother asked why she couldn't use the whole bed. Sister answered that the 'man' was sleeping there. Mom asked her to describe the 'man'. What she described was the exact same 'man' I used to see in the same house more than 10 years ago.
Lots more stories where that came from. Point is, I am convinced young children have an extra 'sense' that allows them to see unexplained phenomenon, whether it be 'ghosts' or those who can utilize astral projection. (If any of these even exist.)
der1x ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:33:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
reminds me of an episode of Beyond Belief:Fact or Fiction.
A lady has reoccuring dreams about walking in the house of her dreams. Later she actually finds the house(in real life) and is told by the realtors that it is haunted though. When the owners see the lady they tell it is her who they see haunting the house.
million_tiny_stars ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wut.
Zecriss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any chance that his mom heard him say that? If she did, it could have influenced her dream. Of course, it's still strange he said that, but maybe he saw someone flying on TV.
geekamongus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Possible, but this wasn't the first time she had such dreams. She probably had a dozen or so where she left her body, felt very awake, and could see me and herself laying in bed from across the room.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:22:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
holly shit, astral projection!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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geekamongus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the first sentence pretty much explained that.
buddhaledread ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:43:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Astral projection is real?!!!
pumpkynluvr ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:53:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
very real!
Leezwurd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:03:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep!
euphoria8462 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like astral projection.
pumpkynluvr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:52:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My twin brother used to see a man in our foyer every time he stood on the landing of the stairs. He asked my mom "who is that" but she obviously couldn't see who he was talking about.
I think it's amazing how clairavoyant children are. The lucky ones grow out of it.
wethza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection
Perhaps this?
It's not scientifically proven, but maybe.
jellohead ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:14:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tell that to Duke, MIT, and all the researchers at Harvard who have published peer reviewed papers on this.
wethza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't looked into much professional research on it. I guess I'll have to go do that.
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that just gave me the chills.
Jayfire137 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That one gave my chills...
nikogeeko ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:14:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
GAVE YOUR CHILLS WHAT???
Jayfire137 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:26:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aids...it gave my chills aids....you might want to get checked as well
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
woah, is this story really true? this is like, literature-worthy. i want to hear more!
geekamongus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As true as it happened. Both my sons saw things as toddlers but they seem to have grown out of it.
Spk4420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Out of body experience, more likely. Possible that she was in a light sleep before she woke. I'm sure others have had this feeling: right before you fall in a deep sleep, you're kind of in a twilight, light sleep, then all of a sudden you jerk and you're awake. It's like an astral projection, then you're astral self falls into your body. It's that whole "I feel like I'm falling" thing that happens right before you actually go into a deep sleep.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It'll probably ruin the vibe but did you tell her what he said? How'd she react if so?
geekamongus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:54:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did, and it freaked her out a bit too. We both have wondered to this day what happened, or how it happened, but both of our kids had 'the shining' to a certain degree. It seems to run in the family, as my grandmother and her mother have stories too.
My other son used to see 'a girl with a circle over her head' standing in his room at night, saying his name, and it freaked him out. This was when he was 3 or so. At some point he saw a picture of an angel with a halo and had an "Aha" moment. "That's like the girl in my room."
These events keep me on the agnostic side of athiesm.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am also an atheist whose family (unreligious) has experienced some really fucked up things. All I can do is shrug and say that life can be very weird.
geekamongus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure it can all be explained, and it helps to remind myself that there are many things about the universe (and ourselves) we still don't understand.
serfrench ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your wife doesn't know it, but she can astral project. Tell her to check it out, it's some pretty cool stuff.
geekamongus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She is not my wife anymore, but she has read up about it. I think she tries to stay away from it because it freaks her out. Most of these 'dreams' she had were surrounded by bad feelings and things lurking around her.
SimpleDan11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Teh frack?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story is definitely freaky. My roommate's grandparents have a similar one. One night, her grandmother woke up at 4 am, and said she felt the Angel of Death passing over. The next day, they find out their neighbor passed away in his sleep... at 4 am
Tehdew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have to stop reading this at 2am in the morning...
ediddy206 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think little kids have a very acute sense of the super natural and don't always fear it.
abcdefghitran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have goosebumps. Whoa.
Leezwurd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your wife may have been experiencing astral projection! Also, a child's pineal gland is functioning fully and is completely calcification-free, that's why they have such strong imaginative ability and sometimes can experience mild auditory or sight hallucinations. It could have been a combination of your wife experiencing astral projection and a very in-tune-with-the-possibilities son.
Highfive_Machine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... Not sure if high five.
lanadelstingrey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Something similar happened to me when I was younger. I was like six or seven at the time I think, and I had this dream that the Devil was lifting me out of my bed and carrying me around the house and laying me on the couch. I woke up to my dad asking me why I was on the couch and telling me to get back to my bedroom.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These kinds of stories and a few others make me question some things... it's almost like kids are describing reincarnation, out-of-body experiences and a whole shitload of weird supernatural phenomena. Now... how to test this...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She spoke about herself in third person?
geekamongus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, bad paraphrasing job.
overdos3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What... the... fuck...
FuriousLamb3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:22:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fire.
Blu3Berry_Pie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She could possibly have astral projected. Thats when the soul leaves the body (but returns afterwards (google it for more in depth ;) )). I have no idea how the little one could have seen her though.
zserfvbhuik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Couldn't it be that she sleepwalked into the kitchen for few minutes and then went back to bed? I don't know, just trying to give myself a rational explanation
nshadd2455 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is my favorite by far.
Asyyd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"My son..." "His mother.."
geekamongus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I refer to her as "his mother" now that I'm married to someone else.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i read somewhere that children can see spirits
geekamongus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I seem to have watched it happen.
GrizzWintoSupreme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you serious?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Astral projection.
Dr-Farnsworth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
G-G-G-G-G-Ghost
fifa10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This did not happen...
zobee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
more like Paranormal Activitay
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dude........ what. the. fuck?
Mr_Jolly_Green ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh lawd. That one got me.
rockmediabeeetus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:56 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
nopenopenopenopenopenopenope
maniacalmnemosyne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Woah c_______c
alexNeso ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:32:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, that was me.
FreddeCheese ยท 712 points ยท Posted at 19:44:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Someone left the door to /r/nosleep open..
bolaxao ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 22:41:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DON'T ENTER THERE IT'S A TRAP
jackk225 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:02:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, you'd have a much better time at Stinson Beach. You should come, there's something I'd like to show you.
rreform ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:44:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
or did the door just open by itself, as you see a shadow dart by in the corner of your eye?
lukec3 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:01:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It opened by itself เฒ _เฒ
howerrd ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:45:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The door opened itself and a baby was like, "no big deal. That's just gran. She wants to make sure we're all coming to see her on time."
sacredegg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
fuck you SO MUCH
wigsternm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The door to /r/nosleep opened itself.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:44:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
With a noisy creak.
The_Coleman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NO THEY DID NOT!
Jimmymonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your kid is a redditor?
Spncrgmn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Antidote
Spud740 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cant be, the stories are actually scary and relatively believable
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All the ghosts escaped from there. Somebody call the Ghostbusters please.
ElginHK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why the fuck am I reading this thread alone and in the dark?
[deleted] ยท 423 points ยท Posted at 19:46:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my child but a friend's child came over to me and a few people while camping one year. He stood silently looking at one person in particular and after a few moments interrupted the conversation by saying, "you're going to be the first to die." Tripped us right out.
brielem ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:21:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well, at least he's straight to the point.
ThatJanitor ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 22:38:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody has to say it; was the victim black?
Shirosynth ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:59:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Red shirt gave it away I think.
Keeblerman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:37 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or in a red shirt?
tabzillaa ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:42:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Has that person died yet?
theCroc ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:38:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He was making a list of future victims.
willbradley ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:43:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember discussing age with my friends as a kid and we'd all argue about who would be the first to die. Usually based on when we were born or something.
Ravanas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:50:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Has anybody in that group died?
YourCurvyGirlfriend ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:18:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did the kid piss on the floor after saying it?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:28:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Red shirt?
takatori ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:21:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you black? Because movies.
TheCigarMan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:55:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
B movie waiting to happen. :P
VirtualInk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is fucking scary.
tandarkan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:36 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"The black wind howls...
One among you will shortly perish"
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
completly normal. i used to do that all the time, just to freak people out.
AMBsFather ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was he a saiyan?
[deleted] ยท 956 points ยท Posted at 19:11:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not a parent but I've worked at a daycare centre. I was watching a little girl playing with one of the dolls. She was dressing it, putting it to bed, etc. At one point she put the baby on the toy stove. I asked her what she was doing, "I'm burning the baby," she replied.
Edit: Missed a word.
Nomnombunny ยท 137 points ยท Posted at 19:41:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was visiting my boyfriend's family and a family friend's daughter kept putting her Barbie underneath the drill on the Home Depot playset.
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:44:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
normal.
Nomnombunny ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:45:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know, right? Honestly, we think it's because the drill makes a cool noise.
capernoited ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:41:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a friend whose little sister is known for placing her Barbies in erotic and torturous positions. At one point she had one hanging by the neck from her night stand with others gathered around, some seemed to be praying.
Papa_Luigi ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 00:55:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She's in a cult.
Tattycakes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:18:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We actually pulled the heads off our Barbies, tried to put them back on different bodies but they didn't always go.
Memyselfsomeotherguy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:24:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like real life.
Ciaran54 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 20:35:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"They taste better when they're crispy"
:)
Karmasour ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:52:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
nice try, athiest.
Tattycakes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The most athy.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 20:27:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter does that all the time at daycare. Never said she was burning them though (that I know of). She usually gives them a kiss before putting them in.
GlitterConjurer ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:22:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's way creepier
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:28:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HOT WATER BURN BABY HOT WATER BURN BABY
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:30:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck is this from?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:05:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely. Definitely.
iwontmakeyoursammich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I clicked on this thread just to see if there was a Rain Man reference. I applaud you, sir.
MelancholyRainbow ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:52:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when I was little when I played with my barbies they would have relationships with each other and when they broke up I would just throw them off the roof and say that they killed themselves. Then I would go play with the little plastic toilet that makes flushing sounds.
coralaful ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:47:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can take that a step further. My little sister (age 2) was playing in the living room. We had a lit fire place running. I swear my parents looked away for no more than 15 seconds. I came home to see that the doll's arm was fully burnt away. When I asked what happened she turned to me and said, "I was cooking her." In her defence, she did look positively guilty every time we talked about it.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:40:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Babies are the veal of people.
kaimason1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Love c&h.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:11:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed at this one more than I was creeped out.
death_by_rainbows ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:38:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was she an atheist?
Drozzbear ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:00:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or a homosexual agent of the devil?
beaverboyz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:58:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to play "Crazy Eddie's restaurant" as a kid and would do the same thing at daycare, said I was making fried babies
laidbackduck ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:31:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I found this hilarious rather than scary. I did the same thing as a child.
somedelightfulmoron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:36:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I remember doing these with my dolls. I also cooked them with leaves, twigs and my grandma's lipstick (I use it as my "oil" LOL)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:47:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
An atheist in the making.
seltaeb4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:31:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She wants her baby back ribs.
LinkNavi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I could make an awful Holocaust joke, but I think I'll let it slide...
SaraDontDefyMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nicole? I think I might know you?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I ATE A BABY!
Ellie_phant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:02:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That little girl definitely does not know how to properly cook a baby.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Read that as "I was watching a little girl playing with one of the dildos." The story became pretty interesting.
charonthemoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Honey, why is the baby on fire?"
ChampagneFizz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Played too much Sims.
fishfishmonkeyhat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Her story checks out.
Karmasour ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:51:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ovary removal surgery ASAP
obviousjew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:04:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
666 points
Dr-Farnsworth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Roast Baby is delicious in her defense
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:44 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
if baby does not like cold milk...boil it:)
DraugrMurderboss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah. The reincarnation of Josef Goebbels.
listen_hooker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to burn my only dolls butt on this duck lamp I had when it was "bad".
I was fucked up.
InnocuousPenis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:52:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
fuck hell what?
MiracleMaxMLT ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you tell Mr. and Mrs. Anthony when they picked their daughter up that day?
do-not-throwaway ยท 187 points ยท Posted at 21:35:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter has always had night terrors, since she was only a couple of months old, the doctor said it was just gas (and that babies don't dream), but he didn't see the absolute look of terror night after night, even after having changed her diet and eating habits as he suggested, he finally agreed.
They have mostly subsided, but there was one in particular that I will never forget her telling us about.
(This is as close as I can remember to her exact wording, and told from her perspective)
I was with my family that I lived with before I lived you, and they were very, very mean people. My mom was dead because they didn't like her anymore, and my dad and brother hated me; they tied me to a chair in the basement, beat me, stuck things in me (I couldn't get clarification on this, how the fuck does a 4 yr-old know about this kind of abuse??!) and never fed me. Sometimes I would get free and would have to eat dirt and bugs.
They let their friends do stuff to me too.
(Me:) What kind of stuff?
Bad stuff, I can't say, it's hard to remember, but it was bad. Their friends later killed my bad dad, and bad brother, and stole me away. They chained me to their wall and threw knives at me, and burned me with sticks from their fire.
When they got tired of my crying, they held my throat until I died, then they cut me up into little tiny pieces and put me in the blender, then they found mommy and made her drink me...and that's how I was born.
(Me:) Well, that's quite the sadistic dream, sweetheart.
It wasn't a dream, daddy, that's what really happened.
(Me:) Good. God. เฒ _เฒ
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:39:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
poor thing. i hope shes better now.
do-not-throwaway ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:28:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She still has bad dreams every once in awhile, but thanks. :-)
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:00:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
if she ever talks about them, see how old she is in the dreams.
do-not-throwaway ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:39:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a good idea. There have been a few where she actually told me how old she was, which seems to make it that much more real to her, freaky shit, man.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:13:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my thinking is perhaps shes remember some awful past life. i dont really know if past lives are real or not but it be an idea of how she understands in such detail things no little girl should understand. maybe a hypnotist might help as well.
do-not-throwaway ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:32:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She has...a very active imagination. She has come up with stories that no child should know that much about. Things like building mechanical machines, beyond an understanding of simple machines (pulleys, inclined planes, etc), we have lots of Legos, needless to say. :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thats awesome! you have any pictures of the stuff shes built? you should encourage her to write as she gets older! a awesome imagination is a amazing thing to have.
do-not-throwaway ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll have to see if any of them are still built, I'm at work currently though. She's very erratic and doesn't seem to care about keeping them once she's built them and got them out of her head. I think I do have some of the elaborate block castles she built when she was like 3 or 4, I'll post them when I get home from work. :-)
I've been encouraging her to write frequently, I would love to see her expand on some of the stories she's come up with through the years. Some of them are freaky, like my OP, but some of them are just absolutely fascinating.
do-not-throwaway ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:31:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have 2 TB of pictures and videos, so it's hard to find anything in that mess. here's what I have found so far, a block castle she built when she was 3, 3 1/2.
http://imgur.com/a/R2CD3
wishbee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:57:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is a pretty sweet castle!
do-not-throwaway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought so, too! :D
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe writing with her to encourage her to write more often. maybe co-op a story? thanks! id love to see what she comes up with. kids are amazing in how they see the world with there tiny eyes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:05 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...and in my past life, some bastered pulled me out of the ground, peeled me and ate me with some dead carrots:( it was horriibbbllleeee... :'(
cielleau ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:04:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like Sylvia Likens story, was an American murder victim from Indiana in the sixties i think. She was tortured to death by Gertrude Baniszewski, Gertrude's children, and other young people from their neighborhood. There is also a movie about it, called 'an american crime'
do-not-throwaway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It sounds like their may be either a few similar stories, or a few movies made of the same events. I agree though, it does sound somewhat like the movie.
weasilish ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:19:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little i thought you had to eat people to become pregnant with them.
For example, Kanga would be making a smoothie and Rabbit would get caught in it and a few days later, Roo would have a belligerent younger brother.
do-not-throwaway ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:28:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've since learned that this is pretty common among children. Interesting how that thought process comes to fruition. :)
robidizzle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:55:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
'stick things in me' probably as in shots and needles
do-not-throwaway ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As bad as it sounds, I hope that's what she actually meant.
forlornprincess83 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:56:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have night terrors as an adult and something that seems to help a bit is having a night light or the bedroom door open and have a light on in another room so that when I wake from one I know where I am. Helps a lot with the disorientation and initial fear.
do-not-throwaway ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:37:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We have a Compact fluorescent bulb in a desk lamp turned towards the wall so it's not nearly as bright, but that has definitely seemed to help. :)
forlornprincess83 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:10:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The disorientation for me seems to be the worst so being able to figure out where I am quickly makes it a lot less scary.
do-not-throwaway ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense to me, thanks for the tip. :-)
kittynips ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:05:00 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a child, I used to have night terrors, and still occasionally have very vivid nightmares (they've lessened in frequency as I've gotten older). The disorientation and fear that lingers after waking is, I agree, very hard to deal with. I've found that having pets nearby (in my case, cats) helps me to root myself in reality more quickly, and petting them acts as a sort of therapeutic way of calming down.
LadyLovelyLocks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:40:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I might look into this. My partner sleeptalks & sleepwalks almost every night, and usually several times in the one night. Lately he's just been 'working' when he wakes up (he is a cleaner, so last night he was trying to pull our sheets off the bed so he could put clean ones on. Sometimes he'll go looking for his uniform) I might see if having some kind of night light helps him realise faster :)
Minky_Dave_the_Giant ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 10:44:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously you need to keep a supply of cleaning products nearby, so your partner can do the housework during the night.
LadyLovelyLocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:05 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha, he is a room cleaner in a kind of hotel :) There isn't a lot of actual cleaning that he'd do with products, it's mostly stripping & making beds & sweeping out rooms (we have a carpet)
forlornprincess83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hope it helps :)
julievhorror94 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:38:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
.___. oh my word
do-not-throwaway ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:42:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tell me about it. You should have seen the intensity with which she told the story, all deadpan and horrified at times. It kinda freaked me out.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:00:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Poor thing...I wanna hug her. :<
do-not-throwaway ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:24:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll have to wait until my wife is free, there are other stories, none as absolutely traumatizing as this that I can remember though.
She would totally take a hug. :-D
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aw! I really hope she gets better/well asap. Heck, I used to get nightmares that wouldn't let me sleep when I was friggin' 14...Can't begin to imagine how nasty that must be for her. :<
do-not-throwaway ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:03:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're a lot less frequent, but she still runs in our room some times, dives under the covers and latches on to me. It's somewhat comforting to know that she feels safe with me, but upsetting to realize the circumstances.
Thanks. :-)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aww!
Halcyon13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't there a movie where that kind of thing happened?
do-not-throwaway ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:38:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not that I am aware of, if there is, you should definitely let me know what the title is, because that sounds like a decent horror show.
Halcyon13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was called "The Girl Next Door".
chaines51 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:48:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Correct, and although it was an excellent film, I could not recommend watching it. It's just way too... real.
Halcyon13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll keep that in mind. I'm not really one for movies with a lot of torture.
do-not-throwaway ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:33:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't that the one where the girl was tortured by her female caregiver and the other kids in the neighborhood?
Halcyon13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You got it. The reason I brought it up was I was wondering if maybe your daughter had seen a commercial or something for it and her imagination ran away.
do-not-throwaway ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:46:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I agree, and the fact that I've seen the movie tends to make me think she had either seen parts of it, or had heard me talking about it.
Just to be clear, I absolutely do not believe she was recounting a story from a previous life, or any such bullshit like that; it was just the way in which she told the story that freaked me out. :-)
Halcyon13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:33:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome. It seems like too many people are too quick jump to supernatural conclusions instead of trying to rationalize things.
do-not-throwaway ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:50:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. There's no question that this all came from her imagination, and honestly that makes it much more scary to think she was actually making this shit up, rather than simply recalling a past memory. ;-)
I_DEVOUR_CHILDREN ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:03:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was based on a true story. look it up on the 'pedia. horrible stuff.
do-not-throwaway ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:42:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a hard time believing anything said by someone that admits to devouring children. I mean, come on, a lot of us (atheists) do it, we just don't talk about it for gods-sake. ;-)
A few others have commented to this fact though, I agree, it is extremely horrific stuff.
H8rade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just dreams. It can be pretty hard for little kid to know the difference sometimes.
I still remember a nightmare I had when I was 3 or 4. It was one of those movie-type dreams, where you watch it instead of live it.
A boy and his dad were captured by a bad guy. The bad guy made the dad go into a machine, kind of like a giant washing machine, but the kind with the see-through window.
The bad guy turned on what was basically a giant food processor. He used parts of the blended dad to make soup, and forced the kid to eat it.
do-not-throwaway ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:35:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, I can only imagine how scary that shit was at 3-4 yrs-old. Kinda funny now though. heheh
The scariest part of my daughter's recitation was the complete absence of emotion on her face, except for horror at times. I could tell that it was very traumatizing for her. :(
All_the_other_kids ยท 1122 points ยท Posted at 18:55:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have any kids but I was visiting a friend who had a child. That kid was crazy, she was 5 years old and as soon as her mother left the room I got 4 death threats. " I'm going to cut your throat and throw you in the pool" " I will stab you if you fall asleep" " I will push you down the stairs so you land on your head" etc etc. It was really scarey.
WhiteEternalKnight ยท 990 points ยท Posted at 18:56:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you mention it to your friend? That seems like something she needs to know about.
[deleted] ยท 765 points ยท Posted at 20:22:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The fourth death threat was "Please, tell my mother. She already knows. She will stab you in the eyesocket."
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 21:36:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"We work together, you see."
i_am_sad ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:33:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
checked to see if this was OP, was disappoint.
Lampjaw ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:50:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username.
fishingoneuropa ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:07:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Too much TV.
OkayCOMMAneat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:24:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody needs a therapist and no more TV... Ever.
UnacceptableUse ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:33:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After browsing reddit for almost 200d I've crossed alot of things of my lists of things to do:
Drinking liquids Being a teacher Being homeless Sleeping Having windows in my room Having children Being in the same room as a child Talking to a child Being alone Having a relationship Going to a party
FredFnord ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:54:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So then, you... drink... solids now?
Painted_Seven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This belongs in r/scaryshortstories
yepyep27 ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 20:41:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Psychopathy shows in early childhood. Definitely tell your friend.
All_the_other_kids ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 21:28:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No I did not. I think the kid got most of those ideas from her mom/boyfriend. One thing that really got to me was that kid would constantly hold their wiener dog by its collar/neck and nearly choke it out. I saved that dog many of times but a few months ago I found out that she killed the dog somehow :(
creativityfail ยท 89 points ยท Posted at 21:57:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is some really serious shit. I don't know how well you know your friend and her child but a lot of times these kind of violent tendencies can come from trauma associated with abuse. If you are telling the truth, this isn't anything that you should take likely. I would definitely look into it. This really could be a seriously messed up person.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 21:44:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well.... This sure seems like somethings going on behind the scenes......
KarmicBurn ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 23:31:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Posted further up and posting here to make sure you see this. Call DFS or whatever the organisation in your area for child welfare is called. At that age and with the multiple expressions of trauma/abuse that the child is showing, someone needs to intervene. Don't feel bad for doing it either. This isn't the kids fault and you won't be betraying your friend. She doesn't ever have to know that you are the one that called. Either way, you may get help to that kid before this way of acting becomes hardwired in his brain.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 22:09:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There is definitely something wrong.
panerathehealer ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:17:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, really? Tell your friend. If they try to blow it off, contact CPS or something. This is really, REALLY bad. And it's on you now that you know how fucked up their child is, so don't wait.
donttouchmyfeet ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:01:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a SERIOUS ISSUE. Animal abuse in childhood is a very, very bad sign--in fact, there is a very strong correlation between abusing animals in childhood and committing violent crimes in adulthood. It can also come from the child herself being abused. Please do NOT blow this off; it doesn't matter where she got these ideas from, but this child desperately needs help. Please, please, please, for the sake of that child and her future, intervene. I cannot stress this enough.
aintso ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:46:08 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've taught my kid that it's mostly okay to kill cockroaches. Now I don't know how to explain that killing is apriori bad, and cockroaches being generally annoying is hardly a reason enough to kill them.
CrysDawn ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 21:58:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... you didn't contact the authorities or take the dog away from her? What the fuck is wrong with you?!
All_the_other_kids ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 22:01:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing I could have told the cops. I tried leaving the door open so the dog couple run away. I never went over there enough for my plan to work.
willbradley ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 22:08:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Killing pets is one of the strongest signs of being a psycho. Tell someone. Everyone. Keep notes. Follow up in ten years so they know where to find the body.
TechnoL33T ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 22:46:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There is plenty you could tell them, and you could talk to CPS, or an animal abuse hotline.
whygodwhyyy ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 23:21:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus Fucking Christ just tell the mom instead of waiting for a physco to kill a bunch of people when she grows older.
SophiePT ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:30:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You definitely need to tell your friend. Like creativityfail said this could be linked to a trauma or the kid could have something along the lines of conduct disorder.
ambitiousamanda ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:19:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should tell your friend about this. Abusing/hurting/killing animals is one of the things serial killers do before they actually kill people.
All_the_other_kids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She is the one who told me about the dogs demise....
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:23:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, are they getting that kid help?
cngizbleevng ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:43:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that little girl heard those things somewhere. I'd be sad if a caregiver was saying things like that to the kids.
StinkinFinger ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:13:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chucky.
copyandpasta ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:11:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll be right here, waiting.
TechnoL33T ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:45:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should feel shitty for using that image macro when the OP delivered already.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vvvpn/parents_of_reddit_what_is_the_creepiestmost/c585lwv
copyandpasta ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 22:48:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You can have your downvote back. If this was posted when I used that image macro, do you think I would have done this?
Doubtful.
TechnoL33T ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:01:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, but you posted that only an hour after the post you were replying to, and the OP never promised anyone any response. You commented on a question that someone else asked!
copyandpasta ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 23:13:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
What are you? The reddit police? Christ, it's like you're a little sister or something.
Exclamation point is a little too much..
TechnoL33T ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:07:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. I'm just a guy who thinks karma whores are the cancer of Reddit.
KarmicBurn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
This is actually pretty normal behavior for young children. I like to think it's because we are all born pure evil and it takes a lot of effort to keep the demons at bay. I told my niece that we were going to sell her to another family and use the money to buy a boat. Her response? "I'll just kill them and come back. I want to ride on the boat!" The most fucked up death threats I've ever heard have been issued from the mouths of children under the age of 10. They were mostly delivered in an offhand fashion, or with a cherubic smile.
edit: Read further down and saw the dog choking comment. This child is showing signs of mental trauma/stress. Either there is abuse or some major parenting fails are happening and this kid just isn't learning proper behavior. Therapy for the kid and fucking parenting classes for the mother.
sveccha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:54:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know - sounds more like a nature problem than a nurture problem. There are psychopaths out there and it happens early.
frankle ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, it's just for pretend!
nickdngr ยท 607 points ยท Posted at 19:35:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was in Fred Meyers buying groceries a few months ago and a random kid walked up right next to me and pulled on my pocket. Kid had to be like 7 or 8. Anyway, he pulls on my pocket and I look down and he makes a throat slicing motion with his finger over his throat and just walks away. That was the creepiest run-in with a stranger, not to mention a kid, I've ever had.
[deleted] ยท 681 points ยท Posted at 20:27:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Should have looked back at him, kneeled down to his level, and whispered, "Kid, I know where you live. I know who you are, and worse, I know who your parents are. I am your brother/sister. They abandoned me for you. But I wont stand for it any more, I am coming for you, I will sneak into your house and take your place. They will never see you again."
... Some people believe in spankings or time-out to weed out bad behavior, I personally feel if they're willing to play the game of psychological warfare, we should too.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 01:24:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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MalHeartsNutmeg ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:21:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well corpses can't exactly throw baseballs.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 22:00:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
also have to include the fact that he has a very special set of skills.
lordofthederps ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:45:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kid's response: "Good luck."
AnAngryBitch ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:55:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ooo! I like this one! Follow it up with a whispered "I'll be hiding under your bed tonight." And kiss him on the forehead.
Mihlkaen ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 21:01:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Proceed directly to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars.
likeahurricane ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:50:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Go Liam Neeson on that kid.
Styx_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:33:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking the exact same thing xD
TheLondonPidgeon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Moves. I like the way you think.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:52:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should write a book on this subject.
Derpikhastaj ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:16:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There was a comedian who once said, "I've never understood why parents beat their kids, when psychological damage is soo much more permanent!"
philogynistic ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:14:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're not "playing a game", they're just little kids. But fuck it, psychological damage leads to hilarious consequences.
ThatMonochromicorn ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:34:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The people who are down-voting him clearly have never seen Nicholas Cage's acting.
TheCigarMan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK YEAH. Big-ass evil grin on your face, kneel down on one knee, and repeat the motion, but slower, as if to say in Jigsaw's voice "You want to play a game?"
jrghoull ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
most of it seemed kinda cliche, but I REALLY loved
" I will sneak into your house and take your place."
You sir...took it up a notch. upvote.
Amishhellcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i'm more inclined to the jurassic park approach, control them with insulin
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! I love me too =D
BonzoTheBoss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's too much loving going on here. To balance it out, I hate you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read this as : Time -out weed.
fireysaje ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what to say to that....
Bergatron5000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And THAT'S why you never make empty threats!
TheGreatGriffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are an evil person. People like you should never have kids. It would have been pretty funny though.
420bot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:01:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sta...stay away from my family.
Drpeppertacos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:44:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like your style...
Kemintiri ยท 311 points ยท Posted at 19:54:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like that could have been avoided if you had shopped at Whole Foods instead of Fred Meyers.
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 20:48:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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yourmomlurks ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:00:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Right. Storm would tug on your pocket, point at something in your cart, and say, "That has a lot of gluten in it." and then make the throat-slicing motion.
koryface ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:46:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or Puddle.
arisefairmoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:54:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
IS STORM A BOY OR A GIRL?!
Nick1693 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:57:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Neither. The parents aren't telling anyone because gender roles are bad.
arisefairmoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:41:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I know. I've just seen so many articles speculating on the gender. I think that perpetuating the typical gender roles is bad, but keeping a child's gender from everyone is a little bizarre.
NaricssusIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, in the last 3 days I have met a girl named Sage, and a girl named Raine. Fuckin' hippies man, naming their children weird shit.
panda-from-eagle-ash ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:37:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Duh. Everyone knows that Fred Myers is full of murderous children.
godzillafragger ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:50:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, that's Micheal Myers.
gingerrevenger ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:14:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We have Micheal's Craft stores here in KC, and i feel like i want to murder someone every time i go into that place.
Dr___Awkward ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:16:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
God dammit, Michael isn't that hard to spell!
Dylanthulhu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:10:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or just shop at a real store and not look like a pretentious twat.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:28:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But I wanna pay $4 for an onion!
CautiousCowboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but the 4 bags of groceries would then be 1 light bag of groceries. Whole Foods, home of the $200 grocery bag.
savageboredom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn you, guerrilla marketing!
anchal3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But you can't buy a potato and a lamp at Whole Foods.
Snackleton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Says the Whole Foods PR person.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, Whole Foods Marketing Rep
threebeersaway ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:31:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see why people put up with kids like this, tell their fucking parents to control their kids or tell the kid its not okay and that your going to tell their mom. If you can't tell already I fucking hate bratty kids. /rant
ChillinWitAFatty ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:24:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Might not be as creepy as it actually seems. I've never been a violent person, especially as a kid, but I remember when I was young I thought the throat slicing gesture was very funny after seeing it on TV a number of times. I don't know if I even fully understood its connotations.
l0ve2h8urbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a child I pulled the wings of a fly while saying "i'm going to kill you" over and over, never moved up to cats though. r/aww would be a lit more empty if I had...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:22:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thumbs up for Fred Meyer, as a native Washington I miss that place like the deserts miss the rain.
neat_love ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:51:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would've yelled at the top of my lungs and scare that little fucker right back.
balderdasher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:27:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Valar Morghulis
Dean97 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:41:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well on the bright side, it was quite nice that Mr. Meyers let you shop for groceries inside of him.
frostbyte8bit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:09:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of similar, less creepy than just plain old "dude wtf". I used to work at a big grocery store, and I was on register. This lady comes by with two kids in her cart, and they just stared at me blankly the whole time, while the woman talked on the phone, and the woman's mom told me about how much of a bitch her daughter is hahaha. Anyway, I finished the groceries, and as they started to walk away, the kids kept glaring at me, and one of them slowly raised his fist and flipped me the bird.
Dude, come on.
starlettemax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think you should have pantomimed dying and clasped at your throat like you couldn't breathe. Then when the mom gave you a "wtf, dude look" you say, "he just pretended to cut open my throat, I pretended he succeeded." And then walk off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh. that was my son. he does that. Just Trolling!
NonsensicalFolly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:17 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister did the same thing when she was that age! She had seen it in the movies and thought it was meant to be a humorous gesture.
DavcarTheBarbarian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's Fred Meyer
Rawbauer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I logged in to do the same thing. Drives me bonkers.
imighthaveapenisidk ยท 256 points ยท Posted at 19:31:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That kid is not alright...
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:54:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That boy's not right, I tell ya hwhat.
george_nunny ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:34:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WOAH OH!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:48:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids mimic what they see. I'm sure someone in her life, most likely her parents, said something similar and often enough for her to believe this behavior was okay. If she wasn't hearing it from her mom to her dad or dad to her mom I'm assuming a kid at school, who learned it from a brother or sister, was saying it to her.
xORioN63 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta get away!
blackaddermrbean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
they shouldn't have left him with Uncle Ernie.
ayasmith7 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:58:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You don't say ;)
captivecadre ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 19:44:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
kids repeat what they hear :-(
MissL ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:50:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
somewhat.
My daughter was playing with a toy in the kitchen once, and she stomped on its face and yelled "NO! It's MY turn to talk!"
I have told her that people need to wait their turn before talking, but I've never yelled it or stomped on her
[deleted] ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 19:24:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap. Did you stay at their house overnight?
wimmyjales ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:06:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, and she stabbed her.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:06:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man, kids repeat what they hear. Something is not right in your friend's household.
mojomonkeyfish ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:41:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your blood will be sweeter than all the others, little one. Get me a soda.
Remus117 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:29:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You better tell the parent.. or you better be lying.
All_the_other_kids ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:40:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sadly I am not lying. I am fairly certain the girls mother knows of the kids violent tendencies but she is not really a fit parent. She was the kind of girl who did tons of drugs and "couldn't get pregnant", she has calmed down since then but that hasn't stopped her from dating scumbags who influence her and her family. the worst thing she is recently had another kid.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:58:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're right that is pretty scarey isn't it? I don't think I've ever experienced something that scarey.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:05:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like a 5 year old shouldn't even be aware that cutting your throat is an effective method of killing someone. What has this kid been exposed to?
willbradley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you seen tv lately? Particularly Ed Edd n Eddy?
Shevanel2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:36:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I don't think I remember any throat slicing (or other graphic violence) in Ed, Edd, n' Eddy.
willbradley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not graphic violence per se, but anti-social and mean spirited gestures, etc. Like how Looney Tunes gave every kid the idea that smacking people with mallets, or running straight into walls, was funny.
Shevanel2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While such shows may be full of slapstick humor, they don't really demonstrate a realistic means of killing a person.
metatron5369 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:17:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Better men than you have tried."
I ain't takin no shit from some five-year old.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:46:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This kid watches too much TV for sure.
guydude24 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:08:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
we need to talk about kevin
herpderp_roar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just watched that movie, immediately thought about it as soon as I saw that comment. Holy shit.
mooseknuckle83 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:01:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably an accidental. But had a child..? :o
And yeah, did your friend know about this?
paperclich3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is fucking creepy.
anotherbluemarlin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dexter sister !
mrbooze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pro-tip: Do NOT take away her favorite shoes.
fs337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahahaha, lightweight. My brother has actually tried to follow through on his threats.
mooseknuckle83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
what?!
fs337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. But shit happens.
Magna_Sharta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah...you might want to mention that to the parents
ashhole613 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My husbands best friend's kid says things like that. He plays WAAAAAY too many video games.
CG2012 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Must have been because of your pumped up kicks.
All_the_other_kids ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:30:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They helped me outrun that child who was almost as fast as a bullet.
chrisn654 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Were you visiting the Griffins? Stewie is a known cross-dresser.
callooh-callay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin, when he was 6, kept trying to sneak up behind people and put plastic bags over their heads.
All_the_other_kids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He probably didn't realize the consequences. That does remind me of my irrational fear of someone coming up behind me and putting a giant ziptie around my neck.
callooh-callay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, the issue was mainly that he did know the consequences and would explain them after he was caught. Also he once stalked me with a knife.
mjethwani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wonder where the Kid is right now???? Prison or somewhere slitting throats
evil_lyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's a documentary on angry children on youtube, usually kids like these have suffered some sort of abuse. Maybe you SHOULD talk to the mother :/
atlassoft ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember hearing a story about something like this, I think it was on an episode of This American Life. The child was actually violent toward the family cat, and turned out to be bipolar. Everything was solved by getting psych treatment, but the parents waited a long time to ask for help because they thought they'd done something wrong.
NotAlana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the child of rage documentary.
kejeros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Has anyone seen "We Need to Talk About Kevin"? I suggest you keep her away from archery.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a little baby Jeff the Killer! D'awwww
supbanana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Death threats from children fucking suck. I was at my sister's friends a few years back when the friends little brother, maybe nine or so, came out and grabbed a drill that was plugged into the wall. He pointed it at me, turned it on and said, "if this didn't need to be plugged into the wall I would kill you with it." What the actual fuck, I'm still creeped out.
ChellaBella ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Similar--I was spending an afternoon with a girlfriend and her daughter. Friend leaves the room and I'm playing with her daughter, trying to get the girl to share her toys. I pick up a doll to play with her and she looks me straight in the eyes and says, "I will. Cut. Your. Face." I definitely dropped the doll
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You said you got 4 death threats. You listed 3 of them and then said "etc etc". You can't use 2 etceteras to replace a single omission. That's just wrong.
Udonnomi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was the funniest thing
UsernameUser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you outrun her bullet?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:01:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did she have pumped up kicks?
Exscientia ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You better run , better run, out run her gun...
icycooL ยท 997 points ยท Posted at 19:01:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've got a few stories from my own childhood actually.
I remember one time my mom told me when I was about 2~3 I told her that I was once a firefighter and died fighting a house fire.
There was another time when I was 2 years old, at my grandmother's house, when I inexplicably walked up to the glass coffee table and smashed my head straight through it. I didn't cry or say anything, just did it. I still don't know why or even remember doing it.
DJP0N3 ยท 1422 points ยท Posted at 20:35:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You would probably remember it if you didn't SMASH YOUR HEAD THROUGH A TABLE.
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 22:39:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've had 6 or 7 serious concussions, and since I believe that qualifies me as an expert on concussions, I must say...fuck I forgot what I was talking about.
patmcrotch42069 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:03:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I got knocked out once and kept making the same joke over and over because I forgot I had already told it. I was such a smart ass with those doctors. I had to get stitches, which is why I went to the hospital.
soawesomejohn ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:23:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh.. a joke so funny that you had yourself in stitches.
patmcrotch42069 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:24:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was really mouthing off. (12 stitches in my lip)
LadyFajra ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:53:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did this exact thing, except instead of telling a joke I just kept asking what happened. I wish I was funnier.
patmcrotch42069 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ha yeah at first I was like "did he hit me?" then I put my hand out and it filled up with blood. Later I was like "I guess this a good time to quit dipping." Even later I was like "Does this mean I can't pack lippers?" later than that I was "maybe I could gauge my lip?" I said all of those a good 500 times that night. Then I tried to watch Borat the next day and I had to turn it off because laughing hurt too bad. Are you in fact a lady? If so I'm upset that someone would knock you out. Haha when I got to the hospital they put a clamp on my finger to check my heart rate and I asked with mock apprehension "am I critical?"
LadyFajra ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:50:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am indeed a lady, but I knocked myself out so it's fine :)
patmcrotch42069 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:44 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've actually done that too... :)
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:12 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Last good concussion I got, I also broke my neck. When the doctor woke me up to tell me, with my full family in the room (most of whom have never heard me swear):
Doc: Tim, it looks like you have a nondisplaced fracture on your C2 vertebrae. TimmyTheHellraiser: Are you saying I broke my fuckin neck? Doc: You will need to wear a neckbrace for at least six weeks, until we can get you to see a specialist. TimmyTheHellraiser (turning to my girlfriend): Did he just say I broke my fuckin neck???
It sounded a lot funnier in my head, afterwards I laughed my balls off about it, family didn't find it so funny.
patmcrotch42069 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:48:03 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When you break your neck you're allowed to swear. How old were you? If you don't mind me asking was that a car accident? I hope you're alright.
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:36 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was...26 or 27...or 28. I just have a swear filter that I can turn on and off pretty easily. I honestly just thought it was funny to be quoting the original "The Longest Yard" while lying on a stretcher in a neck brace.
Yes, it was a car accident. Still a little stiffness in the neck area, I guess there probably always will be.
Gothbot6k ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 22:02:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why but this is the funniest comment I have read all thread. I just spent 3 minutes trying to calm down. Thank you for giving me a good laugh today here have an up vote!
tmelee ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:25:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
agreed, I literally laughed out loud (as opposed to constantly being like WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE KIDS)
Gothbot6k ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:51:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOL I thought I was the only one. Everyone else is acting afraid of each others kids but I just think these kids are funny/witty even though they are serious.
BTA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason it didn't really hit me till I read your comment, but I certainly agree.
philogynistic ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:09:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Technically you don't really start forming solid memories until around 4 years old, so I doubt it. If it's any consolation you're the best kind of wrong.
loceryl ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:53:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I walked through a glads door when I was four. Don't remember it.
Monsterposter ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:49:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
..Isn't that some sort of shitty plastic food holder?
loceryl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:23:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Meant glass. But wouldn't it be great if I ran through a plastic food holder?
StickyBunz1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:04:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Headbanging is fun!
DJP0N3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:07:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You might want to take it easy.
shehasit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:45:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OP needs to get a job as a motivational speaker.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:23:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same thought I didn't have.
PrometheusZer0 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:05:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That shit's a paradox.
Ahandgesture ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:38:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your username. I get it. /)
zoeawesome ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:31:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING. ITS STARTING TO HURT. HAAAALP
[deleted] ยท 629 points ยท Posted at 20:04:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cause it was bad-ass.
TheWumb0l0gist ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:29:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cool guys neither look at explosions nor remember their furniture-destroying exploits. This is why action movies are made about them; so that they can watch and remember all of the cool guy stuff they pulled.
Nyrb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:57:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because fuck glass tables.
EnemyScoot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:24:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am now imagining a very tough looking baby walking up to a glass table, headbutting it, and just saying "Like I give a fuck."
TheInternetHivemind ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:19:49 on November 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know I'm 4 months late, but does this baby look like a tunnel snake from fallout 3 (except bald)? Little leather jacket, the whole greaser look. Maybe it has little baby cigarettes that it lights up after a particularly rough bottle-fight.
EnemyScoot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:08:15 on November 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your reply may be late, but that is a hilarious mental image.
BIGMc_LARGEHUGE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He told you he was hardcore
Dr-Farnsworth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:09:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think he is Randy Savage. Oooooh yeeeaaaaa
FistofaMartyr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my thoughts exactly
AgentVanillaGorilla ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 20:23:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That does it. This thread has convinced me that reincarnation is real.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 22:43:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Anonyberry ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:08:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope it's real. I'll get to experience the year 3,000, and transportation tubes.
wes337 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:12:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably not. You'll most likely be born into some poor, poverty stricken family and struggle everyday for food. You're pretty fucking lucky.
Anonyberry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If we have transportation tubes, hopefully the economy isn't That bad.
haymakers9th ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:10:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't trust a bunch of stories from people who claim to remember stuff from 3 or 4 years old.
hkckoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:33:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't trust a bunch of stories from people who just claim them to be true, that is exactly how religion started.
douchetag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Really? I have vivid memories of my third birthday and the day Kennedy died as well as the day he was buried about (two months after my 3rd birthday.)
haymakers9th ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:26:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
people have a high risk of having false memories from that far back, not every memory obviously but people forget how subjective memories are or how easy it is to have your mind think something was real when nothing happened.
douchetag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure you're correct. Memory is an odd thing.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 21:03:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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WoutervD ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:14:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Calmon
smokey_smokestack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, the ignoring of reincarnation is fairly calmon. At least here in America.
OhGodAli ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:30:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The firefighter thing is creepy as fuck
twitchwitches ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:48:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister used to tell me and my mom about her past life and how her past dad killed her and her mother and they sang the abcs in their grave while their souls went up to heaven. Now i remind her, she doesn't remember a thing. It was so fuckin vivid, man
contagious6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That gave me the chills...
twitchwitches ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know, right? The fact that she doesn't remember it but i do makes it all the creepier lol
peachesgp ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:39:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Convenient because 4th of July is soon. First memory I have of going to a fireworks display I flashed back to what I recognize now as being trench warfare style combat featuring, of course, artillery. Strange given that I had no idea what that was at that point.
lesbiancarwash ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:37:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I told my older sister when I was about 3ish that I used to be a mean old king and I drowned while everyone watched. And her son who is a few years younger than me later said that he died in a war saving his brother. My sister said something about it maybe being a past life thing.
Thatwassensible ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:42:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother, when she was kid, used to tell my maternal grand-mother that she was born and married in another place, had 2 kids and died in communal riots.
My neice, around 3, also tells her mother(my cousin) that she is married, and her father-in-law will be angry if she does not follow our common Hindu traditions (like covering your head in front of elders). It is hard to believe a 3 yr old would know complex relations like in-laws, and will randomly weave a story with characters and threads.
I do believe in reincarnation, not by religious reasons but by similar incidences. We can start new thread on reddit for this and lets see if others also have similar stories from kids. Normally such stories begin to fade by age 7-8.
smartzie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:27:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have that "Butterfly Effect" ability. One day you'll find out.
dsi1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When grandma trips and falls onto her table she'll be glad that she replaced it with a wooden table instead of being cut up by glass.
Starbuck8757 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:27:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother did a similar thing when he was about two. He and my parents were sitting watching TV, and he abruptly stood up, ran to the TV and leaped head first into the VCR.
It took my parents a minute to process the fact he was bleeding profusely/crying/needed to be taken to the ER, because it was such a "Why the fuck would you do that?!" moment.
NoAttentionAtWrk ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:34:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The second one isnt that creepy. you dont remember most things from when you were 2 specially when you smashed something with your head
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think the head smashing was meant to be the creepy part, not the lack of memory.
NoAttentionAtWrk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my point was he might have had a reason at the time but forgot when it happened
martibb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:12:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SMASHING!
JeffersonWasGinger ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:05:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like a BOSS
RBGForever ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:45:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There was a time where I did something similar. When I was about four or five, maybe three... Well, my mother was outside warming the car up in the driveway because it was winter, she had left me just inside the glass front door and was about to come back in and get me. Then I spontaneously headbutted the door so hard that it shattered everywhere, but I didn't get cut at all and didn't cry one bit, I also wasn't visibly agitated. My head is still incredibly hard so in hindsight it makes sense that it was possible.
ajax871 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:14:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(puts on picture of that guys actually pretty bad-ass)
Jetavana18 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:12:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did the same thing when I was about 5, but we were in a store getting a map...and I just walked over to this little display case and did it, it didn't smash to pieces but it left a big crack. No reason. But I remember doing it.
Babinian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:42:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually my brother did the bashing thing when he was about 2; it was because he had a really painful ear infection and to him bashing his head distracted from the ear pain. Mental.
wes337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mental? More like metal. Badass.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:16:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I bit another kid for no reason once. He was just standing in front of me at the morning lineup we did at my primary school. I just outright bit him for no apparent reason. Maybe he needed stitches? I don't know. I don't remember anything. Apparently the teachers said that nothing was happening. We were just standing there, no argument, no interaction and I bit him. Maybe it was a little like that.
bluefroggy09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:31:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hulk smash!
ikadono18 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's hardcore! maybe even more so then...TABLE FLIPPING.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:10:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was just shy of a year, she tried to smash her head through a table at a restaurant. Good times were not had.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:38:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The day you smash your head through a glass table, is the day you become a man.
ExiledSenpai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:10:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What a bad ass.
Chris_Iceberg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:16:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HOW DID YOU SURVIVE!?
skyfire23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:20:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to tell my mother about all these crazy past lives and to this day my mom claims that I knew things about certain jobs I had in a past life that there is no way I could have known about in Pre-school when this took place. My mom says the weirdest one was I told here that in a past life I worked with "Special" kids as in special education which had been my mom's major in college and she worked as a special ed teacher for 8 years before I was born but she was now a small time publisher and she claims to have never mentioned it before. My mom has a file of all the things I used to say and do. It's a crazy file.
jackk225 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:32:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read something on cracked.com about how babies sometimes smash their heads into things because it releases endorphins or something. I forget lol. But it was on cracked so it is the truth.
Signoffish53 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:07:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
like a boss
keramos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Break glass in case of fire?
A_Buff_Hamster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:24:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The table was probably talking shit about your parents so you just smashed your head into it to teach it a lesson.
SimpleDan11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you nonchalantly walk away afterward? What did she do?
icycooL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much. She flipped her shit though, but I was fine apparently.
lilydogg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
bath salts......
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:49 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have a Thomas the Tank Engine that you could sit on and be pushed along on or push yourself along on.
My 'little' sister gave me an awesome drive on it down the hallway and straight through the window of the front door:-p
I still remember having glass taken out of my hair. Thomas eventually lost his face and was no longer used:)
whiskeybeard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh you dont remember? You were 2!
Psht_ok ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:51:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Psht ok.
Besterthenyou ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:41:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why do all these kids talk about past lives and how they died? Most 2 or 3 year old kids don't understand death, let alone say they had past lives. Creepy. Maybe you were a Hindu fire fighter?
imighthaveapenisidk ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 19:39:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why on earth would your mother tell you something like that? Did she really believe it herself?
dGha38wS89Yx3sidLaSd ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:24:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He means That when he was 2~3 he told her that. And then later when he was older she told him about him telling her that.
imighthaveapenisidk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oops, my bad.
icycooL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She's one of those people that believes in past lives and reincarnation and all that. Personally I don't have any clue why I said it, maybe I was mentioning a dream I had or something I saw in a movie. I honestly don't even have second thoughts about it.
UnKamenRider ยท 541 points ยท Posted at 20:16:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my nephew was 3 or 4, he would stare at the window in my parents' kitchen. One day, my mom asked him what he was looking at, and he said, "When I lived here before, my name was Alphonse, and I was bigger than you." My mom was slightly creeped out and eventually told my stepdad. My stepdad just kind of blinked and said, "Hmm. That was my grandfather's name, but we don't talk about him."
I never liked that house anyway...
NTesla ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 21:23:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If a kid said something like that to me I would be asking ten-thousand questions. If any of the answers could be verified...wow.
UnKamenRider ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 00:30:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I told my mom. I was away at college, so there wasn't much I could do.
Badwulfwho ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 01:00:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like he got into some Full Metal Alchemist DVDs...
UnKamenRider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Heh, my maiden name on Facebook is badwulf.
whenthepawn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:19:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
your maiden name on Facebook? Is this different than your maiden name in real life?
UnKamenRider ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:32:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yes. The Doctor didn't go back in time to tell my forefathers to change their surname to Badwulf, and they saw none of Rose's messages.
Badwulfwho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:21:57 on July 22, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Adopt me.
UnKamenRider ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:02:56 on July 23, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. Send me the papers.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:02:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Heh, you're so unkamen.
Sqpon ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:12:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are like 4 other posts about this here.
UnKamenRider ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 00:39:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think a lot of times, when kids say, "when I was big," they're probably confused by us saying, "when I was little. If we're big, but used to be little, and they're little, they must have been big at some time. Might not be true, but kids process things in weird ways.
Enzie1991 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:50:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How did he die?!?
UnKamenRider ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:49:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Heart attack. He was a very mean man, I guess. He died well before I was born. My parents hadn't been married for too long before this happened.
Enzie1991 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:04:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I see... Thanks for replying
GoHomeToYourMom ยท 1121 points ยท Posted at 19:20:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'm never going to have kids now. Thanks, Reddit.
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 20:33:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's too late for me, save yourself!
Matthias21 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 22:06:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you love it more when she was the big one and you were the little one?
thefourthhouse ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:20:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lets be honest, you probably weren't going to have any in the first place.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:42:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ouch. That hurt from across the Internet
surfer_on_acid ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:40:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. I can't decide if the ability to see dead people or the 'I am a reincarnated person, let me tell you my story' is more terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:47:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not just kids who say creepy things. I was taking care of my grandma a few months ago (keep in mind she can think clearly, she's not one of those elderly people who are out of their mind) when she felt really sick, so she laid in bed and my little cousin got in the bed next to her. Anyways, her eyes start to get really shiny I don't know, watery and then it's like she's staring at nothingness and she asks me "Who is the man by the door?" I asked her "What man?" and she says "There is a man wearing black by the door, what does he want?" There wasn't anyone by the door. She was hallucinating, but still, scared me a bit.
astronomer7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did she have a fever or something?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, I don't really know what happened, we drove her to the hospital later on though
genuphobia ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:30:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a woman who is pregnant I am terrified.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Right now I'm picturing you as a heavily pregnant Mia Farrow sitting at a computer.
cuginhamer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:20:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Believing internet trolls is scary indeed. Why don't you just make up a story to add and join the 15 year old boys in their fun?
pudding13 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:50:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want kids so I can see the creepy shit they do. This stuff is really interesting and I enjoy being scared as it rarely happens.
maybeiamalion ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:44:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like I didn't have enough reasons already, seriously, fuck this thread
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:48:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm convinced children are demons, what the actual fuck.
therestruth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:04:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Guess i will be the first parent to say it. Your welcome.
kernozlov ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:10:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know if I do I'm sleeping with a gun. Nothing smaller than an m82 .50 cal tank rifle.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:28:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've just been sitting here thinking the same thing.
syriven ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:06:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sh593/what_is_the_best_question_youve_ever_heard_a/
That should fix you up.
gregtron ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:19:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nokids
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's /r/childfree
gregtron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:13:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, well maybe I'll make my own no kids subreddit!
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:23:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Come join us at r/childfree :)
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:13:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I knew from the first day here that I would never have kids.
nowshowjj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I said most of the creepy things (the ghost type stuff, not the threatening stuff) in this thread to my parents when I a kid. The thought of passing that down to a kid scares me.
Rincey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're on Reddit, your chances were slim anyway.
futuresuicide ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just being on Reddit makes it likely.
fuck_the_karma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not that it will be a problem for you anyway.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your username is oddly relevant.
Mithys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Go home to your mom.
eaglextron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who need kids anyway? They scare the living daylight in your soul with everything they say
n3rdy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:29:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yeah this thread went from cute to creepy very quickly.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:54:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Finally something tangible I can show people to justify my decision.
jmthetank ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:04:13 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You don't need to. They'll find you anyway.
jimparsonsrox ยท 1408 points ยท Posted at 20:19:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad watched his mother die of a ruptured gal bladder when he was twelve and still remembers vividly. My sister, one day, randomly gets up almost an hour after she's gone to bed and goes up to him. The conversation went like this:
Sister: Daddy, your mommy died in a red sweater, jeans, sneakers and with her hair in a ponytail, right? And her hair was blonde?
Dad: Drops book he's reading and stares, wide-eyed, and then says Yes...
Sister: What color were her eyes?
Dad: Blue... why?
Sister: Oh, she doesn't have them anymore, just empty sockets. I was curious.
And she goes right back to bed.
Ghostshirts ยท 820 points ยท Posted at 22:12:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
parents should really start hiding bodies better. kids get into everything.
Up_to_11 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 22:14:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's why they don't want those darn kids on their lawn.
isaacwisdom ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:25:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You mean UNDER, right?
Up_to_11 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:30:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if they were over the lawn, then people could see their bodies...
patmcrotch42069 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, under is where they do want them.
Thorbinator ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:22:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
6 feet of dirt and a child safety lock.
some88d00d ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:00:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is the only funny thing I've read in this whole thread. thank you for the much needed comic relief.
M4V3R1CK_89 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:57:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed harder at this than I really should have!
Nomnombunny ยท 681 points ยท Posted at 20:27:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, this one is TERRIFYING.
Dameski ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:13:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing I wasn't planning on sleeping at all for the rest of my life
Monsterposter ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 23:56:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NO, ITS FUCKING ADORABLE!
snowboy437 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:27:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's
lacolina ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 01:46:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
IT'S
ThatMonochromicorn ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:29:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The child has ceased to be either male or female; it is nightmare incarnate.
Rommel79 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:44:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of the drawing in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
King_Yeshua ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:59:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
we've found a winner
Nillem ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:58:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because it isnt true.
Nomnombunny ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:53:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who cares, it's still freaky. 99% of ghost stories/scary movies are completely made up and we still buy into them.
misterbrisby ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 23:04:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess she has your grandmother's eyes.
jimparsonsrox ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 01:19:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She does have my grandmother's eyes, actually.
themightyyool ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:21:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well you should see about her giving 'em back.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 22:36:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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J-Fizzle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank God
Architeuthosaurus ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 21:52:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh sweet jesus, this one scared the shit out of me.
MiniDonbeE ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 23:10:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOL SHE HAD TO BE TROLLING, PLEASE TELL ME SHE WAS TROLLING.
jimparsonsrox ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:19:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, she was dead-pan serious.
death_by_rainbows ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 21:57:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wat
[deleted] ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 22:35:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
None of the other stories bother me... except THIS ONE. What the flying fuck.
NTesla ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 22:06:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
W. T. F.
Icedcc ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:30:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
how old was sister
jimparsonsrox ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:19:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Almost 4. Very intelligent, though, she's highly gifted. She knew almost all the words I did when she was 2 and I was 4.
spidyfan21 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 22:59:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Quick r/askscience, rationalize this.
selfawarepileofatoms ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 23:41:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lets see 2 + 2 = fake
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:18:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
PLEASE!
jimparsonsrox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd love to see the rationalization... because it was fucking TERRIFYING.
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:59:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
what.the.actual.fuck?
blahguy28740 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 23:29:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not gonna lie, I don't cry much, but it's half two in the morning, it's really dark, and that just terrified me so much, my eyes started leaking a bit...
jimparsonsrox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:24:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should have seen my father's expression when she went back to bed. It was a mix of terror, repulsion, wonder and I'm-not-sure-I-want-her-in-that-room-all-alone.
Rommel79 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm not a big crier; but I think I would have cried if I were your dad.
exisito ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:38:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. I'm going the assisted suicide with prompt cremation route.
slacker1065 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:19:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus H Christ!
SchecterClassic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:36:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
JESUS H. FUCK
Monsterposter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:59:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, Jesus F Christ.
ddewitt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:45:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
full body chills right now WHY DID YOU SHARE THIS THIS IS GOING TO HAUNT MY FUCKING DREAMS!
jimparsonsrox ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:21:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It haunts mine too sometimes... she's almost twelve now, and every couple years she says something really creepy like that. It's terrifying.
spwmoni ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:15:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Got any more? :x
OFtheASHES ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:28:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do tell the other stuff she has said. I wasn't going to sleep tonight anyway.
astronomer7 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:46:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am going to ask what other creepy things she says. I will anxiously await hearing until you tell us, then immediately regret it.
jimparsonsrox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:55 on July 18, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Alright, OP delivers.
There are two others times I feel like sharing, one of which includes my Grandmother again. About two years after that incident, my family was sitting at the local park, under a tree, having one of our rare picnics. My sister's making herself a sandwhich like everyone else, and then, when it's finished, places it to her left and says, "Here you go." My mom asks her who it's for, and she said, "Grandma. She looks like she didn't eat in forever." like it's absolutely normal. When my mom asked her which Grandma, she just looked at the sandwhich, which was still just laying there, and just wondered aloud whether or not 'Grandma' liked mustard. About three years after that incident, she's outside walking the dog and it starts to rain, really hard, with thunder and lightning and everything. I go out to bring them in, because my parents were getting nervous, and there's my dog, right outside the door, sitting and waiting like she's been there forever, her leash still clipped on. She leaps inside the moment it's possible, and my sister is nowhere to be seen. Naturally, I freak the fuck out and go shouting her name and running and trying to find her. Our neighbor has a lane behind their house into a mini-forest he lets us walk the dog on, and I looked for her there, and she was inside one of the four hollow trees off the right side of the path, holding a kitten. I asked her where she got it and if she was okay, and she looked at me like I was a stranger and said, "This is Caleb, he asked me to keep him safe." When asked 'from what?' she responded with something like, "The sky got mad at him because he escaped it and came back down and now it wants him back. Except the rain is coming down really hard to try and push him into the ground, because he's not allowed in the sky anymore. I told Marlo" (our dog) "to go home, because I don't want the sky to take her."
So, OP delivered.
March_of_the_ENTropy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:54:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's times like these I like to refer to the old reddit adage "Nothing has ever not happened more than this"
tocilog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:04:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a sudden urge to turn my seat around to make sure no one's behind me but I'm not sure what I'd do if there is.
InnuendoPanda ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:35:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It would be interesting to know if they took her eyes for donation when she died.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:49:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
You need to kill your sister. She is creepy as balls!
MissL ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:45:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
how's that going to help? it was jimparsonsrox's sister that was being creepy
Monsterposter ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:57:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ಠ_ಠ
herzkolt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:57:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You need to sleep
Monsterposter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
เฒ_เฒ
IggySmiles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
..and he just let the conversation end there? yea I don't believe that.
missyo02 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:26:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure the conversation has been embellished throughout the years. The kid probably saw a picture of his grandma and asked about the blonde hair but couldn't tell the eyes from a black and white photo or something. The rest is just a dream she had.
Seicair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was imagining stunned into silence and the kid went back to bed before he could formulate any response.
loafjunky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK.
Amishhellcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
had to upvote for it being awesome, then i downvoted again for scaring me.. sowwy : (
dlogan3344 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This belongs in a book. I have serious goosebumps right now.
vefobitseq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If i were your dad, i'd've shat me pants and downed some liquor.
nodumblonde1616 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How old was she? I have a similar story with my cousin, just curious if this is an age thing. She was 7...
thislectureisboring ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story creeped me out the most. Something about her empty eye sockets gets me...
jax9999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wow... thats' some /r/nosleep shit right there
M_C_Kracken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And i now know which thread im going back to if i ever write/direct a horror film, not just yours, but in general.
UndyingShadow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Da Fuck?
pretzelman3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:08:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf? I can't even think of a logical reason to explain this.
Mnemniopsis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wtf
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine your father in this scene with a pipe that falls down onto his chest as his jaw goes slack.
perhapsody ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:55:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OH MY GOD WHY AM I READING THIS BEFORE BED.
Holy FUCK, dude!
PurpleHearse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my fuck.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just shit my pants.
Like I seriously just shat my pants...
I totally just put shit from inside my anus all over the inside of my pants...
ImDotTK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Excuse me for a second while I turn on my bedroom lights.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And then what? Did anyone ask your sister how she knew that?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a similar story but not so scary. My grandmother had just died and I was about 4. We were eating dinner at the table and I just look at my mother and say "Grandma says 'Hi and that everything is going to be ok'. Everyone just stopped eating and stared at me. Another incident happened when I got into a fight with my father a few years later. I was sent to my room and I came back down a few minutes later and said 'Grandma told me to apologize. I'm sorry Daddy'.
ildabears ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How old was your sister when this happened?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You win. Good night everyone. Don't bothe trying to compete with that.
abownds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I just peed myself.
Piplink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NOPE!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And I thought that last one about the little girl singing was scary..
MATTtheSEAHAWK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
nopekeyboard.gif
BeastAP23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
kill if with fire
KainAlexious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welp not sleeping tonight. Kids with spiritual connections; just another reason not to spawn. O_o
Alfozatoss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only thing I got from this story was that your grandma wore junners
redribbonfoxes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:01 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well. There go my all my hopes of falling asleep tonight.
TheReventon ยท 512 points ยท Posted at 19:14:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A story of when my brother was younger that my parents often tell.
My dad and my grandad went to an old army base that was now used as a museum. As they went into a bunker, my brother started saying "This is where we hid from the monsters that went 'BOOM BOOM BOOM'". My dad thought it was a bit strange but kept on looking around. A low flying plane flew by and my brother said "That is the monster there." as he was pointing to the plane. My brother was 2 at the time, which must have been in 1994. Needless to say, both my dad and my grandad were creeped out by it, and still are today.
BohemianD ยท 139 points ยท Posted at 20:27:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your 2 year old brother served in 'Nam.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 22:03:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And he was a damn good soldier too.
ajmac322 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:59:31 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://gifs.gifbin.com/052009/1243594993_cupcakedog-war-flashbacks.gif
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:46:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lost a lot of good stuffies out there
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:26:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That pink monkey is clearly the one that would be blasting a rapid-fire weapon into the jungle while screaming.
NazzerDawk ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 20:36:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I want to write a story where the kid just keeps getting into character like that and the adults play along, but then things start becoming real and the kid starts acting like a commanding officer, barking orders, and the world piece-by-piece becomes an epic sci-fi battlefield.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:10:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminded me of Rugrats.
TheeFlipper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pulls a squirt gun out of his diaper and everything.
Cajoled ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 20:16:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is the point in the thread where I start questioning reality/my trust in the comments.
Matthias21 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 22:08:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You got this far?
iEATu23 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:43:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think he's saying that because of the amount of times he's seen something like this in the thread.
Matthias21 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:16:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, i understand why, but i am just saying i felt that way much earlier.
Instantcretin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is the natural progression. From here on out the anecdotes will be spotty at best. Good luck fellow redditors.
Cordite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"My trust in the comments"
You mean people would read into shit because it's entertaining? No way.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:09:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is probably the best story on the thread so far.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:28:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Better start building THE WALL.
cheshirekitteh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:00:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What base was this?
TheReventon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:56:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was one up in Scotland, not sure which one though
cheshirekitteh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, not the one I'm thinking of then.
Kaiosama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, so... is it safe to conclude reincarnation might be real? :-S
Wabbstarful ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:52:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have no idea lol, I met a kid once you had the memories of his great grandfather who as his mother told me was born two hours or so after his passing. The only story I heard si far was something similar to this but it was along the lines of my friends and I had a dragon who went boom. he was part of an artillery regiment during wwI.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:27:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Sqpon ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 23:38:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, I don't think they're acquainted.
ZapActions-dower ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:01:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Anything might be real. Reincarnation is no different.
sociomaladaptivist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gramps watching a war documentary as a little boy is watching, then when they little boy is finally there of course he will say what he said.
CityOfWin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if he had internalized earlier portions of the trip. Maybe he didn't view the events as external... But created loose memories of them...
Darkage096 ยท 245 points ยท Posted at 20:28:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in Kindergarden I had best friend named Rider. We were friends all through School. He died in a horrific car accident at the end of the year. My mother asked me why I haven't gone in my room for a couple of days. I said "Because Rider is playing with my toys." This was a month after he died.
GIRL3315 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:21:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night my 3 year old niece was supposed to be sleeping but instead was playing around. My sister went in her room and told her it was time for bed. My sister then hears my niece talking she goes in her room again and tells her to go to bed. My niece said "I know mommy. I'm going to bed. Aunt Nicki just told me I have to go to sleep now" Aunt Nicki had died about a month before.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:14:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/3206444754_8a3da0765a.jpg
Shirosynth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The face by itself would have been perfect.
Leonashanana ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:55:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yeah that'll happen. my brother came downstairs one morning a few months after my grandfather had died and told me, "Grandpa visited me last night and told me to be a good boy and everything was going to be all right."
Guitarist689 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man, I'm so sorry to hear you're loss. It just broke my heart to hear that happen. I'm very sorry to hear that.
you_need_this ยท -35 points ยท Posted at 07:58:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
first this is stupid, second, you are not a parent (or your story wasn't as a parent) third, Rider is a retarded name
ramlosaapple ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 09:17:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HEY! Rider is an AWESOMELY cool name!
you_need_this ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 09:37:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
more like a superhero name, i would hate my parents if they named me that
[deleted] ยท 1686 points ยท Posted at 18:50:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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MickiFreeIsNotAGirl ยท 650 points ยท Posted at 19:49:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mom, can we go to bed now?
NO! Just one more episode!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:49:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The people will catch us, son.
Salmonius ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:21:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a clever way to stay up late eating cookies.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:02:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
good one!
[deleted] ยท 1134 points ยท Posted at 19:08:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your bed was full of NOPENOPENOPENOPE
[deleted] ยท 356 points ยท Posted at 19:10:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 866 points ยท Posted at 19:12:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SEMEN
[deleted] ยท 430 points ยท Posted at 19:18:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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Melforprezzz ยท 438 points ยท Posted at 19:31:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
GET A NEW MATTRESS
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 19:52:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Melforprezzz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:55:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thank god
fuckyourcatsnigga ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 20:34:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
GET A NEW KID
incraved ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:23:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
fuck your cats nigga !
abelcc ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:02:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That'll be an easy and cheap solution to a huge problem.
We don't like your kind here.
isgod101 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:49:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mattresses are cheap?
ymahaguy3388 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THIS
[deleted] ยท 172 points ยท Posted at 19:28:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 19:53:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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RosieMuffysticks ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 21:08:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Excited enough to make your own stains on your new mattress?
tellamahooka ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:47:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your brothers really should have covered the expense, or at least put down a towel.
appropriate-username ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit donated money for sillier things.
Smackenstein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You could always have slept on a $15 air mattress for the last couple years like me :)
Panda_S3X ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:38:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
just really close to the family, i guess.
เฒ _เฒ
footballersrok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cos he likes it.
dijitalia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can't affohd.
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 19:35:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
with her two year old...ok so maybe the two year old was in the bed with her brothers as they were pissing and bleeding and blowing loads all over the bed. oh god, we need to help this kid
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:39:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 19:43:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
let's raise a billion dollars for a new bed!
Piogre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read that
nopenopenopenopenope
MisterSquidz ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 19:26:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus....
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:53:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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R_Schuhart ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:31:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
with those kind of stains the problem is that they dont swallow...
JeffersonWasGinger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:57:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes that's all there is to say
GhostHunterChris ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:08:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
your son saw the ghosts of virgins past and could-be-cousins.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:47:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should really get a new bed.
ymahaguy3388 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:02:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ew. I can help you get a new mattress if you'd like
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:03:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ymahaguy3388 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Glad to hear it...if you have any questions about mattress shopping, I'd be happy to help. My family owns a mattress business, so I can give you some insight on what to look for and how much you can expect to pay for a good bed
dondon13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:10:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously finance a new mattress if it's a matter of money spend money per month to get a new mattress.. Damn...
Pthaos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So there ARE tiny tiny people in your bed...?
koryface ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, also known as bed bugs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you can't afford a new mattress or you're still living at home and your parents won't buy you a new one, get one of those waterproof plastic covers. They enclose the entire bed and zip shut, and they're only US$40-50.
NoAttentionAtWrk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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NoAttentionAtWrk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
d fak
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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astronomer7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just assumed a menstruating woman slept on it at some point and wasn't properly protected.
quakank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're getting a new mattress, but how long have you slept on the nasty one?
Jower ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pee?
pianobadger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You had the perfect opportunity to use 'unbeknownst' in a sentence and you missed it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can I suggest a plastic lined mattress cover?
JoyStain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would replace it with an alley or dumpster mattress. It will be covered in the same stuff but at least you won't know the previous owners of your blemen (blood+semen) logged bed are and I think that's important when choosing a piece of furniture.
portablebiscuit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your mattress is 200 pounds of jizzmites!!
TrainFan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
BLOOD STAINS???
aaronhowser1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Light it on fire
WizardinErryday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
B..blood? What kind of kinky shit are your brothers into?
xyroclast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If it's unknown to you, how do you know?
Also, why pee?
jaronjaronjaron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, obviously you just needed to clean it with some nope.
wigwam2323 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother's friend once brought himself and his girlfriend, both who were shitty drunk and had just eaten vegetable soup upstairs, to the house. Long story short, they fucked on the bed and puked/splerged everywhere. That was a bad day in the history of wigwam2323.
pyjamaparts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if they were either having sex very, very wrong or very, very right...
SHFFLE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Could your brothers not fuck in their own beds? What, did yours have the more comfy sheets?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Blood and pee? Luxury.
We were poor (and nothing has changed) when I was in primary school and I slept on this thick two-piece foam mattress (about the height of a normal bed) in a room I shared with my big brother.
A few years in, we had to move the bed for some reason, and the entire bottom of it was glued to the floor by thick jungle-like swathes of green mold. Years of my childhood sweat must have dribbled down through the 60cm of foam to feed it.
A few months later (!) my mom decided to buy me an actual bed and throw that one out. Not that it's her fault, we just couldn't afford one.
(Later killed my cats to buy alcohol with the pet food money).
Love_N ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your skanky mattress just gave me the super AIDS through the internet. Glad you're getting a new one.
lPFreely ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You definitely have the right to superman punch each brother one time - you get a redo if they stay on their feet. Just tell the police I said it's alright, they know me.
sstephens93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can only hope that the pee, semen, and blood stains all come from your brothers' promiscuous activities in your bed.
d3gu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:47 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pee?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:51:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once they are about 2 years old we typically stop calling them semen and start calling them children.
The more you know.
Meanderthal1212 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DEAD SEMEN!
cabseven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ANIMAL SEMEN
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
IT MIGHT BE DOO-DOO
rudeboyrave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh snap!
footballersrok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for that. I may actually be able to go to sleep now.
nuts4coconuts ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:38:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ANIMAL SEMEN!
YouAlwaysHaveAChoice ยท 136 points ยท Posted at 19:16:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is that a winking frowny face?
[deleted] ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 19:18:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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giggs123 ยท 174 points ยท Posted at 19:37:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was an oddly unrelated answer.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:07:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Gorgoz ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 20:46:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That guy isn't OP... Do you not know what an OP is?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:52:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Gorgoz ยท -16 points ยท Posted at 20:53:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's only one OP, there's no "OP" for comments. The Poster of the thread is the Original Poster, of the thread. Thread. If reddit is going to use 4chan's lingo they better get it right.
vocaltalentz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:03:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"OP" isn't 4chan lingo. I'm pretty sure it's just generic forum lingo.
Gorgoz ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 21:09:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
k
i_am_sad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:23:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
also it's just shortened from of Original Poster
There are chains of replies linked together in mini-threads throughout this post, each one having an original poster, the person who started the chain of replies
Your posts are bad and you should feel bad.
Gorgoz ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 21:24:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no, the original poster means the original poster of the thread.
i_am_sad ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:30:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, it means "original poster" there is no OPOTT, just OP
OP of whatever you were replying to, be it the original post or the original reply in the chain of replies in this form of forum.
You're wrong and it's not an opinion so you can't argue your way into righthood.
You're just wrong, and there's no getting around it.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:25:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're a fucking dumbass.
proud_to_be_a_merkin ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:15:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seems to explain the winking frowny face rather well actually haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't question the semen, blood, and pee stains thanks to his/ her brothers.
TheTacticalApe ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 19:32:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Get a new bed.
TomTheScouser ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 19:43:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Get new brothers.
alkapwnee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sheets?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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alkapwnee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol :P before that clarification I was quite scared. I mean sleeping on blood and semen...I would rather sleep on cement lol
Papa_Luigi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What were you doing with your brothers?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol. what?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's all good.
Mischieftess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Blood? Kinky brothers? Can I have their numbers? ;)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Mischieftess ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:33:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aww, shucks. Hey, good for your brothers. Too bad it's your bed though.
Sticky-Scrotum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like one crazy night. :)
vanessow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like to think of it as a stroke-y face.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Crying face
pluginjoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have issues with my one friend who does that. Are you sad, horny, or both? Make up your damn mind!
glassuser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a mister yuck face.
Nasty_kid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Beat their fucking asses
theenergyturtle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NO PENO PENO PENOPE
spw1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:10:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
what's n-open-open-open-ope?
ace586 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:11:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Open?
Sarah_Connor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NOPE
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:15:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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romanov99 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:54:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No offense, but now he thinks he was right. Next time just explain to him about dreams, or tell him that you're ordering the people to go away, which you can do because they're imaginary. I mean, come on.
Ernestiqus ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:36:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Uhhh no, "tell him that you're ordering the people to go away" is making him think he was right. You can't order people away if there are no people.
hiimbrooke ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:59:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my little sister was scared of ghosts, I filled an empty spray bottle with water and told her it was something to keep the ghosts away. Then I would have her help me spray it around the house. It worked perfectly.
tyrryt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he was. Can you prove he wasn't?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:58:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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redlightsaber ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids need their caregivers to help them draw the line between (their external) realities, and what's coming from their own minds.
Most of us for obvious reasons don't remember, but it's freaking frightening and confusing not being able to discern what's real from what's not.
TL;DR: You reacted to something an adult should not have reacted to.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:26:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps he means - in the pitch black:
The 600 million or so, living inside your sack?
Satancookies87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, nope and nope. Jesus... I was scared to read the part where he said in the bed hahaha
goldcray ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:38:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have vague memories of hallucinating strange things in bed while very young. I suspect this is not unusual. The darkness probably helped.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:36:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He was just having a nightmare.
StiggyPop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That IS terrifying
redlightsaber ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:17:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I was going to ask about that, sans the judgement. Perhaps could have started a nice little discussion about individuality and the process of the creation of a personality in little kids.
But now it's impossible. Thanks.
Dobleman82 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
with every light in the house on id imagine
crazyjapes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know. I feel like it might just be that little kids have a harder time comprehending what nightmares are. Still creepy as hell though.
chochazel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For me now, this describes pretty much every parent in this thread.
15r3Drzud123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Comforter people
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
PITCH ASS BLACK ROOM
Aniolla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NO! NO! NO!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was he talking about you? o_O
Eminian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read juice as Jesus. Hope he tastes good.
abasss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my sister was two she asked me if she could sleep with me (we shared a bedroom) because she had a nightmare. She was the most adorable thing ever so I couldn't refuse. Next morning when I wake up, I realized she peed all over my bed. Scarred me forever hehe.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They show Sponge Bob at night? Who is watching that shit at night?
GateCrash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine trying to understand dreams for the first time must be a real mind-fuck for him, too.
fauxnom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Quite possibly could have just been a dream he was having.
Lilatian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And spongebob was supposed to help you be LESS creeped out?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should read the "Mommy's skin" Creepypasta
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I frequently get really, really fucking weird reality-dreams where my brain hallucinates over the setting of which I am sleeping. It was probably one of those. I generally only get them when I am sleeping with another person, because I sleep much lighter, yet my brain will still go into REM sleep (I think because I am very tired every day), just over wherever I am sleeping.
So I once had a dream where my setting was in constant shifting color (think acid trip) and wavy, and my campers (I was a counselor at the time) were crowded around me with mini golf clubs trying to see me. I was mumbling to my then-girlfriend "be really quiet, or they'll see us... They'll see us" And she was just like "The fuck?! Who's them?!" And I described what was happening. I remember all of this clearly, and the creepy emotionless yet searching look on their faces is haunting.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:16:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:21:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're pretty interesting. The other day I had a realistic one (without colors or wavy stuff) that my girlfriend's sister walked in and saw us sleep cuddling and was about to cry. Then she vanished. I turned over to tell my girlfriend about her sister, and she was there for a split second, then she wasn't at all. I was awake at this point, sitting straight up in an empty room, feeling very confused.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:59 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:14:13 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure. I haven't looked into it, because so far it's been managable.
KroogCity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're not supposed to sleep in the same bed as your toddler... could be pretty dangerous for a couple of reasons.
Jibber_Fight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your method of distraction has inspired me to eat cookies and watch Sponge Bob. Thanks!
roboham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
cookies... and juice? what kind of savage are you?
Baron_von_Retard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have fun breaking the cosleeping habit.
Shirosynth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Read that sentence wrong the first time and thought the kid said PITCH ASS BLACK ROOM.
Xeonit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dont worry, my parents told me that when i was a child i once said, while sleeping in the same bed, that there were snakes in the bed. Turns out i had the flu! (a bad flu, actually)
paula36 ยท 950 points ยท Posted at 19:01:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Well when I was a kid I slept walked one night and it freaked the shit out of my dad.
My dad heard a strange noise in the front of our house and walked out to see me sitting on our front step with the door open in the middle of the night. He asked me what I was doing, and I turned around and said, "I'm waiting for someone".
I had no recollection of it in the morning. He was creeped out for quite some time.
Edit: Oh and another time when I was a kid, I walked up to my dad when he was sleeping, shook him awake, and asked him if he cut all the logs for tonight. I was asleep the whole time. He told me, "Yes, go back to bed paula36". I was a weird sleep walker.
[deleted] ยท 710 points ยท Posted at 19:38:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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scubaguybill ยท 437 points ยท Posted at 19:54:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually a pretty good PSA for why people who own firearms for home defense should have (at least) one flashlight/light source, and ideally one that isn't attached to the firearm.
AgentVanillaGorilla ยท 300 points ยท Posted at 20:20:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also when you think there's an intruder, check on your children first.
KousKous ยท 149 points ยท Posted at 20:27:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In this scenario, though, his dad might have jumped straight into Liam Neeson territory.
gathly ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 21:19:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He has a very particular set of skills. When he hears any noise, he immediately draws his gun.
lPFreely ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Skills that make him a nightmare for people like you.
Gorgoz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:56:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He watched a Liam Neeson movie the night before, got Neeson-syndrome.
xVeZx ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:47:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
or Neesyndrome
patmcrotch42069 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's always comforting to know your dad will go Liam Neeson on a motherfucker.
railmaniac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well then there's your PSA - You are not Liam Neeson. Don't assume that you are.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:18:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, his wife was checking on the children at the time.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's always a (small) possibility that if you hear an intruder-like noise and your kid isn't where he/she is supposed to be, the intruder could be a kidnapper. Very small chance, as it's much more likely that your kid is the one making the noise. But still nerve-wracking to parents.
Marine08902 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:42:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would be worried that if the father went into his son's room and saw his son wasn't there he might jump to that conclusion or some other bad scenario (we all know are brains like to think of all the worst possibilities in those situations). Then he's going down stairs with a gun to meet who he thinks is an intruder (who could have possibly done something to his son) and he's no longer as calm as he should be. I think he made the right move, send the mom to check on the kid while he checks on the disturbance.
greg_barton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you checked the children yet?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His wife was doing it at the same time.
AgentVanillaGorilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I said that in a comment right after my first comment.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:51:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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scubaguybill ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:16:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! I had assumed trigger discipline would be a given, but it definitely deserves mentioning, particularly when discussing someone who is willing to aim a firearm without knowing their target.
Gavinardo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:33:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think in the moment, my dad was more concerned with putting himself between the "intruder" (me) and my mother and me. He simply wanted to confront whoever was in the house, and ensure he had some power over them if they were ill intentioned. When the lights went on and he realized it was me, he immediately lowered the gun and unloaded it.
Since then, not a single drawer in my parent's house doesn't have a flashlight in it. Even I picked up the habit of keeping a solid flashlight nearby, including my own firearm for home defense, if I need it.
With preparedness comes safety, of course.
Minglor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:50:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not like he put lead down range or anything. I see no issues here.
scubaguybill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, pointing a firearm at someone (unless they know that it's unloaded/unable to fire) is criminal assault. While nobody is going to prosecute this particular case, if it were, say, the guy's brother in-law, the in-law might be pissed enough to press charges.
Black_Gallagher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe the sue happy in-law should find a new place to live rather than crashing with his sister and her husband, rummaging through the fridge late at night.
voo42 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:05:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer option #2: Two flashlights and no gun.
Mostly because my phantasy is much more vivid than my common sense at 3 o'clock in the morning.
scubaguybill ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:23:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Investigating a possible break-in while unarmed is just plain stupid. You'd probably be better served - and safer - bunkering down in your bedroom and hoping that the perpetrators don't want to anything in it.
voo42 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:03:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
No idea where you live, but I can't remember a single break-in where the thieves used weapons when detected but instead made sure to get away. Not much sense in that anyhow (hey instead of getting possibly busted for theft, why not make it armed robbery? Clever!)
Although obviously I'd just call the police and then tell the guys from the relative safety of my bedroom that it was probably a clever idea to get away.
We all know the statistics of how many people get killed by their relatives, so I'd say it's plain stupid to actually have weapons at your house and even more stupid to actually draw them with the intent to use.
flexiblecoder ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:06:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you have a weapon, you should never draw it unless you intend on using it if the situation arises.
voo42 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There we all agree. But: "There may be a thief in the house, that may be armed and may want to use the weapon" has a few too many unknowns in it.
I can only speak for myself (Austrian if that's important) here, but I've heard of more than one unintentional shooting here (and lots of suicides with guns), but I can't remember a single accident where a theft went wrong and ended with the house owner dead.
Could be because the first one certainly gets more media attention, but that's my impression.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:21:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Unintentional shooting is the fault of the person holding the gun. Suicide can be committed by plenty of ways; having a gun wouldn't make it more likely, just slightly more convenient.
voo42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I'd say having a gun in your home makes it much more convenient than otherwise and for that I do have studies. Although those are in German, so I'll try to find one in english.
But basically: A weapon is a very simple, easy way to kill yourself with lots of appeal and has an extremely high success rate (something like 90+% vs. <10% with drugs). And since a large number of suicides aren't planned, easy access certainly helps too.
Edit: Here's a study for the US too, english and all.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:20:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Austria sounds like a wonderful place to live.
You see, In America, people are killed during home invasions much more frequently. Or, if it's just a woman, sometimes she'll just be raped. I don't quite understand why America has more violent crime per capita, but it's not just because of our gun laws, that much I can tell you.
voo42 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:41:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah I know that this is a much hotter topic in the US, e.g. once when two american friends stayed with me, the doorbell rang short before midnight and they were extremely surprised that I just went and opened the door and asked the guy if everything was ok or if he needed help. Turns out he was just completely lost (can happen easily on the country side :) ) and had seen the lights in our room. Never even occurred to me that something could be amiss (certainly a bit naive on my part, but it shows the different mindsets)
Since this is such a hotly debated topic in the US I'm quite aware that statistics are problematic and I'm sure one can find papers that show a completely different side, but things like: "For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides." src do make me wonder.
Jermtheory ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:22:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For starters that "study" is a joke. Memphis just happens to be one of the most violent cities in the country. They usually battle with a few other cities for "murder capital". NTM big cities (the 3 areas they looked at) in general tend to have higher crime rates. Then they state "in or around a residence"... Where exactly ISN'T "around a residence"? Then to turn around and say "in the home" in their conclusion? Clearly biased from the jump.
But most of all...
The vast majority of incidents of guns being used for self defense end up with no one actually being shot.
Black_Gallagher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:40:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did a report on gun laws. Can confirm this.
voo42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see what the actual crime rate has to do with how many people get killed unintentionally or kill themselves. Actually that makes a point for the study, since if the area is so dangerous as you say, clearly there would be more situations where the usage was justified.
"The vast majority of incidents of guns being used for self defense end up with no one actually being shot." any source for that? I'd love to see some numbers there. I've a hard time coming up with life threatening situations where the presence of an additional weapons defuses the situation, but that's certainly an interesting data point yes.
Jermtheory ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:08:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
The crime rate skews the stats dramatically because the vast majority of people shooting each other are gang members/drug dealers involved in various disputes. It may not say much about accidents or suicides, but it definitely skews the numbers as a whole. I would simply point out that suicides would generally just find another way (despite what the "guns are evil" crowd would like us to think) and "accidents" are really negligence on someone's part.
I'd wager most of them are "in or around a residence" when it happens. There are very few "bad guys" shooting "good guys" and vice versa. It's mostly "bad guys" shooting "bad guys" and has almost nothing to do with "self defense" as it's typically thought of. The vast majority of shootings can be directly linked to "the war on drugs" and the black market it creates.
I don't have the stats for displaying a firearm in self defense. I can dig a little later when I have time if needed. You could start by googling the Florida State study. I assure you that guns defuse life threatening situations all of the time... I'm not sure why that would be hard to imagine aside from complete ignorance (no offense intended) and/or anti-gun propaganda being swallowed whole. Guy has road rage and jumps out with a tire iron, soon-to-be-victim pulls gun, guy lays down until arrested. Similar situations play themselves out daily throughout the country.
Edit- I should have waited to reply when I wasn't so busy and could have put together something a little more coherent... Sorry, for the mess above.
RogueTaco ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:10:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2012/06/25/14-year-old-phoenix-boy-shoots-armed-intruder/
DreamCarver ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:38:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can imagine someone dual-wielding twirling flashlights and using them as cudgels.
whish whish whishSMACK-KRAK
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:55:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer option #3: No flashlight and no gun and 1 light saber
Mechanism_of_Injury ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Immediately thought of this. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhsgyO2Gtmo
Cordite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or you could just follow the 4 golden rules of firearms.
Violation of 2, 3, and 4.
http://www.reddit.com/r/guns if you want to know more, ask away!
scubaguybill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Already a gunnitor. You may have seen my posts on there - namely my very pretty new Garand that made the #1 slot a few weeks ago.
I was just saying that having a non-weapon-mounted flashlight could have helped the situation come to a conclusion that wouldn't necessitate so much as aiming the firearm. Gavinardo's dad would have been able to determine that the source of the noise was not a threat without revealing his location by flipping the lights on, thus eschewing the need for him to point the firearm at Gavinardo, while at the same time allowing Gavinardo's dad to retain the tactical advantage against a possible intruder.
Oh, and there was no mention in Gavinardo's post that his father had a finger on the trigger.
redlightsaber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Except he said it was around 7am, and presumably already day.edit: I suck cocks.Isn't there a statistic somewhere that more people get hurt (and die) from accidents with home firearms than the amount of people that are able to actually defend themselves from intruders?
scubaguybill ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:05:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If the room was dark enough that Gavinardo's dad had to turn the lights on to recognize that it was his son he was pointing a firearm at, a flashlight could have been put to good use.
Not one that I've ever seen to actually be from a reputable source, no. The oft-cited statistic that "A gun in the home is 43 times as likely to kill a family member as it is to kill a criminal" was based on a study that both used severely flawed methodology and padded its numbers by counting suicides as "deaths of a family member". Link to a deconstruction of the incorrect statistic, using logic, citations, and figures.
Gavinardo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:27:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I should point out too, that my dad is a veteran and has basically been around firearms his whole life, as have I. Being raised in the high deserts of Nevada, I was used to fishing and hunting with my dad in my childhood, and could even use a bolt-action myself by this age.
He told me he raised the gun, only to be ready if the intruder attacked. When he realized it was me, he immediately lowered it.
Primary rules of gun safety, of course, are treating every gun as if it's loaded, and only aim at things you intend to destroy. My dad shudders thinking about this fact, in this context. Gave him nightmares. Didn't so much bother me even years later, because I know my dad has a great sense of control and safety with guns, being a veteran and all.
I can also imagine injuries related to firearms being in the home are more likely related to a lack of education of the weapon itself, not keeping guns under lock-and-key, or simply being too careless.
astronomer7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for linking to data that backs you up.
redlightsaber ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:14:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Yup, already realised I completely fucked up on the reading comprehension. But even then I don't see how it's prudent to come down, in the darkness, with your gun drawn and your nerves to the max, when all you heard were sounds coming from the kitchen. Either that or my family is completely weird in that we'd ocassionally go down to get a midnight snack from the kitchen.
I'd rather this didn't turn into a flamewar over gun rights, but I don't see what's so flawed or necessarily misleading about counting suicides as firearm deaths. How would those numbers add up if you substracted the suicides? (I'll be reading your source tomorrow, thanks!)
edit: found the relevant numbers, turns out the deconstruction wasn't long at all:
Seems decidedly not-worth-it, still, and while not as high as the number (that I was unaware of) the article implies, it still makes the claim "that more people get hurt (and die) from accidents with home firearms than the amount of people that are able to actually defend themselves from intruders" patently true.
NeonCookies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He said HE was about 7.
redlightsaber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reading comprehension fail...
Seriousclown ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:18:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it wrong that I chuckled slightly at this story? I know it could have ended horribly but the idea of you sleepwalking and ending up in that situation is kinda amusing.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:23:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I sleep walk on occasion, and have night terrors. I'm 27 now, and it's been going on since I was a little kid. When I was little, I didn't know my night terrors were not real (they are hallucinations). I probably scared my poor parents badly by talking about the shadow man and the red eyes and the strange green light that had no source.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:03:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister sometimes wakes up with empty yogurt containers in her bed. She lives in the basement.
Alphapanc02 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:47:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was maybe 6 or 7 I was a regular sleep walker, but this time my parents had already gone to bed. To give some context, we live in a modular home and my brother's and my bedrooms were in one end of the house and my parents' in the other. We live in a very rural area and our house is surrounded by woods. Anyway, my dad heard the doorknob trying to open so he grabbed his loaded 9mm and headed in there. I had gotten the door open and was in our yard walking toward the woods and he shined the flashlight on me, realized it was me, and carried me back inside. I woke up as we were getting back through the door and asked him why he had his gun out so late and if I could shoot it too (we regularly shoot guns as a family).
Like your Dad, he cringed when he told me.
Gavinardo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:44:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dads, man. Always ready to protect. I'm glad everything was okay that night.
monstermoncher ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:53:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I sleep walked once, trying to walk from my room to the bathroom. I dreamt I was over the toilet and peed but I was actually in the middle of the hallway in my house, only about halfway to the bathroom.
DJBell1986 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I sleep in a detached garage converted to a bedroom with a small bathroom which is out of order at the moment. If I have to shit in the middle of the night I go to the main house and yell "Don't shoot it's your son!" So as to not freak my Dad out.
herpesface ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:14:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 6 or 7 I would sleepwalk quite often. I would get up in the middle of the night, walk into the TV room and urinate on the N64. This happened a number of times, apparently; though I haven't any recollection. Also, the N64 still works.
renaissance-man ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:38:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Were there couch pillows in the oven?
skodi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:02:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My family moved when I was around 8 and the second night in the new house I slept walked. My dad is pretty jumpy and a very light sleeper. He heard a noise in the garage and grabbed his shotgun and went to investigate. He was at the foot of the stairs pointing a gun at the door to the garage when I opened it and stepped through and bumped the end of the barrel. Startled him to recognize me, woke me up and thank god we're both quick on the recognition and reflexes.
Besterthenyou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:35:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The first time I ever sleepwalked (and the only time I think), I was about 7. We were on our way back from a theme park (Busch Gardens), and I was little, so I was really tired. Two points I need to point out first- it was Halloween-time and late (past-midnight). I remembered getting out of the car, or at least unbuckling. I woke up to be walking in circles around the apartment complex. The buildings all looked the same, and I was new there. There were people just watching me as I walked. You know the scene in Home Alone 2 when he's in Central Park, and there's a lot of creeps everywhere? Same deal. Someone shouted "Shouldn't you be at home?" in a creepy voice, laughed, and took a big breath from his cig. I walked for about an hour. I then proceeded to the large pond in the middle, with some brackish water in it, and so some salt water predators. I started to sit down, and cry. About then, I heard my family. They had been looking for me. My brother says I was trying to walk into the water to this day. I was awake, but he doesn't believe this sentence, or the one previous. Pretty scary shit right there, losing a child late at night, around Halloween. I don't know what happened. I don't know if it's related, but one night, I was in the apartment, and I saw a light, and I walked out the door. It was in a dream though. Not there anymore (thank cow). I know my story was different than yours, but I felt like bringing it up. I can understand if anyone tl;dr's this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
same thing happened to my grandfather. except he managed to get outside, climb through a window and get back in. my great grandfather got his doyble barrel sawed of and went and found him
patmcrotch42069 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had this dream where I was rolling down the steps of a fire escape, like the ones on the side of apartment buildings and my dad was at the top flipping out for obvious reasons. After I graduated high school my dad mentioned dropping me and I described it to him, the steel painted black with that diamond patter. He confirmed that I indeed remembered rolling down a fire escape. Makes me wonder if my past life memory is real in the same way.
March_of_the_ENTropy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT ABOUT TRIGGER SAFETY!
Kitty_D ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I live in South Africa and this actually happened recently. The guy's house was broken into and his 7 year old daughter came running in to the room, obviously because she woke up from the whole thing. He though she was one of the robbers and shot her in the head.
Source
cheshirekitteh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's probably the exact same reaction my husband would have if that happened in our house. We have a 9mm and 2 rather large WWII rifles.
jaskmackey ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This upset me so much I teared up. It could have gone so, so badly.
Black_Gallagher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously? This story is worthy of tears? Jesus...
SingularityCentral ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:39:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I used to sleep walk frequently until I was about 10. I can remember being quite young and feeling that the bedroom was quite huge in the darkness and half-asleep state I was in. So i guess I would go into the closet in my room and shut the sliding doors seeking some kind of confinement (kids crave restrictive spaces quite often) then I would snap awake and start screaming for my parents, telling them to get my out of the "cave." Every Christmas I would inevitably sleep walk downstairs into the living room and wake up while walking repeatedly into the Christmas tree, one time my mom tried to wake me during an episode and I slapped her in the mouth and told her the tree was crying. And finally, one time my grandmother was watching us and I was probably 6, but I went to the fridge and got a glass of ice tea and a beer, then I went to her bed where she was reading and handed her the ice tea and started drinking the beer. She took it from me and I responded that the shadow people were not pleased. I was a strange child.
earthrise33 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:09:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least when you slept walked you successfully scared the shit out of people.
When I slept walked as a child, I ended up peeing in the laundry hamper. Doesn't have the same dignity to it.
jennafoo33 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:26:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a similar story too, about my sister. I was probably only 5 and she was 6. It was the night before Easter and I was laying in bed, and I was woken up by a heavy thumping sound. We had a kind of outside hallway leading up to our front door, and I recognized the sound as footsteps outside the door, since my room was right next to the front door. I remember being really scared thinking it was the Easter Bunny and that the thumping was his giant feet hopping up to my house.
My dad went out there and found my sister drinking from the hose. He asked her what she was doing and she just said she was thirsty and needed a drink. He put her back to bed and she seemed not to wake up the whole time, and didn't remember it in the morning.
puss_parkerswidow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:29:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to wake up with grass on my feet after going to bed with no grass on my feet. For a while I also would wake up and realize my feet hurt and look at them and see small red lines of indentation on my heels. I finally woke once to find that i was standing on the metal bed frame and just balancing there on the thin edge, hence the red indent lines that hurt. I was probably 10 or so.
jackk225 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:20:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does the first part of this comment not terrify anyone else? We all know he was a werewolf.
puss_parkerswidow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:01:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Old lady here, not that it rules out being a werewolf. So, watch out for old ladies, ha ha!
UnKamenRider ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:25:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom woke up to me on the front lawn, doors locked. apparently, in my sleep, I climbed out my second floor window.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did a lot of sleep walking as a child, and still to this day. (I have a ton of weird sleepwalking stories) My dad said that pretty soon after he and my stepmom married (I was 3) I went into the bedroom and poked him until he woke up, where I said "mommy 1 is sad she didn't kill you." I didn't know until my 20s that my biological mother had set their house on fire before the divorce because she wanted a better one.
buttercup_mauler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I slept walked across the street from my house and my mom found me talking to something (she couldn't see anything, only me carrying on a conversation). Creepy.
Two_Bums_Down ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few years back, my step brother walked in to the living room with my dad and I, and said "Hey, Darren, I took care of that deer for you." Then he walked back...I laughed my ass off for the next couple of days.
mojitodesi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:15:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Another similar story about sleep walking.
My mother put me to bed as usual when I was about six or seven in the middle of a Wisconsin winter and went to bed herself. I slept, I sleepwalked out of my bed room, put on my parka (thank god), unlocked the front door, walked out the house and sat down and went back to sound sleep on the bench of my busstop. I woke up around what I'm guessing was two or three and realized where I was and went back inside, took off my parka and went back to bed. I didn't tell my mother about this story for some reason though, I remember crystal clear the next morning she was freaked out as to why the front door was open and told herself it was because she forgot to lock it the night before. Still never told her the truth of that night. Maybe I will eventually...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my kids and my wife sleep walk. Nothing as freaky as this yet, but I'm waiting.
myjabberwocky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:01:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have an almost identical story -- dad heard me crying in the middle of the night; I slept walked until I was about 15 but this was when I was young, 7 or 8. He found me on the back porch, still asleep, kind of crying and asking where people were in a garbled sleep voice. Yikes.
Goatlad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:35:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I too also had a similar story, when i was about 11 or 12 i had got out of bed in the middle of the morning (2-3am) and had stood next to the door turning the front door knob unsuccessfully over and over (was locked) and my parents both came out to find me there saying repetitively "I need to get out, I need to get out, I need to get out..." Sends shivers down my spine to this day. EDIT: I also have no recollection of this and to my knowledge have never slept walked before or after this event
shadeshadows ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I use to sleep walk/talk as well. Once, my mom said I came out asking here where my towel with the monkeys and the giraffes on it was (I had no such towel). Another time, she tried to wake me up for school and she said I started jumping on my bed and grasping for the ceiling, shouting "I have to get the roses off the ceiling!" These were a couple of the comical instances of this. The rest of them were apparently horrifying. My brother was sent to wake me up one morning, which he did by shining a flashlight in my face. I sat up quickly, and wide, unblinking eyes, started shouting a string of what they called "alien," that I am told consisted of no coherent words, but I spoke them very deliberately. This happened on multiple occasions, and it always was the same deal. My eyes would shoot wide open, and I would let out of string of this strange language, then I would close my eyes and go right "back" to sleep. They would wake me up afterward, and I would not remember any of it, thinking that it was the first time they were waking me up that morning.
Rex8ever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me of the recent story where a 3 year old walked to the store in the middle of the night, in snow, because she thought her mom went there to pick up a pizza. Luckily a clerk was still closing up.
pianobadger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
*sleep walked
Not to be nitpicky, that was just really weird for me to read.
mjethwani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Possession. Did you perform an exorcism?
LookInTheDog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mom?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read as "strangled noise". I was so confused.
ben2c ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently I had the same sleep walking experience you did. My mom would tell me that I would wake up in the middle of the night and just stare out the window. She would ask me what I was doing, and I would reply "I was waiting for someone" according to my mom.
-Had some freaky sleep walking in my life.
The_Atheist_Tiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You think you were wierd? I pissed in my sister's bedroom. Checkmate bitch.
vivalakellye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me of the time I sleep-walked into my parents room and demanded that I be allowed to bathe with my stuffed animals. I don't know why.
JabbaDHutt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The most I ever did while sleepwalking was pee in the wrong corner of the bathroom.
mvincent17781 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY. Slept walked? Really?
jackk225 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you cut the logs? Woodstock keeps asking.
ShaneMcDeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So your dad could even sense your future reddit username. This is the creepiest thing i've read so far.
pgfoundali ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much the same thing happened to me when I was a kid too. That was shocking.
winemaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Essentially the same story for me, except my line was "I lost the figure skating gold medal." Dad recommended I play football after that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom once found me at the age of three leaning against the second story window that was a just a screen, standing on my bed. She freaked and demanded I get down and I insisted I had to save the colors, they were melting.. She told me we could save the colors in the morning and I laid down but my bed was moved the next day.
I also once apparently woke my mom up screaming about someone stealing all the string.
kiwifou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to sleepwalk too when I was a kid. I would walk up to the side of the bed where my mother slept, and just stand there and stare at her. She'd wake up from the feeling of being watched. It creeped the hell out of her every time.
post4u ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did your parents always call you paula36?
joebum14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What if you ordered a pizza?
largehill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is much more pleasant than what I did. My Mom says one time when I slept walked, she found me taking a shit on the kitchen floor...in my sleep.
slightlyamused1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be a weird sleep walker, as well! My dad woke up with me two inches from his face once, said he almost punched me. He told me to go to bed, so logically I proceeded to the kitchen and started to get plates out of the cabinet. 0_o
Shebazz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother used to sleepwalk a lot. The first time it was really bad, he was brought home at 3 am by some college kids who found him trying to get into the convenience store 6 blocks from our house. After that, my parents got a new back door with a higher deadbolt so he couldn't reach it. The next time he was brought home, it was by the police after he walked down to the store again. Turns out he dragged a chair over to the door in order to open the lock. I'm not entirely sure how old he was, but we lived in that house while I was in grade 5 until early grade 9, and I'm 8 years older than my brother so I guess the oldest he would have been was grade 1 - maybe 7 years old?
tl;dr sleep walking is some scary shit
[deleted] ยท 1060 points ยท Posted at 18:27:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but my mom told me that when I was really young, I used to sit by the rocking chair and mumble things. She eventually became curious and asked what I was saying. I told her I was talking to "the old lady".
Also, about 10 years later, I stayed at my aunt's house. In the morning, I heard my 3 year old cousin stirring, so I decided to be a thoughtful niece and went to get her out of bed so my aunt could sleep in longer. When I walked into her room, she stood up in her crib and said "Your friend came and woke me up last night." I was staying in a room by myself the night before.
[deleted] ยท 302 points ยท Posted at 19:18:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This made me shiver....
LAB731 ยท 399 points ยท Posted at 20:28:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, it even made the Iceman shiver?!
zumpiez ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:06:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Iceman never stops shivering.
Sir_Dalek ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:38:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Iceman Shiver-eth.
0l01o1ol0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:03:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"That's right, Iceman. I'm dangerous." - Top Gun
You are now aware that it was Tom Cruise who snuck into caetruly's niece's room.
martyring ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who told you?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whats next the Boogie-Man and Bloody Mary?
ivan_cx ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HAhahahahahahahah
deletedwhy ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:43:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you are not the only one
CohanJo ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:28:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Confirmative
PShireman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:50:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I shivered after i read your comment.
cyberbemon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:51:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There goes my sleep !!
OhGodAli ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 20:26:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When the baby talked I imagined the baby with a deep man voice.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:39:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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OhGodAli ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly like that voice
Evil-Dalek ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:28:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little my family lived in a duplex and while living there I would point and say, "Lady," and proceed to follow the lady I saw as she walked around the house. My mom did a bit of research and discovered there had been a fire in the house a while before it became a duplex and an old lady had burned to death in it.
atilly ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:35:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Aunt was living in a town house and there was a little corner between the front door and the stairs and my little cousin used to sit there and would hold conversations with nothing. I think she said it was something along the lines of "granny" or something. Which all her grandparents are still alive.
Kids and their weird shit...
AyooGhinoo ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:33:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Immediately thought about Insidious NOPENOPENOPE
gangstabunniez ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:24:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds kinda like the paranormal activity series with the childhood friend that was a demon.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:02:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
........and thats enough for me goodnight Reddit. Not that im going asleep.....
spidyfan21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Having no medical credentials I would prescribe 10-15 minutes of this.
epicwinfield ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:48:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WOW KIDS HOW ABOUT THOSE IMAGINATIONS HUH WOW HAH
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:49:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Grey Lady follows your family. Has anyone in your family had a history of being... skinned alive?
batpower ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:00:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was the woman in black..
4realthistime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thinks its creepy that she's three and is still in a crib....
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:22:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What topic did you discuss with the old lady?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember, I was really young. Probably the meaning of life or something good like that that I'll never remember.
Satancookies87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope.
somedelightfulmoron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:32:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TODAY IS NOT HALLOWEEN, OP! hides under layers of blankets
yepyep27 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:43:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was the rocking chair at your aunt's house. Kids can perceive echos of people.
martomo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This fucking does it for me. My house will never, ever, have any sort of rocking furniture.
astrograph ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:59:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NOPE
[deleted] ยท 715 points ยท Posted at 18:54:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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OrangePrototype ยท 907 points ยท Posted at 19:05:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It means the Paranormal Activity 4 PR team has arrived.
siovene ยท 362 points ยท Posted at 19:33:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, Paranormal Activity 4 PR team.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:53:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You get upvotes for making the exact same joke?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't break the circlejerk!
hennersz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:51:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
if it really is a PR stunt someone needs to be payed a lot of money because thats freaking genius
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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lotlotters ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:41:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't tell if this is an honest question or someone promoting the Paranormal Activity series even more. Oh dear
Aiyon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:01:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
1 was scary.
2 was better.
3 was alright, but not as good
4 doesn't exist yet
Okuhou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They all scared the crap out of me but I think the third one was the most scary. Not everyone agrees with me but I think they're worth it. Also there's only three out.
kansakw3ns ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:28:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's just confusion about how exactly you get to be a parent/why your parents are your parents/why a child can't be a parent, as well as starting to gain independence and having protective/parental feelings towards the parents. I remember I started thinking about being a mother when I was around 4 years old.
Cryano ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:34:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it's the kid trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else, so he switches the roles he's most familiar with (parent and child). It just comes out creepily because children are crazytimes.
[deleted] ยท 339 points ยท Posted at 19:07:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Each of us comes into this life as a member of a large "cast of characters." The "full cast" is everyone you ever meet or see. After death, we switch roles. When we have learned all we need to learn from being in each role, we can move on. /justmytheory
icetea149 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 20:07:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the egg by andy weir if you've never read this, do so now.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:20:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've always liked this. I think it's bollocks to take seriously though.
icetea149 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:32:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it makes it better, i always read it in morgan freeman's voice while he's while he's slowly walking around in a white suit with his hands behind his back
MissVelvetElvis ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:07:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I probably wouldn't have imagined Morgan Freeman's voice if you hadn't mentioned it. But I still love this.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:54:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed! I don't take it too seriously myself either. Just seems to make sense somehow even though it doesn't at all in rational, scientific terms.
avro_lanc ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 19:22:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure why you're getting downvoted! It's as interesting a theory as any. It's certainly more developed than saying that the one thing that these kids have in common is that they're all trolls, which I've seen a lot of in this thread.
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 20:36:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And waaaaay more interesting than the theory that children have developing brains and they come up with these things as a way of trying to make sense of things.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:24:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The most simple obvious one can't be right!
circusjerks ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:09:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
influenced by a lot of Eastern Mythology. our energy takes form in rich, poor, man, women, king, plebeian, peace and war.
jeannedark ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:05:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a good Idea and it's been played with in both religion and literature. Look into the book "The Years of Rice and Salt," in which a cast of characters undergoes reincarnation in an alternate history Earth where the Black Death pretty much wiped out Europe.
73scrambler ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:19:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like it.
garfjohnson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i think this is from the book "sum"
PassingOnYourLeft ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:50:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once we've learned everything, then what?
Darth_Nekochan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I swear, this is something a good friend of mine told me almost verbatim during a very difficult and confusing time in my life. It's very interesting to see someone else say it, too!
IWillNotBeBroken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's very similar to a viewpoint that I've grown attached to, but can't remember where I picked it up from.
To expand on the "roles," the afterlife is essentially waiting on friends to finish their current roles so you can select a new role that intersects their role again. You may have played their father in the last role, maybe the next one will be as a friend to them. The people in your life are often the same souls (I guess) as the people in other lives -- the roles just change.
It's an interesting thought to contemplate, at least.
MagiesNoms ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:50:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I believe there is a sect of Hinduism that believes we are all the ParaBrahman dreaming.
Cthulhu_Meat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So eventually I get tits?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is one theory I want to get behind. That would be a Rad way to live
Peartnoy518 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Abed?
Hougaiidesu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Weird, man... I've thought that too
andheim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And then once we've lived every life there is to live, we achieve peace? I've read that somewhere.
errantapostrophe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't that a Twilight Zone episode?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats from a short story.
totally_mokes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of this: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seth speaks?
redditor29198 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is my personal favorite theory, I think you'll like it. http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Cordite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So we ignore all basis in reality - that we're the current pinnacle of genetic evolution, forged from stardust and carbon, and that life is merely the combination of chemical processes sustained long enough to reproduce - in favor of a romantic theatrical explanation?
Word homie...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sayin' that's how it is, just saying that's how it feels to me sometimes...I find my experience of reality is not the same as the intellectual explanation of it. That's just me though...
HyruleanHero1988 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Either this is my first go or I am very bad at this game. I haven't learned anything...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You and me both, bro (sis)! I think I am still at the "baby discovers his toes" stage...
elliestar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have blown my mind.
yuckypants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read a short story once that was similar. Rather than just give it away, I'll post it here:
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:15:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few people have mentioned this story. Great minds think alike, I guess? I never put that much thought into it! Thanks for the cut/paste.
outflanking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THANK YOU! I can't believe you actually believe the same as me. That's really nice to see.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It seems that a lot of people have felt this way before. Somebody was kind enough to cut/paste a short story about this very idea. Weird, no? Maybe that's why the notion of karma (not Reddit karma) caught on...because so many folks experience life in this way? Thanks for the comment!
Instantcretin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seconded.
planetmatt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that the plot to "The Field Where I Died" episode of the X-Files?
throw_meaway_love ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also a big believer in this! What about your thoughts on old souls and new souls?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/unwnb/we_are_one_the_egg_by_andy_weir/
Not just yours! :)
MickiFreeIsNotAGirl ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 19:48:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NO, you're crazy for thinking we don't know everything about life!
Everything has a rational, scientific explanation, so just cut it out with your nonsense right now!
.../s
Jephae ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:46:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My boyfriend and I were just talking about a relatively similar theory where you relive this one life over and over again until you reach, what could be considered, your "perfect" life, and then you can move on. And deja vu is when you remember something from one of the past times you lived this life...we found all sorts of ways each little aspect of life could fit into the theory. It's very interesting. I'll definitely mention your theory to him :)
Torger083 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:56:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that major events leave impressions that contain parts of us, and sometimes those impressions are both persistent and detectable.
I mean, you never hear tell of the ghost of a guy who died peacefully at 108, it's always the guy who got shot, or was in a car accident on the way to his wedding, or something. The more major the event, the stronger the remaining impression.
Also, if you want to carry on with this thought, the whole, "Past lives" thing could very well be persistent impressions getting hooked into a newly-minted consciousness that has compatible doo-dads.
These are things thought of over too much beer with spiritualism scholars.
bradamantium92 ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 19:47:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. strong-stuff, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no upvotes, and may God have mercy on your soul.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:17:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That quote is bad and you should feel bad.
bradamantium92 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually feel awful but I figured a statement as bad as that one didn't deserve a biting, original response.
Forgive me.
TrepanationBy45 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 19:40:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It means that the children are abstractly contemplating the meaning of child/parent roles, obviously.
jondoe2 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:18:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I posted my hypothesis in respons to some other comment;
I'm thinking something like developing empathy, "What might it be like to be my parents" which was then either miscommunicated because of a lack of words to describe the thought process accurately, or he himself misinterpreted a fantasy as a memory.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:19:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hate every second of it.
shampaw_fingerspouts ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:34:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, but I did it too. I came over to my mom one morning and said, "member when I was big and you were little?" she thinks that I had a dream and remembered it but didn't know how to explain that it was a dream.
MadDannyBear ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:59:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that's freaking me out!
big_red__man ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:04:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm wearing a mask called counterfeit!
i_like_cake897 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So freaky!!
smeezy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:46:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It means that kids are curious and love to role-play in their minds. "What if I were mommy's mom? What would that be like?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's a common theory that most kids don't realise they're a separate person from their mother until they're about six months old, and that separation is basically the start of separation anxiety for a lot of kids. I'd guess that the thought of still being the same as their mother would stay, and then they could actually remember themselves being babies, just from their mother's point of view.
My first memory is a dream I had when I was still drinking milk from a bottle and in high chairs (so about 2-3 years old, probably) and it's predominantly from my mum's point of view, with her looking at me. I think it's just a confusion between where their 'self' ends and their mother begins - I'd say even the boys probably thought of themselves as a mother for that situation.
atla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's strange, but now that I think about it, a lot of my memories are in mixed first-third person. I'm either me, or some random non-entity watching in on the scene. If this is common, it could be kids not able to understand the concept of first- and third-person, and assuming that they actually are remembering being that non-existant third-person. And if their world is small enough, they could assume that that third person is their parent.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More than that, it could be them not understanding the seperation between first and second person - "I remember you doing this" could easily get confused by boundaries and turn into "I remember me doing this". But yeah, I definitely think it's something to do with them being unable to separate themselves psychologically from other things, and then being unable to identify which part they are and which part their parents or someone else is.
metatron5369 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids imagine being adults, the same as the poor dream of being rich?
That, or reincarnation.
UnacceptableUse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think children imitate adults. Because adults talk about themselves as big and the child as small, they do the same
Phloatpill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:37:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Toddlers DO dream, and their dreams are probably just as screwy as ours are, and they aren't as good as discerning reality from dreams. With everyone being bigger than they are but still knowing what it's like to be bigger than something else, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that this was a rather common dream for toddlers to have about their parents.
Thizzymonkey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:03:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation_research
Iloooveyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It means that reincarnation is really just ones lineage. I suppose this would also imply that when you're a kid you can remember your past lives, which would really just be the lives of your past family members.
llill ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:19:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I believe in reincarnation...so there's that.
skeeto111 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:29:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation. A lot of people believe that souls will often reincarnate into their same family when they can. If true, then it wouldn't be surprising for a newborn to have the soul of a recently deceased relative. It shouldn't freak you out, if it's real, it's not scary, just how things work.
secretninjaattack ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:59:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
freaking me out too!
scstraus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids say crazy shit more or less 24/7. Until about 5 they live in a universe of their own creation which bears little resemblance to the one we live in. Anything that perplexes them they just make up some wacky theory to deal with. Many people never outgrow this actually.
ophello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Theory: A lot of parents who die chose to come back as their child's baby and live the whole scenario in reverse. It's how spirit families stay together over the millenia and learn about how to be a parent and how to live with a parent.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Little kids don't understand death or birth. They can't understand the concept of having never existed. They create scenarios that explain what things must have been like when their parents were kids. Maybe when their parents were kids, they were the parent.
A lot of little kids also think that, when they grow up, they will be married to one of their parents. They don't understand their parents will grow older, too, and will be elderly.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
always sounds like reincarnation to me. not saying I believe in it, but who knows? maybe some people can remember their past life.
coolkid9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids that age don't really have any concept of time, especially long-term, and they've usually learned gender roles through play (dolls, action figures, playing house, etc.). It's not really that surprising when you think about it. Just how the mind of a kid works.
Spalunking01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You'd be surprised at the amount of people that claim to have seen a "past life". Very strange indeed..
sunnydolphin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin says this. He was born on my grandfathers birthday, 13 months after he died. He says things like: "Mummy when you were little and I was a growed-up you liked to wear your blue dress. Why don't you wear your blue dress now?" He also avoids our grandmother saying: "But she's mad at me." when he hadn't even seen her before. My Gran and Granddad were divorced when they were 40 and 59 respectively and never talked after that. When there was a family function they would avoid each other like the plague. We've just come to accept that little James is pretty much his grandfather all over again. My aunt is okay with it. One of the last things Granddad said to her was: "You should have another kid. You're an amazing mother." She fell pregnant a few months later despite being told she would never be able to have any more kids.
It's just one of those things we know about as a family and get used to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It sounds to me like... some kind of reincarnation?
Drbobert00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I had to guess its that kids hear adults say "its when you were really little" or "when I was little...". The child is trying to sound like the adults by using these phrases.
xMooCowx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that a lot of young children feel the desire to have the roles reversed. They want to be the mommy or daddy and "be an adult to their mommy or daddy." Also at this age, they have a hard time realizing the difference between a dream and reality, so they dream of being the mommy/daddy and then confuse it with real life.
That's just my theory, anyway.
onthejourney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:46:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Somewhat related, but this helped me not think I was crazy anymore.
Check out Brian Weiss's work, particularly "Many Lives, Many Masters."
It mirrors some of my experiences as a counselor. Mind blowing, reality shattering.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw one explanation where someone explained it that children don't understand time to be linear, so they imagine roll reversals with them being adults eventually, and older people being babies
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:22:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Imagination.
Love_N ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Read the book 'Many Lives, Many Masters'. It's a huge load of bullocks, but it does put forth an interesting premise as to reincarnation.
Chris_Iceberg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, this thread is making me question my disbelief in reincarnation/ghosts.
DavcarTheBarbarian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure it means we all had past lives and/or ghosts are real. The most likely explanation is that kids have a hard time with the concept of how aging works. When I was very young I thought I would someday be older than my brother. Also kids say all sorts of nutty stuff all the time, and sometimes they unwittingly say something that terrifies the adults in the room.
DivineJustice ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:08:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Let's dismiss children.
DavcarTheBarbarian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Of course not, however a creatve story about how a child's old mommy locked her in a closet and she drank paint and died is a great learning opportunity about what is real and what is not. The old mommy is creative imagination, but drinking paint really will kill you.
DivineJustice ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:01:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno. I've seen some interesting stuff as a kid and even into adolescence. But I legit saw it, and so did others.
xXD347HXx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's called reincarnation. It actually exists and it's pretty interesting.
Asyyd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a psychological phase all kids go through. i guess some figure it out ;)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(according to mythology that supports reincarnation) children at a young age still have memories of their past life, so in a really lucky situation, they used to be their mother/father's gramma/grandpa, and still remember them.
Anon63243 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when I was a kid, i thought that my mom and dad would stay the same age and I would get older than them eventually. Possibility? Who knows. Other than that, those stories are creepy as fuck.
NoWittyUsername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe the reincarnation of the grandparent having a latent memory of the son who is now the parent?
ArkHobo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
your post had 666 upvotes. i upvoted and saved your life. your welcome.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:24:21 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, bro.
TinyAndEvil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:10 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son did that too as a little boy. He was always so convinced that someday I would be the little girl and he would be the dad.
yepyep27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're newly reincarnated. Their previous lives Are still fresh in their minds, so they talk about them. Read Edgar Cayce. He knew his shit.
iDontShift ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
your current incarnation is not your only one, and everyone around is a friend that you have known since before time was. pretty simple really, and interesting once you step out of the box and see how often reality aligns with this perspective.
but maybe it is just me and I see that I am so different and see no other explanation than I've 'played the game' more than other people, like an old soul.
hatever ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 20:43:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This one is about me. When I was little. I told my dad there were people on the roof. He didn't think anything of it...until he heard, "the sound of 100 feet running across the roof. He went out side to shine a flashlight(the old roof was flat, you could see the top if you were far enough back) and he saw nothing. He asked me if I saw anything, I said, "The grey man daddy. He was at all the windows." It still freaks me out to think about it even though I don't even remember it.
Nick3570 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:28:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
classic alien story.
hystericalwisteria ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:18:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That ended with me screaming "ah, oh god, no, ugh, god, oh god, ugh, ahhhh" at the computer. Thanks.
Edit: and immediately ordering blackout curtains for all my window fixtures.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:35:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa...
gay_away_jay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:24 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The grey man with no face?
EDIT: spelt the grey gray instead if grey
Rommel79 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:00:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, M. Night Shyamalan.
LadyoftheWood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:07:18 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of the best ones in this thread. Damn I have chills.
[deleted] ยท 224 points ยท Posted at 20:26:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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pantherjones ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 01:15:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you throw holy water in her face?
Ravanas ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:39:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I swear, nothing in this world is as creepy as the maniacal laughter of a little girl.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:01:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Future /r/atheism poster.
WhatWouldJesusSay ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:39:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So the moral of the story is... sometimes it's the kid that has to deal with the parents imaginary friend.
GizmoMo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:41:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This just reminded me! One day my mom and brother (5 at the time) were driving up a hill when my brother says "watch out for the orange peel in the road" ... as they reach the top of the hill and start back down the other side my mom spots AN ORANGE PEEL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD! Total weirdo...
SgtFuzzyNipple ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:07:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's hilarious.
Izzamort ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 22:29:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Smart kid :)
RileyDCoyote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
am I the only one picturing the little girl from knocked up saying this?
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1657 points ยท Posted at 18:21:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not me, but my father.
When my father was a kid in the 60's, he would go into the living room in the middle of the night, turn the TV on to static, climb on his rocking horse and slowly rock back and forth in the dark room only lit by the TV static and slowly say "I hate mommy. I hate mommy. I hate mommy." over and over again. My grandmother says it was the creepiest thing she's ever seen. Well, that and the UFO.
[deleted] ยท 1204 points ยท Posted at 19:23:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I accidentally skipped over "was a kid in the 60's" and pictured a 5-year old Polite_Werewolf walking in on his middle aged father on a rocking horse saying "I hate mommy."
Polite_Werewolf ยท 612 points ยท Posted at 19:47:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That probably would have been creepier.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:13:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah horror movies tell me that small children are the scariest things in existence.
astronomer7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:52:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is true.
TaydaTot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:27:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. Probably.
metal-legalize ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dad i think we should talk about your meds again
Polite_Werewolf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:56:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, he recently had shoulder surgery. So, with the stuff he was on, i probably wouldn't be THAT surprised to see that. Although, i'd wander where he got the rocking horse.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
now you know what dementia looks like
Hyperion1144 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:28:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I came that close to spitting coffee everywhere as the hilarious visual of this hit my brain... I can even feel a little coffee in my sinuses right now from choking back a laugh.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:03:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't decide which would be creepier.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:35:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did the exact same thing haha
bownskie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Story of my life.
Armadillo_gun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Made me laugh.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DIRECTED BY RICHARD KELLY
boopah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was laughing so hard that I couldn't keep my hand steady enough to upvote right away.
Velguarder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just started crying from laughter.
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that would be fucking halrious.
danceydancetime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't stop laughing at the mental image I have of this
theesotericrutabaga ยท 235 points ยท Posted at 19:27:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did he ever mention anything about the tv show candle cove?
ShallowBasketcase ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 20:44:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude! That was the best show ever!
I wonder if I can find a torrent for it somewhere. If I remember correctly, it was never really that popular.
theesotericrutabaga ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:55:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i know! i think i remember seeing some clips on youtube. but its weird, there are a few fake clips that people tried to copy the show or something
AndroGhost ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:08:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i really liked that show. especially where they go and visit that uninhibited island
troyanonymous1 ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 21:10:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The island was really drunk.
xyroclast ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:57:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and kind of a whore
Dean97 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:48:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, you guys were allowed to watch that show? My mom made me stop after the episode where they all screamed...just screamed.
Boyblunder ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 21:31:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
IT WAS STATIC THE WHOLE TIME.
Eminian ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:24:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It is so unpopular that it has become a creepypasta. People are arguing over if it was real or not.
ShallowBasketcase ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:47:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if woosh...
Eminian ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:51:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn I made myself look stupid again
ShallowBasketcase ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:53:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Either that, or I did.
I mean, yeah. Totally stupid. You should be ashamed.
str1keupthe8and ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 19:51:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You stop that! You stop that right now!
theesotericrutabaga ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 20:01:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh so youve seen it too? im glad. i was starting to think i had imagined it.
venusdoom135 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:12:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, that TV show was more popular than I thought
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:34:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Context
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:54:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god, no e,e
Dragoryu3000 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:08:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, I haven't even thought about that show for years now XD
TheAntZ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:42:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That had pirates or some shit in it right? I remember i was the only one of my friends to watch it and i dont know why, it was awesome
theesotericrutabaga ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:54:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah! And this creepy skeleton monster.
GrislyGrizzly ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:58:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit I read about this a few months ago.. Fucking creepy
DJBell1986 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:51:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEJjsEnoH24
incrediblebonk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:51:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! I would like to know as well
LeapYearFriend ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thanks for reminding me of that, dingbat. now i'm not sleeping tonight.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I love that story! Post it!
Neoaris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bloody gimmick if you ask me. In the olden days when we didn't have Televisions and the like we'd simply draw pentagrams.
contagious6 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Skin-Taker...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fuck not this again
SgtFuzzyNipple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aw, dude I loved that show!
hautegauche ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:46 on November 23, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
[deleted] ยท 297 points ยท Posted at 18:34:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Polite_Werewolf ยท 401 points ยท Posted at 18:36:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. She claims to have seen a UFO about 20 years ago.
[deleted] ยท 585 points ยท Posted at 18:47:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was probably Russians.
I_CATS ยท 306 points ยท Posted at 19:04:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever seen a Russian or been in Russia? Just like have you ever seen a weather balloon? They are both government lies to hide the alien presense on Earth!
RussianPie ยท 157 points ยท Posted at 19:31:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does seeing myself count?
DrewM254 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 19:47:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, George Bush
mythcaptor ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:52:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If french fries aren't from France, the why should I believe a russian pie is from Russia?
RussianPie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a hint
What is "pie" another name for (not necessarily clean mind needed)
RexArcana ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:51:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It means foot in spanish!
RussianPie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
True, feet arent always clean. But not what I was looking for
KarmicBurn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:15:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pie is another word for delicious. When I find you, I will eat you.
RussianPie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ohstopityou.jpg
Ruvaak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:51:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pile of dung?
Sinnic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:13:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, you are a pie.
RussianPie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Many versions of pie..
Sinnic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:32:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pie to the ะธ'th digit?
ckelley87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mmmm.... pie.
skucera ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:43:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
buzzkill_aldrin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, them.
Sk33tshot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No. Doesn't count.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, Vladimir Putin.
NeonToaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're a weather balloon?
cuddles_the_destroye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No! Because you are actually alien!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you a weather balloon?
RedStill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're a figment of your own imagination
RussianPie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:44:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can I walk through walls?!
RedStill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:58:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
try!
RussianPie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:02:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna need a running start!
RedStill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly my thought
LetMeResearchThat4U ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Take a camera and. Film yourself trying for science!
Clavicule_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:01:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Remember, the cake is a lie !
RussianPie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My whole life has been a lie then!
[deleted] ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 19:21:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you've ever been to a fucking Turkish or Greek beach, then you've seen russians. They're fucking all over the place.
sophelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:52 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't there a law against fucking all over the place in Turkish or Greek beaches?
jikls ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:02:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Russian here. Can confirm we are a myth.
WORTHLESSPIECEOFPOOP ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:38:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you Dale Gribble?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:10:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've always wondered what the impetus for those designs actually was... there were a number of them, and they all occurred around the same decade. It's such a radical departure from all other aircraft then(and now) and there was clearly A LOT of engineering time and money put into them despite the underlying aerodynamic concept being flawed...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:12:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sarah Palin sees them on a regular basis.
Meanderthal1212 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever tried to describe the weather without the help of a balloon?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yeah, ive never heard of weather balloons outside of UFO talk
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be rushin.
AiKantSpel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have met at least 2 russians
0l01o1ol0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa. Just had a real Keanu moment there.
HeMightBeJoking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you suggesting that Russia doesn't exist?
TheGullGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, the government just wants you to think it is fairly benign aliens! They are covering up a much great agenda! THE COLONISTS ARE COMING
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just like South Dakota, and peopke who eat SPAM.
lPFreely ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now you wait a second, mister. I've been to Alaska, and I was able to see Russia from there. I know it's real!
avsa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The moon landing was faked using the technology we got from the aliens!
BYAHBYAHBYAH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're bears on unicycles. Every one.
spencer_duley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn commies
m45t3rg33k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In communist Russian, Aliens abduct you!
DrRomulak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or Venus. Probably Russians, though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yo! Douche bag! Yeah I'm 100% Russian. Those steriotypes are offensive to no end. ะขั ะดััะฐะบ ะธ ะดะพะปะถะตะฝ ะฟะพะนัะธ ะบ ัะพััั.
TheGullGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Krycek...
Neoaris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
20 not 60
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. The old Russian flying disk trick.
drakz1337 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:52:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Joseph Stalin flies a UFO in Alien Hominid
rravisha ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:55:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Russians look like people too.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:23:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:42:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Green_Ninja_Muncher ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:00:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother says the same thing. She swears up and down that she has seen a UFO, and if you ever try to say it was something else, she gets really defensive and angry.
Polite_Werewolf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:28:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if her eyes weren't playing a trick on her, it's pretty interesting.
Green_Ninja_Muncher ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:15:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She claims it was a large disk, and it was moving slowly towards the foothills. She said she followed it in her car for about 15 miles before she ran out of road.
Granted, this was the 80's. Who knows what sort of things she could have been on.
Polite_Werewolf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:57:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now, that's interesting. And, i can't even say "who knows what sort of things she could have been on" because she didn't even start drinking until after her husband died. Well, that's not entirely true. There was that time at the Grand Canyon.
Green_Ninja_Muncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother was young at the time, no kids, and really in to the whole party scene. She claims sobriety during this time, though, so who knows? Your grandmother, my mother.. maybe there really are UFOs. :P
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:06 on August 21, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you end all your stories with segues?
Polite_Werewolf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:13:58 on August 21, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not always. Well, except for that time i met the cast of The Devil's Rejects.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:01:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aliens.
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why does he always look like somebody shocked his scrotum with a taser?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:23:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
describe said UFO
Polite_Werewolf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:37:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If i remember right, she said it was similar to the classic "flying disk" look, but with a lot of multi-colored lights, and a number of smaller red glowing orbs "orbiting" around it. She said she saw it hovering above a house that's actually about five minutes down the road from where i live, and it shot up into the sky.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:25:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Where abouts do you live? Just roughly, not your address.
Polite_Werewolf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Massachusetts.
link11020 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:27:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So what's it like being a werewolf?
Polite_Werewolf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:33:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not too bad... Until shedding season. Not to mention the awkward reactions by people when i realize their silverware is actually silver. I guess "silverware" kinda gives it away.
zanycaswell ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:52:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw UFO once. Don't know that it was aliens, but, you know, object, flying, unidentified.
It was like a sphere in the sky with a regular pattern of lights on its surface. It didn't move and then it disappeared. To be fair I was like, 8 at the time.
Chazay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandparents claim they saw a ufo 20 years ago in new Mexico.
ObamaisYoGabbaGabba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone claims to have seen a UFO, it's true, ask them, ask everyone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin's grandma swears she's seen one as well. I don't actually believe her but she's pretty convinced.
milkomeda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Story?
FuckMyLifeGooner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Details!
Noshing ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:02:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably seen a flying object that she couldn't identify, and was like UFO!!!
Polite_Werewolf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:27:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well..... Yeah.
qweswr2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't ask dammit... this is how the cumbox came to be...
tloxscrew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You can identify every flying object you see?
I've seen a lot of UFOs.
What they were, I can't tell.
ytlty516 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:46:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Rocking Horse Winner?
notevenclosebby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
in a nutshell.
colinsteadman ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:23:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Where is ShittyWaterColor when you need him?
Polite_Werewolf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:20:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd actually like to see that.
7UPvote ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:48:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stewie?
bluefactories ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:12:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... That gave me the best sense of character for your grandmother, I think. It was pretty well written, really.
Polite_Werewolf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She's quite a character.
THE_DINOSAUR_QUEEN ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of Poltergeist, the first horror movie I ever saw.
Remy1985 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:37:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of The Rocking Horse Winner.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:55:12 on July 10, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure your dad isn't a DH Lawrence character?
losertalk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, hell, I do that now.
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... How old is your rocking horse?
losertalk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Um, all except the rocking horse. I do it in bed at night in the dark room and I have a white noise generator that I use during sleep. So yeah, I recognize the sentiment.
Actually, I usually sing made-up songs where the lyrics are really repetitive such as "Wish she were dead, oh wish oh woe, wish she were dead dead dead, yo".
stutterbutt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You can't just leave us hangin' like that! I wanna know about the UFO too!
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I described it in another post.
"If i remember right, she said it was similar to the classic "flying disk" look, but with a lot of multi-colored lights, and a number of smaller red glowing orbs "orbiting" around it. She said she saw it hovering above a house that's actually about five minutes down the road from where i live, and it shot up into the sky."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that you're a werewolf didn't creep her out?
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She has become a lot more open minded since then.
narwhombat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sigh The UFO?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A cartoon baby? No. I don't think so.
puss_parkerswidow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
check our the Roald Dahl short story "the Rocking Horse Winner", you might enjoy
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
People keep saying that. I might check it out.
frostbyte8bit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I always feel like...somebody's watching meeee
And I have no privacy, ohhwoahoh
Chris_Iceberg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The static TV made me expect your dad to turn around and go "They're here..."
Ah, poltergeist, how you scared me so.
njtrafficsignshopper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did he really hate her?
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You'll have to ask him.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Rocking Horse Winner?
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I heard about this for the first time after telling the story and people keep mentioning it. How close is the story?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Somewhat eerily actually, albeit thematically.
Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocking-Horse_Winner
Pay special attention to "Interpretation."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Candle Cove
angg56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:55 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to know about this UFO you mentioned.
definitelyC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, wait... I've heard this story before. It was about a kid who was picking winning numbers from the horse races for some family member. I don't remember all of the details, but I read it back in high school... I call BS.
crasyfase ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:40:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's a famous short story called "The Rocking Horse Winner"
definitelyC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:54:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's the one. Thanks. I guess it was in my high school English textbook. I remember reading that thing cover to cover out of boredom... Upvotes for you, sah.
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:52:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, it is true. I have no clue what you're talking about.
venacava91 ยท 837 points ยท Posted at 19:38:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but my little sister. When we were younger (elementary school aged) we shared a room. She would often say things in her sleep, but it was usually incomprehensible and nothing interesting.
One night I wake up because I hear a strange noise. I turn over in my bed and in the dimly lit room I see that she is sitting stick straight on her bed and staring at me. I was already a little bit creeped out but I thought something was wrong, so I got out of bed and walked up to her. The second I sat down on her bed, she cocked her head a bit and while staring at me very intensely started singing the creepiest song I've ever heard in a possessed little girl voice.
Needless to say, I spent the rest of the night sleeping in the living room.
throwaway42 ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 20:37:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you remember the lyrics? Can you record an impression?
venacava91 ยท 86 points ยท Posted at 21:46:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was a completely made up song. Mostly just la's and da's.
SnowingSwede ยท 387 points ยท Posted at 22:21:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should've responded by singing the Ghostbusters theme song.
abcdefghitran ยท 122 points ยท Posted at 00:34:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For every single scary story, I'm really glad that there's at least one funny/ridiculous/inappropriate comment to make me feel less paranoid.... phew
astronomer7 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:12:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously! The Ghostbusters thing made me laugh enough to erase some of the disturbance the original story caused in me. This is a creepy thread but I can't stop reading...
Fireynis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:24 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seconded
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:03:53 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are comments? Where?
Gamejunk ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:30:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You deserve more upvotes.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:38:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You made me mouth, "I ain't 'fraid of no ghosts".
weareraccoons ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:35:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was my brother's advice when I told him how much I hated having to walk through the abandoned psyche ward where I work (security at an old hospital). I told him I didn't want to make it some sort of challenge. It's easy to say you don't believe in ghosts but let me tell you when you are walking through an old psyche ward at 3am you might find yourself walking a little faster...
leviticus11 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:36:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I worked the 10pm-6am shift in the alzheimers/dementia ward of the old folks home once. ONCE. I wasn't a trained nurse or caretaker, I was just a kid that needed a summer job and they had me work this shift one day there, all alone. SO scary.
weareraccoons ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:16:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Being around those patients is scary by itself before tossing in any supernatural stuff. I was chatting with some other staff one night and the topic of ghosts came up. One that worked on one of the ward just shrugged "Ya, you see them up there. You just start to ignore them after awhile".
sirjoebob ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:06:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only Zool!!!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:08:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
if theres something strange
in the neighbourhood
who ya gonna call?
moswald ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 21:59:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh dear god.
Augan ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 23:09:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I regret visiting this thread before bed x(
keanehoody ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was in bed! The light was off!
It's now 6am and im sleeping with the light on
astronomer7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me too :(
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:35:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was the first song that came to mind when I misread your comment.
throwaway42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aww too bad =/
PENISPUNCHER ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 21:12:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More importantly, have you finished the dance moves yet?
Vomit_Comet ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 21:14:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It involves multiple punches to the penis.
imbapwnn00b ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:53:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This kills the penis.
galk44 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:27:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LIES!!! If this certain event happened to me I don't think I would be able to sleep for like a month
RhinoMan2112 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:49:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hands down scariest story yet..... I'm not sleeping tonight....
Ikhtionikos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:54:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you happen to remember the song?
Shiftyyy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:55:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yes "sleeping" in the living room...
IoM_Ghostmaker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:31:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know, I'd have fapped too!
patmcrotch42069 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:07:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was probably a song of affection if that makes you feel better. Like her consciousness was asleep but basic functions still worked so she knew she loved you and that was the tune to her emotions if that makes any sense. I've done a lot of drugs, so bear with me.
wishbee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This comment made me very happy, and I agree with you. Then again, I also do drugs.
patmcrotch42069 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:33 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think drug usage connotes intelligence but I think it requires intelligence to want to do drugs. That helps me.
googahgee ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:49:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Happy cake day, mine's in 5 days! It's also my first.
venacava91 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:52:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thanks! :)
[deleted] ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 23:00:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No one fucking cares.
googahgee ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:31:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Venacava did, now you hurt their feelings. Think about what you've done.
jrhnemo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:55:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You win.
RednBIack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Song?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good fucking Lord, that was intense. As I read your comment, I was listening to the song "Crawlspace" by Two Steps from Hell and it times up perfectly with the comment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi1A8Bu9cvI&feature=player_detailpage#t=29s
"The second I sat down on her bed, she cocked her head a bit and while staring at me very intensely started singing the creepiest song I've ever heard in a possessed little girl voice."
Shit, now I'm scared.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ray_quazawski ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:27:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not even close to number 1 rule.
SaraJeanQueen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Life is a mystery.. everyone must stand alone.. I hear you call my name, and it feels like.. HOME."
Creepiest song.
goklissa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:18:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am crying.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
happy cakeday!
gabypoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:57:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister and I also shared a room when we were kids. She sleep-walked a lot, but the worst was when she'd sit up slowly, stand up and walk over to my bed and to just watch me with wide eyes.
It scared me so much that I was usually speechless for a bit. Then I guided her back to bed and she would look at me wide-eyed for a while until she knocked out again.
It was like this until I was so aware while I slept, that I'd feel her getting up right away. I learned to soothe back down and sleep. O__O
DP4Man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I want to know which song it was :(
redgirl3245 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What song?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was it like the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" song from Dead Space?
sveccha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story by far filled me with the most visceral fear - my son and daughter share a room and it was really easy/creepy to imagine. What did your sister think when you related what happened to her...or did you?
venacava91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:59:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She said she had absolutely no recollection of doing it and thought it was funny. It was NOT funny.
Narwalsbacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck. Holy. Fuck.
gibbygab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Any explanation as to why she did this? I feel that this is a detail I need to know.
goblin__king ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me too! Except she didn't sing. It was fucking terrifying.
bgrumps603 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was it Tiny Tim-Tiptoe through the tulips?
nourez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it wrong I instantly thought of the "go away spider" song from Terra Nova?
McBoregano ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if your sister is possessed or just a troll.
AnorexicBuddha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Then you proceeded to nope the fuck out of there. Jesus, that story freaked me out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mother of fuck..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One two Freddie's comin for you Three four Lock your door
that_pie_face ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She just wanted the room to herself.
jhendrix7000 ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 21:22:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for not mentioning ITS MY CAKEDAY
Matthias21 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:15:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude...
DavinderB ยท 204 points ยท Posted at 20:00:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
During a tantrum, my two year old niece told her mom, "I'm not yours and I'm not daddy's. I'm the scary man's." (They don't speak English at home, so that's an inexact translation. She essentially said she was the devil's child).
Freakarific ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:46:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NOPENOPENOPENOPE
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:56:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What was the original language?
DavinderB ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:26:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Punjabi.
There isn't a direct translation for the word she used, the closest would be something like "the scary one", but even that's clumsy. Scarer? Frightener? It was a cobbled word like that, where it isn't something from common usage, but rather a word that a kid puts together. And she used the masculine rather than the feminine, which is why I went with "scary man."
Because of her word choice it wasn't dark or scary when she said it (as opposed to if she'd used the actual word for "demon," say), so we all had a good laugh. Of course, that's what everyone does in the horror movie before things go crazy.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:41:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chakk de phatte!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:05:42 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sighs too much death metal and weed...kids these days!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:47:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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JeremyR22 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:48:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It strikes me as the sort of thing a child wouldn't come up with by themselves but would be repeating something that they'd been told... Unfortunately.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:56:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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TheBirdAbides ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:01:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like they might not have been calling their kid "the devil's child" directly. With the way kids' minds work, a parent can say something like, "don't do [something bad]. No child of mine does that" or "only devil's children do such and such"
Instead of not doing it, they do it and say they're not that person's child. Kids are silly.
buttercup_mauler ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:05:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting insight! Children are silly. Be careful what you say!
Blt2002 ยท 1553 points ยท Posted at 18:45:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My one son was eating chicken nuggets and he would always eat the breading off it first, he takes a bite of the breading and then says "Oh no! Your face is missing!"
Eats_Beef_Steak ยท 1001 points ยท Posted at 18:54:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats fucking hilarious.
x-tophe ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 19:10:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh no, what happened to your arm!?
ErogenousGnome ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 20:05:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tis but a flesh wound!
Hates_Misquotes ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:26:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"It's just a flesh wound," or
"Tis but a scratch!"
Aiyon ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:58:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was a 2-for-1 offer.
Floor_warrior ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:50:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nom nom nom
thumper7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:59:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Its only natural to strategically dismember your food... First I shall eat the bears ears! >:D
Suffering123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:57 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THat comment killed me laughing. I hope your happy
Mikey1ee7 ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 19:30:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do any of you know what pom-bears are?
guineapiglets ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:43:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes fucking Pom bears! Always head first, then all the limbs.
Super_Furry_Monkey ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 19:50:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Limbs first, save the head until last. That way they can scream through the whole thing.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:51:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pffff I just place them carefully on my tongue and SUCK THEM TILL THEY DISSOLVE
MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ymahaguy3388 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:53:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Teddy Grahams?
retro_llama ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:22:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These little bastards
ymahaguy3388 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:27:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Really happy Teddy Grahams*
Nah_Im_Playin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:10:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm with you. I have no idea what they are talking about lol Sounds like Teddy Grahams to me tho.
guineapiglets ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahahah good choice
Melivora ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:59:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking delicious is what they are! I hate ready salted crisps but I could happily destroy bags of pom bears, a limb at a time.
Nimanzer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking delicious bear shapes crisps. Thanks for reminding me, I'm gonna go buy myself some tomorrow.
supersnuffy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:34:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wish they came in like. Big packets. I feel less bad when I eat a big packet of crisps as apposed to 6 smaller packets.
dumbledorkus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can destroy a six pack of Pom-Bears in like 10 minutes. Shit's delicious. I swear I got them in a big bag in France once but I haven't seen them since.
pyratus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or Jelly Babies!
googahgee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:39:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, I'm The Doctor, And this is crazy, But would you like, A Jelly Baby?
andytuba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pom bears? Is that more like Teddy Grahams (bears shapes of graham cracker/digestifs) or gummi bears?
retro_llama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chips shaped like teddy bears
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
porn-bears?
Guyot11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
read that as porn-bears, was thoroughly confused for a minute there.
transonicduke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I fucking love pom bears, they make me feel like a hungry giant!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Misread that as "porn bear". Reddit's kerning sucks.
eVaan13 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:19:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No. We fucking feed on pom fishes because we think it's too brutal to bite off bear chips.
shaithew ยท 522 points ยท Posted at 19:38:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should probably stop giving your kid bath salts...
flume ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 19:54:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The guy didn't have anything but weed in his system. He was just fucking insane apparently.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/27/2871098/mes-report-eugene-had-no-drugs.html
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:07:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But his family and girlfriend said he was never violent! It's so crazy!
flume ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:11:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Marijuana has been linked to schizophrenia, hasn't it?
DeeBoFour20 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:14:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only if you're predisposed to it but even still most skitzophrinics aren't violent.
flume ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:21:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah well, I'd bet the chances of someone being predisposed to schizophrenia, smoking weed, becoming violently schizophrenic, and eating someone's face are significantly higher than the chances that any random person off the street will eat someone's face.
I'm going to stop now before anyone thinks I'm anti-marijuana.
RoflCopter4 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:30:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Too late. They'll cut your balls off for this.
JarJarB ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:37:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm already sharpening my knife.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:23:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mine's blunt. :O
flume ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My balls just shuddered. Individually. In succession. And then it went up and down my spine. Please stay away from me. But if you must find me, I live in... Malaysia. Yeah... Malaysia.
kjeppz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so is being born in the winter months... ....we know so little about schizophrenia.
EDIT: we know so little about what causes schizophrenia.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:36:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe. I'm not sure.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:18:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He just had the munchies.
Shadoblak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well fuck.
xyroclast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And somewhere, someone is blaming pot for cannibal violence
flume ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure it's going to have more implications that "somewhere, someone", unfortunately.
ICantSeeIt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, face eater guy actually had no traces of bath salts in his system. Just a mental disorder.
gleeble ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
*weed
wiener4hir3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Really, have i been living under a rock? I have heard that bath salt joke so many times now, but i still don't know where it comes from. Care to elaborate?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:38:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a drug that is sold to look like bath salt, even though the buyers know its real purpose. Also, a guy who had taken bath salts ate someone else's face or something like that. Basically cannibal jokes.
wiener4hir3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. Didn't see that one coming. Also, i love your username.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:31:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man, bath salt jokes were funny like, last month.
henfruit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:40:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hur hur hur, bath salt jokes are soooo funny!
Acrob ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:34:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's a pretty standard thing to do as a child - when I was younger, I used to mold my playdough in the shape of a head, but bury some object, like a penny, inside and play 'brain surgery'. Just normal kid activities!
crazicrystal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was how I ate chicken nuggets as a kid too.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:57:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did that too! Still do...
idlestone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/179105-1/Faceless.gif Oh no! Your face is missing.
EDIT: I'd say the gif might be slightly unsafe for work.
UnderDogs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What is this from?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE FUCK
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do this a toddler! I also said things like "try living without a head" and "everyone on this plate is going down" before eating food. My mom was convinced I was getting violent thoughts from "Speed Racer" and made me stop watching it. :(
wallofeden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:00:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
bath salts.
idrathernaut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was he on bath salts?
Crims0nHawK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh no.
s3harp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was refreshingly not creepy like the rest of the stuff in this thread. 10/10 would not get creeped out again!
HorseGrenade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother said something very similar as a child that sounded serial killerish. He did the same thing with his chicken nuggets, and when our mother asked him why he did it, he told her, "I like to peel their skin off while they're still warm, then I eat them."
Michi_THE_Awesome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I do that to the marshmallow peeps and bunnies.
brokenpheonix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Um... I did something similar as a kid. My mom would buy me animal crackers and I would bite the heads off and put the bodies back in the bag. When I would complain I didn't have any animal crackers left she dumped the bag on the table and said something about all of my animal crackers. My mom told me that I, with all of the terror only a child can possess told her "No. I ate the heads off of those animal crackers. They can't feel me eating them anymore, silly!" And then giggled. She never bought me animal crackers again.
Vault-tecPR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hide the bath salts, for the love of all that is good in this world!
noirpat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
do not give this boy bath salts.
SpermWhale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bath Salt flavored nuggets. FTFY.
snackpockets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
keep him away from bath salts
boopah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was your 1000th upvote. It feels good.
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thats not creepy, its easy to explain, he was talking to the nugget and pretending that it was a person(:
RawrCola ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I still do this.
BrainSlurper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LUA error
roariah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it weird that I automatically assumed that the chicken nuggets were dinosaur-shaped?
patmcrotch42069 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to metal growl "burn in flames" when my Burner my charizard used flamethrower.
icario ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did that with pizza. Scraped all the cheese off then laughed that I'd peeled the pizza's face off. In retrospect, that was weird.
YouLikeFishStix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did that too... But only because I loved the breading, not cuz I'm a weirdo
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha that's what I did when I was a kid to any food that looked like an animal \
edit: favourite one were the old dinosaur chicken nuggets from Mcdonalds
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm laughing on the outside but I'm slightly disturbed on the inside...
hunaluv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did the chicken nugget look like the grandpa from The Simpsons?
Aquamentus92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lsd-laced chicken nugs. always a good prank.
claylking ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:56:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...bath salts...
DocHopper ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:11:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"And that was the very first time he got into the bath salts..."
challengereality ยท 809 points ยท Posted at 19:22:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but the kid I was babysitting. And perhaps more sad than frightening.
I used to babysit two brothers, one was 9, the other 4. The 4-year-old was a pretty typical kid, while the 9-year-old was really distant and sometimes downright cruel. He would flip out at his younger brother (phsyically and verbally) for the smallest things and would laugh if the younger hurt himself, etc. It was tough mediating between them, and the parents seemed oblivious to how much the older brother loathed the younger. I figured the age difference was really all it was, but sometimes I sensed a real hatred radiating from the older brother.
So one day at the playground the 4-year-old's friend comes up and says the younger brother has been telling everyone, 'My brother is a killer!'
I pull the 4-year-old aside and say, 'Hey, it isn't nice to tell your friends that your older brother is a killer.'
To which he dispassionatly responds, 'But he is a killer. He kills me every day.' It was like the younger had given up. Really disconcerting to see a 4-year-old so.... I dunno, hopeless.
synapsesynopsis ยท 249 points ยท Posted at 19:41:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this made me sad.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:02:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wanna hug?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:14:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wanna hug that little boy :*(
demalition90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yes =[
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
-Hug-
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:44:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thou hast spoken the obvious.
challengereality ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, man. I'm sorry. It makes me really sad too.
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 20:41:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Peter Wiggin, anybody?
challengereality ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ha, I read that book and thought of the older brother when I read the part about Peter. But Peter was much worse.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's hard to compare Peter Wiggin to most human children though lol
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ender's Game reference?
tametu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:31:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, I was afraid no one had made that comment.
[deleted] ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 20:31:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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megret ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:33:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few weeks ago I was discussing that video of the bus monitor being bullied. The discussion was on Facebook, but it turned into a private discussion via email with my older sister. She was really abusive and mean to me when I was a kid, and she apologized for it. It meant a lot, even though 25 years had gone by. Go talk to your brother. It could do a lot of good.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:26:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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ladyofmachinery ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:55:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think being as cruel as I was back then has made me a much more mellow/understanding person now. It's hard for me to judge others, knowing the hatred and anger I use to carry.
pyjamaparts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're awesome. I know exactly how you feel. My brother has an intellectual disability and is 2 years younger than me. When we were much smaller I remember him giving me the shits and so I told him that I hated him. He cried and I instantly regretted it but was too much of a dick to admit it at the age of 7. I didn't hate him, I just didn't understand him. We're not very close now and I ended up being a Disability Support Worker. I still carry that around with me though.
challengereality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I really hope that kid grows out of that hatred, too! Good on you for apologizing.
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 20:22:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Children often confuse "Killing" with "fighting". I imagine it's because they see a scene on a movie where someone kills someone in a fight, and ask what is happening, and are probably told they killed them. I once saw a story about a little boy who's father stabbed him and his mother. He survived and called the police saying "My daddy just killed me".
starlettemax ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:51:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My three year old was going around telling everyone that he wanted to "kill" his sister. I was shocked and embarrassed, we have a very loving home. And he does hit her sometimes out of frustration. But one day a few weeks later I found out what he meant and it gave me such a sense of relief. He got ahold of the fly swatter and started chasing me with it telling me he was going to kill me. He then proceeded to "kill" our dog, by swatting him with the fly swatter. It turns out he saw my husband swatting at flies once and he thought swatting or hitting with a fly swatter=killing.
dlogan3344 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:26:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I often wonder how a cop keeps from beating someone who does things like this to innocent little children. I try to be a good man but how do you keep your sanity in a case like this one??
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Later in the news report they said that the father killed himself, but I agree. They're defective to the point that they are homicidal towards others. I'd probably just kill them to make the world a better place.
Furdinand ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:07:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/can-you-call-a-9-year-old-a-psychopath.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:11:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's so sad. Kids that age shouldn't even know what hopelessness and despair mean, unless its because they lost a toy or something.
Did you ever mention this to the parents? Did they ever do anything about the shittier kid? Did he grow up to be a real killer?
challengereality ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:40:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did try to bring it up to the mom, although I was too awkward to tell her that specific incident. She brushed it off and I was too unsure to press the issue. At the time I thought maybe I was being oversensitive; I'm a girl and had a sister, so I didn't really know if this was just 'boys being boys'.
I haven't seen the kids in almost 2 years, so I dunno how they're turning out.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:43:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No wonder her 9 year old was like that, if she's that unattentive. I'm sure he gets away with whatever. Some people shouldn't be parents.
MrVeryEpic ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:18:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is supposed to creep me out, not make me want to cry. :'(
Burntjumper ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:08:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dear god...I am going to counseling right now cause I went through this abuse my entire childhood with a sibling 5 years older than me. Affected me more than anything my parents did. And, yes, my parents too were and still are oblivious to it.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:11:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kenny?
the_peoples_elbow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:39:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is ridiculously sad. I'm never doing anything mean to my brothers ever again.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:20:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did the 4 year old grow up to be the hound?
taitabo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:47:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a friend that actually killed his little brother. He was 7, and the brother was 4. He hated him, so one day, he pushed him in front of a car. And that was that.
challengereality ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well that gives me hope for this situation.
Electroluv3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:40:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is pretty sad I remember not liking my little brother sometimes when we were young but damn we grew up and I wouldn't know what to do without him, hopefully something similar happend for these guys.
mlpjack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is the kid still as depressed and did you ever tell his parents?
challengereality ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:17:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I haven't seen them in 1.5 years, but a friend of mine sometimes still babysits for them and it doesn't sound like things have changed too much. I did try to approach it with the mother, but when she didn't respond I didn't push it. I really, really regret that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:31:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
would have told him that he is stronger than his older brother, which is why you keep coming back stronger and more alive.
ithunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:36 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:(
singul4r1ty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thought this might turn into Ender's Game. Was disappoint.
incraved ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually fuckin sad, I almost cried.
TheCigarMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... beat the shit out of him.
Bamboo_Razorwhip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Please tell me you stepped in. Talked to someone, got something done?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The 9 yr old showed signs of being well on the way to becoming a psycho (mainstream media logic at it's finest here). Wonder what became of him. Do you know?
challengereality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I often wondered if he was on the path towards becoming a psychopath. But he had at least 2 friends- he was definitely a loner but wasn't completely isolated. So he could maintain a relationship and could even be almost 'normal' when he was with his friends. It was just when it came to his younger brother that he really lashed out or became completely indifferent.
As for what happened to them, I haven't seen any of them in 1.5 years. A friend used to babysit for them a bit after I stopped and said things hadn't improved.
yourmomlurks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Read an article about psychopaths as children recently, and this freaks me out. It was full of true stories of children doing really awful things, like pushing a baby in a pool and pulling up a chair to watch them die.
frostbyte8bit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad re-married and had two kids with his new wife. I'm 17 and they're like, 2 and 3. They piss me off sometimes and it's the whole weird psychological "he's my dad" garbage that takes a lot of skill to ignore, but I've never had any kind of feelings like this. This kid needs to talk to someone, there's some sort of deep rooted issue going on and it's not fair to the younger one to have to live like that. I am truly sorry for his lots :P
SHFFLE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:'(
TrevelyanISU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Downvote for the piece of my soul this story took.
jrghoull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His parents are going to be having a lot of fun with the younger in a decade or two when all that sh*t finally comes crashing down on them in one form or another.
marchmello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother is 4 years older and he constantly hit me and tortured me. He used to hold my head under water in the pool. I have a fear of water now.
wigsternm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You babysat for Ender Wiggin?
da7id ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This should be top response. Most disturbing thing here.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My heart hurts now..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like my brother and I almost to the T. I'm 5 years older and used to beat on my brother excessively. Odd that I read this tonight because a lot of guilt has been building up about the abuse lately.
challengereality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just talk to your brother and apologize. Simple as that; you can't change the past so there's no sense in wallowing in guilt. But you can do something to help both of you now. Good luck man.
definitiv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa Cain and Abel
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure whether to upvote because of a good story or downvote because you made me so sad.
...upvote
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:12 on August 26, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
was the house you babysat in red?
challengereality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:24 on September 23, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, apartment.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:29:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
;,(
notchappedlips ยท 133 points ยท Posted at 21:44:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When my cousin was around 12 or so (she's almost 30), we were sitting around the table eating dinner and she very quietly left the table to rummage through her room followed by her brother's room across the hallway. After about 15 minutes she comes back empty handed, cleans her area and proceeds to sit in front of the tv. Her mother and brother asked what she was looking for, she replied, "A man just asked for a blanket because he's cold. I couldn't find a extra one to give to him". We entertained it and asked what he looked like, she gave a random description of a older man with a scruffy beard, brown shirt and dirty jeans. At that age we just chalked it up as imagination and left her alone. About a hour later the doorbell rings and my aunt answers it. She returns a few seconds later clearly shaken up and says, "There's a homeless man asking for a spare blanket. He's the man she was talking about". We all go to the door with my aunt to give him the blanket to see the scruffy homeless man in a dirty brown shirt and jeans. He politely takes the blanket, thanks her and leaves. My cousin states that was the man she was trying to help earlier.
Shit freaked me out for years.
TL;DR : Cousin trys to help a cold ghost but fails only to have it appear as a person to get a blanket.
Edited for TL;DR and typo
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:58:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Guess the homeless guy talked with them through a window or at the door. Imagine if they would have let him in...
TheInternetHivemind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:51 on November 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They probably would have taken a blanket and maybe a sandwich.
Source: Most people are actually pretty nice.
drawdelove ยท 1644 points ยท Posted at 19:52:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm never moving out" is the scariest sentence my 14 year old has uttered.
herpderp_roar ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 21:47:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's funny because my mom thinks the opposite. She's from Vietnam, culturally girls don't move out until they get married. I tell my mom I want to move out at the most when I am in my early 20's, and she flipped out saying I can't until I get married. I tell her I am planning to get married when I am 45 and she can just deal with me for another 27 years. She just laugh and says she changed her mind.
drawdelove ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:28:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, I can just imagine that, so cute.
nylolexchange ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:15:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like your mom is the nguyener.
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 22:37:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I told my mom this when I was 6 or 7. I stayed at my childhood home (with the exception of 4 years at college) until I was 28, at which point she sold the house. I tried buying my own place, but unfortunately it fell through. Two weeks after the closing on my childhood home, my mom's realtor asks me if I'm still living in a hotel (which I was at the time). I said yes, and he told me that the new owner was looking to rent out my childhood home. He put me in touch with the new owner, and I moved in a week later.
TL;DR I told my mom I'd never move out of that house, and I meant it.
xucoalex ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 22:53:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I see that you play to win
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:13:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're damn right I do.
drawdelove ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:04:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm living in my childhood home too! When I grew up, my parents moved out ;)
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:14:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's awesome! Did you buy it from them or did they just give it to you?
drawdelove ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:19:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, my brother was buying it from them, I did move out for about 2 years. But my brothers life took a huge turn & he needed help with the house. I moved back in with my boyfriend (now hubby) just to help him out. Then he met someone, got married & she already had a house, so we did a quick claim deed & took over his mortgage. That was 18 years ago! Interestingly enough, my mom grew up here too. Her parents sold it to my mom & dad for a dollar!
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:24:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty sweet. I wish I could've swept up this house, but it was not to be. Bright side is I'm lazy and since I'm renting, all I need to do is keep stuff clean! No repairs required!
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 20:24:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kudos
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:39:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dad? I have said that exact same thing to my father when I was 14. Is your name Ed?
Styx_ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:38:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That'd be fuckin' sweet if your parents were redditors.
drawdelove ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:27:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, no & I'm a mom :) must just be a 14 year old thing to say to freak out your parents!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:29:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, my apologies.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:50:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like it's time to go creep out my parents! :D
BIGMc_LARGEHUGE ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:49:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why doesn't this have more upvotes?
radaeron ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:01:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps he just has really great insight into the state of the economy :/
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:51:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm having an issue WITH moving out. My parents don't want me to leave and anytime i bring up the topic it is hushed away quickly ._. i want independence
mtc10012 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:23:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Kidnap" yourself? Go to college? Start a bank account they don't know about and save up to move into your own place? Start dating an older partner with their own place? Counseling? Or you could put all your stuff in a bandanna tied to a stick and walk off with it on your shoulder while they watch in amazement.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:37:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao if i really wanted to move out they wouldn't stop me and i got plenty of money but i feel bad about leaving my mom alone we are so close. Shes always so sad when i mention it. Though i love the bandanna idea picturing people doing that always makes me laugh
SoapNukeZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:33:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey dad, I'm not moving out.
geekgirlshavemorefun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:19:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 9 year old daughter tells me that now. Mostly it's she's going to live with us till she's 30 and then live next door to us forever. Helllooo My Big Fat Greek Wedding!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:11:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If your kid is still 14 and saying that, don't worry. As a 17-year-old, I remember I used to say that to my parents (I even planned to get married and move into the house with my wife), but now I plan to get out of here very soon y parents are great an everything, I just wanna go to college and get my own place). You're fine
loonyloveg00d ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:16:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Make her get a job and pay rent and see how long that lasts.
austinette ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old has informed us of the same. He plans to marry and have children and live with us. The best part? He says he wants 8 kids. He is an only child.
nourez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank god your post came after that fuckton of creepiness. If this thread had just ended on that I seriously doubt I'd be getting any sleep tonight.
Edit: and ruck, I kept going. No sleep for me tonight.
mangeek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to threaten moving out almost daily, starting when I was 13. One day when I was 19 I actually did, but my parents thought I was bluffing... Right up until I disassembled my bed and strapped it to the roof of the car.
And that was the last time I took anything tangible of value from them. Feels good.
Dr-Farnsworth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:58:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Monster
squeak21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:03:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha I told my parents that as well, I moved out last year. Might as well not have always ringing me asking when I'll be home again.
AstheniaRocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kill it with fire, my brother is 28 and living at home!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mum?
imeanthat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well there's your problem.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:33:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you, mom.
Spennyb100 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
14 here and this idea scares me.
I read a study that found a direct correlation between the number of males between the ages of 25-40 living with their parents and the state of the economy. Guess which country has the highest percentage of 25-40 males living with their parents:
Greece.
TL;DR this article has convinced me that by living with my parents I will destroy this country.
[deleted] ยท 131 points ยท Posted at 19:58:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5 year old daughter, just 3 weeks ago, said she wants to die. That was a tough one.
technicolorparadise ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 21:34:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While it could be nothing, you may want to look into getting a therapist for your daughter. Kids as young as six have been known to have depression, and even commit suicide.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 21:57:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids as young as six also spend a lot of time thinking about things they don't understand, like death. The best way to understand something is to experience it. Most kids don't actually want to die, they just want to understand what it's like.
technicolorparadise ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:30:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
True enough, there are plenty of kids who aren't depressed who think about death; but it might not be a situation a parent wants to risk. Just because she may not actually want to die, doesn't mean she might not try it. She probably doesn't understand the permanence of it.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:37:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh for sure, it's not something to just brush off. But once you sit down with the kid and have a good honest conversation with them about death and what it actually entails, I would hope that it would end up with them realizing that it's not actually something they want right now.
NTesla ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:17:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
It's probably ok. My daughter said the same thing when she was seven. She's 26 now, living life in a rather extreme way. So no signs of wanting to die. Your daughter will be fine.
We did have some suspicion that she had been molested at her day care. But we were wrong. Turns out it was probably my mom :/
Did you ask her why?
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NTesla ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:21:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was the point I was trying to make.
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NTesla ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:34:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Right on. For me it was eighteen. 99 stitches. Massive arm-scars to this day (I'm old ;) Abusive, alcoholic fathers bite it hard :/ How are you doing with all that these days?
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NTesla ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:54:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Congratulations on your degree. That's quite an accomplishment.
My dad was dead by the time he was 50. Basically drank himself to death. I'm older than that now, and I understand that most of his heinousness wasn't his fault. His mother was a horrific person. That doesn't justify his meanness though. I had a horrific parent, and I am far from being anything like him, so he's still responsible.
Before he died, he was in a coma for eight months. There's is some evidence that he was conscious during that time. I never went to visit him. When I got the call, at work, that he had finally died, my only thought was "Well. I guess this is how it's going to be." and I went back to work. That was in the mid-eighties. To this day, I still haven't had a single regret. My mom died last year and I didn't go to her funeral. She wasn't alcoholically twisted, but she was mean and uneducated and cruel.
It's taken forever to get over all that, but when I was in my late thirties I realized that instead of being the product of my past, I should become the agent of my future. Things really took off after that. My wife really loves me, and that's more than I could ever say about my mom. I'm ten years behind everyone else because I had to go through ten recovery years, but that makes me seem young and people like that for some reason :)
Things will get better if you can just wait them out. That's the truth. Divorce your father. He doesn't deserve you.
frostbyte8bit ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:46:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You and buttercup_mauler are my heroes.
I've had depression for a while, and I've tried it before, but I finally got over it two years ago when I started my relationship with my current girlfriend. It comes back sometimes, but I've never felt like I did since then. Thank you for sharing your story though, it made me feel like if it ever comes back, I'll be able to handle it better :) Thank you :)
Amaelyn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
remember that feeling regardless of what happens <3
frostbyte8bit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She's changed my entire outlook on life. Even if it doesn't work out (we're still really young, and we're a month away from departing for different schools), I'll never forget her and what she's done for me. I don't think we could ever stop at least being friends :)
I've completely turned around since that low point a few years ago. I never actually faced it or anything, until now. I'm in the midst of writing an album about the story of it and how I fixed it :) I'll be sure to post it on here when it's done!
Thank you for reading my post :)
buttercup_mauler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much for telling me your story. It's heart wrenching and yet I feel the similarity in our feelings, which is reassuring. I'm glad you are doing well as it gives me hope for my future! I fear for the day that my dad ends up dead, mostly because I don't know how I'll feel. I'll just take it one day at a time and worry about me, not him. Thank you again.
auntjomomma ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:55:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm confused...I'm going to assume that you meant your mom was most likely the one who molested her? How did you come to this conclusion? and if your mother is indeed the one who did it, I'm so sorry. That is an awful position to be in.
NTesla ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 22:26:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's long story over several years, but the main factor is that my mother would often play a game with my daughter called "Bad Hand". The 'bad hand' would do something bad, and then they would both giggle like crazy. I just thought they were having fun, and I never really though anything about it, until one day I wondered "What makes the bad-hand 'bad'? Then some things started falling into place. I once asked my mom, when she was old, how, living on a farm in the middle of nowhere she found out about masturbation. She told me her older sisters showed her. There's a lot more, but it would take a long time to list it all.
The clincher was when my daughter came to me and said that she didn't want to sleep with grandma anymore. I asked why, and she said that grandma always squeezes her too tight and won't let her go and always wants to play Bad-Hand.
auntjomomma ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:59:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wow...I'm so sorry that your kid had to go through that. I was molested as a child. The fear from that when it comes to my child is awful. I hope she is doing ok.
NTesla ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:39:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I raised her to always question authority and never to believe anything that was simply a matter of speculation, and to always rely on her own experience. Now I'm one of those 'authorities' she ignores and we don't talk much. I'm just waiting for her to come back around again. She's fine. I could drop dead tomorrow and she would be able to take care of herself. That's all I ever really wanted to accomplish with her :)
auntjomomma ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:17:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is something every parent strives for and if you firmly believe that she could take care of herself should something happen to you, it means that you succeeded. :) That is something to be proud of.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:29:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:59:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't poo-poo NTesla's concerns here. Female sexual abusers exist and are not that uncommon.
I won't let my child spend the night with his great-grandmother any longer because of similar concerns.
UnicornPanties ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:25:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WOAH. That's awful. :(
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:06:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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NTesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Her preference right now is to live day-to-day, with her husband and two dogs, on the road, travelling from place to place, working when she feels like it.
positivelypt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:36:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you've talked about this more with her.
UptightSodomite ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:27:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My niece, when she was 9, asked me about my scars. She asked me if I made them myself. When I said I had, she leaned in and confessed, "I think about cutting myself too."
Broke my heart.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:34:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
she's just pissed that she has an ipad 2 and not a 3.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe she's just curious about what's going to happen in the afterlife, and that may be why she said she wanted to die.
EmilieAnomalie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My reaction, powered by my minor study in psychology (not much, but more than most), is that being that she's five she doesn't really understand death and is just curious about it and what may or may not happen afterward. I doubt she has a sincere death wish and this would be a good opportunity to talk about mortality, how people in general deal with it, various cultural customs and how your family in particular addresses it.
McSteezeMuffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:12 on November 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little bro has said that before! He said he wants to die so he can be an angel.
jlbob ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hold a funeral for her?
Harrison337 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not creepy, that's just bad parenting.
I'm kidding.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 20:56:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
confused expression of sexuality?
stupidrobots ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 22:03:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not the parent, this story is about me as was told to me by my mom when I was around 16.
I am the spitting image of my biological father to the point that, as a child, I saw pictures of him at roughly my age and commented that I don't remember that picture having been taken, unaware that the boy in the picture was my father and not me. My biological father died in a boating accident a few months before I was born. Anyway, apparently I was 2 or 3 years old and my mom comes into the room and finds me standing up in my crib. I say to her "Hello Maureen (my mom's fist name), you look lovely today"
angg56 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:36:31 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why did I read the last line in Sean Connery's voice?
Halcyon13 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:59:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hello, Clarice.
ratleaf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:56:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same thing with my mom and I, whenever I'd look through an old photo album Id ask stuff like "I don't remember doing this, when did this happen?" or "What am I doing here?". Looked exactly like her as a kid.
Hellowhatisthis ยท 539 points ยท Posted at 19:50:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently I was born a troll. For the first two/three months of my life I used not to react to my mother in any way. Whenever she talked to me, I would not turn my head. When she touched me or called for my attention, I would not look. My mother thought I was both blind and deaf, and she worried a lot about my future life. She went to a nurse to get me checked, and there I suddenly acted like a well-behaved baby and everything seemed fine. Then when we got home I would simply continue my ignoring. According to her story one day I stopped being an asshole baby and started reacting normally.
Two_Bums_Down ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 22:09:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of related, but sort of reversed.
I was born deaf. For the first two months after I was born, my parents would bang pots and pans together, and yet, they couldn't elicit a response from me. My grandma then said one day, "He is going to be better in about 3 days." 3 days later, they dropped a pot and I shook because I was startled and then started crying. Weird stuff...
iwantedtovote ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 23:51:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ask your grandma how she knew!
Mellytonin ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 01:00:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
might run in the family
demalition90 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:36:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
very good chance it does, but it probably gets weaker through generations
my mom is adopted
when my dad was a teenager a "gypsy" looking woman that looks exactly like my mom (minus the gypsy) pulled up in a car, rolled down the window said "you will marry my daughter, be good to her"
my mom had dream's about her adopted mom before she died and the staff claimed they saw her (my mom) in the room as grandma died , my mom also "knows" when something bad is afoot
me and my siblings can tell if our parents are asleep even if we're not home... we sneak out alot =D
zombiehive ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:53:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother and I have an uncanny ability to choose the fastest line, pick up the phone before it rings, and find hidden or lost items. She always says it's because she's the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, and I've inherited it from her.
My little brother is also very fucky. He once predicted the death of a random old man from the local Chinese restaurant. He got very quiet while eating, and when prompted said the blackness was here. He pointed to the old man, and said the blackness was over him. About a week later, I recognized the man's picture in the obituaries. Creepy shit.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:16:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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zombiehive ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:25:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I really meant fucky. A la Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys.
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 23:00:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reading this less than a week after reading "We Need to Talk about Kevin" has convinced me that I don't want kids. Not just yours in particular, but so far it's the one that reminded me the most of the book.
sibjat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:52:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The little boy acting in that movie is way too good at it. That's what creeped me out the most
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:37 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The toddler, right? Yeah, he was something else. Could have a career in horror movies.
knitALLtheclothes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:51:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep yep yep yep eurghaaahhh Kevin. Have you seen the movie? It's quite good.
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:37 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed, it was fantastic.
yourmomlurks ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 00:14:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
upvote for 'asshole baby'
aprofondir ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 23:49:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also, my mother would often test my recognition of colors, she would show me some colored objects and ask me to tell which color it is. According to her I would always say the wrong ones, no matter how many times she told me ''THIS IS BLUE''. She really thought I was colorblind. Then I said ''Could you please hand me that red truck?''
XD003AMO ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:49:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed so hard at that!
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:49:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not that this applies to you, but babies that are neglected in the first months of life often won't respond to loud noises either, yet when they have their hearing tested, it is fine. Growing up in a home that fostered babies, we saw this a lot. I don't suppose you were adopted as a baby?
Hellowhatisthis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:32:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, as far as I know my parents are who they claim to be; my parents.
keisterbunny ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:42:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ooh, creepy. That reminds me of the movie that came out last year, "We need to talk about Kevin". It is seriously creepy especially when my s.o. and I are thinking about having a kid.
kvail90 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:08:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
reminded me of this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242460/
inferior-raven ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:13:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like that story. You made me smile in this thread filled with horror.
kaimason1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:50:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to fake both choking and seizures (which I did have a few real ones) when i was about 1 and when my mom would run over I'd immediately stop and start pulling and playing with her hair.
Hellowhatisthis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:43:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, I hereby give my "asshole baby" trophy to you. Your remarkable troll abilities surpass mine. You were like a child prodigy.
ILoveMyFrita ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:24:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom thought I was deaf because I never cried or anything so she would bang two frying pans together to try and get a reaction, I would look at her like WTF and the docs said I was fine also.. I guess i was also an asshole baby
le_red ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kevin
AMBsFather ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Original troll baby
sweetthang1972 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:24:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My oldest son was born a troll as well. We moved to Mexico when he was a little over a year old. He is very talkative so he learned Spanish and English equally at the same time. Shortly after he started bilingual kindergarden at age 3 (customary in Mexico), his dad and I went in for a routine conference. First we met with his English teacher who said "He's a sweet boy but you need to speak Spanish at home so he will learn. He only speaks English to me." We were stunned since we had heard our son converse with all our adult friends quite fluently, but thought, hey, maybe we need to ramp up the Spanish. Then the English teacher came in and said, "Your son is sweet and smart, but doesn't know English. It's a shame that you guys are Americans and youve taught him beautiful Spanish to the neglect of his native language." Suddenly we understood. Knowing our son to be troll-ish we knew exactly what was happening. When we got home we sat him down and sternly told him that he was to respond in the language in which he was addressed. A follow up conference with the confused teachers the next week confirmed that everything was fixed now and that our son was suddenly and mysteriously bilingual.
aprofondir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:46:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All the people that were around me when growing up said that I said that my Dad gave birth to me all the time.
astronomer7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:42:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad actually TOLD me this for years. It's a running joke... pisses my mom off that he takes the credit for the nine months of discomfort and several hours of painful labor. :)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a news program talking about the signs of Autism in your baby and that was the most prominent sign they talked about: When your baby doesn't reply at all to you calling their name or talking to them.
Beccaonfire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:16 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're the real life Stewie Griffin.
NoFriendOh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:55 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you haven't seen it already, you should watch We Need To Talk About Kevin. The son, Kevin, acted that way as a toddler.
caliopy ยท 241 points ยท Posted at 19:43:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In the 80's I babysat a kid who was 11 (I was 17). He was pissed because I wouldn't let him go play with his friends due to the fact he was already grounded. He went down to the basement grabbed a bunch circular saw blades and started throwing them at me like Frisbees. He cut me up pretty bad. I lost it however. I duck taped him to a chair. Called his dad. Told him what transpired and said he has 3 minutes to get home before I left. His dad was there in 2. I was shaking like crazy. The child was still screaming he was going to kill me when his dad came in the door. I never babysat for him again and told him the child needs to be in an institution before he hurts someone.
franticcat ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 22:20:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
have you googled the kids name to see if he grew up to be a serial killer?
caliopy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:44 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
nope don't want to either
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 20:50:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
BEFORE he hurts someone?
caliopy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:37 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
or kills
s0nicfreak ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 21:35:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In the 80s, an 11 year old needing a babysitter should have been your first warning that something was off...
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:17:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn good point. My mom left me home alone when I was 10 and I totally lost my shit with anxiety (this was early 2000s. Do you feel old, yet?)
Xxtesttubebabyxx ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:42:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, thanks for that! Reminded me of the other day when one of my violin students told me he was born in 2002. I was like, what and you're old enough to talk already? Then I realized that was 10 years ago....
curien ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:06:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother is 13 years younger than I am. When he was 11 (one month shy of 12), I was home visiting and my wife and I took him out somewhere (don't remember where). We got back home right around his bed time, but the house was empty. My wife and I were starving, so we asked him if he could get himself ready for bed while she and I got some fast food. He said sure.
Twenty minutes later, we get back with our food, and he'd called both of his parents because being home alone had made him scared.
These are the same people who made me a friggin latch-key kid. I was allowed to ride the city bus on my own from the time I was eight. When I was 12, they left me alone for four days (with the neighbors checking up on me) while they went on their honeymoon. None of that is bad -- it's how kids should be treated. And here was my brother, afraid to be home alone for twenty fucking minutes. Sheesh!
(I later found out he wasn't allowed to pick out his own clothes in the morning. Talk about total parental philosophy reversal.)
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:10:33 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. That is crazy... Maybe they didn't like how you turned out :P
Naldaen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:01:07 on November 18, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah wtf. I'm 26. When I turned 10 I was good enough to be alone for the night. 12+ and staying at home while Mom went on trips? No problems. My sister's who were older and had children would keep me fed so no problems staying home or with a friend over.
Dleraings ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 11:51:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was amazed for a few seconds, until I remembered I turned ten in 2000.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:11 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I turned 11 in 2000, kiddo.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:30 on November 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
15 in 2000. ;) how you two doing? (gross..... gross.)
caliopy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:16 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he also had epilepsy so they needed some kind of supervision. My guess is the conditions could have been related. Mind you I also have epilepsy and I can say that the drug treatment side effects could have been the cause. Or it could have been the side effects with other issues like early on-set bipolar disorder. The father was a recovering alcoholic so it could have just been anger. I'm not a doctor so I can only guess.
littlekitty29 ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 01:37:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I quit babysitting over a couple of kids that would constantly try to molest me. One would curl up on the ground behind me, the other would push me over and they would both climb on to grope me. I warned my sister not to take the job when I quit but she didn't listen. She called me on her first day having locked herself in the bathroom begging me for help.
[deleted] ยท -16 points ยท Posted at 03:17:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh jesus. This made me laugh.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:35:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fapfapfap....skeet skeet. Ah!
NTesla ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:48:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is this for real, or some move reference I'm not getting.
caliopy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:06:04 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
actually happened
NTesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:48 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
mind=blown
scullymeister_3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:33:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude wtf is up with that kid...any idea what became of him today?
caliopy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:15 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
don't know... its now almost 30 years later
SgtFuzzyNipple ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:04:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He could grow up to be Gordan Freeman.
You should have just let it happen.
Hawkeye1226 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you see? duck tape has hundreds of uses!
girlinacoma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:18:40 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
what a quacky kid. glad you found that duck tape in time.
sunny_person ยท 624 points ยท Posted at 19:03:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my oldest son somewhere picked up the "REDRUM" thing from the Shining when he was about 2. He had the voice down and everything. He would go up to people and scare the crap out of them. First time he did it to me, I about peed my pants.
Rockztar ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 19:52:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
That's fucking hilarious. He should've asked two twin girls his own age to ride around the house on bikes for when people ran out of their rooms screaming.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 21:32:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just imagine him saying that as loud as he can in his room while you are sleeping peacefully in your room at 3 AM. When you go in to investigate, he's standing in the corner smiling and laughing. You slowly back away, but he follows you. You turn to run to your room, but he's already in there without your knowledge. You lay down, pull the covers over you, and whilst they are coming down, he quickly crawls to your face and whispers it ever so softly. You throw the covers off, and he's gone. You run to his room, and he's sleeping as peacefully as you were.
Sqpon ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 23:32:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you.
tulkas42 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 23:12:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a similar story. I was at a buddy's basketball game. Needed to take a dump so I went into the bathroom. I was alone until a minute or so had passed. A kid comes in and occupies the stall beside me. All of a sudden a conversation starts up between the kid and another kid with a raspy voice. I think nothing of it until I realize that the kid and I are alone in the bathroom. So here I am with just this kid and his imaginary friend (who talks like the imaginary friend in the Shining). I figure its no big deal. Lots of kids have imaginary friends, until I listened... They were in conversation about basketball and the kid asks his friend a whispered question. The raspy voice replies with, "NO HE WILL HEAR US!" They continue their talking and the raspy voice says ,"I want to look at him", very matter of factly. Weirded out now, I go to wipe and hear a little commotion in the stall beside me, and before I finish I look down to see the little bastard trying to clamber UNDER THE STALL. Needless to say, I noped on out of there. Never saw that kid again.
LadyLovelyLocks ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:51:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't know why...I'm getting all creeped out by these other stories but I just let out a magnificent snort of laughter at yours :p
anotherbluemarlin ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 20:00:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that someone in your familly told him to do that.
That's fucking genius.
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 00:11:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ihave to confess I taught my son that at 3 . I also taught him that a toaster was called a transmogrifier - he's 26 now and still says transmogrifier.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:18:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if you're an awful parent or an awesome one.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:38:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me either...
laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome. Definitely awesome.
wolfx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:32:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think the microwave should be the transmogrifrier.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:36:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pft it just heats things up. The toaster transmogrifies bread into toast as good an example of transmogrification as ive ever seen.
chrisdidit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:14:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mental note: do not let child watch the Shining until 3 years old.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:02 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You considered doing that before?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:06:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty scary
0116316 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:23:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My mom taught all of us that at a young age. She has my two year old niece doing it. When my brother and I were kids she would act like she was possesed and hum this music from an old horror movie. I guess I should add that she would have a fucking butcher knife in her hand and slowly walk around the house looking for us and talking in this creepy ass voice. We would scream for her to stop it and she would say "mommy's not here". My mom was/is a crazy lady but I love her. I got so many stories I could tell.
EDIT: grammar
planetmatt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:08:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I had twin girls, I'd recreate the hotel corridor scene at every hotel I stayed in. I'd buy them a toy for every guest that pissed their pants.
GunnerMcGrath ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:46:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your fault for showing him The Shining when he was 2 =)
SvenHudson ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:42:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
SP appears not to have shown him The Shining.
Harrison337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:28:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Heeeeeeeerrre's Johnny!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do that when I was about two.
rttr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Rudrum?
rttr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Redrum*
Paradoxou ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:29:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And then he say "Ah ! You too you need a diaper now !"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And why were you letting your 2yo watch the shining?
sunny_person ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wasn't but I did have two teenage brother in laws that would watch him sometimes. There is a decent chance it was their idea of a good joke.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, hahaha that explains a lot :P
sunny_person ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I mean either that or my kid was possessed... I'd like to go with the happier option but I guess possession is always possible.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you might want to contact an exorcist, thats always a feasible option. Have his number, just in case your family pets start disappearing.
CakiePamy ยท 383 points ยท Posted at 18:47:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my child but my nephew, he kept talking about this " Niรฑo" living in the basement.
PuppyBreath ยท 510 points ยท Posted at 19:02:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Spanish makes it extra creepy.
SHFFLE ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:47:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Being Texan, I can confirm that making parts of scary stories Spanish increases the scare factor.
I can also confirm that we wish we had more rain, and cool air.
Muezza ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:40:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Being Massachusettan, I can confirm that rain and cool air are very nice.
SHFFLE ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:50:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Being Texan, damn you, you lucky bastard.
Mail us some water? Please? THINK ABOUT THE LAWNS!
m1ndcr1me ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:47:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just wait until he starts talking about "mi hermano."
CakiePamy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:47:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It really does, because he doesn't call it any other names but it.
lavra ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:50:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
just to clarify, is the child hispanic or has he been exposed to Spanish anywhere you know of?
CakiePamy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:41:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kindergarten nanny speaks Spanish.
Murderous_Prime ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:36:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DORA
who-said-that ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol! Why would that be?
PuppyBreath ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:40:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Conquistadors man.
Sqpon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:42:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Best explanation ever.
ratcranberries ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:14:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Niรฑas Chupacabras.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep
lioninacoma- ยท 167 points ยท Posted at 19:33:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, it was just this guy.
Catface__Meowmers ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:14:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The opposite of Slenderman.
Throwawayspy2000 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:50:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He wants to give you 20 dollars?
ZapActions-dower ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:04:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'ma need about tree fiddy.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:14:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Still don't want him living in your basement. Probably won't move out again
iwishyouwerebacon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:56:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Clicking that was the biggest risk I've taken all day.
G0PACKG0 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:38:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
which is spanish for the nino
Eats_Beef_Steak ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 18:56:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
then you realized you forgot to shut the basement door where your nanny is living.
Peartnoy518 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:55:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Niรฑo = child
In my opinion that is way creepier than a nanny in the basement.
Rommel79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not if the nanny is already dead.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:31:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She just needs more lemon pledge.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:23:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
El niรฑo!
shoes_of_mackerel ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:42:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
El niรฑo? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your basement?
kid_slickarus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:04:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...May I see it?
shoes_of_mackerel ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:06:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:44:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Spanish for: The niรฑo....
March_of_the_ENTropy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:00:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dont know if this is from something, but I crack this joke any time I'm able. Glad to see someone else likes it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:08:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chris Farley, SNL skit. I wish he was still aroundโฆ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
El niรฑo mad bonito!
Staplingdean ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:07:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does he know any Spanish?
CakiePamy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He does, his nanny as his kindergarten speaks Spanish.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:32:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Twist ending: No one ever taught your nephew Spanish.
tony1449 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:58:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Little Boy.
EmilyamI ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:18:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't decide if it's more creepy or hilarious that I'm picturing Chris Farley hiding behind the furnace.
niinjaniinja ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:26:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's it... enough nopes for today.
Doylemetheus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:40:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably just Santi
Iratus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:23:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
god that movie....
Doylemetheus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad someone know the movie. Even though Santi does creep me out a bit, I think it is the flowing head wound.
childlessismore ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:08:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hello
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was his name Isaac, by chance?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:12:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds absolutely terrifying and I don't know why
Aiyon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:19:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... my old World of Warcraft character lives in your basement e_e
CakiePamy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He came to haunt me, to tell you to go back!
Aiyon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:38:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I went back. My friend bought me a resurrection scroll... a friend I hadn't spoken to in over a year and a half. We've added each other on Skype so we chat a lot more now, but WoW has changed too much for me to go on it.
CakiePamy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know how it feels...
reunite_pangea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:40:05 on July 16, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's that damn dora the explorer corrupting the minds of our youth
Chris_Iceberg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does he speak spanish or would he ever have heard what nino means? If not that is seriously sounding like some past lives shit. This whole topic keeps reminding me of the Mulder Reincarnation episode.
marvelann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does he speak Spanish? If not, that would make it extra creepy.
CakiePamy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:54:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not really, he knows a few words but that's it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:36 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he's talking about a Santo Nino that Catholics sometimes keep in a home shrine. (Filipino Catholics, anyway)
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:51:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was is Chris Farley?
CakiePamy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:33:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, but I got scared and yelled at this Niรฑo. And my nephew stopped talking about it.
kelleysarah7 ยท 880 points ยท Posted at 19:14:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was the kid, my mom told me this story once I was older. My great grandfather died, and because I was so young no one told me. My mom took me to his grave a few weeks after it happened, and let me play amongst the gravestones while she lay flowers. As we were leaving, I stopped and asked "why is great grandpa sitting in the tree?" I then pointed to what appeared to my mom as an empty tree, and waved. The tree was planted so the branches hung right above where he was buried. TL; DR: Pointed out my great grandfather to my mother without knowing he had died.
applejack28 ยท 386 points ยท Posted at 19:37:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, he at least seems friendly.
MrNadir ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:13:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And he seems pretty limber for a dead guy.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:08:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ohhh
Who lives in a graveyard up in a tree?
Kelleysarah7's grandpa!
Dead and white and hauntly is he?
Kelleysarah7's grandpa!
If ghostly good times be something you wish
Kelleysarah7's grandpa!
Then climb up a tree and stare at some kids!
Kelleysarah7's grandpa!
Kelleysarah7's grandpa!
Kelleysarah7's grandpa!
Kelleysarah7's grandpa!
KELLEYSARAH7'SSSS GRANDPAA!
[deleted] ยท 193 points ยท Posted at 21:04:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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roastedbeef ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 22:47:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This has been my opinion for ages and it creeps me to no end, because I like to think myself a rational man. Even creepier I think are kids born with memories of a previous life and it's end, especially if they have some of those no fucking scientific sense making deformities that match their death memories.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 22:53:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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roastedbeef ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 23:04:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, see, it's a wide area of pseudo-science.
There's kids with memories of a previous life, kids with memories of a previous life with matching fears, kids with memories of a previous life with matching deformities and kids with memories of a previous life with matching deformities that can all be seen to match a dead person. (seemingly often a relative)
All in all, I consider myself an atheist, but I can NOT help to think that there is not at least a major chance the human consciousness extends beyond just flesh and neurons. Kids see deceased people, talk to deceased people, see other "spiritual things" and then there's myself and one of my best friends.
He has, a creepy lot of times in his life, dreamed bits of the future: just ordinary things that come true exactly as he saw. While this seems like obvious bullshit, I personally do not doubt him, because see, during the first few years he and I knew each other he just sometimes went all "oh what the fuck I remember this". I never gave it much thought, because everyone has deja vus. But then, I had a future flash when I was awake. It was just an ordinary everyday thing like all he's seen, but it felt like 100% solid fact: and for that reason, I tried to make conscious choices to affect whatever flow of events might lead down to it. My efforts were however quickly found, by myself, futile: everything happened exactly as I had seen. This is when I opened up to him, and he opened up to me. "I remember this" became "I've seen this".
That, and me and my big brother live 400 kilometers (that's around 250 miles) apart. We don't catch up that often, but whenever we do, we seem to have the same exact ideas and like the same exact things.
TL;DR: "Well that's meant to be, just, like, your opinion, man"
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 23:14:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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roastedbeef ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 23:29:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
See, that's another kind of precognition. Actually, I even have a name for it, and I call it short term precognition. You see a few seconds into the instant future. While I have a plenty of ESP stories, I sadly cannot say I have any personal experiences with short term precog.
I personally categorize precognition to 3 main types. There's short term, flash and dream.
My friend has dream precognition. He has dreams which are clearer than the rest: when the things he's dreamed of happen, he has already seen them and has a memory of them. Sometimes these dream memories are merely triggered by the events starting, but like in short term precog, he instantly remembers the whole event before it fully unfolds and recognizes it a dream memory. It's like you don't remember some dreams until something related triggers the memory, like dreaming about a beach and seeing sand somewhere.
My only personal experience is flash precognition. Just doing my usual morning business, my mind was flooded - and I mean to say it was like a jolt of what the fuck: I usually have no problem multitasking with ideas, but this shit completely clogged my entire mind for second - with a single solid "fact" and 3 related images of the event unfolding (I have a mind 100% built around the use of images). This left me with a solid feeling of knowing exactly what will happen, and a clear memory (or, well, a premory) of the event. But because this was absurd to me, I indeed tried to change the course of events to make it not happen: however, each time something intervened, leading to things happening exactly as I had seen.
Bottom line is, with flash precognition you get a "premory" in the wake state, with dream precognition in the dream state and with short term precog just as the events begin to unfold.
It feels weird and I know the feeling: but the other bottom line I and my friend have gathered from our experiences is that determinism is real: The future can NOT, under any circumstances, change.
So sorry I'm rambling so hard!
iEATu23 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:25:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
The same types of things that happened to botzee and roastedbeef happened to me. I only remember, because this happened sort of recently (a few months ago), at the end of my swim practice in the same spot, the same exact conversation and movements of every one occured as I remember from a year or two ago. We were doing some sprints, and I was the first to start off, and some how the conversation went exactly the same. EVEN when I started freaking out because it was such a serious deja vue, and the same friend responded to me the same way when I started to freak out. I insisted that I was having a deja vue and my coach and friends reacted exactly how I remembered. They just told me to calm down and my coach was telling me to shut up so he could explain what we were going to do.
I remember this so well because I was positive it had happened before and the first time it happened, I also had a deja vue of it happening before. But the first time I think it was more of me knowing this would happen, not that it happened before.
I havent been swimming long enough on this team for it to have happen more than 2 times so far, so at least that makes sense.
roastedbeef ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:33:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd brush that off as either heavy ass deja vu (despite of even my self created terminologies, I remain a skeptic), short term precog or a mix of the two!
iEATu23 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:39:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just hope it happens again because this time I wrote it down. At least...it's on reddit.
shady_mcgee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:13:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I get the dream precog sometimes and once was able to change what happened so that the actual event unfolding didn't match my 'memory'.
Actually, thinking back I experienced the 'flash' type once in the past. I personally enjoy the experiences, although they are very rare. I didn't know it was a common thing. Do you know if it's possible to train the ability so it happens more frequently?
supbanana ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:58:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have had one dream precognition in which I was lying on some table on my stomach, starting at a broken cymbal hanging on a brick wall. In my dream I was overcome with a sense of dread and hysteria and started screaming uncontrollable. A few years later I was lying on a table in a tattoo parlor, staring at that exact same broken cymbal on the brick wall, literally using my fingers to squeeze my mouth shut so I couldn't scream - I wasn't in any danger, just the same sense of dread and urge to scream. Fucking bizarre.
roastedbeef ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:46:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me and my mate have certainly never succeeded, for him and I it is an entirely uncontrollable phenomenon!
Pannecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've had these flash ones, where they unfold and trigger a kind og vague memory of "This had happened before, and I remember that at some point I've had a memory of it and this will happen next" and its always been uncontrollable, like I can kind of see what will happen next vaguely and then try to change it but the feeling of "This had happened before" is too vague to pull on anything in particular I can change because I'm literally remembering what will happen second or two before it does. Its much stronger than the dejavu I get all the time...
Tattycakes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:17:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry about the vase.
sophelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:21 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I get something like this, like all of a sudden i'll think of something, or will somehow end up in a conversation about a person or a thing, and then it'll happen or i'll see this person. Kind of like when someone thinks about a person, and then that person rings them soon after.
Like okay, this is just one example out of a lot. Its been happening as long as I can remember in my 20 years. I got into a really random conversation with my cousin about who all of our godparents were (I have a big family), and I had to think for a second who mine was. Then I remembered it was my dads friend Robert. Robert, who I haven't seen in at least 10 years. And then a few days later, he came into the small grocery store I work in. Very unnecessarily, as it meant he traveled half an hour out of his town, instead of going to one of the 4 large chain shopping centres 5 minutes from his home.
But the thing is, I often wonder whether I'm just predicting things, or in a weird way i'm kind of controlling them.
ireneh ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:53:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This same kind of thing used to happen to me but doesn't very much anymore. Sometimes it would be in conversation, I would know exactly what I was going to say next to what my friend/teacher/whoever said next, and I actively tried to change what I was going to say sometimes, but I never could. Sometimes it would cause me to stutter, but I always had to say what I was "supposed" to say. I still think it may be my mind playing tricks on me, maybe I'm subconsciously evaluating facial expressions to get a clue to what other people are about to say (like when people study facial expressions and know that someone is lying, or sad, or thinking about dogs, or whatever..) Other times I would just know that something was going to happen, like "You should slow down, there's cops around that turn," on a stretch of road that I had never seen before and there were no indications that cops would even be around there (btw, my bf didn't listen and we got chased by the cops that I knew were there). Other times I would dream about something that would happen exactly (at least for a few seconds) as I had dreamed later on, but I think that may just count as regular old deja vu head tricks.
roastedbeef ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:36:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Just noticed your edit of asking me what my future flash was.
Well, it was nothing big like an accident. But in the school I was at the time, we had this system where it was always 2 people in the school cafetaria keeping order during lunch break: you know, like making sure dumbfucks dont fuck shit up and stuff. This worked in 7 week shifts. I don't know what the best term for it would be, perhaps janitorial duties. In any case, mine was simply that I got janitorial studies.
My mind tends to differ from the average one in functioning, but basically, I got the "raw data" fact that I had janitorial duties and 3 images of me doing them (memories, except since it had not yet taken place, "premories").
So all in all, a really everyday thing.
shady_mcgee ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:02:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have those all of the time and still do occasionally. Once I 'remembered' a big fight with my wife before it happened once. In my memory she got really mad, screamed at me and left the apartment, and during the recollection I had a sick feeling that it ended our marriage. Because of that memory I was very careful with my words during the fight and even though it wasn't a great night she didn't walk out. To this day I'm convinced that if I hadn't had that memory I would be divorced now.
sikada ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:36:00 on July 20, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are not alone, I have experienced this exact phenomenon countless times throughout my life. They happen to me in what I can only describe as "waking blackouts." They come on without warning and I come out of them very disoriented to the point that I don't know how much time has transpired, or how the experience initiated. They are usually so disconcerting as I always seem to have tunnel vision during the vision, with much of the scene obscured, and main points of focus illuminated: when the event comes to pass, I find that I seem to be looking at the things which were emphasized in the vision. I once even told my girlfriend about a specific vision in order to validate this whole thing for personal purposes and when it came to pass I contacted her immediately to verify that I indeed described this situation to her.
roastedbeef ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:19:20 on July 20, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now that's interesting. See, this is the first time I hear anyone else describe the whole disorientation part of things where your mind just kind of overflows and your entire focus is on the weird future flash, because that's what I got too. I had no tunnel of vision going on, but I think that might have something to do with how my memory functions. I could go on about that for ages, but the key point here is the fact that all of my memories are from the 3rd person's (unexistant) point of view, and so was my vision.
Honestly, I really wish I had the funds to do actual, proper scientific research on this shit. As in gather, for starters, 100 people who have repeating, matching future visions and 100 people who claim they have never experienced ANY kind of ESP or "supernatural" encounters, interview them and take very detailed brain scans of each and every last of them. There might very well be some neurological clues involved.
TheeFlipper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...I was born with my left hand and left foot deformed. I wonder what happened to me in my past life...
roastedbeef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, deformations happen even without freaky shit. Every ligament in my left arm is loose starting at the spatula and excluding the wrist and yet I doubt I had a previous life where I died after hanging off a cliff for a bit. :P
TheeFlipper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My fingers and toes are the only thing deformed on my left hand and foot. Nothing else is wrong with my body. I mean, I have a slight deformation on my right leg at the ankle but it just looks like I was some stupid kid who left a rubber band around my ankle for too long.
roastedbeef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well again, deformations still happen all the time. Genomes fuck up and proteins fail: hell, 1 in 5000 babies are born without an asshole.
TheeFlipper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently I got into a fist fight with the amniotic sac and then tried kicking my way out of it, because I've always been told my deformation was from amniotic band disruption.
sophelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:54 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not trying to say that it isn't real at all, but there are enough people born in the world that there are going to be coincidental matching body deformities, you know?
roastedbeef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:53 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some deformities do not make sense at all, that is the point.
Certainly, coincidences happen and I myself am still always skeptical, but Occam's razor and all, I admit there might be something more to consciousness than neurons and flesh. Concerning the body deformities, there is this institute type of a thing with around 2500 gathered cases of children with memories of earlier lives and deformities if I recall right: sadly, I cannot remember the name, but it was on a documentary I once saw. There was, among others, a girl I think it was who had this 100% straight line around her head on which no hair grew: scientifically, that doesn't really make any sense.
In other words, one's got to stay skeptical, but there is definitely some freaky shit going on, supernatural or not.
downvotesmakemehard ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:45:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ITS
will311 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:01:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Could be some other phenomena that we haven't discovered yet as well.
natepip ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to believe.
exilius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or are more perceptive than adults normally think them, and mixed with a vivid imagination they see the people the are hearing about, in a place where they know they have been (great grandpa at his grave site).
Erulastiel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:08:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's a theory that since children haven't been exposed to the whole, ghosts aren't real thing, they can see more than adults and see the what's on the other side that most don't normally see. As they grow older and are constantly told ghosts aren't real and it's all their imaginations, they start to lose that sense and start becoming ignorant of that side. Some however don't lose that ability.
sultanakbar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:30:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
either that or kids are assholes
ILoveMyFrita ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i believe kids carry their past lives with them and take the lessons they've learned, that's why some people just know sometimes, my mom said I had pyshic powers.
jrghoull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
upvoted.big time.
Seriously...I've read so many of these sorts of stories throughout my life. I'm sure many can be explained way. But I'm sure many can't either.
laidbackduck ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 20:30:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Very athletic great grandpa.
AyeAyeLtd ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:05:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason this is the creepiest one to me.
ZapActions-dower ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:46:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is probably the least creepy for me. Well, depends on teh expression on his face while he's in the tree. If he was sad or smiling, it's heartwarming. If it's pretty much anything else, that's frightening.
xHeiKe ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:19:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's almost cute.
Remikov ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:46:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me too. My great grandfather died, and I was visiting my great grandmother with my mom. I was not aware that he was dead. They noticed I was staring into another room, smiling. My mother asked what I was looking at. I responded: "Great grandpa, he's smiling at me!"
crazyjapes ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:45:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you wave too? :)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:31:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My husband's grandfather just passed away. The evening he passed, our three-year-old daughter got out of bed in the middle of the night, came into our family room and climbed up into my husband's lap, and (in a serious voice) informed him, "I love my Abba (her pet name for her great grandfather) so much. He is my best friend." It had been almost two weeks since she'd seen him, and we hadn't been talking about him in front of our kids. She loved that man so much; she has a fantastic memory, so I really hope she retains some of the good memories she shared with him.
dodelol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you probably saw your mother lay the flowers, so it's not just a random grave.
and you probably heard someone talk about the dead grandpa.
still weird though
0l01o1ol0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All these stories about seeing deceased relatives are making me sad, not scared ;_;
abenton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, John Edwards
LuciousTheLimp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had similar experiences as a kid, my great-grand father died a few months before i was born. As i grew up going to my grandmas house, i would sleep in the big foyer room that had hid-a-beds in it. I would often wake up in the middle of the night feeling i was being watched, never scared, yet knew i was being watched. As i got older still i would some times have sleeps overs, they never lasted through the night as most of my friends would wake up to the same feeling of being watched only they were scared, I had been told about grandpa by then and I would just laugh at them and say "Its just my grandpa but it seems he doesnt like you"
tristramcandy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My younger sister did something similar. My mom's grandfather (Poppop) died when I was around 3 or so, and she was around 1. She didn't really know he died and never really knew him or even knew of him. She didn't know he was called Poppop and did. One afternoon, we were at my mom's parents' house, and she was crawling through the dining room. She came out of it into the kitchen and told my mom "No Poppops in the dining room, no Poppops in the dining room".
WantMyBananaRights ยท 898 points ยท Posted at 19:03:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 4, I thought I was the best musician ever. My grandmother had this really old, out of tune piano at her house.
One day my family and I were there for a visit, and I sat myself down at the old piano and started "playing." To my ears, it was the most beautiful, heart-wrenching and moving piece ever to grace human ears. To everyone else it must have sounded like an ogre playing an organ.
My older sister walked over to me and asked what song I was playing. I stopped, and without looking up replied,"It's called 'Pretty Lady Go Away and Die."
I started playing again, and she slowly walked away.
KnowLimits ยท 573 points ยท Posted at 19:46:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just thought you should know, in my mind that is to the tune of "Pretty Woman"
NazzerDawk ยท 176 points ยท Posted at 20:31:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty lady, go away and die
Pretty lady, you really make me cry
I wanna hear you wail in pain
The way I did to my brother, Cain
oshen ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:03:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
beautiful.
Jenkworthy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:29:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to stab you, and that's the truth. No one would scream as well as you. MERCY.
voyaging ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:39:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I applaud the effort to rhyme, but Abel was actually the brother who was killed.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:55:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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voyaging ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:25:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ohhhh I get it. Not what it seems like at first glance.
LadyLovelyLocks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:02:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, don't believe everything you read...The media twists everything!
KidTheFat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Such a shame this is nested 3 in so far down the list. You had me in tears I was laughing so hard. It's a masterpiece.
Squishybum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm reading this in a doctors waiting room and totally just lost my shit. I'm so embarrassed right now :/
batnastard ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:04:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Pretty Lady
Go away and die
Pretty Lady
It doesn't matter why
Pretty Lady
I can't protect you, from the truth
No corpse could look as good as you
Ohhhhh, ohhhhhh,
Pretty Lady
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:54:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thats exactly what i thought too!
ErichUberSonic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would be laughing really hard at this if I wasn't so terrified by the other things I've read in this post.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"pretty lady, go away and die" "pretty lady, you make me want to cry" "pretty lady... I can't believe it, that you're still here, when you die, you won't be near" "no mercy" "pretty lady... Won't you die" "pretty lady can't you see..." "pretty lady you're just no good for meeeeeee"
redweasel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Brilliant! I LOL'd.
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:46:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandma also had a piano and I used to bang on it thinking I was Mozart.
Sometimes she'd be lying in the bed next to it at night, and would ask me to "play her something nice" so she could go to sleep. I'd just press random keys in a soft manner thinking I was some sort of angel strumming a harp. She pretended to like it, but we all know it was shit.
herzkolt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:15:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She was awesome.
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 19:47:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:13:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny growing up in a house of piano players. It didn't matter what was going on, you never would interrupt the person playing. It's also weird how much you can drown it out after awhile and continue to watch TV, while your friends can't hear a thing. I could tell who was playing from the first 3 notes and being floor up, whether it was my brother, sister, or dad.
rocketman0739 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:32:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or flaming bloody lawyers?
pianobadger ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:49:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yeah, I would want to watch that.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:02:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This gets incredibly awkward when your lawyer brother comes around.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:51:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't stop for lawyers.
NaricssusIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or all three. Like some kind of lawyer-summoning ritual.
oleitas ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:59:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And then she died.
SingularityCentral ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:25:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So you were Randy Newman? Sitting there and playing what you saw.
pretty little lady, gonna go away and die, edging away slowly, now she starts to cry
mojo996 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 19:47:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Lick my love pump"
fs337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:23:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Creepy story. Awesome username
longboardingerrday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:32:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should have followed up with "What? All I did was call you pretty!"
Boyblunder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:55:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least you called her pretty. She can't be mad now.
Rainfly_X ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:08:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But did she die?
hungry138imp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:31:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
best song name ever
ApocalypseReagan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Die, die, my darling.
bananaboobs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:50:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You make me feel weird about my user name.
WantMyBananaRights ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Embrace it. The feeling will pass.
ThatUnoriginalGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Woh woh woh....think about the ogres, man.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did she died?
jeltimab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My burger just flew out of my mouth! Hahaha
Narwalsbacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I had PayPal, you'd have reddit Gold
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wait, ogres play organs badly?
WantMyBananaRights ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:56:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know, you've got a point. To all those organ playing ogres reading, I apologize. I'm sure you sound lovely.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
=]
shutyourgob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense if you read it in this guy's voice.
[deleted] ยท -34 points ยท Posted at 19:15:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LMFAO
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 19:49:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We don't serve your kind here.
beirosilverleaf ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:14:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now Skeeter, he ain't hurting nobody...
imighthaveapenisidk ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:32:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Really?
[deleted] ยท -21 points ยท Posted at 19:34:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sexy and I know it.
ResilientFellow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:49:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your name...
Drunk_Electric_Fire ยท 266 points ยท Posted at 20:07:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When I was little my mother took me to a petting zoo. They let me milk the cow and everything!
Apparently upon getting home, I yanked my pants and underwear off and asked my mother to milk me.
TL;DR Penises are essentially udders.
H8rade ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:00:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This would make the greatest "oh god, why" rage comic of all time.
karlanke ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:23:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you by any chance have a broken arm?
the0jakester ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:42:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, sweet Jesus. That was a sick/awesome thread by the way.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:35:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
did she finish you off
Drunk_Electric_Fire ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:39:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. We had dinner as a family that evening, as I recall.
acesilver1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:03:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad this came after the one above you by Meoschu. A much needed laugh.
guineapigruler ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:31:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Rips off clothes. "Mother, I demand you milk my penis".
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:41:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well.. did she
McD419 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:31:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for lightening the mood sir
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:36:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you're one smooth motherfucker.... smooth as cold glass of freshly milked penis
ConradFerguson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:23:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was the most hilarious TL;DR ever.
definitelyC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wow. Reminds me of a really weird recurring dream I used to have about basically the same thing, back when I was... I don't remember. Five or six? It was before my ma re-married, at any rate.
kepners ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:29:29 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And boy did your mum milk! She milked you hard.
molecular ยท 218 points ยท Posted at 20:07:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter (2 y.o. when this happened) once woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me she was afraid because of the thing under her bed that tickles her.
Later, she told me she was worried about the glove that hangs down from her ceiling and tells jokes.
seanwillsalt ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 22:05:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is really weirdly creepy o.0
[deleted] ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 02:06:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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sarahboreal ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:18:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mario glove.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sonic glove.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:58:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NOPENOPENOPENOPE
26piece ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:06:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh good, it's not just me.
curlycatsockthing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me too.
Spncrgmn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:14:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like telling jokes. If I was a glove, I'd hope that I wouldn't appear threatening. Ah well. Poor little glove.
Iratus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually find that hillarious.
triaspia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Think thats bad, i often had a dream that lead me to my living room and trying to coax something out from under the lounge, a glove would shoot out grab my leg and try to pull me back under, id always wake up, in the living room, legs towards the couch, in the same spot i was in when the dream ended.... Sometimes my legs were under the couch
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:47 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NOPE. I'm outta here.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:36 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why? The glove just needs to learn some good jokes.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:51:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry but a glove hanging down from the ceiling jokes would be awfully handy. Eh? Eh? Wooo..
Halcyon13 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:04:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn wallmasters, I hate those things.
camelCaseCondition ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:02:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's obviously Master Hand, searching for a new direction in life now that he's unemployed.
Neoaris ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:52:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love you, sir or madam. The ring will be mailed shorty.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:45:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa! As a kid I used to think I saw a talking glove, too.
molecular ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:23:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We're just hoping she was inspired by a Hamburger Helper commercial, for what it's worth. She's never mentioned it again -- which in itself is odd since she's such a broken record about everything else in her life.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mine was most likely inspired by the same thing because as I think back they're very similar! Let's hope... otherwise... The Gloving...
Harrison337 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:50:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SANDY CLAWS
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
kidnap the sandy claws....beat him with a stick,,,
bsierra2 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:01:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That joking glove made me think of Steven King's "It". Simply terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:22:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that's one way to get out of eating hamburger helper.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:15:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's just because Master Hand has a really shitty sense of humor.
sarahpie62 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:17:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Micheal Jackson is back!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:30:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Always fucking knew there was no reason to trust the hamburger helper glove!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother had a fear of gloves as a child (3-5 year old range); he said that he didn't want them to choke him. Now, this could have been due to his latex allergies. Super Smash Bros Melee wasn't released at the time, so it wasn't MasterHand, so that makes it very creepy.
the7thkat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Master hand was in the 64 smash brothers game, though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I should have added context to this. Our first system was a GameCube, AND WE GODDAMNED ENJOYED IT! I actually played the original Smash Bros after Melee. It was a sobering experience.
royalporcupine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This one is my favorite.
Red_Angry_Bird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I instantly thought of the boss hand in the Super Smash Bros. games.
fuck_the_karma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I pictured the hamburger helper glove.
jordanlund ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow... what kinds of jokes does glove tell?
Knock knock jokes?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These 2 are more and more common with kids since they started using laughter instead of fear to generate electricity.
bilbo58 ยท 165 points ยท Posted at 20:17:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my child, but my nephew had the scariest conversation with his mum which went like this: Nephew: "Mummy, when will I be reborn?" His mum: "What, out of mummy's tummy?" Nephew: "No. Out of the darkness"
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 21:45:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, maybe that child knows something about reincarnation we don't know.
DownloadableCheese ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:32:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody's been watching televangelists.
astronomer7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:51:11 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is what I was thinking! Sounds like a religious thing to me.
DJBell1986 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:50:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I bet the inside of mommys tummy is pretty fucking dark.
the0jakester ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:44:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He remembers, what we all are glad we don't.
comfypants ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:57:07 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i'm bookmarking this comment, if you could record this conversation it would make for a great intro to a doom metal song
qgag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:07 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is fucking rad
AlphaRedditor ยท 1644 points ยท Posted at 18:28:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My godson told me that he was "fully erect and ready to wreck." He was 3. His dad told him to tell me that and is a twisted man.
OrangePrototype ยท 1359 points ยท Posted at 19:08:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dad sheds a tear
"That's my boy"
ariiiiigold ยท 694 points ยท Posted at 19:29:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Pussy is the most expensive meal you will ever eat."
He strikes me as the kind of dad who would dispense such advice.
bigroblee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:21:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Son, just remember, a stiff dick has no conscience..."
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:22:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Nah, man, Ice-Cube once said "there are two things in this world I ain't never gonna pay for: water and pussy, cause they both free."
Too true, Ice-Cube, too true.
wolfsktaag ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:10:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wisdom
loldan ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:41:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ari Gold strikes me as the kind of man who would dispense such advice
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:19:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats a beautiful statement. Have as many kids as you can right now and spread the word.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a customer come into my store wearing a shirt that said that the other day.
HasFuckedYourMom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These are words to live by.
wolfhammer93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, cinnamon toast crunch is...
thegreatwhitemenace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sandler you cunt
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:33:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Boyblunder ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:46:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Next time I'm about to get laid I'm going to scream "BABY - MY PENIS TICKLES."
Edit: Will update with details.
QQexe ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:05:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so basically never?
xyroclast ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:00:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's, uh, extremely inappropriate.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:06:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Along the same vein, was playing N64 back in the day with a somewhat distant cousin of mine who was being raised by her single mom in a not so nice part of town. I was about 20 at the time.
Anyway, she wins whatever Mario Party game we're playing and then throws down the controller, jumps up, points at her crotch and shouts out, "SUCK MY PUSSY, BITCH!"
Funny and sad at the same time.
Azrael22 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:02:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does your godson like Cinnamon Toast Crunsh? Because that would explain his sex apeal.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:12:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you're beating a dead horse.
SnowingSwede ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:28:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least it's not a dolphin.
dzarg77 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:26:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He probably did it for some CTC
terranex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad at least one of these has made me laugh to the same degree as loads of the others have freaked me the fuck out.
HereForKarma ยท -18 points ยท Posted at 18:31:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As twisted as someone who had sex for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:36:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like you didn't get what you came for...
Meowkit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:56:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he wanted negative karma.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
Dammit_Rab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
unlike OP who came for Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
MedSchoolHopeful ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:23:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Trollson takes his first footsteps.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:27:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Crusin for a brusin...
artevelde ยท -27 points ยท Posted at 18:36:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I call fake.
Eats_Beef_Steak ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 18:55:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I called fake too. He didn't answer.
Anofles ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:07:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should try Bullshit. Fake never remembers to turn on his phone.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:24:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Unlike this gentleman
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:22:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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thang1thang2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit
calderon501 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 20:15:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YOU HAD SEX FOR CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH. YOU SIT ON A THRONE OF LIES.
Colby347 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:49:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No one mentioned you having sex for Cinnamon Toast Crunch yet?
disposablechild ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:31:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
link me to the source?
caindaddy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:51:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vnw7g/what_is_the_sluttiest_thing_youve_ever_done/c563xx5
Colby347 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:36:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I wasn't on my phone I would. I'm glad I got downvoted though, now he can live a normal life.
ravin_monkey123 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YOU SICK BASTARD, STOP WHORING YOURSELF OUT FOR A BREAKFAST MEAL! TOAST CRUNCH ISN'T THAT GREAT!
ColinFeely ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my word alpharedditor! I've commented on your posts for the last week and now my image of you has finally changed from a 20something student in his dorm room blowing of home work to go on reddit to a middle aged guy blowing off something else to be on reddit.
I love you alpha, You're a special kinda redditor
ClassyShitBag ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 20:01:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old niece refuses to go into my barn because she sees "dead bones hanging."
death_by_rainbows ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:25:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats better than live bones
Minky_Dave_the_Giant ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:48:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dem bones.
hystericalwisteria ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:25:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gone follow ya home.
plentyocats ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 20:29:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother told me this story about my brother when he was a baby. She was putting him to bed in his crib, and went to shut out the light and he started to cry, more than usual, she told him to lay down and go to sleep. Proceed to the living room where they had several friends over for games, and he got to screaming this blood curdling terrified scream. She ran down the hall and into his room to see what was going on. He pointed to his rocking horse over in the corner, it was going back and forth all by its self. Freaked her out! she said there was no way he could have got out and did that, no toys were on the floor by it either. And when we mention this story to him... he gets quiet, because he has a vague memory of it.
allidrummer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:19:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How old is your brother now that he still remembers it vaguely? I'm just curious.
plentyocats ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:46:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
hes is 57 now. Last time we talked about childhood stuff was about 3 years ago.
allidrummer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:48:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wow. It must have really shaken him or something.
plentyocats ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:59:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it did, but when my mom would tell it.. she still sucked wind at the experience.
allidrummer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:02:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can only imagine.
plentyocats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This had happened to them in the late 50's before the rest of us kids.
timeandspace11 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
did your mom tell your brother about how wind works?
plentyocats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
good point. he was less than 2, I believe, but I remember asking if it was by a window and if it had been opened. she said no, and the air hadnt been on either. and she said anyway it had never done that before or after.
[deleted] ยท 518 points ยท Posted at 20:04:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 21:14:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, her support for minimum wage and reasonable hours will hold her back
shitty_demon ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:08:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister once announced that she "hated black people." In public. Loudly. Dunno where she heard it, neither of my parents are racist. o.o
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 00:21:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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shitty_demon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:06:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, I think I would have done the same thing.
Muezza ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 12:38:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, a lot of black women do have an odd odor about them..
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:59:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think you're being downvoted because you misspelled racist. Hint: There's no 'f' in it.
capncooka ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 23:10:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
An excellent CEO?
I mean, she already sees wage labor as slavery, so perhaps an excellent Marxist?
ratcranberries ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:11:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Make her read estranged labor first.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:56:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Oh, we call that 'employment' dear. And you have yet to learn about psychological abuse.
They grow up so fast, aww."
strangebread ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:17:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvoted for tl;dr
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:16:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did she misunderstand, or did she understand all too well?
CorrectUsageOfTLDR ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:44:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
carlotta4th ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:46:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Sounds like she understands modern slavery pretty well, actually.
*Joke, of course. Probably inaccurate, and slavery isn't funny and stuff.
lowdownlow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I shouldn't up-vote you since forced slavery still exists and is in no way comparable to the day to day toil of a job, but I already clicked it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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vivalakellye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, most white people living in the south in the early-to-mid 19th century were too poor to own more than one slave (if they owned any at all.)
thesundeity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
today i learned that im under a bad form of slavery according to your daughter. getting yelled at is part of working in food though.
obviousjew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, I think you misunderstand slavery. She has explained it rather well. Slavery is not wrong because some masters beat their slaves - it is wrong because it denied self-ownership.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm fully aware of why slavery is wrong. I'm not quite sure what I said that made you think I'm not though. But to clarify, she thought that slavery just meant having people work for you. I was about to explain to her exactly what you said when she said the rest of that and I realized she had no idea that slavery meant actually owning other people. Once I told her that she realized immediately why it was wrong.
obviousjew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So you told her that's why taxation and regulation &c. is wrong, because it denies the principle of self-ownership?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:57:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll get to that when she's old enough to help me dump our toxic waste into other people's drinking water and doesn't understand why we have to do it at night in ski masks.
obviousjew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:53 on July 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you trolling, or actually too stupid to see how that violates property rights?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:41 on July 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was making a joke based on intentionally misinterpreting your mention of regulations to mean all of them, even though I'm sure you specifically meant financial ones only. I suppose you could call it trolling, but I find it hilarious that would even care given your user name.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not really all that interested in a debate about how you think taxation and financial regulation are like slavery. I guess if you really want to talk about it though, go for it. But you have to write more than one sentence per post. If you take the time to lay out your entire argument I'll read it and respond.
Fair warning though, I read Ayn Rand too. I used to use variations on John Galt as a user name on various websites. Over time though I've come to disagree with large parts of Objectivism and Libertarianism, and I believe that quixotic adherence to them would lead to a horrible society that I don't want any part of. You aren't going to say anything that I haven't already spent a great deal of time not only thinking about, but at some point probably arguing from your standpoint.
AMBsFather ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She'll only be a CEO the day no one lives in the same country as her.
Silque702 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sadly revisionist historians are trying to rewrite text books to summarize slavery's shaping of America very close to your daughters interpretation in public schools throughout America
Highbard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think your daughter has a pretty good understanding of what slavery is, actually.
sm0kedg0uda ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:28:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvotes for tldr
kimdealz ยท 874 points ยท Posted at 18:15:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son was 3 when I was tucking him into bed one night and he said, "Mommy what's that big thing?" I replied, "What thing, baby?" THEN HE SAID "That big thing right behind you"
I knew there was nothing right behind me but a wall, I just did the scumbag mom thing and backed out of the room and shut the door. He wasn't scared of 'that big thing' but I sure as hell was... creepy kids!
F-rn ยท 443 points ยท Posted at 19:24:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe he was asking what a shadow was?
fishfishmonkeyhat ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 23:36:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I understand mommy, but why is it smiling?..."
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:35:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh shit.
cynope ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 21:00:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. This thread is full of anxious parents more than creepy kids.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's mostly just due to parents allowing their kids to watch TV too much/at a young age. Children vocalize everything, so even things they're just imagining can end up coming out as "creepy", whereas they're just make believe.
cynope ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like how you missed the part, where I said that the kids aren't that creepy and that it's the parents who are simply anxious.
I think the parents are watching to much TV.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was attempting to contribute to your point, not discredit it.
cynope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hm, yeah I can see that now, sorry.
I still think the TV issues are with the parents though :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:28 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think the parents read too many stories about creepy kids.
Chris_Iceberg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:24:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds extremely plausible.
Scarfington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:54 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is actually a really good explanation. Some of these stories are weird and kids are weird and imaginative so you don't get much explanation, but a shadow? That makes sense.
8bitsuperhero ยท 218 points ยท Posted at 19:07:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He was talking about the wall.
wimmyjales ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 20:04:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now he's gonna be in a job interview, and the boss will ask him to hang his coat on the wall and her boy won't know what he's talking about.
railmaniac ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:47:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Should I hang my coat on the big thing right behind you?
lethalweapon100 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:52:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What wall--OHSHITAHHHH
eVaan13 ยท -16 points ยท Posted at 21:23:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That response is the most uncreative thing i ever heard.
TechnoL33T ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:54:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope! There's one that's worse.
eVaan13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
D'oh.
panky117 ยท 688 points ยท Posted at 18:51:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
PLOT TWIST : dad's scholong was behind mom the whole time, hence why she backed up and smiled
js569 ยท 288 points ยท Posted at 18:55:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A regular M. Night Shyamalan over here.
Ebarbs2 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:40:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
M. Night Syamalan: making sure "The Last Airbender" really will be the last airbender.
ResilientFellow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Earth King has invited you to r/laogai.
astrograph ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:00:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, your comment made me laugh out hysterically and made me forget about the creepy posts
JdaveA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:55:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shamalamabigdong
dphowa8p ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:44:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shamalamadingdong. Ftfy.
haackermann ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:13:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
M. Night Shyamalongadingdong*
panky117 ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 19:19:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/NAtY5.jpg
donkuss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ah yes making fun of someone's last name. the comedic peak of primary school mockery :<
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 19:17:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This joke was never funny.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 19:59:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was only funny the first time.
malenkylizards ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:59:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
PLOT TWIST: M. Night Shmmalyagan's redditor name is panky117.
CityOfWin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:59:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A true M Night ShymalongadingDong
kimdealz ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:23:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Winner.
savvyc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:48:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
*Wiener
kimdealz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So... that's how you spell it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, wiener.
Floor_warrior ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:51:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Scholong is a funny word.
Bucket_head ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/7RA55.gif
Dbourbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
..how do you know she smiled..?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Directed by M. Night Schlongalan.
nachocheese1243 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:06:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What a twist!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:10:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he was an analrapist.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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kimdealz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We'll never know because I couldn't force myself to turn around.
Gorgoz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:49:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Little did you know he was just asking what the word for "wall" is, and you failed him.
grandmasterhibibu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:18:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Who's your friend? Or is that just your butt?"
Bucket_head ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Giant spider on wall...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
100$ says you just looked over your shoulder
UnacceptableUse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I don't have kids
ObamaisYoGabbaGabba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh that? that's just the axe handle the murderer is holding, see you in the morning sweetie....
aprofondir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn the first time I read it as ''When I was fucking him into bed one night''
FoxNewsEditorInChief ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tonight at 11 Son accuses mom of having ghetto booty
computrius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now read this to yourself in morgan freeman's voice.
whatifyouare ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read tucking as fucking. Most awkward story that way
therealtimerwin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Monster's Inc.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just looked behind me, saw my huge shadow from the laptop and then almost started crying...
OstrichBurgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read:
"fucking him into bed"
gkow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read tucking as fucking at first. I'm a sick person.
kimdealz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:/
gkow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry...
Joaf ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:59:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I unfortunately read that as "fucking him into bed"
kimdealz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:12:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:/
Joaf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:32:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry
Ryo95 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:31:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Read tucking as fucking. Creepiness = eliminated
Paradoxou ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gettin tired .. I've read "My son was 3 when I was fucking him in the bed." sorry
stutterbutt ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 20:51:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When I was 4, my mom and I were driving my aunt home 2 hours south of where we lived. We were in a hilly area and it was around 8 or 9 at night during the winter (which means here in Ohio, it's pretty much pitch black outside). I looked out the window, pointed up to a hill and said "Mommy! Mommy! I used to live up there a long, long time ago."
We stayed at my aunt's house that night and on the way back the next morning, I said the same thing around the same hill. My mom decided to look up there and see where I said I used to live.
On the top of the hill, there's a little cemetary.
I never believed her until 2 years ago on my way home from my aunt's house, I looked up on that hill and I saw it. I nearly shat my pants.
[deleted] ยท 152 points ยท Posted at 20:19:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I get out of the shower to discover a wild childling on her potty adjacent to the toilet.
I step out of the shower.
"Is that poop?"
"No, that's daddy's parts, honey. They're different from female parts like you and mommy and your sister have."
"Oh... Ok...
...
...
It looks like hairy poo poo."
"... . . . . . ."
starspace1 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 01:46:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god. I am really glad I don't have roommates because I just fucking lost it. This is hysterical.
JehSee ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:52:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I logged in for the first time in months JUST to upvote this.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:21:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NUH UH! YOU LOGGED IN 17 DAYS AGO BEFORE THIS COMMENT! BAAAHHHH!!!
JehSee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:24:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ooooh, sneaky. Shared computer BOOM!
Neoaris ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What's more he also happens to be a homeless man.
LadyoftheWood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:13:15 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
future lesbian.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:06:55 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe. I'd love her all the same.
LadyoftheWood ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:03:45 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:) You're a good daddy
NoteTheSarcasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the same thing happened to my uncle with his daughter! lol
stickynotehaiku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids say the darnedest things...
prettyprincess90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little my dad was in the bath and I was in the bathroom with him. He has this cluster of moles on his forearm and I was like "Daddy you have poop on your arm" my dad was like "....."
somuchconfuzion ยท 194 points ยท Posted at 19:23:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember the exact details, but my 2 year old son would talk about "that old man with red eyes" in his room....creepy
PENISPUNCHER ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:10:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like your son has been hanging out with some stoners.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:43:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so many stories like this have the parents seem to ignore this stuff - does no-one ever grill the kid on what they're talking about? you know "can you draw me a picture of the man?", "is he here now?", "does he want a canope?"
somuchconfuzion ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:55:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
It's kind of hard to "grill" a 2 year old. His dad & I tried to get more info from him but didn't get much. Also, I didn't want to put too much focus on it & freak my son out. He didn't seem at all disturbed by it.
Trishlovesdolphins ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:01:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My brother and I used to share a room. I was on the top bunk, his was the bottom. One night, about 2 or 3 in the morning, he says, "Who's that?" Then, started screaming bloody murder. Wanted to call the cops, whole nine yards. He was about 7 at the time I was 9/10. According to him, a man was standing over my mother in her bed, holding something over her face. When he asked who it was, the "man" turned to look at him with a demon mask on and red glowing eyes.
My brother is 30, and to this day if you mention it he can't sleep at night. Even freakier, is years later, my mother told me that that night, she felt like something was suffocating her, but every time she tried to get up, something would shove her back down. She made me swear to never tell my brother.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the long troll.
Trishlovesdolphins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No troll. Serious as a heart attack. I have no real way to prove it, but neither do any of the other people.
jrghoull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so...your brother saw death?
Trishlovesdolphins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We don't fucking know. For years, I assumed it was a nightmare, until my mom told me that shit. I don't really know what to think about it.
jrghoull ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:58:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
not to be a dick, but reading the comments (of which there are many, many variations of this sort of story) I'm wondering if night terrors + your mom, after hearing the story, came to believe it and justified it.
Trishlovesdolphins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom's not the type to fear things that "go bump in the night." It could have just been some crazy coincidence that she was having sleep paralysis while he had a nightmare. I don't know. I do know it freaks my mom out though, and she's the most practical person I know. Not one for UFOs, ghosts, or monsters.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:53:20 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He just saw your mom and dad during some role playing.
NessaTesla ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:25:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any electronics in his room? When I was little I remember hating my grandfather's room because when it was dark all you could see was bright red clock numbers from the hallway and I had a strong feeling they were dragon eyes. I was very specific about the dragon part.
esbe0735 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:11:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, it was just a person, stoned out of his mind, who thought your house was his own home.
Kaiosama ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:43:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That... doesn't make it better.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:33:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I see a man in the back - as a matter of fact his eyes are as red as the sun
And the girl in the corner - let no one ignore her - she thinks she's the passionate one
surfer_on_acid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gah! I'd have to move if I ever hoped to sleep again.
Pannecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my brother was younger he would talk to himself in his crib (according to my mother) and ask questions out loud. My mom once asked
"Who are you talking to"
My brother said "He's in the closet"
My mom, having had people try and break in before, opens the closet and its empty. she turns to my brother, smiling and says "There is no one in there silly."
He just grinned and said "He's under the bed now."
"Who?"
"The scary rabbit with the red eyes and pointy teeth"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:41 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Run. FUCKING RUN!
AlmightyRuler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should probably tell Dracula to get his retired ass back to the castle; Renfield is throwing a kegger and hitting on the Bride of Frankenstien, and the Monster is getting pissed.
BigSiti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:17 on November 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
strange, I was going to post the same thing. Just last week my 2 year old son was talking about "an old man with red eyes that hides behind his clothes in the closet"
theycallmeheisenberg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ever seen insidious?
nexusheli ยท 226 points ยท Posted at 19:31:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a toddler, my maternal grandparents lived a few blocks away in an older 2-story house with an unfinished basement and a walkable storage attic.
I was scared shitless of the basement and typically wouldn't go down without an adult. The furnace and the central vac were down there and the noises they made scared me. The attic on the other hand was my playground. All the old toys and abandoned family stuff was up there.
My whole family; parents, grandparents, aunts and uncle, all talk about the multiple times that I would ask to go upstairs to play with grandpa George, or come down saying I had been playing with him.
Thing is, there's no-one in my family that I've known named George...
totoro11 ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 22:01:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was George Bluth obviously.
ballerina_feet ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 22:03:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pop-pop's in the atticโฆ
madeofcarbon ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:15:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the mere fact that you call it pop-pop tells me you're not ready.
opioneers ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:02:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When she was young, my little sister would wake up and tell us everything that she and her 'black grandma Chalita' did that night. "My black grandma taught me how to dance." "This is the song my black grandma Chalita taught me." The songs always had a melody but were non-English (not random words, they were in order when repeated and had a pattern. I still know one of the songs to this day. Phonetically: 'Hay hay what-ahn-nay, key-oh-key-ah, key-oh-key-ah'.) Most nights she would tell us that Chalita had taken my sister to her yellow house on the lake. We lived in a yellow house on a lake.
I think it goes without saying at this point, but we are white.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:35:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew sometimes talks about someone named Charlie. There isn't a Charlie in the family. It kinda creeps me out.
NoStrangertolove ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:55:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids having imaginary friends is super common.
Amaelyn ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:30:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
*invisible
seltaeb4 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:50:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He was in 'Nam.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOL
Bluuper ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:12:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a grandpa named George, and I remember loving to visit him because of the train set and other fun things he had in his attic.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:40:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you were just high!
MiniDonbeE ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just imaginary friend.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is he a big fan of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?
redsox113 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Imaginary friend for sure, I had two imaginary brothers at that age. I used to tell my Dad stories about them all the time, similar to yourself, about playing with toys together and what-not.
rachrocket ยท 181 points ยท Posted at 20:12:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when i was 3 i had an imaginary friend named facey. whenever i drew her, she never had a face. when my mom asked why she didn't have any facial features (eyes, mouth, ect.) i said "she isn't living anymore so she isn't allowed to have a face"
iwishyouwerebacon ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:16:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well, facey is an unfortunate name then.
Wintertree ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:56:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The actual fuck.
zserfvbhuik ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:13:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually find this really beautiful and fascinating
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:21:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
zserfvbhuik ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:46:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you find it somehow poetic that rachrocket as a kid thought that dead people aren't allowed to have faces? You can speculate about this a lot. It would be a very good subject for a book or a movie. It has a lot of possible meanings and is even more fascinating that came into the thoughts of a child.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:36 on July 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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zserfvbhuik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:04 on July 10, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
why?
lancelot12 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:21:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Poor facey.
tristramcandy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:59:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Call the Doctor.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:22:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Depending on what was where her face should have been, that sounds terrifying.
AmandaHuggenkiss ยท 1916 points ยท Posted at 18:18:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My two year old said there is a fairy in his room. He points to the corner with the aircon. He says it most nights. One day I was showing him some old family photos. I show him one of my mother and he points to it and says 'fairy fairy bedroom'. The photo was of my mum as a girl. She died 4 years ago.
nickdngr ยท 840 points ยท Posted at 19:28:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom tells me that when I was a really small child we would visit my grandfather's house and often spend the night. She says that once, in the middle of the night, she woke up and I wasn't in the bed (young enough to co-bed). She got up and I was standing in the living room with my hand in the air like I was holding someone's hand and I said something along the lines of "not being able to go with you because my mom didn't say i could." We didn't spend the night at my grandfather's house again for another decade.
CassandraVindicated ยท 683 points ยท Posted at 20:12:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandparents had a bedroom that everyone thought was haunted (some suspected the bed itself). Over the years, many people claimed to hear voices in the room and see people in there or about the house. I never really bought it.
Well, my parents moved just before the school year was over, so I stayed with them until I finished that grade. I slept in that room every night for about a month and without fail every dog in the house would sleep on the bed with me. This was about a dozen medium to large size dogs and they would completely surround me from the time I laid down right up until I woke up and got out of bed.
My grandma (and others) claimed that they were protecting me.
Happy_Cats ยท 596 points ยท Posted at 21:55:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist: your grandparents didn't own dogs.
Konebred ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 23:58:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THEN WHO WAS DOG
therealtheremin ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:09:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YES THIS IS PHONE
spidyfan21 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 23:07:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist: you didn't have grandparents.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:51:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, then how... but if... because you have to... ah, fuck it.
Supervinh47 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shyamalan - What a tweeeeesst!
mrnuknuk ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:36:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist twist: he is the ghost
einsteinway ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:14:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Additional plot twist: they also didn't own a clown statue.
PoopinWhileIMadeThis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:42:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Extra plot twist: he's actually a dog, and the amount of dogs on the bed is.. Is... A BAKERS DOZEN!!
haargoth73 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:26:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Grandma:where'd all these fucking dogs come from?
CassandraVindicated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:12 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Grandma ran a privately funded canine flotsam and jetsam refuge. Didn't matter how mean the dog was, she was meaner. She lorded over her pack of beaten and broken down alphas, each one screaming "I coulda been a contender" with a sullen thousand-yard stare in their eyes.
Brosendorfer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:08:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Directed by M. Ni...gunshot
Psykes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She is a dog.
Don't take my word for he/she being a she, it was just the general interpretation of he/she's writing.
VirgilDurden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your grandparents WERE the dogs.
nimitzhunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist: you and the dogs don't exist.
Alfozatoss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist level: Shyamalan
Militant_Penguin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist: your grandparents were the dogs.
DoktuhParadox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SHAMALAN'D
phySi0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Directed by M. Night Craven
Lies_About_Gender ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:33 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More plot twist: the dogs were protecting you from your grandparents.
Skeezypal ยท 143 points ยท Posted at 21:26:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dogs do that, nothing supernatural about it. My dog would always lay by the sleeping kids to guard them. He didn't like it if anyone approached a sleeping kid, myself included.
CassandraVindicated ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 21:51:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was my take as well. I was very accustomed to my own dog sleeping with me at night. It was a little weird with all of them up there and being told they never left the bed. (I was sleeping, how would I know?) I just assumed that it was a treat for them since they generally weren't allowed on furniture. Also, it was very hard to move.
Jenziraptor ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 23:39:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Having occasionally allowed my two boxer dogs to share the bed with me, my first thought when I read your story was how fucking awkward that would be whenever you wanted to move or needed to go to the loo. Dogs also have this magical way of being dead asleep but filling your space like a puddle the second you move.
anlupe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:05:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats the fucking truth.
mycatkins ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:03:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aww I now want a dog :3
notebookscribble ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:06:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a border collie all of my (well, now her...) life who would wake up my mother scratching at my door on nights when I had nightmares.
CassandraVindicated ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:12:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would point back to mutual domestication and say that I nurse my dogs out of a bad dream without waking them. It's not so hard for me to believe that dogs may be capable of the same. In the real world, dogs keep what's scary away from us and we keep away what's scary to them.
wishbee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:07:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:') I love dogs.
Neoaris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
See, in situations like this I try to pet my dog, she bites me, and my reaction is "you are a DAMN good dog".
phx-au ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dog (small papillon) will always sleep on a guest thats crashed on my couch, and growl at anyone who goes near. If I order him off he will defer to me, but with his most butthurt face.
TinyAndEvil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:12 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my niece was a tiny baby I would babysit her a lot. All three of my pugs would camp out where ever she would nap. Nothing could budge them.
SweetLobsterBabies ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 21:19:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly doesnt suprise me with some of the crazy shit my dogs have done. My pup now has lived through 4 other dogs, each one we took to euthanize (due to all the goddamned diseases and shit :(()
After one particular sad night, our dog of 13 years ate a poisoned mouse and had to be taken. the next day, without fail, my dog would stand by where her bowl would go and whine. We put food down once, thinking he wanted to eat there. He walked away and it sat there for a full day, and he didnt eat.
docblue ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 22:19:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
reminds me of the guys who buy their buddies who died in combat a drink at the bar and let it sit there.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:21:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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SweetLobsterBabies ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:36:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have seen many dogs do this. It's freaky almost!
CassandraVindicated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:41 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of animals are familiar with and understand death; even performing rituals or exacting revenge. Elephants, higher primates, ravens, et. al. I would automatically put dogs on that list, but I think I'm a bit clouded by anecdotal evidence.
Jenziraptor ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:41:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am terrified of how sad it's going to be when one of my dogs goes. They are sisters and have never been apart. If one ever has to be at the vets for the night after an op or something (from then being spayed when they were quite young, to recent ops to have lumps removed) they will mope about. One of them just mopes quietly and stays near us, watching the front door sometimes. The other one is really intense and stares at the door and if she's left in the house by herself at all she howls. It's going to be heartbreaking to deal with when one of them has died.
1silversword ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I recommend getting another dog, maybe a couple of puppies, to keep her company.
IYKWIM_AITYD ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 22:30:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You left out the bit about the consecrated slice of bologna you hung around your neck at night to keep the ghosts away.
CassandraVindicated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:32 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The consecrated 'slice' of bologna is between my legs, baby!
d_a_go ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:29:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my dad grew up in mexico my grandparents lived next to an old dried up river bed filled with rocks. its a small mountain village with less than 200 people, and the river is often used as a shortcut to get to the local soccer field. he said one time when he was about 10 or 11 he was walking home from a dance there around midnight, where most of the villagers were partying, anyway my grandparents had made him take take a couple of their dogs with him for saftey and that at one point he thought he heard a child crying behind him and that the dogs started growling and what not. but when he turned and looked around with the flashlight nothing was there and his dogs got quite. he kept walking and was pretty close to his house when he heard it again this time he said the dogs started going crazy and that when he turned around he saw 2 green eye like dots a few feet off the ground. apparently the dogs saw them too cause next thing he knew they were all at a dead sprint home.
etwas_naht ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 23:00:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Big predatory cats like mountain lions and bobcats are known to produce sounds that resemble the cries of babies or women in distress, usually during an attack or some kind of territorial dispute with a rival. I've heard a bobcat before -- that shit'll make you want to jump out of your own skin. So terrifying.
So, that being said, they were probably on the turf of a big cat who was following them and scoping them out from the vantage point of a rock or a tree or something.
AmbroseB ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 23:24:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, dude. Chupacabras.
d_a_go ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:17:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
im not sure if there are an predatory cats around that area. but it seems like a definite possibility
etwas_naht ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:14:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've lived in a wooded suburban area in SC for my whole life that you'd think would be pretty wildlife-free, but there have been everything from coyotes to bears nearby. If your grandfather was even close to a rural or uninhabited (by humans, that is) area, it's very likely that a big cat could have wandered close to civilization.
Edit: I've never seen coyotes or bears myself, but I have definitely heard coyotes at least 5 times over the years (all 22 of them) from my back porch.
Also, I think big cats are the same as bears in that when young males reach adolescence, the mother kicks their ass out of her neck o' the woods, leaving them to wander somewhat haphazardly until they find a safe place to call their own and mature. An adult cat would be more adept at staying away from humans and finding his own food while a younger one would be less wily, less able to get food, and prone to end up uncomfortably close to people.
KittyOomMowMow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Coyotes do this, too. When one finds food, it screams and every time I think a neighbor's kid wandered off and got attacked. Then I hear the noise again, accompanied by high pitched shriek-barks.
Scares the shit out of you when it's the middle of the night and you're walking down the street. Tends to incite a panicked Insta-Run.
etwas_naht ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:59:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Lawd, coyotes are terrifying. I've heard them a few times over the years, too. Instant
Fight or FlightFLIGHTFLIGHTFLIGHT.Edit: Which reminds me, I think I may have stumbled across one (or some kind of large predator) out in the boondocks with my dog a few nights ago. My friend lives on a big patch of land in one of those sort of suburban/rural types of towns. I took my dog out into the field, which is surrounded by forest, and about fifteen minutes into the walk, she stops and does the sudden WTFISTHAT look into the trees (which were about twenty yards away to the left; open field on the right). She didn't make a sound, just stopped, sat down in front of me facing that direction, and looked back over her shoulder with this "So, um, can we leave, now?" look. No growl, no sound, just that sudden attentiveness and visible fear. This is really strange for her, considering she's usually bounding up ahead and frolicking and investigating critters. As soon as I turned to go back to the house, she immediately jogged a few paces ahead, but wouldn't go any farther than a few feet ahead of me, always looking back to make sure I was coming. I kept her pace, figuring that sprinting suddenly was a bad idea. Still have no idea what it could have been, but I trusted her judgment, because she's kind of a badass and all I had was a flashlight.
Ruvaak ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 20:56:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty creepy. It seems most pets have some kind of crazy ability to detect stuff like that.
AmbroseB ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:08:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stuff like what? Nothing happened.
Ruvaak ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:02:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hauntiness.
CassandraVindicated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:52 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I noticed not one supernatural event during my tenure in the haunted room. I did see the curtains move one night, but the window was open.
mystic_vegito ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:20:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How can a pet detect something that DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST?
lCt ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 23:21:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You aren't a fun person are you?
Bamboo_Razorwhip ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:54:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's important, because he's on a thread that's discussing quite a bit on something that he doesn't believe in. If he announces it, then the many can pacify the few, and he can keep reading a thread that's bothering him.
Ruvaak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:04:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not going to dispute their existence or lack thereof, but obviously something was up if every single dog was in there like that.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:31:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's adorably creepy.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:24:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Those dogs are awesome
astrograph ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's amazing!
totally_mokes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:36:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's too many dogs.
CassandraVindicated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:25 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Way too many. I'm serious when I say that the city laws on the number of pets originated with or was catalyzed by her.
GotBetterThingsToDo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:10:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's because when it was in your mom's room, they always heard moaning.
*zing!*
RhinoMan2112 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds cool and cute as it is creepy....
seeandwait ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC the Yoruba people of Nigeria believe that dogs are intermediaries between the spirit world and the physical world. oOoOoOoOooo
Musclecore ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:43:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are dogs ghosts from Ultima Online?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's really awesome. I love dogs, they have that extra 'sense'...just like very young children. It's a shame we lose it though.
blutharsch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why didn't they just throw away the bed?
CassandraVindicated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Children of the Great Depression. They never threw anything away, haunted or not.
IWillNotBeBroken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And the ghosts wouldn't let them.
CassandraVindicated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:48 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They'd probably sell it if the price was right (i.e. outrageous), ghosts or not.
footballersrok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuuuuuuuck.. Shivers..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They were indeed protecting you. But it was principle not ghosts. That makes those dogs cool.
kearnsyl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's eerily beautiul.
dijitalia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you're actually a scoobie snack.
CassandraVindicated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a social contract that I make with all of my dogs. I put a backpack on them and take them out into the woods and we camp and have fun. The deal is, if I break my leg or get Donnered in then I'm eating you. If I slip in the bathtub and die and it takes awhile for people to figure it out, then you get to eat me.
As far as I'm concerned, I am and have always been a Scoobie Snack.
rttr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dogs can sense and score away ghosts. That is a belief of many people
CassandraVindicated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel the same way about the Power Pellets in Pac-Man.
Seriously though, while I don't believe in the supernatural I also don't go around fucking with creepy shit. One thing I've learned in all my years of dog ownership -- if you're dog is freaked out, you probably should be too.
I know the history of dogs warding off evil spirits and it goes back very far. I've seen my dogs freak the fuck out at a corner in a room when there is nothing there. I wondered if they were seeing or sensing something and I just found myself in the middle of a paranormal movie. I've also wondered if my dog was retarded or had ear mites or could hear a squirrel in the attic or something.
They do sense emotion and intent in people. They know when something is stirring out in the woods. There is a reason we domesticated them. If you have a well-trained (working) dog and it loses it's shit, you need to react. Something is up.
Pannecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought for sure my grandparents house was haunted, I still kind of do. They live in Springville, Utah on the bench of the mountain and they've lived there since before I was born. Same house, for over 20 years. After my dad went to basic (after marrying my mother) they moved up there with my father's dog "Auggie" he was a white dog with pointy ears and really friendly.
We moved to Utah when I was about three and about eight or so years had passed since my dad's dog had died. We lived with them until I was four and my mom wouldn't let us go down stairs because we always complained about the dog licking us (she thought we were talking about their beagle, Mitch) until one day she was showing us photos of my dad and my sister and I laughed and said "Its the licky dog"
We would go back every summer after we moved to Salt Lake and one summer just after Mitch had died my sister and I were sleeping on the couch (because we kept hearing howling in the guest room) and my sister suddenly started to get scared of the windows (the living room was a sunroom before my grandparents renovated it so the room was essentially all windows, one set that looked towards the mountains, another to the neighbours, and one to the valley)
so I went and shut the blinds, feeling this tingling on my neck. So the room was much darker without the aide of the moon and stars so my sister grabbed a flash light. At this point my grandparents had just gotten a new dog and she was on the couch with us. My sister is searching the room and she sweeps across the kennel that the new dog sleeps in and where Mitch used to lay and the light illuminated a set of eyes.
We ran back to the guest room because hearing coyotes was far better than seeing ghost dogs. To this day My grandparents new (well I guess she's old now) dog will not sleep in that spot...she instead sleeps on a bookshelf on the other side of the room facing the valley.
steigen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:23 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that bed just smelled like turkey.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:35 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably a pressure difference in that room or something like that. Also, dogs fucking LOVE warm beds.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They were keeping you warm so they could eat you if you died in your sleep.
AliasBr1 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:11:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm all alone in my 2 story home now. I had to turn the tv on to keep me some company becase of your freaking scary story. Thanks, man, thanks.
kung-fu_hippy ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:00:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa. Pedo-Ghost?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:41:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More like sleepwalking child. I know adult sleepwalkers who talk to imaginary people.
kung-fu_hippy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:46:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sadly my mind is now busy imagining that a ghost was trying to lure you with promises of candy.
quintessadragon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:13:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You were probably just sleep walking you know.
lessthan3d ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:54:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now that is /r/nosleep worthy.
el_pinata ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:52:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know that sub existed. I...really wish I'd stayed ignorant.
paperclich3 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:24:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to your latest and greatest addiction. You have quite a few sleepless nights ahead of you.
el_pinata ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lip quiver
paperclich3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:46:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Read the stories by 1000Vultures, and of course the Correspondence series from Bloodstains!
lessthan3d ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:55:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! Yes! 1000vultures is the best, also he made his stories into a book.
paperclich3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I heard! I plan on purchasing it once I find a new job
lessthan3d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't wait until I get my copy later this month!
antzel ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:06:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you missed out on visiting Neverland
LerithXanatos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:14:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably sleepwalking...
tinned_peaches ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I really need to go to the toilet but i'm too scared now :(
ZeroNihilist ยท 380 points ยท Posted at 18:59:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know whether to be terrified of potential ghosts or saddened by the fact that your mother's child-like ghost might have stood in a corner for several years before your son learned how to communicate its existence.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:30:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Would it be "it," or "her?" I'm having ghost pronoun trouble.
idobutidont ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:44:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In a weird way i think it's kinda sweet, a grandmother coming back to see her grandchild. But also very, very creepy.
ras_jorge ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:11:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mate, I never would have thought of it that way. That was deep.
snowlion13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ghost dont experience "time" like we do
Banana223 ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 21:32:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How about neither, since neither of those are remotely worth considering to be real.
movinforward ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:02:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for your contribution, comrade!
Happy_Cats ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:56:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
GHOST ARE REAL SHUT YOUR MOUTH
anitabelle ยท 308 points ยท Posted at 19:32:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's crazy!! When my daughter was 2 and really starting to talk, she would talk about the man in the black hat outside of her window. She said she talked to him all the time and sometimes he was in her room. No one else ever in the house but me, my daughter and husband. Scared the crap our if me!
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 20:15:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 2-3, i would always see imaginary people, especially a man that looked like my dad making a crazy/insane/scary face that i can't describe right now. i would see him walking by my window and yelling at me, walking down to the road, turning around, seeing me, and yelling. very scary for a little girl. i always swear these were hallucinations, but ALTHOUGH i truly believe i hallucinated it, sometimes i think that it was really my drunk dad screaming at me for no reason, and perhaps i just warped the memory.
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 21:11:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 23:31:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess you don't want to hear about the ghost snakes that live in the toilet and can smell you pooping, so that the longer you take, the more likely they are to find you?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:46:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:50 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
phantom poo is waving
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I sat backwards on the toilet ages 4-7 because I KNOW THIS TO BE THE TRUTH.
abcdefghitran ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:22:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You need more upvotes
anitabelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If it was your dad trolling you, that would be hilarious and kinda a bit sad!! Anyway, I think that children often speak the truth of what they see and as they grow that part of them where they have no inhibitions starts to die away and once they realize that it's weird to claim to see things that aren't there, they start to rationalize and explain away things that may have been real. I say this because I saw some crazy, and I mean crazy things as a kid that I always chalked up to wild imagination or dreams. But once I started experiencing hauntings as and adult (also separately witnessed by several people of sound mind) I began to question whether maybe some of those memories were real. At one point, I was telling a story jokingly about something I thought I saw as a kid. I remember it vividly, myself and my 3 siblings, looking out of the window staring at an object floating outside (it was the second floor). We were all mesmerized. I figured it was a dream, but then before I could finish the story, my brother, who was 10 years older, said, you remember that too?! He looked visibly shaken and recalled it exactly as I had. Thing is, he and I had never discussed that memory before. We weren't particularly close and he never trolled me.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:58:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Google "hat man" and prepare to be freaked out.
theCroc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is insanely creepy. I wonder if the Hat MAn is the onspiration for the observers in Fringe. Also I wonder of there is some psychological connection to the MIB reports.
EmilieAnomalie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:06:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
The inspiration for the Observers in Fringe are a couple of guys that can be seen in the pictures of the onlookers of the parade Kennedy was assassinated in. They wore black suits and bowler hats and carried black umbrellas. They were just regular guys protesting something or other; I don't remember what. There are some people who believe they were responsible for Kennedy's death by building guns into their umbrellas.
Edit: According to Wikipedia the protest was about the Kennedy family's appeasement of Hitler before the war and the umbrella had been established as a symbol of appeasement in cartoons since the '30s.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is interesting. I always thought that The Watcher from the Marvel universe was the inspiration for the Observers. Now I know!
anitabelle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:48:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I may be angry with you for this in a couple of hours!! At the time I spent a lot of time on google trying to figure out what the hell was on the grounds there before my house was built and trying to find stories of hauntings in my suburb but never came up with much.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:41:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's still worth being curious about -- the general consensus about him is that he is an omen, or will appear in times of stress.
anitabelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Okay - googled it and was already freaked out within the first few minutes. Wow!! I never realized how common this is and the shadow people thing! I didn't mention in my original post, but I saw a shadow of something walking away from the desk in the office - which was next to my daughter's room. It was an open loft so from downstairs, I saw what resembled a person walking away from the desk and the desk chair even swiveled as if someone got up and walked away. I figured it was my husband and asked him to check on the laundry and when he didn't respond, I realized that he and everyone else who was home at the time was in the basement. Long story, but I never stepped foot in that house again after that day!! This whole hat man thing is now thoroughly creeping me out all over again!!
shiftywizard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hatman has nothing on Slenderman. If you don't know, search MarbleHornets in youtube. Not exaggerating at all here, first watched it when I was 14 (now 16) I slept a total of 6 hours the following week, with the lights on. Couldn't walk to school, to terrified, and just couldn't stand to be alone in any room. That lasted about 2 weeks, I still watch new episodes today as it's a really good series, but I'm definitely permanently scarred and disturbed by slenderman.
ZapActions-dower ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:01:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have fun watching the Doctor Who episodes with The Silence.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yea but Hat Man is a psychological phenomenon shared all around the world where Slenderman was invented on SomethingAwful.
EmilieAnomalie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slenderman once bothered me during a bout of sleep paralysis. But I fought him off and don't have much trouble with him anymore.
Obviously, I don't mean this literally, as Slenderman doesn't exist. But the concept is no longer all that disturbing.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am floored that this is a real thing. I thought I was the only one who saw Hat Man. I really think I just became a paranormal believer. Can we make a subreddit of Hat Man sightings?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yea my sister and I had seen him a lot as kids, I saw a thread on /x/ a while back about him and I was totally floored to find out how ubiquitous he is.
GalaxySquid ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:36:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man... my sisters, twins, when they were maybe ten or so would have the same nightmare as each other, the same night, about a man in a black hat and long arms coming in through their bedroom window trying to steal their faces.
anitabelle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:47:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So much more common than I ever realized!! I definitely believe in that kind of stuff. For a while it seemed like it was following me. Every single place I lived, I witnessed, along with others, some sort of scary phenomenon. A door slamming shut, footsteps when no one is there, appliances turning on, and so on and so on. My mom and sisters even claimed to see a ghost in our hold house when I was a baby in my bassinet and they all ran and left me behind. My sister often retells the story with bitterness because she was the one forced to go back and get me. Anyway, been living at my new place for 4 years and nothing, so guess nothing is following me after all.
GalaxySquid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or, you know, it's biding its time.
Sorry.
PanFlute ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. Dude. Dude... Dude.
GalaxySquid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:33:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure why I clicked back through to read the comments at 11:30pm. I have no particular desire to meet the man in the black hat tonight. Goddammit. I can feel him standing directly behind me. Of course there are only clothes spilling out of my closet. Right, I wonder how many times I will repeat that as I stare at my closet until falling asleep.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:41:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw the exact same man outside a window of my childhood home for years. He had a black hat and glasses.
I finally told my parents that I saw him when I was 6 and they got freaked out wondering if I was imagining things or if there was a stalker in the area. We didn't grow up in the nicest neighborhood.
anitabelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so scary! we lived in small town usa where NOTHING ever happened so there was never any fear of it being a real person. Besides, her room was on the second floor!!
MILM ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:08:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Notch
exisito ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:48:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a guy in a black hat standing against a wall in my room! I was like 7-8. Creepy as fuck. He was gone when I turned back around. One of those types of situations where you see it and you can't move because you don't want to give away that you're awake, but you look away anyway because you don't want it to be real. When I look back it had completely vanished.
anitabelle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:43:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow! That is scary. Wonder why kids always see this kind of stuff?!!
DockingBay_94 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:57:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He's an observer. She must be destined for important things.
yepyep27 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:48:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She was just talking to a dead Abe Lincoln. It's cool. He was gay, so no worries about ghost rapes.
spencer_duley ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:38:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slenderman
SpicaGenovese ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:44:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sisters saw shadow Dick Tracy, too! When they were kids, he'd make circuits of the room at night or something. What is UP with that??
WhatTheFoxtrout ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:13:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Omg.. What state was this in? When I was younger, I would hear whispers really far away and then suddenly I would hear a familiar voice really close to my ear; just a word or two. The closeness of the voice would startle me so I would quickly look to the left or right (whichever side the voice was on) and see a blacked-out man with a hat for a split second. The first time I got really scared and wanted to cry, but it didn't seem like he was hiding from me; so the dozen or so times I saw him next I wasn't scared and he/it never seemed to want to harm me. Even kind of made me feel safe when I was by myself. Weird.
anitabelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was in the far Western suburbs of Chicago. The house was new construction too, and prior to that it was empty land. I think that might creeped me out even more, knowing that whatever this was - was not attached to the house, but the land. Didn't admit it in my original post, but I actually saw it (actually a dark figure) at one point. It was the last day I ever stepped foot in that house.
Highbard ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:09:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was Death, BTW.
anitabelle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:35:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I try not to think of it that way!! About a year after she started talking about the man in black, we got a flyer for Halloween and at the time she was 3 or so and she would point at the flyer and say "it's the grim reaper". I asked her how she knew what that was and she said her aunt told her. The story checked out so I tried not to let it get to me. Let's just say that I often let my daughter sleep in my room until we moved. Anyway, I always envisioned the man in black wearing a cowboy hat!! No reason to think that I just did.
bornruffian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:15:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a man in a black hat I'd see often when I was a kid. Black trench coat, black fedora. More like a shadow. We weren't on speaking terms tho
anitabelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Creepy!!!!!!!!!
baalsitch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Gawd is in his holy temple.... Your gawnah die in there, YOU'RE ALL GAWNAH DIE!"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGHHHHHHH!!!!
Sorry, spilled some coffee on my lap.
jamurp ยท 1078 points ยท Posted at 18:36:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's night here in Australia, I'm not getting to sleep anytime soon.
Mrzeede ยท 511 points ยท Posted at 19:17:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well in Australia you have a lot more terrifying things that you can see.
applejack28 ยท 257 points ยท Posted at 19:21:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Such as cane toads.
InfantStomper ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 19:24:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm afraid to ask what they are.
L0rdH3nRz ยท 524 points ยท Posted at 19:30:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Giant toads that eat old men, leaving behind only a cane. If you see a cane lying near a sewer grate or storm drain, DON'T GO NEAR.
y-u-no-take-pw ยท 310 points ยท Posted at 20:05:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Deep echoing voice from the bowels of the storm drain - Hellooo my honey, hello my baby, hello my ragtime gaaaal; Come a little closer, I know you ain't supposed to, but I promise I won't hurt you noooow...
bconnor3 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:44:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
See anything green, Richie?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:20:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thank you for the comic relief... i needed it.
Superduperscooper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:19:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I roflold all over the place
Maggadin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh1exCwGiY0
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:01 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
want a balloon?
Cymryk ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:55:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Its on the internet, so it must be true...
andytuba ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:01:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dunno, sounds like something out of a Studio Ghibli movie.
Cymryk ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:18:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Could be a Syfy channel movie. Perhaps Sharktopus vs Cane Toad and Gateroid.
THE_DINOSAUR_QUEEN ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:20:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's official. When I visit Australia, I'm buying fifty canes and leaving them everywhere.
maybeiamalion ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:24:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You marvellous dickbag
ErogenousGnome ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:10:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
r/explainitlikecalvin
ottersaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I so wanted this to be a thing.
CompulsivelyCalm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There is, only it's /r/explainlikeimcalvin. Or somesuch. I'm on a phone so I can't link it, but that's a sub I'm subbed to.
ErogenousGnome ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:32:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for that, I was on a phone as well.
CompulsivelyCalm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:36:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No problem. So are your genitalia diminuative, or merely intelligent and mischevious?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:24:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do they team up with drop bears?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of Steven King's It.
scullymeister_3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do much win in that story
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahahah. Now whenever my foreign friends visit me here, I'm gonna warn them of this..
[deleted] ยท 172 points ยท Posted at 19:35:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fancy toads that walk with a cane. Also know as cummerbundiness marinus.
StinkinFinger ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:59:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pic
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:52:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oooh I want one! I'll name him mr toad and make him a little car, but he'll have to have a british accent.
homerjsimpson4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:25:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hello my baby, hello my honey!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hello my barely disguised raaaaaacism
BronnTheManBride ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:30:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:47:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FUCKING AUSTRALIA, EVEN YOUR TOADS ARE SCARY
No, wife, we're not taking a vacation to the land of deadly spiders, snakes, octupi, and TOADS.
Shrim ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:35:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Australia and I'm afraid to visit the USA because I'm worried about the deadly people. Something about guns everywhere is a bit scary.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The last time I saw a gun in person that wasn't being carried by a police officer was probably 2 years ago. You can go to the good parts of town to avoid 99.9% of gun violence. Last I checked, Sydney is infested with deadly animals of every sort.
DownvotedByCunts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:43:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The last time I saw a deadly spider in person that wasn't being carried by a tree in the bush was probably 2 years ago. You can go to the good parts of town to avoid 99.9% of fauna. Last I checked, New York is infested with deadly firearms of every sort.
And so on.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The last time I saw a deadly spider in person, whether I was in my house, my garage, or the woods, was never. Ever.
Same with deadly snakes.
I'll take my chances with people who are sometimes reasonable over an aggressive and territorial spider that can bite through your toenail.
DownvotedByCunts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I mean, I'm Australian and I lived in the bush for about 12 years. I saw a red-back ONCE and there was an incident where a tiger snake allegedly went from my neighbours yard to ours. None of us ever saw it.
Animals are predictable. Ain't no such thing as a schizophrenic taipan suffering from crack withdrawl.
sophelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:41 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also, bears.
BronnTheManBride ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:52:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Scarier part? They aren't native to Australia. They haven't even been there for 100 years.
Nyctalgia ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:38:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here, I'll do it.
What are cane toads?
PoonGnarfler ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:01:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not that scary. Slightly poisonous toads that got imported and started breeding all over the place, but can kill local wildlife and pets if they're eaten.
Here's a link to an entire video on them if you feel like watching. I started it at the funniest part though - a guy that hates the toads so much he swerves all over the road to try and pop them.
Triviaandwordplay ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:52:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't pay any mind to all these silly comments.
Cane toads are known for raising cane wherever they hop.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:05:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
here you go
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some of those races aren't far from where I live, I'll have to go check them out
CJLocke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:04:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just a big toad. They're not really dangerous (I guess unless you tried to eat one. The skin on their back secretes poison)
BadlyDrawnRhino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My understanding is that the poison isn't that dangerous if consumed. You can get high off of it (you lick the toad). I think the real danger is getting it in your eye.
I have no idea how much you'd have to actually consume to receive a fatal dose. I'm not an expert. Reason just tells me that, if people get high off of it, it can't be that dangerous. Right?!
CJLocke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think I've heard of anyone getting high from cane toads. Animals that eat them die, I think humans are big enough that eating one wouldn't be deadly, but you'd get sick.
BadlyDrawnRhino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I once watched a documentary about cane toads that had a section about getting high off of licking them. It might have been Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, but I can't find any reference to it in the description there.
CJLocke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough then. TIL!
fs337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:05:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Says Michael J. Caboose
Daneruu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If they're anything at all they're omiscient. The things are. Fucking. Everywhere. They were introduced from a different environment to deal with bug problems. Problem is, their natural predators didn't exist in Australia and there was a lot of bugs to eat. They overpopulated SO fast. There are hundreds in any given ffew square miles of rural Australia. You'll see drivers swerve out of their way to squish the fuckers.
On that note, they aren't too dangerous. They are really poisonous when eaten by 99% of creatures (hence the whole no australian predator thing) but they don't really have much else in the way of defense. They grow huge though. Like 5-10 pounds tops. I guess if they jumped at you they could knock the wind out of you.
Basically: murder them on sight.
Edit: they also look disgusting as all hell.
1silversword ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:28:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00jyd-p-DiA
sophelle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:16:56 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're welcome.
angg56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:36 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To put it simply, ass holes that kill our non bad ass animals, leaving us with murder machines and cane toads.
MasterJanks ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:51:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And drop bears. Fucking drop bears...
wartornhero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And Gympie Gympie trees.
bitcheslovedroids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't even live in Australia and I know those things are terrible
mtcruse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chudwuzzlers?
applejack28 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:04:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not from Australia, so if that's slang, I don't know it.
mtcruse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it was a brief and almost obscure Simpsons reference, after Bart "introduces" the cane toad to Australia. It is also my poor attempt at humor.
angrybane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And drop bears. Nasty little buggers
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the same as a Bufo Toad?
applejack28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No idea.
Cerberus136 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And kangaroos.
blackproton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Funnel web spiders. Fuck. That.
RancidRock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't seem all too bad.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or spiders the size of dinner plates.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cane toads are cunts.
shewhofaps-wins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And drop bears.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Drop bears, man, drop bears.
itssocoldintheD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And spiders.
pizzatime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or lazer broccoli.
TitaniumAirship ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're not really terrifying.
Especially not when you have a golf club...
Punkgoblin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ermahgerd drerp berz
italia06823834 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Such as 99% of the indigenous species.
Ghost141 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And drop bears!
because_im_a_jerk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cane toads are afraid of my golf club
Aldog44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Such as bogans
Shiniholum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Drop bears
el_pookiez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And drop bears.
scran93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd take a closet monster over a cane toad anyway. Fuck the toads, man.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Even worse - Australians.
thecontraryseagull ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:30:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, camel toes aren't scary. Well, not usually.
M4V3R1CK_89 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In Australia; if it looks like it can kill you, it probably can. If it doesn't look like it could kill you, it definitely can.
Wizardis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Weird stuff in Australia?
Mrzeede ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
O.O
Empyrean_Man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You never see a dropbear... until it's too late.
Alfozatoss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders the size of a fucking basketball it sucks cos I'm violently afraid of spiders
Saargasm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:05:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And Dingos! Well, that's what they teach us in America
ariiiiigold ยท 1368 points ยท Posted at 19:25:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know that ringing sound that you will perceive when you are in a very quiet area? Some people say this is an auditory-illusion brought about the earโs inability to detect frequencies below the threshold of the human senses. This is completely wrong. That ringing covers up something else altogether. If you are quick, patient, and maybe a little lucky, you will be able to hear past the ringing. What you will hear are voices whispering to each other. They will silence themselves quickly but with practice, you will become more adept at catching and interpreting what they are saying. You will hear things of the past, the present, and the future. However, you must be careful. Because there is no such thing as a voice without a body.
And when you start noticing them, they will start noticing you.
Foosemuck ยท 770 points ยท Posted at 19:31:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wat
[deleted] ยท 883 points ยท Posted at 19:32:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a creepypasta.
ace586 ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 20:31:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I only recently figured out that creepy pasta was called such because it was copy pasta that was creepy, and that copy pasta was derived from copy paste (which is what the accusation of copy pasta implies you did to your so-called content).
First my head exploded, then I felt like an idiot for not figuring it out sooner.
This has nothing to do with anything in context here, but I had to get it off my chest.
TL;DR: 4chan is clever in a stupid way.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:25:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's one of the most apt descriptions of 4 chan I've ever seen.
dsi1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:30:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also creepypasta sauce
ace586 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:37:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The source is saucy indeed!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:03:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Took me days to figure out what "sauce" meant.
John814s ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:48:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It took me hours to figure out why my friends were always Jelly of me. And why I always got weird looks if I offered them peanut butter and some bread for all that jelly.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:37:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lurk moar
notabumblebee44283 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I figured this out literally a few seconds before reading your comment.
WistopherWalken ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:00:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can I get sauce on that creepypasta?
astrograph ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:46:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ahhhhhh
Kahnza ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:25:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL /r/creepypasta exists
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:32:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I love creepypastas. /r/truecreepy is pretty good, too.
Cheeriope ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:16:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You may also be interested in /r/nosleep. I haven't been there in a while, due to horrifying nightmares, but it was pretty good!
You may have already heard of it, but I'm throwing it out there!
aptadnauseum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/B/astard step-child of copypasta?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The words Crerpy and Pasta do not belong together without scaring me.
Mithys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also, a really good one - no cheesy stuff there, like in most of these.
trolollolo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:59:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ooh which one?
NazzerDawk ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:23:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not PART of one, it IS one.
trolollolo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:29:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I feel stupid now
Super_Furry_Monkey ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 19:55:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wat
finallymadeanaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:43 on July 18, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That ... is one of the most terrifying pictures on the internet. And I don't know why.
Hitsu17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:49:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For like a second I was like holy shit before I saw this and burst out laughing.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:33:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
why did "wat" just make me laugh out loud
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:06:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/hvly3.jpg
MrWheelieBin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Widely Scuds
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He thinks he's Rod Serling.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He said it's tinnitus.
nf5 ยท 487 points ยท Posted at 19:50:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
the ringing is known as tinnitus, and is nothing to be concerned about supernaturally. however, if you keep hearing the ringing, you should be concerned, because that could indicate problems with your ear. If left unchecked, the ringing will never stop.
source: my dad is an audiologist and does this for a living
edit: a ringing in your ears from time to time is normal a lot of people are wondering if they have tinnitus. let me put it this way- if you have to ask, you dont have it. TV's or other electronics (esp. old ones) give off a high pitched white noise. some lightbulbs even do it. in fact, if you're hearing that, your hearing is actually very good to be able to pick up those faint, very high frequencies. you can also get a ringing noise after being exposed to very very loud enviroments, or very very quiet ones. why your ears ring after a concert should be obvious- but when its dead quiet, your brain strains to hear anything, and when it doesnt, sometimes you imagine noise. hence the ringing.
The_Magnificent ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 19:58:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nopes. Pretty sure it's all supernatural.
mmm_burrito ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:26:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought tinnitus was incurable?
brownestrabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are different causes and different types.
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well, kind of. its not actually a disease. you dont 'catch' it. it may, or may not, develop if you put your ears through a lot of abuse.
but yes, once you have it you cant get rid of it. its barely treatable, if i remember. (someone should look that up)
SkinTicket4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:42:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tinnitus sucks ass. I heard of a treatment to do with electrically stimulating the vagus nerve while listening to specific tones like a kind of hard reset. Please tell your dad to look into this and try cure tinnitus once and for all xD
evandijk70 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:39:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You'll be the first to die from the ear-ring ghosts.
herman_gill ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:51:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, a similar problems exist with some humans ability to perceive light flicker above the "normal" threshold (huge problem for autistic people). Of course the problem wouldn't exist if we switched to three phase alternating current, and I venture it might also help with the sound emission of the bulbs too, but meh. We lazy.
When I'm older and have my house built I'm gonna use three-phase AC and LED lights for everything =D
DriveOver ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:17:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And to cure tinnitus you should buy Quietus, the homeopathic placebo cure!
decayed_syllables ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:22:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hear that high-pitched white noise off of electronics allll the time. It drives me nuts! Sometimes I have to unplug things and plug them back in just to make it stop. I used to think I was going crazy because most other people couldn't hear it. My mom told me I just had really good hearing (she knew this because she had me tested as a child because she thought I had a hearing problem; when in reality I was just ignoring her trying to watch television).
pkemp94 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:38:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
You can hear your own blood flowing through your ears. Because of this you will never experience total silence unless you are deaf.
Edit: forgot the word "never"
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
doesnt the brain naturally filter out that noise though? and yea, thats very true! true silence is unimaginable to me
Renrim ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:03:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
fuck superstitions
ItTravels ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:45:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can hear the high pitched noises coming from electronics. When I told my friend this, she said she couldn't hear anything and thought I was crazy. Now I'm curious to know how many people can/can't hear it.
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you're definitely not crazy. and quite a few people have a mild version of it, and basically everyone hears it from time to time
ItTravels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:30:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good. :) my tv screen would go black and I'd say to someone "can you turn the tv off?" because the sound would drive me insane. Of course they'd argue that it is off and so I'd have to prove them wrong. The only reason why I could tell was because of that awful sound coming from it.
Baka-san ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:51:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But the ringing you hear sometimes when everything around you is silent is normal, right?
nf5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yes, there are lots of things that can cause ringing. its quite normal to hear it from time to time (remember, its not a disease. it just happens.). when its very quiet, or when a faint sound has been emitting for a long period of time, esp. at the higher frequencies, you'll hear it. or, when that sound stops, you'll keep hearing it play anyway cause our brains are weird.
its a little complicated :P but its perfectly normal to hear it- trust me you'd know if it was a problem cause itd go on for hours.
Baka-san ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, that's good to know. Thanks!
SecularMC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, I hear ringing right now, and it's always there if I listen for it. I just don't notice it as much when there are noises. Is any ringing bad? How loud is it when it becomes permanent?
Edit: It got louder about a minute after I posted this. -_- I hope I don't have some permanent ear problem at 17...
Neshgaddal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did it start just now? If it did: go to a doctor ASAP. The sooner they can do something, the better are the chances that it doesn't become permanent.
But don't panic,
For the first 3 month, tinnitus is considered acute and chances are good that it will go away. After the 3 month it is considered chronic, and you are probably stuck with it. But if you only hear it when you listen for it, its probably pretty quiet. I have a chronic tinnitus (also quiet) and it doesn't reduce my quality of living at all. You learn to live with it pretty fast.
A tinnitus can be caused by a number of things. Loud noises are the most common one (clubs and concerts are usually way to loud, always use ear plugs!!), but stress can be one ,too.
TL;DR: If you start hearing a ringing, go to the doc ASAP. Everyone else, GET SOME GOOD EARPLUGS!
SecularMC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I play crappy ipod stock earphones at loud levels to drown out my mother's conservative AM radio while I'm in the car. If I have it, that would be why. I'm going to stop doing that now, but I don't know if that will make a difference. I've probably had it more than 3 months. I can't go to the doctor though.
nf5 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:00:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you probably have a TV or something thats emitting a high pitched whine that you can only barely hear. (even if the volume is off on a TV, they still generate a white noise whine)
it can be anything really. try getting up and moving to a different enviroment- go outside for a couple minutes or bump some music. if you keep hearing it for the next couple hours, then, maybe you should be concerned.
SecularMC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know what you are talking about with the TV, and nah it wasn't that.
snackburros ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:07:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stop it with your science and logic! This is Reddit!
tinned_peaches ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:42:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it true some people have killed themselves because tinnitus has drove them mad??
markrobbo96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
God the old CRT televisions are the worst damn thing for this. Even when you turn the volume up it still pierces through and does my head in. Thank god for technology.
Saltysalad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:46:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I would HATE the sound of a television being on.
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i still do :/
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:28:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've had tinnitus for years. Do you think there'll ever be a cure?
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
im not an audiologist, so factually i have nothing to say to you. but if we're just discussing it, i think cure isnt the right word. its more of a neurological issue.
maybe in the future, but i think a risk/cost effective way will ever present itself.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's interesting. I always thought it was physiological.
TheStreisandEffect ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:54:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Technicality: they don't give off high pitched white noise. White noise is by definition all freqs between 20-20,000 HZ at once. Most electronics actually give off hi pitched, yet definable frequencies. A empty analog television channel would be much more closer to white noise than the ring you hear from a computer monitor.
Edit: Something to consider, a light bulb would have no physical ability to create the frequencies necessary to create white noise, perhaps what you meant is high pitched atonal frequencies, which could be possible if their were multiple frequency in rapid fluctuation, e.g. a scrambled radio frequency.
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
im talking more like those industrial tube lights or something. i knew i shouldnt of gone ahead and generalized myself like that, thanks for the correction
SHFFLE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:54:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for that. Was worried I might be losing my hearing like my Dad keeps claiming I an, but I can almost always tell if the TV is on from that slight noise it makes.
nf5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:52:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
people used to call me nuts too when i would point to a black tv and say "its on" and everyone would call BS until I hit the power button and then the screen does that white-sshutdown sequence. (the bewooop bit)
i couldnt tell them at the time how i knew it was on, other than saying "i could hear it!"
SHFFLE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:49:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I used to go into the living room when the family would get ready to leave, suddenly they just see me quietly get up without a word and walk into my parents' bedroom to turn it off.
eStonez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:02:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So it is called tinnitus (I don't even know how to pronounce.) So that's mean I have problem with my ears which I thought so. I had an accident which my eardrum get scratched 15 years ago.
I can hear the humming sound come from Sub woofer, very faint static pulse from common speakers attached to computers when there is no audio played, fluorescent light, CRT TVs. I can hear the buzzing sound from some CRT monitors. ( Back in the days of CRT monitors I have to switch on and listen for that sound before buying because it is annoying to hear that buzzing all the time. ) I do not like hearing any type of those buzzing/faint pulse .. so I usually switch ON my PC for CPU fan sound or aircon.
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
tin-uh-tuss. And thats the sound I'm describing. you should see an audiologist
eStonez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have much time/money for this now .. what could happen if I ignore this for very long time .. ? I'm already living with this 15 years so far .. few problems are I have to switch off PC speakers if not used, change light before it spoiled ( use them in other places like kitchen. ). I am using LCD/LED screens now so I don't have to worry about CRTs.
AskingVikas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:36:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting fact: Pete Townshend of The Who has a severe case of tinnitus, most people believe it originate from the night Keith Moon set off the charge for the explosives hidden in his drum set at the end of My Generation. The explosion singed parts of Townshend's hair, and imbedded a chunk of cymbal into Moon's arm. Townshend, however, claims the tinnitus is due to years of headphone use in the studio.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:53:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I bet you're REAL fun to be around when people are telling ghost stories.
EdEddAndReddit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:33:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvoted both. One for spooks, and one for science.
EmanNeercsEht ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:13:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I can confirm this. Had it all my life for as long as I can remember. It never stops.
winterandautumn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:04:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've had it for as long as I can remember. I used to think everyone did and was really pissed when I found out.
elizzybeth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:17:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chronic tinnitus is much scarier than creepypasta.
mitchbones ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:59:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You broke the first rule of creepypasta. IT IS ALWAYS TRUE
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Take your logic and get out of here!
karebean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does that mean if caught early enough, you can "cure" tinnitus? Both my parents have it and so do I, and I had always read that it would never go away. That is also what my physician said. Maybe an audiologist knows the real deal?
nf5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
its not something you 'cure', it just kind of develops. and no, theres no cure at this time.
but, if you notice symptoms early enough and reach an audiologist about it, they can make reccomendations based on your lifestyle to prevent further damage. or, they could help find something to better suit your day-to-day enviroment, like custom fitted earphones for a construction worker or something. hell, you can get earplugs with bluetooth in em so you never miss a call
tropicalpolevaulting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck man, I can hear my neighbors' TVs from 3 floors up/down. TVs, computer monitors, even fridges... I've gotten used to it but it's still annoying, which is why I sleep better during the day when everyone's off at work and appliance use is at a minimum. Even better is when I go on vacation in the mountains, in buttfucknowhere, 3 miles from the nearest home!
ebass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You might be the blind superhero we've been waiting for.
Kyoti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How the hell do I get rid of it?! :-( I've had it for as long as I can remember and the last audiologist I went to basically said "that sucks for you" :| I can't believe I've never known real silence...
spasysheep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My hearing is irritatingly sensitive at those frequencies. Old TVs cause me physical pain.
solar46 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is much more scary.
Darkencypher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:32 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I'll hear that high pitched noise and it hurts my ear pretty bad....is, that a problem.
Ryo95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad has one and I think I might be developing one. Too much loud music ain't good.
doctorcaligari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe that's what the audiologists WANT us to think, so they can have the seance business all to themselves...
UnacceptableUse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can hear ringing. It's getting LOUDER OH MY GOD NO PLEASE HELP ME oh its just my phone...
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:52:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually don't mind my tinnitus anymore, it's like a part of me. Well, technically, it is. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
banebot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:29:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You must be a lot of fun at sleepovers.
ObviouslyWrongGuy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:02:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for providing me a reason not to be scared completely shitless.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:02:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for clearing things up. I can now sleep in the silence tonight.
v3rt1go ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 19:38:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's 2:30PM and the sun is out, but I just turned on all my lights and started blaring music.
I am never going to be in silence ever again.
PuzzledJigsaw ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:45:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have not really experienced real silence. Try being in an Anechoic chamber for 30 mins. You will go crazy, trust me.
v3rt1go ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:09:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is that where They live?
PuzzledJigsaw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
Pious_Bias ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would love to test one of those things out. A complete sensory deprivation chamber for one hour.
thrasher6143 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Till you forget and one of the voices asks how your silence is.
beardless_captain ยท 169 points ยท Posted at 19:34:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, fuck you. Just. Fuck. You.
:(
Kiacha ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:04:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here, you can borrow one of mine.
[deleted] ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 19:42:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fuck you man
psshjess ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:33:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget that the only way to see them is to look at them from the corner of your eye.
achshar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:58:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The last two lines did it for me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:11:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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Seicair ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:24:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I got chills. Scariest post in the thread so far.
Wonder what was actually going on at the time.
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 19:32:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck did I just read.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:16:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While it's merely a creepypasta, you'd be surprised in what amazing world some people live. Even once you accept that insanity is not necessarily violent, it's still easy to think that every person with significant delusions lives in a mental institution. There are in fact highly functional individuals who live in world that'd put that post to shame. Ghosts, aliens, voices, imaginary companions indiscriminated from real entities...
Brains are fun. And technology is pretty close to actually monitoring brain activity and our perception. Which paired with wireless technology, implantology and glucose fuel cells (as in: a device can be implanted and run indefinitely) means 1984 was small fucking potatoes, but even more importantly - we're going to see a plethora of fascinating worlds. Have you ever wondered how world seems through eyes of a toddler (you should - we have still no idea what colours, shades or shapes they see, much less how they process it).
PS.: Read the last throwaway thread.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The thead: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/
Particularly: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/c4iobp6
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/c4inqul
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/c4inup4
Couldn't find the particular posts I've remembered simply because of how many there are in there, but dig and it shall be rewarded.
Just because I like it from thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/c4ip61z
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:41:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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DiegoXIV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
accioalexandra ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:58:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's from a movie!!!
Phukc ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:32:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dont fuck with me like that man... not cool
elsoldenoche ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:04:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm in a quiet office bathroom taking a shit while reading this thread. As soon as I read this comment, the automatic lights shut off. I feel confident in stating that you scared the shit out of me.
khedoros ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of Doctor Who...I keep looking down to my hands for ink marks for when I see them.
YouListening ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For future reference, the Silence are based on Slenderman and the Men in Black.
khedoros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My understanding was that it was Edvard Munch's Scream and the MiB.
Starcloud ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or it could just be tinnitus caused by any number of reasons. Or maybe ghosts with tinnitus.
thisisnotproductive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:47:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This just creeped me the eff out.
EDIT: so creeped out I missed a word.
PassingOnYourLeft ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:47:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cannot un-read!!
Nimanzer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:52:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Old, old creepypasta.
kgurr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:30:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is this John Dies at the End?
IWantAnE55AMG ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:14:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would watch this movie.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:04:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You asshole. I'm reading this in bed on an iphone with all the lights off. Luckily there is no such thing as... Wait, there is a noise. Let me turn around the phone to try to illuminate the room with the screen. Omg, as I used the screen to shine around the room there was a face only two feet away staring back at me from the darkness! Is it one of these voices? Actually it's the plumber, Bob. He said he left one of his tools. Strange why is he in my room in the dark and why didn't I hear him come in? I'm sure it's nothing and he's just looking for his stuff. Could have knocked though. Asshole plumber.
NinjaAlecks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:13:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should cut the beginning part out (everything upto "this is completely wrong")- it totally makes it seem made up- the rest was very well said though
boredatwork920 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:49:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wait, they can't SEE me right? cuz i need to explain a few things to them before they judge...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:51:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You may actually have schizophrenia. Trust me, I have six college credits in psychology.
Tigerfairy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:13:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My music just stopped as soon as I read that. It was followed by the squeakiest, most terrified meepy noise I have ever squealed in my life. I...I think I'm done with reddit for the evening.
omega-00 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:30:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just after I finished reading this, Duran-Duran's "hungry like the wolf" started playing.
For anyone who hasn't listened to this song before, it starts with the noise of a girl laughing. For about half a second I nope'd so hard and looked around the room to make sure I was alone.
Iloldalot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOYYYYD!
prrifth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only the sun screams, ninety-three million miles away, that insane ceaseless cry of hydrogen inferno which we will never never never hear because, dreams Doc, because we are born with that horror ringing in our ears. And when it stops at last we shall not hear the solar stillness either.
SwirlPiece_McCoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:54:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's you! The awesome classy tea drinker! I discovered tea because of you!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you. I planned to sleep tonight.
Eastman342 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
O_o
klr390 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is this from something?
Marine_Baby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As someone with tinnitus, I'm glad it's 8am....
Sophia9923 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
D:
mooseknuckle83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No. No no no no no no NO!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my favorite creepypastas.
cantthinkofgoodname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously I don't buy this, but I know I'm going to think about it later tonight and freak myself out.
SteveTheSultan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks asshole. I am more creeped out now. :)
eeelisabeth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As soon as I read that, my ears began to ring. Whooooa.
lilsceneequeen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dafuq did i just read
AustinHiggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
D:
Superfish1984 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid and was lying in bed at night, I would start to get a low buzzing in my ears which would get progressively louder. As the sound would increase, it would start to sound like voices screaming at each other.
Thanks to reddit, I now know that this is relatively normal, but for years I thought there was some creepy ghostly shit going on in my bedroom.
Seriousclown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, now that is a suspense movie waiting to happen. Someone call Hollywood.
Illyich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read this a while back, in r/nosleep, I think. Did you write it? It's great stuff!
ariiiiigold ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did post it in r/nosleep around a year ago, but I didn't write it - it's creepypasta from /x/ on 4chan.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Alternately, it could be "the fear frequency."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/oct/16/science.farout
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no, thats called schizophrenia. get some help.
yobmasunshyne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was definitely in some horror flick's trailer.
b1zatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you have lied to me about this, I will become one of those voices, and I will kill you.
vaderspawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well fuck, my laundry is done and i have work in 10 minutes, but im home alone and the washing machine is in the garage... and i just heard a noise, i think ill call in sick today
JumperTEB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I really hate you right now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck not being able to save a comment.
galient5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
pretty sure that's just a crt TV
YouListening ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I made a Doctor Who fanfiction using this creepypasta as the premise. Surprisingly, creepypasta make for good Doctor Who stories (see: Slenderman/The Silence)
laidbackduck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_i0i05RUjZ8/Taj3RUzDUOI/AAAAAAAACnM/8Bi8dQ2aldM/s1600/The+Silence.jpg
Prisoner-655321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody help me change my shorts. Good Gravy! (always wanted to say that)
RonanOverendable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
nope.
Iamkazam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like this
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's funny, I always thought it was the fridge.
Veganoms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Which movie is that from?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to hear voices like that when I was younger. I would lie awake at night listening to the voices. I could never understand them because they would all speak at once, so it just sounded like random words. It happened a lot when I was younger, and still happens once in a while. I never told anyone because I didn't want them to think I was schizophrenic. The weirdest part was that the voices would sometimes say stuff that didn't make sense until days later. One time I kept hearing one of the voices talk about a train or "the tracks." I didn't think anything of it until a few days later when my neighbor's kid got hit by a train a few miles from my house. There were some other strange occurrences; never specific enough to confirm that it wasn't just a coincidence, but just enough evidence to make it really, really creepy.
throwOHOHaway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
False. The ringing is the sound of hundreds of thousands of neutrinos banging against your ear.
Source: Leon Lederman, The God Particle. Someone confirm this for me I read the book years ago.
RambleLZOn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That ringing sound you perceive is actually the particular hairs in your ears failing. It is the last time you will hear that particular tone.
Torger083 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah. Those are souls in purgatory calling out for the attention of the living, asking for intercession.
Sugar_buddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
._.
czerniana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Glad i'm never in a very quiet area o.O
scholarTD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(o,o) shivers down my back...
listen_hooker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you man. Fuck you.
sweetgreggo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As you get older you lose the ability to hear certain frequencies. The older you get, the more frequencies lost. That ringing you hear every once in a while? That's the frequency's goodbye song. Listen closely because that is the last time you will be able to hear it.
godzillafragger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'm never turning the AC off again.
Spam4119 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I demand source! I remember reading that with a picture... and the picture totally made it better. (Hard to get into the creepy mood with a bright white background).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that ringing is hearing damage I've sustained from living in NYC for several years...
GrislyGrizzly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn you now I'm going to be terrified every time I hear that!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing it's raining and my laptop sounds like it has a jet engine for a fan.
Patrickfoster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am going to listen for that, but I suspect it will drive me insane.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My heart started pounding while I was reading this.
TrentRizzo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're a bad bad man
cmash92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to think about this for the rest of my life. Thanks...
Treythemanhall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit i dont know if you are trolling or not but when i was a little kid i used to hear people whispering just about everywhere i went
Kenster180 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And this is when you become schizophrenic.
icey123456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you keep listening to the voices...
gbakermatson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gee, thanks. It's only 3 PM and already I'm turning on lights.
Hitsu17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is awesome.
herman_gill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SCHIZOPHRENIA IS A HELLUVA DRUG
Veffect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What is this from? Is it any longer? I must read this creepypasta.
Splashyy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What's this from? I recall seeing it on the internets years ago.
ZwnD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no such thing as a voice without a body? what about phones/radios and whatnot where the body is far away.
No ghosts in your room, they WERE there, but they went away and left walkie talkies
no worries
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I wasn't gonna sleep anyways.
Gurkaan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fuck you I'm hearing that sound right now. Or maybe it was voices? Damnit
RancidRock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aww man.. And I thought I just had really bad tinnitus :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fack you my ears are ringing
eyeseayoupea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to hear people talking when nobody was in the house as a kid. I think this legit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I Didn't want to remember this...
duskie04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if serious statement, or sincere sarcasm.
If I agree to this statement, am I labeled as crazy?
totally_mokes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're going to notice a lot of weird shit with me, man.
Ml2k1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
or it could be schizophrenia
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvotes for the reference!
chrisdidit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this in the anime "Mushishi"? Good show.
eire1228 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:27:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SHUT THE FUCK UP
AJarofTomatoes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm high right now, this is not a cool thought
elperu27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
เฒ _เฒ Warn a brother before scaring him for life
warplayer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:54:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how many of these other comments are creepypastas I've never seen before.
BlueJay15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Punkgoblin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:11:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've practiced focussing on the high pitched whine so I don't have to hear the voices, they never have anything interesting to say. I don't hear them as much on rainy days either. I wish I knew how to keep them out of my dreams.
SouthWestStrangla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/CtQ2F
dlefnemulb_rima ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hear the whispers through the noise
the_sloppy_J ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nips just go so hard reading this..
ekohsa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i was up late one night and noticed that the ringing in my ears is not only ringing between the 18kHz-19kHz frequencies, but it also pulsed. so i started concentrating on it more and then took my pulse and realized after 25 years of existence that the ringing in my ears is blood flowing through them.
joebearyuh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:56:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just sitting in bed, dealing with my tinnitus and I see this shit. Fuck you man!
jmarks7448 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well im home alone. I was so creeped out my eyes started to tear. Im not going to turn off my ipod for the rest of the night....thanks
jmarks7448 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well im home alone. I was so creeped out my eyes started to tear. Im not going to turn off my ipod for the rest of the night....thanks
ColtonLA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Da Fuq I just read?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I find this creepypasta particularly terrifying because when I'm alone I hear voices and stuff under other noises. I'm a little batty.
iheartbaconsalt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh goddamn my ears have been ringing for the last 18 years. At first it was like sparrows chirping, then about six weeks later the ring started. Ten years after that the other ear started ringing at almost the same frequency.
Jesus_luvs_Jenkem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is the best creepypasta of all time.
just_go_with_it ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
aaaaand thats enough of this thread! im out
greenlightmike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is known as paranoid schizophrenia. Time for some meds!
KBPrinceO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
This might get some additional love from /r/OneParagraph -edit- unless it is creepypasta, in which case it shouldn't be cross-posted.
I must say it's nice to see some weird fiction getting some attention.
ruffyen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this made the hair on my neck raise, when I was like 13 or 14 my schizophrenic cousin told me this exact freaking thing. where did you hear this? also this makes sitting alone in silence REALLY scary... thanks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHO ARE YOU?!
NightOnTheSun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:50:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love reactions like this. It's hilarious to think that just the concept of a kid thinking he saw a ghost is enough to frighten you.
Magna_Sharta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah in Australia I'd be less worried about the ghosts and more worried about the Australia.
alxsmpgmr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's day here in Colorado, and I know right before I fall asleep tonight, i'm going to think of this. Fuck.
sleepthoughts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My phone says you posted this 2 hours ago, it was 5:30am two hours ago in Australia! It's practically morning! Unless you're in WA. In which case my bad! Only 3:30 am!
jamurp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah it was 4:30am. I stayed up watching the cricket. Bad decision.
neat_love ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so glad we are on opposite schedules. Because y'all post some great stuff at "night" for us Americans.
quickdraw46 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What ^ said
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All aboard the creepy train!!!
VeggiePetsitter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why not? Sounds to me like kid is implying grandma is watching over in a protective, friendly way. I'd find that more comforting than scary.
Aniolla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I ve read to many of those posts... I m scared to go to bed now...
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Her mother is waiting for you.
goose_berry ยท 862 points ยท Posted at 19:07:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 3 I was sleeping in my parents bed when I sat straight up and asked "Mommy who is that man in the corner?" She was terrified. This happened every night until she went to the corner and talked to him asking him to leave us alone because he was scaring me. Still believe in ghosts because of this.
ttran984 ยท 1303 points ยท Posted at 19:29:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it me or does everyone else remember being 3 and 4 but me?
booyah-achieved ยท 1183 points ยท Posted at 19:57:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i don't remember shit
Whizzer23 ยท 408 points ยท Posted at 20:07:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. I was scared I was alone.
Shellface ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:18:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when it snowed at least half a meter when I was about two and we made a slide out of it.
Other than that, noise
TurnpikeGhost ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:38:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hardly remember before I was 13
AndreasTPC ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:47:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
No one does, if they think they do its because they formed false memories later in life based on stories people told them about when they were younger.
Edit: Source is this askscience thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q6rh1/why_dont_we_remember_anything_from_when_were/
kakey70 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:50:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not true. I have many memories from when I was 3,4&5. Things my parents wouldn't even know about. There are stories they'd talk about later that I have no recollection of at all but I certainly have snippets of those years burned into my memory. I have heard that in many cases people who have peaceful, happy childhoods have memories that predate those who's early years were more stressful. Don't know where or when but it makes sense.
railmaniac ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:01:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as "I have many memories from when I was 3,485".
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:13:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny how many responses to this were made basically saying "NUH UH, that's bullshit, scientists don't know what they're talking about!"
Take a few seconds to at least skim the link people, the top post says "Most people can begin to remember things around age 4 or 5, but they'll be very fragmented, disjointed memories." It doesn't say "People never remember anything before the age of X."
phalseprofits ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:09:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, sorry. I know that I've imagined things off of what my family has told me, but there are other memories of mine that are actual memories. Usually, they are of injuries, because that shit gets burned into your brain.
For example, I remember falling down a staircase as a child, and slipping on ice, both of which occurred when I was about 2-3 years old. They were things I asked my parents about later, and they only slightly remembered them, because it's not like you're going to memorize every single time your kid trips and falls.
It's a little annoying when a complete stranger, who I don't believe is an expert on the mechanics of the brain, categorically dismisses the experience of many others.
AndreasTPC ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:24:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Its fine that you disagree with me, but that last paragraph is not cool, you don't bring it to a personal level just because you think someone is wrong.
I was just relaying what I remembered from a /r/askscience thread from a while back, and they're usually pretty good with weeding out information not based on fact. Here's the thread where I got the info:
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q6rh1/why_dont_we_remember_anything_from_when_were/
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:52:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You both are being grumpy pants' about it. But maybe I should butt out, because my dad lost his three front teeth once trying to break up a bar fight. I don't want to lose my teeth.
cyberonic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While you're generally right, be careful nonetheless: The top post explains why the OP has no memories till age X. At no point it claims that every person's memories "start" at the same age. That's why there sure might be people claiming to remember things from when they were 3-4 and it might be perfectly valid.
phalseprofits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, take it easy. I said that I doubt you are an expert. My reasons were that 1. You included no citations to an expert report on childhood memories, and 2. nor did you include anything about having education in the matter.
I don't see why you would take that personally. I, too, am not an expert on neuroscience or memory, let alone how memories work in a developing child's brain. In fact, I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of people on here are not experts on the mechanics of the brain.
As for me saying it's annoying, I can do that. In no way is it a personal attack to tell you that the tone of your statement was annoying to me. Additionally, I didn't even fully disagree with you. I acknowledged the existence of "memories" that are actually constructed from what parents tell their children. I'm sorry that someone partially disagreeing with you is what passes as a personal attack in your opinion; I imagine that politics discussions must be pretty unpleasant with that outlook.
I sincerely hope that mine is the most offensive post you will receive in your time on reddit. It is rife with angry trolls who will say far worse things. Maybe you should save your indignation for one of those times.
dirty_pipes ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:58:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I have several memories from when I was around 2 or 3. A few of them are just random insignificant events that have just stuck with me. I don't really remember a lot of details, I only remember what I was doing/thinking at the time.
edit: I live in S. Florida and I very clearly remember Hurricane Andrew. That was in Aug. '92 so I would have been turning 4 in a couple months.
the_red_scimitar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:13:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Totally wrong. Clearly flawed science. I have many such memories, and most have been verified. No stories - stupid stuff about what I did that nobody every talked about until I mentioned, "do you remember when I"... and my mom would verify it.
The actual process of memory and thinking is very, very poorly understood, but it is often written about authoritatively by "scientists". I use the term in quotes because I don't think there's much proper use of scientific method. A survey is not scientific method - it is statistics that are prone to bias from the very language of the survey, and often by what the person being surveyed thinks the survey-giver would like to hear, which can come from very subtle cues.
It is very easy to talk about "false memories", but it's utterly unprovable.
Edit: My opinion is that such "scientific results" come from researchers who themselves have no memory of their early childhood. Thus, anybody who does must be faking it (even if unintentionally), because clearly there's nothing wrong with the researchers themselves. It's kind of a difficult conundrum - if you are a researcher with no childhood memory, yet you believe such is possible, then you have to start with the assumption that there is something (possibly) fundamentally wrong with your mental abilities. Which casts doubt on your research. So you have to start with the assumption you are RIGHT to not remember.
cyberonic ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:51:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A ton of studies with children were done. Repeatedly. It is NEVER claimed though, that it occurs in every person the same way or at the same age. It also depends on your current age.
I honestly think you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Sure it's provable. Of course no one can prove or disprove YOUR memories but in principle false mempories can be induced in experimental setups.
It's called Childhood amnesia by the way.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
owned, get him.
the_red_scimitar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I honestly think you either didn't understand what I wrote, or have even less idea what you (and I) am talking about.
Because, you even made my point:
That was ENTIRELY my point. The fact that a false memory can be induced doesn't mean a memory that somebody has is false. And it is scientifically invalid to make the assumption that memory prior to a certain age MUST be false.
I've met people with credible memories from before they could walk. Very banal stuff about the crib or room - not things they would have been told. And even if they WERE told, that is not proof the memory is false either.
So how is it that I don't know what I'm talking about, since you agreed?
cyberonic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're too clever. I give up.
ResilientFellow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not true, as stated before. I often mention things to my parents and they say things such as "How did you know about that/When was that?" and other things that can't be explained as false memories. I remember several days of playing Super Mario 64 and many other N64 and PS1 games with my cousins. We did this everyday, and were only supervised when we were outside of the bedroom.
PanFlute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I disagree, I can remember the day my memory just 'snapped' on. I was sitting on the stairs, talking to my parents. I must have early 4 at this stage. I was telling them how old I was, and that today I was 5 because yesterday I was 4. I was wrong due to my perception of time but I even remember the strange white socks I was wearing at the time because they had yellow and aqua coloured trim.
After that moment, I started remembering more and more things - now it's just the opposite. My days are going by quickly with fewer and less vivid memories. I'm going to dread growing old.
wolxe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:21:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm with you too, and apparently I was stabbed by my sister with a real needle because she wanted to play doctor.
mikitronz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is the problem; you're never alone.
ArmaziLLa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:54:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same here, I have next to no recollection of my life as a kid.
Thinc_Ng_Kap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, You are on reddit arent you? Thats kind of an alone thing to do.
Decker108 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:41:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, that hurt :(
asljkdfhg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh trust me, you're never alone. >:)
dlefnemulb_rima ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok, we all are.
wanderingtroglodyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:33:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. I don't have quick recall of most things from most things of before the age of 11 or so. Some events I can remember (taking a sweet nerf gun for show and tell in kindergarten? yes), but most I can't.
Going with the theme of the thread, however, here's my "creepy shit." In 4th and 5th grade, I would sleep under the bed if I didn't want to go to school. No idea, why, but I did. I was weird, whatever. One day, I woke up underneath the bed, inside my blanket cover thinking it was trying to murder. I was so scared I flipped the bed over and just sat there staring at my blanket, like I was daring it to attack.
HeMightBeJoking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading this thread I'm quite certain none of us are alone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember pretty well after six or so. Before that, it's very very spotty.
If my mind is trying to protect me from something, then I guess I'm okay with that. I turned out reasonably well.
pokeaminal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember peeing, though
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:22:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can't remember what I had for breakfast. I'm 20.
YouListening ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:23:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember breakfast this morning. These guys are crazy.
Leechifer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:42:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was talking about this with the wife earlier--try to think back to the earliest memory that's "real" (not augmented by pictures or stories told again and again to you). I remember a couple of things from when I was four, a few things when I was almost 5, but nothing before that.
I pretty much don't remember shit. Neither does the wife.
kernozlov ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:59:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember shitting... Just shitting. Had a red and blue plastic potty next to my mom's toilet. Nothing except shits.
sqarishoctagon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:46:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good. I have absolutely no recollection of anything before my sister was born. Even then, it's kind of fuzzy.
metubialman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember much either and I'm guessing these people remember more so that people told them about this stuff happening than they remember it actually happening. Could be wrong though, who knows...
mjethwani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I also don't remember shitting
NasalEntry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The only thing i remember is throwing out my bottle and started chewing on the tv-cables instead. I understand why i ended up here.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:44:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember 17
claythearc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 18, and don't remember 12 much less 3 or 4.
Zeusmoir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe because they made you forget....
UnKamenRider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember some of it, but some of it, I'm pretty sure, are imagined memories of what my parents have told me.
LeprechaunGold ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
neither. but I did crack my head by falling off my mum's dresser...
Instantcretin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I didnt drink all that whiskey for nothing.
omaca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's brown, smelly and comes out of your ass.
SarahC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing until I was about .... 7?
Then very patchy stuff after that... hardly anything really.
Farfromthehood ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:22:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
booyah!
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 19:45:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, I don't remember everything, but I have several vivid memories from particular occurrences that happened when I was 2-4 years old.
marshmellowyellow ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 19:51:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if anyone really remembers it or they just know the stories about themselves from their parents. It's most likely the latter. People are really good at making their own memories.
Edit - By making their own memories I mean committing a story they've been told to memory and thinking they remember it actually happening.
csonnich ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:28:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, I remember a lot of things happening when I was that young that aren't stories anyone's ever told -- a lot of things that no one else was even involved in.
I think it just has to do with what kind of kid you were -- perceptive and observant, or going out and doing things.
I was definitely an observational kind of kid.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:31:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, I have memories of mundane things that my parents never told me about until I asked them, "Remember when..." and they confirmed. Definitely real memories.
marshmellowyellow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But isn't it possible that they just think they remember it after you put it in their head? I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just been shown to happen to people a lot more than they think. Just something to consider!
Hyper1on ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's even possible that the above was just a scary story told to her a few years later and she accepted it as true.
Ref101010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It depends on how quickly a kid develops. Some say that you can't store some memories until you've found an understanding of language, at which age can vary much from kid to kid.
Even if one would think that a language doesn't have to be a necessity for purely visual memories... it either helps a great deal... or just coincides with roughly the same level of brain development.
You are however also correct that it's very easy to subconsciously create fake memories from what we've been told (or filling blanks with what we think have happened). The human brain is very easy to fool in some aspects.
breezyent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a lot more things from my early childhood than my family does. My first memory is from when I was almost 2 years old. I was about 18 months. I can talk about something and they don't remember it- but then I say more details that I remember and then they'll be like, "Ohhh! okay, I remember that- that was the time that blah blah blah." Or they just don't remember it. So yeah. :)
Sookye ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:35:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a LOT of things from when I was 2-4 years old, and most of them are things I've never told anyone, and where my parents weren't present.
BitchesLove ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:02:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, I can barely remember High school and that was only 5 years ago. Some say that I have shitty memory. I chose to believe that I have a set amount of memory, like a computer, and I formatted out the useless shit (memories) so that I could store current functions and work stuff.
I can explain current policy and political matters like no other friends, but don't ask me about past dates or memories growing up, I deleted them.
TLinchen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I like to believe I have a phenomenal memory because it rids itself of the unimportant and traumatic.
KRSFive ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:19:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My first memory is when I was four. Was taking a dump and my golden retriever was in the bathroom with me. A mosquito was flying around, she snatched it out of the air. Then I wiped my ass.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:06:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
None of these stories are told exactly as they happened. The posters here are recollecting a shared family narrative that was embellished over the years.
csonnich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you saying people can't remember being that young?
I certainly remember a lot of things about being 3, things that no one has ever told a story about, just my own experiences.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:32:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These are my memories of my childhood:
Lost favourite orange golf ball.
dad wore tiny shorts a lot.
collected rocks.
That covers up until about 19.
stark222000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:48:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My earliest memory is my second birthday. I'm pretty alone in that no one I know remembers being that young.
thrifty917 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:00:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a few things vividly from 15-18 months. People don't usually believe me though!
boomytoons ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. I remember several things from before my second birthday, the most vivid being flipping off a bar stool, landing on it, going to hospital in the back of my mums VW and getting stitches in my head. Can remember mum brushing my hair and hitting the damn stitches too!
Skylarity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What do you remember?
AbanoMex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
tit and sleep
thrifty917 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember the layout of the apartment that we moved out of when I was about 17 or 18 months old and I was able to describe it accurately to my mom. I remember a fuzzy hat/hood thing that went all around my head kind of like an eskimo hood, I remember a dish towel that my mom had that was white with a little embroidered outline of a kid on it that was so soft I wanted it to be my blankie, and I remember playing with empty Diet Coke cans and wondering why my mom drank so much of the stuff and why I never got to drink it. We don't have pictures of any of this stuff and yet I was able to describe it to the point that I scared the crap out of my mom!
I remember a LOT more from ages 2 and 3. For whatever reason my long term memory is excellent, but my short term memory is crap.
Skylarity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty amazing, thanks for sharing!
thrifty917 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:53:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sure! :) I used to think it was totally normal before I started talking to people who didn't remember anything prior to 4-5 years old.
boomytoons ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:32:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm exactly the same. My short term memory is that bad I have to write anything important down, yet six months to a year later I'll remember everything in detail. Drives me mad.
stark222000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny because I very vividly remember knowing it was my first memory. I had been thinking of the dream I had the night before when I realized I couldn't remember the ABC's (which I recalled knowing before) and all of the sudden I really took in the world and woke up out of my daze. My mom walked out of the kitchen seeing me standing there and told me to come to the kitchen for presents. I had no real memory of her and the faint fragments of memories I could pick up were almost like pictures from a past life. But I still knew who everyone was somehow and was very perceptive in my life from that point on. I think it is why I remember so many of my dreams from being a kid and little parts of memories I had before I could talk.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:08:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
cats and children can see dead people...
menomenaa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think a lot of these memories are facilitated by parents telling stories years later and the person recreating memories in their minds in accordance with the stories.
phoinixpyre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:30:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I take the same approach to every reddit thread. It's a simple ratio of one half truth to every 15 lies.
Dragoryu3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't seem like goose_berry remembers this story, seeing as he/she don't say what they saw. Seems like the mother told them about it when they were older.
First_thing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I only remember pictures and emotions of some events that happened. My earliest real memories are from my birthday when I was 5.
Peartnoy518 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The earliest memory I can clearly remember is watching people my family hired bring furniture from my old house into my new house's living room. I was probably around 1 because I had only spent my first year in the other house. It's weird how things like that can stick to you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I barely have any childhood memories of being 6-8. I mean I can remember events, but I can't visualize the really. I have maybe 10 actual memories that I can visualize from second grade or prior.
AgentVanillaGorilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I only have a few select memories from before I was 10..
Namika ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My earliest memory was from just after I turned 3. I know when it was because its my only memory from my old family house (which my family moved out of one month after I turned 3)
I was thinking about poop and pee and what made them. I realized I hadn't pooped in a long, long time so maybe I haven't eaten the stuff that makes poop? Must be chocolate, its brown. Yea that makes sense. All food becomes pee but chocolate becomes poop. I better go ask my mom for some chocolate, I haven't pooped in a while.
It's interesting for me to look back on this memory. I remember it felt like weeks and weeks had passed since I last pooped. Realistically I couldn't have gone more than a day or two without pooping, but it all makes sense when you realize I was super young, and time feels slower the younger we are. Kinda cool actually.
theshinepolicy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Want to know if some is a liar? Ask them what their first memory is.
Paradoxou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Memories works in a weird way, I remember my Carebears baby mobile in my crib when I was ~2 years old.. That shit was turning over my head and I still remember it.
poorchris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dont even remember anything pre-junior high
Tamer_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have only 2 short memories of my 4yr old, then I started existing at 5 the morning my dad spanked me because I took too long to put on socks.
doctorcaligari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember getting my Batman Under-roos. And they were NEW! It was still a Top Ten memory until I got married & had a child.
Ikhtionikos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember fractions of memories...and the odd thing is, mostly creepy and disturbing ones. I remember seeing and hearing weird stuff, but I'd almost never told my parents about it, because I knew I wasn't supposed to.
crazyjapes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
According to my parents, I have memories of things that never actually happened. Funny how that works.
Sookye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being two.
atilly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember waking up one day when I was like 4 and not being able to remember anything before that day other than who I was, where I was, and my family.
Podwangler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the other extreme, I remember bits and pieces of being a baby. I remember being really scared of the eye of Sauron illustration on the front of my Mum's Lord of the Rings paperbacks. I kept rubbing my eyes in my cot and thinking I could see the eye of Sauron when my eyes were shut, and that it was coming to get me. It terrified me but I remember not being able to communicate at all why I was scared and just crying and sobbing for my Mum. Weird.
zanycaswell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was four when we got our dog and I have a very vague memory of that, but that's my earliest memory and all I remember from that age.
VeggiePetsitter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I only remember a couple of very isolated incidents.
Xoebe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can remember to back when I was 2, in snippets. From 4 on, its clear. I've been told that's unusual.
I used to work for a local entrepreneur, he was known for being a pretty eccentric. He went on meds about the time I went to work for him, and he was okay, but still an asshole. He told me that he couldn't remember anything prior to fifth grade. I didn't ask about his childhood.
flargenhargen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's not remembering that whole time, it's specific incidents.
i remember my 3rd birthday. My parents gave me a cake and wanted to take pictures of me destroying it, like smashing it up and throwing pieces or something.
I remember it vividly, cause I remember being really confused, and even at that age wondering if it was some kind of test or trap.
richardlotion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember 3 at the earliest.
s0nicfreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What age did you begin to read? They say that long-term memories only start forming once you start to read.
Oaden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have no memories except some vague blurs, most of em highly inaccurate and seem impossible to pin down to what year in my life except. Half of those memories im not sure if they're from looking at youth photos and not actual recollections.
Urizen23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a handful of brief memories not lasting longer than 10 seconds, as well as a general familiarity with what happened when family members talk about it; kind of like how I feel just before I hit blackout drunk, actually.
peachesgp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All I remember from that age is the one time we drove to another state to see a great aunt. Don't remember her, just remember kicking the shit out of the back of the drivers seat the whole time.
briedcan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As far as I'm concerned everything before 13 never happened.
coleosis1414 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember earlier than that- I remember being younger than two and standing in my crib screaming because the little clown statue on the top of my dresser scared me. But I couldn't talk yet so I couldn't tell my parents that was what was scaring me. I VIVIDLY remember that, and I couldn't even talk yet.
CSharpSauce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
long term memories usually start forming after you learn to talk. So I suppose if you're an early talker, its possible to have earlier memories.
gingerrevenger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being 3 cause I still lived on the east cost. My father says hes has vivid memories of being younger than that, held by his parents as if he was still an infant. Also my mother in law has similar memories of her parents at infancy as well.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have really vivid memories from when I was really young. I can remember really mundane things from when I was a year to 18 months old. I remember whole random days and conversations with my sister from when I was 3. Really crystal clear memories. Its strange because half the time I can't remember anything from 2 days ago, and have to write myself detailed notes and lists because I won't know what the fuck I'm trying to remember otherwise.
CoriCelesti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought I was the odd one out because I have memories going back to the age of 1, and can vividly remember a dream or two I had around 3 or 4.
GOD_Over_Djinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"is it me" and "does everyone remember being 3 and 4 but me" are the same question
m4khaos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just remember the whiskey, lots and lots of whiskey.
StumpyGoblin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, I don't remember you being 3 or 4.
Polite_Werewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My first memory was when i was 2... When my sister pushed me down the stairs.
madamesharktopus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Totally normal to not remember much (or even anything)- it's called childhood amnesia.
SelectaRx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, I'm 32 and I barely remember my twenties. Copious amounts of drugs and alcohol may be more to blame for that than a developing brain, though.
EByrne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember much from that age. Only the bad stuff, for the most part. Then again, I only have random assorted memories from even the later years of my childhood (12-18), so maybe my memory just sucks in general.
Oddly enough, when I think back to ages 3-6 or so, the vast majority of experiences that I do remember took place at my grandparents' house. Not sure why that is, considering that they lived three hours away and we didn't go there all that frequently. I think I just really liked how laid back the atmosphere was.
Damn-it-man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All of those memories have been LONG gone
SeanStock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I barely remember being 12.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember fragments from even 2.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The only things I can remember are physical trauma.
-Getting stabbed in the eye by a pen -Stepping on multiple shards of glass -Double pneumonia.
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
nope, i have no recollection of when i was 3-4
co0kiezgurl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember anything from before I was 6.
TheeFlipper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't remember 3, but I remember waking up on my birthday at the age of 4..it was creepy-cool.
Aiyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being 3. I went to Disneyland Florida for a fortnight.
I was allergic to the floral garden and spent half the time in our hotel room vomiting.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, I can barely remember what I had for breakfast this morning.
superuser_013 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember some things as far back as one year old. My Grandfather died before I was two and I remember exactly what he looked like and things he said to me, I creeped out my Ma one day when I was almost three asking, "When is Grandpa going to come back to visit, Grandma is lonely without him and I miss being his Buddy-Boy."
Buddy-Boy was his nickname for me, he played with me on the porch all day as he was retired from the Navy after thirty years of service.
I still remember stuff like that to this day.
Just like the time I unlocked the door and dead-bolt when I was eighteen months old to take a walk down the sidewalk.
Good times.
tropicalpolevaulting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember 2 things - first time at the seaside and when my mother left some bbq meat out in the heat for so long that it spoiled, causing me to cry like a little bitch.
Cyprah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember random snippets from when I was that age, just flashes of memory as opposed to like minutes or hours of events that happened.
Like I remember dad lifting me up to the walnut tree in our backyard to pick some, I remember pulling pancakes out of a picnic basket that my grandma put together, my mum sitting on the kitchen floor and crying because dad had yelled at her and I was stroking her hair, a fish named Oscar flopping on the floor because it jumped out of its tank, just random disjointed stuff, all of that would have been when I was about 3 or 4 in our old house because we moved house when I was 5.
andash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a few things... My mother is from one country, and my father was from another. I first learned my mothers language, and my father was agitated by this since he didn't know that language.
What I remember is, by myself, asking him for an icecream in his language.
Other memory would be mom throwing him out, that being the last time I saw him pretty much.
After that at 4 (I think) I remember reading my first sentence out loud, from a milk carton. "Swedish milk from open landscapes" or something like that.
It's weird how memory works. I'm still not sure they are my actual genuine memories, or rather recreated memories from stories others have told me. Most likely the latter, or at least a mix...
Ba_0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have faint memories. Some kind of clear. I remember my sister babbling and understanding her like she was speaking perfect english. I also translated for other mothers. That and my old pets. Dreams, - -you know wierd things.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't even remember what I did this morning.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The only memory I have from that time is finally learning to use the goddamn potty.
elperu27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only thing I remember when I was toddler was my 3 yr old sister holding a pan over her hea about to smack the shit out of my diapers
evilblob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a 3 year old, I can confirm that I have no idea what I did yesterday.
Tropicalfirestorm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
most if not all of these horror story ones are fake
TheGreatGriffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have one perfectly clear memory from when I was only one, but after that I don't remember shit until about six or seven, and even those are a little hazy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have one or two distant memories from that age, maybe more but it's hard for me to tell what age I exactly was. It's a big blurry pool of memories labelled "youth"
shady_limon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
if stuff like that happens to you its easy to remember
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:34:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's just you bro, and that other guy who replied to you. i remember when i was three fo sho.
abenton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My earliest memory was breaking my arm at ~6 or 7, before that I got nothing.
Ref101010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:51:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not only you. I don't remember that far back anymore. I do however remember remembering. When I was a very young kid, I used to talk about some of my earliest memories (the oldest being from when I was 2ยฝ years old), and I've revisited those memories may times.
In my early teens, I realized that the memories had faded and that I no longer could remember those really old memories directly. Though I had re-visited those memories so many times in my mind that I can still remember what I used to remember (but no real details). Today, I basically hold the memories of me revisiting the original memories.
My original memories have faded, but if (metaphorically speaking) they had been a lost/destroyed photo album, then I still have paintings depicting the photos.
ColdChemical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can remember learning to walk. I shit you not.
NicoleAmina ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When people are told stories over and over again, like with childhood stories, memories can be formed along with images of the memory that your brain creates. Our brains love to do these kinds of things.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the only thing i remember from that age is hearing my moms high heels and thinking that we were being followed by chickens because of the sound they made.
LadyLovelyLocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a few memories, not much though, and probably not much before that. I remember a few things from around that age because I remember my 4th birthday party at the house we were living in at the time, and so I guess I was about 3 or 4 whenever I remember something that happened in that house. I think a majority of the stories seem to be from parents reminding their kids what they did at age 3 & 4 though, more than people remembering stuff from then.
Rommel79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember here and there and I have a bad memory.
biddily ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 3 my parents convinced me we were aliens. I remember this event.
agdoll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember that age either
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll remember for karma.
Shiniholum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I cracked my head open when I was like 5/6 and I have no recollection of anything before up until a week after it happened
save_me_batman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All I remember from that age is playing the video game Doom with my dad. Great memories
d3ad_3nd_Job ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this psot doesnt mean she rembers it personally, her mother could ahve told her.
Deus_Viator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My earliest memory was being in my pram and wildly kicking my legs until my socks came off. It was mainly because it was fun to do but i also remember enjoying the fact that my mum had to go pick them up each time. Kids are trolls.
morituri230 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I only remember having a toy truck thrown at my forehead by my brother. It was pretty big.
Lereas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a few fleeting memories of specific things that happened, but for the most part I don't remember anything much from before I was 10. Even then, I barely remember anything unless someone reminds me, or somehow my thoughts lead me to some particular memory.
It's crazy that every day I got up and went to school from the time I was 5 through college, but for the life of me I can't remember almost any particular day out of it.
IvanGugel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember being yesterday.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:34 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I barely remember yesterday.
hangingwiththreads ยท 166 points ยท Posted at 19:12:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well fuck. I'm not sure whether to thank you for sharing that or to condemn you for sharing that.
goose_berry ยท 179 points ยท Posted at 19:16:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well he did go away after he was asked so at least he was a friendly ghost!
Jason133 ยท 459 points ยท Posted at 19:34:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
GGG
IAmThe12thDoctor ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 20:13:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like more of a SAP ghost to me. Tries to make friend... terrifies them.
mash3735 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:02:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
bad luck
briancasperIcalasari ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:56:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good Guy Ghost?
Good Ghost Greg?
Ghost Guy Greg?
EldritchCarver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:31:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More like Forever Alone ghost. He died without friends and found himself unable to move on, so he spends eternity desperate for companionship, only to be shunned by those who refuse to try to understand him.
Jason133 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:30 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well that just made the story a lot worse..
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:09:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
GGGGG
FTFY
electric4224 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:34:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/r/ggggg
FTFYFTFY
bflizzle ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:47:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wtf is this
electric4224 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was my first thought too
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OMWOMW
electric4224 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my word oh my word?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:58:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OnMyWayOnMyWay hahah
JasonK94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:D
TommyShambles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
GGGG
signorafosca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
GGGG
In_it_for_awesome ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:51:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good guy ghost.
TheInternetHivemind ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:17:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Twist: It was Hitler's ghost.
TheRandomHero ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:18:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for you. I assume people downvoted you because, like me, they thought of Good Guy Ghost and you posted it first...
RedSkyNoise ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:35:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Really? I'm going to assume that people downvoted him because Jason133 said "GGG", in obvious reference to the idea of a "Good Guy Ghost"...
... but then in_it_for_awesome just spelled out the freakin' obvious, and thus ruined the clever subtlety of Jason133's comment.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good guy ghost?
kian_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good Guy Ghost
spencer_duley ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:36:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good guy ghost, i am going to make it a thing!
DinoBenn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:53:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or he found a better hiding place.
flargenhargen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:58:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wasn't a ghost, it was a creepy neighbor.
AgainstOWS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:04:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Casper?
mtman12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
....and his name was Casper.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would upvote but you have 69 points (:
[deleted] ยท 92 points ยท Posted at 19:41:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it not far more plausible that little kids struggle to tell imagination from reality?
dahknee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:13:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i think that's one of the coolest things about being a little kid
redlightsaber ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:30:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not just plausible: This is exactly what happens.
AlexHeyNa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:19:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. When I hear about little kids thinking they've seen a ghost, I have to wonder why the possibility (or probability) that it's a kid's imagination and/or imaginary friend type of thing, doesn't cross anyone's mind.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that but I can remember making shit up about ghosts when I was little. No idea why I did it, just felt like lying I guess.
goose_berry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:07:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
very true
NazzerDawk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Think of this thread like a /r/nosleep thread: any time an incredible story is posted, just suspend your disbelief, it's more fun that way.
Torger083 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Which negates the potential that the kid is seeing something and interpreting it rationally.
Instantcretin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isnt it just as plausible that adults are the ones struggling to interpret reality?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:39:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
No.
ApeWithACellphone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, if I was the mom and actually saw the ghost too, I'd call the cops and left that night never to return. On the other hand, if my kid was confusing imagination and reality, asking it to leave seems like a brilliant idea.
nicky_love_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:52:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do shit like this on purpose just to scare the crap out of my parents.
UnKamenRider ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:19:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did that a lot, my sister, too. We also would tell her someone was calling before the phone rang, usually with good accuracy on the caller. My poor mom. My nephew does it now. When I'm on ambien, I wake my fiancee up to tell him about the ghosts in our room.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:08:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do the same thing with the phone, too! Knowing who was calling as well...used to freak my Mom out.
UnKamenRider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:28:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once I grew out of it, my mom finally broke down and got caller id.
christopherjenk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:01:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you said "When I was 31 I was sleeping in my parents bed"
ElasticZeus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did the same thing! But with an old man with a large top hat. There was also a little girl who sat on the end of my bed. My mum just told me to talk to her but I just pee'd the bed in fear of death for years.
MamaDaddy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:33:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's it, I'm out. No more scarystoriesforme!
Punkgoblin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:14:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why not ask why he's there? Why is your first impulse to make him leave?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OH GOD, that reminds me, when I was five or six I was playing in my room when I saw this gigantic man shrouded in black with red eyes. He looked at me, pointed, and said "RUN", I went downstairs screaming for my mom, and we came back up but nothing was there. The really freaky thing was that the window was opened. My bedroom window was almost never open, it was nearly painted shut and my parents were afraid I'd open it and fall out so they never fixed it.
I googled it a couple years ago, and apparently others have seen shit like that, and if you google "shadow people", you'll find a drawing of two types of the; the second type, the one in the hood, is EXACTLY what I saw.
spacecat14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I barely remember things before I was even 8.
WGMindless ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:56:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So you still believe in ghosts because of a vague memory of when you were three-years-old, when your brain wasn't fully developed, and you could see a vague human-looking shape in the corner of a pitch black room?
Sure, that's a logical conclusion to make.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You still believe in ghosts because you're a moron.
Cadvin ยท 190 points ยท Posted at 19:06:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It is clear. Your child is a changeling. He was deposited by fairies, and will grow up to have no concept of love or empathy.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:49:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We don't need that myth anymore.
avrgeawkdpenguin ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:05:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wow that was an interesting post.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:40:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Incredibly interesting.
Cadvin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The only choice now is whether to interpret this as someone explaining the reasons behind changeling myths, or as someone telling an ignorant populace that fairies don't actually steal children, and you needn't be worried.
Xylobe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:31:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stupid changelings.
pikapie ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:22:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know right?
Aiyon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:12:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're such a nuisance.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:45:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
The worst.
pikapie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep changelings everywhere.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How does one get rid of changelings, exactly?
pikapie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hmmm...traditionally it was charms and such, I know of some herbs that were placed in the babies crib to make sure they wouldn't be snatched in the night but I forgot exactly which ones and I don't wanna look in my magical herbs book at the moment.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And you just happen to have one of these books lying around? That's mighty suspicious.
pikapie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wiccan, its a requirement to have books on weird stuff around.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
pikapie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NoAttentionAtWrk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wat?
Throwaway1Trillion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is that bad?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If he is a changeling then we have a motherfucking Dominion war on our hands.
I'll get the Defiant started......
Neoaris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stabby funtimes now?
BitchesLove ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:54:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me but my math teacher in high school.
She heard her 6 year old talking alone and asked him who he was talking to. He said that he was talking to the girl on the stairs who was on fire. She researched and it turned out that there was a house there before, that looked strangely close to theirs, where a child died in a house fire.
She noped out pretty quick and got a new house
Ocrasorm ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:01:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She got a new house? What the hell is wrong with people!! Does everyone somehow thinks ghosts are a real thing now?
rockmediabeeetus ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 19:06:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Put that shit on /r/nosleep
A_Blind_Pilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn it I miss nosleep, I know what I'm doing for the rest of the day!:D
foofly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've just moved to a big scary old house. So, thanks for the reminder that it exists. :-/
vaderspawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
all of this goes on /r/nosleep
[deleted] ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 18:42:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister has this portrait of our dad (died 11 years ago) above her fire place. My nephew has been looking near the fire place a lot, smiling and pointing near where the picture is. It's spine chilling to think about.
RedMercury ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:38:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know. I would put more of a positive spin on it... Your loved ones are always watching out for you, protecting you - and I would assume interested in their granchildrend. Younger kids especially have always seemed to demonstrate the ability to see and hear things adults can't.
PocketHobbit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:29:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"granchildrend"
Wow that "d" jumped a long way.
pantlesspenguin ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 18:27:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa...
bitcheslovedroids ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:34:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dude...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
chills
skeeto111 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 19:24:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's really sweet of your mom. Keepin an eye on her grandkid from behind the grave. He's got supernatural protection, gonna be a balla for sure.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 18:49:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:39:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Came here to say this.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:03:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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k3rn3 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:44:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's creepy.
cynope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's made up.
rodikh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:47:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm turning on all the lights around the house.
etwas_naht ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:33:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's so strange. A cousin of mine who is much older than me claimed, when she was about 3, that a little girl named Mary Fae came into her bedroom and played with her at night. My grandfather had a little sister who died when she was 3... named Mary Fae. No one spoke of her (my grandfather had been dead for about a decade by this point).
My grandmother had a few pictures of MF in the attic that had never been out in the house, so the adults involved agreed that they would nonchalantly show one of these pictures to my cousin to see if she could identify her. Sure enough, she did.
Needless to say, bricks were shat and the picture was returned to the attic.
It's crazy how kids either pick up fleeting bits of information and condense them into something cohesive... or are just epic trolls.
legendaris ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:08:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This would earn you some sweet karma over at /r/nosleep
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:36:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You can't get karma for stories on /r/nosleep.
fs337 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:07:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All of the r/nosleep posts I've seen are self posts
legendaris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:29:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, fake karma then.
saysomethingdumb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:48:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember going downstairs and into my parents room late one night because I was scared.
I was standing in their doorway looking into the darkness and starting imagining someone. I don't know if this was my mind playing tricks or not but I could see this man appear in front of me. first his outline started to appear before I knew it there was a large overweight man in a trench coat, green jumper and work pants and shoes. Staring right at me.
I shut my eyes and jumped onto my mum and dads bed, I wouldn't leave all night.
One other time I was settling for bed and I decided to shake my legs up and down to move the quilt around then suddenly my legs stopped as if someone had grabbed them and held them down.
I thought I'd maybe annoyed a ghost that was trying to sleep in my room. I've never ever shook my legs in my bed again,
Maverick119 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:45:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Paranormal activity 4?
nakp88d ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:02:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, Underdeveloped brain activity of a 4 year old.
Dawwe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:57:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that didn't happen.
phenomite1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have similar experiences with children "seeing" dead relatives. Make you wonder...
de_dust2_420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Then who was phone?!
detergent_md ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I WAS in bed without a sheet covering my legs. I promptly covered them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The hair on my arms and legs just stood up. Jesusshitass
Hmluker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same thing here. Only "the kind man". My mothers father died 3 years earlier. Same story. Corner, photoalbum, brickshitting and all.
epicwinfield ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if upvote because relevant, or downvote because what the actual fuck
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What a twist!
colinsteadman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOL, I did this to my mum too. I dont remember it myself, but she said that I was petrified and pleaded with her to make the person go away. Apparently I was so convincing, she got pretty weirded out and scared herself.
AiKantSpel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THEN WHO WAS FONE?
mva ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Take this shit to r/nosleep!
NoProof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kill it with fire.
LondanX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my that is so interesting! When I was a kid I also saw things in the corner of my room where the aircon was.
afireinside7710 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my grandfather (dad's dad) died from prostate and bone cancer in '99. Usually old sick people are become ill, get a lot better for a week or two and then succumb to the illness. During that final 2 weeks, he was able to walk upstairs to his office and so on (had a nicely furnished office, he was the mayor of Cleveland in the 70's). He was talking to Dad one day and all the sudden started looking over Dad's shoulder for a while. Dad asked what he was looking at and grandpa said "Martian Luther". Now dad doesn't believe in ghosts what so ever, but this freaked him out so badly that he kindly escorted grandpa downstairs in a hurry.
bigpuffyclouds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people are getting creeped out by your story but I think it's sweet that your mum is checking on her grandson like a fairy godmother :')
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like your name.
MiniDonbeE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's a phenomenom that happens a lot in the human brain. There was even a website called haveyouseenthisman? or someshit like that. It basically said he was in everyone's dreams etc, which is bullshit. However the thing is people remember parts of dreams, not the start, not the ending and not the faces etc. What this basically means is that if you dream about a green ship, then you wake up and all you remember was a ship and someone else shows you a pic of a red ship your brain will tell you that is the exact same ship even though the original was green. This could have easily happened to your daughter. He dreamnt of a little girl fairy and then when you showed her the picture her brain went "THAT'S HER!" just because she was of similar height / bodytype ( skinny,fate etc). Hope this clears your mind a bit :)
He most likely didn't see our mom, we can't remember exact details from our dreams/ hallucinations, when we are showed something similar our brain assumes it was the same thing you saw in your dream. And sometimes people dream/hallucinate without even realising it. That means he could have been dreaming but he didn't realise it.
anchal3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Something similar happened to my son when he was almost 3, but it wasn't nearly as cute as a fairy.
We were staying at our sister's house for a few months before we moved across the country. My husband was out of state working, so it it was just myself and our 3 year old old in the room at my sister's. I'm about to drift off to sleep when my son nudges me and says in a very quiet voice, "The man with the red eyes is looking at me". OK WTF.
I ask him where this man is, and he points to the corner of the room, near the ceiling. He said the man had no arms or legs, and he couldn't really see his face very well to describe it, but said he had red eyes.
We slept with the lights on the rest of the night.
The red-eyed man showed up a few times after that, always in the same corner of the room, always at night, and because I am SO lucky, always as I'm about to fall asleep.
He has not seen the red-eyed man since we moved.
Clown_Will_Eat_Me ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Great, now I never be naked
kaat528 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did this too apparently as a child. I don't remember it, but I'd sit in my closet with my "ghost friend" to the point that my mom would walk by and I would be having really in depth conversations with no one, sitting in the floor of my closet with the doors closed. I used to get bad nightmares when I was little so she thought the ghost was just your basic imaginary friend and ignored it. She told me the only times she's ever felt really strange about it was when anyone in the family had lost something, or had a random question, I would ask the ghost and come back knowing where to find it or with the right answer.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
BRB gonna cry and cuddle with my mommy.
andrepd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's Amanda Kissenhug, not Huggenkiss!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was four I saw a neighborhood boy on his bike get hit by a car. He was 9 and he died in front of our house.
A few weeks later I woke up in the night and saw him next to my bed. I recognized him but I wasn't scared. He looked really sad and I asked him why. He said he missed having milk and cookies. So we went to the kitchen, I poured two glasses of milk and we ate Oreos. He was dunking one of the cookies in milk when my mom came down stairs and turned on the kitchen light. His cookie dropped in the milk and he was gone. My mom wanted to know why I was eating cookies in the middle of the night. She did not believe I was fulfilling the last wish of a dead neighbor.
Kyoti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 4 my mother took me to visit my great-grandmother's grave. My great-grandmother had died a few years prior and wanted to be "buried" in a mausoleum as she was terrified of being buried alive.
So my mother was sitting on one of the benches, "talking" to my great-grandmother while I wandered around the aisle. I came back to my mother and asked "mommy, is that Nana next to you? She's really pretty." Mom instantly NOPE'd, got out of there, and didn't visit for months--or bring me with her when she did visit.
dsnfjhsdbnfhj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I could pull out a magazine and sit with my two year old nephew and he would point to nearly every woman and say mommy, and every man would be daddy...
chenb0x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom said I did something similar. I would point behind her and say โgrandpaโ. Just a few years ago I pointed out my dad's step dad in an old photo. That was who I saw. But he died two years before I was born.
perhapsody ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my grandmother was in her final decline (systemic cancer; her mind was still sharp), she swore up and down there was a fairy in her room. She wanted to be sure we didn't scare my younger cousins by telling them about it.
epsilon0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my sister was a child she apparently use to hear people talking in her head. They would all be talking at once though so she couldn't understand what they were saying, kind of like when you are in the middle of a crowd. This continued on for quite a few years until another phenomenon replaced it. Sometimes when my sister would wake up in the middle of the night she could sense, rather than physically see, people standing in her room. Sometimes it would be one person, or a couple, several or I remember her saying one time it was a full crowd completely filling her room and surrounding her bed. Even worse than that, she said one time one of them was lying in her bed with her. They never say or do anything really, they are just there. If she didn't wear a top to bed she gets self conscious and puts one on because of the people watching and then goes back to sleep. This still happens to this day. She is 22 years old now.
A_Buff_Hamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. That. Shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I HATE YOU. I will never sleep again
eleyeveyein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Through some very conincidental events over the years, My Grand mother (T) lives in her parents house, and my parents live in T's old house. Thus, when I go and visit my paternal grandmother (T), I visit the house that my great grandmother (W) lived in her entire life. T moved into this house shortly after W (T's mother-in-law) died.
So over the years as I and my sibilings and cousins have grown up, all have spent time in this house in our early years. About half of the children that have slept in the guest bedroom of that house have mentioned playing house with the lady in the white dress. They have all independently described her the with the same details (short white hair, old hands, and having a monkey). My great grand mother had a pet mokey and a face lift in her later years, thus her hands looked much older than her face appeared to and mostly wore white flowey dresses.
While some of my aunt's do not like going into that house, I find it kind of comforting that some of my families history is, in-a-sense, preserved there.
sleepyhouse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:02:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whether or not you believe in spirits, I find this very sweet. Your mama is watching after your boy. :)
ludvigsra ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 19:27:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 213 points ยท Posted at 20:15:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Trishlovesdolphins ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 01:32:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've done that before. When I was about 15, I had this unexplainable feeling we were going to wreck on the highway. So bad, that I pissed off my brother and woke him up to make him get his head off the side of the car. 5 minutes later, we were hit on his side, did a 360 and landed in a ditch. The window his head was on shattered.
No one hurt, but I have noticed that I get these bizarre "bad" feelings. Every time I have one, I call around. Last time, my MIL was on her way to the ER with a pancreatic attack. The one before my brother flipped his truck (he's ok.) Before that, my grandma was diagnosed with cancer, died 2 days later. (She never went to doctors, by the time she went in, they found out through exploratory surgery that the uterine cancer had spread all over her body, she chose to "go peacefully" then.) My husband used to make fun of me and tell me I was having an anxiety attack. Until I had 2 involving his parents. They don't happen often, and usually when they do they're a serious event. I'm not saying I'm psychic or anything, I have no idea why it happens, but I do know that every time I've had the feeling, bad shit has happened to someone in my family.
allidrummer ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:27:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad's mom had similar talents. She always had feelings about things. One day her and my grandpa were driving down the road, and she got a bad feeling and told Grandpa to go the long way around. He brushed her off and told her no, it would take longer and they were in a hurry. She insisted and begged him, telling him something bad would happen. He didn't listen.
A couple miles down the road, they got hit by another vehicle really hard. Grandpa ended up with broken legs, and dad's mom was so badly injured she was put on life support. A week later they had to pull the plug.
It kind of makes me sad that I never got to meet my dad's mom. I'm similar to her in some ways, one of which being getting good and bad "vibes" about things. I don't think Grandpa ever really forgave himself about that one, though.
bromatologist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:25:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to call my mom's parents, who both died before I was born, my "mom's dad" or "mom's mother", and it has been pointed out to me that is sounds very cold & strange to other people. Then one time I talked to a medium & she told me all about how my grandpa watches over me & all these details about my sister & even that he wants me to pay more attention while I'm driving (I had almost been hit by a firetruck going through an intersection the week before, while listening to loud music & checking myself in the mirror)
Ever since then I've paid more respect at his grave, and send him my love when I pass by it. And I refer to them both as my grandparents now :) I just noticed how you didn't call her your grandma. And immediately presumed you'd never met her.
allidrummer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:05:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I never mean for it to be cold or disrespectful. It's just I've never met her. She passed away about 6 years before my parents even met and got married. Grandpa remarried shortly after my parents did, and so I've just always known his second wife as my grandma.
Pannecake ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:24:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to my sister and I once, we were coming home from getting icecream with my mum and dad and as we rounded the corner to the street that lead to our Circle My both shuddered and said
"Something happened to Harry" (Our oldest brother)
and as we pulled into the circle my brother was limping across the street, his arm completely busted. Apparently minutes before he climbed on the neighbours roof to grab a toy plane he had bought four youngest brother and when the neighbours pulled in (around the time we would have had the bad feeling) he was surprised and fell off the roof, hitting the fence and finally the pavement.
My brother was around 19 or 20 at the time that would have made me around 16-17 and my sister 15-16.
Similarly back in '09 after I finished high school my parents, younger siblings, and I went on a vacation to Lava Hot Springs, we stayed in this little cottage called "The Wayfarer" and the moment my sister and I walked in to the master bedroom we both shuddered when we saw the closet, and then went to inspect the guest room and the closet in there caused us to shudder and then when we got to the bathroom we both said at the same time (looking at the tub) "you could drown someone in here"
My sister and I have had a lot of these moments but not so much anymore.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:21:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lava Hot Springs - in Idaho?
Pannecake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:50:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, the place is fucking creepy. After we got back form river tubing my sister went and took a shower and when the bath tub drained it started shrieking like a woman being murdered. I was the only other person in the house so my sister and I were really freaked out. My other sister was up late one of the night we were staying (the funny thing being that no one would sleep in any of the rooms so they all camped on the floor, aside form me, who stayed in the smaller bedroom) and she thought she saw my brother sneaking into the kitchen, so she followed his shadow down to the kitchen and when she flicked the lights on, it was empty.
While I slept in the smaller room on one of the twin beds I just felt sick the whole night, like there was someone under the bed (I was 18 at this point so I was well over most of these fears) and someone in the closet. While I slept I dreamt of the weirdest things like two little girls, their mom, and a mean man. The next day my sister had said she had a similar dream only one of the girls was drowned by the mean man and the other was hiding int he closet and saw it all.
may have just been group paranoia after the creepy thing my sister and I felt and did....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. I've never been but I've heard stories... Looks like I never will go.
Pannecake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:46:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No you need to go!!! its freaky as hell!!! But still fun!!! Really relaxing to go in late summer just before it gets cold. So the days are warm for river tubing and the nights are cooler for the hot springs!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I grew up in Idaho actually, and always heard of Lava Hot Springs. I'll have to go next time I'm over there.
Pannecake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
its nice just don't stay at any of the creepy little cottages.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:25:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm rarely sick; when I do feel sick, it's usually from anxiety. My mom dropped me off at school one day, which she doesn't do often, but I got a weird little sick feeling moments after she left. On her way to work, hooked her tire on the shoulder of the road. She over corrected, and steered straight into a rock wall, rolling her car onto the passenger side.
Maybe I was just catching onto her anxiousness, which caused her to drive erratically? I don't know, really.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:53:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Lauraraptor ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:38:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was everything okay?
szor ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 22:35:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The impact jostled their souls around. Now RaptorGoRawr is the little and the son is the big.
Lauraraptor ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:06:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love a happy ending
auntjomomma ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:54:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, RaptorGoRawr died.
RaptorGoRawr ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:16:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, the world is stuck with me yet...
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:54:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What a tweeest!
SilentWolfjh ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:24:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a similar story. When I was young my dad and I were driving somewhere, I turned and asked him, "what happens when a truck flips over?" Which he responded, "don't talk crazy!" I didn't remember saying anything. Anyway, on the drive back there was a truck flipped over on its top almost exaclty where i had asked that question.
mixolydian02 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:54:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My powers aren't as awesome as some other Redditors. I have the uncanny ability to think of something off handed or say something off the cuff then have it come true. Often it results in "Hmm, I should take that random object but to hell with it" Then later "damn, I wish I had brought that."
The worst time was when a friend came to visit when I lived in a sketchy part of town. Every time he'd visit he'd leave early as to avoid getting jumped or beat up. One day he decided to stay late and I mentioned it, tell him as he left "Don't get mugged". 5 min later 4 dudes jumped him and stole his shit. I still feel bad about it even though I was joking.
LiathroidiMor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL A surprisingly large number of people have the Shining..
kiwi9400 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:48:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother did a similar thing. My grandparents were leaving our house to go back to theirs. All my family said drive safely, except him; he said drive unsafely just to be funny. They got rear ended about a kilometer from our house. They were fine, but the car that did the rear ending had some bad damage. Weird.
Asillyn00b ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:39 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The mental image of you being t-boned is very scary
Asillyn00b ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:31 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry I ment to reply to your reply but holidays anyways. I pictured you backing up getting hit by a truck going at least 100km/h and you and your son be tossed around like ragdolls and it was also stormy as hell
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:35 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Something like that happened to me a few years ago. My mom had this friend, Missy, and her boyfriend, David, was very abusive. They moved in with their daughter right down the road from us. One day my dad left to go to a motorcycle convention about 45 minutes away. I had been feeling anxious all day and felt like he needed to come home, and he did. I asked him why and he said like he didn't feel like going anymore. But I still felt like something was going to happen. About two hours later, Missy comes flying down the driveway and runs in the house with her baby, both covered in blood. David ran up to the door with a knife and tried to run in after them. Luckily my dad was there to calm him down and stop him. Missy and the baby had a few cuts, but besides that they were ok. I don't know what would've happened if my dad hadn't been there.
H8rade ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 01:58:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you should pay more attention while driving, especially with a small child in the car.
RaptorGoRawr ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:43:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, because I should totally be able to anticipate a truck going 25 miles OVER the speed limit..... being psychic and all.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:27:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You literally have no idea why the T bone happened, and you're gonna berate the mom's driving? Really? Really?
H8rade ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 03:58:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She just said why. She was in a rush and pulled out (during winter) in front of a truck whose speed she misjudged. It was a poor decision.
RaptorGoRawr ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:51:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually no, I said I forgot to buckle myself up, not driving. It was snowing and I was paying close attention to the road, but when they are speeding 25 mph over, its clear whose fault it is. Read before you type, you'll look smarter.
H8rade ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 11:18:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't really matter how fast they're going. You can see that and judge if you have enough time to pull out.
fatmanbrigade ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:38:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Except it does because in snowy conditions on a potentially icy road your ass should not be driving more than the speed limit, even if the person could see them there's no guarantee they could stop from pulling out in time due to the conditions.
RaptorGoRawr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:31:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think what fatmanbrigade said pretty much sums it up.
alfredfjones ยท 2200 points ยท Posted at 18:56:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
3-year-old Brother:"If God looks after people, who looks after God?" Mom: "Well, I don't know..." 5 minutes later Brother: "I think the Japanese."
OrangePrototype ยท 1653 points ยท Posted at 19:16:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That must have been an intense 5-minute thought process.
KousKous ยท 992 points ยท Posted at 20:23:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Inexplicable/weird->Japan
I think it gets pretty reflexive after a while.
"Wait, why is that lady..."
"Japan."
"But she..."
"Japan."
"Wouldn't that--"
"JAPAN!"
Enjiru ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:53:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've made a corollary to this logic. If weird+violent where violent > weird = Germany instead. It's only failed me once so far.
KousKous ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:57:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or weird+poop where poop> weird AND seafood >.01, that also says German.
BreadstickNinja ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:45:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just got back from Japan. I have several strippers' business cards. I didn't ask for them.
KousKous ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:32:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, they just gave them to you
you know, during business hours
BreadstickNinja ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:43:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My reaction was... yes... I already know what you do. I seen it.
Pudding_Time ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:57:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All this talk of Japan reminded me of Freddy Got Fingered.
xzhobo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Japan4
lipplog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:30:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HA! That was awesome.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:27:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm envisioning this like the "shut your mouth, it's Art Crawl" scene from Bob's Burgers.
cheetos03 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the last one said Juan
deathraygun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:46:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You'd be weird too if you got nuked.
deathraygun ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:43:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly everyone is okay with the subtle racist undertones of the parent thread, but not this joke. Sorry reddit.
ObamaisYoGabbaGabba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love how you wrote that :)
Besterthenyou ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:53:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, have you ever seen any movie with Japanese people? They climb walls, they throw small pieces of metal with deadly accuracy. They have tentacle porn. Need I say more?
Neoaris ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:56:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images Go away bad mental images
crazyjapes ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:35:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he got God confused with Godzilla.
csonnich ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:22:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously. He had to weigh the pros and cons of the various possibilities.
DriveOver ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:16:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These 5 minutes have been brought to you by Toyota.
ace586 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 20:40:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TL;DR: The Japanese aren't people.
TL;DR of the TL;DR: The kid is a racist.
PuppyBreath ยท 872 points ยท Posted at 19:01:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not so much creepy as freaking hilarious.
[deleted] ยท 619 points ยท Posted at 20:15:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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SeanStock ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:35:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seems legit.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:20:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ninja in your username YOU HAVE TO BE!
Lidodido ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:54:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
God here, and I can confirm this as well.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:14:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
CHECKMAATE AAAATHEISTSSSSS
Lidodido ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:34:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be an atheist as well. Didn't believe the japanese existed until that Racist Memory-ninja over there appeared.
mycatkins ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:00:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
need proof, logic says no one in Japan wastes time in Reddit. Unless of course you've created some sort of algorithm that notifies you when something relevant needs to be confirmed.
roloy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:39:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
J - Just
A - Always
P - Pray
A - At
N - Night
DracoExpolire ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:47:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welp, second Japanese here.
Indeed, we do look after God.
CityOfWin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:41:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Remarkably relevant username. Well done sir
BuzzBadpants ยท 360 points ยท Posted at 20:02:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I should go watch Evangelion again.
Rocketgrunt ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:16:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Rebuild 3 November 17th, Trailer Also eye-patch Asuka, my body is ready.
DontCountToday ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:44:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually I just realized I have watched neither of the current 2 rebuilds. I am looking at rewatching the series and now there are all these crazy Death Rebirth2 or something episodes, and I have no clue what I am doing
Rocketgrunt ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:12:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Rebuilds are great, a bit more action focused than the series is. Try watching in this order Evangelion episodes>End of Evangelion (Movie)>Rebuilds.
DontCountToday ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:03:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How can she possibly be alive...Whatever, I will happily watch it
PhilsGhost ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:48:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, the Rebuild series is supposed to be a remake. But I agree, it's pretty hard to survive this
RX-78NT-1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's theorized she might be Asuka Langley Soryu instead of Shikinami. The damaged parts of her plugsuit sync up to the damage she sustained in End of Eva, as I recall. There's a full explanation out there.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:26:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No way, just came out today? Sweet. I still haven't seen the first two, I'm waiting until I can watch all four in a row. It's been a loooong wait. Have you seen the other two?
Rocketgrunt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:11:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yessir, the Rebuilds are quite fantastic, a bit different from the series. Eva was more about the characters than it was the robots, angels, or action. The Rebuilds however put more focus into the action, and animation for the fight scenes. The Rebuilds and the Series are different, but I think you would like them.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:40:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How different is the story so far?
Rocketgrunt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:46:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The story is certainly different from the series, the the plot is effectively the same. Meaning Shinji and friends are fighting different angels, new characters introduced, completely reanimated (looks pretty great). I don't want to spoil too much for you, but the movies certainly are a new experience.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:13:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think it's worthwhile to watch them as they come out, or just wait for the end?
Rocketgrunt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you could do either, but keep in mind that the 4th movie will probably take 1-1.5 years to come out. If you watch the first movie, you will probably be tempted to watch the other one too. So if you want to wait, I would hold off on watching any of them.
dontcallmeyomi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:42:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just you and upvoted everyone who talked about it. My excitement/confused level is over 9000.
joeoui ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:39:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, so that answers that... But who watches the Watchmen?
TheInternetHivemind ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:15:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me.
Dylanthulhu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ozy.
hoodoo-operator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
coast guard?
Chichkadrichkina ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:09:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who watches the Watchmen?
nicky_love_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:50:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And he is correct.
mmm_burrito ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:19:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would pay hard currency to hear that thought process.
Jalor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:47:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"The personnel officer who hired God."
ShortSomeCash ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:56:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh Graff...
Hougaiidesu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:51:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love the idea of a Japanese man tending to God like you would a bonsai tree.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:49:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother when he was 4/5: "Can we build snowmen?" (in summer. Me: "No, it's too warm" Him: "Why's it too warm?" Me: "Because science." Him: "I'm going to break science."
He's going to be a crazy scientist whose aim in life is to break the laws of physics.
urban_night ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:05:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And Neo Genesis Evangelion was born.
resistite ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:34:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Juvenal, Satires
--Rosewater-- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:49:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YES. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
rockmediabeeetus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:05:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now that's what I call frightening.
TChuff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While that's who I'd want look after me if I was God.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No. They look after tentacle porn.
sycamoresap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who watches the watchmen?
datoverder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? I have my answer now
Patrickfoster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My three year old brother has no concept of country, let alone nationality!
willbradley ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Vell he must be reedukated! Off to ze trainink kamps for him! He villw love his country above ALL ELSE!
coleosis1414 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
And furthermore, who watches the watchmen?
Edit: After further investigation of the comments, I can see that I was not the first one to think of this. Kindly ignore me.
brownestrabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he is referring to the 'kami' or the 'god's that the Shinto priests look after?
shadowdorothy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Im laughing so hard from that. Ah haha.
amazingmaximo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who watches the godsmen?
Masterchiefg7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who watches the Watchmen?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is much more funny to me than the rest for some reason.
pyrosmiley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who watches the Watchmen?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I bet it is the DAMN MONGOLIANS
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In a somewhat related incident, one of my great grandmothers died when I was 4ish, and this brought up a discussion on death and all that. The topic of heaven came up, and my twin asked my mom "So where is heaven?" My mother replied "well nobody really knows". I piped up and answered "Heaven? That's in a cloud over Japan".
So who knows, maybe the Japanese ARE looking after God.
yoyoyodaboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mommy, who watches the Watchmen?
HughSP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
gold, absolute gold
timeandspace11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Idiot, Japanese people have no souls.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense since Jesus was buried in Japan.
fs337 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your brother is a little racist. He thinks the Japanese aren't people. Still got me in stitches, though
alfredfjones ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:25:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think 3-year-olds have a strong enough grasp of race to be considered racist.
fs337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:54:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I more or less meant it as a joke.
Cat_RN ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:33:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Japan also is not a race.
PhantomSeriously ยท 1431 points ยท Posted at 19:10:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids but apparently this happened when I was about four.
I shared a room with my older sister and we had huge closets in our bedroom that were about 6 foot tall. My mother would wake up in the middle of the night to hear me crying and she'd come in to investigate what was wrong. She then would find me sitting on top of the 6' closest, cross-legged and rocking back and forth while crying about; "The big scary man put me up here". Since my mother was tired from it being the middle of the night and being heavily pregnant she didn't really think about HOW I got up on the closet, but would put me back into bed and comfort me until I fell asleep again. But then my grandmother came to stay with us a few nights and she told my mother that she woke up in the middle of the night because it got suddenly cold and her bedroom door handle was turning. The door opened but no one was there and then the bathroom door opposite her door opened on its own. She stared out the door for a few minutes not moving because she was in shock and frightened, but then heard me start crying. My mother walked by her room to get to me and of course I was crying about the man putting me up there. My grandmother told my mum what she experienced and my sister slept with my Gran and I slept with mum for the next couple of weeks after that. It stopped once my brother was born, and to this day I have no idea what really happened.
harr1s ยท 1656 points ยท Posted at 19:45:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I always chuckle when supernatural netherworldsy ghost beings have to put up with the most mundane aspects of the human experience, like turning door knobs lol. Instead of just using magic or walking through. I wonder if they file taxes or need to jump start their car batteries ever.
[deleted] ยท 1678 points ยท Posted at 20:13:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Chigohollow ยท 250 points ยท Posted at 20:50:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SO, UH. WHERE'S YOUR BATHROOM? I HAVE TO PISS.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:55:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ecto-pee
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:46:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd drink that.
cptspiffy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:25:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DUDE I GOT A TURTLE HEAD POKING OUT COME ON
capt_fantastic ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:14:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://murphed.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/shitter-full.jpg
MissVelvetElvis ยท 162 points ยท Posted at 20:56:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine this is exactly what I would do if I could become a ghost.
FUCK ALL Y'ALL, I'M GONNA SCARE YOU FOR FUCKING LIFE.
Aziral ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 22:45:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would do little shit to fuck with people too. Whenever someone got up from their computer I would set their default browser page to /r/spacedicks and switch all of their keys around. I would break the ends off of shoe laces and switch medicine labels. Start hiding their wallets and keys. Oh and also masturbating to their daughters/wives showering.
Final_Day ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:47:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can non-corporeal entities masturbate albeit even exist?
Aziral ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:42:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Short answer, yes.
Long answer, well why don't you come over and find out? Ghost Azi is good for the lovin.
MissVelvetElvis ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:49:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That last one I actually had a fear of ever since my mom told me about ghosts and the supernatural. I had this weird idea that my grandpa was watching me shower (She told me that the dead were always with you. Always.) so I would refuse to shower for a long time. I thought, y'know, I was saving us both from awkwardness.
Eventually I grew out of it though. Still, thanks for bringing those memories back to the surface. Now I'm just glad I can laugh at how ridiculous that was.
roastedbeef ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:35:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Iiiin the afterlife...!
noiwasfirst2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank u
thumper7 ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 20:57:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If the afterlife is really forever eventually everyone would resort to messing around with the living
Kiassen ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 21:23:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, that would probably be the first thing I'd do.
altshiftM ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:38:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What about ghost orgies?
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 21:43:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NSFD
SirAwesomelot ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 22:12:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NSFeratu
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:56:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this whole tread has got me laughing my butt off :D
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:12:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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EmanNeercsEht ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:30:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There should be a site created called Deddit, where all the inactive Reddit accounts go and bots make posts to one another using these 'ghost' accounts and talk nonsense for however long the novelty of it holds up.
guttervoice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:58:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If there existed a show about really bored ghosts pranking the living, I'd give it a shot.
liberalis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Ghost and Mrs Muir is pretty close.
SeanStock ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 22:42:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I WILL MAKE PUZZLING THINGS HAPPEN. YOU WILL BE PUZZLED. YOUR CAR KEYS ARE NO LONGER WHERE YOU PUT THEM. HAHAHAHA.
bytesmythe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read this in Mojo Jojo's voice.
"IT IS YOU WHO WILL BE PUZZLED, AND THE ONE BY WHOM YOU WILL BE PUZZLED IS I!"
redisforever ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 21:30:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Fuck, the afterlife is dull. Welp, time to fuck with people in hilarious ways!"
If there was an afterlife, that's all I'd be doing. Someone puts down a drink, refill while they're not looking. Sort people's laundry when they're away. Just make them confused, while being helpful.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:00:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At first I thought you said "Snort people's laundry".
That'd sure as hell make me confused.
redisforever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm confused! How would I do that...? Hmm...
starlettemax ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm in, when I die, I will find you. Where shall we meet? I live in Texas and went to school at UH. Maybe we can start in the dorm rooms. There are some pretty nasty rooms in there that really need a cleaning. And instead of complaining about all those college kids that get to college and don't know how to write...why not do something about it? Let's get on this. We can write some bitchin' term papers.
redisforever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:24:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
See, I live in Canada. Maybe we should start halfway between us? Like... shit, I don't know where all the states are... what's in between Texas and Toronto?
starlettemax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've always wanted to visit Toronto! But if we start in the middle, we start somewhere in Tennessee or Kentucky. How's your southern drawl? LOL, I just got this weird reality check thought, "um, starlette, you do realize, you are making plans with some person from Canada for after you die, right?"
redisforever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I can fake accents pretty well, so that's fine. However, making plans with random strangers in other countries is what Reddit is for!
starlettemax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
True, it is the afterlife planning that got my brain to reality check me.
redisforever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Considering that I don't believe in any afterlife, it's getting odd here too. Still, it's a plan. When I die, and discover there is an afterlife, I'm getting on Reddit one last time. Also, if I have some spare time from cleaning shit, and screwing with people, I'm going to haunt the fuck out of some people I know.
starlettemax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can see it now, some crazed out posse of deceased Redditors start haunting everyone they knew and straightening out their shit for them. It's going to be amazing!
redisforever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
THE WORLD SHALL BE CLEAN! IT SHALL BE MADE SO BY THE LIFELESS! Also, the dead. But they had to be lifeless when they died. Nobody with a life is allowed.
starlettemax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm having too much fun, it's time to go to bed. I think I can wait to meet up with you other mischievous souls...but when it happens, we're going to have so much nerdy ghost fun.
redisforever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:05:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, good night then! It's 1 o'clock here, and I'd go to bed too, but some assholes are launching fireworks for Canada day, which was technically yesterday. I know who's first on my list of people to haunt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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redisforever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're first on my list then! :D
Beckettier ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:39:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nosferatu...
HairlessSasquatch ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:22:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"THE AFTERLIFE IS BORING AS SHIT"
I read that as if the ghost was yelling at you from really far down a hallway. "THERE'S FUCKING NOTHING HERE!"
a_wizard_diddit ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:20:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This made me laugh so hard. Thank you.
MedSchoolOrBust ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:31:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit of the day. Your reward is one upvote.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:01:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/r/bestof
abcd_z ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:55:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, link that shit.
tmelee ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:39:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't think I've laughed so hard at a Reddit comment in SO long. (I'm also a little less afraid of ghosts now)
Shrim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My theory: there are thousands of ghosts around you at all times, the ones that open doors and move things are just recently dead and are still interacting with the physical plane out of habit.
cuddles_the_destroye ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:40:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I came back as a ghost, I would abuse the fact that I can't be prosecuted for any crimes.
astrograph ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:56:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
reaction
m1ndcr1me ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:40:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love when I read stuff like this after reading a bunch of creepy-ass posts. Makes my day better.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:46:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
omg im dying
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:04:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So is the ghost.
asherah156 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:15:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your username made this even funnier somehow
nickgreen90 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:52:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dont know what the hell you're talking about, but that sounds completely hilarious to me.; FUCK YEAH, PUTTING PEOPLE ON WARDROBES FOR LIFE.
Rackemup ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:00:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking awesome. This post puts all the stupid ghosty nonsense in a perfect frame of reference. Another upvote for you!
HeMightBeJoking ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:54:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I die I am definitely going to come back to stick kids in random places.
"Why is Tommy on the fridge?"
"how did Susie get on the ceiling fan?"
"Who out the baby in the microwave?"
Little_Sally_Digby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to /r/nocontext.
Dirty_Liberal_Hippie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:36:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I admit, I can see myself doing random things like that if I were a ghost, just to confuse the shit out of people...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:52:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What scares me about the possibility of becoming a ghost is the idea of having to haunt ONE shitty place for eternity.
i-am-sherlocked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not boring. You get to troll people and watch them flip shit for eternity. Sounds freaking hilarious.
mtc10012 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Up vote just so you get a nice even 1000 up votes.
wigsternm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, if I was a ghost I would troll so hard. "Well, this completely invalidates everything I believe... Might as well rearrange the furniture.
d3ad_3nd_Job ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"ever tired ghosting not high?!?! its boring as shit!
UnparaIleled ยท 1110 points ยท Posted at 19:59:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have just completely eliminated the creepiness of the post. Thank you.
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 20:12:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ghosts are not real. there you never have to be scared of drivel like this again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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banana_poet ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 20:20:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but I keep it hidden in my invisible box that only I can use.
CrazyCalYa ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:34:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Brilliant.
burningpineapples ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:22:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have no incontrovertible evidence they do. Besides, if we find they exist, suddenly we have a weird branch of physics to deal with.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:37:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I like your attitude for how if they did exist is that we would suddenly have a weird branch of physics to deal with. It sounds like you are one of the lazy people from the pre-quantum theory era :|
edit: I forgot a word. The grammar is still poor.
TheAntZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So quantum theory allows for the existence of ghosts?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:57:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's completely irrelevant. The point was that when quantum theory was emerging a lot of scientists dismissed it because it created a completely messy new view of our universe that screwed up their neat and orderly way of thinking, even though we have since proved that quantum theory is vital to our understanding of the universe! Dismissing anything at all on the sole grounds that it may prove disruptive to the current theories is a mistake.
SG-17 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:40:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it does? What if ghosts aren't actually dead people but rather images bleeding through time or from other realities into our own?
TheAntZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
bleeding through time? other realities? This sort of shit has actually been proven possible/observed? I've been living under a rock apparently... that sounds seriously unbelievable and awesome
SG-17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:51:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just thinking that maybe quantum teleportation can happen naturally and randomly at a more massive scale.
burningpineapples ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That isn't quantum anything. Gravity and normal physics prevent teleportation in that manner at the macroscale. It's the small stuff, the stuff that we can only observe as a data point or statistic, that might do this. We see anything else, it is not quantum physics. It is something new to us.
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[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:06:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Boneary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In the UK I think it's the other way round as far as Libel is concerned, ghosts though, most people are just happy to know that Mr Pipes isn't real.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only until we open the box.
Chemicalmachine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This applies to everything said. So it really has no meaning. Evidence needs to be put forth, and lack of evidence (after serious testing) should be seen as a sign of it probably not existing.
Iamkazam ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:36:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Until we discover they exist by some really weird twist of physics, then it's safe to say they do not exist.
colinsteadman ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:18:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not going to happen. We're the end point of a few billion years of self replicating molecules evolving. That being so, it makes no sense to believe that at some point ghosts started being produced when people die. Otherwise when, how and why did that start happening? Its absurd. Besides if there were ghosts and they could interact with this realm to turn door knobs, we'd be able to build instruments to detect them. The whole ghosts thing is nonsense. Great story though.
Iamkazam ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:26:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I agree that it's all nonsense. However, I like to consider everything scientifically. Science is ever changing, so I would not be the first person to ignore any sort of reliable, peer-reviewed, and purely scientific suggestions for the existence of human ghosts. I would be highly suspicious and skeptical of any such thing that could arise, but I would examine it none the less.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Iamkazam ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:48:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have belief, I have knowledge. I won't ever "believe" in ghosts, but someday we might have the working empirical data to suggest their existence.
gathly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
scientific curiosity is not the same as curiosity. you don't investigate any random thing. If you're going to start with something that violates all known laws, you should have something pretty strong leading you there, and personal testimony is not very strong.
MrRabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
That's not at all how science works. The fact that I can't prove that a giant, pink, invisible elephant isn't sitting in my living room does not mean that I should waste time considering an assertion that it does.
Extraordinary claims require solid evidence by those defending the claim, and despite alllll of the "I swear I felt a presence" stories, not a single thread of evidence has ever been produced.
There are no such things as ghosts. I can not believe I would have to say that to an adult. This makes me sad.
*EDIT Accidentally a word
Instantcretin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes because that is so much fun.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:26:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, it doesn't matter what I think because the fact is that I'll still be scared and my mind will make them real.
TheNargrath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We've been instilling this in our daughter since she could communicate. It's worked pretty well against imaginary monsters. We've never had fear of things in the dark.
bromatologist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My greatest fear growing up was that I would see something & my parents wouldn't believe me :( Therefore leaving me helpless to contend with the spiritual entity on my own. They tried to convince me ghosts weren't real, but neighbourhood kids & later my personal experiences, convinced me otherwise. As long as it's working for your family though, that's a great idea.
TheNargrath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:33 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We're working on critical thinking skills, even at the ripe age of 4. I'm not intending for it to stick yet, but the groundwork is coming in.
She's told me a few times that she'd "see something." We'd discuss it, and I'd ask open ended questions, exploring the idea. I know a child's imagination is vivid enough, and they don't have the full mental tool set to always distinguish fantasy from reality, so I try not to harsh her buzz, so to speak.
Overall, though, we're accidentally shooting down potential conflicts (afraid of the monsters in her room) while building life skills. Though, if she has a bad dream, her Stitch pal wearing a toddler Vader shirt helps give relief from further nightmares.
totally_not_a_zombie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:56:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe they just don't know they're dead.
Askol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously the ghost didn't have to do these things - You're forgetting that the ghost did this purely to fuck with this family.
xdig2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
..or did he...
SpaaaceCore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How? This doesn't explain the kid getting up into the closet.
[deleted] ยท 130 points ยท Posted at 20:05:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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FuzzyGunna ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 20:42:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No one said anything about hell.
MackLuster77 ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 20:12:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
You guys, I heard frustrated groans coming from my kitchen one night, but I was too scared to investigate. The next morning, the pickles I bought a few days earlier were opened.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:56:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pregnant ghost?
MrsDrZoidberg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you live alone?
markartur1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:28:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's because they still think they are alive in some ways...
Skylarity ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:13:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've got a scare at 2:00 this morning, but I have to do my taxes tonight. "Honey! Do you think you could take my scare this morning?"
llill ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:15:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It could be like in Monsters Inc, where they make a living scaring humans.
KaptainKrunch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:24:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They do it to fuck with you.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:27:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know, when I think about it, it must be hard to be a ghost. Everything you do creeps everyone out, and there's no way to interact with anyone without scaring them half to death. What if you just want a friendly conversation with someone? Nope, they'll freak out as soon as you walk in the door. No wonder ghosts go insane.
Casper sure has it rough.
owlish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:30:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Where was the supernatural in this? (ok, maybe "got cold").
I wasn't thinking supernatural, just "a big scary man" in the house. That's definitely creepy!
Leechifer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine how frustrated a ghost from 1894 would be with the 1040 long form.
ShallowBasketcase ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:39:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have returned from the deeeeaaaad
ooooOOOOOooohhh!!!
Watch in awe as I TURN THIS DOORKNOB!
Shudder in terror at the SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS!
Lahaim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you Jack Handey?
mbedner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That actually sounds like it could be an interesting movie/tv show, I mean, nobody want to see a ghost cleaning windows, but I feel like theres potential for some good dialogue between ghosts.
TheSeldomShaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not so much about ghosts, but Dead Like Me stars a cast of Grim Reapers who have to deal with human life and shit while doing their jobs.
Boneary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There was a british TV show called Rentaghost, it was about ghosts who were supposed to do oddjobs, was on before I was born though, so can't help you out much beyond saying google it.
JohnnyVNCR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:23:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe they don't know they're dead, and think they're the shit for getting off with not doing their taxes. that's how i imagine bruce willis felt.
Spalunking01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:24:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It is my understanding that they can just walk through. They do mundane things like turn door knobs to gain attention. (from what I've read O.O)
DonOntario ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds legit.
jstarlee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:28:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this would make a great sitcom...
fuckyourcatsnigga ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:33:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Unless...they know what they're doing "it'll be real creepy if I turn this door knob reeeeeaal slow like..."
emberspark ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think the reason people do it is because...what else could it be? I'm not saying there are ghosts, but I'm just saying it's not like the wind can turn a doorknob and open a closed door.
portablebiscuit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They're always having to fax shit and separate recyclables. Fuck the afterlife!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:23:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Coke is a dollar a can now? God. Whatever happened to the good old days?"
Saykazay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:13:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have no idea how much I love you.
And, honestly, it's the middle of the night, its dark, how are you going to notice a doorknob turning?
Emileahh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:09:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haaa. I like you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I see a pixar movie...
Naezwood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They don't know they're dead. Neither do you.
WAKE UP
Karl_Cross ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Since see what you're saying here but what if the supernatural aren't fully aware that they are dead. Would make sense that they still tried doorknobs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why do we assume ghosts have powers?
glass_hedgehog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well why not? If the afterlife exists, and if it is just another form of community coexistence, then I imagine there is a society with a structure that would include an economy, daily chores, and human relationships.
MumBum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus. Here I was ready to nope my way out of reddit because I'm home alone. Thanks for that comic relief!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe it was a rookie ghost? doesn't know the wallhack yet etc.
eyeseayoupea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I guess voting isn't very exciting either.
phiniusmaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They probably do it 'cus they know it'll freak us out.
Once your dead, what've you got to lose? Might as well troll.
0l01o1ol0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, they are the thing that keeps your car battery from working when you need to make a quick getaway.
"OH GOD IT'S GOING TO GET ME WHY WON'T THE CAR START OH GOD"
Under the hood: trollface ghost
Knawz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was the best thing i have ever heard if you are afraid of ghosts and stuff.
downvotesmakemehard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's just to fuck with the living. They know they don't need to do any of that nonsense.
1silversword ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much, now I'll be able to go to bed and actually sleep.
Ijustdoeyes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Old habits die hard?
Dinosaur_Boner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They haven't become lucid and realized they're dead yet. You open doors and whatnot in your dreams when you don't have to.
fuckcancer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying I believe in the supernatural or anything, but I always thought that they were doing that mundane stuff to get our attention, not because they had to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha.
I enjoyed making that.
logicruiner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The ghosts that haunt me are completely silent, invisible, and intangible. It fucking creeps me out.
yeomanscholar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There is a theory, in Neil Stephenson's Anathem, that (spoilers) our brains exist in many universes at once, and that some things are similar across universes, similar enough that they give us otherworldly feelings or sparks of insight - and it is hinted that paperwork, bureaucracy, etc, are the majority of those things.
This would handily explain that, if you ask me, if I accepted the whole quantum brain thing, which I don't. But it amuses and horrifies me to think of a world where there are many universes, and they are all, by and large, bland.
Tiverty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:07:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am sending all the support I can! I need reinforcements!
xrint ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:16:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The reason they open doors is because they don't think they are dead which means they have to walk trought doors
Skrillex4ever ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:36:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You, I like you, you're coming with me to nosleep so I can actually enjoy the stories while you counter-act some of the scary.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:42:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well they WERE human, they probably don't have the consciousness to realize that they are in fact, ghosts
Yakroot ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 20:07:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
^ This
[deleted] ยท 227 points ยท Posted at 19:19:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Nasty_kid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:04:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Makes me not want to have kids... You know just to avoid all the supernatural bullshit
Longerhin ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is the most obvious fake one.
Nathan_Grey ยท 292 points ยท Posted at 19:47:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your brother is probably the anti-Christ. The end is nigh.
Ruvaak ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:47:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We sure do find the anti-Christ a lot, don't we?
Vomit_Comet ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:51:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
praise Jesus
Quismat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:30:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just figured that the specter possessed the pregnancy. NBD.
death_by_rainbows ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:30:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Repent! Repent! Throw Away Your Evil Ways! The End is NIGH! NIGH!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The end is nyighhh
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That or a ghost killer/ warder offer.
Alfozatoss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Up vote for solid Monty python reference
HaroldHood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He actually died right before his 18th birthday.
He was out with some friends in an old warehouse and there was a gas leak or something and there was a huge explosion. We never even found his body.
fingerprince ยท 157 points ยท Posted at 19:17:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh fuck THAT. That is so scary, shit.
CNNisMSNBCMinusHats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How often do people respond with the Animaniacs skit when you post?
the_emptier ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your brother's the big scary man.
Nasty_kid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I get scared/freaked out I start yelling really loud and cussing at nothing to seem intimidating, then I run like a little bitch
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:06:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Belfast by any chance? Around 15-20 years ago I would put on my ninja gear and for shits and giggles would break into homes in the middle of the night. I used to turn the air conditioning on full blast before slamming a bunch of doors and lifting children onto high furniture. Probably freaked parents the fuck out!
PhantomSeriously ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:29:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Belfast, yes! :)
Edit: How the fuck did you know? And this didn't take place in Belfast... I lived in Dubai. So you didn't break into my house :P
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You probably mentioned you live in Belfast in some previous post and he RES tagged you.
boqueno ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:52:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/iIr58.gif
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:49:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know which would be scarier, if it was something paranormal or a real person moving the child.
Trapshooter148 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:11:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For me, a real person. I don't know why, but i have this fear of people being in my house. like, LIVING in my house, and me not knowing about it. Especially like someone just living in my attic, only leaving around christmas time, knowing that I'll be coming to get the decorations.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:15:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like that guy who thought he had someone living in his attic that posted in AskReddit a couple months ago... Yeah that is terrifying. Which is why I am completely satisfied in my tiny apartment.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:32:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was the animus of their baby brother, travel-led back in time from when he was an adult ;b
DiegoXIV ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey man, can you turn the AC on? Its kind of hot up here. Also your out of the sodas i like, mind going out to get some more?
gypsymagic69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When i was younger my parents told me i had a evil twin locked up in my attic, it scared the shit out of me. I also had a dream a creepy old man was living in between the walls of my basement. After that i always kind of think what if, because it could be possible for some one live in someones house.
IG-64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Read #6.
ducktai ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:06:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think they'd like this story over in /r/Thetruthishere. It's a good subreddit for true, creepy paranormal stories that don't seem to have a rational explanation. Sadly, it doesn't have a lot of subscribers but we like getting new stories :)
excusablyrude ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:29:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Except for the true part.
OctopusDung ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:47:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck, that's creepy as shit.
suplauren ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:38:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username.
TheRedDuke ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:53:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nosleep
gwhaio ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:00:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck this shit. Time for some mindless comedy before bed.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:39:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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AndyBatch ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:56:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why in bloody hell would you mention such a subreddit? I have to read it now, but I know it will be detrimental.
Sir, I hate you. <3
AgentVanillaGorilla ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:06:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nosleep
AndyBatch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:11:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
STOP IT! I KEEP READING AND IT HURTS!
gruselig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How about /r/LetsNotMeet ?
AndyBatch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So much good reading material.
didgeripoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:47:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say your little brother saved you.
sup299 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:03:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
INSIDIOUS
gypsycamptrash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:06:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Um..you win this thread.
IG-64 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I decided to do a quick sketch of the big scary man putting you in the closet. Here you go.
Rockztar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
M-m-m-maybe there was a ghost, a-a-a-and it'd put you up on the closet so it could sleep in your bed, and th-th-th-then that night with your grandma the ghost was just d-d-drunk and entered the wrong room twice, b-b-b-before entering yours to sleep?
ryanmcco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you win
offbeatchicken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I would pay to see this movie.
AznMango96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nosleep
TwatMobile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lots of crazy and scary shit seem to happen when people are 4...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice creepypasta. It was your unborn brother practicing astral projection and magical manipulation of the world.
DoctorDystopia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nearly relevant username.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, I walked into this thread figuring I'd hear funny stories about the shit kids say. Did I somehow take a wrong turn and end up in r/nosleep? This is just freaky!
I_Feel_Guilty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Great now I'm scared to be alone by myself
galient5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nosleep
Caulibflower ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me and not my child, but a friend told me a story that's pretty similar. He said they lived in an old house (where someone had been murdered - go figure) and he and his sister used to play down in the basement when they were kids. Similar to this story, there was a large cabinet/closet type thing with some space between the top and the ceiling, and they used to climb up and play on it. One day while they were both on top, the whole thing started rocking back on its own while they just stared at each other, shocked. Wasn't an earthquake - nothing else in the room was moving, and no one else in the house experienced any strange motion. There had been other seemingly unexplainable events occur in that house, but according to him nothing topped being high on top of a closet and having it suddenly begin violently rocking back and forth.
earnest_turtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You sir owe me a new pair of pants.
Heaney555 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
shitthatneverhappened.rtf
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it was your baby brother's spirit, taking on the shape of a big man, who was able to roam freely in the house before getting 'stuck' in his new body?
(Sorry for any mistakes in my grammar, I'm tired..)
CarrionBeetle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sole purpose of afterlife to pick up kids and put them on shelves.
friendofsummer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Then who was phone?!?
surfinfan21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you remember it the situation at all or are these all stories your mom told you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly the unborn child had great powers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I never thought about this, but maybe a lot of ghosts that people think are scary, are actually nice (if ghosts are even real...). Maybe a ghost did open your door but it was just so your mom and grandma would hear that you were crying and had a bad nightmare or something. I'm really glad I read this post in the middle of the day though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The story is fake. That is what happened.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever seen paranormal activity? The ghosts want the first born son's soul or some shit. No matter what really happened, NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should post this in /r/nosleep.
NotReallyInteresting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your brother is "big scary man" reborn. Obviously.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some kids are crazy climbers. One of my mom's brother's would climb out of the crib, so their uncle built up the walls of the crib higher. He'd still get out, so they built it higher and higher...
A neighbor finally pointed out that all the crib walls were doing was making it farther for the kid to fall when he climbed over.
Anyway, I suspect you climbed up there yourself and then cried because you were scared and didn't know how to get down.
PhantomSeriously ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The closet wasn't beside any other piece of furniture to aid me in climbing up it.
xyroclast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I find it very, very hard to believe that a mother wouldn't be extremely curious about a child appearing on top of a 6-foot object, claiming that a man put them up there.
Panda_S3X ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
just putting it out there, but a big scary man probably brought you up there.
ExiledSenpai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:33:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know about the handle rattling, but a cold chill could have both blown the doors open and caused you to stir in your sleep IE sleepwalk.
PhantomSeriously ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We lived in Dubai at the time. No cold chills happen there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is just a shot in the dark, but you may have been sleepwalking.
convergentstrabismus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did anyone else ever experience a feeling of being picked up and rocked in someone's arms? If you opened your eyes everything was normal but you had to concentrate to feel the bed.
convergentstrabismus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did anyone else ever experience a feeling of being picked up and rocked in someone's arms? If you opened your eyes everything was normal but you had to concentrate to feel the bed.
A_Buff_Hamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE
Rommel79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stuff like this is why I'm sometimes glad I have poor eyesight. I can't see beyond my fingertips of my outstretched hand, so I wouldn't really be able to see it. Of course, if there's noise, I'd only be able to hear and not see, which would be worse.
greensthecolor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think I've ever heard someone referred to as 'heavily pregnant' before.
mixolydian02 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe the little brother was tired of waiting to be born and couldn't wait to get started picking on his older sister :-)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:15 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least it wasn't a Redditors ghost, putting cats and children into small boxes and writing in blood on a mirror/wall:
'IF IT FITS I SHALL SITS'
sophelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:39 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well its obvious your brother was just staking his claim over your bed before your mother birthed him.
dramaticternofevents ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least try to make it believable.
Ardal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mmmm.....
ConradFerguson ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You fucking ass hole.
TransducerX ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 20:22:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid but a friend's little girl: (Little girl staring out car window) Mom: What are you thinking about? Little girl: I'm thinking about a man killing a monkey.
Neoaris ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:32:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Curious George: The Dark Years.
Wiskie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, that's kind of a funny thing to think about actually as long as you don't get carried away.
I'm imaging a Tom and Jerry-esque scene with the man designing all sorts of machinations to "get" the monkey, and failing each time.
sox5s ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 20:41:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a nanny, this 6 year old boy had this "christmas elf" doll that sat on his shelf and looked terrifying.
The kid would tell me everyday how it came to life at night and danced around his room and told him secrets.
One time i made the mistake of asking what kind of secrets and the kid freaked out and shouted at me, "I CAN'T TELL YOU! HE TOLD ME NOT TO TELL ANYONE!" then he stood on his bed and shouted at the doll, "MOVE! MOVE!!!!!!! I'VE SEEN HIM MOVE! MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Loquenahak ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:44:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WELP. I'm not sleeping any time soon.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:55:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's almost 2am here and it sure is looking that way for me...
Iratus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
1:13 am and I've been reading trought this thread for hours. Why do I do this to myself?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe we just hate ourselves. Or maybe our sleep patterns got disrupted by technology.
Iratus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That last bit is true, actually. Artificial light fucks up sleep patterns.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They've been doing that to me for years. (probably, lol)
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:20:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to thinkt he raggedy anne doll in my toy chest woke me up at night and took me to the basement to tell me secrets.
she couldn't speak english tho- just jibberish, but I knew they were secrets. I remember it very vividly and thought it was just something that happened- it must have been repeated dreams because it only happened at night, but I remember picking up the doll during the day and wondering why it didn't move.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:29:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Had a marionette when I was 6 or so that I thought was hopping around by the bed in the night and talking to me in a high-ish pitched gibberish that I couldn't understand. It was like this, and we had just gotten it from a flea market. My mom prayed on it/burned it the next day. I can still remember it. I really hope it was a dream.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is relevant
LadyLovelyLocks ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:04:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember 'seeing' my cabbage patch doll moving at night time. I think I was about 3 or 4. I responded by biting her butt. I don't know why that would be my reaction and it seems kind of weird now, but I actually vaguely remember a feeling of 'omg how rude of her'!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:50:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa I use to dream of having this little human doll thing and talking to it and trying to destroy it. it was a recurring dream when I was a kid, wowww
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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greaseballheaven ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:32:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
o.O that's horrible! lol. kids already have active imaginations.
prettyprincess90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So my family has been doing a similar thing for about 30 years. My grandma had the "pixie" which was too high to reach and would watch everything I do to make sure I was good and report to santa. It didn't move but I was told if I found a way to touch it then I would turn to stone. Thanks grandma....
We also have the elf on the shelf for my 7 year old sister. My dad is wishing we had marketed my grandmas idea years ago.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why the fuck did I imagine that last part being sung by Tingle from the legend of zelda?
LadyoftheWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:02 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol this is terrifying.
augustus_waters ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:29 on July 12, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
the last part made me imagine this poor little boy watching his elf doll dance around the room singing the "I like to move it, move it, I like to move it, move it" song from Madagascar.
sox5s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:35 on July 12, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not kidding. This kid actually would not shut up about that song for a month straight. Not during the elf era, though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:26 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sorry to have to tell you...but that elf is abusing your son:'(
CBBR13 ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 23:48:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents used the basement in their old house as their bedroom and private den. It was an unspoken rule that us kids did not go in there. Unknown to us there was a door down there leading to no where. I've never seen it but mom says it opens up on to solid wall. Dad confirms this.
My sister used to be plagued by night terrors and one night she woke up screaming bloody murder, "The door is open! Close it! Close the door!" Mom closes her bedroom door and tries to calm her but she just won't be calmed. "The red door! Close it!" After some time of this mom remembers the red door in the basement and goes down to check it. Sure enough, it's wide open. A trip upstairs revealed that my sister had fallen back to sleep while she was gone.
5give5get ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:20:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was laughing at all the "not sleeping tonight" comments until I read this one. Fuck.
picnic2812 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:45:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yup im in the same exact position...
YourCurvyGirlfriend ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:39:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've decided I'm going to put a Beetlejuice door like this in my home.
zenny2972 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:27 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Of all the stories I read, THIS one gave me goosebumps O.O
yunatifa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:19 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you guys tried breaking the wall?
CBBR13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:15 on July 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know, it never even occurred to me to do that until I was typing up this story?
Unfortunately my parents don't have much money or renovation type know-how so knocking down a wall for curiosity's sake wouldn't be a high priority.
harleykins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:57 on July 10, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You can always try to obtain the blueprints to the house. I think they are a matter of public record that way you can see if there was a room/closet there that had been sealed.
omenapiirakka ยท 319 points ยท Posted at 19:26:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me this story about a year ago. She took me hiking a lot as a kid, and we usually went to interesting historical areas. We were at a place called "writing on stone" and we were walking along a stone wall with carvings on it, and we were next to flat prairie. Apparently I told my mom over and over about this Native man that was standing in the field. She asked me where he was, and when I went to show her, I was pointing at nothing. She said it scared the crap out of her!
Drozzbear ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:01:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is creeping me the fuck out.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:55:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
on the plus side we've identified reddit's ghosthunters demographic
SG-17 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:19:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are the chosen one! You must return on the 21st of December this year or all is lost!
A_Plea_for_Ethan ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:40:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think he saw David Carradine. He was probably just trying to enjoy the afterlife, and was hanging out at this "Writing on Stone" place until he left because he was tired of some kid pointing at him.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:38:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Every time someone mentions David Caradine, I choke up a little.
YossarianPrime ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:40:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yessssssssss.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:25:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So... Are ghosts real or do kids hallucinate ALL the time?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:47 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids have pretty ridiculous imaginations. I remember seeing colorful "mist" sometimes as a child. I remember seeing a red cloud of mist over my bed in the middle of the night, and another time I remember seeing green and red mist while in the car with my parents. Although my eyes are and always have been pretty fucked, so it probably had something to do with my eyesight deteriorating.
bobaimee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:31:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I love writing on stone, It's beautiful there
greaseballheaven ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:06:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
", the blind girl said to the friend no one else could see.
Lost_Online ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:34:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Southern Alberta writing on stone? I've heard of this happening to a few people actually.
omenapiirakka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats the one. Beautiful there!
marryanowl ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 20:27:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son told me he had a twin while growing in my stomach. He proceeded to tell me the reason why he didn't have a brother was because he got hungry and decided to eat him. That is why he is such a big boy! My son is five.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:41:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and the creepy thing is that sometimes, twinning occurs, but the twin is then subsumed by the other, and only one is born.
gin_and_catatonic ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 23:39:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's true, it's called vanishing twin syndrome. Very odd indeed.
DuoJetOzzy ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:31:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Get the holy water. Just in case.
yourmomlurks ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:26:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should see if he is a chimera. If so, I will have to reorient my entire worldview.
Iratus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:42:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now, this would be creepy.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:04:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is there ultrasound evidence of this?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:15:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also, parasitic twins are a thing too. One twin will literally strangle the other twin (not literally; just consume more of the resources and deny the sibling of them) while in the womb.
The result is interesting. There are some twin boys at my high school and one kid is literally just beautiful, 6.5 feet tall with amazing muscle mass for his age, great skin and hair, very talented as a basket ball player. The other twin is of course, the total opposite. Apart from them having similar features (hair, skin are the same color, same nose, etc.) it's clear which twin got the short straw. Oh, also, theirs is a confirmed story of parasitic twins.
curlycatsockthing ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:47:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They will literally, but not literally.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:28 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Alas, I have written it down, and it has literally become literature. So, according to my literature, these things literally happen.
marryanowl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is really interesting!
scallycap94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if the smaller twin resents his brother for it...
Monster-_- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think it might be possible that your son somehow or another saw an episode of The Venture Brothers? If not, then your kid is creepy.
marryanowl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No Venture Brothers. Creepy it is!
Silque702 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
O_0
reunite_pangea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:46 on July 16, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DWIGHT SCHRUTE!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:06 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_one_twin_absorb_the_other
BoSknight ยท 409 points ยท Posted at 19:17:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I woke up to my friends little sister standing over me smiling holding a toy saw.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:31:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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NoAttentionAtWrk ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:39:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
d fak is wrong with you !
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:27:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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kaimason1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:45:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you learn that lesson the hard way?
BoSknight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:44:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did something like this, but my glock was loaded.
Luuseens ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:28:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would be shitting NOPEs if I ever woke up to that.
EvilAnagram ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Do you want to play doctor? I'll bring the bone saw."
vegasmacguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:34:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did she look something like this?
fistymcbuttpuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dexterina is upon us.
ThisIsFlight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tell me, is their last name Sawyer?
Sorry...I watched the entire series in the past two days.
Amp3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She wanted to fix the problem relating to wood you complain about every morning
ce1337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Wake up. I want to play a game."
mjohniii ยท 220 points ยท Posted at 19:42:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my son, but my little brother. He was probably five at the time. I saw him crawling around on all fours and I said, "Luke what are you doing?" He looked me in the eye and with a completely straight face he whispered "Sometimes I do creepy things." Then he crawled away. I didn't feel very safe in my house for the next few weeks.
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 21:18:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At that age, he probably thought "creepy" meant "while creeping" as in like a spider.
what_the_duck_chuck ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 20:51:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is hilarious! I can't stop laughing -- your brother is awesome.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:24:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my reaction
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:51:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brothers name is Luke too :-|
mjohniii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:05:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude... are we like... related???
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
MAYBE WE'RE THE SAME PERSON.
LadyoftheWood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:16:58 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Made me laugh, you have an awesome brother.
[deleted] ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 19:45:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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laidbackduck ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 20:40:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe your boss (or boss's wife) had a miscarriage :(
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:49:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Very likely. I said the same sort of thing when my mom miscarried when I was about 2. When she was pregnant with my brother after that, I apparently said a whole bunch of weird things to that effect. I spent a few weeks constantly asking her if the baby was still alive.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:58:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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BoughtreeFidee ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:44:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And then the mom's head swiveled around 180degrees, and with an tight lipped smile, she hissed "They do die sometimes," and proceeded to chase you around with a kitchen knife.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:01:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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BoughtreeFidee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:54:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because...I was the knife.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Nomnombunny ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 19:49:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I bet she's going to grow up to be one of those random women at the grocery store that feels the need to tell you everything that can go wrong with your pregnancy and what you're doing wrong.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:53:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Nomnombunny ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:54:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, god, I'm sorry. My mom does that too, with everything (considering I'm not pregnant yet).
[deleted] ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 20:32:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was in my room on the computer at about 11, which is late for my sister to be awake even now. I was thinking about bed, but then my sister knocks on the door. She was maybe 10 at the time, so not so young that she doesn't know when she's dreaming. She wanted to sleep in my room because she was sad and scared. I asked her why, and she said, "I watched your sons burn up in the fire. Their screams are keeping me up."
WHAT IS THIS, NOW?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:11:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DO NOT HAVE SONS.
boopah ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:06:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DID SHE ELABORATE?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:37:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I pushed her for a while. That girl sleeps like a rock though. All I got was, "Mom said I had to rescue Zoey (Our dog that we just got, which is also weird that she would mention her since she wasn't even thought of yet!) And that she was sorry they died. Kids are a nope now and forever.
[deleted] ยท 208 points ยท Posted at 19:36:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother sometimes tells me stories of her experiences babysitting. I'll always remember this specific one, when she was a teenager and had to look after two brothers. One of them happened to have a broken arm, the youngest. So after their parents leave, the oldest pulls a chair up to my mom and tells her, "My brother didn't fall down the stairs. I pushed him."
Daprotagonist ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:17:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was a warning.
supergreekman123 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:02:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Woah...
MisfitDRG ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:18:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you tell the parents???
shadeshadows ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:53:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damien?
rezzeJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did your mum tell the parents?
Vienna_WaitsForYou ยท 77 points ยท Posted at 20:45:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well since there are a lot of ghost-like stories here, I'll tell this one:
My dad had two brothers growing up. The youngest, Lee, was about 18 when he died of cancer. He died at home and they had to wheel him out of the house on one of those bed things through the front door, which no one ever used (they always used the back door).
Well after he died, every so often the front door would open by itself. It scared my grandma very much. It kept happening frequently until my grandpa went to close the door once and said "Lee, you have to stop. You're scaring your mom.". It never happened again.
avacynangelofhope ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:48:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like your username :)
Vienna_WaitsForYou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you! :)
UnKamenRider ยท 107 points ยท Posted at 20:25:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I already commented about my nephew, and this isn't that creepy, but it certainly scared my dad. When I was 4, the phone rang, and thinking I was such a big girl, I answered it. I knew to ask who was calling for my parents before giving them the phone. I walked upstairs to find him smoking pot and playing guitar. I hand him the phone and say, "It's for you, daddy. It's Jesus Christ!" His face went white, and he slowly took the phone... To be greeted by a representative of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:51:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More funny than creepy
UnKamenRider ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:29:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did say it wasn't really creepy, but my dad was pretty scared at first.
WhatWouldJesusSay ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:50:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YES, THIS IS JESUS
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:23:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit's dream dad.
UnKamenRider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. That actually made me feel pretty good, for some reason.
goklissa ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:44:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your dad sounds really awesome.
UnKamenRider ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:54:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He passed away when I was 9. What I remember of him was awesome.
goklissa ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:01:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oooohh. I'm sorry, but any dad that can play guitar and smokes weed is good in my books.
UnKamenRider ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:23:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Car accident when I was 9. Seatbelts, people. ;)
UnKamenRider ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:35:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for saying that. He was awesome. :)
DeathValleyQueen ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 20:43:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter has done two pretty creepy things. The first she was 3 or 4 and tells me "he is coming in red fire." the next she was 5 and said "the lights in the woods whisper our names."
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:22:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your daughter is going to be a great indie songwriter.
DeathValleyQueen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:43:38 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I can live with that as long as she isn't heralding the end of the world.
roastedbeef ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:11:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit the fuck what
Love_N ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:55:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Twin Peaks 2: The Rebirth of Bob"
YourCurvyGirlfriend ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:21:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the two new song names
brittsuzanne ยท 139 points ยท Posted at 19:46:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was 4 I was putting her to bed one night and she said, "My toys watch me while I'm sleeping." Freaked me out.
Also recently we moved into a new, older home which is rumored to be haunted and while we were unpacking her room she started giggling and asked, "Hey who is rubbing my back?!" Neither I nor my boyfriend were close enough to her to be touching her. This house is creepy.
NINny43V3R ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:47:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young I distinctly remember trying to wake up during the night because I believed that all of my stuffed animals came alive and partied while I slept, could be that I had 175 of them staring at me from the wall at the foot of my bed.
Zanki ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:35:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember this happening and it freaked me the hell out, this happened before Toy Story was released. I used to hear things as a kid and sometimes see things in my house. I woke up one night because I felt one of my soft toys climb over me and drop down onto the floor and keep moving. I freaked out and ran into my mums room. Woke her up terrified. She wasn't very happy but let me sleep in her room. I refused to sleep with dolls and stuffed toys in my bed after that apart from Noah.
It couldn't have been an animal. We didn't have any pets at the time apart from fish, so unless my goldfish grew arms and legs I doubt it was them. Nothing could have gotten into the house.
A_Plea_for_Ethan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:30:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pedobear o.O
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:49:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
LOL I did the same thing.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, most kids go through a stage where they start to figure out what life and living things really are. When you're young, you pretty much assume everything is alive, so to speak, but that it just doesn't move. I'm sure having life-like toys/models/dolls and stuff of this nature makes it a bit weird/difficult1 for the kid to learn it, as they all look similar to what lives, but they don't. So naturally, a child might think "oh, those one's must only move when I can't see them." because they look soooo similar to other stuff they've seen move.
1 I'm not sure if it's having life like dolls that makes it harder for a child to discern between life/unlife, or it's actually the difficulty discerning that causes human fascination with things of this nature. After all, humans have been making and playing with dolls for thousands of years. Perhaps it's a little feedback loop type thing. :P
LaceyGucci ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:50:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Move, now!
AvioNaught ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:39:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Toy story changes people man.
SuckItEasily ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:16:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
GTFO. Nothing good can come from that situation.
Robby712 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:18:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I moved into a house in which a teenager hung himself in the basement. I found this out the day I moved in. Oh, I was also dating his cousin at the time (She had no idea I was moving into the house) and we had the same name. The dogs would randomly stand at the top of the stairs (only at night) and bark non-stop. Nothing terrifying about that. I got over it by talking him daily for about the 1st year I lived here, his name was "Ghost Robby712".
seriously_joking ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:07:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of when I was a kid, about 5, I got freaked out about my long shelf full of dolls (about 20 of them!) staring at me, so I got up and turned all of their twisty heads around to face the wall (bodies still facing forward). Creeped my mom out a little bit.
nowshowjj ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:33:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just promise me that if things start to turn bad in that house, you will GTFO as soon as possible. Tired of hearing about people staying in their houses because they're too proud and think flying, sharp objects doesn't mean anything bad.
brittsuzanne ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:46:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh dude I already have an escape plan. I always wondered why in scary movies people don't GTFO when shit gets bad. As soon as I feel threatened I'm out!
In the mean time if the ghost is giving back rubs, count me in.
A_Plea_for_Ethan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:28:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Call the Ghost Hunters, and Jeff Corwin. The GH will rid the house of human spirits, but in the off chance that it's a snake ghost, Jeff Corwin will have your back, and his humorous demeanor will make the paranormal situation funny and memorable.
brittsuzanne ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:47:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I considered calling Ghost Adventures but I was afraid they would reject my pleas due to my lack of Affliction clothing :/
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 22:47:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The friendly neiborhood pedophile was rubbing her back, it's just common curtosy.
brittsuzanne ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:49:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Funny thing is.. A pedo used to live on the corner opposite our house.. We were told he moved...
[deleted] ยท 106 points ยท Posted at 19:49:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Daddy, I'm going to kick your in the eyeballs and drink your blood", my daughter aged 3. I'm thinking of building myself a panic room.
jrghoull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you're not kidding. Maybe she just heard it somewhere. But this one, for whatever reason, I'm going to choose not to believe.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to guess it's some kind of mix between something she heard from adventure time, her siblings, or maybe even futurama. The worst is after we get back from her karate lessons, then it's all about those eyeballs and the kicking she's going to give them. :(
GlowWolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:25 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Totally sounds like Marceline from Adventure Time.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:02:26 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What you're saying here is don't eat her fries?
GlowWolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:11 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. She bought them and they were hers. ;)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is hillarious
ronearc ยท 2237 points ยท Posted at 17:47:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was only around 18 months old when she uttered her first, full sentence.
She loved to lift the air conditioning grate in the floor of our bedroom and stuff her toys down there. Well, there were some sharp edges in there, so my wife didn't want her sticking her hand in the duct, so she screwed down the edges of the grate, so our daughter couldn't lift it up any longer.
Well, my daughter has this plastic, toy hammer, and she's trying to get it into the vent, but it won't come up. So she takes the hammer, pounds on the grate some, nada. Then she tries to pry the grate up, no go.
At this point, my wife and I kind of chuckled, and our daughter heard us. So she glares with this furious look on her face, throws the hammer at the wall, and almost shouts, "I don't have to take this shit any more."
[deleted] ยท 789 points ยท Posted at 18:39:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a rough life being a kid, can't blame her.
x-tophe ยท 903 points ยท Posted at 19:03:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The shit they have to put up with is insane, I mean, eating some vegetables before dessert. What is this, a fucking prison?
ariiiiigold ยท 1296 points ยท Posted at 19:19:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
To circumvent the consumption of vegetables, I would scrape them off my plate and hide them in my pockets (even when they were soaked in chive sauce). At the end of most meals, my trousers would often be full of broccoli and peppers - I would then scurry up to my room and dump them in an empty biscuit tin under my bed. Every Monday morning, I would transfer the haul from the tin to my Thomas the Tank Engine school bag, whereupon reaching the safety of my school I would empty them into the garden. My Machiavellian plan worked like a treat for months, until my cousin who was visiting from Sweden discovered my vegetable tin and told my mum. I tried the Clinton defence and denied having ever seen the tin before in my life, but I eventually crumbled under cross-examination and was forced to forgo my Tamigotchi for two weeks. All because my cousin decided to open her fat mouth. Fuck you, Henrika - I still haven't forgiven you.
dv_vb ยท 266 points ยท Posted at 19:28:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just vomited any vegetable I did not like back on the plate. Less hassle,same results :-)
ariiiiigold ยท 299 points ยท Posted at 19:30:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I shall try this at the dinner table when I next go home.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:45:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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copyandpasta ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:51:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Obligatory.
Boyblunder ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:51:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm in college now"
ImAPeople ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:19:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I shall try this next time I'm a kid.
Monkthemonkey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:09:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just watched twin boys do this at a wedding reception I was at. They were 15.
RambleMan ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:33:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My parents said "if you throw it up, you're going to eat it" knowing I could induce vomiting if I wanted to for things I didn't want to eat. The thought of eating voting scared and scarred me.
Years later I asked my mom about it - she said "of course we wouldn't have made you eat it, but there was no negotiating with you!"
JesusHog ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:58:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter tried that. I cleaned up the puke, served her more and told her to finish (even if that meant puking after every bite). She looked at me, shrugged, and finished her veggies. No more puking at the table after that. 12 years later she is going to college and isn't a picky eater. CALLED THE BLUFF!
MissL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's a far better idea than making the kid eat vomit, thanks.
EDIT: I have not made my kid eat vomit, that seems too cruel.
x-tophe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, the chew it then puke it method.
KermitTheFrogKills ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:30:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister did the same thing. My father never made her finish her vegetables again after my mother was done yelling at him.
yourdadsbff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:13:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant (hopefully not too relevant).
Shoola ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:37:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother did that. My parents just cleaned him, his plate, and table, and made him eat the steamed broccoli again. He learned to hold it down and he ate the balanced diet she wanted him to eat.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like what my brother did. He was a pretty picky eater and whenever there was something he didn't want to eat, he'd scream about how he didn't like it and didn't want to eat it. Sure enough, it became a thing of principle for mom and dad to make him eat X portion of whatever it was he was avoiding. In retaliation, to prove a point, or maybe a natural reaction that could have been avoided, he would sometimes eat a bite and then promptly puke it back up. It didn't happen very often because my dad was a picky eater too so mom didn't make things that both of them wouldn't like (in situations like this she'd make something that dad didn't have a problem with but my brother apparently did), but it was priceless to watch the look on my mom's face when this sort of thing occurred. It was an amalgamation of disgust, humor, anger, and disbelief. She'd be cracking up laughing but still trying to yell at him, kind of hard to take someone seriously at that point. Good job, Aaron.
dv_vb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not named Aaron. ;-)
It was only with eggplants and I am able to eat em now. It was a gut-reaction, almost instict but I JUST did NOT want to eat that damn slice. Chewed it, swallowed and then BWARP the slice came back with some other stuff I just ate. One time occassion though :-)
MedSchoolHopeful ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom once forced my younger brother to eat applesauce when he was younger. We were around probably second-fourth grade at the time. He said he didn't feel well. Mom said, "I'm not buying it. You're going to finish this jar of applesauce(personal single serving size) or you're going to your room and going to sleep." She put the spoon to his lips. He immediately emitted a fountain of vomit all over her chest and lap. He didn't have to finish the applesauce. Flawless victory.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
relevant scene from Crooklyn http://youtu.be/kxeeGQ2TH2M?t=2m43s
landlockedblues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Knew someone who said when her child tried this, the husband forced the child to eat the vomit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I tried this, but it backfired and I had to eat pre-chewed veggie smear.
lurking4life ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I tried that when I was a kid... My mom made me eat the vomit...
DaniVendetta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do the same! Sometimes it was intentional, sometimes brussel sprouts just really made me vomit lol
kirkles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he tried...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just was a man and ate my damn veggies.
Nikoli_Delphinki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little (4ish) my parents were trying to force me to eat cooked carrots. I didn't like them and refused to eat them. My dad leaves the kitchen very angry and I thought he was getting the belt. The way mom looked at me I knew I had to eat them quickly or I'd be in trouble. So I inhale the carrots and wash them down. Shortly there after my dad walks in with an egg timer. "Oh...he finished them." I look from dad to mom...then throw up carrots and milk everywhere. There was a few second pause where my mom bursts out laughing and my dad just stands there not knowing what to do.
Mom loves retelling this story and my dad says, "And never again did we force the kids to eat something they didn't want to..."
kharmakazy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:01:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tried that. My mother made me eat it again.
de_dust2_420 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:57:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Living in Sweden right now I can confirm this, Swedish girls are ruthless and fucking cold people.
syscofresh ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:55:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not the Bill Clinton defense. The Bill Clinton defense is to debate the meaning of the word 'is'.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:05:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
snitches get stitches yo
it trips me out that I used to hate vegetables. I love them shits now. Except squash. Fuck squash to hell.
And asparagus. What the fuck.
Nsongster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you're that guy who really likes Emma Watson's feet
cesarjulius ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:42:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the motherfuck is chive sauce??
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:24:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wait a second...
the_red_phone ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 19:29:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... the fuck ?
NZ-EzyE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dr Cox can land-kayak?
locke_door ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why did you get scared and delete the comment, thus casting a displeasing light upon my person, reddy.
mmoonlight ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:35:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would sneak the food I hated in to the bathroom and flush it. I was never caught!
kingpumpkin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:45:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did that until 7 or 8, I got caught because I forgot to flush once...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:10:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your cousin is a fucking scumbag
Saargasm ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:13:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to swallow pea's whole when I was a kid lol. Didn't have to taste them that way
IAmALobster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I STILL do that. With broccoli as well. I hate them.
Huntred ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:59:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Henrika" sounds like the name of a woman who is either stunningly beautiful or stunningly...um...not-beautiful.
Either way, she was a bitch for ratting you out.
mrbooze ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would often be allowed to eat in my grandparent's bedroom (when I was visiting them) because that's where they had a TV. I had apparently discovered very young that I could just drop anything I didn't want to eat behind the headboard.
Years later when they moved out of that house, they move the bed and find an ENORMOUS pile of dried food, and otter pop wrappers, piled up between the headboard and the wall.
Pannecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ah man my parents bed was like that, except it was otter pop wrappers and Halloween candy wrappers....
gak001 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:29:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did she at least pause your Tomagachi? Seems rather heartless that it should have to suffer death for your transgressions.
yepyep27 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is a really elaborate plan for a youngun.
Mazuna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I didn't have quite so much guile, I used to be given Marmite sandwiches for school lunch but I never ate/eat much so I would only want half of it and I would come home after school with a guilty half of Marmite sandwich in my Lego lunchbox and hide it behind the radiator on the first floor play room, some years later, after I had stopped having packed lunches, my mum and brother were renovating that room and found some dozens of moldy old Marmite sandwiches lurking behind the radiator, I never lived that one down.
Marmite; for reference is a distinctive savoury British food spread, personally I love it.
Boyblunder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And now thanks to Henrika, your FUCKING TAMIGOTCHI DIED.
I hated it when my parents took away my Tamigotchi and let it die. It's a responsibility!
minimillipede ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my older sister was not as smart. My mom would make us sandwiches for lunch to take with us to school every day; she wouldn't eat them. But, instead of throwing her sandwich into a trash can at school, she brought them home and hid them under her bed. She made it three months before the smell led my mom to her stash of rotting sandwiches.
DriveOver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:12:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did not have vegetable relations with that tin.
hm1085 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:13:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister would "drop" her plate on the floor if it contained anything she didn't like. It took my mom a while to realize her daughter was more devious than clumsy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So she MURDERED your Tamigotchi??!
SeanStock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:45:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is because the Swedes are all conformists rather than rugged individualists like ourselves.
PoorBoysAmen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:27:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Holy shit this brought back a flood of memories. After being fed up with my parents making me eat food I didn't like, I found a way to get around it. Our table was the kind that could be extended, but we used it in short mode. This left two panels underneath with about three inches of free space between panel and tablebottom to store food. When no one was in sight after dinner, I would take food and throw it to my dog :)
Gank_Spank_Sploog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:35:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If she was truely sweed she would have been neutral : |
kingpumpkin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would put them in my pockets and then go to flush them down the toilet, then I got caught and they started searching my pockets whenever I ate and then went to the bathroom. I started putting them in my socks. I gave up flushing my vegetables around 7 or 8 years old.
Yillpv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:09:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me that when she was a kid, her and her five siblings would take the food they didnt like and stick it on a lip under the table. Years later, my grandma was cleaning the table to sell it and found "rice crispies" all over under the edge of the table. They were actually old, dead maggots
greenighs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to hide my multivitamin under the linoleum in the kitchen. It was an orange, swallowable tablet, not a chewable. I just couldn't deal with it.
HawkeyeP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
D: not the tamagotchi!
Wolfechickb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to avoid eating my veggies until my parents got up from the table to start cleaning up, leaving me there to finish my food like a good girl. I got the clever idea to take spoonfuls of veggies and dump them behind the china hutch. I forgot to clean them up and after a couple of days/ weeks the smell was awful. I was found out and got the crap spanked out of me.
redweasel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:14:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister was a toughie when it came to lima beans. She wouldn't eat 'em, and our parents wouldn't let us up from the dinner table 'til we did. So, what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
No, not cosmic annihilation. This:
Sis put her napkin into her lap and every few minutes would flick a bean* or two off the plate onto the napkin. Mom would look around, see a few more beans gone, and praise-and-congratulate Sis for eating them. Wait a few more minutes, repeat. This went on for at least an hour after everyone else had left the table. Finally all the beans were "gone," and Mom let Sis up from the table. As she passed the kitchen trash can, Sis dumped the napkinful of beans. Voila!
I just wish I'd ever thought of that; I hated lima beans too.
* Flick a bean - yeah, I get it...
gdrocks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:01:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you later give her a pringles can?
x-tophe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What a bitch!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I just used to put the vegetables in my pocket, then go to the toilet and flush them.
CtrlF4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is evil genius material right here
SCHROEDINGERS_UTERUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck a kind of name is "Henrika"?!
brielem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You put soaked wet vegetables in your pocket and your parents don't notice? stupid parents?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...Why didn't you just like... Flush them down the toilet? O.o
Reddit_Script ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And so a smuggler is born.
Massage_My_Rooster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But was your Tamigotchi OK?
shadowkhas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is some cumbox level shit.
roy_cropper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Clinton defence?
So someone got fucked with the shitty end of a Cuban cigar?
Iqueefrainbows ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And as you grew older, you started keeping....a cumbox.
Sarah_Connor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lets just be glad your cousin did not discover your cum box.
stonespiral ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's some serious 'The Good Son' potential goin' on right there.
Biscoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stewie?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha. I used the same system instead the device was a toilet. It was harder with Indian food.
Thatoneguyfromthewho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All I saw was chive sauce. Please elaborate I am not familiar with this sauce.
solar46 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What a cunt.
Br3330 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to shove all the vegetables into my mouth, walk to the garage. Throw them out and grab an ice cream sandwich
maledicted ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You glorious bastard. Excuse me while I go to the bathroom and laugh my ass off.
Yatiya ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:55:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
upvote for "Clinton defence". XD
kharmakazy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:00:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would slap collard greens on the bottom of the dinner table. It would stick there like paper mache. Years later there was this giant black disgusting mound on the bottom of the table like some manner of hellish wasp had decided to build it's nigtmarish nest there.
TallyMay ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
vegetables are good for u, she saved u from vitamin a defficiency
ObtuseAbstruse ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 19:54:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your writing comes off as pretentious. Very pretentious.
[deleted] ยท 104 points ยท Posted at 19:15:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just so they might get dessert? And what's this 7 O'clock bedtime bullshit! Is this fucking Shawshank?
MrMackay ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 19:16:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least there's no buttrape. On the other hand, there's no Morgan Freeman.
[deleted] ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 19:31:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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MrMackay ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:32:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But, you know, buttrape.
Ebarbs2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I see what you did there
hot_like_wasabi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:41:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're his granddaughter.
kung-fu_hippy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:58:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Andy fought the good fight, but still had to take a time out.
epicfail236 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:28:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Everything would be improved with Morgan Freeman voiceovers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And would have been significantly worse with buttrape.
Ikhtionikos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Life would be significantly improved with Morgan Freeman voiceovers.
NaricssusIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And anal rape.
ace586 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:25:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Were you ever a kid? That would have been terrifying as fuck.
WhipIash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, I'm pretty sure half of reddit is born a teenager.
And stays that way...
ace586 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Given the stated hatred for 14 and 15 year olds, you may be onto something. However, the rampant childhood nostalgia puts a damper on your theory.
DUFstein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Call it a wash
glovesoff11 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:37:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe not in your childhood
sup3rmark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i used to have to sit at the dinner table by myself until i finished what was on my plate. no TV or video games or anything, i'd just sit there until bedtime if i didn't eat my dinner. in all fairness, i'm the pickiest eater in the universe, so there was a lot that i wouldn't eat, and my parents were pretty good about not making stuff i didn't like, but every now and then, they'd try something new and i'd be a little shit about it.
Michi_THE_Awesome ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:54:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I cook veggies right into the meal and I'm so sneaky about it b/c otherwise they won't be eaten. Lasagna is a great example. I can sneakily add up to 5 vegetables and sometimes tofu. It's not easy. It's actually a very time consuming process. However how else is he going to eat his vegetables. Forcing them gives them a bad reputation. Once he love something with veggies in them, I tell him. It's too late for him to hate it.
VirtualInk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The roof of my mouth is very high up. My dentist asked my mother whether i sucked my thumb as a kid (I didn't), and my mom ended up going into a lengthy story about how I hid food in my mouth as a baby. If I didn't like the food, i would just hide it in the large space above my tongue. I would have gotten away with not eating it too, if my mom hadn't realized that I wasn't actually swallowing anything.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, even in prison, it's optional!!
SomeMetroid ยท 366 points ยท Posted at 19:09:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not creepy, that's hilarious.
ronearc ยท 405 points ยท Posted at 19:11:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You didn't see the murderous look or the force and velocity with which she hurled that hammer.
GenericOnlineName ยท 431 points ยท Posted at 19:22:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or the raspy man voice that crawled out.
HasFuckedYourMom ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:30:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or the hole in the wall.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:28:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I have just giggled myself silly.
stonespiral ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:09:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
like Batman?
h3lme7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I set a tag to tell you that I recognize you, because you would like that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:39:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Still not creepy.
idobutidont ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's a little girl at my preschool that I can imagine doing this, though she's not talking yet. But she looks at you with such laser focus and is so determined. It's hilarious in a one year old, but I feel for her parents when she reaches her teens.
Yapshoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:45:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Stare back at her with the ferocity of a silverback. DO NOT BREAK EYE CONTACT FIRST.
dekrant ยท 265 points ยท Posted at 19:35:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, I feel for her. I totally remember getting pissed when adults acted all condescending to me when I was little.
redlightsaber ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:38:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I distinctly remember from when I was a small child that all my emotions were explosive and all-encompassing. I mean adolescence was though and all, but I don't think most people understand the degree to which little kids feel everything.
So nowadays, when I feel angry of frustrated at something relatively trivial, I remember that it's nothing compared to how I felt when my mom wouldn't buy me that damned ice-cream.
It's that or my consciousness has been transfered to a robot.
AMBsFather ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But they were making sure she didn't stab her hand....
amazinglyanonymous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:53 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm six and three quarters and can confirm!
ObtuseAbstruse ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 19:55:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You honestly think an 18 month old understands the abstract idea of condescension?
menomenaa ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:13:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know about 18 month year olds but you can feel something before understanding the abstract notion behind it. I think a child can feel when the parent is trying to exert superiority in a situation when they wish they wouldn't, so it's not that hard to believe that frustration at condescension could happen before one's able to understand what that means.
Malsententia ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:09:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read somewhere that some dogs know when they're being laughed at. So I wouldn't be surprised if an 18 month old can.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'd enjoy reading that article. Remember where you read it?
Malsententia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
An abstract, unknown somewhere; that is, I forget. Google yielded a few results when I googled 'dogs know when they're being laughed at' or something similar earlier.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That just makes me think of dogs sitting there twiddling their nonexistent thumbs, glowering at me beneath their eternal facade of innocent joy. Plotting my demise. Sucks you couldn't find it though, that'd've been interesting.
Boyblunder ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:52:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably doesn't understand it, but you still feel hurt.
nibbles_and_bits ยท 203 points ยท Posted at 19:22:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's cute.
Seriously though, I find it incredible that she knew what context in which to use that phrase. It really is amazing how language develops in humans.
aineob ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 20:10:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing how children know which words are important in a sentence without being taught, for example, if they were to try and say 'give me a drink' they will most likely say 'me drink', picking out the two words which will get their point across without the unnecessary 'give' and 'a'
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It follows a process of natural selection; kids will only stick to a word sequence that works for them.
XAriFerrariX ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:18:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh?
It's obviously fake.
Hilarious, I got to admit I laughed hard but no way a child's first sentence is that.
SelectaRx ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:17:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seroiusly, this.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:03:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's likely she was talking already, that was simply the first complete sentence. I remember my sister was about two, we told her we couldn't go to the party across the street, and she responded with "A party. They're having a FRICKIN party and I'm not invited!" and stormed off.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:12:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like how this most obvious fact is ignored for the sake of a good story. An 18 month old saying that as their first sentence, lol. Absurd.
SideburnsOfDoom ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:11:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My guess is that she heard someone else say the whole phrase. Like arguing parents, or an adult TV show?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:55:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should read The Language Instinct by Pinker. It's a wonderful book that describes in very interesting detail the relationship between humans and language.
Punkgoblin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:02:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's what she heard the most...
Boyblunder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty impressive, really!
Daneruu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tagged as "Alien expert on humans"
nibbles_and_bits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'm honored.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:46:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:13:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 110 points ยท Posted at 19:20:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your daughter is a goddamned badass
Reaction_On_My_Nub ยท 2217 points ยท Posted at 19:28:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/f85bX.jpg
Novaccount1 ยท 1235 points ยท Posted at 19:30:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's nice to have you back!
[deleted] ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 19:47:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Where did he/she go?
PeanutsOfDoom ยท 151 points ยท Posted at 21:10:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
nubbody knows
[deleted] ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 23:13:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm stumped, personally.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he/she is certainly the best stub us.
Dragon_DLV ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:58:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She.
And it's nice to see her again. Not sure why she's been gone.
DoWhile ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:26:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vvvpn/parents_of_reddit_what_is_the_creepiestmost/c584i2r
smififty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:49:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Needed more markers.
capt_fantastic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:59:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
stumped if i know.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 19:48:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The last I saw of her had to be at least a year ago.
Kuggis ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 20:25:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Permanent markers...
Zizhou ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:18:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only 3 months according to comment history, but that may as well be an eternity in internet time.
jmarks7448 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh....thats what that was
ThatUnoriginalGuy ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 19:48:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
Reaction_On_My_Nub ยท 259 points ยท Posted at 19:59:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/qfYya.jpg
playbass06 ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 20:01:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, sounds awesome! Glad to have you back, hope your travels went well!
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 20:27:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I find your nub aesthetically pleasing.
Leucine ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:48:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
damn, i tried to guess those flags but i only knew two.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:02:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just got back from Korea myself. Was studying for a year. Great place. Hope you enjoyed it. :)
เฒ _เฒ
feureau ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:17:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shieeet! You should-a told me if you're going to asia. I was gonna call you up, show you da hood.
sirbeast ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:49:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a foster brother in China!
AAAAA42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:05:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, this is the best account.
ThatUnoriginalGuy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:01:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're just gonna leave us out to dry while you tour the world? I see how it is. Showing your nub off to different countries....HARLOT!!
BronzeBas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:18:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's pretty strange how happy I am to see you back :)
Please don't fall of the face of the Earth like that again! Promise me!
Hope you had a great trip and so glad to see you are back!
SuperBeast4721 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:05:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah how we're your travels?
Nikuhiru ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:35:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How did you find the travels? How was Malaysia? You should have stopped by in Singapore!
sirbeast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:51:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I find myself happy that you got to travel the Far East, jealous because I want to do so as well, and blessed that you came back safe n happy!
EDIT: Responded to the wrong post
greenighs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yay for international nubbing!!
Omnitographer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you the mysterious nub person with a phantom hand I recently read about in some science blog? That would explain traveling around and being away from reddit, I thought it might be you when I read about it a few days ago.
appropriate-username ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What's the second flag?
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 19:39:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This may be creepy, but were you on Spogg like 5 years ago?
Reaction_On_My_Nub ยท 107 points ยท Posted at 19:43:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/a967Y.jpg
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:47:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Heh. Okie dokie ^ ^
carbonbased7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:26:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahahaha no. You.. wow.
DuskChain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
H... how many nubs do you have...?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:02:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a 20 year old male and your hand fucking terrifies me. I apologize. Care to explain the situation/ailment?
Reaction_On_My_Nub ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 20:15:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/gwE7k.jpg
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:23:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, and I think you're wonderful.
EDIT: When you're world famous I will sell copies of this picture.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:01:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't. It was actually a fisting encounter gone wrong.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Teeth II: Fistamania
vocaltalentz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:30:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you the same awesome person who posted the Halloween picture where you made your nub look all bloody and cut off and went trick or treating with it?
biitchhplease ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:25:44 on July 16, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes - http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/e04ui/my_halloween_costume_or_how_to_have_a_sense_of/
deathsmaash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Omg you're my new favorite.
LarcusMywood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, what a nice way to put it.
IWillNotBeBroken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome back!
ejchristian86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just... I can't even... this may be the best novelty account in the whole everything ever.
deathsmaash ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:18:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have cool handwriting you should create fonts
cogneuro ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 20:05:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/IUwOz.gif
doesnotgetthepoint ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:35:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
gif is too damn fast
cheops1853 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:20:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not if you're using mobile internet. Frame. By. Frame.
EDIT: it's still not fully loaded, a comment and edit later.
chedderslam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and the rent is too damn high. don't forget your towel!
thejoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
huh?
deceptionx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:15:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We've missed you!
This sounds bad if you never left.
Isobar83 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:45:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I missed you!
Lt_Shniz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:54:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you don't know how much i missed you
[deleted] ยท 170 points ยท Posted at 19:40:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what I expected.
theRAGE ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 21:06:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome, this picture again.
STJRedstorm ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 20:53:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, Stop it
KnifeFed ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 21:51:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry but how is this ancient comment/image combo still getting upvotes?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:33:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was gonna say something like 'cuz arrested development will always be cool' but instead I'll be honest. We upvoted it to make you, specifically, unhappy.
KnifeFed ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:54:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well you succeeded, you big meanies.
fuckinscrub ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:41:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh sweet summer child.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 22:44:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ive been here almost a year...
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:58:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That makes it even worse.
Nesman64 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:09:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/hv0zs/what_do_you_want_to_see_what_do_you_want_to_know/
This is her AMA if you want to know more.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:02:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome, thank you.
TheBakedPotato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:58:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get the relevance whatsoever.
triplea20x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mini Tacos....
jjthemagnificent ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:44:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You didn't eat that, did you?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And that's why you're awesome.
ProxyMuncher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:58:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Easily the most original novelty account.
bradders42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And probably the least copiable
TheoQ99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:19:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NUBBY! Holy crap it is so good to see you. Where have you been?
Slorgasm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:57:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure it's been answered, but what part of your body is that?
kolossal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Naa
Spindax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I missed you!
garlicdeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yay, welcome back!
Humperdink_Fangboner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The cut of your jib is cut well. I like it.
WistopherWalken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We missed you! Welcome back! โฅ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome back
...not sure if internet welcoming you back is creepy or not...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just found your AMA. Holy crap you're awesome.
Sylraen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I missed you!
myhandsarebananas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus fuck, seriously, what do you people think ಠ_ಠ means?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I missed you, my friend.
LarcusMywood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, welcome back!
dicknuckle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you the chick that did the AMA quite a while ago?
astrograph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
took me a while to realize its a nub.. even after looking at your user name
Hooded_Demon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:06:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god it's you. My favourite ever Reddit account. I missed you so much.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have some serious skills, dude.
unicyclebear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
God, I love Reddit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you make excellent circles. I didn't see your username before clicking. thought it was an irrelevant picture that you posted. I read it, then looked up and saw there was never really a hand there like I assumed. I thought, I guess so, that is some twilight zone level shit.
omen2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You were missed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We missed you!
411eli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome back!
BoxMonster44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I missed you!!!!! :D
stonespiral ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
aw man! I'm so glad you showed up!
Atheist101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OH MY GOD YOU ARE BACK OH MY GOD OH MY GOOOODDDDDDDDDDDD
sirbeast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YAY! It's been a while since I've seen a ROMN! Good1!
YourAverageWalrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:51:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I missed you! Where'd you go, anyway?
cbs5090 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You were the first Reddit celebrity I knew about. I feel honored.
cheetos03 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Arm or foot?
HasFuckedYourMom ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:25:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't understand until I read your name...
ILikeFootMassages ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:09:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Uhhh is that a foot-nub? Looks it.
uninc4life2010 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever given a girl a stump job?
[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 19:49:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Best made up story ever.
TOOBADBLACKSMITH ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:20:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is on a whole new level of "never happened".
ShallowBasketcase ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:47:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm gettin' too old for this shit..."
guninmouth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:27:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Somewhat relevant (not my kid...my father and I)
Not sure why, but this reminds me of a time when my father gave me a well deserved spanking. He remembers it better than I do, but according to him, he slapped me so hard that his hand stung, and I 3 years old, turned around without grimacing in pain, and said through gritted teeth, "I DON'T LIKE THAT", and that was the last time I was ever spanked. I was too big to be spanked and it apparently wouldn't have helped according to my demeanor. Perhaps he should've invested in a cattle prod.
atilly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when I was a child I used to put my face against the floor vents and would yell down them for Carol Anne.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sort of related- My first word was "shit". My parents tell me that it was during dinner, around the time that I was learning to feed myself. Apparently they were in some sort of disagreement and were "arguing" while I was using my food as finger-paint (I wasn't very good at feeding myself). At one point, I knock the bowl off my high chair table thing, which silents my parents, both of them shooting startled looks at me. Just before they said anything there was a moment of silence until my eyes go wide and I'm like
"Shit."
Pooters ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:23:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At 18 months? Jesus Christ your kid is insanely advanced.
RedditsKittyKat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't really believe this.
Babies are almost incapable of forming such large sentences at that age...maybe only basic 2-3 word sentences. She's either a super genuis child or she was possessed.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This kind of reminds me how my Uncle used to tell me to respond to the question "What do you like?," or similar questions, with "booze and women." My mom hated it so much. Lol.
Now my uncle has a kid and I've been teaching the same thing to him. haha
zillin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! You're that Guy!
Jackazz4evr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Think this is the only one that has made me laugh....the rest make me never want to have children.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my first full sentences was, "Get that fucking fuzzy out of my bath!"
aliceinreality98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had said something very similar when I was young. My father used to have this really dick-ish cat who would stalk me as a baby crawling on the floor and used to violently attach anyone. One time, my grandmother was babysitting me when I was about eleven months old and the cat stalked her and attacked her. She had been bleeding bad and started cussing the cat out while it ran up stairs. She called this cat everything under the sun and she did it right in front of me.
Turns out, I would learn my first words from her and, being a young child who just learned how to talk, would not stop saying what I had learned and would scream it at the top of my lungs EVERYWHERE. It only took a few days for me to learn that my mother didn't want me to say this so I used this to my advantage and for months, I would scream 'cunt cat' at anyone and everyone who ignored me or how I thought would ignore me. My entire family gave me all the attention I ever could want and my mother tried (and failed) to try and pass off what I was saying as 'cute cat'.
Thanks grandma.
ejc925 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hilarious!! In my family we all have the story of when we uttered our first swears. This would take the cake because not only was it her first swear (I'm assuming) but also her first sentence. Still giggling.
Aniolla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
" I did not choose the thug life, the thug life chose me"
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My younger brother was about 6 years old and I was 11 or 12 at the time. His bedroom was on the first floor next to our parents' so that us where he took his showers. One day, I happened to have a resin to go in heir bedroom while he was showering and heard him though the crack in the bathroom door. And there he was giving a sermon, presumably to the shaving cream, shampoo, and conditioner.
I cracked up but kept my mouth shut. I ran upstairs, grabbed my sister and two chairs from the kitchen, dragged them in front of the bathroom door, and her and I just sat and listened to him preach away.
"Drop all your jewels and p-raise the lord!"
phiniusmaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently on three occasions, I said things to wither my parents or their close friends that there was no way I could have known (like... what they were thinking).
Sadly, this ability seemed to disappear around the same time I began to take an interest in the opposite sex. Could have come in handy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She figured out life at 18 months, she will save us all.
EveryPersonDanceSoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is such an awesome first sentence, I'm jealous as hell.
Gothichu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I legitimately Loled at this one.
ObamaisYoGabbaGabba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank dad :)
misterbrisby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!"
Aiyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Baby Thor? Female, baby Thor.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your daughter is Samuel L. Jackson?
Tyra_Cunningham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
18 months?!?!?! wtf man!!!
Yapshoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That good parenting.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother is four and has inherited his mommy's potty mouth. My mom's phone often doesn't get reception in the kitchen, and when I was home a couple months ago one of her friend's kids had left a toy cell phone at the house. He picked it up and said, "Hello? Hello? FUCK!" and hurled it to the floor. It was hilarious.
bubba_lexi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"We're not gonna take it!"
Neodymium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is that something one of you guys might have said before or did it just come out of nowhere?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What stopped her from actually shouting it?
Aulio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I completely lost it laughing.
Jesus_luvs_Jenkem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was her first sentence? I doubt it.
Cat-out-of-the-hat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's all fun and games until the baby wants to move out.
COOLMOFO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha your daughter's awesome! nice language teaching there!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:27 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm.. I wonder where she learned that from.
voyaging ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 22:35:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The recurring theme of this thread.
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 20:31:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 9 and my sister was 3, she was playing with dolls in her room and my friend and I were on the computer in the next room. We hear my sister sing in the sweetest, kindest voice "I am singing my haaaappy song. If you don't like it I will killlll youuuuuu."
I can still remember the pitches. Creepiest thing ever.
cultured_banana_slug ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 23:25:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me, but a friend.
His mother had two miscarriages before he and his brother were born. His brother, maybe 4, said something like, "Those babies were us. You weren't ready for us so we had to wait until you were."
Creeped the hell out of his mom.
tealglitter ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 20:33:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was 19 months old when her Dad died. About a month later she said he told her in a dream that he got to meet the angel that helped him bowl that time. Then she said that he told her that I would understand. He had bowled a 300 once, but of course she didn't remember or understand that.
UptightSodomite ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:06:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your daughter could speak full sentences at a year and 8 months?
tealglitter ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:19:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Um, yes. She spoke in paragraphs actually. She was quite advanced verbally. It was amazing when she was little, not so much fun now that she's a tween!
CannibalPony ยท 102 points ยท Posted at 19:31:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but a kid my friend and I met at a party about 8 years ago. It's more of a story than just one thing she said.
So, my friend and I were in 8th grade, and we were with her mother for some kind of party, and there was this little girl who couldn't have been any older than 5. She was the only other kid there, so my friend's mom made us go play with her.
This was the creepiest girl I've ever met. She asked us if we wanted to play a game, and we said sure. The game was called "kill you" and it worked by her jumping on us and trying to strangle us. We told her we didn't want to play that game anymore so she came up with a new game.
"You be the mommy, and you be the daddy. Then I'll kill the mommy, and I'll kill the daddy."
She played that game the same way as "kill you", by jumping on us and trying to strangle us. After we got her off us, she walked away into the kitchen and started looking for stuff. We asked her what she was looking for, and she replied with "a knife to kill you with". Her mom saw her in the kitchen and asked if she needed something, she said she was thirsty or hungry or something.
Anyway, this kid was creepy. I think the only reason we didn't run away screaming was because she was less than 1/3 our size and it was just too odd to really think it was real.
We still talk about that creepy kid sometimes.
Rex8ever ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:07:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friend had foster kids that would say stuff like that. Because they heard their parents say it. Ugh.
etwas_naht ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:34:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oy, creepy kids. When I was about 12, this odd family moved in next door. They had four kids, where super-duper far-right religious and home-schooled the whole brood, which seemed to amount solely to the kids (the oldest was about 7, the youngest 3) wandering around in the yard and straying into ours to freak us out by saying weird shit.
One time the youngest walked out of the bushes between our houses and stood in our garden for a minute. My mom, who had just stepped outside for something, asks if he's alright. No sign of parents or siblings anywhere. Their conversation went like this:
My mom led him back over to his house and avoided the whole bunch as best she could.
jellohead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:54:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think sometimes these happen because of violence in the home?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:10 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily. Let me share a short story from my childhood. When I was about 4 or 5 years old, one of my favorite games was called "Blades of Steel" for the NES. At the start of the game there's a schwing sound, like a sword being unsheathed. Sometimes I'd pull the biggest kitchen knife out of it's holder because it made that similar sound and I'd say "BLADES OF STEEL" to the amusement of my older brother.
So we're being babysat one day, and I pull the knife out and say "BLADES OF STEEL". The babysitter freaked the fuck out, grabbed my brother and hid in the bathroom with the door locked. I wasn't thinking about hurting anyone, but I was amused with how my babysitter was freaking out. So I stuck the blade under the door and was sort of sweeping it back and forth, to the terror of my poor babysitter.
In this case it had nothing to do with abuse, I was just a young kid that was very amused with the reaction I got from my babysitter. I had no intention of hurting anyone, it was just a game to me. My parents never abused us, unless you count the odd spanking abuse.
prettyprincess90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:07:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sister had this incredible violent friend when she was about 5 and I was like 8. Well we both went over to her friends house. It was morning time and her parents had practically locked themselves in their bedroom and didn't supervise us at all. Well her little friend M fucking lost it. She locked my sister outside and then fucking chased me around the house with a knife and cornered me in the kitchen. I finally banged on her parents door and all the did was tell M to stop. I was traumatized and called my mom.
LadyoftheWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:07 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I knew a girl like this as well, her household was all kinds of fucked up, as was she. She once locked two of our friends in her garage when they wanted to go home because she was creeping them the fuck out. She moved away not too long after that. All my memories of her are creepy.
JohnnyVNCR ยท 102 points ยท Posted at 20:26:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reading through these, I didn't expect this to turn from "Kids Say the Darndest Things" to "Ghost Whisperer"
jrghoull ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
some kids have night terrors and related issues some people are trolling I personally will accept that some of these are true in the sense that people did not hear things/hallucinate. But, damned if there's any way to prove it, and I could easily be the fool here.
Instantcretin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:17:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And back again.
Oatybar ยท 99 points ยท Posted at 20:23:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
6 yr Old Daughter: "Whatcha doin, Dad?"
Me: "I'm gonna take a shower."
Daughter: "Okay, have fun! Don't forget, I'm watching you with my secret cameras!" <skips away>
Me: "...."
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:58:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Troll-child.
TERRILP ยท 481 points ยท Posted at 18:49:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My three year old said, "Remember when I was the grown-up and you were the little boy?" to his Dad.
belflandluvr ยท 394 points ยท Posted at 18:59:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This seems to be a recurring theme, I wonder why.
justcallmezach ยท 322 points ยท Posted at 19:36:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I slapped together a theory in the last couple of minutes in hopes of being able to write this off as "no big deal".
I wonder if children often have dreams of roll reversal with their parents. Since all they know at that age is having mom and dad take care of everything they do, maybe it is normal for young children to dream of taking care of a small person. Since the people they are most familiar with at that age are mom and dad, that's who they dream they're taking care of.
Talking about dreams as reality is common with some young children. This is my rationale and I'm clinging to it until I fall asleep tonight...
bobbyjohan ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:00:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also, the human brain can't actually make up a face in a dream. So since the child hasn't seen many faces, it's likely that they're parents show up in their dreams often.
wes337 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:23:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How can this be proven? How do you know the brain can't make up a face in a dream?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of faces that you see in dreams are faces that you've seen before, even if you were just passing on the street. Since the child has the most experience with the parents faces, it would seem likely that their would choose them.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:16:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that's true. But I have a competing non-proven theory : I believe you dont actually "see" faces in your dreams. You "perceive" the identity of the person you see. You don't see his face, you just assume its him because the "face recognizing" part of your brain tells you "Oh thats Brian", hijacking the "vision" part of your brain. Basicly you dont see shit in your dream, you perceive ideas. So you either see "generic person I dont know" or "Brian/Jane/Luke". This causes you to think you only see people you know, because at first it's "vague silhouette of a human being", but if you look you ll be like "of course it's mom".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would beg to disagree, kind dream-philosopher, I have many dream, wherein all I can recall is the faces of people, and many of them I can associate with people I've seen before. Of course, there's always the possibility that you're right, and my brain is primarily different when it comes to aspects of dreaming, than that of other people, but that seems unlikely.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
truth is, I remember very little. That distorts my reflexion, I guess.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there's really only one way to settle this: A DUEL TO THE DEATH!! Or, you know, whatever.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:26:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
possibly why they like action figures/dolls
yes, fuck you. they're action figures for boys
DonOntario ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:44:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or, even simpler, little kids talk nonsense almost nonstop for several years. The 99.9% of it that is jibberish or silly fantasy is forgotten, but when they say something creepy it gets remembered as significant and as evidence of the supernatural or reincarnation or life after death.
justcallmezach ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:51:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. This is also very plausible. I think the weirdness comes from the fact that they are all saying the same thing. If 10 people said that their children told them that pickles are purple, nobody would give a rip.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. I remember saying a lot of weird things in my childhood, which made sense in the fantasy worlds I liked on tv or the ones I created, but none for my parents.
I was less creepy than these other kids, though.
ericaamericka ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:51:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the same thing. Sometimes adults have trouble remembering what they dreamed and what actually happened, imagine trying to differentiate when you're too young to even know what a dream is.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is what I figure, too.
yuckypants ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:36:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a father of a 3 year old, I'm not entirely sure that he grasps the concept that we were once children as well.
To be honest, it's hard for me to grasp it too. There are two especially difficult thoughts associated with this.
One, I know I'm different. I'm grown. I have experienced many things and have had many different emotions and thoughts throughout my short 34 years. Though my body is older (hello workout injuries), my mind is not. I don't necessarily feel any different than I did at 21 and I find it difficult to realize that.
Two, I've forgotten more than I've known. There have been so many experiences that were so important at one time or another, but they turned out to just be fleeting memories.
I don't know why I got off on a tangent like this, but sometimes reality is tough to swallow. I hate threads like this. I'm drawn in out of curiosity, but then they make me think and I get all upset.
Gonna go hug my kids.
Swan_Writes ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:31:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember knowing another language, that got pushed away as I became better with english, the only language I was exposed to as a child. I would spend time listing to the voice of memory signing songs to me, and it felt like an older me working to teach me. I was very sad when I could not sing the songs, when I could not form the words of this "before" language.
It some manner, many of us live other lives, even if they are only in imagination.
In the spirit of spookiness, Love Craft givs as what I find to be his least overtly horrifying tale. There is a lot of hope for innocence lost to be found with the silver key.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:07:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely remember having role reversal dreams as a kid. I remember when I was five I dreamt I was pregnant with my mother. I even wore her clothes.
s3harp ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:35:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah this sounds plausible...at least till I'm not scared shitless anymore. Thank you.
Shrim ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:02:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Am I the only one that wants the explanation to be supernatural? Reincarnation and ghosts make the idea of death a lot better in my opinion.
neat_love ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:55:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good theory. Less creepy too. My 4 yr old has said that he takes care of me, "like you're my baby."
daverod74 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:36:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure this is essentially what we discussed in my life span development classes a few years ago. Young children also lack a firm understanding of gender roles and might believe they'll turn into the opposite sex simply by wearing different clothing or getting a haircut.
Catapulted_Platypus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:36:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Of all of theories I've read in this thread, this one is the most plausible.
Rommel79 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:31:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Children also have no concept of time like we do. Plus, you do have to remember that they have very, very vivid imaginations.
Phloatpill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I had read a bit longer before posting nearly the same thing, only you worded it much better.
the_gruffalo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:12:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This actually sounds pretty reasonable.
Two_Oceans_Eleven ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:35:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When you wake up, let me know what you've come up with.
Magritte_was_right ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:18:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If he wakes up.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:43:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This makes a lot of sense, but it's not as fun as imagining that the kid's are reincarnated grandparents.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:55 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
or everyone and everything is just a form of energy in a shape of matter....endlessly re-arranging:P
Kaiosama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is of course what we'd like to believe. Cause the possibility of giving birth to a dead relative just seems a bit scary.
DaVincitheReptile ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or memories are encoded into genes and when you're younger accessibility to those memories is greater than when you've aged a bit and had experiences that 'overtake' genetic memories.
GlassArrow ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 19:15:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Because reincarnation. Why else would they say it and why would it be a seemingly common thing as shown in this thread?
darkdantedevil ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:50:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because children don't have a grasp of how children grow into adults and this is one way they try to rationalize what they don't yet understand?
ManInTheMirage ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 20:24:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YOLMT
(You Only Live Many Times)
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:09:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like the name of Yoda's cousin or something
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:59:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My father used to hate policemen when he was a kid, he used to tell my grandmother that they came to his house and shot him when he was a grow up.
thesecretofjoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or he saw a movie or TV program in which a man was shot by a policeman, and that is the only way he knew how to express his fear that a policeman might break into his house and shoot him.
MRDE_ ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:44:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hardly evidence for reincarnation, perhaps they are developing empathy and causes them to dream from different points of views.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:16:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dreaming strikes me as the cause of most of the spooky 'goings-on' in this thread. Even so, now I believe in ghosts again...
SecularMC ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:29:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DMT
DontShadowbanMeAgain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:59:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember having dreams that showed things I did from the eyes of bystanders
Geske ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Theory of mind and whatnot?
llill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ohh dreaming! Haven't thought about that! Nice.
ZaiusTheMan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:11:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because kids.
Ryo95 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:34:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I say time travel.
JamesLiptonIcedTea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:24:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because Reddit. Why else would they just go on the internet and tell lies?
oryx_and_crake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:34:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, don't be so crazy. People dont tell lies on the internet.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My first memory is of a dream where I'm my mum, looking after baby-me. That's not reincarnation, that's a blurring of knowing who I was and where me ended - babies think they are the same being as their mother until they are about six months old, so those identity issues probably continue for quite a long time, giving things where they get confused as to who is who between them and their mother.
There's been quite a few stories where a child has said something like that when both that parent's parents are still alive, so it's quite obviously not reincarnation.
CannedToast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you think reincarnation would only happen with familial spirits? Wouldn't any soul be able to be born into any family? Someone's parents being alive does not disprove that their child has a reincarnated soul.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When a child says "do you remember when you were the child and I was the mother" it means that it's still the same person (the parent of the child) ergo they have to be the parent's mother if the child has a memory of being the mother. I'm not saying it disproves reincarnation as a whole, I'm just saying that in this situation there's a reason that's already had a lot of research done - the fact that babies see themselves as the same person as their mother. So it's very possible that some of their memories take place through their mother's eyes because they've projected their thoughts that way.
CannedToast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, see... the trend I was seeing was "do you remember when I was big and you were small", which doesn't directly imply that the child "was" the parent's parent.
I agree with your initial point, but got confused.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are indeed, as stated all over this thread, many more rational explanations than reincarnation...
FeepingCreature ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:54:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually a remarkable argument which I'm gonna term Strawman from Ignorance. It goes like so.
Gavinardo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:24:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Every other post seems to mention something like this.
Da fuck is goin' on...
JeffersonWasGinger ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:02:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe none of these kids know what "remember" means.
synapsesynopsis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:32:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to go for a dream of emulation. perhaps a child does not recognize a faint remembrance of last night's dream, which included a switching of roles. That's how we learn in real life anyway, through imitation; Right?
quakank ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:35:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Most likely just a common theme for childhood dreams. Most kids probably have issues telling the difference between dreams and reality for some period of time.
viscounttime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
many masters many lives
howerrd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:35:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Given that they aren't all coming in at the same time, maybe some are making it up for karma.
DNAbro ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:17:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this seems most likely.
1836to1846 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My guess is maybe in little-kid logic, they think that because they know grown-ups were once little kids, that means little kids were once grown-ups.
KousKous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if it's because it's creepy and people like comment karma? After all, if you have bad karma you become a hungry ghost.
ChonchoStryker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe it's time for us to ask r/askscience...
Michi_THE_Awesome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I get the feeling that family members that died too young or before their time are reborn into the newer generation. This is their second and last chance to "finish".
Icedcc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yea i used to say that when i was big i used to have a red car
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids hear parents say, "When I was your age..." and "Back when I was a kid..."
Little kids don't understand that there was a time they never existed. These two and three year olds are assuming that, if their parents were once the kids, then they must have once been the adults. There's nothing creepy about it. It's just a kid trying to connect the dots.
Dustintico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The weird part is I remember saying something like this to my mom myself... And I don't remember why.
Broccoli_Tesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My baby brother assumed that people aged up and down like yo-yos. So he could return the favour of looking after us when we end up as children and him the adult.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I couldn't tell you, but I do remember watching an episode of Roly-Poly-Oly when I was little where the kids imagined a world where they were the grown-ups and the parents were kids. In fact, I think I remember an episode of Arthur with the same thing.
Either way, it's got me freaked out.
difora250 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you should read "many lives, many masters by Dr. Brian Weiss
Admiral_Bison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should definitely watch this if you really want to have your mind blown
phySi0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The comments pontificating on the fact that the role reversal seems to be a recurring theme seem to be a recurring theme, I wonder why.
sweetthang1972 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I remember asking my mom this question.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have to know now!
Floor_warrior ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:56:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've read a lot about children "seeing the dead" as it were, so perhaps that's also linked to the whole reincarnation/previous lives thing?
Ftlguy88 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:01:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
God please do not let my parents be reincarnated as my child. เฒ _เฒ
Kaiosama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:42:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know right!
sirlearnsalot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:35:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My idea.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:38:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the actual fuck is going on here.
romanov99 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:56:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because he's asking for permission to play the grownup. If you said "I'm little right now! What should we do, Dad?" he would immediately start pretending he was you. Not creepy, just a developmental stage. You are, after all, the authority figure in his life, and he'd like to be in charge for once.
Jean_Shirts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I agree - my kids do this all the time, between themselves, with each other as various members of the family. Some funny stuff is said when they are the mommy. It's a good lesson for me and I always try to listen close.
ZeroNihilist ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:08:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is there some reference you and ___mads are alluding to, or did your children both spontaneously start talking about their memories of parent-child role-reversal?
If the latter, that's possibly the more creepy eventuality.
i_like_cake897 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:31:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's the second. There's a lot of posts like that.
RockefSteady ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Remember when I was the cat and you were the human?
7UPvote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Buddhist trolls
ffffuuuuManChu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My three-year old has said this too. But, to be fair, I think that is mostly a kid thinking about his role in the family; being the 'leader' adult seems to be popular.
DOG_JESUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm seeing a lot of these out here, there's an epidemic on our hands
pmarks420 ยท 152 points ยท Posted at 20:31:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was three I went missing for a few hours while my dad was hanging Christmas lights outside (we had a bunch of woods and trails behind our house). Fast forward a few hours I come out of the woods and walk down the road to my house telling my parents a man told me to go home. When I described him to my mom she broke down crying because it was an exact description of her father. He died almost 10 years before I was born.
Arluza ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:01:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While it is a little creepy, I tend to think that without us hearing the description, you jsut met a nice man who your mom, in her distress, thought sounded similar to her dad. UNless her dad had a special mark or expression. Like a lazy eye or a scar.
pmarks420 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:35:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I highly doubt it in all the other times I travelled through those trails as I got older I never saw anyone out there and also the time I returned home was 8:30-9:00 at night it was also mid December. But none the less its a good thought
Arluza ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:41:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did your description include special details or was it generic?
pmarks420 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:29:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not quite sure last time I heard the story was a few years ago I'm pretty sure it specific detail like the way he looked
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:38:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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pmarks420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you Christmas spirit was in the air I guess
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 23:53:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Bellucian ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:12:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He was on reddit and an asshole. "OMG IT WAS SHINYADONO"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:44:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Bellucian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because there is hundreds of millions of combinations of racial comboes/natural looks, not to mention clothing style/facial markings/noticeable traits.
One old guy could wear vans/shorts/tee and have a cane thanks to a leg he broke in nam and now the arthritis is too bad to walk normal.
Other guy could be wearing loafers/slacks/buttondown and have a white gash across his cheek from where he ran into a barbwire fence on his motorcycle as a young man.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 00:28:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Settle down.
SmashleyZombie ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 19:20:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My godmother's mom died when she was 3 years old. She was then raised by her grandparents. One morning she wakes up and tells her grandmother that her mommy came to her in the night, but she was all burned. Her mother had been cremated...
Fast forward to when I'm little. Said godmother used to call her grandmother "dia" because she heard her grandfather call her "dear" and that was her interpretation. Without any prior knowledge of this, I was maybe 2 and her grandparents had been long passed, one day she came over to see me, and I ran up to her, hugged her and said "hi dia!"
Weird stuff, man.
snowboy437 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:23:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just decided I don't want to be cremated...
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:48:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think humans have a similar trait to elephants, that memories can be passed down? But is irrelevant so we lose it over time? I think that'd explain the recurring, "I was the adult and you were a kid" theme.
joannchilada ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:13:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's irrelephant.
I'm sorry.
I-heart-naps ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:35:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YES. Anything not pertaining to elephants is irrelephant. I just said that to my boyfriend the other day. He looked at me like I had three heads for a moment, but then (thankfully) started laughing.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is that true about elephants? How's it work, exactly?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea how it works, but African elephants are known to know the exact locations of watering holes that have never been around since their birth, and know when to go there during a rain spell or something as such. You should look into if you want to know more. I'm not really an encyclopedia, just reference basically. Sorry if that didn't answer your question.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:15:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like I'd be more inclined to believe in some sort of communication than in an overmind like ability to share memories. That'd freak me right the fuck out.
YossarianPrime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:59:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, if bees can dance and tell other bees how to find some pollen, then fuck yeah elephants can give directions to the oasis.
IEnjoyFancyHats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I want to see elephants dance.
terub ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:25:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did that once to my dad! My grandpa (dad's dad) passed away a few years before I was born. My parents also gave me his name (but the female version). Apparently one day, when I was younger (maybe 2) I looked at my dad and called him a nickname that only his father had ever called him, and wasn't something I likely could have conceived on my own.
I also had an invisible friend who had the same name I did. My parents swear it was my grandfather.
DJBell1986 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:58:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I also had an invisible friend who had the same name as me. My only memory of him was him trying to get me to do stupid shit and me basically telling him how stupid his ideas were. My Mom said she used to see me talking to nobody in the backyard and she would ask what I was doing and I would say "Playing with DJBell1986". Didn't freak her out though.
NoAttentionAtWrk ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:45:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
maybe you had heard around your around people saying "hi dear" when someone came and that is what you were trying to say too but your godmother heard something else just because she wanted to hear that
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:03:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"My godmother was 3 years old when her mother died." FTFY
TheRabidYoshi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine you saying "Dia" like Joey's agent in Friends would.
Rommel79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, it could have been Wilson from Home Improvement and she was just trying to say "Hidey-ho neighbor."
Pannecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of a story my mom told me. When she was a little girl she had a dream that her Aunt came to visit and she was scary so she ran to her parents and her parents said "It was just a dream Pat."
and my mom said "Auntie is dead"
the next day my grandfather found out that his sister had died of a heart attack in the middle of the night.
[deleted] ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 19:47:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Our boy when he was 3 kept talking to himself. Started out small but lasted a few weeks. One day i finally joked who are you talking to? He said "kyle" my wife asked who is kyle? And he said "my friend" the story got back to our landlord who lived near us...turns out Kyle was a 35 yo man who hung himself in the townhouse next to us about 5 years ago. We moved about a Month later.
Jesus_luvs_Jenkem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:53:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you move out because of 'Kyle'?
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 19:45:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A little 3-year-old boy in my preschool class told me all about how he used to be a girl, a "big girl" who went to college, got her nails done, and was named "Siddy" (like Sydney). He was probably just talking about stuff he saw on TV or whatever, but he told it to me like he USED TO BE a girl and a grownup and now he was a little boy. It was very weird!
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 20:56:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
REPOST
My 4 year old asked "What if there is a fire?" I explain we call the firemen.
She said "What if you can't hear the smoke alarm because you have headphones on?" Ummm...someone will hear it sweetie. I had to demonstrate how loud it was with the test button to convince her.
"What if when we call the firemen they ALL have headphones in and cannot hear the alarm?" Ummm...they can't all wear headphones. It's against the rules.
She finally asks "So what happens when there is a fire and no one can hear it and by the time we do the firemen can't get here fast enough and there is a tornado, and it catches fire from our house, so we are driving away, but the road is shaking?"
It was the first time a child genuinely scared me. I explained that would never happen, but now I have nightmares about fucking fire tornados chasing my family during an earthquake where no one can hear us scream.
TL;DR My daughter would give Stephen King nightmares with her doomsday scenarios and fears.
kulykat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:24:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was this kid, except I was obsessed with volcanoes.
Granted, we did live on ... how many dormant ones? Fuckloads. And there were a couple of constantly active ones a bit further down the coast and island.
allidrummer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:18:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for the TL;DR
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:29:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No spiders though...so there's that.
neat_love ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 21:30:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 yr old started to cry around 2:45am, I go in his room and he says "GRAMPA MAYNARD SCARED ME!" and I said " Bany you don't have a grandpa Maynard.. Go to sleep.." I got him some water, wiped his face off, flipped the pillow because of tears... He goes back to sleep.
I go back to my room and tell my fiancรฉ & (soon to be step daddy for my son) that West had a nightmare. He said of what? I said " I dunno, a creepy fucking 'Grandpa Maynard."
My fiancรฉ turned white & said that was my grandpop's name. I almost fainted. We now smell his cologne in my sons room constantly.
maryizbell ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:51:16 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i, too, have a grandpa maynard. weird.
inkedincanada ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 08:39:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my dad was abusive when i was a kid and one day my son when he was four said "daddy im glad u dont beat me like your daddy beat you" and i asked him what was he talking about and he said "u remember when..." and he went into detail about this time my dad beat me so bad i damn near died and i had never told anyone about it so i dont know how he knew
[deleted] ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 20:44:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a 10 year old son, when he was 6, we had a conversation that went like this:
My son: Dad, who's Hitler?
Me: He was a bad man, he didn't like the jews and killed a lot of them.
My son: Dad, what's a jew?
Me: It's a religion. A religion is what you believe in, like a god.
My son: I think someone in my class is a jew.... I don't like him, maybe I should... (he looks at me in the creepiest way when he said this).... kill him just like Hitler did.
SnowingSwede ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:56:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm imagining a ten year old kid with a toothbrush mustache now.
SamFlynn2012 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:00:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a tape of Disney cartoons as a kid, and one of them was "Spirit of '42", an old Donald Duck propaganda film made at the height of the war. I don't know why it was there. There are some swastikas in that film, and also "Raiders of the Lost Ark" which I saw at 2 or 3 with my cool ass grandpa. One day in kindergarten I drew some on a paper. My parents were advised to put me in therapy.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:59:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You saw something (a very famous symbol) and drew it.. Yep, throw the kid in the looney bin.
Neoaris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or he might start stuffing other children into baking receptacles.
[deleted] ยท 345 points ยท Posted at 18:30:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
One of my 15 month old twins was laying on the changing table while I was changing her diaper and said "Diiiiiieeeeee." I doubt she understood what she was saying but it was strange.
edit: grammar.
chessie2003 ยท 316 points ยท Posted at 19:19:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it that inconceivable that "die" could just be the first syllable of "diaper?"
[deleted] ยท 266 points ยท Posted at 19:28:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, that's not creepy enough for this thread.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:52:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Take your logic and get the fuck out.
Fatumsch ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:24:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe she speaks German.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:28:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"THE BART THE"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:53:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It would be pronounced "Deeeee" then.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:03:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, considering I don't usually say the world diaper, it is. We usually say "change your pants" or "change your butt."
Dirty_Liberal_Hippie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:32:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How dare you use logic and common sense on the internet. I am hereby revoking your internet privileges for 3 days.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:37:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
lordofthederps ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Unbeknownst to juhesihcaaa, at the same time, the other twin in another room was saying "Perrrrr."
JesusSwallows ยท 347 points ยท Posted at 18:58:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, she totally thinks you're a bitch.
Rockztar ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 19:44:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Suffocate on my poopfeast, humaaaan in a demonic voice.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:02:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much. Their poops are foul.
neat_love ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:57:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You owe me a new rug. Coughed out my hit into my bong and blew out my hit. Burned my rug you FUNNY SON OF A GUN.
PS: Notice how I never called your mother a bitch. Respect funny guy
JesusSwallows ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wait oh my god that's so tragic
neat_love ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:09:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. Jesus was all giving.
Of course he swallowed.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:04:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't surprise me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:07:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She was simply saying 'the' in german.
WhiteHeather ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:54:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not pronounced the same. "Die" in German is pronounced more like "Dee".
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Congratulations, your 15 month old made the same sound every other 15 month old makes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She had never done it before and has never done it since.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm that makes it kind of creepy. But my baby sister did this all the time, scared me the first time. After awhile I just accepted the fact that she would probably kill me in my sleep.
nuhcole ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's Stewie!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hers or yours?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha mine. I put "I'm doubt" instead of "I doubt."
sarcastro74 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"No it says 'die, Bart, die' which is German for 'live, Bart, live'" - Sideshow Bob.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:58:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and then the other one said "fuck you bitch"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually she was standing in her crib, jumping up and down, and giggling if I recall correctly.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:51:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i was close
yannburger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:19:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read this as "changeling table."
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:43:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll accept it.
bobcatfan2012 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Female Stewie...don't go on a cruise...
COOLMOFO ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:32:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
is your baby a friend with a russian baby because die in russian means, "give me it"
H8rade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No mystery here. She was saying "Daddy," but in baby talk. My sister said that when she was very little, and we all understood it to be "Daddy." We would even call him Dai-e for years after just because it sounded cool.
EDIT
Ok, I just say in your history that you're the mom, not the dad. Still, they could have been calling for Dad to change the diapers instead.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, she says "Dada" and "Daddy" very well.
peskyprehensilepenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
German?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only English speaking in my house right now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not pronounced the same. "Die" in German is pronounced more like "Dee."
Fluffi_McPhee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't stress, my 18 month old just talks nonsense like that. If she finds a syllable she likes she'll say it over and over, mostly it's 'byyyyye' which can come off as a little creepy but she just likes the sound of it :)
HeroineOwl ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 20:20:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids. But my mom used to tell my how I would talk to shadows. I called them "Mirror People." I would speak to my shadow and even myself in the mirror. My mom told me that she once asked me to brush my teeth, I told "I can't. The mirror people don't like it when I go into the bathroom. They say they want my face. They can't have my face." And I laughed. I guess I grew out of it when I got a bit older but I still find it eerie.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:01:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is so creepy. You suck now I can't go to the bathroom..
HeroineOwl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so terribly sorry. Bring a bathroom buddy or a hammer with you when you poop.
Inuplaya ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:13:16 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The creepy thing is there is a post in this same thread by rachrocket, and I quote,
'when i was 3 i had an imaginary friend named facey. whenever i drew her, she never had a face. when my mom asked why she didn't have any facial features (eyes, mouth, ect.) i said "she isn't living anymore so she isn't allowed to have a face"'
gardenlevel ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 22:06:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite story is from my niece, not my kids. She was around 5, and it was Thanksgiving. Before we ate we were playing around and she bit me. I yelped "ouch", then scolded her. After dinner I go in to the living room and she's there, alone. She walks up, grabs my arm and says "this time, try not to scream so loud" and sinks her teeth in to my flesh.
stickynotehaiku ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:45:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's 2:41am and I can't seem to get to sleep. I've been doing my best to be as quiet as possible because I have family sleeping in the next room over. However, when I read this, I completely lost it. Funny story. Hopefully I didn't wake anyone up.. :-)
maryizbell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:26 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i think i'm freaking my parents out with the odd bits of laughter coming from my room at 3:53.
laughingrrrl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:23:54 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is more bizarre than scary. To me, at least.
angrymonkey ยท 139 points ยท Posted at 21:29:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was maybe 10 or so, I was riding home from school in the front seat of the car with my au pair. "It's too cold," I said, and held my hand about 6 inches away from the temperature dial. I stared at the dial and concentrated, and it began to slowly turn (this was back in the '90's, in our '92 Honda Accord-- electronic climate control probably hadn't even been produced yet).
"How did you do that."
"I have telekinesis."
"Do that again."
So I did it again. Slowly the dial turned under my hand, back to 'cold'.
"Seriously, how did you do that."
"I told you. I'm psychic."
"No you're not. You're not psychic."
She was a little agitated.
"Yes I am." I did it again.
"Stop it."
"Why?"
"You're freaking me out. Stop it."
She was visibly distressed. I imagine she was beginning to seriously weigh whether this very smart, slightly weird child from a family of non-believers really did have strange, dark supernatural powers, and whether she should maybe run away as fast as possible right then and there.
In reality, I had discovered that there was a mechanical linkage to one side of the passenger-side footwell, which I could nudge with my shoe and make the dial move. I eventually spilled the beans, but not before convincing my Star Wars-obsessed little brother that I had the Force.
Lyte_theelf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:14:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did the same thing to my little sister, but it involved the Harry Potter movie, a wand, and a well-hidden remote control :)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:19:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was so pissed at first, thinking you were gonna end with "yeah. For realz. My psychic powerz alwaiz getx me intoo teh tr00blez." Happy upvote fur yeh.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would never tell anyone...ever.
BoughtreeFidee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:21:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This could be the pilot episode of Psych.
scullymeister_3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Te force is strong in this one...
TheCaptain81 ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 01:51:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a hugely popular thread so it'll get buried but here goes. My wife died just about a month after my sons fourth birthday unexpectedly. A couple of weeks later he really had said much about it so as I'm putting him to bed one night I ask him if he misses mommy.
He looks me dead in the eye and says "no". Obviously this startles me, and I'm lost for words. Once I finally find rational thought again I proceed to ask him why he said no? He says "mommy is ok. She's happy". Now I'm freaking out. Why is my son saying this? His mom just died?! I the. Ask him what he means by it?
Heres where it gets really freaky to me. He answers me with this "mommy said she is happy", "she said I shouldn't be sad". My late wife had some "issues" and the autopsy hadn't come back yet. We at this time had no idea what she died from - I just found her one morning face down one morning in my living room. Ok back to the story. So when my son tells me this i start to freak the fuck out. Did she goodbye to him??? Was it suicide??
I then proceed to ask him if mommy told him this. He goes "yes". Ok. Now my heart sinks, I get pissed at her, I feel even more horrible for him, and a million other emoticons at once. I ask him "when did mommy tell you this?". He says "at night". "when i sleep she comes and visits me. We talk and she told me not to be sad. She said she's happy where she's at and she watches me when im awake and she will protect me".
Onions and shock.. Right then. I've had 2 years to process this now and it amazes me that a four year old has such amazingly healthy coping skills.
Tl/dr: mom of a four yr old dies tells dad that mom visits him when he sleeps and tells son not to be sad.
OBESEJESUS ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:17:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Brought tears to my eyes. If this is true, God bless.
TheCaptain81 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:32:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
100%. It was so surreal and I went through so many emotions during one conversation I remember it like it was yesterday, prolly always will. I just wonder when I bring it up in like 20 years if he'll remember the dreams.
EmilieAnomalie ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:47:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry you had to go through that. But I'm glad to see that it seems you and your son are doing alright.
LadyoftheWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:13 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's beautiful. :)
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:23:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:03:36 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvoted for asking:) I think he means there were tears:)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:10 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:16 on August 29, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you're very welcome :)
schadenfreude- ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 20:26:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid I had 3 imaginary friends named Nicola, Mugo and Bogon. According to my mom, one day I asked her if I could pick some flowers from the garden, and when she asked my why I replied "Because Mugo is dying, and you know it. We must feed him flowers or we'll die too"
And yeah, mommy let me pick up all tulips I wanted.
NTesla ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:13:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So weird. I used to eat tulips when I was a really little kid.
aliceinreality98 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:24:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did he end up dying? And those are very creative names (Nicola and Mugo are my favorites), how old were you when you had these imaginary friends?
schadenfreude- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:10:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually don't remember if he died or not. I don't have many memories of them because they all disappeared when my brother was born, around when I was 4.
The names are actually less creative than they could sound to your ear! Nicola was the name of my favourite family friend and Mugo is a type of pine tree that grows in the woods where I live!
Podwangler ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 21:06:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This one is not about reincarnation or ghosts, it's just amusing. My son, when he was about 3 (he is now 9) was hugely into Doctor Who, teh Chris Ecclestone series, and used to wind up his older sister by following her around saying "Are you my mummy?", which as all DW fans will know, is the creepy little gas mask boy's catchphrase, whose touch means death. One day, we were waiting outside a chemist that had an all-night microphone outside it, and he finds the button. The assistants and everyone in the queue inside the chemists looked utterly freaked out as this small boy's voice kept repeating over the intercom (apparently very loudly, in the shop) "Are you my mummy? Mummy? Is that you, mummy? Are you my mummy?" My son is awesome.
pikapie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:13:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's it, if I have a little boy, I'm teaching him how to say that. Especially when my Dr. Who loving friends come over to visit. XD
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:56 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is excellent. I would have been freaked out, too.
biohazard326 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:35 on July 19, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you son is morbidly awesome
soupdawg ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 20:02:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter is about to be two. My wife and I where sitting in the living room and my daughter was playing and started to point to the kitchen saying something we couldn't make out. I asked her what she wanted and she said it again and kept saying it. Me and my wife realized she was saying my grandpas name. So I walked into the kitchen and my daughter followed me. Once we got in the kitchen she kept asking me where did he go and was shrugging her shoulders. I brought out a wedding picture of my wife and I with my grandpa and asked my daughter who it was. She pointed to my grandpa and said his name very clearly.
My daughter has never met my grandpa he passed away over 3 years ago.
franticcat ยท 87 points ยท Posted at 19:58:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son (4 at the time) turned to me and said, "Who was the old woman with the red eyes and long fingernails that was talking to me in the sunroom?"
I had no answer for him.
DeviTHM ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:59:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"But we don't have a sunroom!"
ThBurninator ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:24:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading a ton of different "person with red eyes" posts, just came to a possible solution! Older photos, and even recent ones, that do not have red eye removal make it look like people have red eyes! Yay! Just justified a lot of these stories and made myself less creeped out!
iwantedtovote ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:17:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But it doesn't seem like these kids have seen photographs...
Wiki says "Because the light of the flash occurs too fast for the pupil to close, much of the very bright light from the flash passes into the eye through the pupil, reflects off the fundus at the back of the eyeball and out through the pupil".
The red comes from the camera capturing blood in the back of your eyeball....dead people have dilated pupils...
Holy fuck I need to stop.
ThBurninator ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:13:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
=,( why would you hurt me like that? I was going to be fine...but now I am worse...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:29:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should have said "that was aunt becky, she's here to steal your face if you act bad"
QuillJS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:15:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought of La Llorona. It's a Mexican scary story my parents used to tell me. She drowned her kids and walks around the lake crying and wailing in grief. She also has long finger nails and red eyes. If she catches you kid she'll kill him.
ratleaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What is a sunroom?
franticcat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:48:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A small room off the main living room with lots of windows. It got a lot of sun, hence we called it the sun room. It is also where we kept my son's toys, so he was in there a lot.
TeeHeeYeah ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 19:49:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friends and her three year old daughter were driving and passed a police car. The kid asked her Mom if the policeman was "busy cutting people up and putting them in garbage cans." She is full of creepy commentary about cops for some reason.
TinyAndEvil ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:08:12 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is why you don't let three year olds watch Dexter.
usofunnie ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 22:26:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the kid in the story. As a toddler, I spiked a high fever, and once my mom could do no more, she took me to the emergency room. She says that as she was waiting, holding me in her arms, I looked at her, said, "I'm going to go away now," and passed out. My mom nearly flipped her shit right there in the waiting room. She tells me it was the first time in her life she felt that her heart had truly stopped.
[deleted] ยท 169 points ยท Posted at 19:01:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
On one of his first trips to the beach my 2 year old nephew said "I'm gonna run so deep in the ocean I will never come back" of course we we're like "wait, what?". And he replied "yup, if you go deep in the ocean you never come back, I'm gonna do that"
SomeMetroid ยท 218 points ยท Posted at 19:15:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He just wanted to be UNDER DA SEA
howerrd ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 19:41:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Darling, it's bettah down where it's wettah; Take it from me!
Vomit_Comet ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:16:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If ya know what I mean
Matthias21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats your answer to everything, to move under the sea, its never going to happen!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
UP on the shore they work all day!
annies__boobs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He knows it's better down where it's wetter, take it from me.
HalfwayInLight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Darling it's better down where it's wetter!
shawshanks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
With the merfolks
jokubolakis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Absorbent cleaning material, rectangular lower body covering.
lessthan3d ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 20:25:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Down where it's wettah, down where it's bettah.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:32:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:10:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well did he?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:44:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He wasn't allowed to go near the shore without an adult with him. A few months later he jumped into the deep end of a pool and a cousin had to jump in and save him. He is now terrified of water.
jstarlee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:40:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
alright. no more sponge bob for that kid.
ThisIsFlight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think your newphew might know something about this
Neoaris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SAIL HATEN.
Invocandum ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 20:30:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember doing this, but story from my parents is as follows.
My family has house on a small island on a lake in central Canada, where my grandfather (who I never met, died less than a month before I was born) used to spend his summers with his family. We went out to visit one year for the first time when I was 5 or 6. After getting off the boat, I immediately took off running up the path to the house. My parents chased after me and I ducked in behind a small shed just off the main path. My mom asked what I was doing, to which I answered "When I was older, I used to smoke here."
My mom told everyone at dinner what I said, and everyone got pretty freaked out. I guess my grandpa used to steal cigarettes from his dad and go hide behind that shed and smoke when he was a teenager.
Pretty trippy stuff ay mate.
BoughtreeFidee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The "ay mate" at the end just sort of authenticated this for me. No idea why.
Invocandum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://youtu.be/fM7QRK9SMdA Relevant video.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:12:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lake 'o the woods?
maighdlin ยท 218 points ยท Posted at 19:14:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was driving my daughter, aged 2, to nursery one morning and as usual she was chatting away to herself in the back seat. She said "(little boy in her nursery) X hit me. Im going to hit him. I'm going to hit him in the face. The doctor will have to fix X's face". I just went silent at the little psycho :S
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:28:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually kinda funny.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:33:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not creepy. Pretty typical preschool violence.
snowlion13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
they are trying to understand whats normal, you should correct and let her know when things are going beyond the normal range
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 20:33:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ShenanigansYes ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:59:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
John Darnielle would be proud
solastsummer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:51:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
nice try, Mountain Goats promoter.
MacCampbell ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:59:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've only heard two of their songs!
smashingrah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:36 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope one of them was 'No Children' off of Tallahassee
MacCampbell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:39:27 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
'I hope I die... I hope we both die... ' Great song.
lauradice ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 20:39:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but my brothers' four year old came up to me, looked me straight in the eyes and said, very seriously: "The day I will become a grandfather, you will die". He then turned around and continued to do stuff kids normally do.
He's 27, single and has no kids, so I'm save for now ;-)
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:50:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:39:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OP will surely del...ah fuck...
lauradice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:14:52 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'll let you know the minute I die.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:57:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Odds are you'll live at least to your 80s then, so I wouldn't worry.
lauradice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:13:51 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a comforting thought, I did the math myself already ofcourse. However, when he recently broke up with his girlfriend of 5 years I admit I was a bit relieved ;-)
seanwillsalt ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 21:57:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I've got another one. My twin brother and I used to have bunkbeds, and I'd always sleep on the lower bunk. I knew my brother occasionally had waking dreams (where you wake up and continue to experience something from the dream for a few seconds), but never thought much of it.
After we got rid of the bunkbeds, he informed me that he would routinely see either a guy in a black hood or a guy in a 'lumberjack shirt' standing by the bed. This guy would be tall enough to be level with my brother, who was in the top bunk. Worst part? The guy apparently always bent down as if getting into the lower bunk, where I slept, at which point he would disappear.
I'm very glad he never told me this while we still had the bunkbeds.
ConradFerguson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:37:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do waking dreams include when you're having a conversation in a dream and/or the voice of someone trying to wake you up enters your dream? And you wake up, talking about or reacting to a situation in the dream? Subsequently looking stupid? Because I do that a lot.
gypsycamptrash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:37 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh my god.
[deleted] ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 20:06:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but my mom told me this when I turned 27:
When I was 7, I told her I knew how to cure aids.
"Oh? How," she asked.
"Kill your girlfriend or boyfriend before you have sex."
They took me to a shrink after that.
[deleted] ยท 92 points ยท Posted at 20:31:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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s0nicfreak ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:37:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I guess they fixed the killing part...
ffffuuuuManChu ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 20:05:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My three year old son when I told him to come eat dinner with me the other week:
"I will ruin your life."
jlbob ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:20:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Sorry son you're 3 years late..."
Heavens_2_Betsy ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 21:48:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me, but my sister was babysitting our cousins and the youngest one, who was probably 5 or 6 at the time, says that he is afraid of the "Grandma people" that live in the basement. I would be scared to death of Grandma people.
Blarggotron ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:37:27 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bill's grandma from when bill and ted go to hell.
sweet jesus.
nine-divines ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 19:24:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids are terrifying. My parents and I used to live with my grandmother when I was around 2-3, and I always used to say I saw a man in a green coat walking around the house. I think I said I talked to him, but I can't remember at all. My nana still brings it up pretty frequently.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:18:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I seem to remember a legend/ folk story about a man in a green coat. Something about cleaning and caring for children, and a creepy forest. What country do you live in, if you don't mind me asking?
nine-divines ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm in the United States. That's interesting, I've never heard that before.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:13:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's an "old world" legend, no longer popularly accepted I believe.
Iratus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. Muscle?
Kile904 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:44:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your grandmother suspects your mother was sleeping with the man, and keeps bringing it up to press the matter! lol jk
scallycap94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you quite sure it wasn't this guy?
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:10:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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willtraveltoedinburg ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:26:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck
imkindofimpressed ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 22:28:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well considering I have an 11 month old myself, this is pretty much the scariest shit i've read in a while and now Im just anticipating my son pointing out how many fucking ghosts live around us. shit.
fartblossom57 ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 19:51:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Dad? I'm in jail in Ardmore, Oklahoma."
aliceinreality98 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:16:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why is your username 'fartblossom57'?
QuillJS ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:56:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably because fartblossom56 was already taken.
ConradFerguson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:12:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So were fartblossom through fartblossom55.
Or 'cause he was born in that year. Probably the former.
fartblossom57 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
fartblossom WAS taken, believe it or not, and yes, born in 57. As for the origin of the name, it was something my dad called me and all my friends. I've carried on the tradition with my son.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:32:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
go on....
fartblossom57 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:54:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Short version, friend's car got towed, friend convinced him it wasn't "stealing" to steal your own car back, both got caught, spent weekend in jail, parents lost sleep, all charges dropped except friend had to do a little community service, parents dropped 5K on lawyer, friend not allowed in my house again.
Arx0s ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 20:13:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/Z9djM.jpg
accioalexandra ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:56:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read that in Queen Latifah's voice
thumperson ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:37:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
how could you not?!
ThBurninator ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:37:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Everyones' posts have been scaring the shit out of me, but this made me laugh quite a bit, thank you.
Kitty_D ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:55:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My thoughts exactly. I kept thinking about the fact that I have to go face my 2 year old after work and I was feeling a bit terrified of her by now (even though she hasn't really done anything this freaky). This one made me laugh though.
[deleted] ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 19:47:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:19:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some people have weird reactions to anaesthetic, especially children. Those kind of episodes are not uncommon.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:13:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 13, I had really minor oral surgery, and I spent an hour hallucinating about people just standing, completely motionless wearing charcoal gray suits. I couldn't see their faces, only a shadow underneath their round brimmed pork-pie hats. Despite the fact that they weren't moving, they seemed to get closer. Never when I was looking, but every time I would close my eyes, they were in a different place. There were three of them. Even in my delusional state, I knew not to mention it to my mom, she was scared enough.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:24:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol reminds me of the angels in Dr. Who. Don't blink.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:30:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh God, why did you remind me! My friend literally won't look at mannequins at the mall. She's an impressionable person.
veterinarygopher ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 19:37:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Last year my paternal grandmother decided to move closer to the beach and into a house right around the corner from my parents. She was getting close to her 91st birthday and my father had taken my daughter over to visit. My grandmother is a very proud woman and likes to show off her things and talk about how much everything costs. It happens on every visit so after entertaining my then 4 year old and my dad with a discussion on the value of each item she owns, they were ready to leave. My daughter gives her great grandmother a hug and then looks around at the house and says, "In three days, all of this will be mine." My father says my grandmother lost all color in her face and refused to leave the house for days, but he could barely get the story out over all the laughter. Grandma is still alive and as well as she can be for a 91 year old woman who doesn't like to do anything but refuses to move into a senior community. My daughter had a lot of creepy comments when she was 4. The other one that springs to mind was after I had had an odd dream about my brother dying from renal failure. It was oddly specific and my brother isn't big on communication so we really only hear from him on birthdays and holidays. It just left me with a really odd feeling for days. I mentioned to my husband over dinner that I had a weird dream and just felt off all day. That's when our daughter throws out, "Don't worry Mommy, Uncle Bobby isn't dead." Poker Face. It was funnier when she was pulling that with my grandmother.
[deleted] ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 19:56:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little cousin told my grandma that when my grandma dies she wants her burried in her back yard so she can dig her up and play with her whenever she wants. because that's not weird at all!
bumblebiscuits ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:46:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually kind of cute.
Doc-Manhattan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:54:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i'm pretty sure as a little kid she has no idea what it means, so it's a pretty cute/loving statement once you get passed the images of a kid playing with decaying remains...
LadyoftheWood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:16:01 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's hilarious how cute and yet how wrong it is
[deleted] ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 19:40:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was little and we were sitting down to eat at home, or in a restaurant especially, we would always move butter and steak knives out of her reach. We called them "bad knives". One day she was in a particularly pissy mood as I took her out of the car. She looked at me and said, "When I get big, I get bad knife and cut".
The same child one evening was being fussy about going to bed. I put her in her crib (she was probably about two at the time) and pulled her bedroom door shut, leaving it open just a crack. She yelled and yelled that she wanted the door left open. We ignored her yelling until I turned around to find her standing in the livingroom. (She had never climbed out of her crib before.) "I said I wanted the door open." I let her have the door open.
coocoocacho ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:08:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My two-year-old said to me "Mommy, I want to hit." It didn't creep me out, per se, but I fear it might be ominous. She is such a sweet little girl so it took me by surprise. We do a lot more hippie/feelings talk now.
Lessbeans ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not to tell you how to be a parent, but in my opinion, I'd say it might be helpful to find a way to LET her hit without hurting- something like a punching bag or a karate class. That way she can learn that it is okay to feel that feeling and there are special times when it is okay to act on them.
coocoocacho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:55:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Two is a bit early for those kinds of activities, in my opinion. I'd be worried that she would hurt herself. We usually run around or ride bikes.
RampantAnonymous ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap, I couldn't ride a bike until I was ~6
coocoocacho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:21:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She's pretty advanced, but I meant she rides her trike/scooter. She calls them her bikes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:51:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:52:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, we figured it was time to buy her a toddler bed.
dalkor ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 21:26:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't me as a child, it's a story about my significantly younger cousin.
Earlier this year, my grandmother passed away. My Aunt and Uncle were having a hard time figuring out how to expose this to their kids(5/6) who had pretty much grown up seeing Grandma every day of their life.
About the time of the funeral my Aunt told the story. She said when she went home from the hospital to go tell them our Grandma had passed/moved on and that she had gone to a better place, their youngest Maggie said, "I understand mommy, Grandma and I just had a long talk about how she's going away and we wont be able to see her anymore." This was before any of their kid's had heard anything.
Needless to say I think it sent shivers up all our spines.
0116316 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:27:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No bullshit this exact same thing happened to my uncle Tommy with his great grandma. My grandma told me the story and 40+ years later she still gets teary eyed about it.
Zanki ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:18:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not some uncommon. The night my nan died, I saw her in my room at Uni. She told me she was scared, lost, couldn't find my grandad and that she didn't want to be cremated. I freaked out because it was 1am and I had no idea why the hell my nan was in my bedroom. I went back to sleep an hour or so later, the next day at 4pm my mum called to tell me she was dead. There had been a lot of confusion when she died, they had lost her body, my grandad couldn't find her and they decided to have her cremated.
When my grandad died, my mum came home from work early and her neighbours asked why she was home early. She said her dad had died. The neighbour was shocked because he had just seen my grandad in his car parked out front of the house. Freaked my mum out. I told her what happened with nan after she told me about that. I freaked her out with my description of her. I hadn't seen her for a few years because she went crazy and I didn't want to see it. I still don't know why my nan came to me. We weren't close, actually she hated me, I think she came to tell me that because I would be the only one who would listen.
hystericalwisteria ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:33:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Freaky, but also just really sweet and sad.
zerbey ยท 147 points ยท Posted at 18:54:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My eldest had what we believe was an imaginary friend he called Xavier, however, he insists to this day (he's 9 now) that he was a the ghost of a little boy who haunted our old house. It's very creepy!
JumperTEB ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:09:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 5 I had a ghost friend about a year older than me. My parents were always telling me that I was too old for imaginary friends , even though I insisted he was there.
DeeJayy817 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:26:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is he an X-men now?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:32:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm imagining Xavier from the Adult Swim series, and that is sufficiently creepy.
mondomojo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:56:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why not do some research? Ask for some concrete details on the boy, then try to look him up.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:45:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I somehow read "racist little boy" the first time through. I feel like that would be highly entertaining.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
we need the details please? :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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zerbey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We have, he keeps changing his story around so I think it was just a genuine imaginary friend or he was just so young he's forgotten the details (bear in mind we moved out of that house when he was 4). Nobody had ever died in that house as far as we know. He is still petrified of seeing ghosts though, so you never know.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:13:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can assure you it wasn't. I had a dozen imaginary friends as a kid, and they weren't ghosts.
...Or maybe they were and I'm in denial.
[deleted] ยท 305 points ยท Posted at 19:29:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When I was pregnant with my first, a five year old came up to me and said, "All babies are born alone." He mom and I share freaked out glances and then she awkwardly tried to fix the situation by talking about twins.
My oldest (6, 5 at the time) once got mad at my youngest (3, 2 at the time) for sitting in the doorway to their room. Instead of asking him to move or calling for me, my eldest grabbed the little one by his head and shook him as hard as he could. I freaked out, scooped up the toddler and yelled: "What's the matter with you?! You can't shake babies! Do you know that could kill him?" Without flinching, my oldest looked me in the eyes and said, "Yes, that's what I was trying to do." I lost my mind and called up his therapist, wondering if I needed to or could commit him. It was really scary. To clarify, he had a tendency to react physically, but before that I never thought he was actually trying to hurt anyone.
Edit: Thank you so much for the interest, the well-wishes and for caring! For those offended that my son in therapy, I'm sorry you feel that way. I am getting back to cleaning/dancing with the chitlins but I'll check back in after dinner (2-3 hours) if anyone else has questions.
apetresc ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:58:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is his name Kevin by any chance?
Sqpon ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:45:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My name is Kevin. What's this about?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:10:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, Johnny
red_feathers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:07:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're not getting enough upvotes for this reply, so I gave you one.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:13:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What ended up happening
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 21:06:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His therapist said to try and keep the two separated and she began to work with my eldest on learning how to calm down. I changed the punishment/reward system so that he gets rewarded daily for no violence and an extra two minutes in time out if he hits. He is now on medication and is doing well. Thank you for asking!
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:50:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad that there is some way to make things work better. I hope this all works out for all of you and wish you the best
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:06:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:44:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was initially horrified that your 6 year old is being medicated, then I thought "well, he did seem to want to kill his sibling," and now I'm sad on two levels.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:05:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I get the horror at medication. I was a staunch believer that medicating children is a terrible thing to do. The brain is still developing... treating what might be a phase could cause permanent problems. He is on a very, very low dose. I understand when people think I am doing the wrong thing, though.
EDIT: Had "threatening" instead of "treating". I have no explanations.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:36:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I never said you were doing the wrong thing. It just makes me sad that medicating a 6 year old is necessary. I totally get that in certain situations it's an important step in treatment, I just hope he doesn't have to be on meds forever.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:48:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I get what you mean. I'm really hoping that I can get the relaxation techniques really integrated into habits so he doesn't need medication to control his moods. He's a smart kid and I know he can do it.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:52:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wish you the best of luck with both of your little ones!
LadyLovelyLocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know that it's totally different but my fiance was very hyper when he was a kid, and one day I guess his Grandma had had enough of him and told him, 'Stop it. You can control it' and he said it was like a lightbulb went off in his head and he realised that he did have control. I realise that wouldn't work for everyone but I think it definitely goes to show that with the right encouragement or words of 'wisdom' that kids can improve how the deal with things :)
Gorgoz ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 21:04:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"He mom"
rocketshipotter ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:08:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should watch this documentary, it's called Child Of Rage. The thing he did sounds very similar to things the child, Beth, did.
Although, since he is yours biologically and I'm assuming he hasn't had the bad things happen to him that have happened to Beth, there still could be a physiological issue of some sort.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 21:17:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His dad became an abusive heroine addict, which is why I am now a single mom. He was really close to his dad's family (saw them every day) but they all abandoned him when I left the dad. None of them even said goodbye. So... it's understandable where all his rage comes from. Schizophrenia (I know it is too early for this to be manifesting now, if he has it) and obsessive compulsive disorder run in my family as well. Maybe it makes me a bad person, but sometimes I wish I had not made children... I kind of cursed two lives with awful genetics. But, yeah, I will check out that documentary. Thank you for the suggestion!
audiodoc ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:14:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I recently saw two specials on one of the science channels (Discovery, Science, TLC, ect) about a little girl named January who was the youngest person in the US diagnosed with schizophrenia. I think she was 5 or 6 when diagnosed. The specials are very interesting. Just wanted to mention it because you said you thought your child was too young to be showing signs of it. They also had to keep her separated from her younger brother for years so she would not harm him.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 23:10:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I will have to look that up! That is really interesting. I have told his psychiatrist and therapist about schizophrenia being in the family, but they don't seem concerned about that at this point. I will watch him more closely for signs, seeing as I am his first and best defense.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:05:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're not a bad person for thinking that. Depression runs deep in my family and I sometimes look at my daughter afraid that I might have passed it on to her and feel like a selfish scumbag for having made her knowing full well that she may have to struggle her entire life.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:58:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so glad it's not just me! My kids have a lot of health issues, too. My youngest has had tumors since he was 6 months old. The doctors still aren't 100% what they are, why they are growing, etc. I know not everything is genetic, but I still feel so guilty.
vulpyx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:35 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! It's not your fault. Think of it as though your kids are lucky to have been born to such an attentive and understanding mother. So many children with health or mental issues aren't so lucky. You're doing an impressive job.
chestylaruegal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:15:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is not too young for Schizophrenia in my experience, my brother was diagnosed with Schizophreniaform (a diagnosis when they don't want to give young children under 6 schizophrenia) when he was about 3. He would suddenly flip, say the people in the walls were telling him to kill and eat everyone, and go on the rampage. My mother got very good at driving him to the pysch ward while he was kicking her in the head.
I am so glad you are getting your son help now. It makes a world of difference.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This really worries me. My son has had issues with seeing things that aren't there. He has been telling me about seeing monsters since he could talk. When he was about three he went through this phase of seeing a faceless man all the time. He would just randomly start with ear-piercing screams, like he thought he was going to die. I'm going to make a mental note to mention it at the next psych appointment. I had just dismissed it as an overactive imagination.
Nomnombunny ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:45:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How old is your oldest now? Has this sort of thing continued?
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 21:04:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He's 6 now. We did some big changes and I kept the boys separated for a few weeks. It was hard, cause they both wanted to play together.. but I had to be "the bad guy". He's been in therapy for over a year now and things are getting better. He just got started on medication. His psychiatrist says he seems to have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, because he becomes violent when his nonsensical patterns are interrupted. He hasn't hurt his brother since, but he has attacked me a few times. No violence since he started on the medication (Prozac).
Nomnombunny ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:12:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's great that things are working out for you! I've always had anger management issues, but therapy never worked for me and I just eventually learned to control my temper. It's good that you caught it early, my cousin has been arrested for attacking his father with a knife because he was never properly diagnosed when he was young and violent.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 21:21:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you! I am extremely proactive when it comes to helping him. My brother has issues that ended up getting out of control, and he is miserable now. I want my son to be happy and I'm going to do whatever it takes. It's humiliating to ask for help, but no one is perfect and it's hard when you are on your own.
Nomnombunny ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 21:41:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're a great mom. Keep it up, we need more people like you out there.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:07:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you... I'm actually a lil teary eyed right now. Seems like I'm too busy to stop and appreciate the progress that has been made and the things I have accomplished so I genuinely appreciate this validation.
Nomnombunny ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:34:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should definitely appreciate it! I'm terrified that I'm going to be a bad mom, so you should definitely be proud of what you're doing right.
moderatelime ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:27:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seems he's six now, this only happened within the last year. Too early to tell how this is going to turn out...
Gorgoz ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 21:05:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seems he's six now. Hard to keep track of these things.
Apollo64 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:19:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The person you replied to isn't OP.
Gorgoz ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 21:26:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know that
figbash137 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:32:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What did the therapist say?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:11:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His therapist said to keep them separated and then we just worked more intensively with him. She was very reluctant to do anything drastic. I wasn't sure at first, but he has been doing well.
qwertyuiop54213 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:39:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So how's your son doing now?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:08:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He is doing better now. He is getting therapy for some kind of defiant disorder and is on medication for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It's been weeks since he last got violent, and he never hurt his brother after that incident. He did attack me a few times, though. Thank you for asking!
samferrara ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:07:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin was like this as a child, and while he had a difficult pre-teen period and a less-difficult but still not easy adolescence, he's a normal, highly-intelligent, functional person now. My story is pretty much the same, and I'm also doing great. Hang in there!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much! There are good days and bad days... All I can do is my best and hope it all works out. Your comment has given me a little extra boost of hope, and every bit counts!
UnacceptableUse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did he get thearapy?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, he's been in therapy for over a year now. She comes to the house for play dates but the games are actually relaxation techniques or other teaching games.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:15:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much! I would try to say something reassuring about the potential of having kids but it would probably sound weird, seeing as my original post is about how difficult my own child has been at times. Best of luck to you!
E11i0t ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:19:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. He already had a therapist at 5?
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 21:29:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know it might make me sound like a bad parent... but his dad was hurt, got hooked to pain killers... ended with him becoming a violent heroine addict. Unfortunately, he saw a lot. He has a lot of anger from his dad not being around anymore, as well.
E11i0t ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:49:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that you were able to put him in therapy after that makes you sound like an awesome parent!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:35:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you! I can't undo the past but I'm trying to move forward.
Rommel79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dog sat on my kitten today because she was on his bed.
Instantcretin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This ones creepy because no comments. Edit: shit i ruined it.
prettyprincess90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am happy to see you are taking care of this right now. My sister and I both have violent tendencies, probably be cause our dad was so abusive to our mom when we were little. My mom didn't really know what to do about it. I managed to get it under control starting at age 12. I am 21 now and completely fine. My sister on the other hand has blind fits of rage. We think she might be mildly autistic or OCD. She hits my mom and completely loses it fairly often and is 18. She is now at the point where I dont think it will ever get better. So kudos for you for taking care of it early. You made a good choice.
ItIsntAllBad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Edited: because I was being a dick
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:25:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We are actually have a dance/cleaning party right now. Well, I am on a break currently, but they have so much more energy than me (and a bigger mess to clean up!). I understand that you think therapy is a substitute for parenting. An hour a week is not really a substitute, though. Sometimes people need help; parenting doesn't come with a manual. His dad messed some stuff up, and I'm working to get us back to normal. I don't think that is a sin...
ItIsntAllBad ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:33:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No you are right it's no sin. I apologize for the over reaction. It is something that is close to my heart. I had parents that would pawn me off and never really helped me. You weren't really supposed to see that.
I know nothing of your situation and was hasty to reply. Again, I sincerely apologize.
[deleted] ยท -25 points ยท Posted at 20:49:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Nomnombunny ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:13:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You don't have kids, do you?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:08:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am nice to him. His daddy was not, which is why he is no longer in the picture.
Smackenstein ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 21:46:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You intentionally inquired as to committing your 5 year old?
[deleted] ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 21:55:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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godmello ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To run over to you.....that would be my guess
Centaurdragon97 ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 19:55:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter (she's only 3) had a cat (Lexi) and it died a few months ago. One morning I noticed a small scratch on her hand and I asked her where it came from, she said in the most deadly serious face that I have ever seen a three year old pull; "I saw Lexi last night and he scratched me in the dark and then he flew away." I was so creeped out I couldn't sleep that night in case a killer cat came and cut me up while I was sleeping.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:00:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nyan Cat Strikes
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:01 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:D hahaha:) My cat used to do that, claw me on the top of my head when it was a kitten! When I was a kid (but I don't remember) I came downstairs gushing blood from my chin. My mum says there was a perfectly circular hole cut in my chin and they searched my room from top to bottom for whatever had made it. They never found out and I never told them!
d3ad_3nd_Job ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:12:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dreamt it, probaly scratched herself while asleep.
Rozen ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 19:51:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My ex and I were driving down the street with her four year old daughter in the back seat. Out of nowhere she shouts "I AM the emperor, everyone must bow down to ME!" It actually made perfect sense, the kid had control issues.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5mK7dzyUkM
[deleted] ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 19:23:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to ask really morbid questions to my parents. one day my mom was taking me to school and i asked, "mom, say that we hit that person, and his head was hanging by a string. Would he be dead?"
joannchilada ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:19:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My step-niece spent an evening asking me all sorts of macabre questions. My favorite: "If you hung a guy up by his penis would it rip off?"
koob11 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:19:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah my younger brother did the same thing... He'd always tell my mom that his mind was telling him to do stuff. The weirdest was when he bit her and then said "My mind told me to tell you that's only the beginning."
ambiguity_man ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 20:36:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a young kid, I would lay in bed motionless, eyes wide open, trying not to attract the attention of the hundreds of faces/eyes that were surrounding me. If i so much as moved a finger, they would all stop talking, and slowly turn to look at me, and there would be this loud, hollow metal drum noise that would build and then wane as they glared. If I didn't move, they would slowly go back to their conversations, turning away from me slowly.
Went on for years.
hungrydyke ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:12:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a reoccurring dream that 4 ghosts were suffocating me, as I stood in the living room. My mother would be on the stairs, (not seeing the ghosts) telling me to get to bed. I still remember every single detail.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:57 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My big sis came downstairs when she was a kid and apparently saw ghosts opening her birthday presents:-/
hungrydyke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:39 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Those nosy, inconsiderate bastards.
Zippyllama ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:00:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a similar dream, only with spiders and motion. If I moved or took a deep enough breath, they would tighten the webs. If I stopped moving for a long-ish period of time, they would start biting me to get me to move. It felt real, but I would always wake. Only time in my life I can remember feeling 'terror.'
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:37:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Schizo?
LikeTwoShoes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have a similar situation, but just because I was forced to watch part of IT from older kids and scared the shit out of me for years. I would lie in bed with the blankets pulled over my head to create tension so you couldn't see me breathing and I would hold my breath. I don't know if I just fell asleep or made myself pass out but I was convinced IT was coming to get me at night .
QuillJS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:55:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is the scariest one I've seen so far.
Maybe you were Lucid dreaming and it was shadow people. I've heard of this happening often to children.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:57:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, shadow people hardley ever happen to people. They are mostly just a story to freak you out... except for the fact that your mind is programmable and and by reading about them you are subbliminally placing them in your mind. (I'm still trying to learn lucid dreaming...)
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:23:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:36 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
damn, so...we're not real then?
launachris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:50:37 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not exactly lucid dreaming, more like sleep paralysis. Beleive me it is NOT the same... Lucid dreaming is when you can control your dreams, seeing people around you is sleep paralysis. I have had sleep paralysis for years. I can never know when it will come or what will happen. Most of them time I hear things around my apartment, people living, moving around... Or worse... I don't wish that to anyone, because for a long time I tought I was becoming schizophrenic. Nothing worse knowing you are part awake and feeling someone come sleep by your side whispering "Don't worry (REALLY??), it is all real..." (and I don't count all he kids and so -_-").
QuillJS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:08 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How have I been doing this for awhile and not known the difference. Thanks stranger!
launachris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:15 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are welcome happy ! Sleep tight (and really, they, the people, told me there was nothing to be scared of XD maniac laughter)
colortints ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:03 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 16 I woke in the middle of the night and across was a man standing there who I could tell didn't wasn't "real". He raced towards me and started to choke me. I thought I was gonna die because I could't move but once I was able to force myself to move, I yelled at him and cursed him away. sat up in my bed pissed and yelled some more. lol Hasn't happened since xD Your story just reminded me of this and other similar experiences.
greaseballheaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you have lots 'o dmt in yo brain.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:50:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad, my sister and I have all seen and experienced some really scary things at my mom's house. I was visiting her with my 5 year old son for a week in May and my son woke me up because he was shaking so hard. I asked him what was wrong and he whispered "Mommy, please make the angry dark blue man go away.". We ended up sleeping in the living room with the lights on for the next 2 nights because he was so scared.
Akraxial ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 21:10:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friend was talking to her mother when she was really young, first able to really talk, and her mom asks, jokingly, "Do you remember when you were in mommy's tummy?" (because you know, at that young age, you at least understand you came from mommy's tummy), and my friend replied "Yeah!". So her mom laughs and says "Oh yeah? What was it like?" and she replied, "Well...it was really dark, it was warm, but really wet, and oh oh there was a jump rope."
PwNeDoScAR ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:17:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think she was using her umbilical cord properly.
EmilyamI ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 20:59:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was born, my parents and I lived in a mobile home that had been put on a ranch property a few years before.
From the time they brought me home, weird things started happening. The radio would turn on and off by itself in the middle of the night. Same with the tv. Things would go missing and turn up in weird places, stuff would get moved around.
They noticed that most of these strange occurrences revolved around me. Bottles and nipples would wind up in my crib in the morning when they'd been put away the night before. Toys that were sitting on shelves wound up under the coffee table. They tended to shrug it off as a messy house that came with having baby stuff strewn all over.
I would cry and fuss and the radio would come on and play until I got distracted by the music. I'd laugh and babble when nobody was in the room, as if I was reacting to someone. My parents saw a black shadow moving down the hallway and disappearing into my bedroom on a regular basis. Still they ignored it, logical people that they were.
When I learned to talk it got weirder. I would sit in my room and hold one-sided conversations. I regularly got scolded for getting into snacks that I shouldn't have been able to reach: cookies from the top of the pantry, chips that were in child-proofed cabinets, once I was caught playing with toys that were intended as Christmas presents that had been hidden in the top shelf of my mom's closet. They'd find me sitting in the middle of my bedroom floor having tea parties with nobody, a plate of cookies and a sippy cup of chocolate milk that I couldn't possibly, at two years old, have made myself.
Finally my mom got tired of me saying that I wasn't the one who got the cookies down. It wasn't me. It was my friend.
"Well what's your friend's name?" she asked.
I gave her a man's full name - first, middle, and last - and told her that he lived under my closet and came out to play with me and make me feel better when I was sad. She wrote it off as an imaginary friend, and then my dad got home from work.
She told him that I'd gotten into the cookies again, and that I'd made up an imaginary friend to take the blame. When she told my dad what I'd told her, he flipped. The name I'd given my mother was the name of one of my dad's old hunting and fishing buddies.
A few years before, the man's wife found out he was sterile and left him. She took his truck, his dog, the house. Pretty much a stereotypical country song. He went into a spiral of depression and killed himself.
On the property on which our house now sat. He shot himself in the head and his body had fallen into an open well which had been uncovered while they were prepping the ground for our house to be put down. They filled the well in before they put the house on the property, and my closet was set squarely over where that well had been.
We moved shortly thereafter due to economic hardship (we didn't have the time or money to keep up with the orchards on the property so we moved to a house in the suburbs), but for as long as we stayed in the house, my friend continued to talk to me whenever I was alone in my room and bring me treats when I was hungry or sad.
BoughtreeFidee ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:49:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually a good story, not scary at all. Feelsgoodman.
nixygirl ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:03:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Great story...I'm glad I persisted in reading the thread and found it!
ConradFerguson ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:02:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I personally would feel a little creepy living in a house that was built in the exact spot where my friend killed himself. Very awesome story though.
EmilyamI ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:09:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At that point it was a matter of "We put all our money into this property and house and have nowhere else to go so we have to go through with it."
prettyprincess90 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:22:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is both creepy and touching.
assguardian ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:34:20 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wish more nipples would end up in my crib, if you know what I mean.
aintso ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:31:01 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, my two-years-old is perfectly capable of preparing a sippy of chocolate milk and a plate of cookies.
throwawayplease23 ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 20:36:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Throwaway for this I don't want any of my friends knowing about this, it still scares me. When I was about 9 or 10 I swear their were these people walking outside my bedroom these big black shadowy figures, I use to call them the Invisible Men because no else could see them.
So one night I woke up I remember just having these weird feeling in my stomach and I kept having this notion I should go downstairs to my family room so I did. and There were as least 4 or 5 of them in the room, all standing looking at eachother and conversing with one another I can't remember what they were saying once I was in there I just sat silent they all stopped and looked right at me just staring. I remember clear as day a voice in my head saying Run, run now! and I like awoke from this trance and booked in my room.
It gets worse. a month later I wake up sitting straight, the feeling in my stomach is worse and the trance is way way way more intense this time I know I have to go to the basement As soon as I step my foot on the floor my whole leg cramps and I buckle, I crawl back into the bed thecramp stops, this happened for both legs every time I got off my bed. and it wasn't like a cramp like you walk it off it was both legs seized the fuck up and I remember the pain being so intense but numb at the same time? I don't know but I swear it was like something was preventing me from leaving the house.
I told my parents about it, and they brought a priest in, it wasn't until years later my mother told me about all the things she saw happen.
Keep in mind I was 9 -10 at the time and maybe this was all in my head but I still remember it, when that voice spoke it was like all my senses went into overload I never felt in such danger in my life. I know a lot of you will think this is some b.s throwaway account and I can't change that. I still wish and try to convince myself its fake.
jlbob ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 22:19:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What kinds of things did your mom see?
auntjomomma ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:24:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would like to know this as well.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:25:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some people (myself included) sometimes have hallucinations on the borders between being awake and being asleep. These hallucinations can stay around even if you move around out of your bed sometimes. I've never had anything quite as strong as you described but I've had a few things happen that completely wrecked my mind until I did some research. They've ranged from waking up and seeing things lifting up and floating around my room, giant insects flying in through my window all the way up to seeing patio chairs bursting out of my bedroom wall and me physically exerting myself, standing on my bed pushing them back in and sweating, with a bit of 'my duvet is an undead rotting octopus curling around me' in between. I've read about other people having conversations with their hallucinations for minutes at a time before too.
Auditory hallucinations are also pretty frequent, so the voice talking to you is far from unheard of.
The feeling of breaking a trance is relatable to me, at the end of every hallucination is a point where I realise whatever I was seeing isn't actually there and I typically end up lying down in bed, curled up with my heart pounding so hard as to shake the headboard against the wall.
The leg thing you described could perhaps be something to do with sleep paralysis maybe, I'm not sure because I've never experienced it and remembered it the day after.
Especially at a young age with a childs active mind, things like what you described could be explained by these types of hallucinations.
Wintertree ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:09:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have this. Scares the shit out of me. Basically Dementor like shadows (the only word to really describe it is "Shades") swirl around my room and attack my stomach. I'm awake, but I can't move.
wenerd ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:36:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like sleep paralysis.
Wintertree ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yah, I know. I have a lot of weird dream-related stuff (lucid dreaming, remembering my dreams), so it's more freaky in the moment than seemingly supernatural.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:47:29 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
hmm...stomach...that's where all the cake lives...:)
Wintertree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:37 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Trying to stealing my fucking cake, the creeps... mumble mumble.
Love_N ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:27:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to get this all the time, and it was always spiders. Coming down from the ceiling right to my face. I've leapt out of bed, turned on the lights and actually had to consciously reason that they must be hallucinations before they've gone away. This hasn't happened since I started lucid dreaming (hooray!).
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That shit has happened to me a few times too! I am for sure scared it's going to happen tonight after reading all these stories, and especially this one.
Fuck.
Love_N ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:45:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Watch, read, or listen to something that makes you super happy before bed.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I'll give it a shot!
sorrychupacabra ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:39:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
sometimes when I sleep naked I wake up and see people just looking at me. And I feel super uncomfortable. Once it was football players all around my bed, quiet, staring at me. Once it was an old man, lying next to me, staring again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:49 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
why didn't you pull the garden chair into the room!? Therefore; proof!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:16 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They were falling on my head! Multiple chairs!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:24 on August 29, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ohh...okay, not so easy to do:-/ but...did they just disappear once they'd fallen?? That's weerd:S
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:23:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, what things did your mom see?
GRIMES_a_bad_BITCH ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:36:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am also interested in the seeing of things, done by your mother
biddee ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:16:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok reading this gave me chills. I also want to know what your mom saw!
TimmyTheHellraiser ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:11:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As well as everyone else,we got to know what your mom saw!
spsiamese ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:22:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Please elaborate on what your mom said she saw.
ConradFerguson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:15:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's cool, I need to be awake all night tonight anyway. So thanks.
Potential_Pandemic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had the same type of thing happen to me. From when I was about 9 to the point where I was like 15 I remember seeing this guy walk around the entire upstairs of my house. He was just like this shadow, moving. Clearly defined, but completely silent. He watched me as I slept sometimes.
[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 20:22:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 2 year old was staring off into space with a scowl. I asked him if he was okay. After a few seconds, not even looking, he says: "Knock knock."
Me: "Who's there?"
Him: "...nobody."
His two year old scowl tightened and he walked off to live out his tortured day, at least until nap time.
AmiDamnit ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:06:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry but this made me laugh harder than anything else I've read. I think it was your "tortured day" comment. It's so hard being 2.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:25:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was afraid I was going to have to find a size 2T Misfits T shirt, tiny leather arm braces and heavy black boots, and start bleaching his hair and painting dark purple eye shadow, kid had himself a deeply emo moment.
AmiDamnit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:39:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're in luck! They make those t-shirts.
Instantcretin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:42:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thats all folks! Dont forget to tip your waitresses!
etwas_naht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Love it. I don't have kids, but the kids I have been around struggle with some serious shit.
One 6-year-old I used to babysit was really quiet during the car ride back from McDonald's one afternoon. Finally he asked, with this really quizzical look and meek voice, "Did Einstein go to heaven?"
[deleted] ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 20:26:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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Nomnombunny ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:30:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If that were my kid, there would be no movie. I would have resisted the urge to slap the shit out of her and then proceeded to put her in the car and go home.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think its pretty damn funny myself. I mean, she just really wanted a hug.....lol. And, on a serious fucking note...children very often don't understand wtf they're saying...I know this because adults very often don't understand wtf they're saying.
Nomnombunny ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:54:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but you shouldn't allow your kid to say "I'll fucking kill you". A threat and foul language? Time-out for sure.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have no children and I don't consider any language foul that says what you actually mean. A threat sure - but again...I don't think the kid REALLY understood what he was saying. Its just not the same. shrug i would have a conversation to be sure.
Nomnombunny ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:11:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly- the kid didn't understand because she picked it up from her parents- that's bad parenting. You really shouldn't use that sort of language around your children.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:33 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it could have been because of domestic abuse...which is why mommy didn't scold her:-/
kingsquidget ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:11:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed like crazy at this. My big sister Is now looking at me like I'm crazy or something.
butthole_loofah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:02:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, I'm the only person who took this to a dark place and thought that maybe she heard that phrase from her dad? :-(
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:01:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh my god, I am LOL-ING. Just the contrast between "give me a hug" and "I'll fucking kill you.
[deleted] ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 20:27:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I've got a couple of freaky incidents which have followed the family.
1) I was laying in bed next to my wife, who was fast asleep and all of a sudden I could hear someone shouting Daddy! Daddy! I thought it was either my daughter or son, and I went to check up on them both but they were both fast asleep so I went to the bathroom before I headed back to bed and heard someone shout Daddy! Daddy! I thought I heard it come from downstairs, and went down into the kitchen - than all of a sudden the phone rang, and it my mother telling me that my grandma was dying, and I was to head straight to the hospital. Till to this day, I do not know who or what was shouting daddy but I do know it was certainly not my children.
2) It was the middle of the afternoon, and my wife decided to take my son and daughter out for something to eat as a treat at our local farm shop so I decided to take a well deserved nap. I woke up feeling cold (the heating had just turned off) and I could hear some men talking quite loudly so I just presumed I must of left the living room TV on, and I went it to turn it off but the TV was not on and the room absolutely stunk of cigar smoke - now none of us smoke and there were no signs of any cigars in the living room.
3) I was living in Munster Germany, at the time as I was in the Grenadier Guards 2nd Battalion and we had been living in Munster for a couple of years, we moved into a new officers quarters at this point in time my daughter had not yet been born. Myself and my wife could often hear our son appear to be talking and laughing to himself in his bedroom so of course we thought he is at that age he must have an imaginary friend etc etc - It was time for him to go to bed one evening and he said he wanted to continue to play with the little white haired boy - My wife turned around and said oh is that what your imaginary friend is called? He turned around and said no, he has not told me his named + everyone knows imaginary friends are not real silly mummy. We continued to still think absolutely nothing of it, than a couple of months had passed and we had made some new friends on base and invited them over with the little boy for a play date with out son - Now I swear to God, and on my fathers grave the kid outright refused to enter my sons bedroom, and when we nudged him inside he screamed in absolute hysterics and kept shouting don't let him near me (we were getting quite concerned at this point) I mentioned it to a couple of colleagues and they said the previous tenants - spoke of the exact same thing and made a complaint to the housing officer so I spoke to the housing officer and he showed me reports of the complaints saying their daughter had too been speaking to someone who she called the white boy - it turned out that a child had died some years previously in the same house from a cot death. We soon moved out of that house once we were told.
biddee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:27:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Another one that gave me goosebumps!
MeGustaChistes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:45:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wanted to sleep tonight, thanks.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:15:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
literally NOPE
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:02 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ohhh...thanks a lot, you wouldn't mind dropping by now to tell me everythings ok? It's dark and the light switch it over--> there:-/
___mads ยท 2134 points ยท Posted at 18:49:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm the child in this story, but let me tell you about when I was four.
I'm named after my maternal grandmother who died about two years before I was born, and it's worth mentioning that I was the first grandchild born after her death. I was always very curious about her as a young child... one day my mom laid down for a nap and when she woke up, i was standing at her bedside and looking down on her. Apparently I said "Do you remember when I was the mommy, and you were the baby?"
cue twilight zone theme music
eta: wow, this is like 3x as much karma as every other commend I've ever made before combined. excuse me while i bathe in your upvotes and use downvotes for lather.
i_like_cake897 ยท 775 points ยท Posted at 19:21:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew always says that he used to be big like me. Apparently he thinks we age down.
___mads ยท 509 points ยท Posted at 19:26:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's more adorable than creepy. Kids get weird ideas... before the events of my above story, I remember thinking that people 1) hatched from giant eggs and 2)fully grown, so I was born a child and would be a child forever, my mom was born a woman and would be a mom forever, my grandma was born a grandma and would always be a grandma, etc.
khedoros ยท 219 points ยท Posted at 19:37:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually remember saying something like that, and my original reasoning. I was fairly certain that I was reincarnated and that I had lost my memory of it happening. I asked mom in all seriousness if she remembered me from before, when I was grown up.
I think it probably creeped her out too.
___mads ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:48:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember thinking something along those lines, but not until later. It's weird how kids understand the concept of reincarnation so early.
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D3rp1na ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:04:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My great uncle died a couple of months before I was born. My cousin was born a month after me. We would sit around with the family listening to old stories about our family, and we could always recollect CLEAR AS DAY sitting in the living room listening to Uncle Jack playing the piano. The family didn't believe us until we told them where the piano was in the living room, where everyone used to sit, and other details that we wouldn't really know if we weren't there.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:37:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I see the downvotes coming...!
In all seriousness, there's the simple problem of thinking being bound to neurons in your mind, which means that one's consciousness is arguably tied to the body.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, why not? Makes as much sense as the alternative
khedoros ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:14:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it makes sense in very simple terms: You came from somewhere, and you've got to end up somewhere when you die.
WhipIash ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:45:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, that makes absolutely no sense. Say I just wrote a piece of code... where did this software come from? Nowhere, I just reassembled existing matter. Hell, I didn't even do that. And when I delete it? It's gone. The hard drive is still there, but now configured to represent some kinky-ass hentai or something.
Face your mortality, dude.
khedoros ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:53:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
a. I don't believe in reincarnation, but it made a lot of sense when I was 6.
b. You believe what you want, and I'll believe what I want. Deal?
WhipIash ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 22:04:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, we won't believe anything, we'll come to a scientific conclusion.
lachiemx ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:55:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should check out the scientific evidence for reincarnation. It's nothing conclusive yet - but it's a hell of a lot more evidence than heaven, hell, or just ceasing to exist has going for it.
WhipIash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:51:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can agree it's waaaay more plausible than heaven or hell, simply because there could be a scientific / evolutionary reasoning behind it, rather than "yabbedy, man in the sky, bluuh", but I don't see how it's more logical than ceasing to exist? I just view that as the default view. When you scrap your car, all the metal is now rearranged to be nails, they are no longer a car. When you delete a program, it's gone. When you die, you're gone.
I mean, if you only look at the facts, you see that the conscious you is your frontal lobe, and the neurons it exists of. When the neurons stop firing, there is no more you. But I'd really like to hear where you think reincarnation fits in.
smacbeats ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:16:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well those molecules get broken down and spread out throughout the universe. Maybe you're not conscious, but you definitely live on in a way. I guarantee that at least one of your ancestors has blood, or stomach tissue, or bone, etc. inside of you right now.
Now we don't know a whole lot about subatomic particles. There is a possibility that some subatomic particle, or even particles that make up those particles, have a 'memory', so to speak. If someones old brain molecules are now in your brain, and happen to be arranged in a specific way, by pure chance, then possibly random memories or thoughts from someone(even an animal) who lived in the past is living in you, even if oh so temporarily.
Also, not to be that guy, but we can't exactly disprove reincarnation, or even any kind of afterlife.
WhipIash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:16:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To get your first point, that is certainly interesting. But it seems like this happening would happen in one in every trillionth trillion person, and can't really explain the anecdotal evidence for reincarnation. That might happen, but it's unlikely to happen often enough to be studied.
And when it comes to disproving reincarnation.. well.. can you disprove that I am, say, Neil Patrick Harris? No, but there's a relatively large chance, that out of 7 billion, that is who you are talking to. It's certainly feasible.
Now, can you disprove that after you stop running / delete a computer program it doesn't go off to software heaven? No, you can't disprove that either, but in this case there's absolutely, what so ever, no evidence to support that claim.
There's no evidence to support I am NPH either, but he is a human, he can type, and there's a chance he could be on reddit.
However, I can't even think of a scientific way for software heaven to be possible. I mean, where do I even start? The software's shipped off to a large server running all software ever created, like an afterlife? That would require humans to build though. And why would we do that? It makes no sense, in the same way that God making heaven or hell makes no sense. Saying there is either makes sense to scare us / lure us, but actually doing it just takes time and effort. And that's even if there is a god... so how would such an after life server come about through random chance and evolution? And why? And how does the software get there? If we're made of a soul, then that makes sort of sense, but we know software is just electrons wissing about the processor. What is human consciousness? Electrons wissing about between neurons.
lachiemx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:40:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sure! I'm not sure if it's been shown that your self is directly in your frontal lobe - I've read a few quotes from neuroscientists saying that it's definitely not in the brain, if you have some more info that would be awesome.
As to reincarnation, I've read a few studies and books on it and there is definitely an observable effect there. Things like children who can remember past lives and know things that it's physically impossible for them to know without being there - and the landmark study on birthmarks and biology here - that page has a few more good links on it.
The way I see it, there's something to this, and it merits more study. It's been a part of eastern thought since Sanskrit was created. It's unfortunate that the "woo woo" spirit side of things seems to cause an instinctive reaction in many scientists and people with otherwise open minds, as it seems like one of those things that is paradigm-changing if it could be more accepted and studied.
As for my personal theory, I think that it's definitely tied into evolution - we could direct evolution and decide how to incarnate from the place between life and death. Set up adaptions to our circumstances in time for them to increase our fitness. Pure conjecture, but it's interesting to think about.
WhipIash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's interesting to think about, yes, but it's open to sooo many fallacies...
I mean, how do you explain the increasing number of people ("souls")? And, how does this physically happen? There's just no explanation for that, at least we can draw parallels between our brain and computers and see it works in somewhat the same way. And why would you lose your memory? And if you could chose, why would anyone chose to be born in a shitty third world country. Same goes for time, if that's optional.
Oh, and if I knew reincarnation was true, I'd be scared shitless of being born as some aids infected kid in somalia, a poor chicken or something like that. But that's just my fear, totally irrelevant to the science behind it, though.
lachiemx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:25:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's no one explanation - there are lots of explanations of what could happen, but it's all conjecture at this point. Perhaps the memory wipe occurs because you don't want to remember mistakes or misdeeds you committed twelve lifetimes ago - gives you the chance for a fresh start. And as for being reborn into a bad situation, it seems that we learn more when we are born into tough circumstances. Disabled, diseased, struggling - all conditions where we are given the opportunity to grow and learn much faster than someone who lives a bland, western life in an office building.
I wouldn't fear it if I were you - most of the conjecture around reincarnation says that you have some choice in where you reincarnate, and that there is an overarching goal (learning more and growing) that you can count on to give you guidance and direction. For me, it gives me comfort, as if I die I know I will be reborn to continue my learning and my journey. I no longer fear death and thus I am liberated in my actions and life.
WhipIash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:33:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As of your last point, well, no, you don't learn more, you have to start over.
But your entire post rests on the assumption / hope that this is done, and designed for you. For your benefit. Etc, etc, which we don't see any proof of in evolution. For this to be true, there would have to be some sort of god or gods looking over this and guiding you. Which makes no sense.
lachiemx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:54:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, there doesn't have to be a god or cosmic entity. I believe in a distant creator god, much like a game character could believe in a game designer. But that'd beside the point - I've based my assumptions on things I've learned from this life and from what I know about the universe and extrapolated from there, like any good cosmic researcher I suppose.
In any event, I take comfort and courage from my beliefs, and that's a positive in anyone's book. Hopefully you can keep an open mind and perhaps this could spur an interest in your learning and growth!
It's been great discussing this with you - cheers!
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WhipIash ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 22:34:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, are you referring to me?
InquisitorDianne ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:45:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you dropped one of those lines that they love and its really annoying, by association. I agree with your point, but the way you said it and its association is sorta obnoxious. Anyways, don't go around in creepypasta threads telling people scientific facts. You're killing the mood.
WhipIash ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:54:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't do that at all, I was just lurking this thread more or less, and I came across "I'll believe what I believe and you believe what you believe". That's just stupid and willfully ignorant. And willfully stupid people are the most obnoxious people I can think of.
InquisitorDianne ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:54:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Again, normally I would agree with you. However, its a creepypasta thread, and you're killing the mood.
stbilyumchill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:23:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Show me scientific proof contrary to reincarnation. Show me scientific proof contrary to creation. Show me scientific proof contrary to ki. Why are the people who believe things, even vastly different things like reincarnation and ki, always the ones who must provide proof. I still haven't seen proof of macro evolution. I haven't seen anyone prove the concepts of creation, ki, and reincarnation are not possible. I think it makes those subjects more plausible with science being unable to disprove them when so many crazier things have been proven by science, like atoms. A few hundred years ago the atom was only a belief until proven in the 19th Century.
WhipIash ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:42:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, it was proven. And C14 dating on fossils more or less prove macro evolution.
And the burden of proof is always on the person making a claim.
stbilyumchill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More or less doesn't sound scientifically sound. Also I was talking about my concerns for lack of proof when science has proven so many wonderful things. (Your "exactly" doesn't make sense.)
Lastly, your logic of burden of proof is flawed. Both side make claims, always. I claim "Thing A" happened or is fact, you claim the contrary. The only burden of proof I have heard about is regarding court when a defendant is being prosecuted by the city/county/state, and then the burden is on the city/count/state for the proof. If a private citizen were to sue another, there is no burden of proof, but whoever produces enough evidence to support their claim will win. (Hopefully)
WhipIash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:07:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, no. You claim something, and then I say, "huh, there doesn't seem to be any evidence either way". The burden of proof is now on you to prove your claim.
For example, can you disprove my invisible dinosaur, which incidentally is indetectable by any of our senses and doesn't affect it's enviroment? Of course not. I have to prove it's there.
And is it our job to prove people in AMAs are trolls? No, the burden of proof is on them to prove they are who they say they are.
Of course we can try to disprove stuff, but if we fail, that doesn't mean the other side is correct. Sometimes we can prove it isn't Neil Patrick Harris. Other times we can't. But that doesn't mean it isn't a phony AMA, it just means it's more or less unfalsifiable.
Let's quote Carl Sagan: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
stbilyumchill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well let's use the Christians claims as an example. At one point assuming that the bible is 100% accurate, then there was eye witness accounts and the events that took place were considered facts among the people who saw the events take place. Then after it is widely believed and considered fact, someone had to claim that it was a story and nothing more. We weren't there so as far as this example goes, both parties must prove to the other. Much different than a predetermined set of rules that exist here on reddit.
WhipIash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:36:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I didn't intend for this to have anything to do with reddit, but generally, extraordinary claims provide extraordinary proof. And if everyone saw something happen first hand, then the person saying it didn't happen would be the one with an extraordinary claim.
stbilyumchill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think we pretty much agree on the most important things then. Good talk! :)
khedoros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Heh. Whatever.
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WhipIash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can upvote to that.
Seriously though, that's how I feel too. People saying stuff like "well wouldn't it be nice if there was a god / after life" and using that as an excuse to believe is the stupidest type of people, IMO.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:14:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my 1st little bro was young, like 3 or so, he kept asking dad why he couldn't "go back", but he would never say where he wanted to go back to. He would just say, "to the place I was before". "Why can't I go back to the place I was before?" Eventually, after he had asked dad about this multiple times over the course of weeks/months, dad just told him that before didn't matter, because he had to stay here and live a good life with us. Seemed to please my little bro and he never asked about it again.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:15:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What if, haha, there was something to reincarnation. And the younger you are,the more of a sense you have of your past life. :)
djm9545 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So i guess you watched Mork and Mindy as a kid?
khedoros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but I don't remember it well enough to make the connection...
hayjude99 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:12:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that when you grew up you changed genders. I really looked forward to getting to use makeup.
___mads ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:16:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No one's stopping you! fuq da police
anus_lips ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:02:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my cousins thought the exact same thing! We found this out when he was watching someone put on make-up and said "When I'm a girl, I'm going to wear make-up!" Simon, is that you?
hayjude99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tis not! But I'm glad I'm not alone ._.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:17:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some of us do :p
TheShader ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:20:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the same thing, at least about being born a certain age. I thought I'd get to be a kid forever, and my parents would be adults forever, etc.
I remember feeling bad for the babies being born into the family, because they'd never get to do the things I could do since they were too little.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:31:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was convinced until I was 8 that because I couldn't remember being born, that I had been manufactured somewhere and was part robot. Robots don't have to listen to adults.
___mads ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:48:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
do you happen to have a best friend/tiger named Hobbes...?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:50:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, but I had a stuffed calico cat named Shaggy who went everywhere with me.
LeazZ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:39:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to think that our names changed after a certain age. Like my adult name will be different than my kid name.
KarricZX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slightly irrelevent but i love hearing about kids weird ideas. when i was little apparently i used to believe that i was once a monkey and that everyone individually experienced evolution.
___mads ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:53:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid I imagined the world as a blue ball with my state on it, and that's it. How I knew what it was shaped like, and what a globe looked like, without apparently having seen either of them, I have no idea.
Also, my mom told me how babby is formed by saying "The daddy puts his seed in the mommy's belly", so I imagined my father hoeing her stomach until a flowerbed-sized patch of soil appeared, and then planting a seed in it.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:06:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't recall doing this, but my younger sister definitely did. Being 7 years my junior, I enjoyed spending time hanging out/taking care of her. Once she started talking, she'd say some crazy shit--with detail. "Remember when I was little and you were big and I'd drive you to the grocery store and we'd get bread?" In retrospect, that coming from a 3 year old is questionable.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:30:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Up until 4th grade i used to think babies were pooped out and i even think one time i tried to search "pooping baby" on the internet(dial up?)
My_Cool_Name ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:48:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense.
ImGumbyDamnIt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was the premiss for the hatching of Mearth, the son of Mork, on Mork & Mindy.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If only I'd know that as a kid, I could've sued the writers for pre-natal copyright infringement!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not creepy, you just watched Mork and Mindy as a child.
___mads ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely did not, haha, it was somewhat before my time.
Mile_Marker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i definitely thought the second thing too
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to think gay sex was two men rubbing dicks.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it can be...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It can...
Well.
We could try?
Just to make sure?
For science?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you must have been an intelligent child. I spent the first eight or so years of my life believing that gibberish was a proper language spoken by Jewish people.
VeritasPhoenix ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:18:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to think that too! My mom told me that when I was riding my tricycle around, I would often tell her "when I get big like you, and you get small like me, I'll let you ride my bike!" Of course, once I realized how we really age, I rescinded the offer.
gypsycamptrash ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:02:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Past life?
First_thing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:12:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of a Star Trek episode where they encounter kids in a cave, apparently they aged backwards and were about to die of "old age".
InnocentHeathy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:22:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 11 years older than my youngest brother. When he was around 4 or so I used to tell him about things that happened before he was born. After I finished my story he would tell me things that happened before I was born. They were completely made up stories and he told them as if he was around then.
nadej22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:08:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My niece just told my mother that one day when my mother grows small, they will be able to take baths together.
Alphapanc02 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to tell these made-up stories that would always start with "When I was forty..." and I don't know why. I knew I was never 40 and was not of an age to understand reincarnation even if I did believe in it. It creeped my parents and the rest of my family out, but now they all joke about it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:32:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah my little brother used to say stuff like "i remember when I was big and did ____"
and according to him he was born at the age of 4, everything that happened at any point in the past was when he was 4
Ex: "you remember that time when i was four and _____?"
amorexmio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to think we aged down when I was 3-4. I have vivid memories of me telling people I was really pretty when "I was older."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:59:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew used to say he was big like me....i laughed for a totally different reason
J-Fizzle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:05:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my younger brother was probably around 4 and I was about 13, he would argue with us that he was older than us. I just want to know their thought processes when they say shit like that.
coromell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew is three and will tell my sister-in-law stories from when he was a "big boy" fairly frequently and apparently very matter-of-factly.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ol' Benjamin Button says the darndest things doesn't he?
ophello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He was referring to his past life, not that he ages in reverse.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. Button.
i_like_cake897 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have no clue who that is. Google, here I come!
Edit: I'm gonna have to watch this.
antivist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh curious Benjamin button. I couldn't make it thru that film i was bored! Anyone else?
PropMonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's cool, he just hasn't fully driven out the ego of his past life just yet. (I'm kidding, but I kind of love that idea).
maxcitybitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
but then he took an arrow to the knee
kristelovesgaga ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:49:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i used to think that too! especially since my brother would always tell me he "remembered when i was older" and i was only about 8!
joeyscott ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:26:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like someone's been watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button!
i_like_cake897 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The whaaat?
joeyscott ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:58:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it's great
wanttoplayball ยท 551 points ยท Posted at 19:41:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My kid sometimes says creepy things like that, about my husband when he was small. Like, "When Daddy was a baby, we didn't know what to name him, so we settled on Tim." I think she's trolling all of us, but sometimes it is very creepy. My husband's mother died years ago.
stapletaper ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 20:28:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I freaked my mother and grandmother out when I was about 3. I'd randomly stopped playing with whatever I was playing with (dolls or something) and walked up to them and said "I don't like marbles", and when asked why I'd said "they hurt" and rubbed the side of my head. Mum kissed it, asked if it was better now, and I went back to playing.
It stumped them because when my mother was 10 and her brother was 8, they'd gotten into a fight over a bag of marbles and she'd smacked him around with the bag and he had a big bruise. My uncle (her brother) passed away when I was a few months old, and we had no marbles in the house, at least none that my sister and I were allowed to play with (my sister was about 6 months old, though our brother is around 10 years older than us - choking hazards, etc).
It was a creepy, creepy thing to happen.
joemarzen ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:05:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some of these sound more like kids being able to read their parents or perhaps just mothers thoughts or subconscious. Or perhaps there's some sort of access children have to their mothers minds while developing in the womb.
___mads ยท 101 points ยท Posted at 19:51:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is really spooky. Especially 'cause when I was that age, the idea that my parents had names besides "mommy" and "daddy" seemed preeetty ridiculous to me.
TheShader ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 20:24:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
On that note, I remember whenever my mom would say,"I'm going to go visit Dad," it would confuse the Hell out of me. Why are you telling Dad that you're going to go visit him? He's right here, you were just talking to him!
___mads ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:48:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's always really confusing for me, even now, because my parents never stopped referring to one another as "Mommy" and "Daddy" in our presence, even though we're all adults, and will switch between "Mom/Grandma" and "Daddy/Pappou (greek for grandpa)" while sharing anecdotes about their own parents.
TheShader ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:00:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was recently at a funeral for my Uncle, and stories would get very confusing for this exact reason. For instance, my aunt would refer to herself as 'Grandma' but then be talking to her daughter saying 'Remember when grandma did such and such?' And I wasn't sure if she was referring to my cousin's grandma, or to herself.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:19:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
High five for a fellow Greek! smack
avantgardeaclue ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:45:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad's name is Bob. Our neighbor's name was also Bob. My kid logic told me all dads must be named Bob.
Two_Oceans_Eleven ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:47:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being that age and having my mind blown that my mom and my dad were not related. It made sense to me after a couple minutes, but it just didn't feel right. I saw them as a little more alienated from each other after that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But then there's people like me who never called their parents by "mom" and "dad", until later when social pressure becomes important and you act like your peers, meaning using the terms instead of the names.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it kind of weirded me out when this one kid would call his parents by their first names.
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wanttoplayball ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:11:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter does sometimes say, "When Daddy was a baby..." in a way that kind of creeps us out, but honestly I think she's just a little girl who likes babies. She also likes to talk about when she was a baby, as if she remembers. Kids are cute, but half the time I don't know what they're talking about!
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:32:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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wanttoplayball ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 20:48:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's what she said. She kind of talks like a little adult sometimes, but her sisters did, too, when they were little. Just very verbal, I guess.
She once sang a song during carpools that went: Into the woods/Into the woods/They'll never find me when I go into the woods.
And once she saw a cemetery and said it's where dead people live.
But 99% of the time she's cute, not creepy.
giever ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:50:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That one's almost more funny than creepy.
wanttoplayball ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:52:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was during carpools. She always said the weirdest things then. I think she was trying to impress the other kids somehow.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:59:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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efgh5678 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i don't want to make you worry about your daughter who most likely is completely normal, but this girl did exactly the same when she was around that age.
rreform ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I immediately looked up to see what joke I missed.
sidewalkchalked ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:26:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know in Middle Eastern countries it's a traditional pet name to call the kid "Mama" or "Baba". My wife's mom calls her "Mama" as a term of endearment. I think you just have to accept that life is weird like that and you never know.
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wanttoplayball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my daughter's imaginary friends is named George, which is her Great-Grandpa's name. He's been dead a long time. I hope it's coincidence and not mental illness...
Spalanzani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Its either creepy as fuck or your son is a hilarious motherfucker!
dlefnemulb_rima ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is super creepy.
anitabelle ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 19:38:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to say something similar to my mom. I always talked to her about how we used to play when she was a little girl. She said that I talked fondly about all these memories I had of playing with her and wouldn't accept the fact that it wasn't possible. I don't remember any of it. But I have a wild imagination and could have very well made it all up and ran with it cuz it got a whole lot of attention from everyone! Now that I have my own child I see that the more i take interest in her stories, the more she embellishes.
ramskid1676 ยท 878 points ยท Posted at 19:02:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I said the same thing to my mom when I was like 4. Maybe children are just the ultimate trolls, you never know what they'll say.
fruitstripezebra ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 19:52:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Really, it's the way they learn about social structure. This is why kids play "house." They don't yet understand that family structure is a strict hierarchy, so they play around with it until they figure it out. This question from child to parent is actually quite common, and what the child is asking is "are we going to get to switch roles at some point? Are we taking turns at this?" The answer is.... Well, yes, eventually when mommy gets old, you will take care of her. But that won't be for a long time.
Macintosh_HD ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:09:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Karma for our friendly, neighborhood reddit psychologist.
[deleted] ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 20:29:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:35:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That was uncalled for.
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 20:54:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:57:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only -190 in almost a month? It seems like you're not even trying.
Thementalrapist ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:38:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ever since I was little I've been a night owl, when I was four my mom was watching the shining and I was sitting on the couch playing with toys, apparently there is a scene where the kid writes redrum on the mirror, at this point I looked at my mom and said murder, redrum is murder. She is still freaked out about it to this day and I'm 30.
___mads ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 19:27:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, creepy! We're not alone, based on the other comments.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:41:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would say the same to my sister who is 7 years older than me. "When I was older than you..."
I think it had more to do with how she would always boss me around than me being creepy. I think.
___mads ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:50:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, my friends' little brother used to tell her friends that when he was their age, he was going to marry them. I guess kids that young don't really understand the concept of aging.
TheShader ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:22:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he's just into older women?
SmartViking ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:39:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard stories of kids saying this too. I think the reason kids say it is because they don't understand the concept of mortality, they think we grow to be old and then we become little again. Kids aren't afraid of being wrong so they just guess remember.
rydan ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:59:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my earliest memories is wondering why I was a kid ... again. No idea why this thought had occurred to me.
Ftlguy88 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:03:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
God please do not let my parents be reincarnated as my child. เฒ _เฒ I'm adopting.
pbnc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:05 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would bring by packages of diapers every Friday just to watch you & T deal with this!
Izzamort ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:26:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 4, my mom was single, so I asked her to marry me.
sixdots ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:25:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew used to freak out and hide under the kitchen table when choppers flew above our house. This was four years ago, when he was four years old. He'd freak out just like a PTSD soldier. It was unsettling. He's 8 and pretty much a "normal kid" now, but I'll never stop being a little weirded out by stuff like that.
THUMB5UP ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:02:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, we're definitely trolls. When I was around 5, I told my overweight uncle he had big boobs.
RudolfGreen ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:11:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think its trolling cause my nephew told my brother the same thing and when my brother told him otherwise, he said "don't you remember me? I'm ___" this is really creepy seeing as he named my brother's childhood friend that died when we were kids
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:52:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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kurozael ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:03:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope!
JennThereDoneThat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that this is some kind of Orson Scott Card reference (he wrote Ender's Game).
Sabazius ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:17:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What?
Like, WHAT?
Please God give me a citation for all of this, I'm feeling intellectually masochistic.
mrforrest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Username.
ophello ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:01:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Life is the physical plane, but the will to live occurs in a different dimension. Reincarnation...
anothernonymous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All my kids have said similar things, as well as all my younger siblings.....I'm sure it sounds creepy when your kid has your mom's name though.
Nightclaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This guy thinks he's bill Cosby
godlessatheist ยท 333 points ยท Posted at 19:37:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I said something pretty damn creepy to my parents when I was about 10.
So apparently I was making strange noises in my room and my parents both came in to check out what was going on. The moment my parents come in I scream "Ghost, Ghost! Go away" I had a cross necklace so I put it out in front of them and continue to scream "ghost"
Then I scream "Sit down!" and apparently it scared my dad so much that he actually sat down.
The next morning my parents asked me if I was alright. I had no clue what happened and had no recollection of ever saying any of that.
chamomile_tea ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:24:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Apparently, when I was about 4 I used to wake up ridiculously early (5-6am every morning), and watch some kid's show until my mom woke up. This worked pretty well, until one morning, my mom came downstairs to find me hiding under the couch, looking frightened. When asked what happened, I told her there was a man at the window who scared me. She asked me how he looked like- I told her he didn't have a face. Creepy creepy!
Edit: I'll add that as a child, I never had a knack for lying, I was a little too truthful if anything. I never made up any tales, so my mom never had a reason to not believe this one. I'm still very curious what it is that happened!
spyson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:52:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Let me guess was it Ronin Warriors?
chamomile_tea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had to google that- I was living in Israel when I was little, so I never understand other people's childhood shows references, haha.
Shit_On_My_Ass ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:17:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You probably had/have NTS: Night Terror Syndrome. Basically you experience vivid bad dreams and often call or lash out in your sleep. The bad dreams are horrifying but you almost never remember them the next day. I dealt with this as a kid and it is horrible.
kbillly ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:44:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had horrible terrible dreams when I was a kid. I would wake up not being able to breath or scream I was so terrified. But one night, I defeated my bad dreams and that was the last night I ever had nightmares again as a child.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:24:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. I used to have such bad dreams that I was terrified of my own family and sometimes even had moments of speechless and frozen fear in the middle of the day.
One night when I was having a regular nightmare of being chased through my small town by flying undead, I suddenly recognized that I was dreaming. At this point I turned to face them, silently commanded the apparitions to fall to the ground, took to the air myself, and tore them to pieces. Ever since then (I was maybe 11 at the time and am 25 now) I've been a lucid dreamer and fly almost every night.
godlessatheist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:25:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I figured it was. Do most kids that have night terrors experience it more than once because this was the only time this had actually happened to me.
Shit_On_My_Ass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It happens quite often. Especially if you have a very active imagination. I'd say about 3 nights of the week I had night terrors. It's different for everyone though.
CohanJo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tell me more. รด.o
makeumad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't remember it, why is it horrible?
godlessatheist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:03:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just imagining it must have been horrible for my parents. They were probably scared.
Goldberry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Day terrors are worse, I think. I'd start out playing in the yard and wake up in a puddle of tears after having run inside, to the basement. Throat raw from screams I couldn't hear. The whole time I was running I was trapped inside my own head. In the purest fear I'll ever know, with a single image: a man chopping wood. To this day I want to whimper just remembering it. I'm so glad it ended as I grew up.
NiceToss ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:06:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe if you weren't a godless atheist that damn cross would have worked you heathen!
godlessatheist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol, I was a Christian at the time so maybe it did work.
Brendido ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:17:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You were having a night terror, I used to get them all the damn time.
Tamer_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:31:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a common symptom of demonic possession, also concussion.
godlessatheist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or night terrors.
lessthan3d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Scream sit down?
llill ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:11:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Then I scream "Sit down!" and...
godlessatheist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry I was pretty tired when I wrote this hence all the errors I made writing it.
lessthan3d ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:38:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No worries. I thought it was something creepy from Scream that I didn't remember.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Paranormal Activity 4, anyone?
SelectaRx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's cool. I've been wanting to never sleep again anyway.
gotrees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck.
minibabybuu ยท 190 points ยท Posted at 19:30:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yall r creaping me out. Fuck being alone in my apartment, I'm going to moms house to read this
[deleted] ยท 514 points ยท Posted at 19:37:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you remember when you were your mom, and she was the baby?
TheCowboyIsAnIndian ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:17:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This comment had me doubled over laughing.
notacrackheadofficer ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:45:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Remember when we were all siamese billiontuplets?
Rorschachv2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:23:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can you please tell us the story of when you were confused with an actual crack head officer? ^ I prefer to read like he is the boss of the crackheads.
notacrackheadofficer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seek out my earliest comments. Bad mean cops pulled me over for being white in a black neighborhood. Screamed and yelled for an hour and a half. Sorry to ruin the fun.
This is my 5th user name. Been here almost from the start.
Rorschachv2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:56:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can't say I'm not disappointed
notacrackheadofficer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:37:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The one officer seemed hopped up on some kind of stimulant.
xyroclast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit's self-referential nature can turn even the creepiest things absolutely hilarious.
GabyArcoiris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when you were my mom and I was the baby
astrograph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
creeping me out!!
alekso56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What is this , some bad bodyswitch novel?
Blendthatbender ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes....yes...I agree... Thank you for that.
___mads ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:49:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Be sure not to ask her about the spooky shit you did as a kid while you're there! Definitely don't do that.
HasFuckedYourMom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:33:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is that what you're calling her basement now?
Delicious_Kittens ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:38:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dangit...I was just about to ask why he hadn't walked upstairs yet!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time when I was 4ish, I told my parents very graphically how I died in a car crash and "I went through the trees and up in the sky and there were fireworks but I wasn't scared because mommy was there."
niinjaniinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
no shit... getting dark here, tried to turn on the lamp on, and found out the light bulb is dead and no spare lightbulbs in here. FML
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:31:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Really spooky, gosh.
ozzimark ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:18:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL: Reincarnation is real.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha, I dunno about that... now that I'm older, I can appreciate that me and my late yiayia were very different people. But who knows.
Peartnoy518 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:20:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't have any memory of it, but after my grandma died I said something to my mom when she bought a bunch of stuff to compensate. She said that I said something along the lines of "Don't spend too much, she doesn't want you to do that. She said it's not good for you." when she asked who said that, I said "Mum-mum," which is what we called our grandma. But this was maybe a month or two after my grandma who I hardly talked to at all had died. So I guess my dead grandma used me as a medium to tell my mom to keep an eye on her wallet.
Edit: I was about 5 or so, give or take a year.
teh_tg ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:48:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, kids sometimes remember reincarnation and tend to forget around age 5 or 6. It's like remembering dreams; it lasts for a few minutes then goes away.
account932 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:43:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This happens a lot! http://www.amazon.com/Old-Souls-Scientific-Search-Proof/dp/0684851938
MickiFreeIsNotAGirl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:44:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister used to say that to my mom all the time.
ayb ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:45:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my youngest brother was about 4, he told me that when he gets older than me, he was going to beat me up.
Nah_Im_Playin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:15:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's memories passed down generation after generation, like Assassin's Creed type shit.
sandyeggo101 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:53:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We must be twins. I was born 9 months after the week of my grandmother's funeral, and my mother was the favorite child of her mother. They were best friends. I am also the first grandchild born after she died, and my mum told me long ago that I said something similar to her when I was maybe 3 or 4. Apparently I have a lot of the same mannerisms as my grandmother had, and I've become BFFs with my own mother so it's like a mirror of their relationship. When I was younger I always talked about "when I was older" and I never really felt young. So weird.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I already have a twin, sorry! cool story though.
SubversiveMustache ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:46:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's 4 in the morning where I am. This is the point where I decide to bookmark the post to read tomorrow. When there's, you know, light and stuff.
quintessadragon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:19:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to babysit a lot. One of the favorite games that these two little girls I used to babysit was for me to be the "baby" and they would have to take care of me. Give me a bottle, give me baby toys, I would crawl around and cause trouble. This game was invented because they were misbehaving and not acting their ages. It worked out beautifully. I can imagine you playing a similar kind of game with your mother and her just not remembering.
___mads ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha, actually, my mom and (now adult) cousins like to tell us about the game "Kitty Cat Barf-Up" that she used to play with them when she babysat. It basically went like this, iircc:
Mom: Alright, kitty cats, i'm going to the store! And remember while I'm gone, don't eat grass. It makes you, y'know... throw up! leaves living room to paint her nails, smoke, etc.
meanwhile, cousins crawl around the living room pretending to be cats eating grass. an appropriate amount of time later...
Mom: Oh no, kitty cats! You ate grass while I was gone, didn't you?
and then she would examine the living room for imaginary cat puke and, whenever she "found" some, would exclaim loudly and then pretend to throw up everywhere.
Basically it was my mom's way of getting these kids to behave while she did whatever she wanted. Also, it's hilarious.
xluminex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
f u c k
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for your "eta:" bit!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I commend on your efforts
hjqusai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was really young, I randomly asked my mom who Greeny was. Greeny was her aunt who died a long time ago and she never talked about. She freaked out
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's enough to make me NOPE
pitlord713 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:32:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I fucking love this shit
maraq ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What's creepy is that my older sister said the same thing to my Mom when she was about 4, only she was in the bathtub at the time and my grandmother died long before any of us were born. Also I have a nice whose nickname is your username.
scudsdoutmywiddly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a very similar thing I used to say when I was young. I used to tell my brother that I used to be older than him once, before there were cars or planes or lights. I used to frequently speak of how my family came from vikings. I gave names, dates, facts, basically very detailed descriptions of things that happened hundreds of years ago. Keep in mind I was about 4 when all this happened. Then, we did some research on my family. Turns out that my great grandfather wrote a book that spoke of my family's long history of being vikings. I had the names and dates right. I also said some other various fucked up beyond belief things. I was a weird little shit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:47:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad and I used to always share story's about what he would do as a child, so I'd always share story's about what I used to do as an adult
boqueno ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:56:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/7Rbp1.gif
Crapaholic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wat
MikeKlump ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
hahah so creepy I'd slap the shit out of my ghost kid
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom always told me that when we (me and my 3 siblings, all less than 4 years apart) were little, she could never, ever hit us because she was afraid that if she started, she would never be able to stop.
Anyone who thinks being a mom isn't a tough job hasn't ever raised 4 elementary school kids, hahaha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation confirmed!
kvikklunsj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who needs r/nosleep when you have kids?
VeggiePetsitter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister talked about when she was the grown up and our parents, grandparents, etc were the babies and she got to take care of them, but she thought it was yet to come and that as she got bigger, they'd get smaller.
jolly_pine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sweet story, brother!
(no sarcasm)
The_Mighty_Slacker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my sister was little (about five or six) she would tell me " Do you remember when I was the older one?"
heffelumpkodiak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is apparently very common. According to my mother I used to talk about the time before when I was big.
___mads ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people are saying stuff along these lines. I didn't expect I was special, or something, but i had no idea it was this common, either.
Aniolla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
fucking hell... that gave me goosebumps...
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i like to repeat it to my mom every now and then, and it gives her the shivers as well.
sstandnfight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was still about 2 years old xmas day. We were in the kitchen havin the family dinner when the young lady sneaks from the living room to the kitchen and states aloud "Shhh grandma is sleeping..." We were all in the kitchen and my mother said "No, we are all out here, sweetheart." She ran to the hallway between kitchen and living room, started pointing at a picture of my grandmother who had died of cancer five years before my daughter was born, to that very Christmas day. Everyone stopped in shock, myself included. We all looked to the living room and her favorite chair was rocking.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
whoa, this beats the hell out of my story.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck, I can't wait until I have kids so I can teach them to say things that will creep out their mother.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard this story before.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently it's not an entirely uncommon occurrence. TIL, i guess.
Switche ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Nice creepypasta.
Unless it's something you both remember, I just can't put it past selective memory and funny dreaming, though, or just a funny thing a kid said.
People often dream vividly about their dead loved ones, and intertwine their memories of people as they dream, as well as dream things that happen around them during their sleep. Those are known factors of dreaming which make this easy to explain, given the lack of any actual evidence.
The conclusion drawing the grandmother into this is pretty much constructed after the fact given a loosely connect ed language (you yourself set up the context before the punchline), and given the fact that you were purposefully named after her, one can assume a strong connection your mother puts on you and her mother. She's not crazy, she's just putting the pieces together in her head in a dream state, either actually dreaming, or placing meaning on a strangely apropos thing you said for any conceivable reason.
One of my friends swears a similar bedside visit from another friend when we they were both staying at my folks' place:
The "visitor" friend doesn't remember a thing, but he has been known to have vivid waking dreams/terrors which he cannot recall, during which he basically makes no sense. The "visited" friend swears he was there, and told him "there's someone in the room" or something similar, very calmly.
The visited friend doesn't remember responding or reacting in any way, but believes strongly it happened, but no one can be sure. The visitor friend of course doesn't remember this, but believes it could have been one of his little episodes--a completely plausible explanation.
The fact is no one knows what happened, but the visited friend now says that house is haunted--a jump in conclusion that really doesn't make any sense given the facts he himself presented and we all know.
I just mean to say that when it comes to dreaming, and loved ones, a lot of weird psychological gymnastics can occur. This makes for great creepypasta, but I'm a little disappointed with all the spiritual conclusions people are drawing in response to this, like adding this as evidence to their book of invisible forces that govern the world, when it's really just an anonymous story, with no verifiable anything, and plenty of reasonable conclusions.
Assuming your story is real, of course, and you trust your mother, and believe in her sanity, there's still no reason this wasn't just a funny trick of the mind, but given the assumed connection she felt between you and your grandmother enough to name you after her, it makes sense that she would solidify this conclusion out of the circumstances, even if it wasn't just a dream.
Your involvement is paramount to the story, but your memory of this involvement is completely missing, leaving only your mother to decide the facts and connections. Like others, I'm reminded of similar stories/experiences, but drawing any serious conclusions based on it is just wishful thinking and confirmation bias.
There are countless real-world explanations which don't require assuming any unknown force exists. I love a good creepypasta, but it's just not right that others are using this as a selling point for books promoting spiritual connections or trying to explain their own experiences, or invisible forces, based on yours.
EDIT: changed last few words.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually do remember it (i have other clear memories of early childhood, slightly more than average, I think), but seeing as it's a thread about parents' creepy stories about their kids, I leaned more on my mom's way of telling it. It's not creepypasta, I honestly had no idea other people had similar experiences before today.
I'm not religious, and I don't have any stronger belief in reincarnation than I do in a flying spaghetti monster. That said, if it makes other people happy to believe in it, that's fine by me. I'm not claiming to be proof of reincarnation or anything, it's just an AskReddit thread, mang.
Switche ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I apologize for directing the criticisms of child comments at you, and I should clarify that I don't think you've done anything wrong here in your original story, and I'm not really upset or pissing on parades so much as adding my own thoughts into the ring, like everyone else has. I apologize for my tone, I certainly was not going to appeal to anyone in my other comment that didn't already agree. I hope you'll hear me out here.
The conversation that the story spawned caused me to take pause and reevaluate the story itself, just based on my own beliefs, if you can call them that.
The reasons behind my skepticism here lie in the schools of sociology/psychology involving cognitive biases and logical fallacies, which I find equally bewildering as spiritual conclusions. It is an intoxicating school of thought; reading just a little about it, you begin to see the whole world cautiously through this lens as you can see bias everywhere skewing reality.
The study of bias ultimately comes down to believing that we all have holes in our reasoning skills and perception, a fundamental reason why eye-witness testimony is never reliable evidence on its own. Wikipedia has a fantastic description of it opening the article on cognitive bias:
On the surface it seems an easy way to dismiss anyone's argument--and it is often abused so--but it is much more powerful when applied conservatively, and I'll attempt to show this by applying it here.
Specifically from that same article for our purposes, confirmation bias and belief bias both come strongly into play in interpreting this story as evidence of reincarnation. It's not that reincarnation is wrong, it's that believing this as evidence of it exhibits bias in that it both confirms someone's beliefs, and their preconceived beliefs make it more difficult to accept an otherwise reasonable explanation which does not involve those beliefs, which is the perfect definition of both those biases.
I can enjoy a good philosophical meandering just for fun, but I have to stop when people start supporting it as possible real evidence of reincarnation, even musingly supporting it as you have, because so long as there is a possible explanation otherwise, there is no reason to conclude two-fold that souls exist, and that they are passed into others, based solely on the existence of many stories like this one. That is exhibiting a confirmation bias, believing this to confirm their beliefs without properly evaluating each case for any alternative theories than the one implied by the stories themselves.
You seem to be taking a purely agnostic perspective in this thread, which fits what you're saying here and is totally fine, but it's tough for me when I feel like my school of thought deals extensively with this sort of thinking as natural, but flawed when one favors explanations which require many assumptions, such as the belief in souls, and reincarnation, and this and other stories here as evidence of it. One should not have to be seen as arguing that souls and reincarnation don't exist when we're really just talking about whether this is an example of it, and alternative theories should have as much welcome as supporting comments lest it fall to belief bias.
From an agnostic perspective, I can see you defending someone's right to believe what they want. I don't mean to seem like I'm on the other side of the fence there so much as providing another alternative angle, which I also believe is plausible and fits with fewer assumptions.
People are reminded of strange experiences they had, but existing evidence of cognitive bias also explain why these stories surface in memory, when they are only loosely linked. We are reminded of them due to our bias in confirming our beliefs of those stories with this one, but a true link must be found and proven to eliminate the natural bias, or it is not a true correlating story evidence of any theory.
My story has no link other than involving sleep, and someone believing the house is haunted because of it; my bias sees your story and others as another example of my interpretation of that event, so I am reminded of it, though they are dissimilar in many ways. If I presented this same story and told you it is evidence of possession by an old soul which inhabits that house, it would fit in with the bias of others here, but instead I explain all possible reasons why this may not be an example of reincarnation, which logically leaves no room for ghosts without more information. I do this not to confirm my bias, but to include as many contrary thoughts and evidence as possible to eliminate the possibility of any bias. Your story frames a reincarnation scenario precisely, and requires many assumptions to believe the scenario without wanting to.
I hate to evoke Occam's razor since it's often misunderstood and abused in denialism, but it's very appropriate here to reiterate that there are many possible explanations that don't require believing in souls or reincarnation, and those reasons existing make it irrational to even suggest reincarnation without stronger evidence than circumstances which the involved parties were part in creating. A great quote from that wiki:
So in order to involve reincarnation into this story as a rational, unbiased conclusion, it needs to be supported better than other theories, ie. your mother has designed the predisposition of reincarnation in consciously naming you after her mother, someone she loved dearly, and through bias, that manifests itself in anything that you do which suggests an actual reincarnation through that naming. Believing this is not coincidence requires believing your mother was somehow preordained to name you after her, and that her reincarnation waited two years before you were born, and reincarnation stayed so closely in the family as the next child--all of which require substantial explanations to fit back into the conclusion. Again, this is not meant as an aggressive attack on your story so much as an alternative, impartial view which is concerned with bias.
You as someone who can appreciate beliefs, and seems to have enjoyed most of the conversations here, I hope you can understand mine on the topic. I don't mean to be aggressive in saying this, but just to present that this is a near-perfect example of cognitive biases, and that is what I find interesting, and I hope you'll look into the topic more, starting with the wiki links--not simply to prove you wrong in any way, but just to say that it's an incredibly interesting topic, which accurately challenges a lot of our behavior, and you may find it interesting.
mjethwani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now this proves it that reincarnation is true... Have been trying to make other religions understand but they don't get it.. Which authority do I go to to get the holy books of religion changed to include re-incarnation
Gurkaan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I got scared by just reading that. If my kid would tell me that I would shit my pants right on the spot.
disposablechild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That gave me chills.
evilmarc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have been asking people for years but noone ever did this! Now I know I'm not the only one. Thank god. This has always been so creepy to me. I did this all the time.
upgrayedd69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember reading on here once that this guy said his grandfather told him he was a time traveller and predicted a bunch of shit that would happen. Then the guy got married and had a kid. The kid had blonde hair, while the parents both had brown. But the grandpa had blonde hair. And the kid told his parents that his name was "something I don't remember", which happened to be the name of the posters grandpa. OP said he never shared his grandpa's name to the kid.
Lethalmud ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When you have a daughter, give her the same name your mother, so you can break into her house, stand by her bed, and say. Remember when I was the baby, and you were the mommy?
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
*If I have a daughter, or any children for that matter, this is definitely already part of the plan.
jessp423 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My oldest always told me stories of when she was big and I was little. She would get into details and was so serious. I was a young mother and it freaked me out. Especially when the younger 2 never did that. I guess I can start sleeping with both eyes closed knowing she isn't they only one who has said such things.
PanFlute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus Christ! If I were the parent, there might have been some reflexive slapping in self defense. You know, the kind you use to swat away a bee. The really limp-wristed kind...
But that's just me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Boy Who Lived Before
lehcar_slohcin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are the reincarnation of your grandmother!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter did that. She used to make mentions of things like "When I was a grown up I <fill in the blank with information, places and activities>." She was totally serious and if we asked her later she didn't change her story either.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No way. No fucking way. I said this same shit to my dad. There's gotta be something more behind this. Common tv shows/ movies?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:39:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently my sister said this exact thing to my mom. Maybe a common sort of dream or from playing?
abcdefghitran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And this is why im not going to name my children after my parents! Nopenopenopenope
Iloldalot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So YOU'RE the grandmother! Wow, that's awesome dude
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I actually watched some kind of documentary about reincarnation of some type and there was a little boy who swore to be a grown man born, raisers and died in another country years before. He could tell his parents all about mommy and daddy 1, or his parents when he was living before. He even know about his life and how he died. He would even cry and talk about missing his family. Anyway. Neat thing to watch.
Side note: they did trace it to find out there was a man who lived and died that way by that name years ago the boy couldn't have possibly known. Though when they took him to the island to find the house he dreamed about he couldn't find it.
Edit: Check out this video on YouTube:
jellohead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
People who did hypnosis and believe in past lives often claim that you stick with a similar soul group. So essentially the people in your lives are people you work stuff out with. They often claim that role reversal was common. Like one time you'd be born as the child, while your 'friend' was born as the mother, then in the next life the roles would be reversed. I find it really facninating and wonder if there might be some truth to it, since there are some famous cases of kids remembering past lives that can then be verified.
iFIXEDYOURSPELLING ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ONinAB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I apparently did this at three. I'm an only child didnt go to pre-school or anything, and necer had an imaginary friends. My mom came to get me after a nap and I was talking non-stop and she asked me who I was talking to, and I said "Annie!" I'm also named after my grandma who died a few years before I was born and who had always went by her middle name Mary, but who's actual real name was Annie.
the__itis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To add symmetry, my grandmother, in the last years of her life had senile dementia and Alzheimer's. She won call my parents (her daughter and daughter's husband) mom and dad. Complete with memories etc....
Transference maybe?
WDoE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shyamalan'd
dr00min ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know a lot of kids who figure out that they have been here before.
No science can prove it, but I don't think kids would give a fuck about science if they can actually remember living a previous life on earth.
jacksparrow1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:18 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There has been scientific research of children who claim to remember past lives. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation_research
NotKiddingJK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:28 on August 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son said the same thing to me when he was three and it has really stuck with me. I wonder how common this is.
dugmartsch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was pretty creepy the first time I read it.
Link
yepyep27 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:40:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids Are more sensitive to "the afterlife." That is not uncommon to have a child act like a deceased family member talked to them. It's as if there is an echo of the family member that only the child can pick up. Something to do with not being told It's impossible yet, so they Are able to perceive it.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:11:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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___mads ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:21:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
awww. that rageface is pretty accurate to how my mom gets when she tells the story... almost goes without saying, she loved my yiayia and more or less believes her to be a saint.
imbeingsirius ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:23:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably because you played pretend once in which you got to play the mom.
___mads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, my mom had 4 kids and worked part time. She almost never played pretend with us, we all played pretend together.
CityOfWin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:38:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad you edited in an error to your top comment. ROFLCOPTER
irishfeet78 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:24:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My four year old says this to me all the time.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 20:05:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter is four. She's said some creepy stuff over the years, but this is the current chart topper.
She says the following: We are both dead, dead people can't talk, but they can still be heroes
She said that while she was playing pretend with some toys.
s0nicfreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did she watch a lot of the 9/11 anniversary celebrations?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:43:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't even own a TV. I have my computers, and she has her computer (she's a linux user like a boss).
Rodents210 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:53:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I had a young kid I'd give them a computer with Linux too. Wouldn't have to spend any extra money, and I have some older laptops that my work decomissioned laying around. Of course, kids, if I ever have them, are a while away.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Heck yeah.
Since they don't already have a bias from using one OS or another they pick it right up as well. She's never had a problem running movies, websites (nick jr) minecraft, etc on her computer by herself.
Rodents210 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:30:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The only issue I could foresee is if she wanted to play some games that don't have Linux support, or if your family had Netflix and she wanted to access it for some kids' shows.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We do have netflix, but I have another spare computer she uses just for streaming that runs windows.
....I have entirely too many pcs....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I blame vampires.
sammmymantha ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 20:16:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess this isn't that creepy but it was more of a huh? experience. I watched my two nephews last couple summers, one was 7 and the other 11. While the 11 year old was downstairs doing who knows what, I was upstairs reading when the 7 year old comes up. He starts searching fiercely through every cabinet, under the table, under couches, you name it. I finally ask him what he's looking for and he looks at me with the blankest look and says "I'm looking for my puberty," and then just went back down to the basement.
EmilieAnomalie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:49:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in high school I always liked the idea of using "I lost my virginity and had to find it," as an excuse for being late to class.
Melivora ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 20:05:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is 16 a kid? 'Cause I think the scariest thing I ever said to my mum was, 'there's someone in the house'. Weird stuff had been happening for weeks - the screws from the blender went missing so it exploded soup, batteries gone, my skylight opened, that kind of thing.
One day I heard him. Turned the TV right up so he'd know where I was (so he wouldn't come in and feel obliged to kill me), texted my mum and then she rang the police.
He got away but we figured out that the 20+ times he'd been in the house, I'd been there too, oblivious. I went to my Dads for a week.
H8rade ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:26:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Straight from a Scooby-doo episode. This guy was trying to get you to think the house was haunted so you'd sell it and move. Someone wanted to buy that house bad. Probably some oil or something under it, maybe gangster/pirate treasure.
Melivora ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:38:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I lived over pirate treasure for a year and never knew?!?! Goddamint that would have been awesome...
Ratava ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:14:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How do you know for sure someone was there? Did you find evidence?
Melivora ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:21:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I heard him come down the stairs and turned up the TV. He then left and I saw him jog down our path.
As well as the paper in the back of the hairdryer, the opening skylight etc. He was like, playing with us, so weird. We had things of value lying about, never stole. Just moved shit about and was a general nuisance.
marylov3 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:41:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I so want to know more about this!
Melivora ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 20:47:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to know as well, to be honest, it was so, so creepy! We'd just moved in and hadn't gotten around to changing the locks so the old tenants and anyone they'd trusted with a key, as well as workmen, could get in. We'd changed the alarm so no one could get in while we were there - or so we thought!
It started when my mum couldn't find her ipod, and we found it in a random drawer. Then my skylight would be open, so we assumed my little brother was smoking. Weirder and weirder stuff happened - he put my necklace on my toy rabbit (he's a big rabbit).
We suspected someone had broken in a day or so before I actually saw him and when we were talking to the Police realised he could only get in when the alarm was deactivated. He'd figured out my routine, waited til I got home and just fucked with stuff for fun. Proper 'the call is comming from inside the house' shit.
owlish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:59:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's coming from inside the house
Or, if you prefer the remake
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:53:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You said you saw him at least briefly. What did he look like?
Melivora ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:54:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The same height as my hedge, dark hair. I saw him just jogging down the path, from behind :(
The police asked all the neighbors and that but nothing came of it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:58:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Weird...
I've seen things like this pop up a few times on Reddit before so you're definitely not alone with this happening.
I wonder what was going through their mind, they probably had no intention of hurting anyone, they just thought it was brilliantly fun to mess with people on such a profound level.
Melivora ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:00:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've posted my story before, so it could have been me!
At the time it was fucking terrifying, now I have a hilarious story. The blender part in particular.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've read stories with other details, and there was a post about a guy thinking there was someone living in their attic but I never saw a followup.
I'm glad you can make some light of it. That kind've stuff would turn my mind into mush for the rest of my life I think.
jax9999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:17:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
could it have been a kid? kids do weird stuff like that.
death_by_rainbows ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:06:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol poltergeist
Melivora ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Which is in-keeping with the theme of the rest of the thread!
Jesus_luvs_Jenkem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:08:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a 'creepy crawl.' The Manson family used to do shit like that.
frostbyte8bit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:36:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So, it stopped when you changed the locks and whatever?
Related, I read on Cracked about this Japanese woman who lived in this guys house for two years without him noticing. SCARY stuff.
Melivora ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:39:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aye, and we changed them that day.
Oh God I saw the video of her crawling out of the cupboard that the girl in the fucking ring. I'd cry watching that.
frostbyte8bit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:10:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There was a video of that!?!??!? LINK NOW PL0X
Melivora ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't find it :( :( But it was on some programme, '100 craziest something-or-others'. He caught her with the video footage, which would be awful to watch for the first time.
frostbyte8bit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Paranormal Activity people must have gotten their idea from that hahaha :P That's really scary! What did you see? Was she like, creepy? What happened?
Two_Bums_Down ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:13:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Umm...This is going to sound very weird, but literally everything you mentioned...I had a recurring dream about when I was about 10...the same exact stuff...
Melivora ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:17:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So the poltergeist who was creeping into my home was also creeping into your mind.
I'm just gonna point out that I've moved out of my haunting ground. You can't do that.
Two_Bums_Down ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I literally didn't remember that until you said the things that happened to you, but I remember each of those things specifically. Maybe it was the same "thing"...maybe it was his cousin. I just think its weird, that those things happened in a dream of mine too.
NessaTesla ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:47:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure it's not deja vu making you feel like you dreamed those things? Deja Vu is caused by your brain being lazy, it normally sees things and tries to drudge up old memories to be like "Yeah I know what's going on" but sometimes if it sees things it's not super familiar it just goes, "Uhh, yeah, fuck it, I've seen that before" and thus you get that weird feeling of seeing something that's already been done. The way you said you just remembered it just now.... Not that I'm calling you a liar, just that deja vu might be a possibility?
Two_Bums_Down ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:55:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know what a deja vu is and this is most definitely not a deja vu. I remember the dream being black and white. I was walking into a kitchen and all of a sudden, something shot of the blender in the kitchen. Then, I distinctly remember that batteries started flying everywhere around me. Shampoo bottles and soda bottles and every kind of bottle started opening around the house too in the next segment. I mean...every bottle in the house was open. Then a big window in the roof opened up at the end and then everything was black. I know it probably isn't the same exact as the story, but the same exact things happened to me in that dream as they did with Melivora's "Ghost Man."
Although you might be right in saying that it is a deja vu...I'm just saying that I remember this more vividly than most stories from real life, because I had this dream multiple times.
NessaTesla ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:00:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just checking.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Melivora ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What do you want to know? There's a couple more comments in the thread with more things he did, but we basically figure he was fucking with us for funnies.
We hadn't changed the locks yet (but had changed the alarm, so we felt safe enough) and once we changed them that day nothing else ever came of it. Freaked me the fuck out at the time, but now it's kindof hilarious...
afsdjkll ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 19:55:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Friends of mines' kid. Two years old or so and was mad about something.
"I'm picturing blood all over you".
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 22:56:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Robby712 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:08:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Screw baby monitors and rocking horses. Not a chance any of that stuff makes it into my kids room.
stressed_out_student ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:13:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you the daddy ?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:20:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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RampantAnonymous ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:23:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, the kid probably knows what the monitor is for and his first phrase was to summon you. Children probably pick up that you respond when they cry and you're not around, and then they pick up that you mess with the box once you come in.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:07 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he was practicing for the Aphex Twins video, you only heard part of it!
diegothecat ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 19:27:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once I asked a kid I was babysitting what he wanted to do when he was older. He wants to be a poacher.
justinappropriate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:13:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why isn't this getting more upvotes!? Hahahaha I am laughing. We are friends.
NTesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know! I know! I'm laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes!
Love_N ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:48:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old niece just said that the other day! She said she wants to go to Africa to see real elephants and drink coffee and be a poacher. Was this in an episode of Dora recently?
rocketman0739 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
is this kid named Danny by any chance?
death_by_rainbows ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How cute
broken337 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 19:36:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I had a dream last night that a large rock hit the earth." "Are we all going to die?"
AkumaNoHana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad had/has a recurring dream like that. I believe this was also mentioned in the Qu'ran (My dad looked it up after he had those dreams).
Well. Now we wait :/
charlottemoo ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 19:55:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mum tells me that when I was a kid I said "There's a strange thing in my life... you have to be quiet to feel the pain." I don't know what I meant.
0116316 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:46:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's some deep shit for a kid.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:36:26 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sssh...can't u feel it??
SirTophammHat ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:55:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but my mom and stepdad told me that one night my younger brother, who was 5 or 6 at the time, came into their bedroom with a knife. He stood at the foot of the bed and they freaked out, asking him why he was holding the knife. He said, "The voices in my head told me to."
I'm not exactly sure what happened after that. I know my stepdad took the knife away and put him to bed. He saw a counselor for a little while but he's perfectly fine. It was a strange but creepy incident. My brother doesn't really remember.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:46 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
was he a time-traveller?
JumperTEB ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 20:03:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mum told me I would sneak out of my bed At night while they were watching TV and I would walk slowly towards them , never blinking, hair surrounding my face, and I would say "surely you love me" this happened any night they watched tv..
phucitol ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:20:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We do love you, and don't call us Shirley.
JumperTEB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:41 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shirley?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:33 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for paraphrasing Michael Gary Scott and making me laugh in the middle of a creepy thread.
PeinceRiebus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably sleepwalking
JumperTEB ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:33:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I actually remember doing it. But the way I remember it , I was watching myself. This was before my parents even told me I did that. I did a lot of creepy things as a (younger) child.
jordanlund ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 20:22:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I got married my best friend from high school was my best man and his kids were at the ceremony and reception. One of our other friends had been up since 5 AM and just crashed. Layed down on the floor and went to sleep. Christopher comes up to me as we're cleaning up:
"I found a dead person."
"Oh, she's just sleeping."
"No, I think she's dead."
Apparently he had been over poking her.
BoughtreeFidee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:20:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did she died?
queenofswanland ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 22:03:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
About a year ago we lived in an apartment complex that had partially burned down in a fire quite a few years before. One night my 3 year old crawled into bed with us and said, "The little burned girl won't leave me alone." It scared the crap out of me. She never mentioned anything before or since though.
justimpolite ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 00:32:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be a pseudo-nanny to a young autistic girl. When she was quite young her mother got her a bunny, Cleo, who died when she was about a year old. Around the same time, over the course of a few weeks, several deer were found dead in a woodsy area behind their house. DNR said they were killed by another animal, but that they didn't feel there was any safety concern at the time.
The family got a replacement bunny and obviously didn't want the kid to know what happened. The replacement bunny lived a long and happy life.
When the girl was around five, we were feeding the replacement bunny. She went to fill the water bottle, stopped halfway to the house and asked, "Do you think the woman who killed all the deer killed the real Cleo, too?"
hinve_st ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 20:09:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My middle daughter was 5 when we visited a local gardens, which has a mausoleum for a NZ prime minister. Walking around the formal gardens... She says, in a happy, bright voice "This would be a lovely place to die". And then skips off and runs around with her sisters. (She is a very bright, happy, carefree girl). My wife and I just looked at each other.
doctorzoom ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 22:23:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little boy at about 22 months
The Boy: (tapping daddy's head) "What's that?"
Me: "It's my skull"
The Boy: <gleefully> "Open it!"
Monster-_- ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
etwas_naht ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was that necessary? Why not opt for concision?
Monster-_- ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:32:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because he made me do math in order to get perspective
etwas_naht ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:38:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... you're right.
CORRECT THE BASTARD!!!
the_pro ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 20:32:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You ever come across a thread that was just "made" for you? My 2 year old and I were driving to school a few months back, and passed by a construction site on the highway. My kiddo saw a construction vehicle, and exclaimed that she saw a "digger". I confirmed that I saw it too, and went back to watching the light at the intersection. She then started telling me about when she was a digger. I was so shocked at what she said, I had to type it all up in an email to myself after I dropped her off a few minutes later -
These were the bullet points of her responses to my follow up questions.
1. Were you a girl or a boy? "I was a digger when I was a man." 2. What did you wear? I took my (head or hat) off. I couldn't understand her from the backseat. I asked her to repeat herself many times. 3. Where did you live? I lived in the dirt.
4. What was your name? Danny (we don't know anyone named Danny) 5. What did you look like? Tall with red hair. (Almost our entire family is brunette.) 6. Did you have any babies? No 7. Who lived at your house with you? I lived by myself. 8. Did you watch tv? Yes.
I tried to ask a few more questions, but she didn't feel like talking anymore. She had never showed me this level of imagination before, or since. It certainly was creepy to me. We pass that construction site almost every day, and she has never mentioned it again.
That definitely beat out the two or three nights that she cried in her crib at night, because she was scared of "Aunt Mary". I have a great Aunt Mary, but I only met her once, and she passed away years before my daughter was born.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:14:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I mentioned this higher up, but there is a theory in connection to reincarnation/past lives that states that children can remember, vividly, their past lives for the first 5 years of their lives, and may not be able to differentiate from memories of this life. It also states that'd it'd be easier for them to see ghosts. So, there's some info for you.
GRIMES_a_bad_BITCH ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:27:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
can you source any of that? I'd love to read up on it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:16:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this wiki especially the further reading sum it up well. Should help you wander throughout the internet for days.
lurcher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:55:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have to say, all these replies are really non-specific. Also, the questions are really leading, in my opinion.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:51:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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duckduckCROW ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:04:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, tell her she's frightening the_pro's poor kid.
NEPNWZYOX ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:49:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom and grandma still talk about this.
When I was little (not too sure about the age), but I was staying at my grandma's house for the night. My grandma was sitting in her chair looking out the window and holding me to where I was looking over her shoulder. I started to point and say "Who dat?". My grandmother was so afraid to turn around and look at the door. I said it a few more times until she finally looked. Nobody was there.
There was another time when I was younger. I was sitting in my dad's room next to the bed and I was holding my arms out like someone was going to pick me up. I would quickly pull my arms close to me and laugh. Kinda like playing a game or something. To this day my dad still gets creeped out when we mention it.
My whole family has some sort of odd story about things like this. We eventually named the "ghost" Herman.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 19:56:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ConradFerguson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:40:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
upvote for N64.
mooseknuckle83 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:14:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 12, my parents and my sister and me were visiting a birthday party of family friends. My grandparents (mom's side) were in Canada at the time to spend time with friends and family on their holiday. When we got back home from the birthday the phone rang. I was staring frozen at the phone when my mom came into the room and said "Why are you not picking up the phone?!" and I told her "Because I don't want to hear that grandpa died!!" she told me to be shush so I sat on the couch with my knees curled up to my chest. She picked up the phone, fell silent and after she hung up she started crying and looked at me and asked me "How did you know that!?" I shrugged and the rest is blurry. Weirdly enough though, I know for sure that I felt his presence over the next few months.
Heffalumpen ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:43:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my nephew (3) moved, my sister took him through their old appartment to say goodbye to the rooms. "Goodbye kitchen" "Goodbye my bedroom" "Goodbye mommy and daddys bedroom" "Goodbye livingroom, goodbye old man"
My sister found the last goodbye a bit freaky, but did not comment upon it until they where out of the appartment. "Why did you say goodbye to an old man? There was no old man there." "Yes it is, he watches us."
I consider myself a fairly skeptical guy, but that freaked me out a bit.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:59:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like your skin... Can I have it? (5 year old step-daughter)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:38:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sigh, reminds me of my Ex girlfriend...
RockNRollFireSauce ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 12:08:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My wife, daughter and I have been living in our house for little less than a year and have experienced a few odd things happening around the house. We've had our washer change settings, things often moved from where they were left at, noises from upstairs and I've seem our rocking chair moving when I'm the only one at home. So the other day I'm home with my three year old daughter and she's coloring in her room when I realize it's gone too quiet. I go check on her and she drew this on her wall. She said that they were scary faces and she didn't want to see them, hence why they have X's over them. Weirded me out a bit. http://i.imgur.com/vaUSo.jpg
iwantcookie258 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:29:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Best. Askreddit. Post. Ever.
ioncat ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 21:04:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
24 year old dad with a 2 year old son here. I can honestly tell you that the most creeped out I have ever been by something my son did was something totally normal.
See, you notice things as a parent. Things you probably wouldn't ever care to see otherwise. First time moments with your kid will stick with you for a lifetime, and tend to mean a lot more than they really should.
My son is barely 2, and can speak, but never really full sentences, and he only sometimes grasps entirely what a word means. So one night about 2 weeks ago, while my wife and I were watching TV, he comes running out of his room crying. He stops in the den, about 4 feet from us. He stared at the wall for a minute, as if completely and totally confused. Then he notices us and quickly scampers up the couch at mach speed and crawls into my lap.
"Mah-tooz," he says.
Monsters.
We don't know what scared him, I'm sure it was just a dream. He usually called the vacuum a monster, or pictures in books that looked weird. Never anything really scary, just things that startled him or he thought were ugly. But seeing your child genuinely afraid of something totally unexplainable to you is one of the most terrifying moments a parent can have. There is no fear more powerful than that of a toddlers. Can you imagine being that afraid and having no idea whats going on or how to properly express what you're afraid of or why?
The whole incident is something I'll never forget.
cant_be_me ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:38:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that gets to me about kids is their incredible coping and recovery skills. They'll express through screaming, words and/or physical reaction what looks to be bone-chilling fear - fear at a level that would put an adult into psych treatment for a long time - but then thirty minutes later, they're happily drinking juice and eating a cookie as if nothing ever happened. I'm aware that some traumas sink to a deeper level that colors that child for the rest of his life, but as a child who was absolutely terrified of just about everything who turned into a relatively well-adjusted adult, it's really amazing how quickly kids can bounce back.
EpicPedestrian ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 20:33:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 4 my mother walked into my room in the middle of the night and found me passing a ball against the wall. She asked what I was doing, I replied with "I'm playing with James and Sarah." Turns out those were the names of my dead siblings.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:05:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't find it rude of me to ask, but I found this interesting. If I may ask you: 1. How did you hear this story? 2. How did your parents tell you about the siblings? 3. How did your siblings die?
Please don't think of me as rude. I'm just curious.
EpicPedestrian ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:21:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Curiosity isn't rude. 1. My mother reminded me of it a couple weeks ago.
Do you remember 'precious angels'? My Mom came home one day when I was 10 and brought two of those home. One of them was a male, the other female. I checked out the bottom of them and saw the name Sarah and James on their respective 'angels'.
James died from heart failure when he was 2 and Sarah died shortly after being delivered due to birth defects.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That is quite interesting! Thank you for sharing!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:51 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
:( That sucks:( Really sorry to read that, Gbwy:)
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[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:47:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Chances are with things like this that you once overheard even the slightest mention of the name and it stuck in your mind.
Still creepy though...
aliceinreality98 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:00:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How did they both die and how old were they? So sorry if I'm being rude.
EpicPedestrian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not rude at all :) James died when he was 2 from heart problems and Sarah died a matter of minutes after she was delivered.
snuggle_fish ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:11:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is one of the creepiest stories in this thread.
[deleted] ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 19:57:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:49:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Candle Cove: The Game
tarkadaal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
upvote for "snowy lack of channel"
[deleted] ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 20:08:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
True story. My son was about 2 years old. He has a half-brother (my husband, his dad's sons) who did not live with us, but did stay with us 3days/2nights on 3 weekends each month, the rest of the time brother lived with his mother and grandmother. Brother had not visited the weekend before, son was aware of this, as he adores brother.
On weekdays, we had a routine of hanging out together in the living room while I had coffee, then he would watch 'toons while I dresses and talked with dad/husband. We did not do this on weekends, as we were usually going out, and especially not on visit weekends, as son and husband were always up and out the door early to go get brother.
This day, we did the usual, me having coffee, us hanging out for a bit. At one point, he looked up at me and said "mama, we has go pick up Brother today." This was weird, because he knew that days I worked we didn't get Brother, so I said "no, sweetie, not today." He said back to me "oh, yes, we must go get him today, you tell Daddy." I remember we went back & forth with this "we go get Brother" from him and a "no, sweetie not today, mama works today" from me.
Cut to about half and hour later. I'm in the bedroom, reading the morning paper and getting dressed. My husband is reading another part of the paper, waking up, drinking coffee. The kid is in the living room watching Barney. I cruise to the Obits, and by the Gods, there's an obit for my husband's ex-wife, mother of my son's half-brother. She had died the Thursday before. Husband's son was with his grandmother, no one had notified us, crazy grandma figured she's automatically get custody or something. She did not like my husband.
Long story short (oops, too late!) we did end up going to get Brother that day, after much craziness, many phone calls, police escort, CPS, the whole bit. Son was not privy to the madness, but was aware that plans had changed and we were going to get Brother. He knew it when I came back into the living room, asking me "daddy knows now to get Brother?"
tl:dr Two year old son somehow knew of his half-brother's mothers death before we did.
biddee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:05:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody has asked...how did the mother die?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:13:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Overdose.
Syrtica ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:14:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Unrelated, but I want to hear about the craziness and "the whole bit". Because that sounds absolutely nuts.
[deleted] ยท 103 points ยท Posted at 19:58:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the kid in this story, but this one apparently made my parents consider calling a priest.
When I was younger (too young to recall this) I used to do this really strange pattern thing, I still have an insanely high ability to recognize patterns and all. Anyway, when I was young we lived in the middle of nowhere so we'd just store old bottles for like a year and then bring them all to a 5 cent deposit thing once we had too many in the basement. I'd go into the basement where the bottles were and line them up in a huge circle throughout the entire first floor of our house. My parents would usually just let me down it because I'd throw fits if they stopped me. Then my mom noticed after a couple times of cleaning this up (I would kick and scream when they took my little creation down) that my circle of precisely 76 bottles followed an unwavering pattern. This wasn't like Big bottle- Little bottle-Big bottle-Little bottle. It was complicated enough that my mom had to take pictures of it to even verify her initial guess that it had some pattern to it. The exact bottles weren't the same every time, just the sizes and types (Big soda bottle, beer bottle, small soda bottle...)
I guess that seriously freaked them out and they stopped me from doing it. Then I got down there one day while they were outside and built it again, they came in and I was laying in the middle of it sleeping. I woke up and said "The house was sad but now it's happy again."
[deleted] ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 20:52:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That just sounds like mild autism.
owlish ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 22:46:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or sealing a gateway to hell.
Neoaris ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:19:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A mild gateway to hell.
Instantcretin ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:10:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Most people would be surprised how often autism and gateways to hell cross paths.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:00:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, aparently they considered getting me checked out. In retrospect there is really no reason to assume I'm autistic though.
do-not-throwaway ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:48:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, Corky.
mark-henry ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:47:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nonsense, it's obsessive-compulsive disorder
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 22:54:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think he can count past potatoe.
Neoaris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... and with this 11th downvote, I condemn thee to hell, and thine comment to be hidden forevermore.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:03:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry I forgot this wasn't /r/imgoingtohellforthis My mistake!
auntjomomma ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:53:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does your mom still have the pictures? I would like to see them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:14 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
me too! Post them if she does:):)
stellarbaby ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:49:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When you said "big bottle, little bottle, etc" I thought you were saying "big butthole, little butthole". i was all like what the fuck
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:59:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, that's epic.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:24:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when I was younger I had pretty hardcore night terrors. I would scream and thrash about and my parents couldn't wake me up. One night my sister heard some noise coming out of my room so she walked in and found me weeping while standing on top of my bed with my eyes closed.
Another night I was sleeping with my dad while my mom had a night-shift at the hospital (she's a nurse). In the middle of the night my dad felt me get out of bed and I walked over to this big standing mirror that they had in their room. It was a good 2-3 feet taller than I was and it probably weighed more than me. I grasped the mirror and then started to tip it towards myself. My dad jumped out of bed before I could pull it all the way over and crush myself. The next morning he asked if I remembered doing that and I had absolutely no recollection.
MrAmishJoe ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:26:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not quite creepy n such. But still great story. My son has asthma problems and was in the childrens hospital for a week long stay. He was five. Next to us in the room was a premie baby and her mother. They hadn't said a word in days. A nurse was taking my son's vitals...and he looks at the nurse and says "Do you know doing to much cocaine will make your heart explode." The nurse agrees, I turn red, the lady next to use laughs uncontrolably hard. When the nurse leaves the room I ask my son....where he heard that....and why he would say that. "I don't want to tell you, you'll be mad" "I'll certainly be mad if you dont tell me"
"I know I'm not supposed to watch it....but I saw it on 1000 ways to die."
soggyfritter ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:17:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently I used to (age 4) stroke the soft skin on the inside of my mom's forearms and tell her I would make her into gloves when she died.
raresaturn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:24:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
nice one Hannibal
soggyfritter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:59:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just wanted to keep her forever and ever! And that skin is so soft! I still do it to joke with her now. And she does it back, saying "Not unless I turn you into slippers first." Ohhhh mom.
Consulting_Troll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:21:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Then mommy puts lotion on her skin"
ObRN10 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 07:05:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to babysit for my cousins all the time when I was in college for extra money. My youngest cousin, Gabe, had always done strange things, like see people and talk to people who weren't there. Two things still creep me out to this day. 1st thing he did while I was watching him that creeped me out: I slept in the guest bedroom right next to his. One night I woke up and thought I heard voices. I got up and walked to the doorway and I see Gabe sitting on the stairs with his arm up in the air. He keeps saying "hello?" over and over. Then he says "its Gabe, what's yours?" All my arm hairs stood on end and I flipped the lights on. I very gently guided him back to his room. It was clear he was sleep walking and I chalked it up to being a dream, until I started to walk out. He said my name and I looked back at him. "yeah buddy?" I said. "that was O", he told me. "he was trying to say hi. He said he misses you". At this point I about shit myself. Owen was my aunts first husband who passed away in a car accident when they were 23. I looked remarkably like my aunt when she was 20. My cousin did not, and still does not, know that my aunt was ever married before she married my uncle. 2nd thing my cousin did was on our way to my grandma's funeral. He asked me if we were going to the graveyard. I said yes. And he says, "oh good. We get to meet grandma's new friend George and his dog." Guess the name on the headstone next to my grandma's... Yeah, creepy as hell. And that's only the beginning of all the creepy things Gabe has seen/said.
ObRN10 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:47:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm reading all this reincarnation stuff... Gabe used to talk about "when he was brown skinned" (he's a blonde haired, blue-eyed boy) how he and his dad got separated from his mom and sisters and had to run through all these tunnels and sleep in basements and closets. He always said he was sad because he didn't find out until now that "his first mom" had died and all of his sisters in the back of a wagon that a mean man with a white beard had started on fire.
laughingrrrl ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:23:41 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have one of those blond haired, green eyed kids, who used to look at his hands and say "I wish they were dark again." He also kept "looking for his one true love," who he described as having dark eyes, dark skin and dark bushy hair, and before he could read/write, drew a picture of an upraised fist and the slogan "workers unite" underneath it. He had never been exposed to socialist anything, esp. slogans or images. AND... he was born on May 1st, also known as May Day, the day most countries celebrate the worker. There's more (such as his music preferences, distaste for whitey -- only he's white; he made an assumption that dark skin means your a better person, and on and on.) We are very race-neutral in this family. He did NOT get this from us.
I never believed in reincarnation before we had him, but he convinced me. I think he had to have been something like an activist in the black community before. BTW he's 16 now, remembers none of this, and doesn't believe in reincarnation himself. Still likes the type of music typically associated with ebony culture, though.
I don't really fear death anymore, thanks to knowing him. I hope I'll get to go "home" to God, but if I have to cycle around on the wheel again, so be it.
Bunniepants ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:48:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HOLY SHIT.
ObRN10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, very creepy indeed. This was a few years ago. Now, he kind of embraces this medium thing. He's never grown out of being able to see and hear things. He's seen many doctors and always comes up clean for mental illness. We all believe he really sees dead people.
happyfucker ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 20:20:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kids, but my parents told me that when I was 4 years old, I had a nightmare and screamed: "There's a fire! There's a fire!" About an hour and a half later, there was indeed a fire. A house across the street had caught in flames and there were fire trucks blocking the entire corner. Later that night, I woke them up again saying: "there's flying saucers.. everywhere!" They spent the next hours looking at the sky.
tradjazzbaby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother did something like that once. My mom and I were still up, but he was asleep in his top bunk in his room that was also the computer room at the time. My dad was out picking up someone from the airport as a favor, and for some reason was using someone else's car. My mom and I happen to be in my brother's room with the light on to get something. He sat straight up and said, "No! No! The car!" Then he laid down and was still asleep. My dad came home about 40 minutes later upset that he had backed the borrowed car into a tree. My mom and I were freaked and told him what my brother did.
jennybean42 ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 21:44:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A different level of creepy, but my 5 year old son said, "How come you get to see my penis and I don't get to look at your vagina?" He's very egalitarian, my son.
prettyprincess90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:31:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
honestly though it may seem creepy i see this as a good sign of childhood innocence and logic.
MisinformationHaiku ยท 169 points ยท Posted at 19:58:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my kids spoke Latin
without being taught. It was
damn terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 21:01:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this is the stupidest and funniest novelty account ever
ConradFerguson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:22:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even realize until you said something. Excellent deduction, Watson.
jokubolakis ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:12:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What did they say
MisinformationHaiku ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 21:25:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
they said, "Audiatur
et altera pars." I blame
the television.
dahknee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
woah this needs more upvotes
Ikhtionikos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some kind of proof or elaboration at least?
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 21:13:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Username
Ikhtionikos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:26:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
facepalm
Now I see it...
VisibleKayPee ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 20:19:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not something that was said so much as done.
When I was about 13 or 14 I awoke to the sound of my mother screaming in the middle of the night. Like 3am or so. I ran out of my room and found a large kitchen knife lying in the middle of our upstairs hallway.
My mother had woken up to see my younger brother, who was 2 or 3 at the time, standing over her with the knife poised to strike. She freaked out and he ran out of the room and dropped the knife. When we checked his room we found that he had destroyed it, stabbed pillows, cut up sheets. My parents were simultaneously terrified and angry, we moved the knives after that.
edit: I skipped a letter!
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:24:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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VisibleKayPee ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:38:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As if on cue he just ran out of his room and made a large evil groaning sound as I read this.
He's a teenager now and super normal but, I did legit think he was possessed that night. Our family is Catholic too, so there were a lot of rosaries being said that night.
thats_all_she_wrote ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:32:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 2, my grandfather had terminal cancer, and was down to his last few weeks. We had just gotten home from the hospital, and my mom was putting me to bed when I looked her straight in the eye and said "grandpa is going to die in 2 days". 2 days later, we got a call saying he had passed away. I don't remember saying this, but my mother swears to me that it's true.
CoriCelesti ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:32:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but I used to babysit these 2 little girls, aged 3 and 5. They really didn't like strangers and would normally freak out to the extreme if their parents went out. For some odd reason, they decided they loved me first meeting and would actually cling to me the moment I'd show up.
So, this is like the second time I'm babysitting them. Their parents get ready to leave and the youngest starts freaking out and crying. She was literally screaming for them not to go. I eventually got her to calm down enough to wave from the window as her parents drove off, hugging me and sniffling. I kept telling her that it would be fine, that I was there with her, that we were going to have lots of fun, and that her parents would be back in a couple hours.
She suddenly stopped making noise and just stared at me, with the most serious and piercing look I've ever seen from a child, and said in a steady and sure tone, "I know that one day they aren't going to come back." Out of no where. I just stared back in shock. It wasn't the normal scared sort of reaction, this was a serious statement as if she knew some horrible secret that their brakes weren't going to work or something. I tried to inquire more, and she simply stuck to her statement and reiterated that one day her parents would leave them.
That was around 8 years ago, but it still sticks in my head. This girl lived to play with My Little Pony and watch Disney princess movies and read little kid books. After that, she would just solemnly watch her parents leave each time, expecting that was it.
It may not be the creepiest thing ever, but it was dang disturbing.
Edit: Grammar error.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:47:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Earlier this year my four year old woke up one evening crying. I went upstairs and asked him what was wrong. I didn't understand him at first but after a couple of 'what's' he repeated what he was saying all along and pointed towards the corner, "there!" So I look in an empty corner and asked him if it was bothering him. He said yes. Then I asked him if he wanted me to tell it to go away and he noded his head. I looked towards the empty corner again and said loudly and dramatically for my son "leave him alone!" My son said it was better and then turned over and fell back asleep.
tl;dr: my son lives with Bruce Willis
Robby712 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:26:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's the best way to handle all of these sorts of situations. Real or imagined. Puts the kids at ease at least.
willtraveltoedinburg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually pretty ballsy.
secretminkiez ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 22:12:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I worked in a daycare center with little babies. Sometimes when the older kids get too annoying for their teachers, they send them into the baby room to "help" us.
One boy, who was about 3 years old, "helped" in our room about every other day. He was very inquisitive about every little thing. One day, I was feeding a baby and he was overly fascinated with her that day. He asked me "Can babies die?" Really, I am not a big fan of kids once they learn how to talk, but I tried to answer honestly, so I said "Sometimes they can die" he responded with "I think she's going to die" I obviously was shocked, and I was at a loss for words, he continued with "she would be so cute when shes dead." I quickly tried to change the subject and I found a pencil and some paper for him to draw with. About 10 minutes later he said to me "I think shes going to die by getting stabbed" and he made a stabbing motion with the pencil. I kicked him out of my room and put him back with his other teachers.
I quit working there a few months later due to an unrelated reason. He should be about 7 or 8 now. I think he may be on the way to becoming a serial killer.
Edit: I can't type
takatori ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 23:24:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5-year-old son made a model of the Titanic, and was playing it sinking, over and over.
I asked, "isn't that scary? What about all the people on the ship?"
"Hehe, yeah, they were scared. Hahaha!"
xeridoo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:13:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your son is just like me.... I hope to one day see him standing next to me on the Keldysh, ready to dive deep into Titanic's hull. I'm telling you, he's gonna be a Titaniac.
takatori ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:21:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Titaniac"? There's a word for this? Uh-oh... ;-)
piporpaw ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:27:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My wife and I are having twins in less than 2 months. Thank you all for this.
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 20:05:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have twins. They seem to communicate without speaking. I know it must be facial expressions and eye movements, but it is eerie. Or maybe they plot intricate moments when they're alone. They're only six though, so that might be even creepier if they did.
reneexnicole ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:43:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's little brother and sister do this. They're twins. One day we were watching the two of them and they were babbling in their twin speak (they were maybe 3) to each other at the kitchen table. My friend told me she wondered what they were talking about and telling me about how they spoke like this all the time. They stopped talking, looked at us, at each other, and then started laughing really maniacally.
wigglepiggle ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:22:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can tell you for a fact that they're just communicating through their knowledge of one another, facial expressions, and other body language cues. I've had known my best friend since 2nd grade (over 12 years). From 2nd grade, we were able to convince people that we could communicate telepathically. Truth is, we just know one another that well. Even today, we can have long conversation just based off of facial expressions and slight hints of body language. They're extremely minute, so most people can't tell what it means, but we know one another so well that we automatically know. It's hard to explain, but it's basically like looking in the mirror and making a slight face. Only you know what that means, right? Well, we know one another so well that we know what the other means when they make that face. So, basically this isn't some crazy twin thing; it's something most people can do if they know others long enough. Although it's possible only kids are perceptive enough to pick up things like that.
koolatron5000 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:25:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
what sort of things to they seem to communicate about?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:16:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I replied to another comment asking the same. But I'll also add that (this isn't creepy, just fascinating to me) they can spontaneously play off of each other when they play. They make intricate storylines (I attribute it to playing Warcraft and lots of reading) and they take turns adding details. I did this when I was a kid, but their storylines flow together very nicely, although they get a little weird, and neither one seems at a loss for a direction the other one chooses. I've read a bit about twins, but it's so cool to witness.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:52 on July 24, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
and when I nod and wink like this, you get the knife! :)
emmahyde ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:47:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Excuse me, more please.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:12:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry for the delay. Phone wouldn't let me comment on this specific thread. Uhm, so it's like this:
<morning, I'm a teacher so I'm off since it's summer, we have a schedule> Me: Do you girls want to help with dishes first or work on multiplication? <girls look at each other> Together: Uhm, dishes first.
I could replicate this occurrence with more than two choices. If they disagree, often one will speak for both of them, e.g. "I want to . But she wants to _."
They actually rarely want the same food or clothes or things (which can be troublesome), so we often get the above example.
Oh, and even freakier (just remembered this)...
They bot had Blue and Magenta (from the show) stuffed animals. We actually bought several of each to keep various places. The girl carried them EVERYwhere and would not sleep without them. They mainly rubbed the dog's ears. When we would visit my in-laws, then, we would have more than one. Well, over time, maybe age 3, a specific Blue became favored. And they could tell the difference... identical stuff animals, all used for over a year. So we ran some tests (we discreetly marked the favored Blue):
1) Mixed both up behind my back, had them identify the favored Blue on sight. They did multiple times. Always correctly. We looked for some kind of visual cue, found nothing. So, then we... 2) Turned off lights. Let them feel them. Correct ID every time. We felt them all over, no cue. So then we... 3) Showed them to the girls from a different angle (ass instead of face, actually). Correct ID every time. So then we... 4) Turned off light. Let them feel only the ass end. Correct ID every time.
Yes, we did try to get them to explain the difference, but they couldn't explain it. To this day, we have never found a difference, although the favored on has an ear that is rub clean of its covering. And the other twin has moved on to Puppy, a purple Webkinz.
littleecho12 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:25:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My twin and I did that as well, and still can. I'm not sure if it ever creeped anyone out, but truth be told it was never weird to me or her. They spend a ton of time together in the same mindset, of course they should know the preference whether it be the same or not.
I can do the second thing with my bear. My twin does not have an equivalent item, but we both had the same bear. My parents occasionally tried to switch mine for hers because hers was nicer (I rub the fur off like your daughters do). I could always tell. In retrospect, I guess that is weird.
NTesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant
Jiffroy_de_Vigeois ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 20:04:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not that anyone will ever see this, but supposedly when I was a child, I would stand up in my crib, point out the window, and say, "They're coming! They're coming!" I would also refer to my child-speak/gibberish as 'their language.'
Ratava ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 20:14:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I saw it, bro.
fistbump
apikoros18 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:16:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not posting my own story about my 2 year old as it will be so relegated to the bottom. I feel your pain
Novaeish ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:38:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
please post - I'm reading all of this thread tonight. Can't sleep anyway... thanks thread... I'm not going to have kids I think. Creepy stuff here!
I-heart-naps ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:57:49 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've been reading this thread for like 3 days now!
ulul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:56:27 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me too.
pudding13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The British are coming!
khaleesi_ ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:51:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a baby, up until the age of two and half, my mum would come into my bedroom to find me chatting and playing with no one. When she enquired as to what I was doing, I replied that I was talking to 'The white lady.' This went on for a long time, most nights, until it stopped suddenly. One day my mum asked where she'd gone, and I put my hands over my ears, and started screaming hysterically.
Another time, around the same age, we were driving through a town, past a restaurant which had been a sewing mill a hundred years before. With no way of knowing this, I turned to my parents and announced, "I used to work here making all the different colours of thread."
LinuxMage ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:40:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was seven or eight, I had a similar experience of a past life. I now say I dont just believe in reincarnation but I know reincarnation.
It's real, I have vivid memories of being a seventeen year old girl washed over the sea wall at Robin Hoods Bay in Yorkshire, UK, sometime in the early 1800's.
I was on a school trip, and some of my classmates were with me, and they said I went into some kind of trance like state, and recounted drowning in a bad storm one night. I was also able to tell them how the town had changed in the last 170 odd years.
Also, when I was 5, I very suddenly got into all things Irish, even though my family did not have a single Irish connection. According to my father, I was watching a documentary about Ireland, and turned and asked him when we were going to return there. The only problem with this is that no-one in my family had ever been there, I definitely had not. I also begged my dad to buy me a Clannad album, and began to teach myself the Irish language.
I emigrated there in 2004, and lived there until 2010, when the economy and other family issues forced me to return to the UK.
willene32 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Turn of the Screw...
vaginalholocaust ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:26:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me, but my cousin who is six years younger than me.
So my Aunt had a miscarriage when before she had my first cousin and it really shook up her and my uncle and my whole family in general. Well a year later my first cousin was born, and less than two years after her, my second cousin. One day when my second cousin was maybe four or five her and my first cousin were playing in their backyard, my uncle went out and she was rambling on to her sister these weird comments along the lines of "When I was a star, I ____" and whatnot. Well my uncle was kind of freaked out and pulled her aside to ask her what she was talking about and she smiled and said, I shit you not, "Yeah, when I was a star in the sky! I didn't know if I wanted to be apart of your family yet, so I decided to wait and make sure I wanted to come here and be with you."
My uncle spent the rest of the day shocked and crying. We don't talk about this story in my family ever, because it's just so fucking heartbreaking and confusing. Talk about fucking frightening.
TLDR; My cousin claimed to be my Aunt's miscarried baby, saying that she was a "star" that would watch over them before she was even conceived.
TheCrowing2113 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:30:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I don't have children, but this is something I, and my entire family, remember happening. I was 4 and my uncle, his friend, and his friend's girlfriend picked me up from K4. When I was little, car rides of any distance put me to sleep. This car ride, I had a dream that my uncle and his friends had gotten in a very bad car accident driving to work (which is where they were headed after dropping me off). When my uncle woke me up to tell me we we're at my mam-mam's, I began to cry. I begged him not to go because I had a dream that his friend wrecked into a white car and he got her very badly. I remember in the dream my uncle was covered in blood and and cuts. The 3 of them laughed it off and my uncle said "I'm gunna be okay buddy. I'll even wear my seatbelt. I promise I will be okay." I told my mam-mam and she played it off too. 20 minutes later my mam-mam received a phonecall saying my uncle was in a severe car accident, that they had to use the jaws of life to remove him from the wreckage and he was the only seat belted passenger. The other two had mild scrapes and bruises. My uncle broke every bone in both of his legs, his entire left arm (shoulder blade to finger), his right shoulder, most of his ribs and fractured a few spinal disks. Thankfully, he is still alive, but I still feel guilt after 15 years.
allidrummer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:35:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why feel guilt? He wore his seat belt and survived. It could have been much worse.
TheCrowing2113 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:29:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've always felt like more could have been done though. I just kinda feel like it could have been avoided.
allidrummer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You did what you could though.
TheCrowing2113 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:17:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I've been told. But emotionally, I feel different.
IAmA_Guy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:42:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is an amazing story. Have you had any other premonitions?
TheCrowing2113 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:28:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yea. every now and again. But now they come like daydreams. I zone out for about 5 seconds, I see something that's going to happen, then I zone back in. They never happen when I am completely asleep anymore. And nothing has been as serious as my uncle's car accident except for the avoidance of one for myself. Everything is just small things. I could go into more detail of the small things if you like.
Doom_bledore ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are your premonitions accurate after you have them?
TheCrowing2113 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:17:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. But I can't force them on. They just happen.
tinfoil_Knight ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:58:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I never really got the whole story on this one but i'll give it a bash.
So apparently a few months after i started talking my mum was driving me up to stay at my grandmother's house for the weekend. My mum and my brother were in the front of the car talking about something and apparently i just blurted out "I used to be a big boy in the war, then i died and now i'm a little boy again"
Pretty messed up man...
Robby712 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for teaching me the term "Give it a bash".
jasonsawtelle ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 19:42:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 2 year old daughter approached me as I was holding her newborn little sister.
"Daddy I want to kill her"
What!? After asking her a couple times it turns out "kill" was mispronunciation of "carry".
Neoaris ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:40:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... or was it?
[deleted] ยท 112 points ยท Posted at 19:10:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids are fucking creepy.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:29:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The world is fucking creepy. Kids are just the only people who can see it.
Shablahdoo ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:28:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sneaky, Paranormal Activity director!
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:34:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's been said that little kids are more likely to experience paranormal shit because they don't have any beliefs that ghosts and stuff aren't real. Weird.
One time, my little bro who was 2 or 3 at the time was supposed to be taking a nap. I was 11 or 12 at the time and heard him talking to someone in his room. Now, my mom's mom died when I was 2 but there are pictures of her everywhere. I went in to see what was up and asked him who he was talking to. He goes, "Oh grandma came to visit me and we were having a nice talk!" My grandma was the shit so I didn't really freak out and thought it was cool that she came to visit him but I mean it's still creepy.
AFatDarthVader ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:28:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It wasn't my kid, but I was sitting at a bus stop when a car accident happened right across the street. This mother was standing in front of me with her (about) 5-year-old. The driver of one of the cars got out, rubbing his head and looking pretty groggy; the other guy was fine. The little boy turns and looks me dead in the eye, "He was supposed to die."
I was so glad they got on a different bus.
Drozzbear ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:05:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Conclusion of this thread: children can see dead people.
ConradFerguson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:02 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Further conclusion; Dead people ARE children O.O
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:28:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My wife and I had a conversation about "most popular" stripper names. We settled on the name "Diamond" as the most popular.
2 days later, my 6 year old daughter asks, "Dad, why didn't you name me Diamond?"
I'm spending the next 12 years making sure she doesn't become a stripper.
IWantAnE55AMG ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:37:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I heard my for year old daughter moving in her bed and talking one night and decided to take a look. When I walked into her room, she was sitting up and pointing at the corner of her room. She was like this for a few seconds and then she laid back down and fell asleep. I asked her the next morning what she was talking to and pointing at. She said it was an animal and she was telling it to get away from her sister and that it won't come back again. We only had one child at the time. The next week, my wife called me and told me she was pregnant. We ended up having a girl.
avroots ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:53:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reverse: I was sitting at the dinner table with my 2 brothers, my mom, and my attractive 21 year old au'pair(nanny). I'm about 8 years old and I look very seriously at my brother (about 16 years old at the time) and say, "Well, Paul. If you like Jenny so much, why don't you just hump her?" (I thought it meant hugging)
longboardshayde ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 20:07:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Rather off topic, but as a kid I was persuaded that when you reached a certain age, you switched gender and became a Teenager. This led to quite a few confusing conversations with my dad after I'd asked him about "what it was like being a little girl"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:37 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
hahaha:D That's the best thing I've read on this so far!! I can only imagine what that conversation was like:-p
speaks_with_words ยท 71 points ยท Posted at 19:29:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing said, but acted. I used to wake up religiously at 2 a.m. to take my daughter to the bathroom during potty training as she consistently wet the bed. One particular night I woke her up and took her to the bathroom. She proceeded to start grunting when I told her to go to the bathhroom. She didn't just grunt though she had her head down while doing so remminicint from something out of a movie about possession. She finally sits on the toilet keeps her head down and starts to bounce up and down while letting out a long continuous grunt as if the devil was telling me now wasn't a good time to go potty. Needles to say in the dark at 2 in the morning it was creepy as hell, so I took appropriate action and slowly backed away and woke up my wife. My daughter didn't remember anything. By the way this was in a house where everyone constantly felt like they were being watched.
Hipashia ยท 129 points ยท Posted at 20:07:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can't stop giggling at the idea of the devil deciding when and when is not good times to poop.
laidbackduck ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 20:33:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
YOU SHALL NOT POOOOOOO....yet. Wait until morning.
irving47 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:23:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe they're Catholic.
stapletaper ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:59:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My kid freaks me out sometimes. He doesn't make a sound, but just almost-glares at me. His eyes are just totally different, and sometimes he'll even get my attention to look at him while he's doing it (like coming up to me and sitting on my lap, facing me).
To be honest, I don't know which is worse -- finding him standing (it's almost always him standing, often in a doorway or in the middle of the hallway that leads to our bedrooms) staring at me, his arms hanging by his side; or him coming up to me and staring me right in the eyes no more than ten-fifteen centimetres away.
I always laugh it off, hoping I'm making a great big deal out of it -- it's super creepy, though... He's a sweet, well-mannered little thing, 99.9% of the time.
auntjomomma ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a cover. That 00.01% part of his is just waiting to kill you. >:)
Themehmeh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:50:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well... you were watching her go potty, Also, sometimes babies grunt when they poop.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:49:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I do that sometimes (because I live alone and I can)
wallygreen93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:44:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What I read:
"In the house where everyone believed they were being watched, weird happenings were observed and assumed to be supernatural."
[deleted] ยท 114 points ยท Posted at 18:59:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my 4 year old niece is constantly talking to her unseen companion named "bunny horse."
gdrocks ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 19:30:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That'd be awesome, a horse is a fast as it is, but now it has mad hops in it's arsenal.
Instantcretin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:07:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mad hops. Brb, brewing beer.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your wording fills me with glee.
bekastrange ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or a giant bunny with a saddle.
synapsesynopsis ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:35:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, imaginary friends. What's that all about?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:41:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i dunno man...pretty weird...i never had one when i was a kid, but i remember my best friend in like 1st grade having one named "friend boy" until he claimed to get rid of him by flushing him down the toilet...
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:37:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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PikaBlue ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:04:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh please please please say that he took Puke's out of business or something.
synapsesynopsis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Neither did I, to my recollection.
ffffuuuuManChu ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:07:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, it's old Frank wearing a horse costume.
cowboykillers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i came to say something along the lines of "that's some donnie darko shit right there." but you did it for me
inej5364 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:47:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
not... not BAD HORSE!?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:31:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He rides across the nation the thoroughbred of sin he got the application you just sent in.
neat_love ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:58:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Imaginary friends are never creepy.
Not even Drop Dead Fred.
Cold_Kneeling ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:20:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother's childhood imaginary friend was really sweet - it was 'the cow who makes people happy'
sophelle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:40:38 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just out of curiosity, I googled Bunny Horse. You're welcome.
Staplingdean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:10:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like the best companion in the world
cheestaysfly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me of my childhood imaginary friend, Gamoose the moose.
eugenedubbed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:16:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My niece, when she was about 4, also had an imaginary horse companion, named "Computer."
mockidol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She may be a Pyro. Ask her about ballonicorns to be sure.
Studebaker_Hoch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I instantly imagined one of these
fishfishmonkeyhat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awww how cute!
"Bunny horse has no eyes daddy!"
OH GOD!
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 19:35:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter has asked me several times if my 'turn' is over when I ask her what she means she will repeat several times 'When is it my turn again?'
Finally she'll say "It's my turn to be daddy!"
She apparently does this to my wife too but replaces daddy with mommy.
She also runs up to me all sweet and giggling and headbutts me in the nuts. I flinch and cover now whenever she runs towards me.
flargenhargen ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:05:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
trying to decide if that is good news or bad news for you for when she starts dating...
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:08:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lost it laughing at the mental picture of a kid headbutting their dad in the nuts at full speed.
TChuff ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 20:22:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night my 5 year old and I went to the local bakery. They make fresh chocolate chip cookies daily. I asked him if he wanted any and he said no. He's a five year old who turned down cookies. I am still in shock to this day.
BoughtreeFidee ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:43:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm traumatized, probably won't be able to sleep tonight. Thanks.
TChuff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Normally when I can't sleep I get up and have a late night snack. Cookies and milk. But that might do more harm then good in this situation.
vjanderso ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 19:26:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Grown son calls me at work, which my children never do unless it is an emergency, says without hello or anything "Mom I kinda shot myself in the foot". I teach 10 year olds who are literal therefore my mind was in the literal mode. I see in my mind, blood and him needing medical care. He wanted forgiveness for not studying for an exam I had paid for that he wasn't going to take. Never start conversations like that with your parents.
nylolexchange ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:16:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Mom I really fucked myself in the ass."
acesilver1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:13:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A close friend of mine once went through a difficult thing. I won't mention it right now what it was because I want you to know exactly what he told me. He had gotten very flustered and angry and belligerent and sad and just full of emotions, negative emotions. I go up to him and ask what's wrong, did anything happen. He looks at me with an angry face and says, "My brother just died." I stand there shocked because his brother was the person who primarily raised him when he was growing up cause his parents were not around. I was speechless and wasn't sure what to say. Someone else was there and he had heard the news before I did and that person told my friend, "Stop, tell him the truth." I'm dumbstruck as to what this could me.
Turns out, his brother got with his ex-girlfriend who was he still kind-of had feelings for (he dumped her) and he replied, "Well, he might as well be dead to me now." I was so livid, I could barely think straight. I wanted to clock my friend right between the eyes at that point.
TL;DR: My friend said his brother died. Truth: His brother got with his ex-girlfriend and to him, he died, but he's still alive. I became so angry because of such a lie.
owlish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of this
ConfuseACatInc ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:03:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mine was just a few minutes ago. My 5 year old daughter came to me, crying, saying her right hand hurt. There's a bruise down the right side of her hand, under her pinky. I asked her what happened, and she said, "I don't know. But I think our car rolled over, and my finger came off, and I was dying in the dark."
My mother died in a roll over crash in the median of a highway at 3 in the morning...eleven years ago, to the day. My daughter knows nothing about this. I searched that median for her missing right pinky the day before the funeral.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:13:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ConfuseACatInc ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:12:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have eight siblings, and she's not seen or talked to any of them for at least three years. We live three states away from my cousins. Also, I've never told anyone about the pinky thing, because I think it makes me sound incredibly strange.
PentagramJ2 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:09:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this was my cousin to me during a babysitting gig:
We're sitting there playing a game of super smash bros melee, having a grand old time. Now keep in mind, my cousin at this point is like 6, but he's actually fairly competent at Smash so I don't go easy on him.
We're playing and I win the round, and tell him he did really good. But he's got this look of loathing on his face, and he puts the controller down and looks at me saying "I hope you don't hate spiders"
My cousin had about 5 different tarantula's as pets in that house, and to this day I'm still afraid that he may one day enact his spidery vengeance.
sweetdrjoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for 'spidery vengeance'
emberspark ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:33:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My nephew has a pretty active imagination, so take this story with a grain of salt. My sister lives in an old part of town - one that is notorious for "ghosts". Most of the houses have been there since the 1800s and she lives just down the street from the old courthouse where they used to hold public hangings. Anyway, she and my nephew live in a house there. The first part of the house is really old - from the early 1900s. Their bedroom is in the back of the house, which was built about 20 years ago. She's sitting in the bedroom one day, reading or something, and my nephew is playing in the living room (which is in the front of the house). Suddenly she hears him running into her room and yelling for her.
She freaks out thinking he got hurt, but when he comes in, he asks who the lady is. Naturally my sister has no idea what he's talking about, so she asks, "What lady?". He says, "The lady in the corner of the living room. She tried to push me down."
My sister takes his hand and goes into the living room with him, and he points to an empty corner. He says, "There she is. She's been saying mean things to me."
My sister freaked the fuck out. He does have an active imagination, but he's never done anything like that before (or since). He never imagines people or "talks" to them. This was a one-time thing.
Robby712 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:59:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've read almost all of these posts and it seems like ghosts like hanging out in corners. If I was a ghost I'd live it up and sit in the comfy chair and lay my head on decorative throw pillows.
emberspark ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:00:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, I saw a ghost once when I was little and she was hanging out by the train tracks on a porch, so not all of them are so boring.
vanessow ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:38:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My best friend has two kids, at the time they were 5 and 2 and shared a room. The two year old woke up screaming bloody murder. She went to check on him and he scrambled to her, and wouldnt stop screaming until she left the room. She tried bringing him back to the room, and he started screaming again. So he got to sleep with mom and dad. About ten minutes later, the 5 year old comes out claiming that "Someone keeps petting my hair." He also got to join the slumber party.
EmilyamI ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:06:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is one that I witnessed between my grandma and my cousin. He was probably five at the time.
My grandma and I were sitting at her kitchen table drinking coffee and my cousin came in with a twined-up knot of flowers he'd picked from the open field behind her house.
He handed it to my grandma and she thanked him as she usually does when the grandkids bring her things that they've made for her out of whatever we'd find outside.
He said "Grandma this is important. I made it for you because I don't want you to forget me."
To which she responded, "Honey, I'm not going to forget you. You're grandma's special boy." (all of my grandma's kids are "her special boy/girl")
My cousin shook his head and said "No, Grandma. I mean when I die. I don't want you to forget me when I die."
My grandma was almost in tears at this point and told him "Honey, Grandma's a lot older than you. You won't die before Grandma does."
My cousin sighed, looked down at the floor, and then looked her in the eyes. "No, Grandma. I'm going to die in a car accident."
My grandma hugged him and we were all silent, my grandma crying. When she finally let go of him my cousin said, "Remember, Grandma. Don't forget me." and went back outside to play.
bekastrange ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:06:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well? Has he died in a car accident yet?
EmilyamI ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:47:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not as of yet. This incident took place 2-3 years ago.
I-heart-naps ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:02 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does she still have the flowers?
EmilyamI ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:01 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother keeps absolutely everything. She still has the dried, crusty remnants of flowers I picked for her eighteen years ago.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:13:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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picnic2812 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:05:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Similar story to this, when I was younger I had night terrors multiple times a week. To the point I was eventually put in a sleep clinic for a sleep study. On more than one occasion my parents would find me out of bed sleepwalking. One night they apparently woke up to me wailing in the hall way because "the last boy is playing with my toys." The dog we had at the time refused to enter my bedroom. My mom still asks me who the boy was on occasion and I havn't the faintest idea.
ThePensiveWok ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:30:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
OK my kids didn't say this to me but my friend use to serve tables at the Olive Garden in fayetville AR. and this family of four came in to eat one night. They were dressed like devout pentecostals, very conservative wear, and the children were around the ages of six to nine.
From the time they came in he told me they were a strange family, not much more for talking etc. Anyway the strangest part of the whole night is when the son, around age nine, turns and looks at his mother and says " You've been good tonight mother, I will allow you to continue eating " easily the strangest thing I've ever heard of a kid saying to his parents.
hezod ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:09:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my older son was 6 years old, he met an anthropologist and became immediately entranced with the idea of digging up the past. As I was tucking him in one night, he said "Mummy, when I grow up I'm going to dig up bones and when you're dead and gone, I'll dig up your bones."
gabbagabba777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgSLz5FeXUg&ob=av3e
takatori ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 23:18:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not "said", technically, since she is only 15 months old:
At 13 months, she learned how to make a very convincing "choking" noise and face, holding her breath for tens of seconds at a time while pointing at her mouth.
Then when we come over to try to rescue her in a panic, she will laugh and laugh, and laugh.
ಠ_ಠ
Edit: Worse yet, since the risk of a Boy Who Cried Wolf scenario is so dangerous, we have to respond every. single. time.
I-heart-naps ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:40:17 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Next time she does it (faking) smack her hand. Actually, that's probably bad advice. I'm sorry, that's just got to be absolutely horrifying. Manipulative little girl...
IStartedEarly93 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 23:24:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son was diagnosed with early onset bipolar disorder when he was 6 years old. He was EXTREMELY violent and scary most of the time, but the scariest time was when he was 7 and I found all of the sharp knives from the kitchen (steak, carving, etc) in his room. I asked him why they were in there and in the sweetest little 7 year old voice he said "because I am going to kill you tonight". Yeah - that one left me speechless as I was locking those knives up.
etwas_naht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. What led to the diagnosis? Or the decision to seek treatment?
IStartedEarly93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:08 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Long story short: he was a very hyper and disobedient child, tried ADHD medication (after he was kicked out of 3 child care centers for uncontrollable behaviors) and he raged for two days. His father and his side of the family is riddled with mental health issues - so the poor kid did not have a chance.
SquitsMcGrish ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:45:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This will be buried but it freaked me out big time. My son is Autistic, 6 years old and doing great :) he now has a baby brother who is a toddler. I put on a safety gate on my eldest sons bedroom door as his room is bigger for his brother to play in when I need to do housework. I explained to my son that the gate wasn't for him, just to keep his brother safe. He told me one night that he was glad he had the gate on his door at nighttime (even though I don't fasten the gate outside his door), when I asked why, he said the scary man who sits on my bed can't come in anymore. I freaked the hell out. He also said the man asks him to undo the gate but it's ok, he can say no now!
Sweet Jesus! I think I've got to the bottom of it now though!
franticcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:27 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
what do you mean you've gotten to the bottom of it?
SquitsMcGrish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:27:22 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I've asked him further about it casually as I didn't want to make an issue out of it. He hasn't seen 'the man' since we put the gate up. When I asked what the man did when he came in before he told me he would sit on his bed and ask about his day. He told me the man kind of discouraged him from doing things he shouldn't, like his obsession at the time was the Xbox and he wanted to sneak and play it downstairs when everyone was asleep. In my sons words, the man told him it was a bad idea. A few other things like that so maybe he was imagining it and 'the man' was a kind of conscience for him. Like I say, he has Autism and doesn't lie. He's very literal so if he says he saw someone he did, whether it was real,or not to him he did see someone. Either way, it didn't frighten him and he hasnt been back since the gate.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:46:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Throwaway_Unit_313 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:18:45 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
okay
what?
skintigh ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 15:44:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My young son seemed to believe that sex and french kissing were roughly the same thing.
He also decided that being licked by a dog on the face was the same as french kissing.
So he announced to me that he just had sex with the dog.
DeeJayy817 ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 20:12:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but my 3 year old brother has said a bunch of creepy shit, one incident in particular stood out to me. He was in our computer room, which is just a little space next to the kitchen with the only way in being the door that leads to the garage which is right next to it, and the only way to see into the computer room is if your standing in the kitchen, kind of like your own personal fap room, but that's a story for another time. Anyway, he's on YouTube watching Caillou, when he rounds the corner of the kitchen with his pants down. My mom goes up to him and asks what happened, and he says "The man pulled them down." At this point I'm already freaked out, especially since the pants he was wearing were a little tight so he couldn't have pulled them down himself, even my mom had trouble taking them off of him sometimes. We go into the computer room and see that the door leading into the garage is open, I motion for my mom to stand back so I can go in and check it out. There's nothing there. The garage doors are closed and locked and the room is empty aside from all the junk we have in there. After I poke around for a bit I decide to check the attic, just in case whatever lunatic it could have been went up there. Again, nothing, just an ass load of cobwebs and pure silence. Later on I ask my brother what happened, and he said that there was a tall man standing in the garage asking him to go to him, after my brother just ignored him and continued watching his videos, he said the man came up to him and pulled his pants straight down, then went back into the garage. Granted the kid IS 3 so maybe he was making shit up, but I was scared to stay in the computer room by myself for quite a bit after that.
TL;DR fuck you, read it.
goldplatedbullits ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:44:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
upvote for the tl;dr
ConradFerguson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I, also up voted for this reason.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:23:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After this event, could you still fap in peace?
DeeJayy817 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:40:03 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Of course!
tealtoaster ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 20:00:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 11 year old nephew asked me in all seriousness if I had ever raped anyone. While he was putting on his shoes to go to dinner like it was the most normal thing to ever ask your aunt. Pre-teen boys are weird.
Illyich ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When younger, my brother asked my now SO if girls had hair. It was kind of implied that he wasn't talking about head hair...
Grimsterr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Have you?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know what would be weirder? If you said yes.
CSharpSauce ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:36:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ah good, so none of this will be new
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:18 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
everyone knows head hair matches 'that hair' ;-)
Benjaphar ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 23:55:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Last week, I was having dinner with my wife and two daughters. At one point in the meal, the two girls were chatting about something and I heard Daughter 2 say "Ask him 'What time does the narwhal bacon?'"
I stopped eating mid-bite and stared intently at her. She smirked and asked, "What?"
"Did you just say 'What time does the narwhal bacon,'" I asked.
Still smirking, she said "Well, do you know the answer?"
"Yes, it's midnight, but how do you know that," I asked.
"Dad, you're not the only person who goes on Reddit, you know," she answered.
Seeing my face, Daughter 1 asks "Why, is there stuff on there she shouldn't be looking at?"
"Well," I answered, "That's like asking if there stuff on the Internet she shouldn't see. There's everything. There's everything from cats to porn. There's probably even cat porn," I said, trying to appear lighthearted.
At this point, Daughter 2 looks at Daughter 1 knowingly and nods, "Rule 34."
Scarletwings ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:02:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it sad I laughed?
dristau77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:18 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No... I did too.
yarrmama ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 05:31:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wasn't raised to believe in reincarnation and frankly DIDN'T until our oldest son was about two or three years old. One day he asks me 'Mommy, do you remember before?' I was all distracted and wanted him to clarify 'Before what? Before Today? Before right now?' 'No, BEFORE. When I was a man and I went to my office every day and I had a brown briefcase and...' It was very detailed and he had never heard of a briefcase but described it perfectly.'
Fast forward several years until our second son is about the same age when one day he has a full blown meltdown and demands to be returned to his family in China. He says he can't take it any more, he misses them so much and demands that we get in the car and drive to China (we live on an island, this isn't happening--also, he's Caucasian and has blonde hair). He'd never been that upset before. For a few years while he was a toddler he would come running if he heard any music that sounded even faintly eastern and would dance to it with moves none of us were familiar with but were certainly similar to Thai and Chinese dances that I've seen since.
So I have to give reincarnation a maybe.
The absolutely creepiest thing either of the boys ever said, though, was during a middle of the night diaper change. When the younger was about a year and a half he woke up and needed changing. So I took him to the changing table in the other room but kept the lights off to try to keep him sleepy in the hopes he'd go back to sleep easily. I change his diaper and lean down to pick him up and he looks me in the eye and whispers "behind you" I didn't need to worry about whether he went back to sleep or not after that.
gH0o5T ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:45:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not one of my kids but my brother.
When I was about 6 and my brother about 4 we used to share a room. He often mumbled while I was trying to sleep. One day I asked him what he was mumbling about the other night, he said he would hear my grandpa calling his name. Sometimes happily giggling and sometimes furiously screaming. Only now I realise how fucked up creepy this is. เฒฅ_เฒฅ
BatmansTaint ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:54:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We lived in this old house that supposedly 2 kids and their mother died in. Some sort of fire killed them and the portion of the damaged house was rebuilt. Now RE: the OP. my little sister was 3 and playing in my parents master bedroom with her little bike (training wheels, streamers, basket etc.) I was in the living room with mom and dad watching TV and we hear her scream bloody murder, that shriek where you know something is wrong or someone is hurt. My parents race to the room and I'm right behind them. My sister is there crying hysterically. My parents are checking her out to see if she was hurt until she says."My bike chased me and wouldn't stop doing it." My sister now has no recollection of this incident but I won't ever forget that one.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:53:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Calvin feels your sister's pain
youstolemyname ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:13:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bikes in houses are always creepy.
Robby712 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:06:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not as creepy as rocking horses. No kid of mine will ever own a wooden, soulless rocking horse.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:57:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Before going to sleep one night my son said, 'I want to go home, Daddy.'
We were already at home.
aintTrollingYou ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 12:15:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When my son was three he got very upset and screamed the following diatribe at me:
"I gonna take you
And put you in a box
And put you away
And you'll be gone
And I will wait
And then I'll dig you up
And I'll look at you
And I'll be HAPPY"
I think I was telling him it was bedtime.
ballzee1 ยท 323 points ยท Posted at 19:18:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"You can't be happy, Dad. You don't know the joy of the Lord." My then 12 year old daughter when she learned I am an atheist last year.
imighthaveapenisidk ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:50:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just wondering, is her mother religious?
ballzee1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:26:14 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
imighthaveapenisidk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:27:48 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What do you think about the fact that your daughter is religious?
ballzee1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:12:49 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not too happy about it, but I trust that she is intelligent enough to one day think for herself.
underthere ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:06:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If not you, who on earth is teaching your child about Jesus?
ireneh ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:02:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Where I live, it's normal to send your kid to Catholic/Episcopal school regardless of your religion because they have better educational programs than public schools. I used to be way more religious than my parents because of this.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:15:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If it's America, particularly the South, it's no surprise that she might pick it up.
ballzee1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:28 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Her mother.
FreddeCheese ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:52:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like quite the preacher.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:42:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I assume her mother is religious or that's just fucking weird.
aCuriousParty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:14:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's very interesting to hear. I often wonder what my kids (if i have any) would think of me if they were raised with some religion in their lives (like if their mother were religious). Did you recently decide you were an atheist, or is her mother religious?
ballzee1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:51 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Her mother is religious.
FreakingNarwhals ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:22:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That probably seemed a lot less creepy in her head. I bet she just rephrasing something she heard at church.
YourCurvyGirlfriend ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:21:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Scariest post in this thread.
ballzee1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:07 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's why I thought it was appropriate.
TheAnneThorne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:53:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That happened when my mother accidentally spilled the beans about my atheism to my 8-year old brother at a family gathering.
Archany ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:41:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm afraid my children will think that about me some day, my fiancee is christian and I'm skeptical about it all, leaning towards atheism
YourAverageWalrus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:16:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I could put out a giant PSA here, but for all the people who want actual information on atheism, particularly the skeptical side of it all, look at /r/TrueAtheism. The other atheist subreddits somewhat lack in content.
armacitis ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:42:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you need to spend more time teaching your daughter about reality.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 23:00:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
please fix her
ballzee1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:22 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Trying to. When she visits me this summer, will be doing a mini-family reunion at my lesbian cousin's house.
corvett ยท -23 points ยท Posted at 22:05:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She's right.
[I'm gonna get downvoted for this.]
AndSunflowers ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 22:20:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're right about one thing.
avacynangelofhope ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:42:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:02:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure I'm happier than 99% of the Christians I've known. And I would just like to assure you that once upon a long time ago, I felt that... Rapture... The feeling of belonging.... The calm self-assurance that I and my brethren were going to heaven. The feeling that makes the super Christians raise their hands towards heaven with their eyes closed, swaying... I felt it, and I realize now it was utter and total bullshit, and I'm much happier now.
mojo996 ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 19:44:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son is 3 and very interested in the family tree. He also likes to make rather inappropriate advances on a stuffed bunny toy. Put bluntly, he likes to hump it (clothed or not).
The other night after his bath he was naked. He went over and started humping the bunny before we had a chance to get him dressed. He looked me straight in the eye, like the boss that he is and asked "Who's your daddy".
CREEPED> THE FUCK::: OUT@@@@@!
DNAbro ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:29:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that made laugh rather than think it was scary
armacitis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tell the other parents in the area to lock up their daughters in ten years.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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armacitis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:26:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Or any other time of year,for that matter.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:08:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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BoughtreeFidee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:32:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's was pretty dick move bro.
toastykitty ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:09:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting my little cousin when she was about four. We were watching t.v. when she asks me for some grapes. I said sure and went to the kitchen to get them. I grabbed four but when i was walking back, i decided to eat one of them. She wouldn't notice one she never had. So i'm back in the room and i hand her the three grapes. She looks at the grapes, then at me and says: "I thought you were going to give me four."
I was so freaked out.
hallowayillustration ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:52:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but was babysitting one time when the 5 year old girl said she had to pee. I said okay, so she went to the bathroom. She started to take a little too long so I walked into sink area to find her speaking an ungodly, unknown language at herself in the mirror. It sounded like possessed, backwards latin and was impressively complicated. It freaked me out even more when I realized she was waiting for responses from her "other" self and then even got mad at her self's answer.
When she realized I was standing there, she slowly turned her head with zero expression on her face, and then pissed herself without blinking.
skivinator ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:23:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son jumped on me and said, "I'm hungry for Dad!" Then bit my toe and yelled, "Yum! I feel like a king."
bekahbv ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:35:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a 16 year old and a 4 year old.
My 16 year old - About a month ago, she came into my room at 3 AM. She was visibly shaking and she told me, "Mom, there is a man in my window." I grabbed my Beretta Px4 Storm, 9mm out of my gun safe and went into her room, gun lowered to my side. I walked to the side of her window, looked out and tried not to scream like a banshee. Sure enough, there was a man outside her window. It was her biological father... He was drunk and wanted to visit his daughter...
4 year old - She's just a strange child. Swears there is a monster hiding in her toy box, a ghost in her jewelry box and a goblin that hides himself on her stuffed animal shelf.
cuddlebuddy012609 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:03 on September 19, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for you for not shooting him in the head. Had there been a man outside my window when I was 16, and if I had lived with my dad, the man probably would have been seriously injured/dead.
Plop_Ploppy ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:43:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother was 4 years old at the time. We were sitting around playing monopoly when he shouted "Tonight there is going to be a huge earthquake, and a lot of damage will happen".
That night the Northridge earthquake happened. He woke up and started screaming "I told you so! I told you so!". lol.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:29 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
haha, that's more funny then creepy ...I told you so:P
NoWittyUsername ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:48:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Has anyone tried to research their family/local history to see if anything happened that matches some of the freakier stuff that children have said?
cas5362 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wanna know this too!!!
deathrockmama ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 09:27:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I asked my year and a half old daughter what she wanted to have for dinner. She stared at me for a moment and then stated, totally dead-pan, mind you, " Baby feet pizza." Then she cackled uproariously for a solid minute straight. I was terrified. Also, amused, but more terrified. We had oatmeal instead.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:58:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my child. I had friends visiting for Memorial Day a few years back, and they brought their gaggle of children along with them. The youngest, maybe 3 or 4 at the time, was standing on the spot where my mother had committed suicide two years earlier. He started to shiver uncontrollably as if it were the middle of winter, when it was nearly 100 degrees (Fahrenheit). I asked him how could be cold when it was so hot. It passed quickly and he said, "She's happy now." I asked him who was happy, but he just smiled and ran to play with his siblings.
randomusername0000 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:07:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I told my sister (while pregnant) that when she had her first the skies would darken and cities would fall. This was HALF in jest, if you knew her, and the father, you would understand.
Several months later my father yells up to my room, your sister is in labor and we are under attack. It was the morning of 9.11.2001.
Forget most peoples Bdays, not his.
ElysianBlight ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:57:21 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also when I was just learning to talk.. my mom and I were in the car one evening (me in the backseat sleeping in my carseat), and she was driving in the dark on this steep hill. Suddenly, she says, I woke up and started screaming "Stop! Stop!". She was really concerned so she pulled over, just as this crazy drunk driver came barelling over the hill in our lane.
PresidentKitten ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:21:58 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin was quite a bright & active baby and was always entertaining growing up. When he was first learning to speak some sort of complete sentences, his mom was asking his questions to see what his baby response would be... So, one time she decided to ask him what he remembers from his past... like when he was born, etc. And she specifically asked him "Do you remember being in mommy's belly" My cousin responded "Yes mommy, but I died because you weren't ready for me yet."
My aunt suffered a miscarriage before having him...
[deleted] ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 22:11:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's a powerfully powerfull curse. She must have been pushed right up to her limits, and in fear at some point in her previous life. It doesn't really sound like it turned out well that time.
Be a good dad and you can wipe that slate clean for her forever.
EmilieAnomalie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, I'm eating Pez right now!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like the yellow ones the most. ;)
EmilieAnomalie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Would that be lemon? I was eating strawberry but now they're all gone and I'm sad.
Jesus_luvs_Jenkem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, have you heard this verse before?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
what a lovely poem
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 19:51:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Nomnombunny ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:57:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Great parenting skills there...
iAlrdyReddit ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 19:59:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I smoke because its cool" - said by my 14 year old.
Robby712 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:31:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
upvote you, downvote your 14 year old.
I_am_not_a_gun ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 20:44:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parents, but I used to work in a daycare. Outside on the playground a bunch of preschool girls tackled me to the ground. They then surrounded me and began to mime a stabbing motion at me all the while chanting "KNIFE. KNIFE. KNIFE. KNIFE. KNIFE"
armacitis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well you're not a gun,does that mean you're a knife?
I_am_not_a_gun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I suppose so. Y'know how honest preschoolers are. Calling 'em as they see 'em.
alyssalee129 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 23:40:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Took my goddaughter to lunch on her last day of school, we got settled at the table and I told her that she could order whatever she wanted. The waitress approached the table and asked what we'd like to drink. In the most adult voice a 5 year old could do she says, "Yes, I'll take a glass of wine."
QuillJS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:44:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope she said it in a super snooty and classy voice.
alyssalee129 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh but of course she did!
mgriff2k4 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 23:53:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL i dont want kids
callipygos ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:59:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me that when I was around four, I woke up every night for a week at exactly midnight, screamed for ten minutes, and then fell right back asleep without remembering it in the morning.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:20:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was about 3 some of his favorite toys were these little plastic lizards that came in a bag. Like something from the supermarket toy aisle.
One day I see he's got all the lizards arranged in a circle except of one that was laying on its back in the middle of the circle. I asked him what was going on and he says "That one's dead and they're all looking at him."
philosophaster ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:26:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about ten and my brother eight, we took a family vacation to Colorado Springs. At one point we all went out on a little hike. My brother and I had a great time climbing rocks, jumping off them, running around. Our parents weren't quite as enthusiastic about it as we were though. After a bunch of complaining, Mom gives us permission to go on ahead without them, but be careful. As far as I can recall, we didn't even plan it, we were just on the same wavelength... should we take this opportunity of being off on our own in the Rockies and use it for evil? Yes. We promptly ran away until we were out of sight and let loose a couple of blood-curdling screams. Yeah, the 'rents were scared out of their minds and we were hysterical with laughter. Until we got home and they grounded us for a month.
hmmmyellow ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:37:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I work at a summer camp so I'm around kids most of the day. Yes, it is terrifying. This sort of thing happens all the time. One day this one kid was acting up and I punished him, had him write lines. (not the best form of punishment, but i digress) He says he's done, and I pick up the page and start reading the lines. it starts "I will not hit other people" and about 1/2 way through it changes to I will hit other people, then I will kill other people, and the last lines read "I will kill everyone"
Normal happy kid usually. I suppose he had a bad day. Still kind of scary
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:14:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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what_the_duck_chuck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:19:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL the Saturn rings are made of ice.
Monkthemonkey ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:17:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little cousin was playing with some blocks one time. I was the only other person in the room. He stopped playing and asked me how old I was. I told him 12 (he was 4). He thought for a moment and then laughed. I asked him why he was laughing and he said, "one day I'm going to be older than you." I told him I would always be older than him. He replied with, "not after you die." He was freaking 4 years old and creeped me out. Also, I'm still older than him, for now.
Robby712 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You need to take the lil sonofabitch out now while you still can.
iiDurham ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:04:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you all.... I'm not sleeping tonight
plasmafire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep is overrated anyways.
sushilism ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:10:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend named Jesse. She was my age at the time, 5 or 6, and completely normal. Blonde hair always in a ponytail, and her favorite color was pink.
Except she had no arms or legs.
One night my parents asked me why she had no arms or legs. I told them that she had lived in our apartment previously and was having a sleepover with some friends. Then a man broke in and killed them all and cut off her arms and legs. My parents never mentioned it again.
She also had 100 brothers who all slept in the same bed, stacked on top of one another.
Oh, imagination.
Slasken ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:30:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Imagination
Well...
raegunXD ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:34:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What.
Trishlovesdolphins ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:04:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I posted this in a comment reply way down, but I thought I'd add it to the main thread.
My brother and I used to share a room. I was on the top bunk, his was the bottom. One night, about 2 or 3 in the morning, he says, "Who's that?" Then, started screaming bloody murder. Wanted to call the cops, whole nine yards. He was about 7 I was 9/10 at the time. According to him, a man was standing over my mother in her bed, holding something over her face. When he asked who it was, the "man" turned to look at him with a demon mask on and red glowing eyes.
My brother is 30, and to this day if you mention it he can't sleep at night. Even freakier, is years later, my mother told me that that night, she felt like something was suffocating her, but every time she tried to get up, something would shove her back down. She made me swear to never tell my brother.
derpbear ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:11:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Happened to me aswell. Similar thing, guy in a demon mask with red glowing eyes just standing in the corner of the room staring at me. Yelled out for parents to come and dad switched the light on, thing disappears.
Same thing happened months later, my dad being a minister at the time had told me to say a certain christian phrase to it, and it disappeared.
I dont understand how people can completely deny supernatural stuff.
Trishlovesdolphins ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:14:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My bio father was a minister too. I've seen some weird unexplainable shit. I don't know if our concept of God is right, but I do think there is good and evil, and I think there are a lot of things that can't be explained unless you take that into account. My mom says when I was little, I used to tell her I didn't want to go to bed because the ghosts would get me. Probably something I watched on tv, but to this day, I can't go to sleep in a house by myself.
timefornothing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:30 on July 10, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
what was the phrase? lord's prayer?
derpbear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:48 on October 11, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth be gone"
msf5042 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:06:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is something my friend actually said to his mom...
On 9/11, his mom was driving him to school and out of nowhere he asked her how long she thought it would take someone to run down the stairs from the top story of the World Trade Center.
After the first plane hit she showed up at school to ask him why he asked that.
Potential_Pandemic ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:41:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent but a few years ago my younger siblings (3, 5, and 7 at the time) were playing outside and they came in and said that they just chased a big dog into the woods. Fun imagination time, right?
That night, our neighbor took a photo of a 800-1000lb grizzly bear in his garage.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Horribly unsettling.
GizmoMo ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:22:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin has a daughter who is now like 15 or something, but at the time of her creepy statement she was probably 2 or 3. Well she went into the bathroom all by herself and started brushing her teeth with such confidence, now this probably doesn't sound that weird but it was because my cousin would normally bring her in the bathroom and brush her teeth for her. When my cousin asked her "who showed you how to do all of this?" my cousins daughters reply was "Grandpa Cookie". Grandpa Cookie was my cousins grandfather who had died when she was a little girl and was never spoken about because he had passed so long ago. When my cousin asked her where she met him her daughter said "Last night he taught me how to brush my teeth and he made me breakfast." These are the exact two things my cousin would do every morning she spent with Grandpa Cookie, he would make her breakfast, then help her brush her teeth.
razzberries ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 19:45:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my own child, but my niece. We had just moved into our new home and had heard some little sounds we thought were nothing. We came to the joking conclusion that the old lady who used to live there was still there watching us and she liked kids. Every time a child was in our house, they would stare up in this particular corner in the den and smile or giggle. So, my niece comes in from Colorado and her first night we are all watching tv in the living room. Suddenly, she jumps up and runs to that corner in the den saying "Hi! Hello!, Hi!" Then we go ask her what she's doing and she says she's saying hi to the lady. Then, about a year later, my little cousin is sitting in the den with my mom and looks into the kitchen and says "there's a girl in the kitchen and she's going to kick your ass." Then, he said the girl looked like a grandma. She never kicked my mom's ass though.
MsSupa ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 19:55:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I was 6 or so the first time I watched Poltergeist, my mom didn't know that I had watched it. I woke up in the middle of the night one night, and turned on the tv. It happened to be static, then I heard my mom getting up so I just sat down and waited. When she got into the living room and asked what I was doing, I turned my head really slowly and said "They're here". I've never seen anyone panic like that before or since. Best prank I've ever pulled.
Edit: Hubby was talking to me while I was typing, I'm very sorry. Am I forgiven?
NTesla ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:12:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. I'm really sorry, but it's 'they're'. I can't help it. No one can own 'here'. :/
TheGrizzlyMan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
our 'here'
mb86 ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 19:37:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm pregnant."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ooooo that's gotta hurt
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:01:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Technically I didn't say anything, but I think this applies. I used to creep into my parents' room in the middle of the night if I couldn't sleep. I'd stand over my father, mere centimeters from his face, long, dark hair falling in front of my own, completely silent, until he'd wake up. He swears I did this three or four times a week, and he literally pissed himself in fear a few times.
biddee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:30:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter has done this once or twice.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:44:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ConradFerguson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:34:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for "if I get one."
turkeenek ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 00:15:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was picking my 5 yr old daughter up from school. And we always talk a little mess back and forth. And I say something along the lines of "well your butt smells" she looks me straight in the eyes and says "oh yeah well your family is all dead and you don't have a home and nobody at your work is your friend" deepest burn I ever got...and its from my kid. Part of me was proud...
lilybelle73 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:36:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Michael Kelso is that you?
raegunXD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yikes.
Brendido ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:30:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a lot younger, I used to get night terrors every night. I remember seeing really creepy shit walking around in my room, like giant ape men and huge spiders, shit like that. It started when I was about 8 years old, but it scared the shit out of my parents because they thought I was possessed or something. Sometimes I'd do really random shit, like walk out of my room, throw my glass of water in the garbage and say "this apple it dirty". You could imagine my parents reaction when I run out of the room, screaming like a maniac, talking nonsense about bugs and random creepers in my room.
she-said ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:31:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting this 3 yr old and out of the blue she said, "this is my favorite outfit. I'm gonna die in this outfit. Are you gonna die in that outfit?"
I certainly hope not, was the only response I had.
kromyt ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:34:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a story about something my mom said to her mother.
My mom was about 4 years old. Her mother was giving her a bath one evening. Apparently in the middle of having her hair washed she announced "Momma, there is something under my bed." "What is under your bed?" "I don't know Momma, but it is GREAT BIG!"
My grandmother said she felt every hair on her head stand on end. She proceeded to turn on every light in the house, get the broom from the kitchen and prepared to do battle with the "GREAT BIG under the bed." She wailed and flailed under her daughter's bed with the broom until the "GREAT BIG" came out on the other side...and happened to be my mother's "Dance With Me" doll that was made to strap to a child's feet and they could dance with it...which my 4 year old mother promptly did while her mother tried to get her heart to stop trying to come out of her chest.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:07:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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sweetwallawalla ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:22:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So, it creeps me out that Superfish1984's kid had an imaginary friend named Dodo as well...
My daughter had some imaginary friends for a couple years named Dodo, Ghana & The Evil. They just sort of appeared out of nowhere when she was about 2.5 years old. It started with Dodo and Ghana, then a few months later (she was about 3 at this point) she came up to me and told me with a creepily expressionless face: "The Evil is coming over today" and just walked away.
Turns out, The Evil was actually a pretty nice imaginary friend, she just had an unfortunate name.
Naezwood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. That's...really creepy!
GoodLuckStevesy ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:43:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What I have learned from this thread: kids definitely interact with ghosts on the regular, being a mom is probably going to include some creepy ass moments.
Pellicius ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:09:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was three or four I came down with a fever and had this super intense lucid fever dream that basically consisted of my brother having died somehow and me being at his funeral. I woke up and walked into the kitchen where my brother and parents were and stared at them for a while. My mom turned around and asked me if I was feeling better, to this I replied: "Why are you keeping my brother around, he's dead." And for the rest of the evening I wouldn't acknowledge my brother's existence because I seriously thought he was dead and they were operating him like a puppet to fool me that he was still alive. TL;DR: I thought my brother was dead and my parents were using him as a puppet.
justimpolite ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:33:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be a pseudo-nanny to a young autistic girl. When she was quite young her mother got her a bunny, Cleo, who died when she was about a year old. Around the same time, over the course of a few weeks, several deer were found dead in a woodsy area behind their house. DNR said they were killed by another animal, but that they didn't feel there was any safety concern at the time.
The family got a replacement bunny and obviously didn't want the kid to know what happened. The replacement bunny lived a long and happy life.
When the girl was around five, we were feeding the replacement bunny. She went to fill the water bottle, stopped halfway to the house and asked, "Do you think the woman who killed all the deer killed the real Cleo, too?"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:12 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
have I read this before..did you post it already?
justimpolite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:28 on July 25, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep! There was another "creepy something something kids" thread.
Bendrake ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:44:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is something I said to my parents when I was 5 years old.
They told me we were moving out of our house in a few months. I then proceeded to ask them, "when we leave, will our faces be in the walls, too?"
My mom said, "what do you mean Bendrake?"
To which I answered, "the people who used to live here left their faces in the walls."
5_10 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:52:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 22 year old girlfriend passed away, nobody knew how to explain that to her 3 year old son. Her sister is looking after him, and he came down after a nap, telling us about his dream and how an angel named Sara came and took mommy away to live with her in the sky. Nobody had told him anything yet because we didn't know what to say. Her and her family are far from religious, so how he knew what an angel was is beyond me.
Phoenix_92 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:56:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wow, really makes you wonder man... And I'm not that religious either.
othergallow ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:51:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My second daughter, starting about when she could talk (2ish), had all kinds of stories about her "old" family, and how she and some of them had died in a fire. It was especially creepy because her story was pretty consistent- she held details about the story for at least a year... made-up stuff generally isn't that persistent.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:02:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"There's a monster in my closet." Nigga, you gotta deal with that shit on your own.
Hamerd ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:49:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My niece asked my sister one time about my mother. She asked her,"Mom, your mom is in heaven right?" My sister said yes, then she said,"Yea, i know. Shes beautiful and talks to me all the time." She told me in passing once but we never thought anything of it.
A few weeks later im horsing around with me niece and she calls me by my childhood nickname my mother used to call me. No ones used it since before my mother died years ago. Me and my sister just looked at each other.
I also remember when I was young i would have memorys that seemed out of place. Like they happened before I was born. I remember telling my mother that there was nothing but blackness before and after the memory. Id always swore to myself id never forget them, but by the time I was 9 i only remembered the experience.
sstephens93 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:58:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid (somewhere around 5 years old I think) my grandmother had to undergo some sort of surgery. I don't remember much about it beside the fact that it was suppose to be pretty serious and there was a chance that she might not live through it. Throughout the whole ordeal I was calm and collected, and my family couldn't understand why (they were all an emotional wreck). I guess I told them that I talked to a man under our tree and he told me my grandma would be OK. According to my mom I apparently described the man as my grandmother's father who had died a few years before I was born. Long story short, she lived through the surgery (and is still alive) and I have a cool story because of it.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:13:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not our kids (we don't have kids), but my wife was at work at Sam's Club and went into the restroom. She was in the stall when this little boy comes in all by himself, goes into the stall next to her and whispers, I guess to no one in particular, "what's your favorite scary movie?". When no one answers after a few seconds he whispers "what is it??". A few seconds of silence passes again as my wife is kind of freaking out right about then. The little boy then whispers "FINE! I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL!" and then proceeds to sing the Elmo's world theme song followed by the "I love you, you love me..." Barney song. At this point a group of women enter the restroom and my wife quickly gets the fuck out of there.
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:42:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:26:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So you and a friend saw a guy who looked like your dad fishing and when you came back he left? I don't get it...
TheCannon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But he was FISHING DUDE
DownloadableCheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:52:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dock? Porch? WHICH IS IT
alexjpg ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:21:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just asked my mom if I did anything creepy when I was little. She gave an emphatic "no!" and said even if I did she wouldn't want me posting it on the internet in case an employer was trying to "track me down". Parents these days.
F_gAy_G ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:47:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I asked my parents, and they both said that when I was 4 or 5 I would stand at the side of their bed and watch them sleep. Exactly like paranormal activity.
mrsMK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, I used to do that to my parents all the time. Mostly my dad because I knew he would sense I was there and wake up. I thought I was being nice by not talking to wake them up, but really I was just scaring the bejeezus out of them.
gjinx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:21:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my boyfriend has a cousin who use to say very scary things when they were kids. She would talk about ghosts and people and shadows. She would talk about talking to them and about who they were. She was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Green_Ninja_Muncher ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:32:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My step sister used to have very bad night terrors.
When she was about 4, she saw The Ring.
There were no signs that this movie scarred her, but after about a year, when she entered kindergarten, we noticed all her pictures, no matter what they were of, had a little girl with long black hair in it. Her mother asked her "Is that x?" (x being me, I had long black hair at the time.) and she would say "No.. it's the little girl in the well. x won't be here for much longer."
Ok, so that was creepy, but nothing too bad for a little girl scarred by a horror movie. After a few months, though, she started having night terrors.. she would sit in the corner of her room, sobbing, staring at the closet. When someone would try and comfort her, she would grab them tight or scream for them to get out while they could. When someone asked what was wrong, she would say the girl with the black hair was there.. and point to the corner.
Ok, so even that isn't that creepy, I guess. Little girls have wild imaginations. The really creepy part? She would wake up the next morning scratched and bruised in places she couldn't have done herself. Once, a giant welt in the form of a handprint on her back. We thought maybe someone was hitting her, but we couldn't imagine who would be beating her in the middle of the night for no reason.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:39:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Green_Ninja_Muncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My step sister? Platinum blonde hair with the palest blue eyes you can imagine.
Thinks_Like_A_Man ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:32:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Four year-old daughter: "Mommy, you're so incontinent."
Pork_Chap ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:39:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was ~22mo old, we were driving back from the store one day. Driving on an overpass that crosses a 6 lane highway, she said happily, "They're all dead." I replied, "What, Honey?" She repeated, "They're all dead." As I was trying to figure out why she would possibly say that, it hit me that a man had climbed the fence and jumped into oncoming traffic from the overpass less than 2 weeks before. The rest of that ride was very quiet.
_stenchman_ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:40:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I still live with my mother and every Saturday my 6 y/o niece stays. I got up Sunday and walk downstairs and on the stair rail was a teddy hanging by its neck in a make shift noose.
"Her neck is broken!" she said in the most ecstatic tone I have ever heard.
funkadelicfunk ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:17:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5 year old little cousin and her family came to stay with me for a few days. One night she was telling me about "a big scary black thing" that would come and try to choke her. I thought she was just being 5 and making things up so I just asked her of this thing was a person and she said she didn't know. A few nights later I find her by the window and she is crying and I asked her what's wrong. So she points outside the window and says "he's here and he won't stop looking through the window; he's coming" I didn't see anything outside but it scared the crap out of me.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:29:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was on ADHD meds when I was a kid. I was on Dexedrine 100mg. My mother accidentally dosed me twice thinking I had not had my dose that day. I got high as fuck. I ran into my house and up the stairs and yelled at my mother that this entire life was just a dream and as much as it sucked I didn't want to wake up, I told her I knew what was going to happen and I wasn't afraid I just wanted this reality to be the real one and I was afraid I would wake up in a different reality. I felt like I was awaking from a dream. I went to the hospital and everything had an ECG and they found out I had double dosed on Amphetamines. My mom still asks me to this day what I mean when I said "I know it sucks but I don't want to wake up". The part that tripped her out was the whats going to happen part. Right afterwards her boyfriend died from a stroke and my brother was hit by a car. She still thinks I was able to see that happen. I still tell her she is full of shit.
I really don't even know what I meant.
spwmoni ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I N C E P T I O N
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:04:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son is two and a half. A couple of weeks ago, we're all in his room, playing blocks, when out of nowhere, he says to my husband and me, in this really weird, creepy, sing-song voice, "There come the monsters!" ending with a weird, upper inflection.
It was totally creepy. After exchanging uneasy glances, I laughed because I remembered my husband had recently installed the Sesame Street "Another Monster at the End of the Book" app on his work's iPad. I'm pretty sure he was speaking like Elmo.
chimerar ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:46:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a toddler, my mom was showing me a photo album of our family, and we came across a picture of her dad, who died before I was born. She started explaining who he was, and I said, "I know him! He visits me in dreams!" Then I told her all about him.
kourogi ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:55:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
"I'm going to eat your soul." In a very creepy voice. He was 3 at the time and spent too much time with his uncles. He's still pretty weird though.
Edit: I just mentioned this too him and he said, "it's still going to happen, someday I'll come to collect."
Such a wonderful son I have.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:03:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My younger sister woke me up in the middle of the night when she was around the same age and also said "I'm going to eat your soul," then went right back to sleep.
Hmf. I had to go sleep on the couch.
Mochacina ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:28:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't have kids, but my parents told me that when my sister was little, she'd draw weird shapes on the walls and when anyone asked her what she was doing, she would stare straight at the expressionless and say "this house has ghosts."
She was probably 4 or 5 at the time, but there had been a lot of deaths on that property over time.
soyesterday ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:26:39 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was 3, we were conversing while she tried to use the potty. I was going to sit down on the edge of the tub, but she told me I couldn't - her friend was already sitting there. I asked her to tell me about her friend, who she then described as sad, and "big like mommy not little like me." She went on to tell me that her friend was sad because she fell in the tub and has a big boo-boo on the side of her head and has to live in the bathroom now.
alesub ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:12:58 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"With fire, everything is possible" - My 4 year old son, while I was pouring a glass of milk for him.
Pinkiepie69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:28 on July 21, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a knew found catchphrase
NotHereToArgue ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:14:00 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Both my sister and my son both slept with their eyes open when they were young. Doesn't sound creepy....until you've seen it.
phridoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:07:57 on August 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did the same thing. Creeped my dad out like whoa.
hypno_tode ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 19:29:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was about 8, she went out to play in the front yard by the garage. I had parked the car outside the night before. She came in and said, "Mommy, there's an angel on your car."
Turns out some kids had put a neighbor's angel statue on my hood as a prank.
Creeped me out when she said that, though.
Michi_THE_Awesome ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 22:06:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently I was the creepy child. I'd say and do things that a "normal" five year old wouldn't.
My Barbies all had high powered careers as doctors, spies and lawyers. Of course sometimes Ken raped them, or they'd get to deep with the mob and were whacked. Sometimes they doctor would start abusing drugs and OD or the lawyer committed suicide.
Sometimes I'd pretend my dollies were my babies and I was the mom. Normal right? Well my mom would ask me how it was going and it was always terrible. My husband the police officer would be shot in the line of duty and now I am widowed. I had to raise these two little girls on my own , and I don't know how I'm going to pay my bills.
Robby712 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:08:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story makes me want to hang out with you...is that weird?
Michi_THE_Awesome ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:19:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, besides being a little weird every once in a while is good. =)
thatspoop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:01:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HAHAHAHA, I did the same weird stuff all the time. Make my barbies get raped, kidnapped, and murdered. I was like 9 or 10 to at the time. Me and my brother and cousins would play this game that we were slave children and had to poison are imaginery abusive father. Or we were indians and have to run away and live on our own from hunters that would beat/rape us.
I had such a warped mind as a kid.
Rodents210 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am a guy who played with my mom's old Barbies (she had me at 18 so we kept them around especially since my youngest aunt was still around 8 or so at the time, and then I liked to play with them so they weren't thrown out). I had decided that they were misandrists and they constantly murdered Ken on our treadmill, which to me was a river of hot tar where Ken would never be found again. I had one Ken and, in the beginning, one Skipper, but when I was around 5 or 6 at my begging my grandmother bought me my own Barbie. I kind of hope she didn't get thrown away because I had some good memories with her and wouldn't mind giving her to one of my kids if I ever have any.
BoughtreeFidee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:41:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How did your life turn out?
Michi_THE_Awesome ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:58:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good? I'm not done living it so we'll see in the end. I'm a firm believer in parental control when it comes to television now. There are things that were on the TV that I should NOT have been able to see.
BoughtreeFidee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha Well, I definitely hope you aren't done living it or this convo would be the next level of creepy. Did your life end up like any of your scenarios is what I meant to ask.
Michi_THE_Awesome ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You mean like whacked off by the mob or widowed? SO is still alive (for now) and no. Although I do sometimes abuse my cold medicines when I'm having trouble falling and staying asleep.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I gave my nephew GTA3 when he was 7...he's turned out really well so far though...ya! /And that's with my manic/depressive sister...so...GTA3 is good!
Michi_THE_Awesome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
GTA3?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Grand theft auto 3.
410LaxMD ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:13:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Story of me as a kid: I just remember what happened to me as a kid going through a lot of these stories. Here's what happened to me and my dad, I was age 10 approximately. My dad's mother had just died, and my dad was having horrible night terrors. Ones where my mom would wake up, my brother (approx 16 at the time) would wake up from down the hall and go see what would happen. My mom would be in tears and my brother told me he almost broke down one of the times. Supposedly my dad would be talking to his dad who died about 6 years prior, and it was pretty frightening. He would then switch and start talking to his mom. I think they were both more sad for my dad than scared. I slept through all of this, but really wish I had gotten to experience something like this. Now this is where the good stuff gets to happen..
It was about a week later, my dad was well informed about his sleep issues, as my mom told him as soon as he'd wake up from getting to loud or scaring himself awake. I asked my dad what he would see/hear/and everything, and he said that he saw his dad floating above him while he was "awake" in bed (he was "awake" but really sleeping and dreaming in case you got confused). He told me him and his dad had a conversation and told him a lot of things that my dad had wondered and wanted to know (he never told me to this day exactly what). My dad then went on about how he told his father to tell his mother he loved her and misses her, but that he's happy they're together again. Then, perfect timing, our phone rings, and my dad picks it up. It's his brother, my uncle Butch. Uncle Butch tells my dad that he had horrible night terror the night before (he was a truck driver and had the horrible night terror in his truck sleeping). He also told my dad that he was so messed up he couldn't go back to sleep, so started driving but fell asleep behind the wheel, and when he was asleep he heard their dad's voice, and felt a hand pull his hand to get his truck back on the road (he was almost off the road, but he said it wasn't like he was going into a ditch quite yet).
Okay so now we have my dad and his brother having horrible dreams. My dad just got off the phone with my uncle, relays it to my mom, brother, and I. Brother says they're crazy and just having bad dreams. Mom just thinks it's a coincidence, but she does believe in ghosts. I think ghosts are fake and stupid. I ask my dad if he believes in ghosts.. he says that he believes in them, and that he's had experiences with ghosts in a child-hood friends home. I tell him he's crazy, he says that it's up to me to decide if I believe in them or not and that most people probably would think he's crazy for this story.
As soon as he says that, a huge stack of papers on my kitchen table (my mom does work in HR, and had to bring home time sheets, documents, and other random papers from her work to sign off or whatever... I'm talking about probably 4 huge stacks of paper topped with random items from daily living) go FLYING off the table. Nobody was near them except me and my dad, and we were still about 10 ft from the table they were on. They went completely sideways about 3 feet into a wall and of course dropped. I looked dead at my dad and he was wide-eyed as I have ever seen him. He looked down at me, gave one single huff of air, almost chuckle like, shook his head, and said "see... stuff like that happens for no reason.."
Oddly enough I wasn't even scared. In my head, I thought at worst, it was a ghost... but of my grandmother that I loved. So it wasn't scary as it was fascinating.. Don't get me wrong, I didn't go pick the papers up, I stood frozen in spectacle. Nothing else happened, my dad had a few more dreams, but they stopped. His two sisters also had dreams, as well as his sisters daughter who is (I think) 15 years younger than my dad.
I'm all for saying they were strange coincidences, but honestly... I think this was just one coincidence too many, and too perfectly timed. My dad had absolutely nothing to do with it, and I know this simply because our table was more of a storage unit that only my mom used from work... my dad never went near there, and had no time to plan something like that.
Idk, I'll let you guys decide and give your opinions, but that's the only experience close to something I've been reading in this thread.
TL;DR Dad's mom died, sees dead mom and dad in dream, so do his siblings, when I ask about what happened in dream and ask if he believes in ghosts, things in kitchen go flying.
Also, I'd be willing to answer any questions, this was a super long post, but I remember it really vividly and can answer almost anything you guys have to ask about it.
Edit: Sorry about how long this is... I just didn't want to leave anything out... that's what she said....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you fully believe in ghosts now? I am a "true believer" having seen items move/turn on by themselves as a kid and then as an adult seeing full apparitions and receiving mental images that turn out to be very meaningful to my friends/acquaintances. I'm interested to hear about progression from disbelief to belief.
410LaxMD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely believe there's something out there. I don't know if it's "ghosts" like we think of it... late family members, those such things... And I'm not religious at all, so I'm not sure the religious standpoint of demons and things like that convince me at all... But I do believe something is out there, some kind of force, I just don't know what. Maybe it is one (or both) of those things aforementioned.
roastedbeef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tell me more.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:34:30 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You begin by meditating; get a completely blank mind. Then, if you had the intention of receiving messages prior to meditating you will start seeing fleeting images. Try to hold on to them. Some will be very weird. Write everything down then ask people closest to you if what you saw means anything to them. Usually it's the "weird things" that validate the image of whatever person/place/object you saw to ensure that you're not just generalizing. The more you do it, then more you get a sense of who the message is for (instead of asking around) and you get better, more specific info that is highly personal/private and only relates to one possible person who has passed away.
roastedbeef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:40 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. Interesting! Thanks for the info
argg ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:50:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son who was born 26 weeks after losing a twin sister in utero, has later told us that he died a little bit in the hospital. He's also said his sister comes and visits him and she blows bubbles.
maddoxnelson ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:28:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents say that whenever I saw an elderly person, I would say, "You're old. You're going to die soon."
I was such a little shit...
WorkingMan512 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:47:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, all these stories make me think we see real supernatural stuff but as we get older and are constantly told it isn't real, our minds just refuse to accept it as reality and we don't acknowledge it
shoes_of_mackerel ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 20:19:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
More likely: young, plastic minds are developing conceptions of reality more rapidly and are more likely to make mistakes. I saw and heard weird shit as a kid - especially at night - but now I can recognise that lots of it was the result of night terrors and the like. I've experienced these as an adult too but less frequently and with a more rational mind. Children are more likely to experience hypnogogic hallucinations and they are coming to terms with a whole existence that we take - for the most part - for granted.
s0nicfreak ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:54:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But how do you explain multiple kids that don't know each other seeing the same thing?
shoes_of_mackerel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably from a common experience of some kind. I'm not a pyschologist but it still seems more likely than ghosts and monsters that only appear to children.
seanwillsalt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:20:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, as a kid I'd frequently be convinced that I saw/heard something really creepy in the middle of the night. Now I know enough to recognise that I get semi-frequent bouts of sleep paralysis and occasionally have auditory/visual hallucinations with it. It's no longer frightening.
shaqfearsyao ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In the Hmong culture, there's a superstition that says kids who haven't had their first baby tooth taken out yet can see ghosts. Scary stuff there.
JoshuaZ1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, I've gotten hypnogogic hallucinations and night terrors and other weird crap since I was a little kid. I've seen demons, ghosts, skeletons, aliens, and the Borg among other things. They still happen now. They are really freaky when they do occur. A not uncommon thought process even now is "ok, I know in the past it was just sleep paralysis with some hallucinations but this time its so scary it must be real!". Now, apply that to a little kid who has no reason to not trust their sensory input.
That, along with parents asking leading questions (see the story about the Digger given above for example), and parents remembering the creepy details that fit in some way and forgetting the other details (a common problem also with psychics) and that explains most of this.
Of course, even if one has a rational explanation, they're still pretty creepy.
enharet ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:34:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 6 year old niece, who is a total sweetheart and adorbs, was changing into her jammies after her bath one night. Her hair was hanging in the cutest ringlets and she smelled like lotion and strawberry bubble bath. I was sitting on the floor playing a game with another niece. The 6 year old comes up behind me, puts her arms around my neck and hugs me, She kisses me on the cheek and hangs out for a minute before whispering, "I could kill you right now."
The kid is an evil genius.
Pwnagez ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 20:42:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm never going to have kids.
heartofthechains ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 19:32:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but when my sister was 5 or 6 she found a butter knife in the kitchen and took it to her room. I went to see what she was doing, loud noises coming from her room, and she was jumping on the bed with the knife. I said, "Give me that, what are you doing with that knife?" and she looked at me and she said, "Imma cut you head off with this." At first I thought it was funny and just took it from her, but later I was thinking where did she learn that phrase and could she possibly have done it? She's 10 and perfectly normal and doesn't remember that all.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok she couldn't have done it a butter knife is nowhere near sharp enough.
Robby712 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She was an ex con in a previous life.
grussfish ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:50:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This has nothing to do with kids, but is relevant because it happened two seconds ago as I'm reading this thread and getting creeped the fuck out.
My boyfriend absent-mindedly offers me a bottle of Gatorade as I'm reading about kids who see dead grandmas, goes "Want some?" and I take a drink. As soon as I hand it back to him, he says, completely deadpan, "Now we die together."
Fuck me, right.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:02:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother woke up my mom one night and asked 'whose feet are at the end of my bed?'
steelflower ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:09:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was around 2-3 years old, I would tell my parents that they were not my parents and that I lived in a blue house that caught on fire. They would ask me where the house was located. I would say "Newtown." (Newtown was a town located about 5-10 minutes away from where I was born/living)
roastedbeef ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:21:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know, you should really dig into if any blue houses burned down around that time.
zombiekingj ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:31:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While on summer vacation I used to watch my uncle's kids every weekend at the end of the month at my house but I decided it was easier for me to watch them at there home. Everything was going pretty good until night came and the kids left the television room and stood in the other room I kept asking them to come back into the room but they refused and after a while I was getting frustrated and asked them why they didnt want to watch tv. The kids looked nervous and I asked the oldest sister who was 4 at the time what was wrong, she then told me the old man on the chair didnt like us being in his room and wanted us out. Just to say my skin turned white with goosebumps as I decided to head to a different room.
FanofPawl ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:41:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 9 year old sister randomly said the other day "If you guys decide to eat me one day, make sure to eat my head first because I don't want to watch the rest." Where the fuck does she get this stuff from?
1girl2cats ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:46:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me that when I was little, after my great grandmother had passed away, she was telling me that she had died, and I replied, "I know." She asked me how I knew and I said, "She told me."
Karmamechanic ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:57:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Mommy only chokes me when I break the window.", uttered spontaneously by my ( then ) 4 yo son. Inquisition followed.
KarmaBender ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:57 on July 19, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. This man is my father.
zarmala ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:01:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a little cousin who was mad one day because us older people left her and the other younger kids to go see a movie.
When we came back, she was in a terrible mood. She was quiet for awhile before she turned to me and asked, "Zarmala, when are you going to die?"
I answered, "Not for a long time, I hope."
She seemed to be thinking hard about something. Then she said, "Well then, can you go drink some poison?"
snapdragons ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:24:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is more contextually creepy. I was probably about 15 and babysitting a little girl one day, she was between 3 and 4. Not in school yet but could talk. We had a pretty normal evening, played with toys, ate some mac and cheese and then watched a video about baby animals. All the sudden, when we were sitting on the couch, she turned to me and said "You're a bad girl, I hate you. you were mean to me." I responded "Katie, I don't think I was mean to you.. what's wrong?" and she replied "You're bad and mean. You burned me with boiling water. You boiled water and put me in it and burned all my skin and I'm telling mommy and daddy on you." Keep in mind I hadn't given her a bath or done anything more than have her wash her hands before dinner. She went on to tell me how I burned her with boiling water and fire. I was absolutely petrified because 1. this all came out of nowhere, and 2. I was convinced she was going to tell her parents that I had been abusing her somehow. About 20 minutes later, she snapped out of it and acted like nothing happened. I told her parents what had gone on when they got home and they seemed really embarrassed and said something about how they were sorry about it, and thought she was over that habit. never got asked to babysit for them again, though.
Oh, and creepy side story - when the little girl was showing me around the house (before she went crazy), we went into the guest room and she said "This is the room for the baby in mommy's tummy! Katie's room, mommy and daddy's room, baby's room". I mentioned to parents that she had let the news slip about the baby, and congratulated them. Apparently they hadn't told her yet that she was going to be a big sister. Weird little girl.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:26:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a friend who moved to a new flat. The flat was slightly creepy. One day her 4 year old son walked in and said "Mummy, why is the man with the long nails digging in the hall?"
Bricks were shat.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:33:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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sophelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:39 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you live in a town called Gatlin, perchance? They may have been trying to figure out your age.
renn187 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:37:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom swears that I scared the living daylights out of her as a child. Haven't seen her in a long time because of a divorce and separtion, but we used to live in a three-story house in Chicago with a back porch with indoor creepy stairs. According to my mom, I refused to go play outside with my cousins and stayed in that back porch in the darkness, using the faint glow of the kitchen light to play with my toys. She thought I was voice-acting for my action figures, when, suddenly, my bike is thrown down the stairs to the basement level, where it's pitch-black. My aunt, my grandma', and my mom all run to me and start asking me why I threw the bike. I cried and swore that I didn't do it. "It wasn't me. It was my hand." My mom responds: "So you did it! Go pick it up!" I reply with, "No! Something grabbed my hand!" Freaked everyone out. Funny thing is, some traumatic things happened with the separation that actually blocked out some of the memories of Chicago. I didn't know about this story until my mom told me a few years back.
TL;DR - As a child, I claimed that something grabbed my hand in a creepy back porch and threw my bike down two sets of stairs into the pitch-black basement level of my childhood home. Creeped out my mom, grandma', and aunt.
KosstDukat ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:46:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, my parents bought a house and we moved in. I started having nightmares about the room in the basement. I remember seeing a woman dead/dying on a couch from some kind of knife wound and seeing a message written on a mirror in blood.
A few years later, I told my mom about the dreams I had, and she told me that a young woman had committed suicide in that house 6 months before we moved in.
Pretty sure my mom was at least a little freaked out.
fastjeff ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:55:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew, when he was a wee lad, used to go about and tell people to "kill yourself".
He's sitting right there, I'll ask him if he remembers and why.... he says, "actually, I can't remember. I think I remember having a dream when somebody said over and over 'kill myself kill myself'. What are you doing?"
Well, I'm typing.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:58:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about five years old, I slept with a stuffed koala. For some reason, its eyes seemed to glow red, and I swore that I could hear it whisper to me the various ways it was going to kill me the moment I went to sleep. For some reason, however, I never got up to put it somewhere else, I was paralyzed with fear. I finally told my mother that my koala was plotting to murder me. She seemed confused, and decided to put it away in my brother's closet. Years later, I opened the closet and there he sat, still staring at me. He was a lot less scary in the daytime.
EPIC_BAGELS9000 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:05:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being 4 and I would always say how I used to be a full grown man. I would talk about things I did "as a man". I don't remember anything about my theoretical past life now however.
BlackyChan ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:04:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter is 2 and said, "The cat bit me..... Fuck."
Murrgazer ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:35:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom says that I would say that I couldn't sleep the night of Christmas Eve because angels were talking to me. She thought that was cute, until I described my late grandfather to her in vivid detail. Then shit got weird and spiritual.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:57:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old nephew said this
"I am a monster, I will eat you and remember your name and taste, one day I will be a king and you will be my rascal and I will die but you will die and I will come back and put fire on the castle"
He also said the following.
"Round and round the happy goldfish goes, when it will stop, nobody knows, one day he will be gone and then I will be happy because he will never hurt me"
PolarBear42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:34:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that first quote generally unnerved me.
ph1992 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:32:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not mine and not a parent. But my sister is a teacher at a school for autism. Name has been changed.
Kayla wasn't sharing her toy. My sister goes over to her and says "Now Kayla, you an either lose the toy or share with Tommy. Which would you like to do?"
Kayla looks at her for a while and says, "I think I'd rather just kill her."
Retro21 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:23:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time my kid and I were making pancakes, and they started getting thinner and thinner as we were running out of ingredients. Was looking forward so much to eating them, and she wanted to make it a competition to see who could eat the most. At first I didn't think it was a good idea, but then thought hell to it, it's a bit of fun and she isn't overweight or anything.
So we started and to my utter disbelief she managed to eat more than me. Yep, got to hand it to her, she totally creped me out.
grim_fandangle ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:34:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few months ago we got home from a trip, and my two year old and I were downstairs playing, not having been upstairs yet. It got to be bedtime, and I was prepping him to go upstairs when he said "first, I want to get a broom and sweep out the lady that's in my bed". I stared at him and asked him to clarify that there was a lady in his bed, and he confirmed. He didn't seem the least bit frightened or concerned, just very matter-of-fact. We got the broom and swept his bed just in case he was right, and he was satisfied afterwards.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:19:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This will get buried, I just know it! According to my mom, I used to have an imaginary friend. His name was Barty and being an only child, he was my only playmate when I was stuck at home. My mom walked by my room and hear me talking and asked "Katy, who are you talking to?" I said, "My friend Barty." She then asked me to describe him and the only thing I said was that he had a dirty rope around his neck.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:23:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My family used to tell stories all the time about my imaginary friend. His name was Andy, and instead of just being a friend - like normal kids - he was my son. Everything about him - from clothing to personality to general looks - was exactly my great-grandfather: who died 20 years before I was born.
There were no family stories about him, or pictures of him, primarily because any time he was mentioned my great-grandmother (who I lived with) would start crying.
I also wouldn't answer to my name, I would only answer to Anna - my great-great-grandmother's name. I would describe doing things that my great-grandfather did in his childhood; and I would often ask why I wasn't in Scotland - occasionally screaming and crying. Whenever I went into these imaginary quests, my Gram would lock herself in her room because they were all too real for her.
Today, I am often told by family that I'm the spitting image of my Great-Great-Grandmother Anna.
Lovely_freak ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:03:03 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sister was 3 and she was running through the house. My mom asked her why she was being so wild, she said she made a new friend, his name was Sebastian, i thought nothing of it. Later that day i tucked her into bed and she asked me to cover her mirror, i asked why because she loved the mirror, she said Sebastian wouldn't stop staring at her. I covered the mirror and asked her about Sebastian She said he was my age (i was 14), and had funny clothes, and he was unique (her exact word) necause he was missing half his face and no eyes. She then looked at me and said "you should remember him, he says he remembers you."
It freaked me the fuck out, my mom thought she only had a nightmare when i told her.
My little sister remembers nothing of Sebastian.
wanttoplayball ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:13:38 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Today my four year old was drawing pictures of her imaginary friends:
Kid: This is Annie, when she was little before she got old.
Me: Hmmm
Kid: This is Alice. Her is dead.
Me: Oh? What happened?
Kid: George was her boyfriend. But now George is my boyfriend.
Me: Let's watch Blue's Clues...
DanyelleTyne ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:26:56 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I scared my mom a lot when I was little. All of this happened before I was 7, we moved when I was 7 and I guess after that a lot of this stopped happening.
-I used to have an imaginary family, I had my dad who I called PaPa Daddy, and I have 11 brothers and sisters who I played with and talked to all the time. I used to tell my mom about my other home and how I had this beautiful tree in my yard. I was learning how to fly when I came down to be with my mom.
I told her that I had seen how nice of a mommy she was (I have 1 older sister) and decided I wanted her to be my mommy. My PaPa Daddy didn't want me to go down there and said I had to stay with him so one night I snuck out and came down to earth to be in her tummy.
I would tell her that my PaPa Daddy was really mad at me, and I had dreams where I would wake up crying and would tell her my PaPa Daddy visited me and told me that he was mad at me for sneaking out.
I told her once that I was going to go back home, and she told me that she wouldn't let me go back because she would miss me too much. I looked her straight in the face and told her she wouldn't be there to save me. -Needless to say my mother was and is still way more protective of me than my siblings (I'm 23 now) Any school trips that put her away from me, she came with.
-My mom said before I started learning the alphabet I used to write a series of symbols and pictures on pieces of paper and tell her it was my name from my other home. She said I would do the exact same symbols over and over, and once she started teaching me the alphabet I forgot how to write my name. I would sit and cry with a pen and a piece of paper because I was forgetting how to write my name. (She says she saved some of them somewhere, but doesn't know where. I want to see them and see if it is anything and actually means anything one day)
-One time I woke up from a dream screaming that she had died. I told her that she was going to my grandma's house by herself and got in a car accident and died. She brushed it off because with 4 children she never went anywher by herself. Later that day me and my sister were playing with the neighbors, and my dad was with my brothers and my mom was walking out to the car go go to my grandma's by herself and as soon as she sat down in the car she freaked out and realized what she was doing and made me and my sister come with her.
There was lots of other stuff I did, she recorded me talking about a bunch of it on tapes and stuff, don't remember any of those stories. I do remember playing with lots of kids at my house, I can see what they look like in my head. This is the stuff that I remember most but there are DOZENS of stories like this.
danne_trix ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:11:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think I can speak for my parents for this one. when I was 7 years old, I was eating dinner with the family, and out of fucking nowhere I go: mom, have you and dad ever fucked? sufficed to say, the remainder of dinner was awkward
ikbarindustries ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 20:41:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Since most of these occur while kids are being put to bed or in the middle of the night, might it be safe to say that dreams are most likely involved and the kids can't differentiate?
ejurkovic93 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:32:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I pray this is the answer.
WhatWouldJesusSay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Best I can do is a warm feeling of reassurance.
ejurkovic93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'll take it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You wish it will be safe. You want it to be safe. But it will never be safe...
;)
Iratus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, sometimes I can't differentiate. Sleep paralysis, nightmares, drugs, bad days and even dimly lit mirrors can fuck up your perception with ease.
gypsycamptrash ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:17:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my sister was four she had a imaginary friend named Jason. He was always around, never left. My mother would have to make two bowls of cereal in the morning, one for my sister and one for Jason. I am not sure if Jason actually ate the cereal OK?
Anyway my mom just assumed it was my sister imagination until one day my sister came to her crying and saying Jason tried to choke her. My sister showed my mother her neck and my religious mother flipped and started trying to cast the damn thing out the house with prayer. My grandmother (Who is very religious as well) came over and her and my mother both swear to this day that things started moving around the house and my mother refused to go back into the house when all the laundry flew out of the clothes hamper and across the room.
Zoji ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:41:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me but my mother. When she was around 15 she was taking a road trip through calarado. On a particular stretch of road my mom caught a glance of something that looked to be about 7 feet tall and had beast like body type. It freaked her the fuck out and she turned to her best friend at the time whos eyes were wide open. Her friend asked her if she had seen that thing. My mom said yes and still to this day she says it is the scareist thing she has ever seen and she is a war veteran. She thinks it maybe something called bY the native americans as a "Skinwalker".
DeviTHM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a native american, I advise you to never travel alone.
Robby712 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
From wikipedia: Some Navajo also believe that skinwalkers have the ability to steal the "skin" or body of a person. The Navajo believe that if you lock eyes with a skinwalker, they can absorb themselves into your body. It is also said that skinwalkers avoid the light and that their eyes glow like an animal's when in human form, and when in animal form their eyes do not glow as an animal's would.
oh_fuck_a_username ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:46:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 3 or 4, I pushed my baby brother down our basement staircase (he was in a stroller) while I apparently said "Bye bye, baby".
0116316 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WOW. You can find some gems at the buttom of this thread. How messed up was he?
oh_fuck_a_username ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:13 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He actually wasn't that messed up at all, which is surprising because the stairs went down really far and onto a platform and then there were about 5 or 6 more steps after the platform which led to a concrete floor. There's a picture of him a few days after the incident somewhere, and in it he only has two normal band-aids on his forehead. No broken bones, no crazy cuts. Just a couple of scratches.
Djlewis72599 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:05:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is a great child deterrent.
EmilieAnomalie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:39:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Really? I don't want kids but this thread made me think, "It's be kinda cool to have a kid around just to see and hear all their weird behavior."
Djlewis72599 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess it has to do with me being easily scared or something, but yeah this thread works better than condoms.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:01:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:20 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Would have loved for someone to get a pic of it. With all the cellphone cameras around today, it can't be too terribly long before someone videos/snaps bigfoot.
picardistheboss ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 13:40:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my big sister was little she had a habit of scaring the bejesus out of any unfortunate babysitter who looked after her. My nanna was watching her one time. She was casually reading a paper while my sister was playing hide and seek with a new imaginery friend. My nanna asked what their name was, my sister replied 'Grandad' , my nanna said that Grandad wasn't imaginery. Sis said 'I know he's real, but this is my other grandad'. My nannas husband by the way had been dead long before my sister was even born. My nanna tested her to see and asked what he looked like. My sis proceeded to tell her every detail about him including his hairstyle and what clothes he was wearing. My nanna freaked the fuck out as she described everything they buried him in. Sis then turned around and said, 'He's asking you why he doesn't have his glasses'. He was an avid reader and she had kept them as a memento. Needless to say it was some time before she agreed to babysit again.
Dwarf_King ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:13:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't that frightening and happened to me when I was about 12 years old I think, but I was once sleeping over at my friends place with 5 other people in the living room. I decided to go to sleep early and when I was trying to sleep, I heard a loud roar and the lights started flickering and I did not pay much attention to it since I thought it was the 5 people playing around and of course they were screaming. The next morning, I asked my friend and his friend what the loud roar was and they said they don't know where it came from and they saw a hand down the hall way near my friends parents room. The funny thing is, the house I was staying at, apparently, the previous owner were a wife and a husband and the wife killed the husband, chopped up the body in the bathtub, and buried the remains in the yard. The house itself wasn't creepy and I didnt have a problem sleeping over there at times. True Story. EDIT: Sorry if this event sucks but I can't retell stuff that happens to me that well.
Lucchi ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:23:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time, when my younger, autistic brother was six, I (eight at the time) was sitting in the family room watching tv when he came in, grabbed my hand, and took me to my dining room. He then proceeded to point to the back corner of the room and say "see the man? see the man?" We RARELY went into that room even before, I always found it to have a weird atmosphere, dim and quiet but in a creepy and not relaxing way. Needless to say we don't live in that house anymore.
iwantyourlove ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:33:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister-in-law is currently pregnant. My three year old asked if it would hurt when the baby comes out. No, I said, it won't hurt. Her response: "But what about the blood when the skin comes off?"
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:33:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother recently recalled this story about me as a toddler...
It was in the mid-80's, and for some reason it was just my mother and I in the house late in the evening. There had been thunderstorms, and the power went out. I started crying, so she gathered me up, and put me in the living room for a moment while she went to find some candles.
When she came back into the dark living room, I was sitting there on my knees right in front of the TV with my hands against the screen.
I turned to my mother, and whispered "They're here..." just like in the fucking Poltergeist movie. My mother royally flipped out, and almost lost it.
In hindsight, there is no way that I had seen that movie as a 5 year old, but I had probably seen the TV commercial for it 940 times and was aware of the catch phrase as a pop culture thing.
Alisciya ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:34:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"mommy, can I have some rope" "why do you need rope" "for my trap" "what's your trap for" "for miles"- Xavier
Xavier is 4. Miles is 2. Xavier hates miles and has also said "I'm going to kill miles"...
Not sure if it's sibling rivalry or if he really wants to kill his little brother...
qwetico ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:46:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about three years old, my mother and one of her friends went shopping at a local mall, and took me along. I was sitting on a food court chair, eating an ice cream cone, when apparently I said:
"Hey [mom's friend's name], tell me all about diarrhea."
kayleescore ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:54:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but my little sister lived with me for a year. I was sitting in the living room around two or three in the morning when I heard giggling coming from her bedroom. I walked into her doorway ready to reprimand her for being up so late on a school night. What I found was a sleeping girl, sitting strait up in her bed. As I approached her bedside she turned, looking into the closet and said, "I can't do that. What if she's still awake?" WHAT!?
crimsonhunter ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:24:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was 7 he said he was going to bury himself before he died so he'd be "ready."
When my other son was 3 or 4 he ran out of the bathroom in extreme terror, shaking. He said there was a little girl and a black dog in there.
Val-Shir ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:35:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 4 years old my parents breed hamsters and sold them to pet stores. I didn't understand why the mother and babies were seperated from the father. So I thought I should let the dad see that babies. When put the babies in the father's cage he immediately tired killing them. I managed to save them but when I put them back with the mother she killed them all (event he ones I didn't move).
I ran downstairs crying and woke my mom up with "Mommy I'm a Murderer, I killed them all" My mom had no idea what I was talking about and thought I had a bad dream.
justinvh ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:40:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, story time.
I was legally deaf until was going on 6 years old. After a series of surgeries, tubes, and so on I was good to go, but my ears made me do some strange things at night. I would often hear heartbeats, loud screams, and footsteps before I went to bed, so I would be ridden with the worst nightmares. To make matters more fun I slept walk and had a Nana whom had an infatuation with scaring myself and my sisters with porcelain dolls. As some sort of deep-rooted payback I did Stephen King quality shit as I slept.
Here are three particular stories that my parents would swear by as being the most frightening experiences for them.
At the time my dad had recently started the construction on a pool, so there was a very large (50x25x18) whole in the ground. Both my sister and I would sleep walk, open the doors to our backyard, and walk out the pool--just to stand at the edge in pure darkness and look inside of it. We had a house alarm, so the alarm would start to trigger and my parents would instinctively run outside to see either my sister or I peering off into the void. I don't know what I saw, but I do remember having dreams of running towards a dock to meet a man.
I had some serious lung issues and, as a result, became a long time user of prednisone. It did horrible things to my body. In one particular instance I remember going to bed coughing. The entire night I had dreams about choking. I would wake up in the dark and have drool on my face, but shortly after I would fall back asleep. When I woke up in the daylight I screamed. There was blood everywhere: on my hands, the walls around my bunk bed, and on top of my bunk-bed. I barely could open my eyes as well. My mother ran into the room and saw me covered in blood and scared the living hell out of here. I had ripped some lining in my lungs coughing and started spitting up blood while I was sleeping. All my dreams just seemed to my body trying to prevent me from killing myself in my sleep.
I can't really explain why I did this one. I would often sleep "climb"--that is I would climb on top of things while I was sleeping. Well, one particular night I managed to climb on top of my parents armoire-headboard. I must have realized someone was below me because I just stood still and stared at my parents sleeping while I was standing right on top of them. Imagine my parent's surprise to see some small child staring at them in the middle of the night with their eye's wide open.
Good ol' childhood.
DreamCarver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(This isn't QUITE an answer to the question asked, but what the hell, it's a decent post.)
Huh. The pool construction hole coinciding with your dream is very interesting. Also, I hope your family did something to inform Prednisone about the whole "I Nearly Died" incident.
Winstonia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did you and your sister see ghosts when you were younger? And videotape your lives?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:53:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but when i was little..
I was drawing, my dad asked me what i was drawing and i look up and say, matter-of-factly, "the ghosters".
His face.
a-bit-unlikely ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:01:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am an atheist living in Texas with my 6-year-old son. He learned about God from his friends at school. One day, he came home and when we were talking about his day, he started crying. He told me that his friends told him that he was going to hell and he was going to burn in the lava. While consoling him, he looked up at me and said, "It's okay. You're going to burn in the lava in hell too."
TheCannon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:26:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids are cruel. Kids of stupid people are cruel and stupid.
espositojoe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:06:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
25 years ago, when my son said he'd seen mommy riding a bucking bronco naked (glad he didn't notice me underneath her).
zitfarmer ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:06:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when my boy was 3 he told me i know you are a zombie i have to kill you.
gingerbeefs ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:34:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My (really normal I swear) 8 year old said, when asked what's special about him, "I have violence in my guts."
NotAlana ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:03:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Five y/o daughter: they move things around in the house at night.
Me: who?
Five y/o: the ancients.... they don't like being caught on camera.
She then went back to playing dolls.
HereForKarma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:19:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is this who your child became?
grateful4you ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:07:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3-year-old little sister and I were watching TV and she randomly turned to me and whispered, "I wanna eat your face," and then she tried to bite my cheeks.
majinboom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:16:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was she on bathsalts?
grateful4you ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:36:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You would think, but we don't like to give my little sister any drugs. If she were on bathsalts, I surely would not have a face. Even though she's young, she can't be quite forceful.
Sexy_Offender ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:36:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You know when you're a kid and your dad or uncle grabs your leg just above the knee and it tickles like crazy? I had an gf that as a kid had to tell the classroom what they liked about their parents, she told everyone that she liked it when her father tickled her between the legs. Her parents were called into school the next day.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:54:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your name is relevant
exxxidor ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:43:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid but a friend's ...
Driving down a 4 lane highway and is passed by a motorcycle. Dad (friend) says to son (5 years old), "Did you see that neat motorcycle?"
Kid replies with, "Yes. I used to have a red one just like it in my life before this one."
Nothing else was said the whole trip. If it were me I would've just pulled the car over, got out and started walking and never looked back.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:49:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Either hes trollling, or hes trolling.
ddewitt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:43:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't really my story, but still fucking creepy!
Pretext: My great grandpa died when my cousin (who this story is about) was literally weeks old, she was probably held by him a few times, but obviously not old enough to remember him. He lost 2 fingers (his index and middle), but he never told us what had happened, we always assumed he lost them in WWII. He had this creepy monkey stuffed animal, so we always called him 'Grandpa Monkey.'
One day, 4-5 years after my grandpa died, my cousin was talking to her mom and told her she didn't want grandpa monkey to visit her. My aunt asked her what she was talking about and my cousin informed her 'Grandpa Monkey visits me at night and I don't want him to come anymore. He's missing fingers and it scares me.' She then proceeded to show my aunt what fingers he was missing.
The same cousin always had imaginary friends and an imaginary horse. I always assumed they were ghosts.
lalalobster ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:57:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sister to our mother, ~2 years old: "I used to hold your hand while crossing the street when you were a little girl." Not too creepy...almost kind of cute. Mom also says my sister's personality is freakishly similar to our great-grandmother's... EDIT: spelling
nikkis1059 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:54:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but i worked at a summer camp with younger kids a while ago. One day we were showing them how to tie knots. Typical camp stuff. As i was walking around, one of the little girls ran up looking very overjoyed to show me her knot. She said; "I made this for you!" It was a noose. We never taught that knot.
Toxyoi ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:54:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter has come to me several times, claiming she heard a woman's voice speak the word 'no' or 'fall' & a couple others while sitting alone in her room. She says the tv wasn't on & couldn't think of anything it could have been. The last time, she came running to me, obviously frightened.
EDIT: I was actually going to post an askreddit for it.
GRIMES_a_bad_BITCH ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:46:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but I do remember some creepy shit that happened when I was a kid. I was at my grandfather's house just roaming around. I decided to check out his basement, when I went down there I was met by 3 older, real roughing looking men. As soon as they noticed me they stopped talking and I swear to god I never felt such a strong sense of fear as I did when that happened, but fuck. I booked it upstairs to find my grandpa, I told him what happened and he assured me it was just us alone in the house.
It was weird as fuck
OBESEJESUS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:19:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I can recall something similar. My grandmother had a warehouse and I remember being back there and seeing someone wearing a trenchcoat and for some odd reason, no feet, he was floating. Now I have a hard time trying to discern if I had a dream like that or if it was a legit thing. It's in my memory that's all I know.
hadricus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:49:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but my uncles, 10 years old IIRC. He's been diagnosed with a few learning and behavioural differences.
He's very possessive over his father, and hates him looking at any other children (he loves kids, and wants another, though his wife isn't up for it). The kid will pull his dad away from oncoming prams at the shop, and he gets to a point where he throws a tantrum if his dad picks up his friend's child.
When my wife and I brought our then 8 month old son over to visit my uncle for the first time, the kid went mental. He was screaming at his dad "don't look at him", "I hate you", "put him down", etc. He attempted to throw a toy at my son. After telling him off, something his father rarely does, he looked at me with cold eyes - I've never seen the expression I saw come from that child before in my life - and told me: "You know I could break his neck and kill him", referring to my son.
The most my uncle did is say "That's not very nice". We left and haven't talked about it since, but that kid is not allowed anywhere near my son. The kid has a history of violence against his pets, more than just rough handling - intentionally breaking a guinea pig's leg - and I see nothing but a sociopath-in-the-making when I look at the child now.
How's that for creepy/frightening.
onlythestrongsurvive ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:38:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure how relavent this story is to this thread buuut My mother before she died started buying baby cloths. At 17 this freaked me out, so one day I asked her, "Mom, why are you buying baby cloths?" Her reply was, "One day I'll be a grandmother and I want to be ready for that day!" I told her, "Mom, that day won't happen for a while you know this I hope" She died shortly after that in a car accident on her way to work in a snow storm! Last yr during christmas we did family photos and it had been a while since the family all had gotten together like this. In about 8 photos there is a white blurry orb in the photos. Two digital cameras were used that night. Mine and My aunts. The pictures from both cameras had this white blurry orb. I wonder and kinda believe it was my mother however I'm skeptical? Yes, I know this probably makes me look like a nut but I believe in an afterlife but am unsure what an "AFTERLIFE" really is soo yeah just wanted to share that story...
EDIT: Im 27 now and I wonder if or when I do have children if they will say they see my mother and possibly describe her to me or let me know she is their with them? It's a thought and it plagues my mind alot!
planetmatt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:18:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Orbs are dust particles and really common with digital cameras.
Jaws3235 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:51:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading this thread, I have come to the conclusion that when children are too young to remember clearly, ghosts will regularly haunt them; sometimes being nice if they are related to the child by blood or being violent if they were murdered or committed suicide. Yup, never looking at young kids the same way. Also, they can remember their past lives; especially if they were killed or died in an unusual way.
noellemybelle ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:42:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me that when my sister was about four she had an imaginary friend that she played with every day. One night at the dinner table she said, "There's just one bad thing about my imaginary friend." My mom said, "And what's that?"
"She worships the devil."
Dead silence at the table. Then my mom goes, "I think you should get rid of her then."
ConradFerguson ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:54:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It wasn't a kid, it was actually my older brother, but when we moved into our new house when I was 13, we were in the basement watching TV, and he kept looking in my direction (i found out it was actually past me into the utility closet behind me) he finally said "I keep seeing something move back there) and me, thinking I was awesome, grabbed some sort of metal pipe, and walked over there and turned on the light, and he says "That won't do anything for you." and I said "Why?" and he replied "Because if it were someONE I would hear it moving." and just went back to watching TV. The rest of the time I lived in that house, I was never comfortable in the basement when the utility closet door was open.
A couple weeks later, in the same house, my mom asked the three oldest kids (my older brother, me, and my younger brother; my sister at the time was too young to even be considered) if we'd been smoking in their bathroom. Being 13, I didn't even smoke, and we all replied that no we hadn't. A couple days after that, I heard my dad talking to someone in the garage, and opened the door to see who it was, but he was the only one out there.
About a year later, it was explained to me that he had been smelling cigarette smoke, for no reason, and had asked the "ghost" to stop smoking around us. Explaining that it was his house now, and he needed to respect that, and not interfere with our lives. Apparently it was never a problem again.
Desireethegreat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:01:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While having dinner with brother and my parents, my 3 year old niece said "I want to take grandpa to the lake" We reply "we'll that's nice. What lake are you taking him to?" And she very seriously said "any lake made of fire." Wtf
deadmurphy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:38:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son, age - 1: wakes up screaming in his crib pointing to the bedroom closet. Signs "boy" "fire" repeatedly. Happens a few more times thought the next year.
Age - 3: wakes up in the morning and asks "can you make the man with no face that's on fire stop watching me sleep?"
Age - 4: wakes up christmas morning and while getting dressed tells me about his new friend. Son-dad I have a new friend! Me-Cool! What's his name? Son-...I don't know, I just call him max. Me-LOL. OK, where did you meet him? Son-in my bedroom last night. ( wife peeking around the corner shaking her head "no" telling me that no one was over at the house last night.) Me-ok...what did u guys do? Son-well, we were just sleeping in my bed. But then the door shut and it locked. Max and I hid under my blanket because someone outside my bedroom really wanted in and kept crashing I into the door REALLY hard. But then max was brave and ran to the door and unlocked it so I could run to my mommy!
markednl ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:32:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a kid I used to be scared shitless for a specific type of an old Mercedes Benz. My mom would explain to me that the sidewalk is safe but I told her that on my way to school I was on the sidewalk and it still hit me.
dazl ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:04:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but was babysitting for family friends, two girls, aged 3 and 9 and a boy, aged 7.
The parents were going to a wedding, so I was staying over in their place for the night. It's an older house, built partially in the 19th century, and is beautiful, but creaky and makes weird noises. I was told to expect that, and to ignore it.
Put the kids to bed early, and was watching TV, and heard noises upstairs, so just assumed it was one of the kids moving around, or the house settling, having lived in an old house my entire life. I went to bed, about midnight, after checking all the three kids, who were fast asleep and tucked up.
Fast forward to 3 a.m., and I woke up for no reason, could hear the noises again, so went to check on the kids. The older two were sound asleep, but couldn't find the 3 year old, bed empty. Ran downstairs and found her staring at the kitchen wall, which was part of the old house that had been renovated. When I asked her what she was doing, she just looked at me and said 'Aine wants to go outside and play.'
When I told her parents about it the next day, her mother went pale. All three kids have seen a little girl in the old part of the house on separate occasions, and they've found the kids standing in front of that wall at different times, because there used to be a door there leading to the old farm. When she has asked them why, they keep telling her Aine wants to play outside. They have no idea who Aine is, but all three kids have given the same description of her.
Haven't babysat there since.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:34:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Driving along and as we pass a hotel, my then four-year-old son says "That's a tall building. It should be on fire."
dawn707 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:28:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day my husband and I went out to dinner at an old timey restaurant. My son who was about 2 at the time started singing this oldies song word for word and neither my husband or I had ever even heard this song. He also often talks about "back when I was in high school" and has been doing so since he was about 2, he is 5 now.
momarazzi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:52:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a very small child I told my mother stories of when I "was a little old lady" and took my grandchildren on picnics by the river. I even described real places in the area where my mom grew up that I had never been. My oldest daughter could barely talk when she started mentioning "White Man". As she became more verbal she would tell stories about him constantly and talk about him as if he were right there with her all the time. If I asked her anything she would look into the air beside her and answer "Well White Man says..." Or start of sentences "White Man wants to ..." Once she started school she talked about him less and less. I asked her what happened to him one day and she said now that she has kid friends to talk to she doesn't need him anymore. I was kind of sad, he had been around for 4 years and I was so used to him being there. I felt like he was her gaurdian and kept her safe when he was gone I lost that feeling of safety for her.
Snarky75 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:06:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter has asked me more than once, she was 5 the first time, "When you die can I have this?"
JonesBee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:36:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid but a customers kid. He was a little over two years old and I took a passport photo of him. After the photo I showed it to him, he looked it for a while and then raised his hand to shake mine. When I shook his hand he said "thank you very much, good sir" with flawless pronounciation. I didn't know if was more impressed or creeped out, that's some Shining level shit right there.
My brother also scared the shit out of my mom as a kid. My mom woke up with my brother standing beside the bed smiling, with huge kitchen knives in both hands.
LadeyAceGuns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:24:57 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
stewie complex?
Smarterthanismell ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:04:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sister has always been creepy as FUCK. The first time we noticed was when she explained, in detail, a family friend's death the morning before we got the call. She was about 4. But the creepiest, by far, was when she was about 9. We had just moved into a new house and her bedroom was across the hall from our parents', while mine was on the other side of the house. One night, she pads over and asks of she can sleep with me, which she NEVER did. When I asked her why, she goes "I'm scared of the man in the black coat. I told him to leave me alone and now he stands next to mom's bed." Wat. Then, "And that little girl on the top of the stairs won't stop crying. She's nicer than the man, but I can't sleep." I only let her stay once she assured me they don't hang out in my side of the house. She also recently did a seance as a joke with her friends, only to end up calling my mom and giving her a message from our grandfather, for whom my sister is named, and describing him in great detail, despite having never so much as seen a picture of him.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:16:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While watching YouTube videos of baby zoo animals being born, my daughter stumbled across horse breeding. That was a disturbing thing that I tried my best to explain.
She wouldn't let it go. She had to know what they were doing. I explained that breeding was about animals making baby animals.
She got quiet,, and I figured with relief that maybe I'd satisfied her curiosity. Uh oh... She still had a few questions.
My child: If animals breed to make babies then how do humans make babies?
Me: Humans make babies the same way animals do, but we call it making love, or sex.
My daughter thought about it, then had the weirdest expression on her face and said with bugged out eyes, "Wow. That has to hurt!"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:21:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was disturbing because she wouldn't stop with the questions no matter how I tried to explain it. Of course her father and older siblings had a blast watching me squirm under pressure.
Pinkiepie69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:30 on July 21, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How old was she?
therehastobeONE ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:15:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My six year old son while playing dolls with his younger sisters, picked up a baby and asked if anyone wanted baby back ribs for dinner.
VoodooIdol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:20 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Very, very funny. Not creepy. Not even a little.
8648 ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 18:59:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.. I didn't expect to get this freaked out!
Nomnombunny ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:40:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know- I'm reading these in my 1890's Victorian house (probably haunted, definitely creepy) and the wind just slammed the window shut. I just about peed myself.
Augan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:40:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And they never stop! I've been reading these for about 3 hours x.x CANT SLEEP
boopah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:40:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me too. Can't stop and definitely can't sleep.
miamihappy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:24:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A little pee came out, admit it.
aliceinreality98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are so lucky to live in that house. Are the ghosts friendly?
Instantcretin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had to stay up till daybreak, thank god i dont have to work.
jumpstarter ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 19:51:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son has always been rather hard to handle. He is constantly getting in trouble at school, refusing to do homework, speaking of detailed adventures that never happened, etc etc. He doesn't have any friends either. In fact, the only company I ever see him with is his stuffed animal that he takes everywhere. I always catch him talking, getting into mischief, and even arguing with the damned thing. I'm a bit worried because I'm fairly certain my son is completely convinced his stuffed animal is a real, conscious being. The weird part is he named it after a dead philosopher. My son is 6 years old, why would he name his stuffed tiger after a dead philosopher?
Thanatosst ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:21:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well maybe if you weren't so cruel and making him shovel the driveway as a 6 year old things would be fine. He also wouldn't make all those weird snowman scenes.
avacynangelofhope ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:07:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And what's with the bath times? Later bedtimes, fewer baths, we say.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 20:38:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:16:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Actually didn't see that coming. Well done
Ratava ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:10:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh you...
Ikhtionikos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a Calvin and Hobbes reference?
NTesla ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:03:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:40:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, Bill Watterson.
shoes_of_mackerel ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 19:53:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why did you name your son after a dead philosopher?
Instantcretin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hate to be the one to say this but think your son may have some emotional problems, if he is constantly having problems at school and he has no friends then he is probably being bullied which would explain why he spends so much time playing with a toy. It would probably be in your best interest to find someone he can talk to so he can have an outlet for his emotions. Or start a comic strip, sounds like you may have some good material.
moseses ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha! I love it.
echiry ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds just like calvin and hobbes
armacitis ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:32:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It is Calvin and Hobbes.
Shoemaster ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 19:41:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
This wasn't my kid, but a friend's (Edit: Apparently Geoff from RoosterTeeth). He'd just told his daughter she couldn't rent some a movie. It was your typical kid-princess movie. The usual "PLEASE PLEASE" happens until this:
Girl: Isn't mommy's nose pretty? Dad: It sure is honey. Girl: Well, it would be sad if something happened to it.
hackisucker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:55:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Isn't that from the animated RoosterTeeth series?....
Shoemaster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:59:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Link? I know he watches Red vs. Blue, but he told me this story like two years ago.
hackisucker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:09:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not the original channel but still, it's that animation.
Shoemaster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:24:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well shit. Still a good story, I guess.
yourmomlurks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:27:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed.
ronalbruno ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:58:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my personal story, but one of my best-friends dad.
When my friend was born, his dad used to read bedtimes story's to him every single day. But there was one particular story that his grandfather told him that was very dear to him, but didn't want to tell him because he wanted to make sure he was able to understand the story. Well, when my friend turned 4 years old, his dad thought it was time. His dad started reading the story, and while finishing the first page my friend interrupts him and whines "but daddy, I already know this one" His father in shock, asks him "How, I have never mentioned it before?". My friend replies "Grandpa read it to me". Well, his grandfather died two years before he was born. His dad then told this story to his family, and his brother started crying. Apparently his father used to be a common sight at night, in short-spans of flashes as he described it. But it doesn't end there. Recently (roughly 2 years ago) the family was just playing some old LP's. Everything was normal for about two hours, but then something strange happened. The record started to slowly fade and scratching sounds came off of it. Well this record was playing on a shelf above their computer, and then a very distinct old man's voice played through this scratchy voice, and then it dropped on the ground. It just exploded. To this day nobody know what he tried to say. My friend and all his family have never gone back to the house. They convinced their grandma she should leave the house, but she won't speak anymore. Her husband was very aggressive towards her when she was alive. My friends dad says this is because of her beauty, and the glaring looks she got from men in public. He believes that the dad haunts her from the inside so he knows no matter what, she will always be his.
nixygirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:27:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck...this just made me cry!
spwmoni ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fake. Don't try so hard next time.
OxygenAddict ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:47:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I like the idea of being an actual parent of reddit.
ActionFilmsFan1995 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:15:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda cheating because I'm the kid in this, but this is still pretty messed up. When I was like 5 or 6 every night (and I mean every night, not just most of the time) I would wake up from a nightmare or just wake up and be so scared at something I wouldn't be able to fall asleep, so I slept in my parents bed. Eventually this stopped and I was able to get through the night. Flash forward 10 years. I'm causally mention how I used to do this to my mom. What does she say? She tells me I stopped having the nightmares after she blessed my room with holy water. I thought she was joking but she was completely serious. Still freaks me out to this day.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:57:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was very small, before he could talk, we were lighting the Shabbat candles on a Friday night in September. It also happened to coincide with my late brother-in-law Howard's birthday. Howard died in a car wreck in 1987, and this was ~2002. As my wife was lighting the candles, my son started humming the melody of "Happy Birthday To You".
JohnnyBQuick ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:12:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.
spiralled ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:12:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
grinr ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:01:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3-year old nephew said "I hate you, I will kill you and throw you right in the garbage" with a completely straight face. Completely unprovoked. On a different occasion he went into detail about how he can't wait to cut all the skin off my face.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:18:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
uh... somebody probably needs treatment fast?
grinr ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:20:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His birthday gift that year, that he insisted on? What amounted to a tiny wedding dress. To go with his guitar and toy sword. He also love to sing and dance.
Every time I visit I feel like the Riddler's suit.
YourCurvyGirlfriend ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:48:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread has helped me discover that there are a TON of people that have children, that also have online handles like "AssnecK666" and "PeanutButthole34"
ringpiece21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:09:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha! that's fucking funny. Best laugh I had all night.
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 18:32:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've got one, but the roles are reversed. My dad used to tell me the reason my grandpa always read books about UFO's and aliens, is because he was an alien at one time. Scared me to death.
Dopethrown ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 19:41:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had an uncle from England who said he was an alien from pluto. I didn't believe it until he showed me his license which said like "Resident Alien" on it, or something. After that I thought aliens were all around us and they just needed special licenses.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:33:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A girl had moved from someplace in south east asia and was new to the elementary school and my bus stop. So we were asking her questions and when she told us where she was from I said "Oh! So you're an alien!" I meant "from another country", but she thought I meant the UFO types. She cried a lot that day.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:42:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like that problem might be hereditary. You may want to get yourself checked out.
fs337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather was an alien until 10 years ago.
flargenhargen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
his dad or your mom's?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
His
aCuriousParty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was your grandfather an immigrant?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. He was born on an air force base in Louisiana.
DerangedGecko ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:45:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read this title as if it were saying we the community were Reddit's parents.
NTesla ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the tip, Literal-Man!
(I did too ;)
USmellFunny ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:15:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The blood. I like how it tasted.
casepot ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:21:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my little sister had this whole family of people she thought were real and she interacted with them and gave them names, and had "conversations" on the phone with them. I brought this up at dinner the other day and no one had any recollection of it ever happening
erawenahs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:24:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You projecting what is actually happening to yourself.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:20:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure your little sister wasn't referring to the real family and the "family" you associate yourself with isn't a projection of your mind?
casepot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Im so confused!
Consulting_Troll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What are these bricks under my seat? Oh right, I just shat them. Nice one good sir/ma'am.
bafl1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:23:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
About 14 years ago, when my little brother was 2, we had not exposed him to religion of any kind. he was always with one of his close family and had never been exposed to religious comments. I bought a pack of Magic the gathering and we were sorting through the cards while I held him. I got to a card called "Serra Angel". he very excitedly pointed and said, "angel". We asked him to repeat it and brought it up with my family and none of them had ever introduced him to the word. He was able to identify demons. The rest we understood like horse.
kingsquidget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fun game!
fs337 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:29:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 8 I sleepwalked one night whistling Twisted Nerve. My mom woke up to see me strutting down the hall. She got me back to bed. I don't even know how to whistle.
deathproof6 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:31:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My great grandfather would always ask me if I wanted to go into the garden and squish the potato bugs with him. He would just squish them between his fingers. I always declined (not sure how old I was, maybe 4 or 5). After always declining, my mom and grandma asked me why I never wanted to do it. I told them I didn't want to do it because I could hear them scream...
I'm very empathetic still to this day. I don't know if I could actually hear them pop or squish or what but once mom told me the story, I had a vague recollection of some sort of high pitched noise when he did it. Pretty creepy memory for me.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:47:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a story an old teacher told me about her daughter who is my age.
They had just moved into a new house that was rumored in the community to be haunted and they all thought it was BS and thought no more of it.
So it was my old teacher and her daughter who was 5 at the time and they were making pband j when she got a phone call. Her daughter wanted to continue on her own but couldn't open the jelly jar. She followed he mom into the next room asking for help and she said "just a minute". When she got off the phone she went to help her daughter but the jar was open. Her daughter said "its okay mommy, the nice man opened it for me"
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:53:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this will be buried, but just in case... my daughter had one of those 'womb-sound' bears when she was a baby, and it stayed in her crib. She called it "Stuck-Bear" because it had velcro to attach it to the crib. One night she wakes up screaming, and I go to find out what was wrong, and she told me "Stuck-Bear jumped in my tummy and was making me jump around and around!" and was inconsolable until Stuck-bear was removed from the room...she fell back asleep, but I didn't.
portablebiscuit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:12:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a little late to the party, but here it goes.
My son was probably about 3 when my wife's great grandmother died. When we went to the graveside service, I hung back in the car a sat with him as he played with his action figures. He looked out into the cemetery and said "What are those people doing over there?" I looked where he was speaking of and there was no one there. "What people?" I asked. "Those people standing there." he said.
At this point I had a weird feeling. "What do they look like?" I asked.
"Monsters." he said in a calm, matter of fact tone.
I don't believe in ghosts or any supernatural shit, but this skeeved me out a bit.
Kealion ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:12:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a repost from another thread, but definitely relevant - When I was about 3, my grandmother passed away. She used to do this crazy laugh that just made me laugh right back at her, and she whould do it all the time. So my mom was putting me to bed and reading me a story when I started hysterically laughing. She asked me what I was laughing atand I said, "Mom, Gammy is in the corner laughing at me!" My mom turns around, looks at the empty corner of the room and looks back at me, she reluctantly continued the story. This went on for a few weeks. One night Mon was putting me to bed, but she had the flu, and I started laughing again. She turned to the corner and said "Mom, I'm sick, I have the flu, and I need to put this boy to sleep." It never happened again
Schizmwuffy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:17:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This'll probably get buried, but here goes. My mom passed away when I was 10 and for several months after her passing, I had horrible, vivid nightmares (as one would expect of a trauma victim) that I couldn't remember after waking up. My dad told me a couple years later that several times he would walk into the room at night after hearing me crying or mumbling while asleep, and would find my bunkbed shaking violently (I slept on either bunk, and it didn't matter which bunk I was sleeping on). It scared him so much he gave the bed to my uncle, who let his kid sleep in it. Immediately, from the first night, my cousin began having nightmares whenever sleeping in it. My cousin claimed my mom had "said 'Hello'" to him and my uncle. My uncle spent a night in the same room just to see if my cousin's sleeping patterns were in any way abnormal. He said that night he had a dream of my mother talking to him reassuringly about me and my Dad's welfare, and he woke up to the bed shaking and my cousin crying. They got rid of the bed, and it stopped. I live in a strictly agnostic/athiest family unit (by choice, as my parents raised me Christian) and it's the freakiest frickin' thing I've ever heard. I only remember bits of nightmares and my dad being freaked out, personally, but my uncle and nephew also corroborate the story. Groupthink must be some scary shit... Edit: spelling
lowlifecreep ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:23:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Niece when she was 4 said to me.
"I'm going to kill you, and when you go to heaven your going to die again because God has a gun"
HolyFlyingPenguins ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:23:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was in bed then came in to tell me she couldn't go to sleep. When I asked her why she told me the man wouldn't leave her alone. She was about 2 or 3 at the time. I just told her to tell him to leave her alone so she could sleep. She said ok and went to bed. Another time she was walking around the house like she was following someone. Then she came back to my room and asked me where daddy went. He had died 2 years earlier. She also would talk a lot to no one I could see in her room. Then she just stopped. Got quite creepy around here sometimes.
BadVogonPoet ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:29:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I told my mother that she was going to die when I turned 15.
She laughed it off as a weird kid thing but shortly after my 15th birthday, she had an aneurysm and almost died.
We were all a little creeped out.
lnh92 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:29:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 4 or 5, my mom left me at home with a babysitter. The babysitter was watching TV while I played in my room. She said that at one point she wanted a banana and looked in the kitchen. We had no bananas, so she got something else instead. Maybe 30 minutes after that, I walked into the living room and said to her โI saw something very peculiar in the hall.โ I was a very painfully shy kid so she thought it was weird that I said anything like that but she asked what I saw. I told her it was a banana. She nodded along playing my game then I said โYou donโt believe me. Mr. Patches said you wouldn't. Iโll show you.โ She told me that I went into the hall and came back eating a banana. She told Mom about it when she got home and at the point of her looking for a banana, Mom said something about how we havenโt had bananas for a while. I donโt remember this and no one thought to ask me where I got the banana, and to this day, no one knows.
keko143 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Where did you get the banana?
lnh92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:00:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I literally have no clue. I don't remember this incident at all. No one thought to ask me about until a few years later, and I didn't remember where it came from. Ii was either some would be kidnapped giving it to me, or I brought it home from a home from a friends house a day or two before and kept it hidden.
Grand_Theft_Audio ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:31:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welllll, it's not really creepy, but maybe we could use a little levity in here.
I was putting my youngest to bed (not quite 2 at the time) and she started to whisper in this loving kind of way that I needed to have my face cleaned. It was obvious grandma or mom or someone must have dabbed a little saliva on a napkin and cleaned her off but the way she interpreted this was to completely lick both of her hands and slide them all over my face. Yes, I let her do it, dammit.
hoodrich23 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:32:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It wasn't my kid, but my little brother. We had just moved into our house and the previous owner, who was a widower, had recently died in the house. I was a little creeped out by it, then a few days later my little brother walks into the living room and says to our mom, "Mommy who is the man at the top of the stairs?" I said NOPE and slept at my grandmother's house for weeks before my parents could convince me to step foot in that house without freaking the fuck out.
cormic ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:32:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My five year old son asked my wife about his birthday. My wife answered all the questions until he asked... "When I was born did I come out of your bum or your mouth?" My had no idea what to say to him...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:50:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
frightened as fuck german over here, it's 12:38am and I'm pretty sure it has never been darker
boopah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's 1130pm here & I won't be sleeping tonight.
akif34 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:56:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh yeah again a sleepless night . Thanks reddit !
theinternethero ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:56:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well when I was 3 I was being taken to daycare and right before we walked in the door I told my mom "Papa is in the garden" (papa is my grandpa) I continued saying this all day. Come to find out that at around the same as I started saying that, my grandfather had died. We were very close, like visiting with each other daily just to enjoy the company since I was the only male grandchild of his.
blackorchad ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:01:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Out of interest was he located in the garden?
theinternethero ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:11:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh dang I left out some stuff... Well, you get to read it then! I had a vision of sorts (This is where is starts to sound really unbelievable but I promise you its all true) where I saw a bunch of flowers. As a toddler I associated cemetery and garden because of the flowers. So being the innocent little me, I thought he was in a garden. But no, he wasn't. I actually don't know where he was... I should probably ask about that.
TL;DR No he wasn't.
metal-head ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:00:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriends 10 year old cousin is used to having all of my girlfriends attention when they have family outings. Since weve started dating ive been invited and now my girlfriend gives more attention to me than her cousin. Since then her cousin has begun describing, in vivid detail mind you, how she will kill me. The best so far is "Im gonna stick your hand down a garbage disposal and make you eat the chopped up bits"
bstruve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nooooooo
SithGirly ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:07:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's not so much creepy what they say, it's what they DO... my older daughter, when she was a year-and-a-half or so, she kept staring blankly at this one wall in her room. Would wake up screaming, we'd go in to her and she'd just be staring. After a month of living in that apartment, the house burnt down. The fire started in the downstairs apartment, guess where? that wall!! "Faulty electric in that wall" .....
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:04:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She could have been 'hearing' the electricity. I know I get furious migraines when I'm around those big powerlines, because I can hear that fucking whine/hum/vibration noise from them and it makes me want to punch everything in a fury of pain.
SithGirly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yeah, but it wasn't electrical imo. The people who lived downstairs left 5 minutes before my husband saw smoke filling their apartment. This one woman was very unstable always talking about doing crazy things...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:58 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ooooh frickin' creepy!
SithGirly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:37:42 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ha, yep little bit. I think just really strange coincidence.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:18 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, hopefully you don't have wackos downstairs anymore. Anyways, I have no idea about what your poor kid was seeing, but little kids have really sensitive hearing, so she could have been reacting to that, or been bothered by the electro-magnetic frequency waves, (I know it sounds so dumb, but it can affect you in weird ways) or she could just have found that position the most comfortable.
SithGirly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:34 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
yeah, I dunno. No more wackos now, we have a nice old lady downstairs from us now, lol. These women who lived downstairs before were total nutjobs...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:18 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thank goodness!
DrinksBathWater ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:08:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother was a CPS worker and one child told his parents "I sleep with a hammer under my pillow". He was 8 and he was known to threaten to beat their skulls in their sleep.
Evil-Dalek ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:15:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Like a lot of people this is a story about me when I was around 4 and my sister at 4, we are two years apart.
First me, I had constant night terrors, some I would remember incredibly vividly, some not at all, this one I don't remember. My mom tells me that she woke up in the middle of the night to me standing next to her bed staring at her. I stared at her a moment and then proceeded to say, "I'm sorry mommy, they say it's time to die now." Like many people in this type of situation, she completely wigs out. She jumps out of bed, grabs me, and rushes me to the bathroom and starts to dunk my head in cold water trying to wake me up (when having night terrors it's really hard to wake up). Similar events had actually happened several times beforehand where I would refer to "them." To this day I have no recollection of who they were.
And now for my sister. Like other stories on here she went up to my mom and said, "You get to be the mommy in every life. Can I be the mommy next time?" My mom was really confused and replied, "Sure."
Dollyburd ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:35:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I work in social care, and in the unit I work in we have this 7 year old kid. He's definitely short a few screws. Anyways, one night I found him just lying on the stairs. When I asked him what he was doing he replied "someone pushed me down the stairs". Of course, I asked "who would push you down the stairs". He looked me in the face, deadly serious, "It was the clown". Now completely freaked out I decided to see just how full of shit this kid was. He described, in insane detail, just how this clown looked, what he was wearing, everything. I've never been so creeped out in my life.
misszombification ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:57 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he's a juggalo. Which would be much scarier, if you ask me.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:36:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
4 year old brother.
"What do sharks eat?"
"Canadians."
PwNeDoScAR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds logical to me.
AvaHomolka ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:57:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my baby, but we had a little girl die here in a tragic freak accident last month. Her name was Ariana. The little one I knew is Ivy and they were playmates who lived across the street from each other. No one had told Ivy what was going on, as it happened during her nap, but when the paramedics took out the covered stretcher, Ivy waved and said 'good bye, Ariana' and proceeded to cry silently on the doorstep. They were both around three years old.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:05:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my middle child was 3, I scolded her for emptying the entire contents of 2 bottles of lotion all over the bathroom (even the toilet seat, causing me to slide right off and bang my head on the wall when I sat on it :/ ). She's typically a pretty emotional child, but stayed stone faced while I was talking to her. When I finished, I asked her if she wanted to say anything. She says, "yes. You'll be dead soon." What a lil creep.
momster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
'I don't have anything to live for.'
It's all ok now, but so freaking scary for a parent.
PyloUK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:27:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My blood just ran cold when I read that :(
tsuki_toh_hoshi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:14:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old often speaks of a "little ghost Boy" that sits on her bed at night and talks to her. She also said that when she grows up she will be a vampire hunter O_O
NotTrying2Hard ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:16:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man... the more I read the thread, the more I wonder if humans are evolving to be more omniscient during childhood (before the weight of society washes over them).
sinistersuperspy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:46:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad passed on this gem to me years ago. Back before cable, we got our tv from the antenna, and used a device called a rotor to swivel the antenna around for a better signal, much like classic satellite dishes. My sister is five yrs older then me, and way back when i was just new, my dad walked in from work and found my sister alone in the family room. There was my sister, standing on the dial of the rotor, smiling creepily. And then she says "Hi Daddy"...nice and slow, turning, turning....the memory of it still creeps him out.
rugby411 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:48:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once when I was tucking in my 6yo son he said, very casually by the way, "I know where the knives are...." I didn't know how to respond.
ashes11 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:52:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night my mother had a dream that there were blindingly bright lights coming through the window. She tried to yell for my father to wake up but couldn't move or speak. When I woke up that morning the first thing I said was "mommy aliens were here last night." She was sufficiently freaked and didn't tell me about her dream until many years later.
And_Everything ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:10:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The other day my 4 year old son told me he was going to kill me and put my body in the garbage.
attilad ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:40:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was 2, we were at a pet store watching a boy play with a puppy. I asked him if he wanted to play with the puppy too; he shook his head and said, "I can see his heart, and it's black."
tovias ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:52:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Several members of my family and my ex-wife's family have been in the military. One day my daughter saw my deceased father-in-law's flag that my wife had received at his funeral. My daughter asked me about it and when I explained how at military funerals the casket is draped with an American flag. When it's time to bury the deceased the flag is removed, folded and presented to the surviving spouse or next of kin, in this case my ex-wife.
My daughter looked at the flag for a while and asked, "So if mommy dies, I get your flag. That's awesome.
That was a little creepy to hear the way she said it, but it wasn't the end. Recently, and this is several years after the incident and several years after her mother and I divorced, I introduced my daughter to the woman I'm currently dating (we've been dating a year now). My daughter greets her with, "Oh, hello. It's nice to meet you. Just so you know, his flag is mine."
piranhasaurusTex ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:02:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This just happened a few weeks ago. My daughter is almost 4 years old and one night she woke up only after about 3hours. She was crying/whining so I went to check on her. I tried asking her what was wrong, was she thirsty, need to potty, maybe had a leg cramp but she would only answer with a whine. All of the sudden, she turns away from and says (to thin air), 'I don't want to play! I'm trying to sleep. Please stop.' Kinda creeped me out...
oleboogerhays ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:16:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was six when my dad died, the first Christmas after he died my mom had jingle bells on the front door as decorations. She heard the bells in the middle of the night and freaked out. She came to the door to find a six yar old oleboogerhays sleep walking in the front yard saying. "Come on daddy, it's time to open presents." I'm 24 now and she has never taken those jingle bells off the front door.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:44:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not said, but did. I did it.
When I was little, I used to sleepwalk nearly every night. Usually small stuff, like pace my room, but one night I was really moving around. My dad hears me on our creaky stairs to the basement, and he gets up to see what the hell I was doing. He found me, in the laundry room, (we stored toilet paper there) ripping up a bag of toilet paper. He asked me what I was doing. I turned around, eyes fully open, stared at him, then continued to rip the paper apart. I was asleep the whole time, and when he shook me awake I had absolutely no idea what I was doing there.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:04:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The same week in May two years in a row, when my son was 4 and 5, he said that when he was sleeping, gray men came and took him out of his bedroom on a light tunnel into a shiny gray room. He was laying down and they were talking to him, but with their heads. They didn't have mouths. He also said they were naked and looked just like him except no privates. Never mentioned it again and didn't remember it a few days later.
SoulDisruption ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:22:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me this one. She used to have a witchcraft set, why I don't know. at least I think it was witchcraft... Anyway, apparently my brother got into it one night because he came into my moms room white faced and shaking and said "mommy I'm scared." He was about 7. She asked why he was scared and he said "The dead people outside my window are yelling at me." She said she went into his room and had to make them all leave, then she locked up her witchcraft stuff.
She is a great person, christian too, so why she had a witchcraft Set thingy I don't know...
Coco92144 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:23:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me and my son went out to eat one lovely sunny morning when he was 4. As we're walking out of the restaurant after the typical conversation you can have with a 4 year old he turns to me and says, "Mommy, I see blood on everything. I see blood on the sun, and on the grass, and on the cars..." Creeped me right the fuck out.
planetmatt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:21:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to say that as a child. I never saw blood but would have bad dreams with very abstract imagery that elicited negative feelings. Since I didn't have the vocabulary to articulate what I was seeing or feeling, I just told my parents I saw blood everywhere as I guess I associated seeing blood to feeling bad.
Still can't really describe my dreams but the closest I can get is imagine a perfect pattern that has a small defect and imagine you have major OCD and can't fix the pattern. Just a really unsettling feeling.
motdidr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Might want to get that checked out... how old is he now?
Coco92144 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Eleven. He's always been like that. I have to control what movies he watches and even what books he reads, not because they're not age appropriate, but because he just gets too into anything dark and morbid.
will311 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:49:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I onced asked my grandfather if he was on his period.
Vertigochild13 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:39:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not creepy, but something I did when I was a little kid. My dad used to be a police officer in Virginia Beach, one of the best, but tore his Achilles tendon one day on the job, and had to retire. It was really, really sad for him because- even to this day- being a police officer was the best thing in the whole world for him. It was his dream job, he was fantastic at it, and he always enjoyed being able to protect and help people. He had a lot of friends in the force, and our family didn't have a whole lot of money at the time, and jobs in the area were scarce, so we kind of knew we were going to have to leave. Anyways, before my dad's retirement ceremony, he took me out to get some food at Bojangles or something like that. My mom was going to pick my older brother up from school at the time, so it was just me and him. I was about three or four. We both just sat in silence across from each other at the table when after five or ten minutes I said, without looking up from my food, "It's okay Daddy, I know you'll miss your cop friends." He told me he just started crying right there and gave me a hug. He still tells the story to this day, and still says he's amazed at how much I knew without knowing.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:04:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
In a thread full of scary shit, this was a breath of fresh air.
Vertigochild13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:15:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought I'd try to give everyone a happy thought so they could at least sleep a little better
GillesDeGeus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:58:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 3 or 4 years old, I told my parents that I remembered sitting on a chair next to God before I was born.
stickynotehaiku ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:58:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I will never sleep again, or ever have children. I do, however, believe in reincarnation now.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:00:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents like to remind me of this one I did every few years. When I was around 3 or 4, we went out on a boat at night to watch shooting stars. Must have been some kind of meteor shower. I would tell them and point to where the next one would be and every time I would be pointing to the right part of the sky... the weird part is I remember doing it with the utmost confidence, and I don't know why.
Ballsmasher ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:51:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother told me that the night my father died my sister (then 3 and didn't know he had died) sat up in her cot and begun saying bye bye daddy and waved for about 10 minutes while looking at the roof.
KaioKennan ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:06:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As I try to line up dates I realize I don't know shit about important dates..
Anyways, my little brother was probably 4 at the time, I'm not really sure, but regardless he was young enough to not understand death and what it meant yet. My grandfather had died a week or two prior and we were cleaning out his house and taking care of the yard to get it sold and stuff so we can all move on. Pretty sure I had just finished mowing the back yard and my dad had been trimming bushes, Evan, (little bro) was probably helping dad pick up lawn clippings or something innocent. As we were leaving my dad was tying Evans shoe and saw him jerk his head REALLY fast, and my dad asked him why. Evan said "I saw grandpa." Well, we just go with it. Poor guy. About a year passes and a family friend moves into the house. My dad has told us stories of Grandpa banging doors when people forget to close them because they lack air conditioning or something, I dont really remember, I was privileged enough to not know what he was talking about at the time! lucky me. Anyways, we're going to call the guy that moved in Homie because I dont remember his name either. Homie called my dad in the middle of the night a few nights after moving in. Apparently he had heard banging in the house, outside the house, he wasnt sure. But my dad dismissed it as hoodlums in the streets. It happens again a week later, hoodlums again. The third time it happens my dad remembers that grandpa used to do somethign similar to him and his brothers. Odd stuff..
Homie was a tough guy, had been to prison before but straighten up, still tough as shit though right? Homie had a friend in town, gangster much like Homie's youth, tough, not the kind to spook easily. His name was something stupid too, dont remember, he can be Sissypants. Sissypants stayed the night and ended up sayign prayers over himself over this banging after Homie had told him about it beforehand.
Anyways, these weird things happen more and more and my dad stays the night there, and it doesnt happen. so he really cant help. Homie gets fed up one night and shouts "Dammit Jim, I know this is your house but I'm trying to get some sleep!" Never happened again
TL:DR Brother thought he saw my dead grandfather, weird poltergeisty things happen until the guy that moved in apologized to the dead.
EDIT: After typing all this I realize I might have lost track of what the thread was for but it's close enough.
KaioKennan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:09:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Another one I can post, I worked with kids for about a year for the county, had a kid tell off another, MUCH larger kid "You eat your neck with your face!"
sparklypandacakes ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:07:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when my son was around 2-3, he would always play with someone or something that was on the landing of the stairs. sometimes he would stop whatever he was doing and just walk over there and stare at it and smile and laugh. then he would sit on the floor and throw his ball up there. he never really said anything creepy though, but playing with something that i can't see is creepy enough. i don't live in that house anymore but my ex still does. he said it has gotten worse. always noises in the attic, doors opening or closing on their own, footsteps in the hall, knocking on the walls, etc. my son can't remember anything and he doesn't see it anymore.
moonshwang ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:49:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 3 we were at my beach house and I said "Mum I don't like the white man because he holds my hand too tight." She said "Oh, who's the white man?" I said "You know, the white man, he wears the hat and mows the lawn. When we cross the road he grabs my arm really tight. And he talks funny. He looks just like Uncle Laurie" When mum was little her grandad used to grab her arm to cross the road, had a mower that stayed at Anglesea, wore a big hat and had an english accent. So mum gets out a family photo and I pointed at him and said "That's the white man". I can still vividly picture him.
momarazzi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:17:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My oldest daughter had a "White Man" who was with her till she started school. He never scared us though. He was always nice. She talked about "White Man" constantly. Weird you both called them white man...
dastaria ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:17:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid but my young cousin. I was 16 at the time, he was 9. We were walking up the high street when I told him I needed to pop into a shop to buy some soap. He looked at me dead seriously and the following exchange happened:
Me: Come on then.
Him: I can't go in there.
Me: ...Why?
Him: Mum said that shop is evil. They make soap from herbs. It's like worshipping Satan.
Me: ...
Spoke to his mum (a dyed in the wool Catholic) about it later and she told me the same thing. SATAN SOAP! (Even funnier is that the woman who runs the shop used to be friends with the mum in comprehensive school. Go figure.)
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:11:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As the creepy child on my family, I'm sure my parents have plenty of stories about me as a kid. I remember a few.
I once got sick after watching the Blair Witch Project, and I hallucinated that the Blair witch killed my dad. When he woke up I was curled up in bed between my parents with a stuffed animal, and I stared at him wide-eyed and said rather bluntly, "I saw you die last night."
Another time I had gone down into the basement to get a toy I'd left down there, and I saw this black cloudy mass with faces in it swirling around the light fixture at the bottom of the stairs (I remember this vividly and I was not at all sick). I casually walk upstairs, find my dad, and tell him, "Call the Ghostbusters. Our basement has demons."
"When I die I want to be mummified. Like the Pharaohs."
After watching The Mummy: "Scarabs eat people alive? That's so cool. I want pet scarabs."
"I hope I'm a reincarnation of Jack the Ripper. That would be sooo cooool!"
And as an infant, when my older brothers would sit me down in front of bloody, gory horror movies, I would smile and giggle. Disembodied limbs were my favorite things, and I would laugh hysterically whenever a twitching disembodied hand was on screen. Thing was, of course, my favorite character in The Addams Family.
All of this occurred before the age of seven. I was a creepy little girl.
:)
Lucho420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cool story bra...
wameron ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:17:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Parent here. I used to live in a gated community in California and my son once made a video pretending to be a terrorist using our neighbors kid as a hostage. A few years later that same son began talking to what he said was my late husband as if he were still alive. After I remarried my son hit my new husbands boss with a croquet mallet. I worry sometimes.
I-heart-naps ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:21:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry Nancy, we still love you.
middledeck ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:34:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but an uncle:
My then 5 year-old cousin was talking to my aunt one day, and was discussing (she's very articulate) about how she was going to have a new cousin soon.
My aunt brushed it off as a young child's make-believe story. Unbeknownst to her, my sister-in-law was pregnant, but hadn't told the family yet.
My mom called my aunt later that day, at which point I imagine my aunt looked over tentatively at my cousin (playing with a smile on her face), and was just a little bit afraid of her little girl.
TL;DR: My cousin knew my sister was pregnant before there is any possible way she could have know. Aunt proceeded to be freaked the fuck out.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:11:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This gives me an idea of a prank to play on my future so/family members when we start having kids. :)
sorrelle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:34:12 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My older brother did this when he was about 3, less than a year before I was born. While out at a restaurant with our parents, he walked past a table with two little girls, looked thoughtfully at them for a moment, and said very matter-of-factly, "I'm getting one of those."
Bluebolt77 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:52:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
According to my mother when I was very young I used to tell her I was abducted by aliens. She says I didnt call them aliens, but "people from the sky with big heads", and that they took me to places in space.
OstrichBurgers ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:20:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kids, but when I was younger.
I was hanging out with my friends (to what I remember) and we were at the park. It was getting rather late and dark, so we were finishing up our last games. Before we left, these two kids come by, walking really slowly, and they sit on the swings, and just stared at us. I was curious so I kept my eyes on them and they seemed to have eyes that glowed yellow. The oldest girl of my group of friends asked if they were lost and they responded:
"we were never found, we've always been lost"
Llama_Operation ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:26:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad used to tell me these stories of when he was three or four and he had nightmares a lot involving this witch. So one night he claimed this "witch" was standing outside his window asking him to come outside. He kept saying to her that it was too cold outside to go right now, she was persistent and kept on beckoning him outside but my dad ran to go get his dad. My grandad investigated his bedroom window saw footsteps leading away from his window. Well yeah they were all paranoid and decided to board up the windows after that. Well skip ahead like eight years and my dad had his cousins over for some kind of family reunion thing. Well one of my grandad friends shows up to the party. My dad fairly recognized her as the witch that haunted his dreams a few years back, he soon shook it off as nothing though. As soon as his cousin Jody sees her she says to my dad, "Strange, that looks like a witch that appeared in my dreams awhile back."
rubixpubes ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:43:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was four or five yrs old, my mum said that one morning I came down to breakfast and told my mother 'thankyou for holding my hand last night when I was having a bad dream'. I even remember the feeling of holding this hand in my sleep. It was definitely a woman's hand so I must've assumed it was my mums. But she said she didn't..
It was when I was 15-ish she reminded me of this and also stated that the bed I slept in when I was a kid was the same my grandma died in a few years before i was born. Which is pretty creepy, but also very sweet, the thought of my grandma holding my hand through a bad dream.
NuclearThane ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:49:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when I was 3 or 4 I was helping my mom put her winter scarf on, and she swears to this day that a demonic look came over me and I said "I wonder how tight I'd need to pull this to snap your neck."
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:11:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not what he said but last night my 7 year old son just started punching himself in the balls very hard and laughing , I just shook my head and walked away. Then 10 minutes later I found him on the floor curled up in a ball crying, that boy ain't right.
boomstickfullofjello ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:22:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How interesting - http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/vwcx4/til_there_is_university_research_done_on_children/
kourogi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:07:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's little sister (about 4) told us that she didn't want to go to the bathroom because she didn't like the man in the hallway watching her. She spoke about the scary man in the hall a lot until they moved. Still get chills thinking about it.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:47:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was around 5 years old I told my mum that I thought my life was fake and everyone was acting their roles whenever I was around. I thought that if I wasn't with someone at any time, they would be watching me with all the other people in the world and waiting for the next time they would need to be in character. It really worried me at the time, I was a strange kid.
gleetzoid ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:12:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh, so long a story and so late to this party, but whatever. I'll still type it up.
When I was about 2 and my mother was pregnant with what was to become my brother, our family of 3 (plus 1 pending), moved to Panama. We were looking at houses on the military base and one was kind of near the edge of installation, backed by a little bit of wilderness-y rainforest. (This has all been related to me as an adult, since I don't remember.) I had never been a creepy kid, but when we saw the back fence, which was concrete blocks with shards of bottles cemented on top, apparently I turned to my parents and said, "The bad man will come this way." We ended up living in a more apartment style place further toward the heart of the base and apparently there were some attacks at that edge around those houses, some of which resulted in murdered residents. That happened about 6 months after we looked at the property.
Once my brother was born, my mom and dad have told me that I would talk for him, like tell them what he wanted or needed. It always seemed to be the right thing, even from the time that he was just a few days old, and as a result, my brother didn't say his first word until he was 4 and a half. I just always told them what he wanted.
When we left the military, we finally settled in our first real house, a Victorian old POS. In this neighborhood, I've had a quite a few run in's with stuff. I never thought of myself as gifted in any way and I didn't think I was too creepy of a kid (my parents agree for the most part), but it's just weird. We had issues for the first 8 years that we lived here in this house, when I was in middle school and high school. When I left for college, they all stopped. I recently graduated college and came home and we've been having issues again. I think it will be good when I move out in a month again. It will be interesting to see.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:21:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What is your relationship with you brother like now?
gleetzoid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:21:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once in a while, we seem to have an oddly close mental connection on one or two things, but for the most part, other parts of his personality that have risen that have pushed us apart (rage, hormones, etc). We're close, but he's a guy just entering his 20s. I think he is fiercely independent in ways.
ElysianBlight ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:50:09 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little, pretty much as soon as I started talking, I would tell my parents elaborate stories about my old mommy and my old house. I knew the color of the house, that it was located on a hill, my old mother's first name and hair color, the fact that her husband was older than her, that we were poor and I had a bunch of siblings and didn't feel like they paid enough attention to me. I even knew the city and state I had lived in.. Alaska, Pennsylvania. It sounds like a fake random place name, so my parents shrugged it off as a super active imagination... until the day they were sitting in front of the tv and there was a news report about something that happened in Alaska, Pennsylvania. My mom flipped out.
Edit: I am pretty sure in my stories I never grew up, but I don't remember telling any about dieing either.. more like I just didn't like it there and chose to find a new family. Still weird.
Adventuremormon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:08:57 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom has this home video of me when I was about 4. It was like...2 days before Halloween and my mom was taking videos of us and stuff. So my mom turns the camera to me and i'm just dancin' around in my costume and she says, " What happens in a couple days, Samantha?" I look at the camera and say, "We Die."
o___o
Weedwar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:00:31 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is something done rather than said. I was about 6 and a half and my sister was only a couple months old. I had one of those big poloroid cameras and was taking pictures all over the house. My sister was too little to even pick it up and i remember having it in my hands the whole day. Anyway, in the middle of me watching tv, during a break from taking pictures, a photo popped out of the slot. I shook it dry to see a picture of my sister sleeping on the living room floor. To this day I swear I never took that picture... because she was never asleep on the floor.
ConradFerguson ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:18:33 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
God, another one. But it was a story my dad told me that happened to him when I was around 16-17.
I don't remember where he was going, but while he was driving, he started to fall asleep. A passenger in the back seat shook him by his shoulder and yelled his name to wake him up.
He was the only one in the car.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:00:31 on July 13, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Subconsciousness that acted as self-preservation.
ConradFerguson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:31:32 on July 13, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, my step mom also allegedly can see spirits, and other supernatural what-nots, and has told him he has a woman following him most of the time. He says he can feel her some times.
Somewhat skeptical of it.
insectopod ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:58:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a little kid (four years old maybe) when I pulled in the driveway with my mom, she would always say to "wave to daddy" because he would look out the window and wave at us because my mom would honk the horn. Anyway, I remember when one time, we were pulling into the driveway. People in the car were me, mom, and dad. And I look out the window and say "Hey, there's daddy! Wave to daddy!" and I began waving at the window. Why? Because I saw a man leaning out the window staring down at us, he had a stubbleish beard and was just...staring. Didn't wave back. My mom said "But....daddy's in the car, honey." So I just said "Oh." and didn't appear to be bothered in the slightest.
I'm pretty sure the thing I saw in the window is also the same thing that whispered "Madness." when I was walking downstairs.
BoughtreeFidee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
King Leonidas haunts your house? You should be honored.
lurkyshmirky ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:03:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My teacher's nephew (4) and daughter (3) were talking one night and as he walked past the door he heard the nephew ask her "What do angels sound like? I'm starting to forget."
laidbackduck ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:56:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't this in one of those Chicken Soup For the Soul books?
lurkyshmirky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't think so. Heard it in my theology class as "proof that god exists".
laidbackduck ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:47:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"And speaking of gifts, I have a story: Several years ago, my friend's wife had a baby boy. They already had a son who was about 4 years old and all he wanted to do was to spend time alone with his baby brother. At first his parents were hesitant, but the little boy was so insistent that they finally gave in. They peeked through the nursery door as their son ran up to his new brother's crib and said: "Quick, tell me what the angels look like, I'm starting to forget."
http://www.drdangottlieb.com/writings/02aug.php
I copypasta'd from the internet.
lurkyshmirky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:58:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have lost all faith in my professor now. Sad day.
HumanSuitcase ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:11:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why do I have the feeling that M. Night Shaymalaan is going to use this thread to write his next movie?
pyromaniac133773 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:27:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a story about me but when I was younger my mother was really into genealogy. Since this was a little before the dawn of things like ancestry.com and such we spent a lot of time going to libraries and graveyards and suck. One day, when I was about 4, we were looking around a graveyard for one of her dead relatives. I wandered off a little from her and stood right in front of a gravestone. I pointed at it and said "This is my grandma" and proceeded to list off a bunch of information about this lady. The really crazy part was that she was that that was the stone we were looking for.
a_fortunate_age ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:46:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 7 I told my mom that I was in my sisters room playing with her Barbies when I heard someone say "let me in". She laughed and said I was watching too much Goosebumps, and therefore didn't allow me to watch it anymore. The next day I was sitting in the living room and heard it again only louder. My mom was sitting on the couch so I told her I heard it again. She told me to stop making things up. That's when something banged really hard against the wall directly across from her, causing her colored glass to crash to the floor. I just looked at her and said "He really wants in..."
zombehbrainz ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:46:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This will probably get buried.
I don't have kids, but my father got me on video speaking french when I was around 2. I was living in a VERY small town in Georgia at the time... literally miles and miles from anything. There is probably no way I would have known french.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with pens- just to start it off. My father was video taping my family, hanging out in the living room one night. I run off to mine and my brother's room. My father followed me into my room and I'm pointing at a container that holds all of my crayons and such. He takes down the container and starts pulling stuff out. There happened to be a felt tip pen, my favorite. I see the pen and start going bananas, asking for the pen! "Pen, pen, pen Daddy, pen!" He laughs and tells me no. I become upset and start crying, "PEEEEEENNNN DAAADDDYYY!!!" My father then tells me to say goodbye to the camera. As I'm crying, I say very clearly... "Au revoir".
Funniest thing and weirdest thing ever. I always asked my parents how and they had no idea.
nixygirl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:06:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sesame Street
zombehbrainz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe, still funny for a 2 year old.
SanJose_Sharks ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:44:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity." - my 3 year old son
destromas ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:34:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah dadoo ugah abah bbbbbbeh.
He's 9 months old, I just wanted to partake.
dietotaku ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:41:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this one trumps just about everything.
Rorek_Strange ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:46:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but last Christmas my baby sister got a nice baby doll from Santa. I believe this was some medical baby doll, as it came with things like shots, a stethoscope, etc.
Anyways, she was playing with it on her bed and accidentally dropped it on the floor. She got really worried all the sudden and went to go check to see if the doll was okay with the stethoscope. When she got up, she said "Baby dead." I told her "What? The baby isn't dead silly!" and she replied with "Baby dead." once more. I gave her a O_O face, and she responded with a most evil :) face. Creeps me out.
mozaleia ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:50:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
my mom told me that when I was 4-5 I used to "hang" all my dolls and stuffed animals from my bed by their necks, when she asked me why I did that I apparently told her "so they stop telling me to do bad things" they took away all my strings and rope from then on. I don't remember any of that and I never had problems hearing voices when I was older.
edit: accidentally some words.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:16:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I saw them wrestling"
Faylecake ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:25:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am amused that pulloutboy is posting in a parenting thread.. Guess it just felt too good to waste at the time.. x)
ragemaster_21 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:42:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the kid in this story. Note we were looking through old stuff an I was 4.
Mom: Look at this cute purple bow honey. Me: When I first opened my eyes, that's what I saw an a lady. Mom: Ok honey stop making up stories. (Upon further investigation in the box of old shit sure a hell theres a picture of a nurse holding me with a purple bow in her hair) Mom: How did you know honey. Me: Well I can see can't I. (True story)
armiferous ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:22:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not my child but my sister's...
So a while back, I'm babysitting my 5-year-old nephew and we've been playing superheroes and supervillains for the last 3 hours. I'm apparently Green Goblin ("Because you're wearing green socks" he says) and he's Spiderman (even though he's wearing a Batman mask). We're both collaborating as we go along, to make a story of what is going on in our game.
I figure it's up to me now to think of another story after the last one ('Spiderman has to find 15 blue things to make a reactor to power the city' because he is learning numbers and I need a chance to eat something)
So I'm like "Okay, Spiderman! So I have all the people of the town under my control!" He's like "GIVE THEM BACK! Graahhh!!" and I say "Well, I'll only give them back if you join me and be my sidekick and help me blow things up!" because I figure it would be fun if we go around doing mischief with him as my sidekick (also I could use it to get him to go outside because it is a nice day).
But alas, he says "NO! I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU!" I'm not up to him beating me up for the townsfolk, so I reply, in my most calm, confident voice possible. "Either you be my Little Goblin or I'll kill all of them. Seriously all of them."
I thought this would create a dilemma for his heroic soul, one that would allow me to bend him to my will, but unexpectedly he stands his ground. "I STILL WON'T JOIN YOU!" As he says this, the smallest bit of a smirk grows on his lips.
I didn't know what to do at this point. I try to summarize the situation for him, so that he might understand exactly what he's doing. "So...you'll... let all the people of the city die just because you don't want to be my sidekick?"
He groans, loudly and says, with impatience "Yeah, I don't care." Lazily, he flicks his hand backwards and rolls his eyes to emphasize to me that he truly doesn't fucking care.
I try again. "Even Mary Jane?"
"Mary Jane? I don't even like her." He gives me an evil, evil smirk.
I give up. Honestly, I give up at this point. I'm kind of in awe at his malevolence. "My GOD..." I say. "You're a better villain than I'll ever be." And I hand him my green socks, in defeat.
The little monster dances around with a sock in each hand, cheering for himself. "YAY! I WIIIIIIN! I WIIIIIINNNNN!" and he makes the sound of a crowd roaring. Then he starts headbutting me into the corner between the back door and the window. I'm like "Oh my god, stop wtf are you doing. I'll give the people back to you." I'm laughing almost too hard to speak. "Is-is that what you want?"
He suddenly stops, "No, you can keep them. Thank you anyway." he says, sweetly.
I pet his head, cautiously. If nothing else I'm glad that he used his polite words that we'd been working on. "Okay. Thank you for being polite." I say.
He smiles at me, genuinely happy, and demands that we play Katamari Damacy. At least he says please.
TL;DR: My nephew is a Type V Anti-Hero.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL
Troct ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 19:45:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My child looked me straight in the eye and said the most horrible thing I could ever imagine... "I'm a conservative"
SeaGoose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:19:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Could be worse ....
Cajoled ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:26:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Daddy... I'm literally Hitler.
apikoros18 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I so fear the above
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're surname wouldn't happen to be Keaton, would it?
check85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is his name Alex P. Keaton?
guineapiglets ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:04:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah so I don't want kids anymore.
Nomnombunny ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:05:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is my exact sentiment. You guys have some creepy freaking kids.
guineapiglets ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:08:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Damn right, I have a major case of the heebie jeebies now
Nomnombunny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I decided to go downstairs (1890's Victorian, creepy as hell, probably haunted) and I made it to the stairs and my black cat jumped out at me and made me scream! Then I ran into my dad and freaked out again. Sheesh. I'm just waiting for things to go flying across the kitchen by themselves! (It's happened before.)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Nomnombunny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently in my house they do...weird, weird stuff happens here. I've had my hair pulled when I was alone in the house, seen a lot of shadowy figures, had a friend claim she saw a little girl walking down the hallway...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent for a few months yet but when I was around three years old I was waiting outside the house with my Mum for my brother to come down the road from school. There were no other people around at all and apparently I looked up at her and said "this is what it will be like when everyone is dead".
Staplingdean ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:12:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Moral of the story: I am never having kids.
LCW83 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:12:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother was about 2 when he asked "who's that man standing behind Grandad's chair?" My Grandad's chair was flat against a wall. :-/
LepreSean97 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time I was sleeping over at my friends house and we decided to scare his little brother in the middle of the night. We slowly walked into his room. He was sleeping wi the covers over his face so we walked over and pull of the blanket. For some reason he was sleeping with his eyes open (he normally doesn't) Nd he was staring right back at us. We screamed and ran out of the room consequently waking up the whole house.
inkBrain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:37:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a little cousin that pulled some creepy shit on her parents; "creepy" being an understatement. She tried to stab them in their sleep because they had gotten mad at her earlier that day. Her father (my uncle) woke up just in time and found her next to their bed with a knife. Family came down from wherever they were living because of the incident. She's the cutest thing ever, it's odd imagining her doing something like that. She's 12.
LupusArctosZ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:38:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This happened when my niece was about two years old. One evening, shortly before sunset, she motioned for her mom to come closer, then whispered into her ear "dark soon." Despite being completely accurate, and pretty innocuous, this was absolutely terrifying. For several weeks after this she started saying this most evenings just before dark, and not always to anyone in particular. Something about the way she whispered it, regardless of whether she knew anyone was listening to her; it never got less creepy.
SkyEatsJet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:48:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My almost 2 year old son always ends up finding the "Show me your genitals" song on YouTube. I try to change it whenever it gets played. Now he runs around screaming "NO GENITALS FOR YOU!" at least once a day.
myballsareitchy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:49:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I miss my daddy". (thought that was me)
TuffMeister ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:56:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old was in her room playing on day. She came out and asked me if I heard someone say "help me". I asked her if it was the music or daddy. She shook her head and stated that no, of course not I know what daddy sounds like. She said it sounded old like a grandma.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:06:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am not a parent unfortunately, but when I was Seven years old, I was in art class with my teacher and being a general suck up to all the art teachers, I was at the front of the class with her. She was showing the class project of making a picture of your favorite holiday using construction paper. She was holding each one up: Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Birthday, Christmas, and she gets to mine and says, "Look everyone Sarah has done Halloween and can you see the ghosts rising from the graves? Isn't it scary?" and whatever reason I tugged on her sleeve and when she bent down I whispered "You should never be afraid of the dead, only be afraid of the living..." I got moved to a different class after that.
Robby712 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:48 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to be your friend after that one...too awesome!
IThinkAbout17 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:09:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda late this but, When my grandpa was a kid his 9 year old sister, Maxine, drown in the dugout, and her body sat in the house for hours until the someone came back to take her body away. Well about 15 years ago, my family still lived in that house and when my brother was about 4 he would come down from the attic saying that that Maxine wanted to play, and complained that she would take his toys. My mom would also hear him talk to Maxine. He had no idea of her at the time.
myballsshrunk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:13:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember this because I was juat a toddler but apparently I was in the kitchen with my mother, I pointed to a corner of the room full of nothing and said "mummy, who's that man?"
randyspears ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:19:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was around 4 or 5 when she woke up one morning and said, "I had a bad Mexican dream last night."
Sassage ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:23:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little I had an "imaginary friend" that I would play with in the toy room of our house. Anyways I guess I was around 4 and my family is not religious whatsoever. Had no clue about god or anything. So there I am playing in the toy room when everything goes quiet and I black out. My mom comes up stairs and asks me what happened. I said my friend hit me and took me up to see god... my mom was a little worried.... Whenever I would get in trouble my parents would make me go upstairs to my room and I remember just sitting there on the stairs screaming my head off yelling "You made my friend mad and she wants to hurt me now!"
uterusofsteel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:24:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My two year old was pissed about something one day so she hit me on the arm. I scolded her and asked her "why would you hit mommy?" She looked at me dead in the eyes with the meanest look, pointed at me and said in the most stern voice "cry" without blinking or breaking her glance. One word made me shudder so much.
RyFly95 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was the kid in this situation. I was sitting in the grocery store cart, when I saw the most awesome toy ever. I begged my mom for it, but I didn't get my way. Several moments later, I exclaimed "Mommy! You said the F word!" several people started glancing over. She asks me what she said and I told her its a bad word and I'm not supposed to repeat it. After pleading with me to tell her what she said, and the staring heated up, I said "You said the F word! You said forget it!"
touchmyid ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:26:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few days ago my 5 year old son told me that my deceased father was talking to him in his head, and he was teaching him how to pillow fight better...
Kuusou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:27:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just have the one that involved me.
When I would younger I would hear whispers from the room at the end of the hall (The hall was shaped like an L with me at the vertex and this room at the end of the longer side. Although the hall was not that long in general)
They would always whisper (and yes I can remember it perfectly) things such as
"Come here." "Over here." "Come in here." and sometimes "This way."
Even when I think about it now it's fucking crazy. I don't believe in ghosts or spirits of any kind, and I have never had anything else "supernatural" happen to me. I used to SCREAM in order to wake my parents, who were down the other short hall. Usually my mother would come over and see what was going on (It was far too scary to walk out into the hall in order to get to their room) and I would always tell her what was going on.
I'm pretty sure my mother does, and always has, believed in spirits or something to that effect, so I'm sure it freaked her the fuck out on many level. I know they got sick of me waking them up though, but what the fuck was I going to do? I'm trying to fall asleep and people are whispering to me from down the hall all night? FUCK THAT.
A funny little side note though, they stopped only after I moved my room from where I was, to the room the voices came from. It all stopped after that and I never had an issue. I really don't know why I chose to move my room, but I'm glad I did.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Weren't you scared as hell to sleep in the voices-room? I mean how did actually going and sleeping there help in any way?
Kuusou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny, I don't remember having a reason to move into that room (on that day) but I remember taking my bed apart in order to do so. I had to smash apart the frame using this giant nail (like this) as a hammer to do so.
I just took all of my things and put them in there without asking, my mom didn't seem to care.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:28:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 2, I would always talk about my dead grandma. She died a month before I was born, but apparently I would frequently say things like, "Grandma Green doesn't like when you do that." or "Did you know Grandma Green's favorite color was blue?"
godzillafragger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:32:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a story where I'm the kid. When I was in Pre-K, there was a girl that I despised, she was a brat and bitch towards me. So, one day she's playing with all the other girls on in the playhouse, which was raised about 6 feet above the floor. I walk up to the playhouse and say,"ding dong" the girl replies(quite obnoxiously)"What do you want?" I then state innocently," I'm here to sweep the chimney, miss." She then nods approvingly and I climb up. I play chimney sweep for a few minutes, then nonchalantly walk up behind the girl and push her off the playhouse. I don't remember exactly what I said to my mum when I was forced by the school to tell her what happened but it included,"The plan worked" and,"I think she'll go away now." She did go away and I never saw her again. However, my mum started to think that I'd end up in the mafia. TL;DR I beat up a girl through a perfect scheme and my mum thought I was going to join the mafia.
danbrady82 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For a few months my son (2) kept yellingโ"I know that man! I know that man!" We had no idea what he was talking about. What man? How do you know him? Where is he?
It turns out he was saying "Ayรบdame! Ayรบdame!" Spanish for "Help me." He was watching a lot of Go Diego Go. That's what the animals cry out to Diego.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:35:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There is a story about a ghost that haunted my parents when they were younger. Used to beat on their doors, throw folded laundry around the house, all kinds of weird stuff. They nicknamed the ghost George. I heard about George when I was young. Well, years later, the story faded into obscurity, and queue the birth of my little sister. She never heard the story of George.
Well. My little sister, who couldn't have been more than 4 at the time, was walking around in the front yard, babbling away to seemingly nothing. I asked her, "Who are you talking to?"
She turns and looks at me and says, "George."
GhostDigi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:37:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
3 yr old...
"God is everywhere." - Child "Yes that's true." - Me "God is invisible." - Child "Yep, that's right!" - Me "Just like the people that are trying to control our planet." - Child
receedingpain21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was around ten years old and my youngest brother was 3 at the time. He was outside in the garden playing with toys or something and looked as though he was talking to himself. When I went outside I over heard him talking to his toys saying "Die David die!" and he was smashing a action figures face into the soil. ( our eldest brothers name is David)
McToasterz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:08:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 1 or 2, my mom was going to sleep in my bed with me that night. I feel asleep and all was right when suddenly, I rose straight up, and said "GET OUT!" and then fell back down and continued sleeping. According to my mom, she "ran out the room screaming and crying, desperately trying to call my grandma."
M33Pmeep ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:24:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I never want to have children because of this thread.
JaxLaxBro22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:01:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kids, but me when I was about three. As I said, I was very little, so I was supervised quite a bit. One day my mom walked out of the room for a minute to go get something; and when she walked in, I was crying for my stuffed rudolph doll that my great aunt had given me. My mom, being very anal about things, told me that it wasn't Christmas, so it wasn't time for Rudolph. I then asked "who gave this to me?" she told me that my great aunt had. I then replied "well she's in heaven now."
my mom (a little wierded out now) told me that it wasn't true, and that I would see her in a few days when we visited her. Later that day, she got a call from HER mom telling her that my great aunt had died earlier that day.
There are many more stories like that. One such being that I told my mom that my great grandfather had joined his dead dog in heaven. She got a similar call as in the other story later that day.
There are more than just these two, but i can't fully remember the stories. My mother tells these stories often to her friends. I still get really sad for no apparent reason sometimes, only to get a call that a loved one passed.
paul_5gen ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:08:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My wife and myself were watching her nephew for a few days. One day he was sitting on the couch with us. And said โ there's somebody elses soul in your bodiesโ (in his normal innocent voice). My wife and I looked at each other giving a nervous laugh. I asked him where he heard that. He said โover thereโ pointing to the room he was staying in.
I went to ask him more but his attention span already gave out, he is 3 years old after all.
EDIT: Spelling.
HereForKarma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:11:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What about when the dew days were over?
paul_5gen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol dammit.
UniversalLights ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:23:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm actually the child in this story:
Well, first off...I lived on a farm or should I say, still living on the farm. When I was about 7, my parents told me that my grandmother died in the room that I stayed in. Instinctively, I asked them how she died. My father looked at me and told me that she was simply too old, but I could tell something was wrong. I looked at my mother and she just looked down.
During that night, I would think about what my parents told me. The thing that frightened me was actually the mirror in front of my bed. I got pretty tired, so I slept. Around 2:24am, I was awakened by a voice. Like any other kid, I would hide myself under my blanket for protection. I heard the sound of a rocking chair while I was under the blanket. At that moment, I screamed. I simply screamed. My parents ran to my room and asked me what was wrong. I looked at them and told them I heard a rocking chair sound. Right when I said that, my mother was completely silent with a ghastly look on her face. I asked her what was wrong.
She said, "Your grandmother died while sitting on the rocking chair."
Still scares me to this day.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:26:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was a little girl at the school my mom teaches at. The school has a number of children born to Haitian immigrants who practice voodoo. 5-6 years ago I was helping my mom clean up the school library during my summer break from college. The summer program for kids was going on at the same time. I felt a tug on my shirt and looked down to see a girl with her friend. She motioned for me to lean in so she could whisper to me. She said "Is it true that when your boyfriend wakes up he looks you in the eyes, rolls over, then goes back to sleep?" I stared at her blankly, said "No", then walked over to my mom to tell her that I was scared. The thing is, just a few days prior I had been lying in bed with my boyfriend (now my husband) and he woke up, looked at me, rolled over, and fell back asleep. When he woke up again I said, in those words, "Why do you wake up and look me in the eyes, roll over, then go back to sleep?" It was a weird thing for me to comment on and even weirder for a little girl to say those words back to me verbatim a few days after I said them. When I got home I felt really bad for lying to the girl and asked my mom to track the girl down so I could talk to her. My mom went looking for her that week based on my description but couldn't find her. I still regret not being able to talk it over with her.
TL;DR: Little Haitian girl said back to me, verbatim, something weird that I said to my boyfriend a few days prior.
cemetrollin ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:39:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter, walked up behind me, all stealth-like, lightly touched my neck and said..."Is this your Jugular?" Scared the shit out of me.
Also, my 4 year old, announced as I arrived home from work, "I gave daddy a Blow Job!" After I regained consciousness, I ascertained that she had styled daddy's hair with the blow dryer.
press-control-w ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:43:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What will happen if i pull this trigger?
Jerbus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:44:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So i have decided to never have kids because these posts are messed up! That is all :)
ikadono18 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:48:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL there are more parents on Reddit than I ever thought. Cool.
Lady_FriendOfSpiders ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:49:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Daughter looks at me, then quickly glances behind me and whispers "Mum, don't move"
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:03:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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aidsrainbow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At least if you do, it'll make a pretty cool movie.
I-heart-naps ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You should probably be reaaallllyyy nice to her, just in case.
cakecat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:06:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
More funny than creepy, but my brother-in-law walked in on my 2-year-old nephew playing and saying "Spider-man's eating all the babies."
EDIT: I accidentally a word.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:09:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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aidsrainbow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to be the one to ask. What's the fun parade?
murtzor ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:53:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This happend to my mother and sister before I was born.
My mother always used to wake up at night with pain in his chest as if someone stood ir hugged her, and one night she was awakened by a huge pain in the chest and she tried to get out of bed, but it was like someone was holding her back. In the morning my sister asked "who was the big man was who was in the room last night?" I do not believe in ghosts or creatures, but always get goosebumps when I hear that story.
psychomama ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:00:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My husband and I took our 4 yr old for a walk down a trail in the woods that leads down to a tiny lake ... a week before we had made the same trip without him. On our solo trip, we went off trail and came across a makeshift campsite and along side it was a pretty dress (baby size) and a set of baby dress shoes. So the following week when we just start out on the trail my son he asks " Mommy, why is that little girl under the water down there?" we were a little freaked out to say the least! The same kid not too long afterward asks me while we are driving past the cemetary " Why are they so sad in there" ...no one was there...but he described several people to me in great detail.
paintnwood ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:03:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have creepy kids but I was one. Once my parents were making popcorn and getting to watch a movie when 4 year old me gets out of bed walks into the kitchen and tells my Sunday school teacher mom to be careful because "the bad jesuses are coming out of the floor and watching what you're doing." then I walked back to my room and finished sleeping.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:13:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids yet, but apparently I scared the hell out of my sister and grandma when I was little. I walked away from home and they were looking for me, but couldn't find me. Eventually I came home crying and they asked where I was. This is where it gets creepy. Apparently I told them that I was taken by a man and he pricked me with a needle. I don't recall any of this, and I just found out about this story recently.
franticcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:29:34 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that's terrifying!
JudithRandom ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:15:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent yet but... When I was 3, my mother had her very long hair cut really short. When she got home and sat on a couch, I climbed up to sit on her lap, started to trace the pattern on her sweater with a finger and after a while I said: "My mummy has the same sweater."
"But... I'm your mummy," she said.
"Oh, I see. Ok then," I replied.
From that day, I would occasionally utter a coment like "My mummy sings that, too.", "My mummy has a skirt just like this." or "My mummy cooks this soup, too."
My mother would always try to explain that she is my mummy, that she only had shorter hair now, and I would always reply: "Ok."
Somehow I didn't recognize her after the haircut but instead thought that I had a new mummy, obviously being totally ok with it. Eventually I stopped talking about "my mummy". My mother never really got over this whole thing.
I'm 28 now. I am 100% certain that my mother is my actual mother. We are a large family and the photos, resemblance, blood type โ I never even questioned it, because the evidence of me being her daughter is unquestionable. Still, although I never told her, I do remember that one day, a new mummy came.
suecallen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:22:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. That is wild. I had long hair and my son (about two at the time) would sit on my lap and reach back and twirl his finger in my hair when we watched tv. One day I got my hair cut and when he sat on my lap and reached back nothing was there to twirl. I always knew it was an important change in that moment, but did not realize till now how important it might have been. He still twirls his own hair while watching tv.
sterlingrose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:35 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually registered just so I could reply to this, because I did the same thing when I was maybe two or three. My mom didn't have really long hair, but it was probably about shoulder length and then she got it cut super short. I kept pulling on her face, her ears, her hair, insisting that she wasn't my real mommy. I remember pulling, thinking that it was a mask and I'd be able to take it off. She kept reassuring me that she was my real mom and that she'd just changed her hair, and I mostly believed her. But over the years, I'd occasionally tug on her ear, mostly joking but remembering that twinge of panic, whenever she got a haircut.
In retrospect, I realized that this was her fault for taking me to see Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
toomuch_or_notenough ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:17:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my little cousin was 3, my uncle took him fishing. When they were out on the lake, my cousin looked up at my uncle and said something about "the ghost in Uncle Bob's house" (other uncle). When asked about the ghost, the kid leans in, whispers really quietly, "It hangs from the ceiling fan while he's sleeping."
My uncle asked him what it looked like. He said, in barely a whisper, "it looks like a kangaroo."
jeknee ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:31:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Son, 3, about an ant: "I killed him. He got in my way."
ithinkitshislung ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:37:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
2 yr old son said "Momma, the sun is ALL power" then gestured big with his hands.
the_bhan ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:51:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Maybe it's just me but every story about creepy experiences happen before the age of four, which is when kids "lose" their memory. Maybe there's something to be said about all of this. EDIT:spelling
smempem ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:05:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids say the darnedest things.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:11:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents like to tell this one about me. One night the electricity went off and we were all sitting in the candle light. Suddenly I pointed to a painting and said "Dat fall". About 30 seconds later it did.
One about my brother. My parents saw him standing over my crib when I was a newborn. They thought it was pretty cute right up until he said, "I can break every bone in your body". He was 4.
jm1ce ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:45:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but one of my friend's cousins, Nathan. Short back story: I have a cousin who was supposed to be a twin, but one died before birth. The one who died was supposed to be named Katherine. Anyway, fast forward a few years and Nathan is born with no knowledge of Katherine whatsoever, as the family doesn't talk about her. One day he was sitting in the living room, mumbling to himself and when we asked him who he was talking to he replied, "katherine"
kenzir10 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:06:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was really small, I would tell my mom that I was going to die before I turned 13. It wasn't for a few years after my 13th birthday that she told me how scared she really was. Also when I was younger I would wake up in the middle if the night with some really bad nausea. Once I actually threw up. The next morning we found our that my grandpa had a heart attack at the exact same time that I puked. So freaky. :)
MakeMehASammich ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:11:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So freaky. :) what the hell?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:47:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but I'm a Tour Guide inside a cave system. On one of my tours a child that looked about 3 years old asked me during the middle of the cave tour "Do you see all of the souls?"
Never wanted to go into that room of the cave again.
CyrusKain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:52:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's possibly 3 year old son at the time was strumming at a guitar while my friend was next to him. Mid "song" he stopped dead silent, pointed to the corner and said, "There's a ghost." He immediately started playing again.
merrumel ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:56:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
4yo: "We're just toys in their game Mum, and They're running it!"
Who's They?! Running what!
laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:57 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like he's got the world figured out pretty well.
Jon_Ham_Cock ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:40:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Dad you suck at giving abortions"
megustapoo ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:30:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sister was the creepy child in this story Just a couple of weeks after our grandmother had died of cancer we were up stairs of her house then my little sister went into this blank stare then shes blinked and looked at me and all of my cousins and she said grandma says hi and another time in the middle of the night she came in my room and said grandma wants me to tell you good night then she walked out like nothing Little kids are creepy.
itchykat ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:50:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Mommy puked me out of her tummy." -My 3 y.o. nephew
BigEffingMcNugget ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:44:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather died about 3 weeks ago, and we were all going to my grandmoms house the next day for lunch and dinner. When my Aunt arrives she told us her 2 year old son said something weird on the way over. They never told him what happened and on the way over he sai " Pop Pop is in the clouds now." And his mother asked him who told him that, he responded matter-of-factly, "Pop Pop told me last night when he died."
insanekoz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:21:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm thinking the scariest would be "I'm pregnant."
sstephens93 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:35:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is better than most of the stories on /r/nosleep
jessiemrow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:40:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent... But hey!
When I was younger, my little sister (maybe when she was 5) used to get scared at night and come to my room and want to sleep in my bed. But, instead of crawling into my bed like a normal 5-year-old, she would stand in the doorway and wait for me to wake up. I'd wake up and see her creepy dark shadow in the doorway. Literally scared the shit out of me every time.
Wintymoot ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:50:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After having two pets die in the span of a few months my 2 1/2 year old was pretty curious about death. We had a chat about how the animals were both very old and had lived a long life and a way to show them we loved them was remember the good times we had with them. One day he came up out of the blue and asked me-
Him: Mommy, did bunny die? Me: Yes bunny is gone, remember? Him: Bunny will come back. I saw him, bunny will be back. Me: Not likely dear. Him: I saw bunny. Outside by the Jeep.
We buried the rabbit outside right next to where i park, no one had told my son what happened to the body or what was under the rocks by the tree. There was really no way he could have seen or known that particular place was the grave. Not sure if creepy or..
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:01:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
With an angelic smile on his face before ducking behind the couch "we're going to hell" no idea where he heard it... Three years old at the time
Beautifuldays ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:35:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not mine but a friend, we will call her Dawn, had just recently had her daughter and she was on and off with the father, we will call him david. He finally came to see her when she was about three weeks old and fell in love with her. We all sort of thought that he was scared of seeing her because he would not be able to control his emotions and sure enough he was absolutely smitten with his new little one. That was on a Friday night, Saturday morning early we get a call from Dawn's mom who sounded exhausted and stuffed up from crying, David went out that night to celebrate on his black Harley and we believe was run off the road. He flew face first into a guard rail and the other person never stopped but called 911 anonomylously from a pay phone. It was night and he was riding a black bike wearing black jeans, a black shirt and black cowboy hat, they couldn't find him for an hour. When they finally found him in a ditch he was barely alive and didn't make it to the hospital. After this we were all pretty shell shocked, no one ever taught the little girl the word "dad" or "daddy" since David had died, we just really didn't know how to handle it I guess. Well about 8 months go by and Dawns dad is playing with the little girl in the kitchen, we were all sitting around the table having coffee and he has her butt on the table holding her under her arms and she was facing him. All of a sudden she starts to laugh and giggle like we had never heard, she threw her arms straight up in the air and started making the motion to be picked up saying over and over "daddy!!! Dada!!! Daddy!!!" We all just froze, there were about 5 adults in the kitchen and we all just stopped completely and froze. We have no justification for what happened or how she even knew the word daddy or dada. Edit: I accidentally a letter
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:00:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in fourth grade, a friend of mine offered to hypnotize me at recess. I agreed, and after laying in the grass with my eyes shut and getting 'hypnotized', I got up and told her and the other kids around me that all I could see were people in black hooded capes. I had a freak out, and started crying. I then proceeded to runaway to the other side of the lawn, out of sight, and proceeded to calmly catch some rays by myself. I thought I had pulled a good prank.
When class got back in, I was called out to one of the courtyards during class, where the school nurse was waiting for me. Apparently, the girl that had 'hypnotized' me had told a recess monitor, who told my teacher, who told the nurse. I then underwent my first and only psychiatric analysis. I told her that once I got away from everyone, the hooded figures disappeared.
It is still my most successful prank to date.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:03:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone else scared of their own kids now after reading through this thread?
ToTheOcean ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:56:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin was two and a half and just started to form phrases with his words. He kept giggling and when asked what was so funny, he replied, "Papa C."
My grandfather died a few months earlier. My cousin only meeting him twice as a baby. Also, that was my grandfather's nickname.
One day he was giggling again and told me it was Papa C. I asked him what Papa C was telling him. He replied, "I can't ever tell you.."
WHYYY?
thatspoop ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:07:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me, but my little brother when he was about 4 or 5 said that he was afraid of his shadow because it was evil... Scared the crap out of me for awhile.
QJosephP ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:38:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have a lot of night terrors when I was 12. Apparently, I do a lot of seemingly lucid moaning and panicking when this happens. They always freaked out my brother, probably because he's seen me have seizures and just hates stuff like that. One time, I woke up calling for my brother, who was already awake, trying to console me. I was hallucinating that on my bed, there was a 12" tall, 6" wide lump in my blanket, which really scared me. My brother was telling me, "Just go to sleep, there's nothing there!" and I would just stammer, "B...but...that thing!" and motion to the lump. To me, it was an error in the universe; an abomination that simply should not exist.
He told me again: "There's nothing there."
"...really? But..."
"Yes, just go to sleep."
At this point, I didn't know what to believe. Slowly, I put my head down, never closing my eyes, and never changing my expression of confused shock.
KRitterK ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:27:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ever since I was about 4 I had problems with the paranormal. Starting toys moving and making noises by themselves. It would usually occur around 2am. Our neighbor told us a woman lost her toddler in the bedroom my brother and I shared, after he choked on his pacifier. We didn't really think much of it and moved across town to a larger house. When we first moved in we noticed one bedroom had not been moved out by the previous family. It appeared to be a little girls room. It was odd because nothing was touched. Everything was perfectly in place like she still lived there, except for the barbie dolls on the ground. In further examination we noticed blood stains trailing from the bedroom door, into the closet and then under the bed. The stains were kind of faint, some one tried to clean up. That night my brother and I started moving all of her stuff out of the bedroom and into the garage. We stopped to play with our ghost buster action figures for a while, while sitting in the bedroom. Out of nowhere we both heard a faint voice. Not in the room but outside our window. We were both to chicken shit to open the blinds so we ran to our parents. Of course they said we were just hearing things so we went back into the room. Again the voice came back a lot louder than before. Clearly we could make out the voice saying "HELP ME". We about shit a brick and ran to our parents again. They went with us down to the bedroom and we all just stood there silent. Again the voice shouted "HELP ME". My dad looked at my mom with his jaw down to his knees and proceeded to walk to the window. He opened up the blinds to find a cat. The cat was a HUGE orange long hair. The cat said it again, "HELP ME", and took off. We didn't see the cat again until I met a kid around the block(his back yard bordered mine.), we became good friends. I saw the cat sitting underneath his grandfathers truck. I told him what had happened and he said that his name was Chester, and that he knew how to talk. He knew a few phrases: "help me" "mommy" "don't hurt me" and "hello". I do not shit you, this cat sounded EXACTLY like a human. He also told me that this cat belonged to a girl that used to live in my house and that she was his best friend until she went to heaven. About 2 years pass and my younger brother and I are sitting playing with chalk in the driveway. A woman shows up out of no where and starts talking with us. Normal talk, nothing out of the ordinary until she says "Your sister looks sad you should let her play with you guys". My younger brother and I looked at each other confused. She then says "Isn't that your little sister in the window"? We turned around and saw nothing but our blinds moving back and forth. We looked at the woman and explained that we don't have a sister and a little girl doesn't live in the house. She nearly has a heart attack and asked us to speak with our parents. She told our parents what she saw, and explained what had happened in our bedroom about 8 years prior to us moving in (which would be around 85). Apparently the little girl was murdered by her abusive father he banged her head into the the rod iron fence in the back yard. She crawled down the hall into her bed room to hide in the closet. When her father he grabbed her and pulled her out threw her on the floor at which point she crawled under the bed. He dragged her out and punched her in the face. I think he even went so far as to put a cigarette out on her forehead. She died of blood loss. Her father drove to the desert to blow his brains out. Never heard anything about her mom. Other than the neighbors would hear screams night and day coming from the house. Sorry it was so long, just a lot of explaining. And yes the house was empty for about 8 years. Everyone knew what had happened there except us apparently.
franticcat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:29 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
dude, a talking cat?!
KRitterK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:46 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. It was some spooky shit.
VoodooIdol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:02 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man, this is a good one!
Just wanted to make one correction: "wrought" iron, not "rod" iron. :)
KRitterK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:24 on July 11, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, my bad. Thanks!
ConradFerguson ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:47:02 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My step sister's kid told me just yesterday (4th of July) "If I was in the war, I'd have a machine gun, and just keep shooting everybody in the face." and moments later said "Or a bazooka, so I could blow up a baby." Ironically, he has a 5 month old little brother, to whom he quickly walked over and said "I will NEVER blow you up." Not paranormal creepy. But holy shit.
EDIT: He's only 6
Karl_Robe ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 19:00:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was staying with my aunt and Uncle. One day I was playing video games with my brother, my 7 year old cousin, and my 2 year old cousin. All of a sudden the 2 year old pointed up at the fan it the room and started to chant 'The which is fan, The which is fan, the which is fan.' It scared the holy hell out of all of us.
happy_lad ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:48:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I try not to correct people like this, but for the benefit of other redditors who read this 10 times trying to figure out what the hell was going on, it's "witch," not "which."
moderatelime ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:25:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Then maybe he was saying "The witch's fan"?
Dragoryu3000 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:26:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do we know that for sure, though? After all, he spoke it. And "the witch is fan" doesn't really make any more sense than "the which is fan." What, did a witch polymerize herself into a fan or something.
Or maybe it was "the witch's fan..."
G0PACKG0 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:40:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
or he was saying 'hey bitch fan' -- the kid was just hot and wanted the fan turned on
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"which" is a thing, the child of unspecified gender probably was confused by casual usage "which one?" etc.. and was fascinated by the moving object and was just saying "look its a fan"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
witch
ijustwantanfingname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The witch's fan?
madusa77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was he watching Halloween?
Karl_Robe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:39:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We were playing Mario Kart.
Kento_Lizard ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:32:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
not a parent but I'm close to my nieces and nephews. One day I was watching them and my niece, ( 2 years old ), looks up at me and says
WAKE UP
the_emptier ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:16:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Neo.
The187Riddler ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:03:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It has been reported that some victims of rape, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not WAKE UP. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they werenโt being raped. The only way that they realized they needed to WAKE UP was a note they found in their fantasy world. It would tell them about their condition, and tell them to WAKE UP. Even then, it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and PLEASE WAKE UP.
auntjomomma ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:16:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ok....
GenericOnlineName ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:26:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why does it seem so many of these kids are from cliche horror movies?
trivial_sublime ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:56:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because art imitates life.
AlexHeyNa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:12:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Because life...
...is just one big clichรฉ.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I went to school with a girl who was always trying to garner sympathy for herself. She was a pretty big Debbie Downer. She told some story in our English class one day about how when she was four, they moved to some house and she'd play with some invisible ghost girl and then tell her mom about it.
My friends response: BITCH THAT'S FROM A MOVIE.
QuantumDisruption ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:37:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dammit reddit stop making me doubt my atheism. I'm comfortable just like this, thanks.
tarrox1992 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:46:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just because there are ghosts doesn't mean they're gods. :P
roastedbeef ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:09:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This. Atheist all my life but acknowledge there might be more to the human essence than neurons and flesh. Spirits doesn't imply gods.
pikapie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:58:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now that was the LAST thing I thought I'd see a redditor say.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:48:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not creepy, just cute. My daughter said: "ghosts don't exist", then I asked "who told you that?", "a monster", she answered.
momster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You win! I think that's the best one here.
mishatron4000 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:02:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My four year old was loading his NERF gun as he asked us "Who's ready to die tonight?"
DocBarleycorn ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:30:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I got some really good advice on 4chan." Bricks were shat.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:02:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this actually part of some creepypasta?
Palanawt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:22:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son, 8 years old at the time, comes to me one evening and asks, "Daddy, do wee wees grow?" (wee wee being the word he used for penis) I was awestruck and dumbfounded, I had no clue what to say. I was not ready to explain sex to my 8 year old. I sat in stunned silence for what felt like minutes, but after a few seconds he says, "Because I went potty this morning and my wee wee was bigger."
I kept myself from laughing, quickly gained my fatherly composure and said, "well son, I guess you know the answer than... Wee wees grow."
GENOCIDEGeorge ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:15:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just booked a vasectomy, thanks Reddit!
BoughtreeFidee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:31:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, we won't have to worry about your gene pool passing on.
GENOCIDEGeorge ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:35:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No worries, I've already spread enough sexy :>
BoughtreeFidee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Lol'd. Have an upvote
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:00:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was four, he stopped what he was doing and started saying, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down! I can't understand you! SLOW DOWN!" I asked who he was talking to, and he responds, "My friend 'Finger.' He lives in my finger. He talks too fast, I can't understand him."
Ever since, I've ensured that we don't accept any jobs that involve being a hotel caretaker whilst writing a novel.
ODrCntrJsusWatHavIdn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's also definitely a tv show on Nickelodeon with a character who does the same thing. The Mighty Bee? Maybe he just picked it up from there...?
Andrewpruka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that you have not accumulated more Karma for this is unusual.
thesage005 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:55:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DADADABLABLABLEHBLAHDADA (while drooling.) 7 months old are off the wall man.
SirHenryMorgan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:54:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Sister smacked her Son on the bottom, not even that hard and he started crying and screamed "That's all you got?"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:54:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was three and wrestling/play fighting with her dad in the front yard. Things were getting very spirited, and at one point she jumped up, ran to a nearby tree, broke off a branch and came at her dad with it. Dad told her to stop, of course.
"Sorry Daddy," she said. "I have a new master now."
(She was quoting from the movie Alladin, but still....)
r00x ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:56:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but this involved my kid cousin when I was visiting my Grandma's.
My Aunt was trying to get her kid ready to leave, but he didn't want to as he had just discovered the joy that was Xbox and was evidently a little put out that the Xbox (which was not his) was staying there, and he wasn't.
Aunt explained to him, as she helped him put on his shoes, that they had to go, because XYZ, at which point he fell silent in thought.
A couple seconds later his face lights up like he's found the perfect solution to the problem, and he says:
"Mum, can I kill you?"
Grandma wasn't paying attention, but my jaw hit the table. She freaked out when I told her later, haha.
tl;dr: my kid cousin wanted to kill his mother so he could stay and play Xbox.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:03:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Recently, my not-yet-2-year-old son has taken to walking around the house saying "Mommy, I seeee youuuuu..." even if we're in different rooms.
susuwatari ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:06:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We were driving home after visiting my parents and my 2 year old was rattling on in the back seat about various random things. Suddenly she said "pawpaw died." She was so incredibly serious and it was horribly creepy. My dad is still alive but man that was some creepy shit.
Jazzertron ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:06:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus christ. This thread makes me never want to have kids.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/r/childfree is much worse
blargblargityblarg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:09:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I did it on purpose."
Spiro4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:13:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Working at a daycare a kid ran up to me to give me a hug, stopped right before and exclaimed, "we're all gonna die!" then proceeded to hug me.
ZeMoose ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:16:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well he was technically correct.
hawleywood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:10:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The best kind of correct.
Kremecakes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:13:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck this thread. Scary as shit. Jesus Christ. I'm out.
Jean_Shirts ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:15:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My kid has a little plastic scalpel from a doctors kit. He was holding it and looked up at me, from under his eyebrows and said, "I'm the cutter-man. I'm going to cut you." He was three at the time. I still shudder every time I think about it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of some horror-movie where some kid was slicing up some old dudes mouth with a scalpel. Think it was Stephen Kings "Pet Sematary"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:23:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. Just the other day, our son was resisting his recent introduction to preschool. He's 2y 9m old, FYI. His most hated time was "circle time". "Too many kids", was his usual response.
Until the other day when he said, "the big lady was going to kill him."
1) he's not in preschool now. 2) I'm not convinced he knows what "kill" means but, wow... 3) Despite pulling him out, I have zero reason to worry about this preschool as we have friends there and all seems copacetic.
xwoe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:31:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, when I was little I woke up one night and yelled for my parents. Half asleep, they called down the hall for me to come sleep in their room with then, to which I replied, "I can't, the man in the hall won't let me".
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:39:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was actually myself. Apparently when I was younger, maybe 2 or 3, I was playing alone in my room, when my mother heard me scream. She comes running and says "Merzick, what's wrong??"
I point at the corner and say, "That man there scared me!" Of course, my mom saw nobody there.
"Who?"
"He's gone now."
sugar_honey_ice_tea ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:41:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My kid is still learning to talk, byt it creeps me out if I lay in his bed, he'll look behind me and just laugh and jibber like he's talking to someone.
awkward_kitty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:42:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when i sleep walk i go around the house making sure that all of the doors are locked to make sure that "they" don't get in.
caylalove ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:49:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me, but a friend. When she was maybe 2-3 years old, her grandfather died. As her mother was leaving the house to go the funeral, she told my friend she would be back later. My friend turned around and said slowly in a creepy voice, "Bring me back his bones."
vandamerica ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:55:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Daddy, come look at this awesome site I found! It's called 9gag!"
relaxyourthroat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:56:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not Frightening but fairly WTF. My wife and i were play wrestling entertaining our daughter when suddenly from my 3yo "c'mon mummy make him bleed". We both looked at each other thinking should we be angry/upset/worried but we ended up just laughing our arse's off.
kutNpaste ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:57:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'll burn your eyes." - my son, 2 years old.
nisim777 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:57:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 7-year old is a tough guy. Not a bully...not even close...but just one of those kids who won't stand down from a fight when he feels he's in the right. I was talking to him about it one day, and with all seriousness he looked at me and said "Dad, I fight so I don't get killed." Talk about escalating quickly.
nixygirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:33:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is his name Ender Wiggin?
nisim777 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:24:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ha! No, though he does have a natural affinity for games. Perhaps he'll be a strategy genius one day.
nixygirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:24:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He may just save us all!
bfresh84 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:02:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5 yr old daughter grabbed a knife, looked me square in the eye and said "daddy, I'm going to stab you" followed by her standard cute little giggle
Jon-W ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:13:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was probably twelve, I apparently got up and sleepwalked down the hallway. My mom stopped me and asked what I was doing, to which I replied, "The people in line told me to." She asked "what people? Go back to bed." So I grumbled, and went back to bed. I have no idea what the hell that was about.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:14:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My family is Eastern European. Many from "the old country" believe in things like the afterlife, poltergeists, ghosts, etc...
Interesting upbringing.
So, one day while I was out playing with my friends in the Living room my mother & sister were cooking up a bunch of stuff for a gathering we were going to later that evening (Cousins house, no real occasion, just what the Freelancer family does).
So while my Sister is cutting up veggies on the table, my mother is behind her facing the opposite direction... and they both hear this voice say "Excuse me"...
SlytherJen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:14:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but I have nieces and nephews. When my nephew was about 2 he grabbed a steak knife and ran down the hall with it. He paused at my bedroom door and pronounced "I'm going to cut my throat!" He then put the knife to his throat. We got the knife away from him. But it scared the shit out of us.
pabs123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:15:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of our family friend's kid is known for saying/ doing some really creepy stuff. He was in school ( first grade) and one of his classmates was teasing the teacher, so he promptly steps in and tells him not to be so mean because she's pregnant. The teacher was pretty confused and she tried to explain that she wasn't but he was having none of it. A couple of weeks later his parents got a note from the school saying that their son's class would be having a substitute for the rest of the year as their regular teacher was taking a leave. She was 5 weeks pregnant and needed a break due to complications.
There's some more creepy ones but that's the one that stands out.
Tl;dr demon child predicts baby
EmilyamI ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:16:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about six, my family took a road trip to San Fransisco. As soon as we hit the Bay Bridge, I started positively howling in the back seat. Tears running down my face, snot coming out of my nose, the whole nine yards. My parents thought I'd hurt myself somehow. I was crying so hard that it was hard to breathe.
The only thing my mom could get out of me was "Don't take me to the bad place. I don't want to go to the bad place. It's angry. It hurts. Don't make me go." and the like.
She told me they weren't taking me to the bad place and asked me what bad place I was talking about. I pointed out the window to Alcatraz Island.
joannchilada ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:21:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was baby sitting two boys for the first time, and one said, "I'm not allowed to hug the hamster or I'll kill him." I laughed. His brother was very somber and said, "He squeezed the last one to death."
fortvlc ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:21:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My parents used to do foster care. We once had this one foster kid, and for the sake of the story his name was Kevin.
Kevin had this one friend, who was a mother. She had a son and this child was an absolute brat. He always broke and stole my toys, and would get me in trouble for no reason.
One night while Kevin was staying over at her house (after he moved out of mine), he heard a weird noise and it wakes him up. Upon opening his eyes, he saw this child, standing over him and staring directly into his eyes while holding a large butcher's knife in his face. Needless to say, this kid was no longer welcome in my house. While no words were exchanged, this is the creepiest thing I've ever heard of a child doing.
Tl;dr: Potentially murderous three year old who always broke my toys
Edit: Grammar and additional info
CookieFish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There's a large age difference between my youngest brother and me and my other siblings. When he was about 3 or 4 he started wanting to play Xbox like us. We didn't have any "age-appropriate" games for him so just let him play GTA: San Andreas. One time I was watching him and he (I assumed accidentally) ran someone over - I told him to pick up the money which appeared and he responded with "I don't want the money, I just want to make them dead".
talkeme ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little cousin, Brooke, walked up to me and grabbed my forearm, then proceeded to bite it. Then she looked up at me, smiled, and said "Mm, talkeme, you taste yummy", and ran away. She also did this to her mom later that night.
FatNerdGuy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:26:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid but my brothers four year old. She was sitting down playing with some stupid tea set. My brother and I were watching football on the Tele and she looks up and says "Dad?" my brother looks down and she takes a long imaginary sip of her tea and giggles before saying "I just drank your soul!" all happy like. I still get the shivers thinking about it.
Wolf_McLarsen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:27:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
a conversation between my two kids I overheard from the other room: son(6):I don't believe in good
daughter(7):what good means is ........
son:no, what I'm saying is I don't believe that a person should be good
Sarikitty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:27:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a preschool teacher: I watched a 3 year old boy play-fighting a plastic otoscope against an elephant finger puppet, as he narrated "the blood goes here" (moves toys around attic area of dollhouse) "and the brains go down here" (throws two toys down staircase of dollhouse.)
As for most saddening, I once had a little 3 year old girl threaten to call CPS (child protective services) on another child when she didn't get her way. What she must have seen at home...
Lucky75 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:29:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night when I was a baby, apparently I was crying, and when my mom asked me what was wrong, I said "Mommy, there's a lady in my room". We found out a few hours later that my grandmother died.....
BabySniffer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:30:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, and this is a bit late but I was once babysitting a girl from down the road; I was making her hot dogs for lunch, and she asked me, "Do you think instead of burning the people with cancer, they make them into hot dogs?" I wasn't sure weather to laugh, or be mortified.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:33:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother, when he was about 6, slept-walked in to the room where my sisters slept. He stood in between their beds while staring at the wall. My sister asked if there was something wrong and all he said was, "It's okay. I'm done now." He then went back to bed.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:34:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my best friend was about three years old she was over our house and my mom caught her staring off into space and asked what she was thinking about. Her reply was "The sound of bones crunching"
tjpoe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:34:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but my 6 year old niece and I are having a conversation about her school. We were talking about good kids and bad kids, and she starts telling me about some evil kids at her school. I ask her what makes them evil and she responds almost immediately with, "they are Jews." I was so confused. My brother and his wife are in no way bigots, so I decided to dig in and find out who taught her this. I asked why she thought the Jewish kids were evil. She responded, "they killed Jesus."
danielle_evans ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:35:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A 5 year old neighbour of mine said "I like to put them into sandwich bags and watch them run out of air" about ladybirds.
lee__majors ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:38:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 2-year old son was talking to someone when I came into the kitchen. I looked around for my partner/his mum to see what they were talking about and she wasn't there. I asked him who he was talking to and he said "I was talking to the lady under the table".
I talked to him about who the lady was; apparently she was nice, and she was wearing a black dress.
seanwillsalt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:38:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids, but I got creeped out by my cousin once.
I was maybe 12 at the time, I guess he must have been around seven, and I was sleeping in his room because I had to stay over at his house for some reason. His room had mirrors covering two walls (it was a huge wardrobe), which always used to freak me. I wake up in the middle of the night, and not only is he sleeping with his eyes open (which he used to do from time to time), but from where I am, he seems to be staring up and behind me - into the mirror that I found so creepy.
I call his name to try and wake him up, because I seriously couldn't sleep with him staring like that. He 'replies' by mumbling something incomprehensible, then says, very clearly, 'Why are you standing over there?'
Naturally, I immediately imagine some ghost person looming over me IN the mirror. It was a long night.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:47:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When she was little, my friend would have trouble sleeping. She would get up and go to the bathroom, and there would always be a man at the end of the hallway watching her. She always said hello to him. Later in life, she started sleeping better because she was doing more stuff during the day. One night she woke up in the night and went out of her room, and the man at the end of the hall looked really mad, and he started coming toward her. So she NOPED back into her room. She thinks that he was mad at her for not seeing him for so long.
I don't think she made it up, either. She's really, really bad at lying.
Snak_The_Ripper ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:49:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a child I was in the hallway in the middle of the night and screamed for my mother. She came to see what was wrong and I told her there was a six or seven foot tall man made of purple electricity and he was big and he turned his head to look at me. Bricks were shat all around.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was this the man you saw?
Rofosrofos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:49:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love you, and not in the way that I love mommy.
doigel ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:51:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This one is about my Dad. Him, his brother and his cousins would play out in the field at night as kids. He claimed that one night a UFO flew a few meters above him and took off.
He's serious as fuck about it too. He doesn't even try to think of other explanations because he's confident about what he saw. It's weird when he brings it up because it's so casual.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:57:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me and my boyfriend were babysitting his cousins five year old sister. She was playing with the family's new puppy, grabbed his weiner, stared at me, said, 'willy willy willy! Just like masons!' (her 2 year old brother) and walked off. That dam nearly made me gag and pee a little bit at the same time.
Slartibartfast- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:04:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When both my brother and I were much younger (I can't remember the ages), we had a deep fascination with George of the Jungle. All we really wanted was to swing from vines like he had, so we tied those strings from window blinds around our necks and try to swing that way. Now, we didn't see the problem in this, but my mom freaked the fuck out.
Apparently my Mom also had a hard time explaining to the school that the bruises around my brother's neck were not evidence of child abuse.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:41:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Rockmashane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude that sounds like a demon attack to me. Good thing your mom got rid of that.
sterlingrose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:49 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Goddammit. It's after midnight. GODDAMMIT.
lordhuggington ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:59:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember any of this but...
When I was about three or four, I boarded a plane with my mom. She saw that I was really excited and asked me why. Apparently, I said, "We get to see grandma and grandpa!!!"
My grandparents died before I was born. My mom told me "heaven" was up in the clouds, so I assumed we were flying up to see them.
Of course, she took it as, "We're all going to die."
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:02:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The little sister of a friend of mine once told me that a demon ate her sister.
HereForKarma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:19:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Was there proof?
TheGadgetGeek ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:23:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was ten I was staying in a hotel with my parents as we were on vacation. When I woke up in the morning my parents asked me if I was okay and if I remembered anything. I of course did not. Apparently I had sat bolt upright in the middle of the night and said 'oh no, I lost it' really loud a couple of times. Finally, my Dad asked me 'what did you lose?' and I replied 'my dad's skin. I lost my dad's skin'. He then said 'but I'm your dad' and I responded 'I know, but I lost my dad's skin'.
Freaked them right out.
I learned that night that I talk in my sleep when I'm in strange places. The best was when I was visiting Trinidad and was apparently singing in another language at night. Freaked the people out who I was staying with.
jim888lu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:24:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friend had a 4-year-old daughter (Abby) and was getting remarried. The prewedding dinner was held at an old plantation in New Orleans, because she was originally from Louisiana. Later that evening, they realized that Abby had went somewhere. When they found her, they asked, "What are you doing over here, Abby?"
She said, "I'm looking at that man in the tree". When they looked in the tree, they obviously didn't see anything. So naturally, they decide to troll Abby. They asked her what the man was wearing. She said that he was wearing all grey. After a while, they told her to go play by everyone else and forgot about it.
A day later when they were recounting the story to family, another family member looked up this plantation on the internet and found out that the plantation was famous for ghost sightings and that a Confederate soldier had hung himself on that same tree...
GHOSTS ARE REAL.
TL;DR 4-year-old girl says she sees a man wearing all grey in a tree. Turns out a Confederate soldier had hung himself on that tree years ago.
alexis2044 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:24:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
This is a memory that I have since I was at crib-age. I'm not really sure how old I was or how I can still remember this, but to be honest it scared me so much that it probably etched itself on my memory pretty deep. I can still remember details to this day.
So my parents had tucked me in, secured the crib, turned off the lights and let me sleep. In the room, opposite to the side of the crib and about 2 feet away was a built-in-the-wall closet with sliding white metal doors, non-transparent. At some point in the night I wake up and and notice a faint glow coming from the closet. I lift myself up and see this pair of BIG ASS white eyes glowing in the pitch ass black, right in front of the where the closet is. These eyes look exactly like the eyes of a Sesame street Ernie doll I had. I proceed to scream my lungs off, so loud that both my parents came in the room running. When the lights came on, I saw and goddamn still remember the closet doors being completely shut.
I told my parents about it and they looked for the doll. It was in the closet.
Mr_Bugg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:25:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my son when i was changing his diaper.. "tic.. toc... tic.. toc... and the time.. is running out... for you".. I, to this day, have no idea where he heard this.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:26:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The time my 2 year old came in to my bedroom at 2am and said "Daddy, I don't want that girl in my room. She's weird." There was no one else there.
goodbyegalaxy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:26:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Posting this on behalf of my parents:
When I was little I used to say all kinds of creepy things. A couple times I woke up my parents to tell them an old woman was sleeping with my brother in his bed. Another time I told them I could hear a baby inside one of the walls.
I don't remember any of this.
Pat_s1t ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:28:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but I can imagine my parents got a little weirded out when I was a kid. Soon after we moved into a new house (I was three years old), they started hearing me talk and seemingly have a conversation after they had put me to bed. They'd ask who I was talking to, and I'd say "The girl in the wall."
Turns out not only did a girl actually burn to death in that room back maybe 25-30 years ago, but another family that lived there 10 years later had to move out because their kids would fight over who had to sleep in that room. Apparently, they heard a girl's voice at night too.
reonlegacy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:30:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread has convinced me never to have children. I have no wish to have to tell a little child there is no such thing as ghosts and that they are just imagining things, while simultaneously shitting bricks.
JessieAnonymous ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:30:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom always tells me about this one:
I was two and we were visiting my Grandma. We didn't live nearby so we spent the night at her place. She let us have her bed together, while she took the pull-out couch in the living room.
My mom says she was thinking about how her Grandmother hadn't lived to see me and that she wished she had.
Out of nowhere, I sit up, look to the opposite edge of the bed and say "Oh, hello... Kisses? Okay." then I crawled to the edge of the bed, pulled myself up, kissed the air, then returned back to my mother's side and fell right back asleep.
ideefixe77 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:32:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night, when I was about 13, I was staying in a hotel room with a friend my age and her mother. Both me and my friend were asleep while the mother was still up when both me and her daughter sit straight up in bed at the exact same time and scream. We then closed our mouths and laid back down at the same time. The mother said she was terrified.
Additionally, I have been known to say strange things in my sleep my whole life and terrify family and significant others.
Ellie_phant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:34:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was watching my nephew one night, and while I was getting him ready for bed he points over my shoulder and says "Aunty, who is that man"?
Bedroom was empty, and we were the only ones home. I said no one was there but he kept saying "Yes, that man right there" and wouldn't take his eyes off that spot over my shoulder. He was so convinced.
I've been a little scared of the kid ever since.
KG8Peace ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:34:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is about me. When I was nearly 2 years old, my Grandmother had died. Within minutes I said "Why did Grandma fly out the Window?" Not exactly creepy or frightening, moreso curious.
veganmua ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:35:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was about 17-18, and talking to my niece, (10 years younger than me) on the phone. She paused, then asked me - "Auntie, when you grow up, are you gonna sex a boy?" How the hell are you supposed to answer that?!
Nsaney ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:39:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Back in the late 80's my girlfriends kid looked me in the eyes and said: "When my daddy get's out of prison he's going to kill you". Then he tried to kick me in the balls. That is when i realized that relationship was done. The little 8 year old beat me. LMAO
SoniaLovesYou ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:40:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, my sister. Years ago she and I lived with our mother in an apartment building. One night, shortly after we moved in, my sister woke up screaming. She had dreamed of fire, said her room was burning. She was totally freaked. Mom soothed her back to sleep after a while.
That wouldn't be so unusual, except that it happened again - the same waking terror of fire. It became a recurring event; I think she woke up from that dream a grand total of four times. One day I came home and my mother was looking a bit shell-shocked. She told me what she had just learned: that our apartment complex, built in 1918, had indeed suffered a bad fire some time ago - in the part of the building that we lived in, to be precise.
Always thought it was pretty weird.
HatrackJack ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:41:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mum was giving my brother a bath one day. He would have been maybe 2. She was saying, in her baby talk voice "Oh you're such a cute little man! Yes you are! Such a cutie pie! Where did you come from, you cute little man!" He turned to her, deadpan, and then gazed upwards saying "Baby was a star...fell from the sky." And looked back at her. Needless to say it freaked her out.
jerkface3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:49:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was nine, I scared the shit out of my parents and myself in this incident:
I got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. When I went into the bathroom, I didn't turn on any lights or anything, there was just a dim glow from a nightlight. When I went to use the toilet, I looked down into it as I was sitting down and saw a severed hand floating in it. I screamed bloody murder, didn't even pull my underwear all the way back up and ran straight to my parents room across the hall.
They were already up, and really freaked out because of the way I had screamed- I screamed at them that there was a hand floating in the toilet. They ran into the bathroom to see- of course, there was nothing there.
I was so afraid to use the bathroom after that, I went outside whenever I could. My parents actually had a plumber come to the house to insert something in it that 'kept things from coming back up'- so I wouldn't be so afraid. However, I was pretty sure no device would keep a supernatural thing from doing as it wanted. It took years to completely lose the creepy feeling whenever I went into a bathroom. I have since concluded I must have hallucinated it.
The shit you'll believe when you're a kid.
dimechimes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:51:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"The tables at the vet have to be metal so when they set your pet on fire the tables don't burn."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:33:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read this outloud to my girlfriend. After getting over the shock that a kid would say this she said "well they do cremate animals" to which I responded "but a table is a very ineffecient way to do it, pets tend to run around." I got the response "...you know they're pre-dead when they cremate them."
I think I made this slightly creepier
dimechimes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We put our dog down in November. We thought we explained everything that happened pretty well to our son. He said this like 2 weeks ago. That's the scary part. Was he imagining his dog's body burning on that vet's table as well as everyone else's pets this whole time?
nodumblonde1616 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:55:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom said I told her "I see dead people" when I was 3.
As if that wasn't creepy enough, the sixth sense trailer came out two years later.
hypertrash ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:55:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me, but a friend of mine. When she was talking to her 3 year old son, she asked how he would feel about another sibling seeing how he already has a little brother, and he responded by saying that he was going to have one, but that it wouldn't come from mommy's tummy- that they would get it from someone else. Turns out they've been seriously considering adopting, but they haven't mentioned it in front of the kids at all. A little freaky, I thought.
Wolfgang7990 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:56:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reincarnation really interests me. I'm bookmarking this.
dawkins_girl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the most factual information you will find on that subject IS the internet....
steph1cleveland ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:05:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I worked at a daycare and child came up to a coworker and touched her belly and remarked how she had a baby in her belly...she had told no one she was pregnant yet.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:07:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently I once told my dad that I had lived in Ohio a long time ago.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:09:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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PARADOXsquared ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:19:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aww, poor kid. He's frustrated because you got him megablocks instead of legos.
relinquospes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:29:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he has legos too, I didn't buy him megablocks, some cheap bitch bough him that for Christmas
derpbear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
his fathers gf?
Desidiosus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:17:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my wife's sister was two years old, she came up to her dad and said, very matter-of-factly, "I chop you up in my mind."
Her dad, naturally, was a bit taken aback. "W-what?"
"I chop you up in my mind." She then made what can only be described as an impish grin, giggled, and walked away.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:18:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my kid was about 3 years old he said to me "Daddy at night theres a see through person in my room."
comatoaster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:33:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My friend is an elementary school teacher, and found this strange poem on the floor of her classroom.
I am so sad. It's kinda bad. I fell in a pit, I need a hit. I am so sad. It's kinda bad. I live in a tree, I need to pee. I am so sad. It's kinda bad. I lost my shoe. I need to poo. I have no food. I am so screwed. (other side of green construction paper) I am so sad. It's kinda bad. I have no pillow. I sleep under a willow. I ate some lead. I can't see my forehead. I have a rock. I use it as a clock. I am so sad. It's kinda bad. I hate pie. I eat it, I die.
Tankred ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:40:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My godson asked me what I'd do if my house was made of jelly, and I said I'd get a get a huge piece of toast and eat it. He then asked me if I'd do the same thing if it was made of dead people.
kame8200 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:45:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old niece and I are having dinner together.
Moe: Uncle Chris? Can I tell you something? Me: Of course. What's up, Morgan? (She leans in and looks me in the eye just an inch from my face) Moe: Deep down inside we're only meat.
apaniyam ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:50:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At 6 weeks old, my son was enjoying his first outing to coffee(edit: he was not drinking coffee). He'd been super well behaved chilling on my knee. When I jokingly asked his opinion on something. I turn to look at him, his eyessnap open and he perfectly enunciates "waa" like as if an adult with a tiny voice had. Then promptly shut his eyes.
I am thoroughly convinced my child can talk.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:55:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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derpbear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have night terrors also. Lemonade calmed me down.
Lopkop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:02:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At age 7-8 my younger brother sleepwalked into the guest room where our visiting aunt was staying. He stood at the end of the bed and woke her up by hollering, "IT'S UNSTABLE!!! IT'S UNSTABLE!!!". He then sat down in a desk chair next to the bed, said "Off", and slumped back into unconsciousness.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:07:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's important to note this was said before he could talk. My little brother (about 2) sat up in the middle of eating and said "there was a big earthquake in 1954, lots of people died", and then went back to eating. My grandfather did a google search and found this http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1954_04_30.php
rapman543 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:13:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have one about my sister actually. One time when she was in about 3rd grade we were playing catch and I hit her in the upper thigh area. She looked at me and said,"rapman543, you almost hit my penis". My parents heard and sufficed to say, their mouths hit the floor.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:21:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am not a parent but my parents once told me that my brother slept walked out the front door into the street where he laid down in the middle of the road at night mind you. Luckily a concerned motorist seen him and woke him up and my brother led the driver to our house then talked to my father.
lovingthechaos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:24:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Kids are Creeeepy
Mussia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:29:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, here's MY story.
When I was around 3 or 4, my family would go on camping trips often. Usually, I would piss my pants, because my dad always told me Bigfoot was hiding in the woods, and I would always "see" him. One time, my dad said he was sleeping, and I walked up to him, and said, "He's here, outside the camper." I then followed to shake him until he stayed up with me, watching "Pink Panther" until dawn. (It was later clarified that I was talking about Bigfoot, but my dad still got scared stiff.)
Okay. My other story was about 4 months later, same campground, a few spots away from where the last story took place. I was sitting on my mother's lap, and I looked up. I pointed to a bare tree. Me: "Mommy, why is that woman crying?" Mom: "W-what? What woman? Where? What does she look like?" Me: -Points to the TOP OF THAT TREE.- There. Mom: "What does she look like?" Me: "She's wearing black. Mommy, she has no face. ....Mommy?"
pantherjones ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:34:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was my little sister being creepy, but I was in the room for it. My Dad and my step mom were planning a trip to Six Flags for me and my oldest little sister. My youngest sister was sitting in the living room with us playing with her barbies(she was 3 at the time) The conversation that was creepy is as follows.
Dad: Well Sunday would probably be the best day for us to go. StepMom: But no one can watch the little ones on Sunday. Youngest Sister: It's ok Mommy, the lady in our room with the tie will watch us.
Turns out the first owner's wife hung herself in the attic when her kids died. None of us knew this until AFTER this incident.
kalibrator ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:50:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a friend who, when was little, would whisper something under her breath. She would do it almost constantly, & often with a very serious look on her face. Eventually her parents got her to stage-whisper what she was saying because she wouldn't say it aloud; it ended up being "I killed Mufasa."
jimrie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:55:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but someone I was babysitting. The eldest comes downstairs as I'm watching tv, beside himself in tears. He tells me through sobs, that his brother is yelling. I go upstairs to their room, and the kid bolts upright, starts screaming while looking me dead in the eye. He then proceeds to turn his head, raise his finger and points to the open closet, while still screaming. Turns out the parents forgot to let me know he was going through a night terror phase. Thoroughly freaked me out.
AssapaFebras ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:01:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I love how this thread is both terrifying and hillarious. But GODDAMNIT IT'S SCARY!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:04:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
An older girl stole a plastic truck from my 3 year old son and then hit him with it when he asked for it back. He did not cry but he was mad. In the car while we were heading home he told me, "I want to get that girl and put her in a box then beat her with a baseball bat like the dog she is!" Yea, that Mafia talk freaked me out a bit but when I brought it up later to his pediatrician he said it was great since he used his words to express himself and did not become violent himself. Still freaked me out.
HeMightBeJoking ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:14:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Screw you guys, I'm going to r/aww.
DaisyLayz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:17:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just the other day my 6y/o told me she had a dream that aliens were putting things in her butt. Yeah.
riotscale ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:22:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid I used to call licorice babies people in a bag. I told my mom: "I found people in a bag in the basement." She freaked out because my dad was suffering from severe schizophrenia and had said he killed before.
Mr_Zarika ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:22:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid I used to get crazy high fevers and have wild hallucinations. One time I came into my parents room screaming at them that I was going to murder them of they crossed that line. They were freaked out and slowly got out of bed. But then I started whining that my clothes were sharp and they were hurting me. I started screaming and crying.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:35:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but this is about my boyfriend.
Sleeping over his one night with some of our mates, he ended up crashing on the couch.
In his sleep, he put his hand up, and pointed at every single person in the room. If you moved, his hand would follow, even though he was facing the other way.
Pretty fucking creepy, i ended up hiding behind the couch and yep, he pointed at the couch.
He had no memory of it at all.
gagaunicorn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:56:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom tells a story that when I was young, around 2 or 3, I came to her in the morning and said, "the lights come in my room at night and hurt me." It persisted for a few days and she started getting freaked out, thinking maybe it was a nightmare, or maybe I was being abducted by aliens. She decided to stay in my room one night. I fell asleep with my blanket wrapped around me but during the night I got hot so I kicked it off. The static electricity from the blanket created little lights that would shock me.
TL;DR: Aliens.
Far_and_Forever ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:02:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
About a month or so ago, my five-year-old son walked up behind me, and in a voice akin to the Redrum kid he began to chant "My parents are dead...my parents are dead..." Upon questioning, he said "Relax, Mom. I was just pretending to be Batman."
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:13:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it that no one in these stories ever asks follow up questions to these creepy kids?
motdidr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:58:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So far I've seen one guy who kept asking his sister what she meant by "I'm waiting for the little girl." It was a little girl from a cartoon she fell asleep watching.
ARM9403 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:55:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent but as an 18yr old babysitter looking after my 3yr old neighbour we were playing hide and seek. It was in near pitch black so we could play with a torch. I was hiding under a table and she comes up and lifts the cover, and shining the touch directly into my face, in a sing-song / typical scary movie child voice says, "I found you". I shuddered so hard, I couldn't look in her eyes for the next hour.
FlyingRainbowBurrito ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:27:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As an American it took me a good five minutes to realize you meant flashlight. I was imagining a literal burning stick.
Shilotica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me too
RedThunder90 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:19:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The hell?!? Do all of you live in the twilight zone?
Demonkey44 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:20:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister is 13 years younger than me. We were at her grandmothers funeral (she was about 7) and I was sobbing like a maniac. She looked at me dry eyed and said,"Save your tears, you'll need them later." She doesn't remember saying this to me or the motivation behind it... Very odd.
CVBrownie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:21:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Im late to the party, buy my mother swears this true. When I was two, I was asleep in bed with mom. Apparently, there was an eerie green light coming through the window in the middle of the night that woke her up. My mom says I sat up from my slumber, eyes closed, and said, "Dont worry mom. Theyre over by Shelbis house." Shelbi being my childhood friend who lived about 10 miles away on some hills on her ranch. I dont remember it at all, but yeah, said she was creeped the fuck out.
QuillJS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:39:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember it, but my mother told me I used to listen to the static of a transistor radio.
She said I told her "Grandpa was talking to me."
It would have been more creepy if either of my grandfathers were actually dead, probably.
ickypink ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:15:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I went with my friend to Korea for the first time to meet my mothers side of the family and we stayed at their house one night. During that night they gave us a spare room with huge set of dresser/closets in it and we kept hearing noise coming from that direction. My little cousin decides to spend time with us and after about 15minutes of spending time together out of the blue he informs us that there are ghosts in the closet of people who died in them... it was pretty freaky especially since my friend had to translate it for me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:36:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 2 years old me and my family was at a old summer house in Risรธr (southern Norway). A white house with white picket fence right next to a small church and tiny graveyard. Next to the fence, but on the graveyard side, there stood a willow-tree, big enough to cast shadow onto the east side of the house most of the day.
My grandmother says she found me playing by myself next to this fence, beneath the tree, and saying in a loud, curiously deep voice: "Nono Fredrick, go play somewhere else." I had hardly said a word until that point.
I was never allowed to play next to the willow-tree again.
GhostOfJon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:52:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is just sort of a very loose memory of mine, but back when I was probably less than 5 years old and used to sleep in my mom's bed with her I remember there was this window on the top of the wall that sort of looked into the hallway, and every time I slept in her bed I would see a sort of human-like figure with a big head that reminded me of a watermelon in the window. Of course this was my imagination, but it creeped me out. One night it was a little more creepy than usual, and I remember randomly screaming "I'll admit it, a watermelon has been stalking me this whole time!". She quickly turned on the lights, and asked me what I just said, I just sort of looked at her and she turned off the lights and tried to get back to sleep.
To me this is pretty funny, but I'm sure hearing her son randomly scream something about stalking in the middle of the night sorta put my mom off :P
Blarggotron ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:16:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids, but my mom says that in one of our old houses I used to ask her to close the door "because the man kept staring at me" and I would just look down the hall for minutes at a time. But now I do that when I just start thinking off of tangents, so who knows.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:17:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting my 4 year old cousin. When I was putting her down for bed she was suddenly wide awake and said, "Don't let the closet man get in your head too!" and instantly went back to sleep mode.
I'm not going back in that room.
ImBeingMe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:19:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
apparently I used to address some sort of entity in the basement of my old house. I have no recollection of it, but my parents say I would wave goodbye to it.
drunklemur ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:58:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bastards all of you, I had such terrible nightmares last night.
Monster-_- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:59:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I went over to my sister's house one day and she asked if I could watch my nephew for a few minutes while she picks up her husband from the train station. The kid was upstairs taking a shit at the time (he's 4 years old) and I suddenly hear him start singing "Happy Birthday"...
I was too scared to go upstairs to see what he could have given birth to...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:11:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am the kid in this story, and I should have probably used a throwaway, but whatever.
When I was very little, I really liked to draw. We had a few cats, and I liked cats, so I drew a lot of cats. Once, while drawing one of the usual pics, a teacher asked me what was happening in the pic. I patiently explained that the cat had been bad so it got broken open and all of its intestines were out and there was blood everywhere. This happened quite a few times, and sometimes they got burned or crushed or hanged or the like, but it was okay, because they were all 'bad' cats. Also, a few of the pictures involved wild cannibal Indians, so apparently I was also kind of a racist. My bad. :(
randombean ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:13:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew at around 2 for a few months used to talk about seeing 'the man', sometimes randomly he would start crying as 'the man' was scaring him.
IYGFAA ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:16:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid(I don't have any) but when I was a kid. I used to wake up in my sleep and say things like, "Please don't hurt me! Please don't hurt me madam! I'll give you my homework, I swear!". This was back when I was afraid that I would be hit by my teachers. Funny and a little bit creepy.
rezamanh89 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:25:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Again another child telling the story but when I was in between 3-5 years of age I used to tell my mother when I thought people were bad people and she tells me I was spot on 95% of the time.Not that creepy maybe but thought I would share.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:10:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I want to sleep tonight. But can't stop reading these horrifying stories.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:13:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. Here's something that I did about 2 weeks ago. I was staying at my gramma and grampa's house and we were in the living room watching TV at about 9:00. My gramma gave me some ice cream, and ice cream makes me sleepy. I fell asleep on one of the couches, as opposed to my room upstairs. My grampa sleeps on the other couch downstairs, and he said that at exactly midnight I sat up on the couch, looked like I was about to cry, and said "Is the ocean over there?" (I live in Florida, they live in Kentucky) and pointed to the fireplace, stood up and went upstairs.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:48:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't wanna use the potty, I wanna wear diapers
momarazzi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:49:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Went out to eat with my parents and my 5 kids and my nephew who was about 12 at the time. We were the only people in the place under 70. As we are eating and I am trying to keep the noise level to a low roar my nephew says "I smell old people". We all busted out lauging. At that point all hope of keeping them quiet was gone.
Dogfonos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:00:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I like to break and burn things, I don't know why, I just cant help it."
elipseses ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:45:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The oldest said "I don't love you anymore". The first time hurt but after that I said "well, I love you and you can't stop me", then I laughed... Don't mess with the dad. When my youngest was about 2, he told his mom and I that he remembered talking to God and picking us out as parents. Around that time he also said he remembered talking to his uncle before he was born. His uncle died about 10 years before he was born.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:25:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If kids got to pick out their parents before they are born then there are a lot of kids that just think the single 14 year old mom and lazy jerk ex-boyfriend would just be awesome parents.
Pinkiepie69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:52 on July 21, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are the voice of reason.
SteveV91 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:10:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We live in a small town in Colombia, my father's family was from the rural area of the town, so we used to take walks there with our grandfather, my parents and my little brother. Months after my grandfather died, we went to walk there, suddenly, my little brother stopped and stare at nothing, my dad asked him what was going on, and he told us "look it's Tito* sitting over there" (*that's how we called our grandpa) after a moment of silence he started walking again and never spoke about it again.
penlies ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:02:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old; "Mommy, Daddy has a penis just like Charlie"
I don't know any Charlie...turns out it was the neighbors dog.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:18:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why does Daddy have a dog penis?
penlies ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:37:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You wanna find out?
tuhis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:33:55 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids of my own, but my parents reported me doing creepy things as a child. I've made a lot of pretty lines on paper since I could wrap my little fingers around a pen or crayon for the first time, and my parents kept every. single. one. of my hundreds and hundreds of drawings, dated.
When I was something around 1ยฝ years old I drew a family portrait: dad, mom, me, and a fourth, small creature. People who saw the drawing often asked if we had a dog or some other pet. Not too long later, my mother learnt she was pregnant with my sister.
And at one point my parents found two poems on my drawing desk. I was two-something at the point, I believe. Roughly translated from my mother tongue, they were "There's no worry, no secret Fall asleep to that Ah, the scented linden brings good luck"
"Can only see stars in the sky and moonlight but in the morning clouds covered the sun"
The handwriting was mine; nobody saw me write them, they were just found on the desk. Whether I had picked the lines from somewhere else, we do not know. But my parents were pretty creeped out by them.
๐๏ธ MoNkEyxJOSHH ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:44:01 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
holy fuck, people are still commenting on this? i would have expected it to be buried among other old AskReddit posts, but obviously not!
emrikol ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:10:30 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Never underestimate us slow people!
maryizbell ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:18:49 on July 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this one is about me. My dad died when I was nine months old, and when i was oh, 4 or 5, I had recurring dreams of my dad giving me a white teddybear in a white room with "clouds on the floor." creeps my mom out because at the time, I didn't know that was what dad gave mom on their one year anniversary.
RussoFamily1207 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:29:31 on July 10, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son was coloring at the kitche table one night and he was talking to someone but I couldn't understand him. I walked up behind him and said 'who are you talking to?' he said "grandma' I said "Grandma's at home' He said 'No, she's right there' He pointed the empty space above his head towards the ceiling. I said 'Is she there right now?' He said 'No, she left' and kept coloring
miteypaul ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 19:03:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Do I have to wash my hands before playing this game?"
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:25:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ha. I saw that movie.
i_like_cake897 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:40:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't..
Ratava ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a quote from Ted.
i_like_cake897 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh! That explains why I don't get it!
mrxscarface ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What? No....that was a weird fucking question.
Buggaroo27 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tubby Mcfatfuck
helloeffer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
hahaha I saw that movie too
Buglet91 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:14:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, I get it...
babyfacedmanchild ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:33:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time, the kid woke me up, asking for a glass of water. I just looked at him funny, rolled over and went back to sleep. Very creepy. I don't have kids.
howweird7125 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:46:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This probably won't be seen, but, I have to tell it any way.
My daughter was about a year and a half, and I was pregnant with my son at the time. We were trying to teach her about sharing, babies, and what to expect when the baby comes.
One thing we were working on was how to be quite, "shh, baby is sleeping". That was what we would tell her.
Well, one day, we were visiting some family, and my daughter found a baby doll. She also found a toy hammer. It was a wooden hammer, not that it makes much difference. We were all talking and not really paying much attention to the sound of kids having fun, until we notice that my daughter is saying "shhh, baby, shhhh". We look over, and everyone in the room starts to watch my daughter.
There, my little girl, is beating the baby doll in the face with that wooden hammer, and telling it "shhhh baby, it's ok, shhhhh, shhhh baby, it's ok".
Creepy, and scary. Especially for the new baby awaiting arrival!
She also held a fork up to some one, and with a very scary face said "I'm going to hurt you". And then laughed like nothing happened.
......my kid is creepy. The end
xenu_is_a_punk ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:42:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 2yo was leafing through a Sibley's Guide to Birds when he suddenly stops, points to a crow on the page and says in a calm but creepy raspy voice "Something's wrong."
Geekmonster ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:10:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just a couple of days ago my 4yo stood behind me naked as I sat on the bed. He started to rub my shoulders, which I taught him to do, but then he started grinding against my back saying "willy willy willy willy willy..." He knows willies are funny, he just doesn't know why yet.
Zaliika ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:35:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
O_o
deathsmaash ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:11:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Oh man, this will get buried buuuut:
When my daughter was about 2.5-3 y/o she had an imaginary orange kitten named Cassie. Cassie would "travel with us everywhere" and she joined us at a suburban community pool on the 4th of July. My sister and my mother had brought her there and I met them when I got off of work. After arriving, my sister gives me this creeped out look and says, "Deathsmaash, I think you should ask Deathsmaash'sDaughter what happened to Cassie..." I approach my daughter and ask what happened per her aunt's request to which my daughter replies, "Oh she's at the bottom of the pool. She drowned." Semi-shocked but mostly mildly amused I ask her why she's down there. Her reply? "...Because he made me mad."
Surprisingly, her eyes did not glow red after.
edit: I accidentally changed the cat's gender during the story.
bekastrange ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't see 'imaginary' at first, and I got sad. Also slightly concerned that you weren't concerned. And a bit confused that a cat was at the pool. I need sleep.
deathsmaash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha yes I can see how my lack of concern over the matter could have been concerning in that case.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:07:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister came to visit us earlier this year with her three kids. Well my nephew (age 5) kicked a lot in his sleep so my sister asked if I'd share my bed with him because she was afraid he'd kick his younger siblings, I didn't mind.
It was about 3am, he was asleep and I was sitting on the floor watching a movie. The screen went black for a second and I see a reflection on the screen, I turn around to see my nephew peering at me over the bed with his eyes wide. He goes, "Monty told me he doesn't like you. He gonna get you tomorrow. It's going to be red," and went back to sleep.
momster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did Monty get you?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:04:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. I'm still waiting though.
housechore ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:40:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my first words was "suicide". Started repeating it incessantly and singing it as a one-word song after overhearing it in a movie my older siblings were watching.
mash3735 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:01:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
prob gonna get buried, but this happened when i was like 2. one night as i was sleeping, my mom was watching me. she said she saw my "Soul" rise from out of my body, then go into the closet. she threw away the pajamas i was wearing that night.
dahknee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:44:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my great uncle was a little kid he had an imaginary best friend named Hap that would get him into mischief. When he got older he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. They also found out when he was older that the native Americans who had lived in their area had a god of mischief and trickery named Hap. There's a lot we don't know about schizophrenia and what that means.
Daneruu ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:53:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Apparently when I was a kid I could tell when other kids were going to die. There were three times. The first time I was screaming at my mom saying a girl was burning. Few days later there was a news article of a house fire. Another time I said kids were drowning in a car-boat (amphibious tourist magnet) and it turned out on the local news that one at south padre island malfunctioned and 3 kids who couldn't swim drowned because they didn't have life vests. Another time I said a little girl was being stabbed and I cried over it for days because the man was "eviler than Ganon" (my stepdad played zelda: oot with me). Never heard anything on the news about the last one.
That was all in the span of a year-ish according to my mom when i was about 3. I can remember getting strange feelings or ideas about things dying from when I was like 5 or 6 at completely random times. Nothing vivid. And I still have nightmares of just random ways of dying constantly. Few days ago I had a dream of sitting on a lawn chair under a tree and a giant spider sneaking down on my face from the tree and stinging me on the neck and dying almost instantly. I could still feel it after waking up. I feel sorry for whatever poor guy that was.
banoffi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:53:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My six year old student was suppose to erase and rewrite a "A" letter, wich was illegible, but he ended up erasing, by mistake, a "R". Then he said "Oh, sorry 'R', I didn't mean to erase you.". And then he REPLIED HIMSELF with a deep voice, like he was the "R": "Ur sorry? What's wrong with ya bro?".
It was funny. And creepy.
HereForKarma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:14:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Downvoting. A teacher who had 6 year old students would recognize a Sesame Street/basically any kids show reference to personified letters.
sterlingrose ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:11:07 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They didn't say they thought the kid was possessed, just that it was creepy (and funny).
HereForKarma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:41 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't say the kid was possessed.
I said that the Sesame Street letter-of-the-day is extremely common and a trope, so it's unlikely someone who teaches young children would actually post this.
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Letter_of_the_Day
sterlingrose ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:00:19 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
They didn't say they were unfamiliar with the concept, so I don't see how that even comes into it. Honestly, the only thing that made me question whether the poster was actually a teacher was their use of "a 'R'" rather than "an 'R'" and spelling "you're" as "ur." Actually, that made me kind of hope they're not a teacher.
Edited because making a spelling mistake while critiquing other people's spelling makes one an easy target.
HereForKarma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:37 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that they thought something extremely normal was weird, and the fact they wrote it as if they had never had another student say something similar. Kids say "weird" shit all the time that seems odd to adults that don't work with kids, but that's actually pretty common. That stuff doesn't belong in this thread. Stuff involving people gouging cat eyes? That's creepy and not normal. Stuff involving regurgitating Sesame Street references? It's just kid memes.
sterlingrose ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:54:39 on July 7, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, I can see that this really upsets you. I can only imagine that you are a teacher and therefore feel qualified to say what all other teachers should and should not be familiar with. So you have fun with that!
sindelpellion ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:17:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My four-year-old is obsessed with my menstrual cycle. She'll follow me into the bathroom when I'm on my period and ask to see the blood. It's freaking disgusting.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids have no idea about 'disgusting'. She wants to know if you're okay, why there's blood if you're not hurt, probably. Explain it to her in age appropriate terms, and she'll probably grow up well-adjusted and healthy.
wellhushmypuppies ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:21:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when I was maybe 5 years old, I had these imaginary friends -- Johnny and Nancy -- who were maybe in their early 20's (which I considered to be a very glamorous age). Johnny was a real good guy, but Nancy was kind of a bitch. One day they had a fight and Nancy took an axe and chopped off Johnny's head and threw it into the fire burning in the fireplace. That was the end of those imaginary friends.
shazbotabf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:23:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am going to write a novel about a satan child and use all of these quotes as dialouge for the child. It will be the most terrifying book of all time and I'll make MILLIONS.
dragonflyer223 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here, have some evil laughter for good measure.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:47:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother never said anything creepy, but he used to sleepwalk really badly when he was 3. We never really worried about it because we always lock all the doors and the house was 'kid-proof'. As it was, he was still at that age when once you get them to sleep, you don't go back in there and risk waking them up for ANYTHING.
Anyway, one typical night in the middle of July, we got a call on the landline about four in the morning from some people we knew, not really friends, we didn't even know where they lived except for that it was somewhere across town. They had woken up to find my little brother, still asleep, in their family room turning on the computer. Even after he woke up he never said a word to them. They called us and we came and picked him up. The whole thing was really creepy though, like I said, he was three and this house was a good 10-15 minute drive away from our house. Oh, and none of the doors to the outside were unlocked.
Tl;dr: Derpy toddler brother ended up across town, asleep, in practically a strangers house in the middle of the night with no way of having left the house.
franticcat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:49:33 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
that is creepy
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:54:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when my brother was younger he use to sleep walk very often, but just walking around or sitting up and staring, nothing TOO creepy. But one night in December he stripped down nakid grabbed a knife from the kitchen and proceeded to stab my parents bedroom door with it, when my dad opened his door (very cautiously i might add) and asked what the hell he was doing, he responded with "i am searching for winter"
hallofrumors ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:09:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 4 or 5 years old, the movie "Chucky" terrified me. My mom has always enjoyed her messed up sense of humor, so she decided to buy the doll to freak me out.
One night, I wake up to the doll in my bed with that creepy face staring back at me. It obviously freaked me out! My mom told me that I must've went into the kitchen that same night, took a butcher knife and made Chucky hold it. She woke to find the doll at the corner of her bed with the knife held high.
Khanzool ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:27:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This doesnt exactly fit the requirements, but when i was around 8 or 9 (cant remember) my parents took me and my sister and my cousin on a trip to italy (we're all from kuwait). We got 2 hotel rooms this one night, one for my parents, and one for me my sister and my cousin, i was laying down in a little extra bed we requested and it was REALLY dark. at some point i saw (or actually thought i saw, active imagination) a girl walk out of the bathroom and dry her hair, but of course it was really dark so all i saw was hair and what looked like someone drying his hair. i woke my cousin up (who was on the bed close to mine) and told her, (my cousin and sister are both in their early twenties) but she didnt bother to look, and just told me theres nothing, go to sleep. so i did. I still dont know what the heck i saw or if i saw anything at all, but its an experience that i would not forget :)
molkhal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:22:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How many times do I have to tell you to stay away from the minibar? They charge if you pick them up and you're a minor. You shouldn't be drinking somewhere in Italy! You could always wait till it's legalized in your country. It's only a matter of time.
satnightride ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:22:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My Wife and I are pregnant. My three year old told us twice within a couple of weeks that she had a dream. In the dream there was a "screech and a crash" and that "Mama kept crying... 'My Baby' ... 'My Baby'"
That is the creepiest thing our daughter has said.
EDIT: Who would downvote this? It is precisely what the OP was asking for.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Cause you prefaced your statement with the usual self pity comments.
satnightride ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, better?
secretninjaattack ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:01:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Please tell me that most of these stories are made up!
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:22:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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fs337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:23:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
R/Nosleep is okay for me. So is r/creepypasta. But there was one creepypasta that was the first thing to give me nightmares in years.
cheestaysfly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:37:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Children are terrifying.
I_Regret_Everything ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:17:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
They probably are.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 19:25:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:14:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
roysmalls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so happy I'm reading these comments at 3:43 PM, kids are creepy as shit!
Aegean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dad, is it ok if I turn on the reactor?
slowpoke257 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was about 7 and one of my older daughters had some friends over one evening, past the younger daughter's bedtime.
Younger daughter woke up and came downstairs, bleary-eyed, to where the teenagers were hanging out.
She stared at them and asked, "Would you like to play a game?"
GenghisKhanX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old was coloring in her Dora the Explorer coloring book and colored in Dora and Boots' eyes completely black, then said to my wife: "Look, Mommy...
gone eyes!"
mcnick12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I remember as I kid, I was tripping balls that entire night and was just hearing things and the walls were warping and the fan was running all around the ceiling. I, scary shitless, ran into the living room and started cryin in my dad's arms, "I don't wanna die." Repeating it over and over, he told me it scared him that I was 3 complaining about death.
TomB69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the child in question with this story. It was when I had only just learned to talk maybe 18 months or so, just started saying a few words. One of the first words I knew was "moon". My mother and father were driving back from my grandparents late one night with me in the backseat. They thought I was asleep, but then I started saying "moon" and looking out of the car window at the full moon. But wait you say, that's not so weird you might think. I wasnt just saying it in a normal 2yo voice, but much deeper. My mom has imitated it since, and it was so guttural and raspy that it even freaked the fuck out of me years later. and it didnt help that I was repeatedly saying "moon' in this guttural voice.
TL;DR - I was phoning home
alrightalready ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha. The TL;DR is awesome.
dietcokeandasmoke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once, my cousin told me she could see my aura. Can't remember what color it was. Another time, my grandmother was choking (not seriously though) at dinner, and all she did was calmly say "Grammy, if you die right now, you're going to hell." Shes done a lot of creepy things. Her real mom gave her to her mom when she was little, so she was raised thinking that her real mom was her sister. Real mom was a meth addict. Could explain things.
laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:21 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think the meth addict part explains anything.
jack052250 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When i was 4 or 5 i was really into reading. i would have stacks of books on my mom's bed and just sit there for hours. One night when i was in the room alone i saw some glowing light. i turned to look and see a shiny glowing humanoid figure carrying my books and walk/float towards me. I heard it say it wanted to read with me even though it never moved its mouth. I freaked the FUCK out and ran out of the room. My parents tried to play it off to me as an angel who wanted to read with me and I believed them, but ever since becoming an atheist I don't know what to believe...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a twin, and when my brother and I were way younger, around 5 probably, we used to share a room, and my said we used to always mumble in our sleep back and forth as if we were conversing. my brother however used to also wake up asking mom why grandma was pulling on his shirt wwhen he slept, our grandma died a couple years before this. he told her he used to go places with grandma. and she would teach him stuff...my twin has always been incredibly smart, so my mom still thinks this is the reason.
evil_froggie_12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:23:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother passed away on my 5th birthday and the sibblings(mymom,aunt,uncles) decided not to let the grandchildren go to the funeral so we don't have our last memory of her dead. I still remmeber one night, but my mom says this happened for a year almost three times a week. I was laying in bed and would wake up in tears and not really know where I was and would be talking to something. Just looking around talking to invisible objects. The incident I remember is the night after my grandma's funeral, she woke me up and read me a book she always read to me. She told me I had to hold it open and turn the pages. I also remember waking up in one of those fits and seeing the buttons on one of our couches starting to bleed. I still to this day cannot sleep alone in the dark.
Leafblight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
According to my parents they woke me up from a nap when I was three and I ran from them and was absolutely terrified of them several hours and cried and stuff. Must've been terrifying for them
Moment0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a really distinct memory from childhood which was as confusing for me and made my parents skeptical about me... Also I wonder if it's similar to the types of delusions that are causing all these other creepy ass stories.
I used to sleep with my parents and this was when I was probably six. I remember looking at the fireplace in my parents bedroom which was when the hallucination began. I had some form of tunnel vision and started seeing shadowy figures in my line of sight. I heard speech, yelling and extremely loud music. My parents didn't hear or see any of it, and as far as I know I don't have any major schizophrenic or personality disorders.
The logical side of me assumes it was a simple mental what the fuck. I suppose there was nothing real that I was really connected to (lost grand parent etc.) and I wasn't that smart, so it didn't present itself in a very concrete way.
bananaboobs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:20 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I experienced things like that as a child as well (and still do as an adult but less often). I suffer from a combination of sleep paralysis and exploding head syndrome.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:39:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm surprised that nobody posted this.
fagabeefee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:42:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
WHOA...this seriously happened to my wife and I just this morning! I was sitting on the floor trying to get my daughter ready to go out. My wife was sitting on the couch with my daughter, who is 2 years old (my daughter, not wife!). My daughter is thrashing about because she doesn't want her shoes on...stops...looks me dead in the eyes and says..."Daddy, he's coming home!" She repeated this at least 4 times...FREAKED me the heck out. Needless to say I wasn't so worried about the shoes after that.
becpuss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My kids were fighting, so I told my 4yo son to go and tell his sister that she smelt of puppies covered in sugar wrapped in rainbows, he came back moments later do I asked him if he had said it he replied "yeah I said it all and also that the puppies are dead" then he sniggered.
wooobbuffet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was four when my family of six was moving to Georgia. Between moving houses, we rented an apartment and stayed there for a few months. I know this because we had it on camera; I started singing this song that went something like, "there were pee-ple in the car and if they went onto the street... Nah nah nah... No one got killed... But someone got killed." I continued in my high baby voice, singing tales of dying people. Everybody's reaction was most likely, "Wooobbuffet? ._."
wtfapkin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but my younger brother is a total sociopath. When he was 4 years old (I was 10) we were eating dinner. He picked up my dads fork and said "I could kill my sister with this. Would I go to the jails for that?" I don't remember a whole lot from my younger years, but that memory sticks out. I get nervous whenever he picks up a fork now.
perdedor_oh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:49:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
after having read through the comments, i've decided i no longer want children. nopenopenope
jenzee37 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We had just bought a home from an elderly couple and my daughter was 3. A few months later my daughter and I were eating dinner and my back was to our french doors. My daughter asked me "Mommy, who that man on our back porch? He keeps saying "get out of my house." I froze and the only thing that came to mind was to tell her to tell him to go the light.
I never turned around and looked for myself. I tried to find out what happened to the couple after we bought the house but I couldn't find anything.
NickWills ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me, little brother.
Most nights he would go on sleep rambles, but sometimes he would act extremely strange. He shared a bunk bed with my other little brother, and was on the top bunk, so everyone would know when he was sleep walking because we would hear him climb down, how he did this while asleep, I don't know.
One night I woke up at around 2am and heard the creaking of his bed, and recognised it as my brother walking again, but it didn't click that he was actually asleep. So I hear him coming downstairs (My bedroom is on the ground floor) and assume he is getting a drink from the kitchen or something. Then I hear my door open. I'm WTF'ing at this point and look over the side of my bunk bed (own room, desk underneath) and see him standing beside my ladder, looking up at the top. He turned his head like he was watching me and stared. His eyes were open and glazed which made it even stranger. My mother had heard him going downstairs and came down after him, just got to my room and was shush-ing him and trying to quietly wake him up. He turned his head to her and told her that 'She didn't belong there, leave.'
Needless to say, I didn't go back to sleep.
saucisse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, not even my friend's kid, but my friend's niece who in all other respects is a frilly, glittery, maribou-y little girl who loves dollies and dancing and is not morbid or dark in any way. Apparently when she was about four or so she mentioned to her mother that there was something in the ceiling, and when her mother asked what it was, the cutie-pie little moppet replied very matter-of-factly: "Blood."
If my adorable little child announced to me out of the blue that there was blood in my ceiling I would burn my fucking house down and immediately move 1000 miles away from the still-smoking ashes.
ahleih ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was four I was in preschool. I knew my great-grandmother was ill, but being four I didn't know how sick. My uncle tells me that, on the day she died, he came to pick me up at preschool since my parents were with the rest of the family at the hospital. Apparently before he could tell me, I ran away from him, up the slide, and hugged the air. When he asked what I was doing, I said I was giving Nana a hug goodbye.
jimevansart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Prior to seeing Paranormal Activity, this happened:
My daughter's room is down the hall from ours. We leave our door open at night, and there's a night light in the hall, which shines into our doorway enough to see lightly. One night, I hear a noise. I pop up enough in bed to look across the room if it's her. I see nothing, so I lay back down. About a minute later, I hear a small thump. I lean up all the way this time, to see a form of some creature in the doorway of my room. Think, the grudge crawl... I reach down next to my bed, where I keep a baseball bat, hop up out of bed, and before I swing I have a moment of "being more awake", ans say..."Beth?". A small voice says, "Yeah dad?". She was doing a weird yoga move in my doorway...I almost died. But...wait...
Two hours later, I wake up to her standing over my side of the bed...just staring at me. Smiling...weird. I say, "hon? What are you doing?"...she says, "Huh? oh nothing"...and left the room.
After seeing the movie, I wanted to die again.
kmparker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3.5 year old nephew has been telling these stories since his family moved here, when he had just turned 2. At the house they rented for a year, he would come flying into his parents' room, bawling about the "frogs" in his room. He'd explain they come in through the walls, and they are tall, and they have guns, and they have huge eyes and they stare at him and (I think) talk to him.
He started sleeping with his parents again to combat this; every time they'd get him back into his room, the frogs would visit. It crossed over into their new house as well, only in his new room there is a certain hole the frogs enter and exit from. He's more comfortable with them now, and talks about them matter-of-fact like they are just part of his nighttime routine. The way he describes them to us in detail looks remarkably (to us) like Grey aliens. Since our family is a bit steeped in supernatural/alien stuff it's really off-putting and creepy to all of us.
He also has this house. He's asked his mother before, "When are we going home? I want to go home." She clarifies: The house in Iowa (where he was born) or the rental house here? He says neither. "My real home. The house in the woods." The kid has never been to any houses in the woods, and he can describe this place like he's been there, and the story is always the same every time just like it is with the frogs.
Another time, they were entering their house and it was a bit dark prior to his mom turning on a light, and he jumped, and said, "Oh, you scared me." His mom asked who scared him. He replied, "Oh, it's just the little girl." He talks about her a lot, but he also has mentioned that she is just in his head. He also has voices in his head, talks to himself or laughs to himself and when asked, he replies with something like, "Oh, it's just the voices. They're in my head." (cue I see dead people jokes)
Or (gosh my nephew is a weirdo), the times he's cried in his parents' arms, screaming for his mom or dad. He'll be in my brother's grasp, screaming he wants his mommy - and she comes, but he says no, he wants his real mommy, and steps away from them both crying for his "real" parents. It's usually before or after this that that house in the woods gets mentioned, iirc.
I really want the kid to be trolling us but I spend a lot of time with him, and I can tell when he's being a dipshit and when he's serious. I am sad to inform that he's serious about all that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Probably too late for anyone to see this, but here it goes:
My sister (aged ~7) was frustrated at my mother for not buying her a new Barbie. She was crying and yelling at my mom until we finally got home from the toy store. She had quieted down and uttered one last thing to my mother before going to her room: "I'm not going to cry at your funeral."
Coming from a girl at that young of an age, everyone just kinda sat there in disbelief. It's one of those stories that always comes up at family reunions.
the_clap1991 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my child, but me: Eric Clapton's son had just died from falling out of a window. My mom and I heard the news on the radio, and I remember saying something to the effect of "Good, I don't care. I hate that guy's music." I can't imagine what my mother must have thought of me. I was 8.
lucw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well it isn't my story, it's my dad's, and it isn't very creepy as much as it was very startling.
So my dad lived in the 60s, and that was back when they had large milk cans. A thing to note is any sound made inside one was amplified greatly. So my dad thought it would be funny to put an alarm clock inside a can, set it to go off in the middle of the night, and put it by his brother's bedside. His brother woke up to the ticking of the alarm clock, and he imediatly thought it was a bomb. The police were then called, and they searched the house to find no bomb.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my grandma told me about how my dad and his cousin would always talk about when they used to live in ancient china together and share the same details. to this day both of them swear they never collaborated any of it
RosieMuffysticks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My oldest son used to make everything into guns. Sticks, legos, megabloks, whatever.......it was a gun. He'd play by himself a lot, running around the house/yard, yelling at imaginary enemies, encouraging imaginary friends, fighting all kinds of battles. He'd include dinosaurs, tanks, police, helicopters, and airplanes, too.
He was pretty mean to his sister (18 months younger), and one day he got in some big trouble for stabbing her with a stick. No, he didn't break the skin, but she got a bruise and a scratch. I swatted him on the behind, and told him that he had to stay in his room for a while, because hurting his sister was not allowed. He was about five years old at the time.
I was doing housework, and heard him talking as I was sweeping up outside his door. I stopped to listen, and I heard him say, "Kids can kill people, too."
Nomnombunny ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom refused to have gun toys in the house, no matter how much my brother begged for them. She figured it was a lost cause when she heard "Bang, bang, Mama!", turned around and saw that he had bit his sandwich into the shape of a gun.
RosieMuffysticks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I refused to have toy guns, because guns shouldn't be toys. However, if my kid is being creative enough to MAKE something into a gun shape, then I don't mind him playing with "guns." My mother never understood.
themindpiercing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 2 or 3 my Grandma took me out in my pushchair. As she was walking along she heard me say "Grandma, my eyes are bleeding". It turned out that they were just watering because of the wind (a problem I can't seem to get away from even as a 20 year old), but needless to say she was pretty concerned.
yogalaties ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mum had a kid between me and my older brother (i am a middle child) mum said she used to always ask me who I was playing with (I was a loner of a kid always playing "alone") I'd often reply with "my sister" one day I told her sis said I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her, spooked the hell out of mum cause she only wanted a boy and girl so they had planned to stop having kids after my first sister. If she hadn't have died I'd never have been born. Gives me goosebumps today as well.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter is not one yet so just babbles but sometimes she'll just stop, look past me into the hallway, smile and maybe wave.
Freaks the shit out of me.
RageStreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This happened when my youngest cousin was 8 and I was just graduating high school. She asked me my age and asked about college and seemed contemplative. Then she looked me in the eye and said "You're going to go to college and then you're going to graduate and then you're going to get married and then you're going to have a baby and then you're going to die."
autumnlass ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The three-year-old I babysit likes to say "it's coming" all the time. It was particularly creepy the first time he said it.
minngirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:56:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This story is actually about my sister, but she used to sleep walk when she was younger and one night it was storming outside. A crack of thunder woke me up and I saw her rise out of bed in a way I didn't think was humanly possible. Her legs barely bent. Then she looked right at me and said "the big man just dropped a bomb on the house." She then walked out of the room, came back 20 minutes later and laid back down. She didn't remember a thing the next morning.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:56:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once upon a time, when I was 6 years old, I had long, blonde hair and had a white nighty, which I'd wear on warm summer-nights. On such nights, my parents would turn on a mosquito-lamp in their room.
Whenever I woke up in the middle of the night, I'd walk over to my parents' room, pat my dad on the head, and he'd automatically sit up straight so I could crawl behind his back and lay inbetween him and mom.
On one particular summer-night, I once again woke up and went to my parents' room. I pat daddy on the head as usual, but he had some trouble waking up. I decided to pat him on the head, again, and instead of sitting up straight, he opens his eyes and looks at me.
There I was, standing silently in the blue light that made my hair and nighty light up (so to speak). He nearly had an heart-attack because he thought I was an angel/ghost/spirit who came to get him.
It was the last night I'd ever be allowed to sleep in their bed.
notyourdupetrick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:57:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my father was a child, his family would frequent their friends' house for dinner. At one point, my dad was playing with toy cars in a room while the other child he would play with was helping set up dinner. At one point, he remembers a man sitting on the bed, smiling at him nicely, playing with the cars with him. At one point, he comes out of the room and says something to the father of the household, mentioning the man on the bed. The father was described to be a large, almost threatening looking man, if you didn't know him better. His reaction was a face drained of colour, jumping up to run into the bedroom. There was no man in sight, and the window to the bedroom was closed. My grandmother never explained the situation to my dad until he was older. She told him that, before their friends moved into the house, a man once lived there with his wife and daughter. At one point, they couple got divorced and the wife took his daughter away, to never see him again. Out of depression, the man had committed suicide. It wasn't the first time this man's ghost had been seen. My dad told me about this not too long ago. He still believes in ghosts.
Edit: I have a few more ghost stories, but they involve me and my sister being the children. They're a bit scarier, but no one ever believe me.
radalie ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:56:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Spit it yo. That's why we're here. :)
notyourdupetrick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Several stories. When I told them to my parents, I explained further, but in order to keep to the topic, the first thing I said to my mom after each event is at the end of each story.
One time, when I was maybe four, I was terrified of troll dolls. I had an odd nightmare where my bed was transferred from my room to the attic and a troll doll stretched arms at me and pulled off my blanket. At one point, I woke up because it was too col, and my blanket was at the foot of my bed. I would have thought I kicked it off, had it not been nicely folded. Took me a half hour to get back to sleep.
What I had told my parents was "Someone took my blanket off of me last night."
After that, at one point during a party, everyone was downstairs and I was sent upstairs to get something from my parents room, which is right across the hall from my room. When I went up there, the sun was still up, windows across the room, so I didn't turn the light on. I was a short kid, so when I see a shadow about twice my size, larger than anything else in the room, in the corner across from me, I ran out and told my mother. She looked startled but ignored it as my imagination.
What I had said to my mom was "There's someone's shadow in your room."
A few years later, I was alone in my house, away from the hallway I was always afraid of. It led to the bedrooms. Between the bedrooms was the entrance to the attic. Never liked the attic, but luckily, to open it, you had to climb a ladder and push the cover up and to the side. Later, when my parents came home around midnight, I ran to the bathroom after holding it for so long. My eyes were drawn up to the open attic. My bedroom door, which had also previously been closed, was wide open. I slowly walk to my parents, who had been in the kitchen the entire time, and they knew nothing about it. We hadn't touched the attic since Christmas a few months before and the ladder was in the garage. They began feeling a little nervous. There was no one up there. My dad just closed the attic as we tried to ignore it.
I had told my dad, "I think there's someone in the attic."
Years afterwards, just a few weeks ago when I told my family about it, my mother had remembered most of it. She was still a little scared about the attic one. My sister then told me, about how when she was my age, she had had a clown lamp that would play a tune it you pressed his foot. It had broken at one point, not doing anything as hard as you tried. Then, one night, it woke my sister up, playing the tune. She tossed it into the woods behind our backyard. She also told me about a dinosaur shaped pencil holder that had woken her up when it fell from a shelf.
Apparently, my mom said my sister told her, "I think someone else lives in my room." This was before my sister and I shared a room.
All stories in more detail here. It's all true except for the last bit in my dad's complex.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A childhood friend of mine shared a bedroom with his little brother. One night he noticed that his brother (about five years old) had packed rolled-up towels along the bottom of the bedroom curtains (which I remember were fairly thin and just a bit too short for the window). He'd also taped the curtains shut as high as he could reach.
When he was asked, my friend's brother said it was because of 'the peeker'. Naturally his parents got involved at this point, and questioned him further. Apparently he'd woken up in the wee hours for two nights in a row and seen a hunched figure at the window glaring up at his bunk. The man had a 'broken face' and a 'wavy line mouth', whatever that means (I know, for me, it was all the more terrifying because the choice of words were so vague and menacing) (note, I lived two houses down and was about 12, so this had me terrified for a while).
He said that on the first night he whispered as loud as he could to try and wake his big brother on the bunk below, but he wouldn't stir. The man at the window 'opened and closed his mouth' and 'went away'.
On the second night, he woke to see the man in the same position, staring up at him, but now he was working at the edges of the window pane, frantic and angry. He was frozen with fear, fell asleep, woke up to find the man had gone.
My friend's dad examined the window from the outside but saw no evidence of tampering. He backed his car into the darkest part of the driveway and sat out there all night for the next two nights with a claw hammer, waiting for this 'peeker' to show up. He never showed, of course.
In retrospect, I think it was a repeated sleep paralysis episode.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my nephew hadnt been enrolled to school yet and was talking about a volcano that he saw erupting... hes only 5 now was probably 3 then.
we also bury all of our dead animals in the backyard our daschund we had for about 15 years died before my nephew was born. He must have been around 4 again and said he saw a brown guy in my backyard with a big nose talking to him
badman_laser_mouse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My niece told my Mother one day that she was going to "Cut [her] face off", because she turned off her tv for nap time. she was about 3
mrland ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting a two year old one night and I just put him to bed. About an hour later he walks out of the room naked, looks me in the eyes and says, "I'm going to light you on fire." he turns around and walks right back to his bed. I couldn't stop laughing.
JoNightshade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A friend's son was watching him use a credit card to pay for some toys.
"Daddy... when you die, can I have that card?"
micsir ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I heard a friend of mine tell this to his dad, 'One night your going to go to bed and never wake up.'
SpaceCampDropOut ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Dad, you know once we're born, we start to die." I have no clue where she learned that.
Cervical_Mucus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:01:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son said a lot of really fucked up shit when he was 3-5. One I remember vividly, he said to a girl at his school, who was actually his friend and he liked: "I'm going to dig a hole in the ground, deeper than 6 feet, all the way to hell so no one will ever find you." and later he said something about bringing a gun so she could shoot her parents.
Yes, he started seeing a counselor!!
MsAlyssa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:01:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Day care teacher here and I have two stories for you.
We had a little Asian boy who would sporadically do the throaty voice of the little boy from the grunge. Someone taught him that and found it amusing but it was still creepy.
This one is worse though... Another little boy was very hyper and running around the room. After telling him to use his walking feet and no running 3 or 4 times I finally just scooped him up and held him on my hip to get his attention and say no running and such. Well being that I abruptly stopped him from getting out his energy I guess he kind of snapped. This 4 year old boy grabs my neck with two hands and in a whispered growl of a voice says "Hold. Your. Breath." After I put him down and began confronting him about his behavior with a passionate " you can never put your hands on someones neck" he proceeded to respond with a genuinely innocent "who's neck did I put my hands on?". I was pretty Baffled.
mcnibz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:01:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old nephew punched me in the stomach when I was pregnant and asked me "is your baby dead?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:01:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night my wife was helping my 4 year old daughter to tidy her room before bed. My wife went to put a chair in the corner and our little girl says "Don't put that there, my Daddy is there... my dead Daddy". Freaks me out but at least I'm not the dead one!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This didn't happen to me but my mom. I was just a kid when it happened. My mom had a water bed she was sleeping on and she woke up and a man that looked like he was in his '40s was standing there. (I imagine him wearing a fedora hat but I don't know when those came out.) He didn't say anything but she said he was "as clear as day." Another time my mom saw a little girl standing right beside her too. She was wearing white and didn't say anything. Then she just vanished.
gaspy90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I had a bad sleepwalking problem. There would be nights where I'd walk into my parents bedroom and just stand there humming. When they'd wake up, I would literally just piss myself.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We have a really deep skylight in our kitchen ceiling. Our 3 year old has said for the last year and a half or so that a ghost lives up there, a female ghost. I do know that an older lady rented this house for many years before we moved in so wondering if she didn't move out!
Alethius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This was the daughter of an English teacher I had a few years past. The mother was so creeped out by her daughter that she would bring in home videos of her daughter speaking to herself and her imaginary friend and play them for the class. Her imaginary friend was the creepiest part. In one video, the mother asked her daughter what her friend looked like. "He's red all over mommy, with big horns and a tail. His tail looks like an arrow." Oh, and his name was Buttons, or something similar. So of course our teacher was convinced that her daughter was communicating with Satan. I've forgotten the majority of her daughter's other quotes due to the passage of time, but one that sticks with me is especially unsettling. Her daughter was just quietly playing with her toys, until she suddenly throws them down, turns to the camera, and rasps out, "And the people will rise up and SHINE!" this was said in a completely different voice than anything she'd said before, like she was possessed by Buttons. She then giggled hysterically for like five minutes straight afterward. Needless to say, I made that teacher love me so that her hellchild would spare me once unleashed upon the Earth.
HotDex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We use the standard line "If you don't start helping me clean up by the count of 3, i'm going to put you in your room and shut the door"
One day, out of nowhere, my daughter asked me to play with her legos with her, I said "No I can't, i'm making dinner." She said "Dad, if you don't play with me by the count of 3, i'm going to put you in the oven and shut the door"
My wife and I are convinced the parents of Adolf Hitler experienced similar events.
ilikesweatshirts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother used to sleep walk a lot as a kid. One night when my parents and I were still awake he came into the living room and said "I want to be opened ... " D:
samtrumpet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Little brother walked in my room covered in blood and said "don't worry.. I fixed it." I later found out he had a nose bleed.
boudreaux234 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when i was a little kid i had an Elmo toy and a frog toy and they started talking to each other in the middle of the night.
rounced ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I should preface this by saying that the house we lived in at the time was an older war time home, presumably built by a returning soldier.
When my daughter was about 2, she was upstairs having a nap in her room while I was downstairs making lunch. I started hearing some strange noises from upstairs, but I shrugged it off as my daughter waking up from her nap. A few minutes later I hear my daughter talking to someone, bear in mind it's just myself and my daughter in the house, my wife is at work. I'm not overly concerned at this point because my daughter was and continues to be something of a chatterbox, but I head upstairs to see what the situation is.
I step in to her room to the sight of her sitting up in her bed, facing the wall opposite the door, having a conversation with seemingly no one. I ask her who she is talking to and she turns around and says "The people Daddy". Kids being kids, I play along and ask her what they are saying as I pick her up to take her downstairs to have lunch. "They say they don't like us". After that feeling in the base of my spine went away, she had my attention and I asked her who said that to her. "The people Daddy, don't you see them?" was her answer.
Cue me turning around, looking up, and seeing the antique porcelain dolls my wife's grandmother left her staring directly into the deepest parts of my soul. NOPE.
I have a few more stories of strange happenings in that house, needless to say we no longer live there.
Sudsy_Wudsy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was the kid in this one. My dad told me that one evening, when I was about 4 years old, I stared away from my father and asked if he remembered "that time we drowned together on that boat." He asked me what I was talking about the next minute, and I had already forgotten. He believed in reincarnation, so he thought that was the creepiest and coolest thing ever - I don't remember it myself.
karinkat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was visiting my bestfriend and her family last year. We were in the kitchen cooking and drinking wine and her husband said something to my godson that was sort of mocking him. My 4 yr old godson grabbed a knife that was just set down and started walking toward him and said something to the effect of "I'm going to get you" with a creepy little smirk on his face... all three of us were really freaked out by this.
OneOf_ThosePeople ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess when I was a kid I would get up and stand there staring at my mom, and another thing it isn't scary but, my mom says I used to say words that would be at a college level which is just weird this is when I was 4 or 5
paperhat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter said she wants to get an art degree from carnegie mellon
sniperlilly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:06:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when I was 4 I used to open the bathroom door while a member of my family was on the toilet and tell them my imaginary friend was behind them, then walk away leaving the door open.
yooie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i'd shit myself if that happened
ALostEt3rnity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:06:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
On a Train, my 7 year old niece says to me, about her younger brother, "after he dies, can i cut off his head and keep it in my room?" giggles and awkward smiles from everyone in earshot for next 5 minutes, until we all shuffle off at the station...
SilverVendetta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:07:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was barely talking I was trying to put him to sleep and he starts staring behind me and says "Say Hi to da man." and I say of course, "What man?" He says "Da man up there. points With da wings."
Sorry, but winged angel or no I freaked out and we didn't take a nap that day.
Fancy_Pantsu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:07:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
From the time I was 2-5 my bed in my room was always on the wall to the left as you walk in the door. When I turned 6 my parents repainted the walls and moved my bed to the opposite wall that had my closet on the other side of it. From that night on, until I was about 8 and the moved my bed back to the other side of the room I would hear scratching above my head through the wall.
I also used to have infrequent night terrors from about 7-13 years old and my parents told me later about all the stuff I would do or say. One of them apparently was about one month after they originally moved my bed the first time. They said they woke up to find me standing at the end of their four poster bed and I told them, "The man says that I took his spot, and now he won't let me sleep there." Another time they told me I ran into their room yelling and jumped into their bed screaming that our cat was back for revenge to kill me (our cat had died in the basement of our house a week before and I had always thrown shoes at it because it was mean) and I had scratches on the back of my leg.
Another time when I was at my grandparents house I was in their old creepy room that was always dusty and had really old furniture and a huge bajillion pound bible by the fireplace and I kicked the bible closed and my great-grandfathers grandfather clock went freaking berserk and didn't stop chiming until someone finally opened the bible again (that clock hadn't worked in over 40 years my grandmother had told me).
TheColourReddit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:07:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister and 2 year old niece were over at my house a few months ago visiting. When it came time to leave my niece was telling everyone bye. She's walking down the hallway to go to the side door and she can't quite reach so I'm following to help. She gets to the doorway of our computer room, which is extremely dark, and stops. She gets the biggest smile on her face, turns and waves and says goodbye before promptly walking away. I turned the light on and there wasn't anyone in the room. Scared me enough to where I didn't go past that room without walking a little faster and getting creeped for the next few days.
OniNomad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The other night my godson told me to hold still and he put a toy stethoscope to my chest and after a moment I hear a click. while pretending to listen to my heartbeat he had put a toy gun to the back of my head and pulled the trigger. He then proceeded to laugh like a madman for a full minute. The child is 5
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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willtraveltoedinburg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
French here. Some of the books look pretty dark, but these are kids books, so there's probably nothing offensive in them.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 5, I decided that instead of being the good guys in my make believe story, my 3 year old brother and I were going to be the bad guys just to see what it was like. I went pretty far with it, imaging a whole world where we murdered dozens of children and kept them in a basement. I remember not particularly enjoying the game, but I wanted to see it through to the end. My dad walked in just as I was telling my brother to "look at all the dead little ones" that we'd filled up the downstairs office with. All he said was that we we should go play a different game outside in the sun. That seemed like more fun than continuing our game, so we obliged. I can only imagine the conversation that he and my mom had later that night, trying to figure out if we were going to grow up to be mass-murdering psychopaths.
Asshole_Nord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be an asshole when I was a kid. I still am, but I used to, too. I'm just hoping that nothing I did will come up in this thread.
jveen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
next time I'm around any children, I'm going to teach them to say some of this shit.
saturnandmars ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to babysit three siblings, the oldest, boy, 7, the middle child, girl, 4, and the youngest boy, infant. The 4 year old girl would every once in a while mention how she had an imaginary friend who was very old, brown, and fixed shoes. Her mother didn't like me to encourage her stories, so i'd brush it off. About a year and a half after the youngest boy was born, and almost a year since her mentioning her brown friend, she randomly told me, "you know, the brown man who fixed shoes went away, because god gave me another brother." I refused to sleep there afterwords. I just couldn't make up in my mind how she would even know people back in the day fixed shoes.
shillyshally ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my little sister was about 8 or 9 - kinda late for this sort of thing - she said our mother was trying to poison her. Every time we sat down for a meal she would ask Mom if there was poison in it. Mom would say no, there was no poison in it. Then my sister would eat. She says she has no recollection of this but the rest of us do.
NCisHome ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're going to die some day daddy- 3yr old.
Orthrus_goldrush ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My four year old told my pregnant wife today that he will set the baby on fire.
ExcitingMike ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 2 yo daughter has a habit of sitting silently in her door way, crossed legs and head bowed... in the middle of the night when i go past on my way to bed... sounds innocent enough but scares the shit out of me
jesh1223 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my sister was around 3, she would tell us stories of Uncle Eric. We don't have an Uncle Eric. But, according to my sister, that's because we weren't her real family. Uncle Eric died when she was 5, in a plane wreck. He was her favorite uncle. One day after his death, she was climbing a tree overlooking the pond in her backyard while her real family was having dinner. She fell out of the tree and into the water and drowned. Uncle Eric came down and "rescued" her and took her to live with him. Somehow she ended up with us instead, and this was no good. She kept telling us how she wanted to live with him again. Then one day, she didn't mention him. When we asked about him, she had no idea what we were talking about. To this day, she doesn't recall ever talking about an imaginary Uncle Eric.
Yillpv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My mom is not a redditor so I will write this for her, a shortened version of the way she tells it to me: "when you were really young, like 4 years old, I had a morning paper route. I was driving really slow through a small town at 4am and it was still dark. You were in a dead sleep in the passenger seat and all of a sudden you woke up, turned to me, and said "I'm evil." It scared me half to death! We later found out that town is notoriously haunted with an abandoned school."
so there you go, I guess either I am evil or I was possessed by some demon child. Nevertheless, she enjoys telling that to every boyfriend I bring home :/
edit: that place is Selleck, WA
Kateysomething ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My daughter was about 2 when she started Saying "John...John..." one afternoon. Husband and I were confused...we didn't really hang out with any Johns. Trying to figure out who /what she was now adamantly referring to, I said "John who? " and she announces "JOHN GILL!"
I look at my husband to see if he heard what I'd heard. He looks as surprised as me. John was a cousin of mine who had died maybe 10 years before. I certainly had never discussed him inherr presence, if I'd even said his name since she had been born. He was quite a bit older than me. So I said "where's John honey?" and she ran into the hall and pointed out the window. Soooo eerie.
NoPornNoHurt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but anyways. (I work with kids) "I want to put my hand through the window. And make it bleed. Make it bleed" He said this with no emotion whatsoever on his face. Just a blank expression. Then he would run off.
VicVenom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:12:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I must have been 4 or 5 years old and had just got into bed with my roland rat teddy (circa 83) and to this day i am still convinced that this toy bit my finger, I remember recoiling from the shock. My brother and mum were in the room too obviously they did not see a thing.. I still have the toy at my bedside, needless to say he never bit me again.
Also when i stayed at my grandmothers house a few years after, i was being tucked into bed again and the room had a kitchen next door which also opened into into the bedroom while still having another entrance in the hall way..Anyway, this bastard gorilla arm was reaching through this gap in the kitchen door. my mother swears she could not see anything.
Shadixmax ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My family is very religious, i'm not as much as i used to be. But i still hold the faith, well apparently when i was a kid we lived in kentucky for a while, and my mother told me i refused to go into the basement even with my mother next to me. She told me i refused to go because of the people in the basement, she said i used to talk to the people in the basement, even after she blessed i never went past the first two steps or go down there at all.
Then there was a time we lived in germany, we had two bathrooms, i would talk to someone from across the room, we could hear the sound of a man peeing and there was only me and my mother, this freaked my mother out so she blessed and i told her the man had left. There was also another time living in a separate room at my grandmothers that a big black mass fell from the ceiling with an audible thud we ran to get my grandmother, who lived right across from us, she came and looked through everything but didn't see anything so she blessed everything and that mass had been seen before by my mother while babysitting my cousins. Now my grandmother used to tell me i was a more open child i tended to notice the things no one else did, my grandmother would always keep. Blessed items in our homes and gave me blessed pendants and necklaces after those experiences, we never saw any of those things again. My grandmother explained to me once , that children are pure looking glasses that spirits mean or nice, communicate through children. Because they are not jaded to the world and see everything with open eyes and ears. I'm not religious but i still hold to the faith and i don't go anywhere without my pendants or making sure my rosary is in my car. So yeah Tl;dr i was a kid who encountered a lot of spirits till my grandmother blessed me and gave me blessed items to carry.
ThinkPan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was with my kid cousin, unpacking my grandmother's stuff out of some boxes (she was moving). My little cousin, aged around 6 or 7 at the time, was just walking around, bothering me a bit. I humored her, for the most part, but not really paying attention to her as I was unpacking stuff. She disappeared for a few minutes, then returned holding a fucking nail gun that must have been lying around.
She looked me dead in the eye, gives a cold smirk, and said, "You have no idea how much this is going to hurt". We were alone, and I would have been seriously fucked if I hadn't been so fast on lunging forward and grabbing the nail gun out of her hands.
Kids are scary, man.
ThePiggle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mum told me recently that as a child, I was obsessed with death. Constant questions and things. I am worried by how creepy I seemed as a child, now...
somethingsnarky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a sophomore in high school, I babysat this 3yo boy named Foster. He was very bright, and extremely well behaved. One evening, just before it was time to get him ready for bed, he knocks all his little toys off of his table. This startles me, so I look over just in time to see him slowly climb up on the table top and crouch there on all fours. He looks terrified. I ask "Hey buddy, what's wrong?" He turns his head to look at me for a moment then whispers "Something's gonna happen..." Easily the most freaked out I've ever been.
JustFineThankYou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Remember those things that you would do in Elementary School where you would lay down on a giant sheet of paper and someone else would trace your body so that you could decorate it? Yeah, well in Kindergarten our class did one of those. Contrasting from all the other kid's designs of rainbows, flowers etc. was mine, which had only the words "THE END IS NEAR".
"At least it was spelled right."- Kindergarten teacher
TheKolbrin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:18:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just ignore the aligator in the bathtub mom. I'm taking him back out to the swamp after I eat.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:18:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a journal that is from when I was about 3. I couldn't write yet, so my dad transcribed what I said to him. One of the entries reads "I'm really tired....of eating people." I wish I could see the look on his face when I said that, as it was the only thing written for that day.
kuntphace ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:18:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was four my mother's boyfriend at the time was over for the night. After being put to bed around 9 apparently I woke up around midnight to deliver a message to him. I walked out of my room in my whitey tighties and down the hall to both of them while they were sitting on the couch. Got right in his face and pointed my index finger at him and said,"I'm the boss of my house and you are the boss of your house. Remember that and don't touch my mom or you will regret it". Then I walked back to my room and fell asleep. From what she tells me he always asked my permission to hug or kiss her if I was around from that moment on. He didn't last more than a few months after that.
marlajane ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
On the phone. Mom we just had a car accident.
Sepherchorde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My three year old daughter looked at her mom and said: "I love you so much I'm going to ground you up into coffee and put you in the freezer!"
We don't make any jokes nor talk like that around her, so we have no idea where that came from...
tre101 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know I still get told about this one now from when I was a kid, I was 3ish and we had just come from a wedding of a close family friends daughter. The family were talking about stuff from the wedding and I butted in with "you know they're just going to get divorced anyway" I was a mean child.
aerolester1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My aunt told me about something my cousin did once. They were visiting my great-grandmother, we called her Mama Lee, when he was about 3. My aunt put him down for a nap on a little cot in the dinning room, and like everyone does he rolled around for a while trying to go to sleep. When she got him up he asked her who the man was that was following Mama Lee around the house. She asked him what he looked like and he proceeded to describe in great detail my great-grandfather who died a couple of decades earlier.
datoverder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:20:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, there are too many damn posts about children talking to relatives they have never met. Someone have an explanation, or are you all gunna let me shit myself tonight?
Kaaraii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:20:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am the kid and i did this... Back about 2 houses i used to have a room that was painted like a castle , all to myself. My bed was a queen (i was a bulky kid at around 10) and apparently i had been moaning and stuff during the night , so my parents came in. My mom had asked "What are you doing, Kaaraii? Go back to bed" What happened next i have no recollection of and i got in shit for it for the next week. Apparently i had yelled "NO YOU GO BACK TO BED YOU STUPID BITCH"
I'm pretty sure i learned the phrase from my father but to say it when i was asleep? Creeps me out to this day, i feel like i was possessed or something.
shaqfearsyao ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:23:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old niece scared the shit out of my wife and me. We were babysitting my niece and she was in her grandma's room. She comes running out while we're on the couch saying that there's a "monster by the door of the room near the hallway". My wife and I were like "wtf? What did she say"? My niece kept insisting that there was someone standing there so she didn't want to go in the hallway back into the room. My wife goes over to the door and says "see, nothing's here". I asked my niece how did the monster look like and she said it was a little boy.
She hasn't said anything since then about it when she visits.
thiswontstop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:24:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when my youngest sister was little she had an imaginary friend named analina. analina was an orphan because her parents died and whenever you said anything like "oh that's so sad" she would make up a morbid story about how they died, and tell it as she continued to play. examples: bit by snakes and died from their poison. their house was torn apart by a tornado and they were stabbed by flying stuff. etc.etc.
Serviceman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:25:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but my mother used to tell me that when she was pregnant with me her and my father lived in an apartment that was reputed to be haunted. She woke up in the middle of the night to an apparition that looked just like me at four (I had not yet been born), looking sad and holding a cigar box like container. She asked what the ghost (or me) wanted, who looked at her and then disappeared.
Sticky-Scrotum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:25:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Mom told me once that when I was about 3 or 4 we were on the street and I pointed and shouted 'look Mom, wooden guys.' Apparently I was pointing at a group of vertically challenged individuals. They weren't impressed...
Not really creepy or frightening, unless you find small people creepy...
Carnifax66 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, Reddit. Now I never want kids.
GGEuroHEADSHOT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother is gay, and our father is a conservative Christian. We were all together and my son turned to my grandfather and asked, "Is there any pain in heaven?" My grandfather responded, No. My son then says, "Well you don't believe that Vince(My brother) is going to heaven, how are you going to be happy when you know your son is burning in hell?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my cousin was younger she was at my aunt's house and they were cleaning out the attic. My cousin was standing at the bottom of the stairs to the attic and when my aunt asked her what she was looking at she said, "The people want to come down stairs." My aunt asked her what people and my cousin proceeded to walk into the living room and point to a picture of my deceased grandparents and said, "Those people."
Then my aunt called my mom and told her about it and my cousin saw my aunt on the phone and asked if she was talking to my mom. When my aunt said yes my cousin grabbed the phone and said, "The people are coming to visit you."
Ever since then we've had a lot of strange things happen at my house.
TheYetiShaman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter is 7 months old. I get a call from the her mother last night kind of freaked out. She tells me she thinks the baby sees things. I told her no no its she a baby and they might seem like they are looking at things they aren't cause they are jut observing. She continues to tell me in the middle of the night from a dead sleep my daughter opens her eyes turns her head to look up and starts belly laughing. This is weird because A) my daughter sleeps like a rock B) because she just starts laughing not to long ago and she NEVER belly laughs and C) she fell right back to sleep after laughing
motherfucksgoose ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:27:35 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have this younger cousin (she was probably 5 or 6 when this incident occured) who is very outspoken and obnoxious. One day, we were watching tv or something at my house and chatting. She suddenly goes quiet and looks at me and says, "I'm gonna kill myself so I can be with grandma again." The expressionless look on her face scared me shitless. She hasn't killed herself, and she's a perfectly normal kid now.
The_Red_Egg1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, TIL ghosts are visible to children until they mature and are taken seriously.
DingDongHelloWhoIsIt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:29:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old daughter and 5 year old son were recently squabbling in the back of the car: 3 year old: when I'm older I'm going to cut your arms off 5 year old: when I'm older I'm going to saw yours off, cos it'll hurt more เฒ _เฒ
Melodic_692 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:30:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"His name is Toby. He is sat right next to you."
invigilatora ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:30:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but a few months ago I was babysitting a two-year old. As she was sitting in her high chair, she started screaming, "What is that? Who is that?" I asked her what was wrong and she just turned to the window behind her and whispered, "Outside."
I checked multiple times and no one was there.
Mattress_Man ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:32:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if I'm qualified since I'm not a parent (I'm pretty sure I'm not), but I'm going to share my story regardless. When I was around 4 or 5 years my parents at that time had already split up, so I would spend a couple weeks with one then the other and so on. While with my mother, we came across a picture of Jesus in a book (Neither of us are religious, and I don't remember the context of the book itself) so she asked me who he was. I said "That's Jesus! I know him." She asked me how I knew him, to which I replied "We play together all the time." She asked "So he comes over then?" I have no memory of every playing with Jesus, but what I said after was "No, I go over to his place."
Once again, I'm not a religious person. I don't remember ever being one, and neither is/was my mother. This is just a story she shared with me a couple years ago.
wilsonliam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:34:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember this at all, but my mum swears by the story and insists on telling it at family gatherings, but around 1996 we went over to Ireland to see family, and days after coming back I sit on my mums knee and ask her "What's wrong with uncle Anthony's heart?" He died of a heart attack that day. Weird huh? I was only about 3 at the time.
OoohPieceOfCandy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a story about me as a kid. I used to always stand in the mirror of my Grandmothers house and point and talk to it, when I was like.. 4. My Grandma asked me who I was talking to. "The old lady stuck in the mirror" then I blew her off and kept talking. I thought this was weird, because it seems like a lot of other kids say they talked to an old lady..
hugs_n_tugs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Moved to Mexico, had no kids furniture yet so our son (2yrs old) slept in the bed between my wife and I. In the middle of the night he wakes up screaming and pulls the blankets off the bed, my wife and I are like "wtf is going on?" and put him back on the bed. We try to put the blanket back on him and he refuses to touch the blanked and begins to scream bloody murder. That was the only time we ever used that room, moved all our shit to the guest room and moved out 6 months later. We figure it was a nightmare, but his scream and genuine fear was enough to put a big NOPE on that room.
wingedpomegranate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids, but a kid just said something fuckin' creepy to me today. I work at a movie theater, and this kid said to me and his mom, "If you are bad in the movie theater, they put you in the popcorn machine and cook you." Creepy.
bitchesbkrazy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While driving home from the grocery shopping and stopped at a red light my three year old said, "I want you to go faster mommy." I explained that you have to stop at red lights or we might get into a car crash and get hurt. They he says, " I want you to crash your car, I want you to get hurt." This was topped recently when I told him to be careful when he is coming down the stairs or he could get hurt or even die. He said, "I want to be dead." This thread makes me feel a little better knowing that other kids say some pretty fucked up stuff too. I think he is just trying to provoke a reaction. Maybe he gets bored with our daily routines and is trying to stir shit up.
gensolo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not so much creepy but when I was around 2ish I believe I stood up in a Morrison's and pointed at my grandfather and called him a "dirty old man". No one knows where I got this from or what set it off.
BEST STORY EVER!
Cognita_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:42:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister asked my mum when she was about six:
'What happens to your eyes when you die?'
DreamCarver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nyaaaauuuugh.
Sicarium ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:43:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have children of my own, but this is one about my little cousin.
A few years ago my grandfather died, and he was cremated. Most of the children on that side of the family were very young, so we didn't talk about it with them.
However, on several occasions after my grandfathers death, one of my cousins, who was only about 4, would go up to my grandmother's room and sit in front of the closet laughing and talking.
She always said she was talking to grandpa
That closet is where his ashes were kept, and there was no way she knew that.
mkj5251 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:43:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had a friend in high school who, when looking at houses to buy with her mother, went in one house and kept asking who the little girl in the red dress was. There was no little girl to be seen. I don't know what I think but I have heard that children are supposed to be more connected to the paranormal.
ButtDouglass ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:43:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was about 3-4 at the time, don't remember this at all, but my parents have told me about it a few times.
For 4 nights straight I would sleep talk in the middle of the night screaming, bawling, crying bloody murder, even when my mom came in. She would go to my bed and ask what's wrong. "That man is here again! Why can't he leave!" She would ask what guy and I would just keep repeating "that man."
The 4th night my dad decided he had enough, so he got out of bed to help my mom out. As soon as I saw his silhouette in the doorway I completely lost it. With tears streaming down my face, I shuffled as far back to the corner of my bed as I could, pointing at my dad, and screaming at the top of my lungs "THAT'S HIM! THAT'S THE MAN!!"
Apparently all those mornings I would wake up not remembering what happened, and after that last night I never had any fits like that.
Doublemaybe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:43:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son was about 4 1/2 when he said ''Mommy, when you get shot in your head, I promise I'll jump off that cliff with the green rock'' . He said this in the most calm, comforting, matter of fact way.
This is still the most disturbing thing either one of my children has ever said to me.
false_god ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:44:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 4 my mom took me to the cemetery for the Day of the Dead's mass. She briefly explained that there were buried people there and we were there to honor them and her father.
While she stood there watching the mass she sees me on the corner of her eye just scraping the earth with my little fingers. She asks me what I'm doing and I say: I WANNA SEE IT!
jarydf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:45:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We often walk through a cemetery near our house. It is a nice park like place. Not creepy at all. My 3 year old knows that it is a place where peoples bodies go when they die so their friends and relatives can visit them. Sometimes we walk past the head stones and she asks me to name the people as we go past. Then one day she says "Daddy will you visit me when I am in a cage underground?" Err...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young (probably around 10, I can't remember specifically), I had a habit of talking in my sleep. My brother used to complain about it when we shared a room but after he got his own room I didn't really hear about it from my family anymore. Then one night my mom found me. I had gotten out of bed and walked all through the house and down the stairs to the front door. I was unlocking and opening the door, and when my mom stopped me and asked what I was doing, I turned and looked up the stairs and said "i'm trying to find a place for it". Thats all. I don't remember getting out of bed, walking around, or saying anything. I just couldn't stop thinking about how traumatic that would have been for me as a child to suddenly wake up outside at 2 am being 10 years old and not remembering how I got there. I have no idea how far I would have gone or what I would have done if my mother hadn't woken me up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember walking out of my room and locking myself out of our flat at age 4 or 5. My dad, who worked and sometimes slept in the basement came up the stairway in the morning and found me sleeping. Uncomfortable but I never did it again
Bipolar_Chemist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
This is something my little brother said to me, he was 6 at the time. One day I had come home from school and was taking a nap on the living room couch. He wakes me up and stares right at me and says "I found something on your computer. You're gross." I was kinda of freaking out for like an hour trying to figure out what he had found. It turns out he just found some old chips beside my laptop. Scared the living shit out of me. edit: accidentally a word
Nightbane35 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can't remember the whole story, but my teacher's sister had an identical twin who died before birth. One day the girl asked something to the likes of "what happened to my sister?" and, when questioned she said "you know, in that dark place." Is that even possible or is my teacher b.s.ing?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
how old was the girl? Maybe she picked it up somewhere or someone told her that she could have had a sister
Nightbane35 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:30:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i don't know, it's summer so i haven't seen the teech in a while. but it is possible, because the alternative seems insane.
poisontonik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once my mum walked in on my sleeping walking in the kitchen once. I'd managed to silently carry a chair into the kitchen, climb up on a bench, and was rummaging through the cutlery draw when she found me. When she asked what I was doing I told her the Coke bottle told me that I needed to find the giant knife. I remember it was very important that I find the giant knife, and I had no idea why she was so upset.
I was 6 at the time. My poor mother.
astrograph ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my reaction to most of the posts
Burnwash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once when i was probably about 8, we had moved to a new city close to us while our house was being re-modeled. I sleptwalked down a flight of stairs, went to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and went to my parents room and told them that "Justin (my brother) has all the knives and won't share, this was the only one i could find." Then i walked out. When questioned about it the next morning i just told them i was having a dream about cutting my dinner and my brother not giving me a butter knife.
Bonahtron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
While reading some of these posts to my sister a fellow Reddit member, she recalls a story about me. I never heard this story until now.
Apparently when I was around 4 years old I woke up around 3 in the morning screaming a crying hysterically. I was clearly upset. When my parents asked me what was wrong I explained that either I had to die or everyone else in the family had to die. Until morning my parents had to try to calm me down and tell me no one had to die.
Creepy shit.
cocato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day my Grandma and I were playing cards, I should also mention I didn't like losing. Though me being a child lost, I apparently didn't take well to this and said with a very straight face, "It's okay because you'll be dead soon."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but I remember saying this to my father: "If I sleep with amanda, will I get pregnant?" Amanda was my sister, I am a male, and I was about 4ish
robswins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but when I was volunteering at a school for children with cerebral palsy in Israel I had one girl say some really disturbing things to me. The one that frightened me the most was when I was about to leave the school to ride the bus back to my apartment the girl looks me straight in the eye and says, "I hope you don't die on the way home." I was always a bit nervous riding a bus in Israel because of the bus bombings that happen once in awhile there, but I was tempted to just walk the 5 miles back to my place that day.
MuscularCat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:53:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not parent but I did do my share of creepy shit when I was a kid.
My parents told me this story of something creepy I said at a sleepover. I used to sleepwalk a bunch. When I was 5 or so I was at a sleepover at a friends house. Apparently I started sleepwalking and when his mom asked me what I was doing I said something along the lines of "I'm looking for the light in the darkness" and walked off. Pretty sure she thought I was possessed or something.
GIMR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:04:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was two, My mom, my brothers, and I lived with my Uncle and Aunt. My Uncle was in the process of building a tree house in the backyard. All he had finished was the 12 Ft. ladder leading up to it and the floor. There were no walls or ceiling.
My mom woke up one morning and couldn't find me. She started to freak out and accidentally looked out the back window and found me sleeping on the 12ft high floor of the tree house. We have no idea how I got out of the house or how I got up there. I didn't say anything, but it's still kind of creepy. She took a picture before taking me down. If people are interested I'll find the photo and scan it to Imgur.
mknelson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent - but I remember my little brother used to pick up the phone and listen and then say in amazement, "The lion is busy...".
raresaturn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The line..
mknelson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nope - he thought it was a lion....really
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:11:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When i was younger i used to share a room with my little sister. One night she started saying she thought there was something in her bed, about 5 seconds later she goes crazy and throws the sheets off and run downs the hall screaming. I go over to her bed, the "thing" that been in the bed with her had most likely been her own pee, seeing as her sheets were badly stained.
colloquy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:17:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son had a pretty high fever when he was about three years old and was crying - looking right at me and said " I want my mommy!"
It instantly broke my heart... there was nothing could do for him if he couldn't even recognize me. :-(
I'll never forget that.
microwavedballs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:19:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was three I said "Remember when I was the grown-up and you were the little boy?" to my Dad.
1337ninjer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:22:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I was dating a woman who had a four year old son . She and I had an in joke where we would quote a line from a porno we had seen out of context. While we were careful not to say it in front of the boy, like most 20 year old couples, we weren't careful enough and he overheard us saying it and laughing. Being the aspiring little stand-up that he was, he added it to his list of jokes unbeknownst to us until later that day when he was coloring at the dining room table and quietly singing a new song he had made up which consisted of him singing over and over "oooh oohh baby... I think I'm gonna cum! oooh Oohh baby... I think I'm gonna cum!"
It took what felt like weeks to get him to stop saying it. Like a typical, high spirited, four year old boy, telling him to stop just made it all the more alluring. We finally just stopped reacting to it and then he got bored with it and the only time he tried saying it outside of the house was to the elderly man next door with the defective hearing aid so he didn't get a reaction out of him either so then he dropped it in favor of saying "Bada Bing!" which we made a point to laugh hysterically at so that he would become fixated on that.
jjabi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:22:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 4 years old, almost every night after midnight I started to scream and woke up my mom and dad. They found me sitting on my bedside staring at window opposite, I didn't react when they called my name or even when they touched me, I just fell a sleep when they put me down. I've heard that was one of creepiest things in their lives, and not to mention it happened almost every night...
I also have story about my little brother, when he was about 5, he ran from his room at night, and opened my parents bedroom door, and yelled mom. Mom woke up and asked what was wrong, he told him that "My father is a dog". My mom started to laugh so hysterically that my dad woke up too. That is funny one to mention to my brother now when we are older.
oddllama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember this at all, but apparently on a long drive to see some relatives , I had fallen asleep in the car, and suddenly I sat straight up eyes open and stared at my mom and said " He wants it back." she had no idea what was going on and said " what?" and I repeated what I said at first an laid back down to go to sleep.
Twair72 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if this counts as creepy but it sure as hell scared me. I was at the beach a few months ago and was sharing a bedroom with my little cousin (5). He talks a lot in his sleep, mostly about nothing and so quiet I can't hear him but one night he was completely quiet, I noted it and finally fell asleep unhindered. In the middle of the night I woke up to his face not 2 inches from mine, I recoiled and asked why he was still awake to which he replied, "I'm watching you like the man in my room watches me at home" I asked if it was brad (his father) and he laughed like a crazy person and said "No no, my real dad" wtf does this mean
PossiblyTrolling ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Daddy I'm choking"
somedelightfulmoron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm probably too late to share this: When I was a four, I had a wide imagination. I also liked playing by myself and I thought I was playing with white and red dwarves in our backyard. One time, I was having a fun conversation with myself and the "dwarves". My grandma living with us saw me. She freaked the fuck out and thought I was possessed (I was laughing alone, and telling jokes to no end etc). She called my parents from overseas and started to watch my every move. Coming from a largely conservative catholic background, she also called the local faith healer to exorcise the "demons possessing" me and they started chanting prayers and stuff.
I don't believe this story up to this day as I have no recollection of anything with my dwarf friends. (If they really DID exist, I should have a greater collection of dwarf jokes by now)
BoughtreeFidee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I had a bunch of imaginary friends as well, my parents just thought it was cute, I would talk to them, play with them, even try to share my food and sometimes apparently, I'd just sit there and I could swear I remember the toys moving around and I was just waiting for them to take their turns. It's so hard to believe now, but you never know..
somedelightfulmoron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:56:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
cue x-files theme here
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent here, but when I was six I said some creepy shit. My mom said, and I do sort of remember it kind of, that one night I was horsing around in my parents bedroom. I was jumping from bed to bed to couch and just being an annoying six year old. Then apparently I didn't make the jump from couch to bed one attempt, and my knee crashed into the bed so hard, it broke the frame. While my parents rushed to see if the bed was okay (I know great parents, right?), I crawled to the corner and started to scream "I didn't do it! It was the devil, it was the devil!" They let me sleep in their room that night because I couldn't stop shivering.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son has an imaginary friend named jake. He talks about jake telling him to do naughty things like making messes. One day, out of the blue, he said "mommy, jake told me he died once.". The next day he said that he wished ghosts weren't real. Tl:dr my son sees dead people.
majinboom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ask him if he has another imaginary friend named Bruce WIllis
nothingnessisdead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dont have kids but my best friend and I were out one day with her daughter in the backseat. My friend was saying something and from the back seat we just hear this tiny voice say "I'm going to kill you" I looked back only to see this creepy smirk. My friend then yells at her and tells her its not nice, you dont say things like that. Her daughter only replies with "But I really will" again, with a creepy smirk.
She also has her own little language and anytime her mom asks her what shes saying she says shes talking to her little brother. Her little brother died almost a year ago.
LazorFanggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's... disturbing
Gyno-Star ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:34:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL many people on Reddit don't realize that toddlers have weird/bad dreams and confusing thoughts which they don't know how to process.
Oh_stop_it_you_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:35:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I had no recollection until my parents told me the next morning, but one night when I was about 14, I came home drunk and passed out immediately in my bed. I woke back up somehow at like 1 am still drunk and my parents were still awake. I knelt down at the front of my bed post and began to pee onto my carpet. My parents rushed over to my room after hearing me peeing and they screamed "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" So, with a dead look in my eyes, I simply told them "They told me to do it." To this day they think I took some crazy drugs to make me do that.
Edit: Grammar
lemuffins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:36:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent but I received a text about something my nephew said the other day "I just found him standing in my room in pitch dark. He was kind of out of it, so I picked him up to take him back to bed. He pointed behind me; down the stairs and said "he make you fall down the stairs" I asked him who would do that? and he kept point into the darkness saying "the bug man".
I was 400 miles away at the time and I still had an inkling of nope.
FreakZombie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:36:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was 2, she would point at a spot in the corner of the living room and say "the butterflies are hiding in the wall." After a couple days, I wanted to know what the dark little speck was, so I looked closely and saw what looked like a tiny hole with little white eggs inside it. I didn't wait for them to hatch to see if they were butterflies, but how she knew they were eggs from so far away (other side of the room) and that insects hatch from eggs is the strange part. The way she would say it though, it still creeps me out to think about it.
spidyfan21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:36:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
When I was 7-8 I would wake up early (5-6) and want to go.. do stuff, play my PS1, eat food, bathe, but I wanted to ask my parents first if it was okay. I also didn't want to wake up my parents because they were sleeping and that would be rude. The result was that on more then one occasion my parents would wake up to see me staring at them waiting for there approval for me to go do stuff.
EDIT: Not like, at the doorway staring. I was like, 3 inches from your face staring.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:38:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 11 dad woke me up and I ended up rolling over and going back to sleep. I walked out into the living room 4 hours later after I woke up and he was like what happened? I said "Sorry I woke up on the wrong server". He gave me a really weird look.
WildSyrup ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:38:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My baby sister was a very outgoing child who used to sing all the time. When she was around 3, my mum and I decided to sneak up on her to see what kind of songs she sang when she was by herself. We cracked open the door to find her playing with her tea set, talking to an imaginary friend. She just stared at the space in front of her, nodding her head when my mom finally gave up and opened the door fully. Mom asked, "Who are you talking to baby?"
My baby sister said, "My sister. Mom, she looks just like me." I almost fell over. I looked at my mom who went pale and looked like she was going to fall over. My baby sister's twin died. We never spoke about her, nor told my baby sister about her either.
Sevarg00 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:39:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ITT, people don't understand the question, start telling ghost stories.
jawnz77 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:41:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was around three years old or so, I used to have full fledged conversations with an "imaginary friend." no one thought anything of it until Easter. My uncle's birthday fell on Easter that year, but he had passed away a year before around the same time. Everyone was walking on eggshells around my grandmother because she was close to tears the whole day. In the car ride home from a family party I spoke up and said "It's okay, Mommom. Uncle Marty is okay and he knows you're thinking about him today." entirely out of the blue. Freaked everyone out in the car because I would not have known to say that being only two at the time that he died.
xMikeh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:42:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A bit off topic, but creepy none the less. When I was 14, my sister was 10. She had a pet mouse that was pregnant, but it died. My mom and I were gone, we got home and I guess while we were gone her mouse died, so she got it in her head that she was going to "I have to save the babies!" She had that mouse pinned to the table and opened up. It was awful.
kardde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:42:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few stories about me and my sister. When I was 2 or 3, my great aunt died. I had never met her before, we couldn't go to the funeral. A week or so later as I was watching TV I told my parents, "Aunt Rose wants you to know that she's okay, and you shouldn't worry about her."
One night when my sister was 3, she started talking in her sleep in a perfect British accent (we're from NYC.) She was saying things like, "But mummy, I don't want to go back to England. I want to stay here and play with the elephants!"
Another time we were walking to the park, my sister was 5 or 6. All of a sudden she breaks away from us and runs towards a brownstone with a spiral staircase. She runs inside, and as we catch up to her, she's talking to an old lady. The lady says, "Rachael, we've been expecting you!" The building was a library for the paranormal and occult.
franticcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Who was the lady?!
kardde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't remember. The librarian, I guess. My parents were understandably freaked out, not only about my sister running into a strange building, but that they seemed to know her there, that we left in a hurry.
durkberger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was a few hours after I had said goodnight and tucked my son (2 years old at the time) in bed. I heard him jabbering to himself in his room so I opened the door and asked "who are you talking to?", to which he responded in a low-whisper hiss "my toysssssss". I backed out slowly.
readyforhell ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:44:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are so many redditors who remember what happened when they were 2 years old. I do not remember any incident before I was 6-7 year old.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a nervous flier. When my son was three, we were getting on a plane and all of his pervious enthusiasm washed away instantly as we approached the door of the aircraft. I was carrying him, and he stuck both of his arms and legs out as wide as possible so that when I walked through the door, we got stuck. I finally turned sideways to get him through and he screamed, "We will die if we get on this plane! Fire! There will be a lot of fire!" I forced us all on the plane anyway, but I sat there having one long anxiety attack the entire time. Obviously nothing happened and my kid is just creepy.
mylittle_kony13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:51:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My reaction to most of these stories:
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?!!
LascielCoin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:55:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow how fucking smart of me to read this at 1am.
Soluz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Guess who's not going to sleep tonight :D? sigh
Allformygain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:59:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know I'm late to the party. I have seen all these posts about kids referencing their parents dead parents.
My mother told this story as she remembers it. When my brother was about 2 maybe 3 years old, my mother and father were playing with him. My brother had a strange attraction to my dad's class ring that his father gave him when he passed. My father gave it to my brother but refused to give it back,
My dad said "Alright William(That's his name) Time to give my ring back"
My Brother "No It's my ring" My dad thinking it's jsut a normal 2 year old territorial thing he asks again.
"That's daddy's ring, please give it back"
My brother: "No it's my ring, I gave it to you when I died."
My father and my mother where freaked out. Was my brother having a weird moment or was he channeling my passed Grandfather.
I should note that both my grandparent on my dad's side died before me or my brother were born. It's still creeps me out even talking about it.
bhea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5-year-old son said "I love you forever" to me, and I responded in kind. He was content with it for a few moments, but then grew serious and told me this: "But you can't live forever. Someday you'll turn to dust and blow away in the wind."
HereForKarma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:19:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my mother was pregnant with my sister, whom she didn't know was going to be a girl at this point, I (about 5 years old) told her that "she should be named Sally." Normal, until my sister was born exactly 100 years apart from my great grandmother, named Sally, who I had never known existed. A weird coincidence.
HereForKarma ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Common name, not creepy, you'd probably known or seen someone or something named Sally in real life or on TV.
NSRedditor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:03:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friends little girl came running up to me one day and hugged my leg and slammed her head into my groin... which was awkward. I just reached down and ruffled her hair, at which point she turned to her parents and said....
"Tommy touched me"
If they weren't stood there at the time, I'd be in jail now.
HarleyQ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:04:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in highschool I was baby sitting my niece 2 and my nephew 7. My niece had been acting horribly that day so I spanked her and sat her on the couch so I could finish cleaning. As I walk back to the kitchen her brother goes "Don't you spank my sister!" I made some comment about making him sit on the couch too if he didn't calm down.
Well a few minutes later I'm standing on the other side of the kitchen bar washing the dishes and he goes "HarleyQ, do you know why I yell at you." in the most calm voice he possibly could have. So I was like "No Seth, why do you yell at me." in the same tone he responds "I yell at you because I love you HarleyQ." I mumbled "huh, and that's why you'll beat your wife some day Seth.." and just told him ok.
geewhizwow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:04:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son was about 3 and came into the house with muddy shoes and made a mess. I told him when he gets older and has a house of his own I was going to come over with muddy shoes and do the same thing. He said no your not I won't let you in and I am going to send my dog after you and he is going to tear your hair out. I said alright then I guess I won't be coming to your house.
Trail__Runner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:04:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my child, but I have two cousins who are young, yet wise beyond their years. One was at a funeral for our great uncle. I take her up to the viewing and she looks inside, unaffected. All the sudden, she drops to her knees, takes her fist, and bangs on the casket while yelling, "WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!" She then turns, looks up at me, and giggles. Deranged and awesome.
edit: She was 7 at the time.
priss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:05:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter used to sleepwalk when she was 3-5 years old. She would come into my room regularly, and stand crying by my bed until I took her back to her room. One night, as I was tucking her back in, I told her that we all need our sleep and she really needed to work on staying asleep in her own bed. She looked right at me and said "Mommy! I AM asleep!". Creepy as fuck.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:05:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5 year old son said he wanted to cut his own head off.
HereForKarma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, did he do it?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, but I offered to give him some super glue so it would look like he ripped his own head off.
HereForKarma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:21:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Huh
FunkySmurf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:06:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well when my little brother was younger and I had started school, he had no one to play with so he would just sit in his closet for hours without the light on. One day my dad asked him what he was doing, because he had overheard my little brother talking to something and my brother replied "I'm talking to my shadow friends, they live in the walls. They want to meet you daddy." After that my dad put a lock on my brother's closet door so he couldnt talk to his "friends" anymore.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:07:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old told me this past Father's Day, "I'll slap you on Father's Day." Not really disturbing, and was probably deserved with my constant nagging, but was funny nonetheless.
HereForKarma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Slapsgiving!
imthethimble ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:07:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't have a kid, but my little cousin once took me into my grandmas room while I was babysitting him. He pulled a calendar out of a hidden spot behind the bed that was just photos of naked men. Then he started flipping through the calendar going "Look at the penises with me, that one is HUGE." He's now in High School, on the football team. I'm saving this story for the perfect moment. (Note: It was creepy that he somehow managed to find the calendar, and then wanted to sit around and talk about the size of the penises with me. He was about eight at the time I think.)
Sneak4000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:09:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little, I remembered going to see the show "Cats." I asked my grandma about the time we went together and she said we never did.
I still vividly remember that play.
OneTrickSquirrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:12:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, nor does this have anything to do with my parents, but I was a kid when it happened, so whatever.
When I was about 9 years old or so, one of my friends and I were out in the yard in the evening. I was looking the other way when my friend suddenly got really scared and said that a guy appeared out of nowhere in my neighbor's driveway, snarled, and then vanished. He described the man to me, and I thought he was crazy. Later that night, though, I looked out the window and saw a guy who exactly matched my friend's description walking down the street past my house. It was really late at night, too, at a time where no one ever goes out for a walk. My friend and I didn't play outside for months after that.
kneel23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:12:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Daddy? I hope mommy and grandmom/grandpop die so I can live with you forever
TheRobberDotCom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:13:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, when I was about 3 or four, I didn't want to put my shoes on to go to to kindergarten because they were 'stuffed.'
Having patiently listened to my mother explain that that was not a nice word to use, I allegedly replied, "No, mummy, I said scuffed."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:14:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"We we're just wrestling."
ಠ_ಠ
MarcelusWallace ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:16:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is what my parents told me. When I was about 2 or 3 my parents noticed that my eyes would roll up into my head randomly. They took my to the doctor but nothing was wrong with me. A couple days later I stop doing it. We went on a trip to my grandmother's condo in Florida. Once we got there I started doing it again and my parents were really creeped out. One night my dad walks into the living room where I had been playing with my toys and I was just sitting there alone with my eyes rolled up in my head making a noise with my throat similar to the kid from The Grudge. He says hes never been more scared from a child before in his life.
Hipster_Harry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:19:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but one day I was watching my niece of about 4 years in her mother's home. It was just us, and we were looking at old family pictures. We came across one of my deceased grandma, and as she stared at it, she says, plainly and simply, "Hey, that's your grandma! She's funny."
There was no way in hell she knew who the lady in the picture was. I knew for a fact she had never seen a picture of her before.
PyloUK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was a tiddler, about three, we were taking him to my dad's house. As we were pulling into the street he seemed to realize he was somewhere familiar so I asked "Where are we?" and he smiled and said "Trish's house!"
My mum's name was Patricia but the only person who called her Trish was my dad as a pet name and as far as I know he hadn't spoken the name since she died ten years before my son was born...
Twiggy-Teh-Spazz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:20:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My older sister was a very creepy baby.
One day, we were going on a family outing (I was 4, she was 6)so we went outside and were about go down the cement stairs leading to our driveway, I had my hands in my pockets, because it was cold outside. My sister pushed me down the cement stairs, and when questioned about it later, she simply said "I don't want her in the family any more." but then again... when I ask her now, she says the same thing. -.-
zbk12000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:21:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son says to me on a daily basis "I hate you, poopie."
emaninspace ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of mine always felt that she would have two children. She also often had a dream of encountering two opossums hanging upside down. When her daughter was two/three she randomly said one day, "Mommy, I am the opossum from your dream."
Alexa1234567890 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents told me that one day they walked into the living room to see my 4-year old brother sitting on the ground in front of the tv, holding his foot and punching it. When asked why he was doing it, he slowly turned his head towards them to reveal an creepy angry face and said, "Because they're LYING to me." He then turned back to his foot slowly and continued assaulting his poor foot.
AliJayBey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son (3): "Daddy, I'm dead!" (playing "Get the Invisible Bad Guys") Me: "I guess I have to dig a hole out back." Him: "Noooo...you have to dig a hole out front!"
WTF? My three-year-old can counteract my own gallows humor? I'm calling cool on it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:24:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me when I was young, around 7 years old, I'd hear noises in my room and that I would try and communicate with them. One time she heard me say "If you're a demon, don't hurt me. Let's be friends. But please don't scare me." and I went back to sleep.
tenaciousxtiff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:24:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's nephew was playing and stopped to look down the hallway. He stared and eventually said hi and then resumed playing.
Obviously no one was there. He is only two.
My nephew did a similar thing, saying he was talking to ghosts but my sister has no idea where he even learned about ghosts. He's 3
dougiedugdug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:25:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my little brother used to have an imaginary friend he called "bobby." we all thought it was funny. one afternoon, i had to babysit him and we were on the top floor of my dad's creepy house. my brother was around 3 years old if i remember right. i was on the computer and he looks at me and asks, "who's that man standing behind you?" and i said "w..what?" and he repeated the question and pointed behind the computer chair i was sitting in. i said time to go downstairs and play something outside.
LustLacker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:25:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My ex left me and I was fired within a 24 hour period. She left me the debt, the house, the kids, and away she went. I thought the kids were taking it well, until I uploaded pictures from the digital camera onto our desktop.
My 6 year old daughter took a doll, one of those battery operated real appearance, cries for food and a diaper change dolls, took this doll mom had got her, and painted and magic marker'd bruises and cuts and wounds all over it...she then took this (incredibly realistically looking mutilated) doll and took photos of it...under water in the bathtub...behind the tire of a car...with her foot on the doll's throat...and then, finally, in the trashcan...
I flipped my shit...regained composure, and asked her what the photos were about...she said, "I was angry." I tucked her in to bed that night, and noticed the family photo was missing from her dresser...found that weeks later while cleaning her room...it was her, mom, and me...but my face had been scratched out...
!!!
sterlingrose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:43 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry, that's just terribly sad. I hope you were able to get her some help.
what_thedouche ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:26:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Story from when I was a child. I lived in Bulgaria at the time. My grandparents came to visit from Russia. I couldn't understand what they were saying (they did't speak bulgarian), so I constantly threatened them "speak bulgarian or I will shoot you with my dad's pistol" This was when I was 4 ish.
Kittenlies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:27:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As I kid I once told my mom I liked a ring she was wearing. Then I asked if I could have it when she died.
Spokemaster_Flex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My younger sister had a pretty rough bout of strep when she was around 5, I was 9. She was running a high fever, and my mom was tending to her to make sure the fever didn't get higher, and if it did, we would go to the hospital.
It was just the three of us in the house, and my mom called me in to keep the washcloth on my sister's head while my mom made some dinner. So I sit there, and suddenly my sister rolls her head towards me, opens her eyes, then uses her hand to open one of her eyes really wide, and says "You gotta keep your eeeyyyeee open."
Obviously, I was utterly freaked out and ran to my mom crying. And of course, my sister has no recollection of it. To this day, it's still the creepiest thing that has ever happened to me.
hitsugaaara ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm Spartacus"
ekans606830 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but a child who I had as a camper when I worked at a summer camp. This kid was a five year old boy who the senior staff of the camp knew had some issues, so they stuck me, the 18 year old counselor, as his personal counselor to make sure he was okay.
Keep in mind that this is not a special needs camp, but a normal camp, where parents for some reason think it is okay to send their special needs kids. At first I didn't mind, but as the summer went on it became more and more apparent that this kid had serious issues. He, on numerous occasions, threatened to kill me and the rest of his family, and often described how he would do it. Most of the methods were outlandish, one that i remember in particular was that he would shoot us all with cannons.
He also was very abusive to the other children; He pushed them into walls and hit them, but the worst incident was one day, he and some other kids were playing with play-doh, and he took one of those plastic knives that are used to shape the play-doh and started trying to saw off another five year-old's head.
TL;DR - 5 year old kid describes how he will kill me and his family, attempts to decapitate another camper.
Laius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:30:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have the right to go first
Cameo985 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:30:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about three my mom and aunt were talking on the couch and I was sitting on the floor watching t.v. I am told I turned to them and said, "George is dead." My mom asked me who George was and I told her he was my dad. It turns out he wasn't dead, but he was my dad and I didn't meet him until I was 17.
She claims to have never talked about George in front of me.
awcharles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:30:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a small derp I informed my parents "I want to die, mommy!"
They wanted to haul me off to a shrink but I had to tell them that it was only so I could "get it over with."
Fuck Logic.
Youngone2k9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:30:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
With all the children who claim they see people when they should be sleeping, it may be lucid sleeping It doesnt explain much of how they know certain things about dead family though, but its a hunch.
gratefulhound ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:31:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nephew's friend who is a little 7 year old girl says to me one day at a birthday party "I want a puppy. A dead one." she says other creepy things but this stands out.
Le_Pedobearrr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:32:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was at my friends house and his 4 year old daughter came up to me and told me her friend had no hands and that her mother had eaten them.
SirOinksalot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:33:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom likes to tell the story of the two of us leaving a hospital. While walking through the parking lot I say to her "I wonder what a human heart tastes like."
For some reason I remember this happening even though I couldn't have been older than 5. The thought was inspired by a bronze sculpture in front of the elevators of a surgeon's hand holding a heart.
unrealious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:33:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When one of my daughters was about 8 years old she wanted to play basket ball in the driveway. She was sitting in the family station wagon and said "Hey what's that thing dad does so he can push the car out of the way" (that would be shifting to neutral). Fortunately she didn't have the keys.
MedSchoolHopeful ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:33:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've noticed a lot of stories in this thread that have to do with children mentioning times when they were old. I can vividly remember countless times when my sister was younger that she used to tell us stories of "back when she was older." This line eventually grew to be a running joke among members of my family, however after reading this thread those memories immensely become pretty creepy. I can't recall any of the stories or even discern any of them being memorable, but the thought that my parents might have been having us just laugh off the creepiness makes it almost more terrifying. After all, what is more terrifying than the unknown?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:34:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Brother said this to my mom during winter (he's currently 5 but in this story he's 3) They were hiking in the woods in our backyard when my brother laid down and made a snow angel. He's never done this before or talked about it. See, my mom's mother died before I or he was born, but I've seen pictures of her. She had my moms blonde hair and the two looked very alike. My mom asks him where he learned it. He replies "The other mom showed me how when I was sleeping, she had yellow hair like you."
TL;DR My dead grandma supposedly teaches my brother how to make a snow angel in his dreams
Raakuth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I constantly get told this story by my parents so I thought I'd share it here.
When I was 5 I used to have very vivid nightmares and I used to not be able to sleep for another 2 or 3 hours after waking up because practically everything in the room began to scare me (everything from my toys to the colour of the carpet). One night I was awoke after having one of these nightmares and my parents were woken up by me crying. By the time my parents had got out of their room they saw me at the top of the stairs (no longer crying) looking down towards the front door, they asked me what I was looking at and I said "The lady at the door". My parents then opened the door and began to look around for this 'lady'. They didn't find anything and when they returned I had fell asleep at the top of the stairs. I never had another one of those vivid nightmares again after that night for some reason.
lillian0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Most of the weird occurrences seem to be happening when a child is around 2 or 3, would there be a particular reason for that?
thebabes2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:38:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While at the dinner table with our two kids (then 4 and 2) there was a noise outside. Trying to get them riled up a bit my husband asks, "What was that??" My daughter (4) says, "It's just a ghost." I asked her what ghost and she tells me, "The one from my room. The little boy."
Ummm, huh? I was a bit freaked to tuck her in after that! We lived in a house built in the 20s at the time and later found out at least one person died there, so maybe there was something to it. ;)
Highfive_Machine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:38:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One morning my niece was riding her tricycle in circles in the living room (already a little creepy) and told me the monster in her closet was at work and, "Be back soooon." Still creeps me out thinking about it. Something about her tone when she said soon.
x86_1001010 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:38:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day I explained the rain to my 2 year old daughter. The next night she stood by her window saying "They're coming! DADDY! They're coming!!" I would ask her who and just get the reply of "I don't know". I asked her where they were coming from and got "The sky." Holy mother of god, pack your things we're leaving!!
laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:44 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Raindrops? That would make sense.
x86_1001010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:54 on July 5, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I eventually figured out she was talking about the rain. Just took a while to realize it. That went on for most of the night until it did start to actually rain. Now I think she can predict the weather.
udntsay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm an aunt not a mother BUT there was one time I was taking a shower and my mom was taking care of my nephew. Hes only 3. But he walks into the bathroom and says he has to use the bathroom, but then he starts trying to see me in the shower. I tell him to stop and he starts getting determined. I yell for my mom and I hear him try to lie about it... and then he proceeds to say that he see's mommy and daddy in the shower together all the time.... wtf...
iahaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousins 3-4 year old told her "that things will be different when your dead". Total straight face and everything. She's an angel now but that child was the devil for a few years
TheJanks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Freaky creepy TLDR: So what does an erection feel like ?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was 3 he was taking a nap in his room. I work from home and while I was working he creeped into my office with me hearing him. My back was to the door. I turn around just in time to see him raise his plastic baseball bat in a swinging motion getting ready to hit me. I grabbed the bat swatted him with it and asked what he was doing. He blinked a few times and turned around and walked away. I didn't sleep very well the next couple of nights. Kids are creepy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:41:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Edit: without me hearing him.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:52:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's just fucked up, if he actually was meaning to hurt you, it could be copying something he saw on TV though.
mymindisgoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:41:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when i was maybe around 7 - 9 years old, i remember i told my mother once, "maybe i'm so afraid of needles because in a previous life i was a heroin addict." and then i ended up using pain killers. and now I've been clean a little over a week.
JaneReaction ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:42:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I work at a daycare, and there is a four year old boy who was playing with a toy saw. Later, I heard one of the girls yelling he's trying to get my baby (doll) and I see him trying to take it from her. I go over and ask him why he wants the baby and he says so he can kill it. My only explanation is that at the age of 4 this boy has played many video games involving killing and has seen movies such as Chuckie and other R rated movies and they have absolutely no effect on him, meaning they don't even scare him.
dawkins_girl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:04:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
.... Or he's a boy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:26:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As a dude I'll back this one up.
I wasn't allowed to play violent video games or watch violent movies (not even Power Rangers) and I still said stuff like this with my friends. A co-worker of mine remarked a few days ago that she's amazed at how little boys just seem to obsessed with guns and such.
utunga ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:46:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My son once said "Did I die?" with his eyes welling up with tears. It was actually quite cute but a bit heart wrenching to see his face - he was truly worried it might be true.
Full context:
Me: You know your great grandfather, was a real calligrapher, he had beautiful writing..
N (four): Do you mean B?
Me: You too, N, B's Great Granddad is also your Great Grandad
B (six): He's dead now
N: Did I die? (eye's welling up with tears) .. Such a face to see!
Me: No, No N, you didn't die...
whittitties ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:51:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid I was friends with this big family of Christian people down the street. Think like the Duggars on TV, all the girls only wore skirts and never cut their hair, mom and dad always having more kids etc. One of the girls had a birthday party so my mom took me to the toy dept. and let me pick out a gift. I picked out this mystery stuffed animal thing, it was kinda like a bear but not quite. It was freaking sweet each of its hand and feet did different things (One was a mirror, one played a song, etc) and the tail was a hairbrush. I gave it to her at the party and she seemed to like it. A couple days later the mom came down to our house with her daughters (which was weird they NEVER LEFT THEIR YARD) and asked to see my mom. They brought back the toy because it was a demon. It would dance around Vicky (the girl i gave it to) at night and speak in tongues and draw symbols in the air. It also tried to rip out her hair with the tail. My mom let me keep it and I was happy because I thought it was cool as hell but I started having weird nightmares about it, Im it was because I heard what they said but when I was a kid, I knew it was a demon like they said and I got acid out of the garage and melted that sucker in the backyard on top of a big rock.
My-taken_username ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:46:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
am i the only one who pulled out a knife after reading this story
whittitties ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
to fight off the cuddly hairbrush demon?
Sama3l ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:53:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I actually remember when I was 5-6I had recurring, vivid dreams of being enslaved. Some really creepy, dark shit involving forced labor, whips, and beatings. Really frightening. I also remember them getting to the point that I thought they could have been memories and not dreams as they were so strong.
One morning before breakfast when my parents were up I asked if we had ever been enslaved or beaten(and probably mentioned the recurring dreams). I don't remember their answer or making a big deal out of it but now that I think if it, I should probably ask them if they remember this, as I imagine it would sound pretty creepy if your 5 yr old son asks you if he's been beaten/enslaved before.
Of course, while creepy. I did not mention that, among other things, they involved Team Rocked so I doubt it was a past life or anything. Just strange in hindsight.
the_ginger_hunter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:54:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when my mom was pregnant with me, but before she knew, my older brother, 3, told her, him-"I'm going to have a little brother" mom-"no you're not, why do you say that?" him- "yes I am, grandpa told me"
our grandfather died a month before my brother was born
planetmatt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The creepiest part of this story is that your Grandfather liked to watch his daughter/son have sex.
Arluza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:55:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Here is mine. I was probably 3 or 4. I have never before or since this story took place sleepwalked. I had a dream than a man on fire was at the foot of my bed. He did not seem to notice me until I looked into his hollow eyes. He then turned into a tornado and chased me through my house. I tried to wake my parents, but instead of the smart thing where I go to the bedroom, I go into the bathroom in the hallway. It loses sight of me until I taunt it. I run from the bathroom, into the living room, and hide behind the couch. I barely fit behind there. He sees me, and I run into the dining room, where a cardboard cutout of my mom was sitting, feeding a bottle to my sister. I tried to make her do something, but she didn't respond (Cardboard.) I then hid between two couches, and watch Cardboard mom go flying away in the tornado. I woke up between those couches. And when I went back to my room, there was a burned picture of a tornado, which I couldn't have had because we didn't have any weather photos EVER.
dawkins_girl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:00:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Therefore, ghosts are real.
Arluza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think so. This event happened when I was 3 or 4, and I'm 20 now. I think I am probably mis-remembering parts. I ended up finding a picture of the burning man online a year back. It was an enemy in the TMNT game for the NES. I never could beat that fire looking man.
derpbear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Perfect use of LOS and Taunt cooldowns.
HatrackJack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:57:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought of another one. My Mum told me that when I was little, like 3 or 4, I would to cry for ages, really intensely, and when she asked me what was wrong I'd tell her I wanted to go and be with Aunty Katrina. This happened several times. Katrina was Mum's step-sister who died in a car crash at 16. I wasn't born until around 7 years after it happened.
The66Ripper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:57:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
From when I was 3 to when I was 7 my parents told me that a man named Herman was waiting outside for me to assure that I didn't leave the house at any time without them. They said that he wouldn't be there if they were there, and ended up having a bit of fun with me. The whole time I had believed the whole thing. I saw Herman many times and thought I had a conversation with him outside of the window a few times. When I was 6, on Christmas morning a family friend (that I had never met) who had a striking resemblance to Herman came in the open front door and I was so terrified. I ran into my parents' room and shouted "Herman's here! He's going to kill me!" They tried to calm me down and tell me that he wasn't real, but their words didn't matter to my entirely frightened childish mind. I told them that I had talked to Herman a bunch of times and that he told me that he was going to kill me. They realized that they had really fucked with me and slowly started getting me therapy and removing the character of Herman from my head.
I ended up repressing those memories until my parents brought it up in a joking manner at christmas last year. I was 18 and I was more terrified for my life after remembering Herman than I was when looking down the barrel of a loaded gun while being targeted by gang members for a drive-by. Thankfully they backed out before shooting.
TL:DR - My parents made a character up named Herman, and his purpose in their eyes was to make sure that I didn't leave the house. They told me Herman was coming for me to scare me from leaving. One christmas I saw a guy that looked like him and freaked them out by revealing the many conversations that I had with the entirely fictional Herman. I repressed these memories until my parents brought it up last year at christmas. I was more scared for my life than I had ever been when the memories came back, beating out almost being shot in a drive-by.
obsidianmystic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:59:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'll put a pillow over your face until you stop kicking."
-4 year old
lawnknome52 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:01:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I use to have raging night terrors when I was about 8-10. One night I woke up, went to the garage, got a hammer, and made my way out the front door. I was walking to the local park that myself and my mom lived next to at the time. Luckily our house had an alarm that activated after I opened the front door. I made it out to our driveway in just my boxers and a hammer before my mom came running out to stop me. She asked "Honey what are you doing?!", and I replied "They have me trapped in a cage at the park, I have to go free myself." She pulled me back inside before I could make my valiant rescue attempt. Night terrors are horrible experiences at the time, but they make hilarious/disturbing stories to tell years later!
jerkface3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:07:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you are Dr. Who
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:01:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:03:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting two of my younger cousins, I'm the oldest grandson by a considerable margin on either side of my family. I was babysitting a boy of about 9, and a girl of about 5. The girl wanted permission to eat a bunch of raw cookie dough, I told her no and she promptly replied "Well, I'm going to go kill myself then." I scolded her, and said I didn't want to hear her talk like that ever again. I asked her brother if she ever talked like that before, shortly thereafter. He said "Everyone talks like that."
Sentence55 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:04:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wanted to read something before getting some sleep so i came here.
Fucked up my plans.
Not going to bed anytime soon now...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:04:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but when I was around ten my friend's 5 year old sister came up behind me while we were playing video games and started humping my neck violently.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I wouldn't say this is "creepy" but it's slightly shocking coming from the mouth of a 5 year old: My son has an issue with aggression. He gets upset very easily. The therapist taught him breathing techniques to try and keep him calm when he gets mad. One of them was called "gentle puppy breaths." One day he was really ticked off about something (who knows what) and I was telling him that he needed to chill out and to remember his "gentle puppy breaths." He then yells @ me "FUCK THAT GENTLE PUPPY!!!" I had to excuse myself for a moment cause I was Lol'ing so hard. I told his therapist about it... she didnt seem to find it as amusing as I did. (FYI: he's 8 now. Still a brat but a lot better when it comes to aggression, lol)
Edit: Wow, now that I actually read the comments in this thread, I realize that this is NOTHING compared to some of ya'll fucked up stories! -shudders- Disregard this, lol
CipherSeed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:12:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
After accidently biting my lip, I walked up to my mom and told her "I like the taste of blood" as my smile revealed smears of blood in my mouth.
I was fond of nibbling on metal, so the flavor made me smile at the time.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:13:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I constantly ask my youngest where he left his time machine, one day he just came up to me and said, "they came back and took it, we're not allowed to use it anymore".
nobody76 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:14:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was 3 and she carried her baby doll upstairs to her room. Just before I go to check on her, a box with something in it comes flying down the stairs and lands at my feet. As I look up, she's standing there with this completely serious look and simply states "Baby was bad, Momma..I had to punish her. " She then calmly turns around and walks away. Same child busted her older brother in the face with a big metal dump truck "cuz he looked at me funny. "
aidsrainbow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:16:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus fuck.
raegunXD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:22:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think you should take her to a child psychologist...
nobody76 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:28:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She's 14 now, in a gifted school and speaks 3 languages. You would never think it was the same child, although I worry for anyone who pisses her off when she grows up.
CrackheadWithaCold ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:14:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was having a night terror, he looked me dead in the eye and said "THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU." Right after that, he woke up. Nearly shit myself.
raegunXD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I would urinate myself.
sblancha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 5 I was dissing in my dads truck at night and I saw a man walking on the side of the road. Me:daddy whos that? Dad: idk me: oh....run him over
saintutzman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 12 years old, my little sister was 5 years old. One night, she wanted to sleep on our downstairs couch. Around 3am, I awoke to her screaming. So I went and picked her up, and proceeded to take her upstairs to mom and dad's room. On our way up the first five stairs she was sobbing. But once we got on the landing by the front door and turned to go upstairs, she freaked. She pointed at the top of the stairs and screamed. Then she buried her head in my chest, crying vehemently. I got scared. But I went up, not seeing anybody, whispering "hello? anybody there?" I got to the top and turned down the hallway, when she looked up over my shoulder, and screamed again, saying "He's coming!" I quickly turned her over to mom and dad. I didnt see anything...but using the stairs at night time was never the same for me.
Autodidactic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:18:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
About 10 years ago, my kid was about 4 and playing Ocarina of Time and from the living room we hear "Mom! The Deku Tree wants me to come in his mouth!"
His mother and I just looked at each other and let it pass without comment. One of the few times we were both speechless.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:22:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
/r/NoSleep for all your scary story needs!
NickDav14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:24:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL not to freak out if my future child says he's seeing ghosts.
m3lodym4ker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I apparently really freaked my brother out once when I was about 9 years old. My brother came home from work around midnight (he was 16, working closing shift at a fast food joint). I had fallen asleep on the living room floor watching a movie, and he sat in the chair and started flipping through the channels. A few minutes later, I pushed myself up on my hands, looked him in the eye, and said, "Be afraid. Be very afraid." Then he says I started laughing and I just slumped back to the floor and continued to sleep.
I should note that I have been a sleep talker and walker my entire life. Even now, at 31, I often get out of bed in the middle of the night, stand over my fiancee, and point at him, saying repeatedly, "Spiderspiderspiderspiderspider."
asdfqwertzxcv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but I was at my friend's house with her then almost 2 year old sister asleep upstairs in the cot. We were getting something to eat and we just heard the most blood-curdling scream you could imagine coming from upstairs followed by a thump. Thinking she's tried to get out of the cot and fallen, we ran upstairs to find her sat in the cot staring up at the wall, bawling her absolute eyes out. We tried to take her out but she began to kick and flail and kept pointing up at the wall and burrowing her head in her hands. Then she suddenly went completely silent. No crying, no screaming, no shouting. But still staring at the same fucking wall for about 5 minutes like she was hypnotised. We quickly phoned my friends mum and told her about it, she said it keeps happening from time to time but this was the first time it's ever happened during the day. I'm still scared to go anywhere near the girl.
shamrock1088 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was around 5 I saw my grandfather at the foot of my bed one night. We talked and the next morning I told my mom that he had visited me. Later that day we got a call saying he had died...
spookykels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a child and I was taken to my great grandmother's house for the first time, I looked at her and called her "Bucka". No one had ever called her that besides her father. No one even knew he had called her that. I was only around three years old. I wasn't told this story until I was much older. I wonder how I knew that.
UnflinchingCube ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:28:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is creepy and cute at the same time. My son has cortical blindness (Also known as CVI) and when he was very young had virtually no vision at all. We could have juggled fire batons in front of him and he'd not see it. When he was in his swing he would look directly AT something near the ceiling and CRACK THE FUCK UP. And it was always up near the ceiling and it was always him looking intently. Normally when we held him his eyes were kind of unfocused, but not when he was looking at whatever this was. We'd even lean over him and wave our hands and nothing, he would still keep looking up at whatever on the ceiling and laugh his fool head off.
We figured whatever it was was friendly and liked to make babies laugh. Good thing it didn't want to murder us.
MrJango ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:28:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Hello friends. I have blood on me." - My 4 year old daughter
Cornwalace ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:29:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know this thread is about how parents creepiest moments, but, this is something that I want to share.
It was about 3am. My father was working and it was just me and my mother (in separate ends of the house). In my dream, something was screaming, but, while dozing in and out, I still heard screaming. When my brain registered this as my mother screaming, my brain started thinking that my poor mother was getting raped. We didn't have any guns, so, I got the closest thing to it. A lysol can, and a metal hanger.
I bang on the door, freak out my mother, then open up the door thinking "I'm going to rape this guy with a hanger while they can't see cuz of lysol in their eyes, then kill the fucker, that's fucking with my mother."
While thinking that, she wakes up, and starts cracking up. I guess I must have looked really weird having a death grip on a hanger with lysol on the other hand, all the while, being in my underwear.
Apparently, my family is stricken with whatever "disease" that causes Night Terror's. I've freaked my wife out, and have also had to wake up my brother two or three times in his life so far.
spsiamese ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:35:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I thought of another creepy kid story. A few years ago before my fiance moved into the house with me, he had a dog that had gotten sick and died. This dog had been with him through a previous relationship with someone who had kids. Well, when the dog died he got a phone call from his ex the next day saying her son got up in the middle of the night talking to someone, and when she went to check on him he had moved over in his bed like there was someone else with him. In the morning she asked him about it and he said that J (the dog) had come to sleep with him.
They live half way across the country and had not been told about it yet. Her daughter also told her she had a dream that same night that J had come to play with her.
fuzzyyoji ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:36:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"So...we don't have to do what the machines tell us to do?"
-we were watching Sara Connor Chronicles
Seamonkeyknifefight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:43:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Got a pic from my 5 year old from school where he's showing me all the jedis he drew and he says, see all the blood everywhere? This because they forgot it in the movie! I need to find d this because it's mostly like a crazy person just drew circles with red crayon for 45 minutes
sweetwallawalla ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:44:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is anyone else thinking, "Why the fuck do all these two year old children have such excellent communication skills?!?!?" It's creepin' me out.
Anyways, my sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia last year. She is 13. She had been having some severe breakdowns in random places like the mall and restaurants because she was positive people were staring at her and saying she was ugly and had a big head. One night, she came running out of her bedroom holding her ears and crying. When everyone went to see what was wrong, she kept trying to explain it but couldn't and she kept speaking louder and louder. Eventually she said "He keeps telling me to choke myself and..." and she turns around and yells at the end of the hallway "just leave me alone. Go away and leave me alone." She has been put on medication to stop voices/hallucinations/paranoia and such, but it was a rough few months.
tenkei ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:51:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Recently my 2 1/2 year old niece has started seeing and talking to the shadow people who live in her bedroom. She is unclear about how many there are, but she says there are two small ones who play with her and her twin brother (he says he sees them too, but doesn't talk as much as his sister) and at least 1 big one. Sometimes they scare her and her brother. My sister said the other day she heard my niece talking to herself in the hall way. It sounded like she was having a heated conversation with somebody, but she could not make out what she was saying until my niece yelled "NO! I want mommy to carry me!".
AsIveSaidBefore ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:51:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Playing Super Mario Brothers with my four-year-old brother. I die, and he cracks up laughing. I ask him why he's laughing, "I like it when you die. It's funny and it makes me touch my pee-pee".
FSUJUSTINOLES ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:53:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SIAP but this story is pretty interesting. Who knows what's true or false about it but it's definitely make you think
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1209795/Reincarnated-Our-son-World-War-II-pilot-come-life.html
GbyeGirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:56:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to say really awful things to my dad. Like, "I hope they turn your penis inside out and make you a girl" and also, "I hope they take you to a deserted island, take off all your clothes, and let all the ants crawl in your nose". I was about three, and I don't know who "they" were, or why I wanted them to do stuff to my dad. He was always more lenient with me than my sisters.
bodycount19 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:56:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was laying on my bed and my 4 year old son started tapping my wrist, when I asked him what he was doing he said "I'm nailing you to the cross"
flopperstein ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:57:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I lived in a really old home growing up. You know the kind with the creaky floorboards and what not. When I was 4-5 I woke up in the middle of the night and stood in the middle of the room. When my mom walked by she asked what I was doing. I said " I'm looking at a rope". After we moved out of that house I found out that before we lived there someone had hung themselves In my room. I was really glad I didn't live there any more.
roly0003 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:58:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
after reading this thead, i'm going find pictures of puppies before i go to bed. puppies will save me right?
hodgi5924 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:59:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Daughter: "Mom, can we get a cat?"
Me: "No honey, your dad is allergic." ... Daughter ponders answer... Daughter: "When Dad dies can we get a cat?"
MrGordonFreemanJr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mom?
Shikra ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:59:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was four or five, on the way to the park, I was reminding him that he should never leave the park with a stranger.
"Never go with a stranger," he agreed. Then he added, "Unless they're nice."
Took a few years off my life right there, I tell ya.
crashking ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother when we were having a family meal in a pub (I was 8 he was 6) he went to the toilet and took a long time in there and I remember my parents feeling a little cautious about the time it took him but soon later he came back he sat down and just said calmly like it was nothing, 'After thinking about it I think condoms are camels willies.' There were just silence and we never found out what he was doing in there and what made him wonder that.
FUZiON- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Look at me! Look at how large the monster inside of me has become!"
outlier_lynn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:05:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Preteen daughter sai, "I can kill you in your sleep". Started locking the door. She is over that stage.
Meta-Shadow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:05:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My former co-workers niece(7-9) said this during a walk: "That's a nice cat...... I wonder what would happen if I killed it."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:07:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Two kids (twin sisters) I was babysitting one night stared at me, completely still, and deadly silent for ten minutes while I was cooking for them. When I asked why, one of them calmly said, "a man told me that if I stare really hard at someone for a long time they burn."
jberthume ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:07:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Daughter's first word was "murder"
CloudStrife93 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:09:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my nephew was smaller, he would always look to the corner of his room and say goodnight to 'Gamma Betty' before he went to sleep. 'Gamma Betty' is his great-grandmother on my side of the family who died nearly 15 years before he was born. He then one night told us that she watched him sleep from her rocking chair (which was now in the corner of his room), and described what she looked like and how she knitted, something she did in that same chair years ago. We were incredibly warmed and a little freaked out by the experience.
Kaytala ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:11:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not scary but still kind of inexplicable. My great grandmother was a semi famous artist in Canada and my parents have a few of her originals in their house. The one hanging in their bedroom is a lake scene and my brother and I when we were really little always used to tell our parents that our favourite part of the picture was the boat. Thing is, there is no boat in that picture. We both stopped saying it when we were about 7 years old. After awhile, my parents got genuinely curious so whenever a kid under about 7 years old came over (one of our friends or their friends kids or whatever) they would ask them what they saw in the painting. Every kid they've ever asked has said there was a boat in the picture even when no one has said anything about it. If my great grandmother were still alive, I'd totally ask her about that.
c0de2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
could you post picture please?
Kaytala ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
ummm I'll see if I can find one. I make no promises.
Edit: K so I looked online and couldn't find any (I didn't think there would be any pictures... sorry!). BUT! I shall ask my parents if they can email me a picture of it or something. If for whatever reason they cannot, you may need to wait until January and as long as I remember this, I will deliver.
Edit 2: BTW if you're interested, her name was Mildred Valley Thornton... Yes I realize I'm totally identifying myself here but wutevz
rmaclaw79 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:11:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shortly after my daughter's second birthday, we were at the table having breakfast. Out of nowhere she said, "Ken went home". I said, "you mean Grandpa Kent?" He had been at our home for her party. She said "no, Ken went home mama" I pointed to the obituary and picture of my brother Ken who had died 6 months ago and said, "this Ken?" and she said "yeah Mama, he went home". I about shit myself.
aderde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:18:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but when I was 2, I said my dad would die when I'm 18. He hasn't yet, but there's still 11 more months until I'm 19. For once in my life, I really hope I'm not psychic.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:18:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks everyone, now am to scared to take a piss.
Kunzar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:18:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not a parent, but a sibling. When I was about 12 years old, my sister was just turning 3. I woke up to someone calling my name. I was home alone with my sister since my mother had work and couldn't get the day off due to the post office requiring her to work. Anyways, it sounded like a large man yelled my name. I woke up thinking "That was strange...". Went to the kitchen to pour some cereal and my sister is sitting there with a glass full of milk talking to herself. Not sure how she got the glass, or the milk, but she was motioning towards the door and asked "Can man get me more milk please?".
Edit: Another story that I forgot about until I read more of your stories. My stepdad's father died 10 years before my sister was born. My family took a trip down to North Carolina. While we were there we kept hearing my sister talking to someone in the other room (she could barely form a sentence at this age). We had assumed its just an imaginary friend and moved on. As we were leaving, in the car ride home, my sister tells her father "Grandpa says he was happy to see you were doing well, and he wishes he could have played in Kill Devil Hills with you like he used to when you were a kid". We were baffled, because no one told her what he looked like, or that he ever went here before. We pulled out a picture of Grandpa, and she pointed at him and said "thats him!". My stepdad broke into tears. :(
inkybod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:19:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to see a 'tree-man' in the corner of my room. He was always crouching upside down kinda like spiderman. My mum says that when I first mentioned him she asked me what he did and I replied 'He's just watching. Always watching'. Freaked her out.
I had pretty much forgot about him until my early teens when the LOTR films were released (no I never read the books) I about crapped myself at the site of my tree-man who, turns out, was an Ent.
I think it was some weird repeated dream, she thinks it's some guardian angel.
TL;DR the 'always watching' tree-man from my childhood was pictured perfectly in LOTR
nepidae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:19:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you my mummy?
timpij ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:23:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I lived in an old house in San Francisco that had been subdivided into multiple small, thin and long apartments. My 2 year old daughter's bedroom was towards the front. Several times I was awoken by her crying, a few times be her screaming in terror. When I would ask her why, she would always tell me the same answer: "That ghost keeps coming into my room and telling me scary stories to make me cry." When I would ask her what kind of stories, she would look away and stop talking to me.
mtaylor102 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:23:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kids are great trolls, I remember when I was a kid I told my parents about a mouse the would come to me in the middle of the night and talk to me. I don't know how or why I made it up but I think after the first reaction of my parents I kept it going because it was fun to see their reactions.
Polygirl83 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:24:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was watching my 3 year old niece. We were at the dining room table... She was coloring and I was creating a character for a table top game. She was talking to me... And then looked over my shoulder, and said "Will you please stop bleeding like that?" " and then went back to coloring.
franticcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:05 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
at least she was polite about it
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:25:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK! I AM SCARED TO GO TO SLEEP!
mrstickball ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:29:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
(I'm the kid in the story - my parents remind me of it, but I can't remember it happening, just that they knew it did)
My brother and I are twins, and when we were younger - about 4 to 6 years old, my mom would leave the door open to the bathroom when we were in there taking a bath.
Nearly every time we were done with the bath, we would tell our parents that we saw Indians walking back and forth down our hallway. We did said it all the time to them.
Eventually, they started looking into the house that we lived in. Turned out, it (and a few others) were built on an Indian mound... No one knew about it until they researched it from what we said.
mindlessLemming ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:30:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yesterday my two year old daughter: "I have baby boobies. Daddy, I have baby boobies!" Me: "I flatly refuse to discuss your breasts for another 10 years".
f33dback ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So talking to your 12yo daughter about her supple breasts is ok?
mindlessLemming ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:22:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have ten years to decide on the answer.
KateyisKiller ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:32:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Last year my 2 year old fell out of our second story window and nearly died. The first night we brought him home from the hospital I put him in bed with me. He pointed up to a corner of the ceiling and said "angel". We are not religious and have never told him about angels.
xeridoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:33:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but no used to babysit my cousin. When she was about 2, I was babysitting her so my aunt an uncle could have a date night. My cousin had never said a word before. After putting her to bed, I go downstairs. Two minutes later, she stats crying so I go back up to her room to check on her. As soon as I turn on the light, she stops crying, looks at me and says, "They're here for you." I asked her who she meant, and she pointed to the corner across from her crib. It was pretty freaking creepy, and needless to say, I never babysat her again.
rach92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:36:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Since my mother doesn't have a reddit account I'll tell this one for her. When I was first learning to talk I couldn't quite say "fresh air". So everyday when we were supposed to go for a walk I'd ask to go out for some "fresh ears". To anyone but my own mother I'm sure it was terrifying.
catmyonlyfriend ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:36:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My family has a weird history of kids seeing my mother's mom who passed away from breast cancer. It started with me. When I was around 3 or 4 I was with my mom walking to my bedroom and I just stopped and stared. My mom asked what was wrong and I said "whose that?". My mother looked but didn't see anything. She didn't think much of it until she was showing me a family album. I pointed to a picture of just her mother and said "oh that's your mommy." Apparently I already knew who my grandma was even though she died years before I was born.
This happened again with my little cousin. He was in his room by himself laughing. His mom walked in and asked what he was doing and he said "Grandma is tickling me". She asked if it was his dad's mother (who was still alive) and he said "no, the other grandma". My aunt said she never told him about her mother because he was too young.
Most recently my youngest cousin has had similar experiences. He knew my grandma when someone showed him a picture and has said he played with her.
We were all around the same age but were living in different states. I am the only female to experience it. Shit is cray.
thealienofreddit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:36:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a senior in high schoo I was lying in bed asleep. I awake to find my sister standing next to my bed (my sister is 2 years younger than I am) her hands are behind her back. I tell her to go back to bed. (Her bedroom is right next to mine and the kitchen is right across from our bedroom) she says ok and I watch her walk into the kitchen over where the knives are kept I hear the clank as if she just put a knife back in the drawer and see her walk back into her room. Freaked me the fuck out. I didnt sleep so well the next few nights.
newgisanalien ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:11:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No worries I just shit my pants for you.
Yillpv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:48:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was once swinging slowly in a park and a girl, probably 7 years old came up to me and used some paper optical illusion to tell me about Jesus. She said that things aren't always how they appear. Freaking creepy.
scottiea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:52:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Our son told us that he was there the day my wife was born. We asked him, like, you remember us talking about it right?
He says "No, I was there with Pap and saw you being born" (Her Pap was the OB).
Agent_Dale_Cooper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:56:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was eight years old I went on camp. I'm told that during the middle of the night I started repeating over and over "Fuck off you wanker" for a solid 15 minutes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:58:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Father told me that when I was around 4-5 years of age, He woke up on the couch to see me walking toward him with a child sized rocking chair above my head chanting "Maya the Bee" "Maya the Bee"...odd.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time my friends little sister came up to me, gave me a hug and whispered: "I'm going to kill both of us." Haha...children say the darnedest things huh? looks around nervously
kalas_critic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Around six years of age and famil. friends asked how my father was, I said he was stressed about the new sluts in the car. Thankfully they figured out I'd confused struts with sluts, rather than assuming he was a modern day jack the ripper.
bobloblaw8922 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:02:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Growing up, my best friend had spine cancer that resulted in her hair loss and being unable to walk. One night(I was about 7), I dreamed that we were back in our kindergarten class together making crafts. In my dream, she could walk again and had grown back all her hair. She told me that she was better now and she didn't hurt anymore.
The next day, I asked my mom if I could go see my best friend(she lived across the street). My mom started crying and told me that she had passed away that night and I immediately started crying and told her about my dream. I am 23 now and I still remember my dream and my friend vividly.
OBESEJESUS ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:12:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think that it was your friend who came to visit you and let you know she was ok? I had a similar experience. My father's friend had died and I guess it was a few days after but I had a dream and my father's friend came to tell me that my father loved me very much. I guess at the time I wasn't really talking to my dad or whatever or was experiencing some problems with him. But that freaked me out. I mean never did have another dream like that again. Weird.
bobloblaw8922 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I absolutely think that was her way of telling me she was okay! I ended up telling her mom about my dream and she had me retell that story at the funeral. So I guess it ended up being a mass message of sorts...
slutty_virgins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:04:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was between the ages of 4 and 7 I lived in a house that was attached to a small family doctor office and used to serve as a morgue where thy prepped bodies for funerals. My mom says that I used to have an imaginary friend named Kevin (the creepiest ghost name ever) and we would talk and play knee hockey together. My mom, sister, and stepdad all have told me that I said that Kevin told me he killed his parents with a shotgun when he was a kid. I never remember him though.
Fyrus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:09:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Marking this thread as further reasons for why not to have children.
Also, why do all your kids see ghosts? The fuck is wrong with you kids.
somebob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:10:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5 year old son recently stated that he was going to "fart into the cat's butt until it blew up" and smiled and skipped away, cramming his face with cheeto's. I was speechless.
r_maximus09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:10:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Gun shoot Barbra" That was my first sentence I had ever said and it was when I was mad at the baby sitter.
yellowtoadmaster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:18:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting my currently 6 year old cousin about a year ago and I had put his little sister to bed and about a half hour after I heard her talking which she couldn't do at the time. I told Seth (6 y/o) to be quiet because I heard noises from Emily's room and he said "Don't worry, she's just talking to the ghosts."
ihasthegame ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:18:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So much for sleeping tonight...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:20:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 4 , my step dad and I were out on the porch, I looked up at the stars and said "that ones name is angel, she's coming tonight. I also told my mom that the # seven was a terrible person and she shouldnt talk to it.
phridoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:47 on August 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well in fairness, 7 ate 9 so yeah, 7 does have a questionable character
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:16 on August 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Haha what a way to brighten up my blue day! I've learned since then that I have synesthesia!
VInethrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:21:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids, and I'm too young to have them, anyway, but when I lived on Westwood Avenue, I would always see a dark shape that looked like the guy on the neighborhood watch signs. He would wander around in my room and mess with my toy cars. I asked him to stop, and he did. Occasionally, I would see him when I was eating at dinner, and I asked my parents who he was. I think it freaked them out. I still have a dark shape that darts around my room.
Spit_on_me ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:22:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I dated a guy who had a 3 year old daughter. The house he lived in was fairly new in a cookie cutter development, but it creeped me out for some reason. (The house was in a cul de sac and he had lived there for 6 years and had had 12 new next door neighbors during that time)
Anyway, he had a baby monitor in her room and most nights after we put her to bed we would hear her laughing and talking and playing for about an hour. One night she came downstairs crying and when we asked what was wrong she told us that the little girl upstairs wouldn't play with her.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had to read a few of these to make sure I wasn't crazy and that lots of kids experience weird shit.
My daughter was too young to talk, but was starting to kinda walk and toddle around the house. She learned to blow kisses without ever seeing someone do it (we didn't let her watch tv at that age, at all since we didn't, and we have no family or friends in the city we live in so my wife stayed home full-time with her). We would often catch her blowing kisses up towards a specific corner in her room above her bed.
As a fairly young baby she would also often look at wide open spaces in her room, and seem surprised, while you could see her eyes tracking things like she could see something.
Many instances of "what the fuck? can she read my mind?!" came up between 2 and 3 years old. Where late at night when I was putting her to bed and just thinking about my day at work/classes or things that happened to me, and she would break the silence by asking a question related to what I was thinking about. Things like "is _____ your friend?", and "why don't your friends where hats at school like you do?".
But I think a lot of it can be attributed to kids dreaming and having crazy imaginations.. sometimes it just lines up. My daughter has been seething mad at me or my wife for things that happened in her dreams that she couldn't distinguish from real life.
When I was a kid I remember having very vidid, realistic dreams of seeing people near my bed or floating above me at night. I remember explaining one time that I saw a clown and he just sat there reading a newspaper near my bed. The reason I remember that one is because when I told my mom she took it very seriously, as opposed to the others, and because they still talk about it 20 years later at family gatherings if they think I can't hear them.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:49 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day, my mother asked me if I wanted a little brother or sister. I told her that if I had a little sibling I'd throw it out the window.
kaykay5802 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:27:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I should not have read this thread at night. :|
jessicaesaurus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:27:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sister was about two at the time this happened and I was thirteen. I lived an hour away at my mom's house and I would come up for the weekend sometimes. It was Sunday evening and I was getting ready to go back home, so I said goodbye to Taylor and started to walk out the door. Then, this adorable little girl with the most adorable voice, says "YOU WILL NOT GO. YOU MUST STAY HERE FOREVER." Now it is understandable that she missed me when I left, but the creepy part was that when she said this, it literally sounded like some sort of demon. I don't know how she made her voice so terrifying and monstrous. She had murder in her eyes...I just kinda stared at her. Then, once again in her adorable little two year old voice, she says "'Cause you gotta come play dollies with me!" and merrily skipped away. It reminded me of a fucking horror movie with those creepy demonic children in them.
MrWilrus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently once when I was younger I slept walked into our family's living room, started going through our utensils, and when my dad woke up and ask me what I was doing, I said "I'm getting ready" or something like that.
kazetoame ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:31:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well is happened to my older brother and explains my own reluctance.
When my brother was a baby ( around one-ish or so), during a visit to Mummum's house (it's an old house in Brooklyn NY) he Fell down the stairs and to this day my dad swears he never caught him, it was my grandmother on my moms side that did. What makes this freaky is that my moms mother has been dead since August/September of 1965. She broke neck falling down the same steps my brother went down. ( note mummum is my grandmothers older sister).
As a child, whenever I visited the same house, I would never go past the kitchen ( floor plan went like this: entry hall, living room, kitchen and I don't remember past that because I never went beyond the kitchen). I was literally afraid to go beyond it. The stairs that lead to her death were just beyond the kitchen.
The shitty thing about my grandmothers death is that only May, my mom lost her father due to open heart surgery. ( he was born with a heart disease but live a very normal and fairly active life). My mom was 7, her bros were 8 and 2 and sister 4.
vanweezy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:31:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was about 5-6 weeks old, he was sleeping in the bed next to me, but started stirring, so I woke up. The lights were out, and he was cooing, so I just laid there listening. Baby sounds are sweet, and he hadn't made a lot of non-crying noises up to that point. All of a sudden, he goes "hellooooo" clear as day, in the Hannibal Lecter voice. I flipped my lamp on in a millisecond, not sure what I was expecting to see, but knowing I didn't want to be in the freaking dark anymore. He went right back to cooing, and never made that particular sound/word again.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:34:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Soaking up every damn word in here, been lurking for 4 hours. Will not leave the room til sunlight breaches through the darkness
fenwaygnome ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My younger brother once asked my parents, in regards to my newborn sister, "Can I hold her when she's dead?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, I thought I was going to enjoy this thread until I started running into the ghosts/supernatural stories. NOPE, fuck this I'm out
MakeMehASammich ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can't... Stop... Reading.. Thread.
myWittyUserName ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:38:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter is six years old and she spends one week with me then the next week with her mother. We alternate back and forth each of us having a week. My daughter was talking to me the other day telling me what would make her like my house even more than she already does. So I ask her what it is and she tells me that she would love it if her half sister at her moms house could live here instead. I smile and tell her I don't think her mother would like that. Without even thinking she says, "Not if she is dead". I had to think for a minute what the right response to that was.
AMBsFather ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:52:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Shit after reading most of these comments I thought I was in r/nosleep
Iamnotfromthisplanet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent but my boyfriend's 6 year old little brother walked up to him and said, "I'm going to cut off your nipples!"laughed then ran away.
BlueDevil5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my child but my little cousin when she was about 3 or 4. One night my Aunt had put her to sleep and was downstairs watching television when she heard a loud banging coming down the stairs. She walked to the stairs to find some children's books she had bought for my cousin about Jesus. She looked at the top of the stairs and saw my cousin standing there with a very serious look on her face. My Aunt asked, "Honey, why did you throw your books about Jesus down here?" My cousin responded, "Because Jesus tells me to kill people." That story really freaked everyone in the family out.
Much_Too_Late ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:00:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent but I do have a quick story about my friends son.
One day my friend surprised him with a teddy bear, everything went normally for a while until my friend asked her son what the teddies name was... He replied-
"Frank The Cutter"
And still to this day, when you ask him his bears name, he'll answer with that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:06:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My six-year-old niece was playing with my brother one day and was saying she was going to get his nose and throw it away (like when adults pretend to have a kid's nose). So he says "But then I wouldn't have a nose!" and without a beat she says, "it's ok. We can get you a better one at Walmart."
marchmello ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is not something my daughter said but what she did when she was 2. She woke from a nap and sat straight up and did the creepy head turn with a scary grin on her face like some possessed doll in a horror movie. I noped out of the bed.
T3v3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I know your Reddit username."
A_Buff_Hamster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One thing I learned from this thread, is that kids are fucking creepy.
sparadis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I stayed with my mom for awhile after my second was born, and it was the same house we had lived in when my sister died at 18. My daughter has always been a rather serious and quiet baby. So when I started putting her in the floor to start playing, she would stare at the corner of the living room and smile and babble. And it was always the same corner, like she was having her own private show.
My eldest, who is two, likes to talk in a lovely sounding demonic voice every now and then. It's hard to tell though if she's talking to her toys or if someone's in there with her when we put her to bed. I wouldn't be surprised though, the place we live in now was owned by a man who was very religious and died of colon cancer after living here for at least 14 years.
jawska ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little sister is the closest thing I have to a kid (and she's 2 1/2 years younger than me.) This happened when she was about 13.
In the summers back when I was in high school, I would stay up all night watching Adult Swim's anime run. My sister would sleep on the couch and wait until I was done, and we'd go upstairs to our shared room together.
One night, I tried to wake her up from the couch and she was obviously still in sleep mode. She tried to lay back down on the arm chair and then a kitchen chair. Finally, I got her on the stairs and went up. She stopped halfway, turned around toward the dining room and said, angry, "Are you coming?"
"Sis, I'm here," I said.
"Not you," she said. "The little girl."
I grabbed her hand and whisked her right up the stairs. I sat her on the bed and demanded what she was talking about.
"The little girl!" she kept insisting. Finally, she added, "InuYasha's sister."
Just gotta question them a little more until you get some answers or you'll never sleep.
motdidr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, most things here can be explained by dreams/overactive imaginations, and kids especially have a tricky time discerning dreams from reality. It's not unusual, even adults can get "sleep paralysis" and have the most vivid, swear-it-was-real experiences.
Still creepy though :)
And I think a lot of people forget that even though young children might not be able to speak, or even be "totally aware", they still hear and pick up on things. A lot of stories involve kids knowing names or events they couldn't possibly have known about, but a lot of them may have been overheard or somehow absorbed.
Brains are crazy awesome, and the relatively unfiltered kids' brains can come up with some pretty freaky things.
CrazyDlAMOND ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I don't have a kid, but I figure I'll share the story of myself getting baptized, because I know that my parents were likely frightened/freaked out afterwards.
I don't remember most of the event itself honestly and I was around the age of 3, but once I got the "holy water" put on my head I had this burning pain there and freaked the hell out. I just kept yelling, "It burns!" until my dad finally took me to the bathroom to wash it off.
The priest (or whoever) told my parents it wasn't a big deal, but we always get a kick out of telling people about it and I get to say I'm like the anti-christ or something.
JoMa4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 2 year old son used to stare out the window of his room saying he saw a "broken boy". Creeped me and the wife out.
FlyingRainbowBurrito ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is perfect for my family, this kind of shit happened to us on a constant basis when there were still little kids in the house. My mom and aunt often talk about this one time when my brother had done something so my mother used her common empty threat of "You're not going to get any presents for christmas." While crying under the table he suddenly stopped and plainly said, "Fine, Auntie (blank) will buy me presents." Said aunt had died several years before he had even been born and my brother hadn't even begun speaking in complete sentences yet.
On another occasion while next to said aunt's picture he began to say "(blank)'s alright," repeatedly.
And on top of that when I was younger, I was with my grandmother in the kitchen and began to point at nothing and repeatedly said "Pop pop (what we called my grandfather)." This was about year after he had died.
ThatMonochromicorn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why did I decide to watch The Orphanage while reading this thread.
Vitvitsky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Dad! I found a really funny website! It's called 9gag!"
Shilotica ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:44:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Good break from the nightmares on this thread so far! :)
Vitvitsky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was definitely needed!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading 3/4 of these stories, the last remaining desire to have children has been scared straight out of me. I'm glad I'm not sleeping alone tonight.
Backwatermutant32 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to tell my parents that I was from another world. I am not sure where I was from but it scared my mom. To this day, I still have vivid memories from things that were more than likely impossible for me to know or remember, such as interstate signs that designate going into another state and the funeral of my dad's uncle who died a couple years before I was born. A couple of my nieces and nephews had similar experiences, we are all around the same age as well.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to wake up, see my parents standing over me, and when I'd ask what was wrong, they would vanish. I also had a recurring dream in which the next relative to die would be standing in our 'old house' (we still live in the same one but it's been extensively remodeled) having a party with all my dead relatives.
I was playing 'gypsy' using my snowglobe as a crystal ball and said bad things would happen the night before the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
I once got out of my crib (I was two) and distinctly remember watching all the cupboards open and all the stuff come floating out to orbit around me. My parents found me surrounded by all that stuff, which I could NOT have gotten out of the top cupboards.
I have frequent deja vu, to the point of telling people where they can find misplaced objects in their house that I've never been to before.
Dad has/had the ability to sense things from items that he would handle and focus on.
The lights at my grandma's house have flickered by themselves and in response to talking/asking questions since my grandpa died.
There's a child's ghost haunting my preschool. He used to haunt the church until he 'followed' the class I teach into our room. (We had water damage in the classroom and had to use the back hall of the church as a temporary classroom.) He moves things, we see him out of the corner of our eyes, doors open by themselves, it's ridiculous. We named him Phinn.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm actually the daughter of a reddit parent.
My dad said when I was about four he would yell for me and I would come out making a deranged face and say "Loren isn't here anymore" in a creepy voice.
marcott_the_rider ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Let me touch that beautiful beard!" - five year old kid in a mtb class I was teaching.
whytookay ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:58:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, at least he appreciates a good beard
franticcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:47 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
mtb?
marcott_the_rider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:31 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Mountain bike.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:53:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"mommy, I have a baby sister."
Mommy ain't having any more babies escape her uterus.
thelegendoftitsmcgee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:09:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was seven, I told my mom that I was willing to do anything to become a mermaid, including killing her.
...I'm still not a mermaid.
SquitsMcGrish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:52:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
...But did you kill her?
metal-legalize ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
late to the party, but im still going on the dance floor. My friends mom takes care of these two little kids that are about four years old and one day while she took them to the park, some guy went to my friends mom, pointed at the one we'll call Jeff and said he has a ghost with him that tells him not to cry from pain. Following day Jeff gets his neck caught on a closed window, somehow the window closed on his neck while my friends mom wasnt paying attention, and as she freed him from the window he was dead silent. This four year old did not cry from pain and this was about a day after the park incident. Following day after the window my friend goes to jeff because hes talking to a closet for some reason. "What are you doing jeff" Jeff replies with "shhhh, hes sleeping in there", my friend goes into the closet and theres nothing while Jeff is smiling
wiegie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While brushing our teeth one morning, our 5 year-old daughter came in and asked, "Which one of you is going to die first?" I was shocked into silence. My wife said, "Aw, honey, you don't have to worry about that. We'll be alive for a long time." Daughter then leaned against my wife and whispered, while looking sideways at me, "I think he's gonna die first." More shocked silence from my end.
noahfegley ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You have to sleep sometime
Throwawaychica ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:40:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 5 year old Daughter and my Mother were having an argument (don't remember over what), then my daughter said to my Mother "Do you want me to set you on fire?" My Mom was shocked and said "Whaat?" My daughter just giggled and said, 'Just kidding!"
0.o
Smckilla ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:59:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little I always talked about how I had another family I lived with before I was born and every time my parents were mad they told me I could move out and go to my other family
danieltothemax ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well this is something i said to my parents...i was probably 4-5 i guess, and it was christmas eve of the earliest christmas i can remember. my bedroom was at the end of the hallway and my bed was directly in front of the door, so i could look all the way down the hall and see the christmas tree...i couldnt sleep because it was christmas eve and i saw "santa claus" delivering the presents...what i saw or told my parents i saw was the gift boxes floating through the living room...my parents told me later in life that they had a lot of weird "haunting" type stuff happen at that house and they moved out pretty fast...
TheEraserhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was watching my niece and nephew, and had to start up the grill. The knob on the gas canister wasn't turning, so I told them to wait inside, I had to go to the garage. I was going to get a hammer to see if I could loosen the valve. That's when my nephew stated matter-of-fact I was 'Going to blow up'. I promptly ditched that plan.
prettyprincess90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:37:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 9 months old I would constantly be out of my crib in the middle of the night. My parents never figured out why. My mom was a preschool teacher for almost a decade and has had many creepy kids but there was one who told her they were going to lock her in a house and set it on fire to watch her burn.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why the FUCK did I read this thread before going to sleep!?
arfool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:09:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent but I'm friends with a girl who looks after kids for a living. Went to her house today and this really smiley otherwise lovely little girl kept telling me "she wanted to die" and even asked me to kill her.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:29:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when I was 3 years old, I fell asleep on the couch one night. Later that night my mom heard me crying quietly from down the hall. apparently crying quietly was unusual, as I was quite loud most of the time. When my mom asked me about it a few days later, I said "two men were talking to me".
I have no recollection of the event, although this isn't the only time I heard voices as a child.
Tingleyourberry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:35:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was playing with a hammer when my little cousin who is 4 asked me if I was going to kill people with it. Earlier that day he was throwing darts at the back of his brother's head.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:36:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My six year old said (during a discussion of what we would possibly buy them when they were older, specifically a go-kart) "You'll probably be dead by then - you're older than everyone (in the family) so you will die first"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:00:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 4 year old was staring at our dog on my lap and than asked all of sudden "have you ever seen a dead dog?"
bxturbo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:01:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL kids say the darnest things!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:55:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"My mom says it's ok to go in your van"
vaderspawn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:56:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
NOPENOPENOPENOPE IM DONE
theofficialposter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Big bobo"
My son is 2.
jgangstahippie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I asked my mom this, and apparently I was once at a McDonalds and I saw a black kid, and I asked my mom, why did the kid have dirt on his face....i guess I never saw a black person before lol.
hjertaker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:48:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter screamed at me once. She screamed so hard she almost fainted. That is the only frightening thing she have done (but she's only 4 weeks old.)
breakyoudown ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:50:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in junior kindergarten I was sleeping in my parents bed. My dad was sleeping in my room, I believe I had a fever or whatever. So deep into the night I wake my mom up and shes ready to get advil for me. Then I ask "Mom, why are so many kids here? And why is Paul looking at me like that?" Didn't realize how creepy this sounded till I went over it in my head
missmalu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:16:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was two the whole family was hit with a 24 hour flu. We were all literally puking the whole time. When it was over my daughter woke up and said, "Mommy, I had a bad dream. We were all puking and had to clean up the puke with more puke and it wouldn't stop. It was even on the walls." That was her longest coherent conversation at that point. I didn't know if I should have been proud or completely grossed out.
akatze ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:43:10 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriend's daughter, when she was about 3, was asking why our dog, Jack couldn't talk. I explained to her that dogs can't talk, and she said when Jack dies if he's been good he'll become a person and then he can talk to her.
On other occasions she's insisted that when Jack grows up he'll turn into a person as well.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:58 on July 13, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently I'm late to the party but here goes.
While not something he's said, my wife and I thought that my son had visitors when he was a baby. We liked to sit him on the couch when he was old enough to sit and he would look at the corner of the living room and then giggle wildly. He also liked to talk to the same corner but would rarely talk to my wife or I. Even now (he's a little over 2) he'll sit in his room at night sometimes and talk and giggle at nothing. It's a little creepy considering my parents told me that I used to have episodes with people in my room and night terrors.
michtied94 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:39:00 on July 14, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Okay I don't have any kids but I really really want to share my stories:
-When I was three my grandpa passed away and at night and in my dreams he would show up and talk to me. We would just chat and he would always say "Tell your grandma I said I love her and miss her" and I would always pass on the messages. He never went to my cousin, who was four. Just me.
-A couple weeks ago my two year old nephew and I were laying in my bed one night. My lights were dim and the door was open. He was talking and out of nowhere he stares at the doorway and says "That man needs to go. That man needs to go." I looked at the doorway and of course no one or nothing was there. I tried asking him what man, what he looked like, and what he saw but he never spoke of it afterwards. He just went on to keep talking about the zoo.
UnregisteredWaffle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:14:42 on August 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel this should be in NoSleep... I don't think I want to have kids when I get older.
stalecigarettes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:21:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was trying to come up with a really special way to celebrate my wife and I's 20th anniversary. My 14-year old son, stopped eating his bowl of cereal, looked at me dead in the eyes and told me, "when you're nailing her from behind, pull her head back towards you and lean just next to her ear. Then slow down and right before you blow whisper "the spirit horse will come for you my friend" and then fall back, throw your legs in the air and give your own face a chowder bath."
bekastrange ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:58:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ghosts, miniature psychopaths and past lives ... this is the creepiest post.
Don_Broleone ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:31:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Again, I am the kid in this, but when I was about 10 I could never bring myself to look out of windows at night (particularly into the garden) because of a recurring nightmare of a figure slowly approaching me from out of the pitch black. When I explained this to my parents, they couldn't muster their laughter, so I took my "vengeance". I placed a scarecrow at the end of the garden (so it was just visible from the house), then when my dad went to "shut up shop", I heard this yelp when it caught his eye.
Needless to say, I had the last laugh...
captmeahoy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:44:56 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Yes dad, I did put the handle of the hairbrush up the dog's ass"
grendel788 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:36:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Out of curiosity, were these kids talking about past lives all born normally? Mine did that and he was born by c-section. Someone sometime suggested that birth trauma usually wipes previous memories.
exquisite808 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:54:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 3 years old we had just moved into a rancher in VA from Hawaii (my dad is military). The neighbors across the street told my mom that the original builder/ owner of the house shot himself in the master bedroom. For the first six or so months that we lived there, I would stand at the end of my bed screaming at the wall "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" and it would go on for a good thirty minutes. All sorts of creepy shit happened in that house. But that I remember clearly. The spirit eventually became less hostile towards my family and started helping us out. When someone was trying to break into our car the spirit woke my mom up and she turned on all the lights. The next morning there was indication someone was trying to pry our truck door open. Once my parents were having a small argument in the kitchen on opposite sides of the room. Next thing you know an Otis Spunk Meyer muffin flies across the kitchen out of the bread box and hits the wall. Needless to say they both stopped arguing and went about their chores. Creepy stuff.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:30:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, when I was six, I used to sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, screaming and crying. When my parents came over, to calm me down and ask what was wrong, I started rambling about how there was a perfect sphere somewhere. To this day, no fucking idea ._.
AtomicVGZ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:05:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No joke, I can remember 2 occasions around the same age where I woke up screaming and crying in a delirious state rambling about spheres.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:40:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Putting my kids into bed, "Daddy, will I wake up tomorrow?"
VulpeHollow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Vacation in Greece to see my family there. My cousin's kid, 6 at the time I think, doesn't talk to me til the last day and then when I have to go to catch the plane home he throws something at me and yells in his funny Greek Engrish, "You do not leave! You do not go! If you go I KILL YOU! I KILL YOU!". this continues all the while hi dad drags him away. I was scared the entire flight home in case there was some kid about to snipe me or blow up the plane.
amandazale ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:51:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have any children, but one evening when I was 17 I was in charge of babysitting these two little girls (aged 3 and 5) overnight. At about 9pm I put them to bed and went downstairs to watch TV on the couch, with the baby monitor on the table beside me. They were both quiet for a while, but then I started hearing the 3-year-old talking to someone over the monitor. She was talking in a hushed voice, saying "Please get out of my room! Leave me alone.." I assumed that her sister had come into her room and was bothering her, so I went upstairs to tell them to go to their own rooms and go to sleep. I peeked in the 5-year-old's door, but she was sound asleep. So then I stood outside the 3-year-old's door for a while listening and heard her continue talking to someone. I opened the door and she had a guilty look on her face. I asked her who she was talking to, but she wouldn't say anything. She just asked if I would cuddle with her because she was scared. So I laid on her bed with her and told her to close her eyes and try to go to sleep. She closed her eyes tight, and then started mumbling frantically. I couldn't understand what she was saying but she sounded very frightened. I laid with her in bed until she finally fell asleep, and then I went back downstairs. About an hour later I heard the little girl's voice over the monitor again and she distinctly spoke the words "Please don't hurt Amanda". (Yes, I am Amanda). I was very spooked the rest of the night...
drjonsocks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:06:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but I've got two younger brothers who are 20+ years younger than me (my Dad remarried - started again after the trial run that was my Sister and I) so anyway, one day I was playing with one of my brothers (he was about 2ish at the time from memory) and he turns to me and says he doesn't want to sleep in his room anymore. I ask why and he says "because of the circle, I don't like it" (I may be filling in some of the gaps in his language here), I say "which circle do you mean?", he says "the one you can only see at night." So, I say, let's go to your room and you can show me where the circle is, so we go to his room and points to the middle of the floor near his bed and says it appears at night. Now there's nothing on the floor and only one light source in the room which is the main light - blackout curtains on the window and it's highly unlikely a gap would create anything circle-like. Freaked me the fuck out.
A couple of months later I was babysitting, putting them to bed and noticed this wind up Fisher-price projector thing on my younger brother's crib (which is in the same room) it's never worked, but the front of it (big plastic circle) was glowing in the dark - suddenly all made sense. Drew a big scary face on it and left them both to it.
tl:dr - Aliens
xcbro12 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:20:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time my kid was sitting in his high chair and he started talking about how he could save me all this money with Etrade.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:16:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Expected: cute but creepy things that a child would probably say
Got: bullshit attempt at r/nosleep
afternoondelite ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:01:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents told me this about when I was younger, about 4 or 5. They always stopped on our road trips to view historic landmarks. My dad was crazy nuts about anything to do Native American. They told me that on one stop I left their side and went and stood several yards away. They kept me in their sight and watched while I apparently was just staring up at the old trails above where we were. Finally my dad approached and before he could ask me anything, they said I turned to him and said "Do you see all those people? They look so sad." and pointed up at the trials where there was nothing. Because both my parents are gone now I can't be certain where exactly it was but the sight had something to do with the Trail of Tears.
goochmaster5 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:29:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but when we first moved into our house 11 years ago, my little brother was three. Shortly after moving in, he said that he had made four friends, named Lius (Lie-us), Dius (Die-us), Arack, and Ton (I honestly don't know if those are the proper spellings for those names). He claimed that Lius and Dius were "Black, like [his] black grandma". Our Grandmother is Native American. He started misbehaving afterwards; breaking glasses, disobeying, etc. Sounds normal, but he was telling us that his friends were telling him to misbehave. We then found out after a couple of years that our town was named after a Civil War general who slaughtered many native americans in the field that was behind our house, and when they were building a wal-mart there back in '06, they dug up a Native American burial ground. Also, one time he said that "The soldier is looking for his bullet". A couple of days later, when my dad and my brother were digging in our back yard to make a garden, they dug up a rifle bullet.
It may all sound crazy, but it's also all true.
yashtheboss ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:54:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent but I have a lil nephew who's about 3 and one night I was watching her for her mom. When it was bed time she refused to go to bed and ran away screaming. I asked her what's wrong she said " The old lady in my closet doesn't like me" I asked her, " what lady" and she replied " the one who watches me sleep" I told her it was just a bad dream and she took my hand and said almost whispering "she's watching us right now..." Freaked me the hell out.
lover0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:00:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My boyfriend's daughter looked up at me with the creepiest look, Kind of like the ring, and told me "My daddy's going to kill you" and just walked away
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:43:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:40:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
r/nosleep. Looks like I'm going to be using a nightlight.
BossTussle ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:50:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a 2 year old Autistic son. The reason I feel the need to inform people of his Autism, is because he doesn't talk. He is the sweetest, happiest, most innocent I've seen to date. But, he has done something that makes me question my own sanity, among other things. What happened literally made my eyes water while I was telling my wife about what happened. Ok, maybe not literally, but almost.
Anywho, here it goes.
About 3 weeks ago I was up really late, as I always am, doing a combination of things like playing video games, getting some work done on my laptop and of course, lurking on reddit. I firmly believe my house is haunted, as does my wife and a few previous roommates we've had. It doesnt scare me most of the time, but there are moments that really bother me. I get horrible feelings from time to time and that is what is most bothersome, aside from shit being thrown around in front of your face. But, back to the story. I was up late, everyone in my house was asleep, as they all have to get up early for work. It is dead quiet other than the very low volume of the TV with the game music in the background. Out of nowhere, my son (who sleeps in his room, with child safety doorhandles, and a crib that I thought he was unable to get out of) walk down the hallway in the dark and just stare at me. I didnt hear his door open, and its a pretty loud door that was maybe 15 ft away from where I was sitting. As i start to take my laptop off of my lap to get up, he turns and runs down the hallway back towards his room. I get up and walk down the hallway and dont see him, and his door is closed. It weirded me out, but i didnt think too much of it because i was more concerned with getting him back to bed and figuring out how the fuck he got out in the first place. I open the door to his room, and see him sitting in the corner of his crib, facing the wall. I ALSO see what looks like a young child under the covers in his crib. It stopped me in my tracks. I was scared for him, terrified of what was under the blankets as he doesnt have any stuffed animals or anything that could even come close to creating that effect, and frantically trying to think of the right way to go about dealing with this situation. Out of nowhere, still facing the wall, he starts laughing hysterically. I immediately go to my room (literally right across the hall) and wake my wife. I bring her into the room where we find our son, under the covers, fast asleep. I wasnt gone for more than 15 seconds. Then I awoke from my slumber. :)
ade494 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome story. You had me
MMikula ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:20:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Am I the only one that thinks the whole idea of ghosts is bullshit and that there is a logical explanation for everything? If people who died became ghosts, taking into consideration the amount of people that have existed until now, ghosts would be constantly having an effect on all our lives if they could have any effect.
erawenahs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have thought about this recently, and I have come to a small theory, it is most likely not correct, but it follows conservation of energy law. I feel like, even if a body is dormant, there is mental energy. If a body suddenly shuts down, what happens to the mental energy ("soul", if you like)? Is it still active and absorbs itself into the ether over time (ghosts)? Or is it like a hard drive, just imprints on the brain that need electrical stimulation to function? Thoughts anyone?
MMikula ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my neuroscience lecturers said outright at the start of the first lecture. 'There is no such thing as a 'soul' or anything like it, no higher mind floating around you'. It is all just your brain. When you die, your body stops taking in energy (food) and converting it for use across your body. The energy that was in your body when you die is transferred to the environment; heat, fluids etc. leave the body and take away energy.
erawenahs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so decomposition basically.
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well it's not really a theory, since there isn't much evidence or reasoning behind it.
When you're dead, everything in your brain slows down until you can't think anymore. The kinetic energy from the particles in your brain is converted into heat, friction and other forms of energy. This already follows conservation of energy.
erawenahs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I realized it wasn't a theory after I posted it, and more of a thought.
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But a ghost believer could easily argue that ghosts only stick around for a finite period of time.
MMikula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:06:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Even so, the number of people dying every second would mean that even if the ghosts stuck around, for arguments sake, for a year, that's a pretty reasonably period of time, nice and whole. The massive number of people that died in one year would still illicit the same effect i.e. mass ghost activity.
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How about only some people turn into ghosts?
MMikula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If there was any set criteria for ghosts they would all present similar features yet there are massive discrepancies between reports; a third may say, for example, the ghost was translucent, a third full bodied and the remainder claim the ghost was invisible. Basically you have to believe that there's a finite period, mixed features and a certain reason for becoming a ghost. Furthermore, we are just animals so why aren't ghost cows and insects seen?
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I believed in ghosts I would argue that a lot of other people are wrong. I personally would only believe in invisible ghosts. And animals may very well be ghosts, but we just can't communicate with them.
MMikula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't really say supposed invisible human ghosts were communicating with us by any means which would be incapable for that of a chimp ghost for instance. Even a dog ghost would be capable of slamming doors (if that's what you mean by communication) or causing weird things to happen. Hell a horse ghost running through your house could probably muster up enough anger to make a vase fall off a shelf.
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
But a chimp or horse wouldn't be in your house. They'd be in their natural environments.
MMikula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of houses have stables adjoined. Yet funnily enough, no horse ghosts. Also what about pets? No ghost fish are seen in tanks which would be very easy to spot if it were to occur e.g. a big tank that had 2 fish in, one dies, there aren't phantom bubbles appearing ever or anything like it.
nsomani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ghost fish don't need to breathe to survive. And what makes you so sure that there aren't any horse ghosts in stables?
MMikula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No but I'm sure ghost humans don't need to slam doors to survive in fact they apparently don't need to survive at all. As the 'proving' or not disproving of ghosts relies on constant nonsensical rebutalls when logic is given (such as this), I shall now return this and say that gost fish would get a kick out of producing phantom bubbles. I shall provide logical explanations fr ghost horses when someone reports something so asinine.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:25:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To explain most of the "supernatural" sighting in these stories, young children have hard time comprehending what shadows are. When kids claim the see other people at night it is generally because they are seeing shadows dancing and don't know what else to call them.
Yaymemes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:20:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I just submtted a question to AskReddit, and the question was, "what would you like to name your child?" And in that question I felt so eager to have a child... That confident feeling of getting a child ..... it's gone.
jwhh91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: People talking about their own creepy things said as a child, instead of parents typing about their own children.
AllStarDad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:22:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My first born had a problem with killing cats when he was younger. We first found out when the police showed up at our door. When we asked him about it he just shrugged and said "They hate me too".
UnicornPanties ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:21:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Uhhhh, that's kindof a serious problem right? What has he moved on to beyond cats?
AllStarDad ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:00:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No, I think it is our fault really. We've rightfully taught him that domestic cats are a complete waste of life and only beloved by some humans because they are infected by Toxoplasmosis, a neuron-parasite which renders the victim affectionate to cats, yet severely hinders cognitive function. Thus, the dull-minded "cat person".
Robby712 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:15:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL: Being a crazy cat lady is a real thing.
hawleywood ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:10:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are the opposite of an all-star dad.
Robby712 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lmfao, upvote for stating the obvious...downvote for supporting cats.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:01:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
a... a waste of life? What the fuck? Who are you to judge that?
sterlingrose ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:22:04 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Um, so, even if you do happen to believe those weird ramblings about cats, you should probably still keep an eye on the little scamp. The Mcdonald Triad isn't accepted by everyone, but it's a compelling theory.
Then again, I love cats, so maybe I'm just extra creeped out by your spawn.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:06:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Warning- this story is depressing. I'm not a parent, but a few years ago I was smashing this girl who had a kid (technically a milf, props to me). This kid has, sadly, never met his father. This was a PURELY physical relationship. She was a stressed out working mom, I was a pre-med student. We were both stressed out, both needed a nut every so often. So one night we bone while her kid, 4 years old at the time, is at home. The next morning, we are woken up by her kid running in the room and jumping on the bed. He jumps on me, gives me a big hug, and say "daddy!" I felt SO BAD for this kid. Happy ending (giggidy)- she is with someone now who willingly takes on the fatherly role.
leaningsideways ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:15:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess my daughter was about four. (sleepily, very sadly.) "My magic doesn't work here."
Now, there's a long complex backstory I'm not sharing here, but I'm a pagan that believes in reincarnation. And there was no way at that time she could have known that, even if she could have understood it.
So while I was definitely freaked out, it was only for a second. I answered honestly as I understood it. "I know, honey. Magic doesn't work very well here. Don't worry about it; go back to sleep."
blackmanplayt1 ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 21:16:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you are schizophrenic and should not be a parent
yooie ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:27:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
you do not understand what schizophrenia is and should not be allowed to have a keyboard
leaningsideways ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:25:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, Dr...? I take it you are qualified to make that diagnosis? ...Wait, we've never met and you know nothing about me!
Pratt.
MTHRFCKNPROJ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
it's the nice way of saying you believe in absolutely retarded shit and should be euthanized for the good of society
ebski94 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:58:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mum said when i was younger i used to say bad things to my metapod on my pokemon yellow as he sucked i was about 5.
Vessix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit I had to re-read that comment about 3 times to understand it. Use some punctuation next time?
ebski94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
im 6.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:30:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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ebski94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
he was called poopsac
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:40:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day, on the way to school my son said "I just saw a spider!". okay, ot weird apart from it's a pretty rare occurance., On the way home from school (the next day) he said "I can't stop the callums [his friend's] voice in my head!". At this point I thought "shit, he's schizophrenic...". That really scared me. I was pretty frightened for a while but I just kept telling myself that it was actually my own mind joining the dots in the incorrect way.
Thankfully, there hasn't been any other signs ever since and he's a relatively normal kid,..most of the time :-)
birdlaw64 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:53:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when I was really young (probably around four or five) I used to think I was a sixteen year old in my past life. I hate to ruin the party, but I made it up because I thought teenagers were really cool when I was little. But some of these stories are pretty creepy.
DRpinky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:42:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me, but my 6 year old brother said this to my parents the other day. He was listening to the news about the election and started asking about the presidential candidates. He asks my mom a series of questions about their names, their party affiliations, asking if anyone had won yet, their political preferences, what they believe in, etc.
After this, my mom asks who he wants to win come November, and he says, and I quote, "I want Mitt Romney to win, because he is the white guy."
I have never been more afraid for my brother's safety around black people.
Patrickfoster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old brother came up to me the other day, looked me in the eyes and said "you're not my master"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
not a parent, but when I around 5 or so I would play with barbie dolls. Must've scared the shit out of my dad.
ziem0n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am not a parent myself, but many a time have I heard the story of my aunt as a young child.
She grew up in the late 70s and early 80s, in a pretty well-off family including her, my dad, my uncle, my paternal grandmother and her new man. When she learned how to speak, telling her good night would become the biggest fear in my grandmothers life.
She would go tell her good night and tuck her into bed, upon which my aunt would start crying, screaming and rip her hair in despair, whilst asking a question. Namely, "Why did you kill me when I was young? Why could I not live?". This kept going for about half a year, where my grandmother decided that she'd had enough of it and stopped tucking my aunt into bed before sleep.
She never speaks of it to this day, although both my uncle and my dad acknowledge it and always bring it up while we're discussing eerie stuff.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fucking macarroni. I think I will pass on sleep tonight. And on kids. Forever.
googahgee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:06:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not a parent, but I'm a boy-scout, and there is this one first-year in my troop that has trouble talking, with grammar, and probably isn't right in the head. We go on a camping trip one weekend and he's swearing a lot and says stuff like "'X' is so fucking weak" "Shut the fuck up" etc. One day we go kayaking on the Susquehana, and at the end, he lifts his shirt up, and tries to suck his nipples. He says he wants to make milk. He thinks that if he's gay he'll be able to make milk, so he tries to sleep on top of my friend in our tent and says he wants to have sex with him. I didn't get any sleep in fear of him creeping up on me. Guess what, he wants to make milk so he doesn't have to get up and go to the refrigerator.
koshka_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:10:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my brother was about 5 our grandad died and my brother said he didn't want to go to the funeral. A few days after he woke up my parents to say that our grandad had come to say goodbye to him the night before, and had sat on the end of his bed and put him to sleep. Another creepy thing involving my brother is that one time when he was about 8 he claimed that the "Easter bunny" had come to visit him, and he was a 6 foot tall man in jeans and a shirt. Weird. tl;dr my brother is creepy.
Neffer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:12:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well I don't remember it well but when I was around 5-6 I walked into my parents room after having a nightmare. The nightmare was I was on a rooftop on a really high building and I believed I could fly so I tried to fly and obviously died. Turns out that is how my Uncle died and I described the building and stuff and it was pretty accurate. My Dad went mental and started crying (it was his brother) and my Mom was just in shock. I don't even believe in that sort of thing, I think I must have over heard them talking about it or something. Scared the crap out of them anyway.
aprofondir ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:44:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad said that as a kid in the night I would, no matter what, find a way to get to his bed (I sleeped in a separated bed with those fences, you know, the thing with sticks) and sleep next to him. He said that I would often unscrew the sticks that were preventing me from escaping the bed and just jump on his bed.
munificent ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A quick character study so you have some context.
My oldest daughter is afraid of nothing. She's more outgoing than my wife and I are and is generally ready to take the world and kick its face in. She's also not really that affectionate. She'd rather run around and go crazy than snuggle.
One night, we were all hanging out in the living room. Out of nowhere, she walks over to the patio doors and just stands there staring out into the black motionless. After a few minutes, she turns around to face us says, "The dark is trying to come inside now."
She had never been afraid of the dark in her life, but she was terrified now. She ran over to me and just wanted to cower in my lap, repeating that the dark as trying to come in over and over again.
Of course, a few minutes later, she was totally fine. You win this round, troll daughter.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
This'll get buried, oh well. When my FIL died, my kid was too young to understand death so after a couple of attempts at explanation that only confused her more, we dropped it. My husband went alone to the funeral, as it was in another country.
On the evening of the day of the funeral, out of the blue my kid started screaming that there was a man in the hallway. She was pointing and yelling. I went to to check and there was nobody there, but she was adamant and was really frightened. She said the man looked like daddy, but she lacked the vocabulary to describe him further and kept telling me to go make the man go away. After I turned on every light in the house she was satisfied that we were alone and cheerfully went on like nothing had happened, but I didn't sleep a wink that night.
emtastic1995 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:12:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Happy cake day! May you have an abundance of happiness today!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much!
emtastic1995 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:27 on July 6, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You are completely welcome! Today's my real life cake day. 17!! R movies here I come (;
411eli ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:10:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A woman passed us by.
"Dibs."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:13:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Can I go to a Nickelback concert with my friend?
Killer-owl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:03:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother told me a story about my name. When I was about one and a half years old and just started to talk with sentences, my parents would always ask me random questions like how old was I, or what was my favorite toy, or which parent I loved the most. The usual questions parents would ask their child, I suppose. But when they would ask me about my name, I answered "Kate" every time with serious face and claimed it WAS my name. They swear to me, I have not heard the name before. We didn't have a television at that time and I was always with my parents when I got outside to play. No one ever said the name before to me. They were frightened and very curious why I would think my name was Kate.
Years later I legally changed my name to Kate and couldn't be more happier since.
Salamok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:04:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
She didn't say a word but i just caught my 5 year old snapping a surgical glove over her hand as she approached her pillow pet with a very serious expression on her face.
twinkles210 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:39:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my 2 year old turned to me one day and said "I love you - but you aren't my real mommy.....my real mommy lives in Canada........" (he had never been in Canada - nor had ever heard of Canada)--
Puma_and_Squintz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:56:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
My cat died suddenly this past March of a heart attack - turns out he had a heart condition we were unaware of. One day my friend's 5 year old son says to me, "I saw your cat last night. He told me he had a problem with his heart that no one could help."
egamipeaks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:59:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 5 I told my parents that the piano was talking to me. I remember telling them the weird sounding word that it kept whispering to me. We were Jehovah's Witnesses so they believed it was demons and they even had someone do research on the word to see if had any origin. They couldn't find anything, and I am sure it was just my overactive imagination. Still... childhood was a creepy time.
demalition90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:25:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my brother slept walk like 7 times in one year and each time it was the same thing
he'd run back and forth across the bed's (our beds where pushed together to make a really big bed) then run to the door and push his back up against it slowly peek over then scream extremely loudly "no daddy please don't" then fall down, stay there for awhile then get up and repeat
further, every one of the children has fallen, hit there head on the same door jamb he stood near and needed stitches,
and we saw figures walk that hallway at night, we where terrified to approach them, parents couldn't see them
it finally stopped when we had our pastor come to the house and bless it
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Gaga.....he's eight months but I was afraid he was going to be a fan of lady gaga.
Jendraz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:32:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're all kidding right? Please tell me you're all kidding.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:22 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Dad and Sister have told me a few times about an instance where i was arguing with my Mother, from what i recall they say I was abouy four. My Mom a hateful spiteful woman ask a four year old "WHY WERE YOU EVEN BORN!" Dad said my response to her was in the most demonic voice i could muster as i shouted "TO MAKE YOUR LIFE MISERABLE!" before cackling and retiring to my room. Dad thought it was hillarious, my Mother was convinced i was the antichrist.
iheartbaconsalt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:51:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We have foster kids. One day one called 911 on himself and said he was going to kill us. We had to trade him in for a new model. He said it was because he didn't like it when we made his bed every morning.
5abrina ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:57:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Trade him in for a new model"? That is really dehumanizing and sick, and not even remotely funny. People like you give all foster parents a bad name.
iheartbaconsalt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:26:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ohh right, good thing we have you experts for guidance. It's the internet. Most likely none of it is real.
spazzydino ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 4 I found an unopened envelope on the floor by the front door. The front read 'to nicola' (my mums name) I grabbed it and said 'its from toms mum' my mother went up stairs to read this letter and alas, an anonymous letter informing her that my father was having an affair with toms mom.
cgos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:26:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not said. But one day, my son who was 14 at the time, came home with a REAL katana that he bought from one of those discount, odds-n-ends stores. Even though it was cheap, it was still made of steel and sharp. He thought it was cool but I was pretty unnerved by it. I wouldn't let him keep it in his room for at least a year and he was not allowed to take it out of the house.
roastedbeef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, it probably had a single-alloy blade. Those katanas suck.
cgos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:43 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This wasn't about an evaluation of the sword. It was about a 14 year old who comes home with a big sharp sword.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:07:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ive notoced several stories that seem to refer to children referring to past lives. While my son is only 6.5 weeks old, one ofthe first thoughts upon holding him, was the possibility of reincarnation.
I can't really describe why I thought of it, but looking into the eyes of my newborn son, I just felt like he knew more than just...absolutely nothing. Like he was someone who just found themselves in a newborn body!
HereForKarma ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:12:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit, your kid isn't special.
NikkoE82 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:04:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man. You people are easily spooked.
pameatsbabies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is full of way too much "I'm not a parent, but..."
Sinnic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
nojusticephoto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My sister told her then 8 year old son with Aspergers to pick up his toys; he replied "I'll kill you in you sleep!" Sad thing is, she's crazier than he is.
MrRedTRex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent yet, but -- When my cousin Pete was 3 years old, he threw a fit and started crying. His mom scolded him for it and he stopped crying and abruptly said "mommy, you was a baby and you cried!"
leximouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL M. Night Shyamalam needs more credit than we give him. WTF, Reddit? Who's actually gonna get some sleep tonight?
yellowbricktoad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a cousin who is adopted from birth, and he is about three now. I was reading to him from a dinosaur picture book a few months ago, and I asked him why he thought the dinosaurs died out.
"everybody dies" he said.
achshar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is not what i thought it to be. I NEEDED TO SLEEP TONIGHT!
Khizrr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of the family has a child who talks about how he'll murder his mother daily. Not like Stewey from Family guy, this kid is seriously demented. He's 7.
StephentheBassbox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL children can see ghosts of [usually, but not limited to] dead family members
ryguy_slyguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Great, now I'm going to have to sleep with a nightlight again. I'm 20.
dirtymoney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
let us in.....
Rahx3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
For the parents with kids talking about seeing people it's actually pretty common for kids to do that. Most of them usually grow out of it.
jewmangroup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Im not a parent but when I was about 3 or 4 I apparently thought there was a little boy named Nissa who lived in my closet. I don't remember this but my mom brings it up occasionaly and talks about how much it used to creep her out. And I also screamed a lot in my sleep and said a lot really fucked up things. I was a strange child to say the least.
Kull44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know this thread was from r/nosleep...
elmo0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was really little I was in the bath with my mum and asked her 'Mummy whats that piece of string?' and I was so desperate to find out what it was there for. Oh dear...
CurbSnipe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not the best thread to read before falling asleep. Later.
Love_sUn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck this thread, I won't be able to sleep tonight.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah kids say all sorts of crap.
megablast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"They're here!"
listix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I remember one thing that might have been creepy to my parents. I was small, maybe 3 or 4 years old. There was the toy room were I kept all my toys. The thing is that in one of the walls I about 20 or 30 obituaries. I was kinda sad when we had to move and they took them away.
97nachotv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The Blue Man! Yes, the Blue Man!
mheyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"they're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!" she was sitting in front of the tv with nothing but the popcorn screen looking back at us with her hands on the screen really creepy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Are you my mommy?
NTesla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm marrying Ben.
PowerChordPsycho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What I learned from this thread: Stay the fuck away from 3 year olds! Wait, my nephew just turned three... :O
BreadHimself ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Boy am I glad my parents aren't Redditors...
yelnats25 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. I'm not having kids now.
ajkkjjk52 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
TIL children are fucking terrifying.
Korgull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Hello, father."
I don't have kids.
Thetalkingcupcake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this one is my niece (5) since I'm to young to have kids. back story: I still sleep with my childhood teddy. Anyway my niece was like "Auntie can I have some ice cream?" and I was like "No,because you haven't ate dinner yet." and she said "Fine then I will kill you." me thinking its cute just because I know she won't do it. and she says "I will take your cute mother fucking stuffed dog and rip off it's head and put her head up your ass and her body down your throat." So I'm just like 0.0 and she says "You scared?" And I nod and she said "Go get me ice cream now." I gave her the ice cream. I think she learned that from her grandma or me or something but it sure was creepy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now she knows how to get you
krameratneu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My niece (Age 5) to her grandfather: Niece: Benepo (her imaginary friend), NO! Go in the Grandfather: What happened? Niece: Benepo told me i should kill everyone upstairs and burn the house down.
CSharpSauce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread makes me wonder if my dog fantasizes about walking me, then eating pizza while I lick up any abandoned crumbs.
psshjess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was sitting in the back of one of those SUVs with a third row with my 3 year old cousin once. In the middle of the drive, he sat up and looked behind us into the trunk, then turned to me and asked, "so where did you hide the bodies?"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent and not said but; My little sister used to stand in to corner of dark rooms with hair covering her face like the girl from the ring.
SlytherJen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Also, I've got a couple about me.
When I was younger and Pet Cemetery had first came out, I had seen it with my mom and had picked up dead Gage's "Come play with me daddy! First I played with Jud, and then I played with mommy. We had an awful good time. Now I want to play with YOU." bit and would say it in dark car rides. My mom and her friend would get creeped out and turn the over head light on for the rest of the drive.
Also, after watching Child's Play one day, I was outside playing with a friend. I had somehow gotten a hold of a butter knife and was trying to stab my friend.
AsuranSyncretic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This seems like it belongs in /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu
Im_Nave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My advice to all you people is call ghostbusters.
Jolu- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my niece once asked me how death feels... i couldn't say a thing :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Does anyone remember a show on nickelodeon called The Tomorrow People, it seems like they only played a few episiodes and then stopped or something
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean "Candle Cove"?
Wibblywobbly4240 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A buddy of mine was walking through school a few years ago. He was crossing through the library and was held up behind a special ed. class. One of the girls turned to him, looked him in the eyes and said "Find me"....Than "Ill be waiting"
My buddy was so freaked out he left school and went home.
MeleeCyrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son was 5 and was standing dead center of the kitchen looking at me straight face with a knife in his hand.
superjen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son was around 3 or 4 and we had been watching a lot of X Files and stuff like that. As I was tucking him in one night, he asked when we were going to go home again. I said 'home?'. And I don't remember his exact reply but it was something to the effect of that other house, that can go in the sky. He must have overheard too much tv as he was falling asleep but it creeped me out so bad. (he had never been on an airplane at that point so my mind immediately filled in alien abduction).
raw420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One day I decided I wanted a baby sister, being the youngest and only daughter. My mom kept telling me it wasn't going to happen. I didn't know she wasn't able, I thought she was keeping a sister from me. So I decided I would have my own baby sister. And scared the shit out of my parents. I didn't understand how babies were made yet, I just knew kids came from pregnancies. So I went about planning, and shopping for my "child/sister" until I realized I was spoiled because I was the youngest and decided I don't want any more siblings. They remember and fear this to this day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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LinuxMage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The imaginary friend. It means that there is a side of him that hates/resents you for some reason, or at least did.
mirandahasaniceass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm going to rape you do death and piss on your corpse after!"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my two year old tells me she's going to "hide mรซ" i still have no idea what she's talking abou-
sociallyoblivious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey Mummy, my penis feels just like Daddy's
keepitcudi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I did wierd shit in my sleep as a kid. One time my dad walked in on me standing on my bed at 2 in the morning staring blankly at a wall. Other times I would stand silently in my parents doorway until they woke up. Turns out I had Sleep Apnea, got my tonsils taken out, and it never happened again.
MrPanduh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm going to kill myself". guess which douche bag said this to his mother when he was little.
fuzzy13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was 5 when my grandmother died. After being at camp all day, my mom sat me down on the stairs to tell me that grandma was gone. I look up at my mom with tears streaming down my face and proceed to ask her how long it would take for grandma to turn into a skeleton.
arch88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother told me this story. We had just moved in to a new house and my room was still being painted so my bed was set up in the living room. Well she went to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and saw me sitting up brushing stuff off me. She asked me what was wrong (I was still asleep) i said" the little ppl wont get off of me.
i was 21
ohgeorgee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck it, i'm turning Frank Sinatra on to lighten the mood. These stories are creepy as hell.
judith_lies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"what is taint"
I explained but I wasn't expecting it so soon.
StrangenessandCharm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me: What do you want to do when you grow up? Kid (6): I want to be a killer Me: why do you want to be a killer!? Kid: I don't know, someone's gotta do it...
yooie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my mom used to work with a disturbed child... He once told her he was going to cut off her head and hide it in a trash can.
cloud_watcher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My three year old daughter (who obviously had never seen the shining): There's a little girl named Babba who lives in my mouth.
smr312 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i wait for the day i have kids and one of them asks "How much life insurance do you have" then i know im going to have to watch my back. kids are creepy, few months ago i went to visit family up in middle of nowhere buttfuck canada. I woke up to find my 3 and 6 year old cousin stareing at me, in the middle of the night, in a dark basement. needless to say i was scared shittless
SoJenniferSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my husband was around 2, he apparently looked at his mom and said, "I'm glad I chose you." She said, "What do you mean?" and he said, "When all the kids were in heaven picking their mommies, I'm glad I picked you." Sweet, but very weird.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was told that one night which I still almost don't believe my parents but the details never change so I guess this did happen. Well, one night when was 8-10 or so I had gone to bed early but my parents were still up doing whatever. Well my mom was in the bathroom with the door closed, she was washing her face, when all of a sudden she hears what she describes as a light scratching at the door. Wondering WTF was going on she begins to think over possibilities. Well mind you she has a face full of soap and has to keep her eyes closed so she is kinda freaked out. The scratching continues, slowly gaining momentum, at this point she is yelling at the door for a responds. None was given. She continues her freak out, and by the time she can get the door opened the scratching has stoppped (lucky).
She screams.
Here is little ol me standing right in front of the door. Apparently I had peed all over the door, just stood there draining the main vain all over the place. I can only imagine the puddle and the terrible cleanup. As for me I trotted right off to bed without so much as a word.
Requiem4Dream ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was younger, I sleptwalked a bit for no apparent reason. The first time I ever slept walked I was around 7 and my dad told me what I did afterwards. Apparently I walked down into the kitchen when it was pitch black, pulled a large knife out of the cabinet and walked up to the very top landing of the stairs and started playing with it while staring at the door.
lotuschii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but my younger sister freaked out our parents when she hallucinated on Benadryl.
She was sick, and was having trouble sleeping so my mom gave her a little Benadryl so she'd fall asleep easier. Later that night, I heard her get out of her bed (we shared a room back then), and run out of the bedroom and down the hall. I thought "Okay, she's sick. She probably went to the bathroom or something." But before I could lay back down, I hear her run back down the hall and throw open my parents bedroom door.
I could hear my dad freaking out and shouting "What's wrong? Are you okay?" And the whole time my sister is sobbing, and she throws herself on the floor and screams "I'm scared, they're going to get me!"
I'm standing outside the door, freaking out, and she runs out the door again. I caught her and told her to calm down, and she started crying again. She fell asleep in my bed later, fever broken, and when she woke up the next day she had no idea what had happened.
We didn't know it had anything to do with Benadryl until it happened again a couple years later. She never hallucinated like that before, and hasn't ever again. No more Benadryl for her...
Voozi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Granddad on my motherโs side passed away before both me and my sister were born. Supposedly he would have this saying when saying good bye to someone which he would say every time. When my sister was six she got a toy phone for Christmas and told my parents that she was talking to Granddad, intrigued they asked her what he said to her and she said what he would say when he would say goodbye to people when she had never met him before. Pretty strange and also caught on video somewhere.
Ambry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well my little cousin got a picture of a little girl off of the mantlepiece that she used to be friends with and pointed at her. She said "This is Amy, she's going to become a boy but I haven't told her yet." Then she just casually walked away and left me thinking and thinking about what my she meant o.o
hermit_the_frog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing was said exactly, but once I came upstairs to find my 3-year-old daughter standing silently at the other end of our long hallway, facing me, with he dark hair matted with sweat and hanging in front of her face like that creepy girl from "The Ring". She wouldn't answer to her name or move for what felt like a couple minutes... freaked me right the fuck out.
GMonsoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cute little 8 year old daughter gave me a card she made herself on Mother's Day. She said that if a burglar ever came after me she would grab a knife, stab him 'til he was dead, and then burn him with wood. 8 years old and already understands the concept of hiding the "evidence".
Wasn't creepy but my 5 year old son told me as I was driving us home that when he grows up he's "going to get one of those things....those things.....you know, a wife. So I won't have to ever drive".
TurncoatEwok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter used to tell us stories about the time she was with her "other mommy from a long time ago"... this was when she was 3. whenever we tried to ask her more about it, she would always tell us it was before the kangaroos ate me. :|
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:27 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I basically raised my little brother; we're quite a few years apart. When he was really little, he would always get mad if we called him his actual name. He'd get upset and scream, "My name is Ralph!" He did this for months. I thought it was one of those weird little kid things, but one day he said, "Ralph drowned in the yucky pond at my Daddy's house. He's in there if you look. He died where I was born and now I have to be him." My brother never met his dad and had never seen his house (which has a very yucky pond). He was conceived in the house.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Around 4, I had a dream I bit my sister's lips off. I ran into her room and walk her up to ask her. She still reminds me now when I am 22. Now, I wish I had looked instead of waking her up and asking.
Status-Duck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I use to stay the summer at my grandparents farm. When I was 7 i slept in the guest room, and they had like 17x12 painting of my great great grandfather, and I woke up the next morning at 5am with my grandfather but I was carrying the painting. Told my grandfather he came to me last night said he was cold, walked across the room to the closet and got a blanket. freaked my grandfather out because for some reason this great great grandfather of mine, hid in a cellar in Germany and for the days/weeks/months he hid, he complained about being cold.
JeSuisLeGrandMuzzy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent but my little sister used to have the scariest/funniest night terrors.
One year when we were on vacation and all cramped up in one room, my sister -maybe 7 at the time- suddenly sat up in bed in the middle of the night and screamed "The Sims are coming!!!", then ran into the bathroom closed the door behind her while we ran after her, slammed the toilet shut, and screamed at the top of her lungs.
Never let her play The Sims again.
clown_6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My step children are 4 and 5. One night i heard a sound in the living room, and being the man of the house, went to investigate. Sitting next to the sliding glass door was my 4 year old staring blankly out of the glass. When i asked what he was doing, he looked up at my and said "i was just talking to the man with the dog"... no one was out side and i was really confussed. He then just walked away not saying another word to me, and layed back down. Still to this day, i figure he must have been just sleep walking... i hope
XxXWindibaygoXxX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little(3 or 4) apparently I slept in the doorway of my sisters room. I didn't remember it so I asked why and she said "You would start rantingabout demons and things being possessed". It scared the shit out of me because. I was at the time 10 and had just learned what those things meant.
allieireland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's a popular story in our family... my Great Aunt's son, Dale was a young boy who later in life would dabble in black magic... when he was just 2, he raised up out of his bed as she walked in to check on him... grinned maliciously and pointed at her and said, "I'm going to scramble you like eggs" and laid right back down and went back to sleep.
Crazy.
thedancinglobster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Background: my grandpa on my moms side owned a dairy farm and was a milk man, he passed away before I was even 1.
I just asked and my mom said that I was in the bathtub one night when I was about 2, I looked up at her and said "I'm the milk man!" And then went back to what I was doing before. She said this freaked her out because it was so random, and my grandpa was a milk man and I was young to know.
pas18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mother in law has a guest bedroom in her apartment, and one day while she was in the kitchen, my 3 yr old daughter came out running and crying hysterically from the room, saying that there was a little girl by the window with white hair. When grandma went to investigate, there was nothing there, of course. This happened 2 other separate times while my wife was there also. Still gives me the chills.
Momtoawesomestkids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
At my grandmothers in Colorado. She lived about 20 minutes from Durango. I put my son, who was 3 at the time, to sleep. About 20 minutes later he calls for me. I walk in to the room and he's laying on the bed with wide eyes. I ask what's up and he says he thinks he saw a man outside the house with a chainsaw. I proceed to pretend to play it cool while secretly freaking out on the inside. For about 10 minutes I walk the house securing each lock. It was just my grandmother, my son, my sister and I. Men were in town for the night. It was pretty frightening even though I was pretty sure it was a dream. Pretty sure...
shamelessone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but a friend's 6 year old looked me dead in the eyes and said "I'll cut your head off shamelessone." She was serious as a heart attack too, creepy.
FrenchGiblet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:11 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I am child-free so I'll flip reverse this situation, but-
When I was little I used to have problems sleeping, and as my dad often worked away I'd creep into bed with my mum. APPARENTLY one night my mum woke up to find me sitting upright in bed and staring at the mirror, whispering to myself. When she asked what I was doing, I turned around and shushed her before turning back and talking to the mirror again.
Kids, man. Creepy bastards.
JoelM935 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, or even something they said, but I was at a party about a week ago, we were in my mates garden and we looked up and saw the neighbour's kid stood in the window with a lighter in hand just staring at us. Creeped us all out.
Mikeyoyo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know I have plenty, but none pop into my mind immediately..... I'm no parent, but I'm an older brother by 9 years....
I belive my brother was 3 at the time and I was 12. I had a few friends sleep over one night, and we relaxed, played random games, talked about random shit, the stuff 12 year olds do on a sleepover. At about 10:30, we decide to go to bed, so we all start going upstairs to my room.... There was a long hallway with a window that was currently at my back that led to my room, and it was nearly pitch black at the time. In the middle of the hallway was this very little silhouette with a pirate sword in it's hand.... The peices didn't click immediately for me, and my first thought was it was a demon or something, but instantly I realized it was my little brother. This is what freaks me out the most.... When I asked him what he was doing up, he said "The man in the window watching you was scaring me."
It couldn't of been me in the window because I never looked at the window, or at least I don't remember looking.
Afterwards, me and my friends back in my room, they continued to tease me saying my brother was a "Demon brother" and other 12 year old things......
Still creeps me out.
stadiumtoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 10 yr old after meeting her camp counselor said "atleast they're not cannibals " :/
zerokra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
i am not a parent but have a childhood memory... my sister and i were at a friends house. we were all between 8-10. the friends father was asking us what our favorite dinosaurs were and when he answered triceratops my sister proclaimed him the "king of horniness." perhaps more awkward than creepy.
Durrvish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Another backwards one. When I was maybe 2 or 3 years old, I was playing with my dad in the living room (with toys or blocks or something, I don't know exactly what), when all the sudden I just stopped what I was doing and looked past him over his shoulder and asked "Daddy, who is that?" He said that he turned around and there was nobody there. In fact, there was nobody else in the house besides us two. I'm still convinced I saw a ghost but didn't recognize what it was back then.
kateoj04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Daughter at 3 years old, out of the blue: "little girls have fears too..."
DaVincitheReptile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:09 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe memories are encoded into genes and when you're younger accessibility to those memories is greater than when you've aged a bit and had experiences that 'overtake' genetic memories.
theblogperson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Other way around...I was about seven, and my dad and I were debating right before I was about to go to bed. I didn't like what he was saying, so I said, "Screw you." He was shocked, to say the least.
vanquish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Younger brother was 3. A friend of mine asked him "what's at the end of the universe?". Brother replied "salt". "yeah but what's after the salt?" "cheese" "and after the cheese" "salt"
ilovetpb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 8 year old came home from an overnight with a friend, and asked me what a pedophile was. WTF? WHY?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember this vividly. When I was four and my younger brother was two. My parents were doing dishes in the kitchen leaving him and I to watch television. My brother snuck off and somehow managed to sneak a carving knife out from the kitchen. He the proceeded to chase me around the house with it threatening to cut me up and kill me. I was running for about two minutes before my parents realized what was wrong...my brother could have killed me...I still have nightmares about this...It was traumatic for me.
jennafoo33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just a few weeks ago, my 3 year old brother said to me and my family "Is the ghost going to come in and say Goodnight to me tonight?" I was so creeped out, and I tried asking him more about it the next day, but the only answer I could seem to get is that it says Boo. Not sure if there is any truth to his first story now -_-
ripcobain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had night terrors as a kid that involved my arms feeling like they were really skinny, like just bones. Several nights my parents had to hold me by both my arms while I screamed "I can't feel your hands! Why are my arms so small?!" Over and over again.
KarmaticDuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
=( this is so sad! I'd be so upset if my kids ever felt like this. I hope you don't have them anymore!
Lizzipoos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my little sister was about 4/5 she kept talking about things she did with 'the grandma that's dead'. It was so creepy, because it would pop up really randomly when we were talking about e.G having a BBQ. She'd suddenly say "Oh don't you remember when we went there with the grandma who's dead?". When we would ask her about it more as in when or what the dead grandma was called, she would get really annoyed and shy and would refuse to talk about it more. It creeped us out so much. She's 8 now and doesn't talk about it anymore,but I don't know if she remembers it. She also doesn't have a dead grandma..
Zoccihedron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:24 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My brother told me to say this but unfortunately I did not say it (I really wish I did, like if I had the chance to change one thing in my past, it would be so that I could say this.)
My family was having a dinner the day before my baptism, I was 4-6. My brother told me that the priest would be putting my head in holy water and proceeded to tell me to say, "OW! IT BURNS!" Unfortunately my mom and dad were sitting right there, my dad spit out his wine and began to laugh, my mom got pissed and told me not to say it (she threatened me with hell or something).
TheQueefGoblin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
let us in
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:08 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of the only things I remember of being a 4-5ish year old is seeing a disembodied head dangling from a dead tree in our garden every night. I always assumed it was the moon shining through weirdly or something. Then I changed rooms with my sister and her room faced the same way. She screamed all that night about a head outside her window. I'd never said anything about what I'd seen to anyone.
duggym122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My dad and my uncle are 3 years apart. My dad says, to this day, the thing that creeped him out most in his life is how my uncle slept with open eyes from age 7 onward. My dad would walk into the room and my uncle would be totally drooling-deep asleep except for wide-open eyes staring at the door.
djhoen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One of my boys when he was 5 or so told me that he tasted his own poo. I told him never to repeat that to anyone as long as he lived.
ExTuhC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was younger my friend was staying the night. That night we had a horrible thunderstorm. In the midst of the thunderstorm I woke up and my brother was jumping on the bed sleep walking ..the lightning flashing on his face as he jumped up and down smiling and staring at the wall. I quickly glanced at my friend like "are you fucking seeing this!?" But he was fast asleep. I laid my head back down and pretended it never happened.
hank87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a camp counselor, so I'm going to take some liberty with the phrase "one of your kids" because I have a good story. Last year we were playing Telephone, and one 7 year old kid really excitedly raises his hand saying he wants to start. He whispered, "You have no reason to live." to me with the most innocent smile imaginable.
W0rdN3rd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Mommy, when you die, can I have all your jewelry?"
"Yes."
"Can I have your car?"
"Yes."
"And the house? And all the furniture?"
"Yes, of course."
"What about Little Sister?"
"Yep. You get her, too."
Creepy little kid. I just wanted to creep her out right back.
Tohsyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading all of this I don't want kids anymore ..
lFLEA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me when my brother was like 2 or 3 on his birthday which is Christmas, my mom said, you have the same birthday as Jesus and he turned around and looked at her with a straight face and said I am Jesus.
Popular-Uprising- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Daddy, Fire!"
A few minutes later with a huge smile on his face: "Daddy, BIG Fire!"
snuggle_fish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandpa on my dad's side of the family died when I was 2 or 3. My parents said I used to sit in front of the TV while it was off and tell them that grandpa was talking to me.
ElectReaver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
God damn it you people are scary...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I never heard this happening, but this is a story my dad told me when my little sister was barely learning how to talk. She was my half sister, and her grandfather (not mine) had passed a year before. My dad had put her to bed three hours prior, and he himself was about ready to head off to sleep, but then he saw the light to my sister's room had been turned on, and the door was open just a crack. As he approached the door to see how the light had been turned on (she was still in a crib, I think, or something like it. The point being she was unable to get out of bed to turn the light on) she heard my little sister giggling as if she was being tickled and said things like "Oh Grandpa, you're silly!" and "I love you too Grandpa!". He never heard it again from that night on, and needless to say he didn't sleep much that night.
SaraDontDefyMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son's bathroom shares a wall with the kitchen. My husband was giving our son a bath while I cooked dinner and showed him that if you knock on the wall, Mommy will knock back. FUN!!
Well, it was adorable, but the next day my 2 1/2 year old kept knocking on walls and demanding they "Knock Back!!". It gave me a creepy feeling in my tummy.
jgood1983 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm currently 6 months pregnant. This post is TERRIFYING.
addedpulp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent. In high school, I occasionally kept my friend company while she babysat her very young siblings, a little girl and little boy.
She went to the bathroom and left me alone with them. They rarely spoke, but as soon as she was out of earshot, the younger of the two, the little boy, looked at me slowly and said,
"it's almost dark. Things happen when the sun goes down."
It still creeps me out just to think of the way he said it.
hatemoneylovewoman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my nephew was 8 years old, he lit his snowsuit on fire and it caught the house on fire. When we asked him why he did it, he said "to kill the bugs. Bugs crawl all over everything and make them bad." The snowsuit was new, used once and hanging on a hanger on a closet door to dry. He is now 24 and one of the creepiest creepers I've ever known.
whatsabox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up on an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. My parents divorced when I was rather young and my father raised my younger sister and I by himself. Living in the middle of nowhere meant we didn't have cable tv and we didn't have dish so it was very easy to turn the tv to one of those alarming static/snow channels. So when I was about 4 years old I apparently was sleep walking and made my way down stairs. I turned the tv on to one of those annoying channels which startled my father awake. He went in to the living room to see me sitting there staring blankly in to the static. He asked me what I was doing and without breaking my focus on the tv I just said "I have to do this." He shut the tv off and carried me back to bed but said it creeped him out too much to go back to sleep. I was a cool kid.
beardyeaglescout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is not a story about my kids as I none yet but a story of what I have been told I did when I was four. We were up in the mountains at my grandparents cabin and were cleaning the cabin. I was given the job of sweeping off the front porch because I liked to sweep but was not very good at it. Now here are some things that you need to know about the porch, it is about a six foot drop off the front and a three foot drop off the side into a planter. My mon was watching me sweep the porch and turned around to grab something. I took this opportunity to fall off the deck backwards into th planter. My mom runs over and in a panic asks me if I am ok. I being the evil genius that I was at that age said the following phrase: "mom, I cant feel my legs". My mom goes into full panic mode and is ready to rush me to a hospital. At this moment I start laughing uncontrollably and get up thinking it was the funniest thing in the history of the earth. Needless to say my mom was pissed and made my dad watch me for the rest of the day. TL:DR I fell off a porch and told my mom I couldn't feel my legs.
spsiamese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Earlier today I was driving to the store with my 3 yr old daughter in the car, and we drove past a cemetery/church. From the spot on the road you couldn't see any of the headstones, and anyway the ones in that particular section are very plain. Well just as we went through the stoplight there, she started talking about the pretty Angel. I have no idea what she saw but she was very insistent about seeing it.
mechtonia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a little kid,I told my mom "goodbye" as she was tucking me in one night. She asked where I was going and I replied "I'm going to heaven tonight"
cosignlove ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a little kid I said that if I were president of the world I would just kill all the poor people, to address the problem of overpopulation in developing countries. (I was kind of an overly well-read kid) My mom didn't know how to respond to my genocide plot.
Deresolutioned ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not creepy, nor frightening, just kids: I was at a wedding, talking to a couple of guys i hadnt seen in a while. Then suddenly my cousin of 8 years old kicks in the door, posing valiently, pointing his finger at me and yells: "GRAB THAT PANTIE-SNIFFER!" Proceeded by chasing me, laughing maniacaly.
Then again, my cousin is raised by Disney Channel and Cartoon Network. He's basically a living quote-machine
ccm596 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, as I am not yet a parent, but something I said when I was younger: Every time I wouldn't get my way, I would confess my wish that I were dead. That must have been scary for my parents, as I was little and kinda stupid, ya never know what might have set off my actual going through with it. Incidentally, this attitude has followed me into adolescence, though its not for not getting my way, and I don't proclaim it regularly, haha.
ccnova ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm reading many posts about kids seeing people in their rooms and such. What the fuck is going on here?
HereForKarma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:16:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much this.
ProlapsedPineal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The list is far, far, far too long. Pretty high on the list though has got to be when my 17 year old daughter asked me to watch this, saying it was the funniest thing she'd ever seen.
Oh, I was a single dad of 10 years with 3 teenagers at the time.
Sick senses humor are genetic, but that was fucking terrifying.
Wombat_H ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but when i was in 8th grade, I went to a party at a friends. At about 5 AM, everyone was asleep but i couldn't for some reason because i felt like was being watched. I closed my eyes for about one minute. When i opened them, the kid who threw the party's little sister was standing over me with a foam dagger. I screamed so loud and woke up 4 people but she ran away and they didn't believe me. I still get made fun of for that.
hooplahoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:40 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I had pretty intense terror mares (or night terrors) as a child. The first time it happened my parents had no idea what it was. I must have been about 5 years old, they were watching tv and I just appeared at the living room door seemingly awake. I took one look at my mum, let out a bloodcurdling scream and started crying hysterically. My mum tried to console me and apparently I lashed out, hitting, punching her, scratching her face all whilst screaming "YOU ARE NOT MY REAL MOTHER! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY MOTHER? YOU'VE KILLED HER HAVEN'T YOU? WHERE IS SHE?"
My dad had to basically pin me down until I woke up. I had no recollection.
Edit: Question marks all over the place.
Words_R_Fun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:39 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 2 I apparently told my mom that I was reincarnated. Unlike many of the other stories in this thread I didn't say it in a kid way like "I remember when I used to be big." I said "Mommy, did you know I was reincarnated?" Freaked her out bad.
For as long as I can remember I have believed in reincarnation. I think that people continue on in different lives until they get "it" right. I don't know what "it" is, but ever since I was really little I have had this strong feeling that I am really close to finding "it."
Still no idea how else I would have known the word reincarnation at such a young age. No one else in my family believes in it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:46 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I (the child) was 8 years old apparently I threatened to kill my dad in his sleep. According to my mum he didn't sleep for a month. :P
BobJ143 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I once slept walk and pooped in a trash can when I was 5.
miranimous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, and definitely not as creepy as some of these. I was helping with some kids (kindergarten age) and a boy in the class came up to me and told me that someone watches this other girl in the class when she sleeps. I asked if it was a parent or grandparent and he said, "no, from the window." He just walked away after that. A little strange.
sonnet155 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the kid in this story but once when I was like 2 or 3 I was being taken care of by one of my mom's friends, and when she told me to do something I replied "You want a piece of me?". Boy do I still hear that one a lot.
raresaturn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
lol our kids say that but they say "You want a piece of meat?". it's hilarious
queentilli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
As I was putting my son (barely 2 at the time) into his car seat, he looked at me, gave a creepy chortle and said: " You're gonna die, Mama!"
Hmm. I know we've all got to go someday, but I drove extra carefully that day!!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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HereForKarma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:21:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
How considerate!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I had this imaginary friend named Naylor. He was like a shadow, but like a metal shadow. He came (as I had things manifest from my imagination when I was younger) whenever I got a chill, a brief chill. Now one night, I get the chill, and was drawn out of bed. I walked down to the basement, and to a crib we kept in the back. I saw Naylor and ran to him. He told me(I was I think 4 or 5 and prone to audio hallucinations) that he was trapped in the crib. I was banging on it, trying to free him. Parents woke up, and I started screaming "Free him!" over and over. They turned on the lights, and Naylor was gone. I sobbed. That was the last time I saw him, until about a year ago, I swear I saw him in the hallway. And he was ANGRY that I hadn't freed him. Now whenever I get a brief chill, I freak the hell out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My kid looked outside and just said "ghost is sitting on chair"
HereForKarma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:18:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, where else would your ghost sit?
avengedrkr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My twin sister and I would be playing as babies and simultaneously stop, turn around and stare at our mum, weird.
Claymutt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son, who will be three in August, said the following completely out of left field: "I'm going to kill someone that I haven't met yet". What. The. Fuck.
Exitiumx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A family who is very close to my family (they are like family) - live into a house to this day. They are an honest bunch and are not the type of people to bullshit.
Anyway, when I was about 13 - the 15 year old boy told me stories of how his room was haunted. One night, he was falling asleep and felt something on his leg, like it was tapping him through the covers. He woke up and for a split second, he saw an old lady right literally inches from his face staring at him. Immediately then he closed his eyes and tried so hard to sleep.
Soon after that, I had to sleep in that exact same room with my brother and the sweat that came off me made the bed damp.
His mother was also a spiritualist at the time and is still now so the family weren't fully creeped out by it.
*sorry if it seems off topic, I've seen so many weird stories, been wanting to share this one for a while!
TyperMonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Nan passed on a story about the time when she was driving around with my Aunt with my little cousin in his baby seat, and he started squealing and yelling for them to stop because a truck is about to hit them. Aunt told my nan hes done this on a few occasions.
Forksss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have kids of my own but when I was very very young, I always woke up earlier than the rest of my family and I would just lay down and waited for my mom to get me out of my crib. Every morning I would hear two different voices calling my name. One voice was like an old Italian lady's voice, and the other was an old man's voice. I used to think it was my father's dead parents trying to talk to me and I wasn't scared at all. I kind of just used to giggle and respond 'what?' and all i heard was just these voices saying my name repeatedly. I grew out of this after the age of 6 and I told my parents about it and they said it must have just been my imagination. Idk.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:36 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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HereForKarma ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:11:41 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Spoiler: You murdered someone.
PagingDoctorLove ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bloody nose? Used to happen to my sister all the time. She'd stay asleep and subconsciously rub it off before she woke up. Took us a while to figure it out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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jasondhsd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wut?
Fah-Q78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yea I'm a dummy, I deleted it
Tamrin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my eldest daughter was very young (3 or 4) she told me she wanted to be the 'Evil Overlady of the Universe'. I'm still not sure what she was watching that triggered that.
ragerlol1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Smashed his face on my dick
BoughtreeFidee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was around 8 years old, me and my cousin were playing in my grandparent's room which had a patio outside. My grandparent's house is pretty old and we always were a little scared of that room since it had a lot of pictures of ancestors in it and it used to terrify us. My cousin was 4 years older than me, but he told me about how he's seen a demonic black shape right outside the window at times. I thought he was just trying to scare me, but that night..I shit you not, I saw a demonic shadow forming across the window and I was so glad the door was closed. We just started screaming at the top of our lungs, and the shadow disappeared, but when we told our parents what happened, they just exchanged nervous looks and told us to go to bed. I'm seriously still scared to go in that room, but the house is about to be sold and to this day, I can't tell what happened there.
CatMuffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but when I worked at an after-school program, one of my kindergarteners' 3-year-old brother had an accident and lost both of his legs. For several months after the accident, the kid would occasionally make comments to me and other teachers, like "Hey Miss CatMuffin, guess what?" "What, kid?" "My brother's feet are in the trash can."
Not inexplicably creepy, just his unsettling way of dealing with his brother's tragedy.
raresaturn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:52 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When me and my brother were about five and six, we had a playmate who live a few doors down. Anyway, the kid died (I think it was a reaction to anaesthetic) but about a week later we told mum we were going down the street to play with Ricky because he was calling us. Freaked mum right out. It doesn't help that Ricky lived opposite a cemetery and that's where they buried him.
I don't for a minute believe we heard Ricky calling us (I don't remember the incident) but I can imagine the effect it would have had poor mum at the time. Another related incident, mum went to his funeral and I drove her to tears asking questions about it afterwards. She screamed at me to shut up. The only time she ever really screamed at me.
Enzie1991 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why am I reading these right after completing all three paranormal activity movies? ._.
TrentHelsing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I probably scared or confused a number of adults when I was 2-4. Every now in then when we'd go to Walmart or, god forbid, the Mall, I'd awkwardly stumble to some person who felt like my mom, and walk like I was in a house of horrors until I noticed my parent- whom did not notice I was missing- walking the other way. The grandmother tried laughing it off, but I'm fairly sure the horrified look on my face made her feel like a pedophile...
kurwazimnojest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was on playground duty (therefore no, not a parent but bear with me) and a year 6 girl comes up to me and, a couple of sentences into the conversation, says: 'When you die, can I cut you up?'
Odd looks were exchanged. I told her I'd promised that honour to someone else. That was the day another year 6 told me my death would be swift and painless.
sassafrass762 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather died when I was around three years old. Well the day after he died my mom was giving me a bath when suddenly she felt a chill then the hairs on the back of her neck started standing up. I then looked over her shoulder and smiled while squealing "Hi grandpa!" over and over again. She pretty much flipped her shit. Another time my little sister when she was four ran into my room and informed me of the "crawling shadow man" in her room.
VishousOne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My at the time 7 year old daughter tells me one day that when she goes up she's gonna be an assassin. I'm like...Why? That's not a nice thing to be. She said: Don't worry mom, I won't put a bullet in anyone under 18. No kids. Ever.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Do you know what she has done, your cunting daughter?" Creeped me out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Kid I babysit for has psychosis and early onset schizophrenia. He's 7 and he talks to spiders that live in his veins. I found him watching a storm one night and he said "I love the rain", then looked back at the sky and said "they all do too." He also can't eat spaghetti because he says it comes alive and turns into worms in his stomach.
Finally, one time I went to the bathroom and when I came out he was in the kitchen holding a knife and looking at the ceiling, crying.
geekgirlshavemorefun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I taught my 2 year old how to speak in the Exorcist voice. Still creeps me out when he says, "Mommmmmyyyy." and sounds like the spawn of Satan.
i-am-sherlocked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Creepiest thing a kid has ever said to me wasn't even a real word. I was babysitting two little boys age 3 and 4. Before bedtime we are getting ready, pajamas etc. one turns to the other and speaks in a gibberish language that i swear does not exist. Think ewok mixed with Icelandic and a dash of demonic Latin. Then the other one ANSWERS in the same freaking language. Full sentences. Scariest fucking shit. Next sentence they switch to English and carry on with no recollection.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:06 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Our (then) 2.5 y/o on the way to drop Daddy (me) off in the airport.
"Uh oh. Daddy go in sky. Daddy plane fall down. Daddy head turn red."
:(
RyanMB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was in line once at a concession stand and this kid who was probably about 6 years old walked up in front of me, looked up stared and made a gun motion with his hand pretending to shoot me making no sounds. Needless to say I didn't think it was that funny at the time because he had the most dead serious face. Then he just walked off.
RemyJe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son was four when he declared that he was a "bad fucker.".
Flarehl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Am I weird for actually wanting a child so I can hear them say creepy things? It seems worth it, until they grow and start saying shit that I dont care about.
shadeshadows ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin's son went on a rampage of creeping everyone out when he was two. It all started with when he went to his grandpa's funeral, whom he'd never met. He sat in the graveyard, throwing his hands forward. When my cousin asked what he was doing, he responded with, "Fishing!" Then, my cousin asked, "Who taught you how to fish?" to which he responded, "Grampa!" while looking up and to his right. Later on, he was watching TV in the bedroom by himself, and he screamed. My cousin said he rushed into the room, asking, "What happened?" His son was shaking and looking at the window. He pointed and said, "Scary! The man in the window!" Needless to say, my cousin snatched him up and left the house. After that, he developed an imaginary friend whom he called "Cal." The whole family played along with it for a while. One night, he approached his mom and said "Mom...Cal is sad." She responded "Aww, why is he sad?" Then with a completely serious look on his face, he responded, "'Cause he died." These are just a few of the events that happened while he was two, but as soon as he turned three, it all stopped - just like that. If you asked him about Cal or fishing, he would just give you a puzzled look and wouldn't know what you were talking about. He went on to become a normal kid, and nothing has ever been mentioned in our family about these events since. tldr; My cousin's son scared the crap out of everyone when he was two...which I would think is too young to have been trolling all of us...right?
marshmallowparty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, my little brother, 3 years old, had Leukemia. We'll call him Bobby. He was in the hospital with a little girl his age who also had some sort of disease affecting her blood that was killing her red blood cells and turning her blood pink. To my knowledge, they never knew what was causing it. Anyway - my brother died, and soon after, the little girl was doing better, so she got to go home, and her mom heard her in the other room talking. She walked in, and she was on a toy phone. When her mom asked whom she was talking to, she said "It's Bobby. He says not to be afraid, and that I'll see him soon." It creeped her mom out. Right after that, she took a turn for the worse, and died within weeks.
andrepd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This one is mine. I always rolled around a lot in my aleep. When I was about three I was sleeping one night and apparently I had a nosebleed. Well then eventually my dad walks in at some point to check on me and, as he describes, his heart skipped a beat. Or several. My face was covered in blood, due to my rolling around and stretching and stuff. So was the wall, the sheets the pillow, and apparently even the fucking floor. Then I stir, and he realises I'm ok.
My dad was scared shitless, I imagine...
wildtalent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:02:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
While giving my so a bath when he was about 2 or 3 he told me about the old lady that talks to him and plays with him sometimes. There was no old woman. We were living in a house where the previous owner an old woman had passed away in.
venusproxxy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:00:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I read this as "while giving my significant other a bath when he was 2 or 3..." I was thoroughly confused
wildtalent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa......no..no..no. lol. My son lol.
venusproxxy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I got that after a minute heh
wildtalent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:39 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
SON lol. Sorry good catch on the typo there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:02:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I got a couple about me when I had very little sleep.
When I was about 9 years old I remember seeing a pale white women in a white gown(was not my mom and did not resemble anyone I knew) walk down my hallway till she reached my room and stared at me. I was awake because I was watching an episode of Outlaw Star at the time and this ocurred shortly after the sleep function turned off the tv. I froze, terrified for no fucking reason. She just kept staring, I don't remember her eyes or face. They were just a blur wrapped in shadow. Anti-climactically she just kept walking down the hallway towards my parents bedroom after staring at me for a good 2 minutes. I did not say a word and did not move, i just stayed there staring at the ceiling until it was time to go to school.
When I was 13 or 14, I apparently showed up in my sisters room with a butchers knife in my hand and some cheese on a plate. After not answering her questions for about 30 seconds I simply asked if she wanted any cheese. When she said no I walked out of the room without saying a word. It was 3am and I don't remember doing this lol.
I have more but I dont feel like going through them all.
SuperChooch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There was a house in our neighborhood that had a major fire about 5 years before I was born. There was a boy and a girl who lived there. The boy survived the fire but the girl died. The house was repaired and a new family moved in When I was around 5, I started telling my parents that we used to live there and that I had a sister and she died in a fire there. They never told me about the fire so needless to say it totally bugged them out.....
MaximumME ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:47 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
baby sister sleep walked in to my parents room at around 3am when asked if she was ok she quietly and with wide eyes replied "i'm just looking for my body".
also she said she doesnt like old people up stairs they watch her and follow her around. we live in what was once a nursing home. X-files music
crazycalamity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'm an older sister, but my brother (4 yo at the time) once said to my parents, just out of nowhere, "So... you guys aren't my real parents, right? Like my real parents died and you guys are my new parents?" The look my parents gave me (assuming I told him this... which I didn't) was branded into my 8 yo mind.
SomeCuntingCunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It wasn't terribly creepy but when I was like 9, my brother's friend had a younger brother of about 4 or 5 that would constantly threaten to kill me. He would come downstairs with a knife and say "Where are you hiding, you better tell me because i'm going to kill you today" and he would walk around laughing all crazy and stuff. He did this pretty much every time I went over there. Never made good on the threat, obviously.
kurozael ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young I actually recall waking up, walking into my mother's room in the middle of the night, waking her up and saying, "mum, there's a man in my room and he wants to play manhunt." and I can actually remember doing it, but can't quite remember why. In the morning I remember asking my mum if it actually happened (maybe it was an extremely vivid dream), but she confirmed it.
okdudestfu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:29 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to live in a trailer on top of a hill (that we later learned had someone die in it and was on top on an indian burial ground/site). My brother, being just born eight months prior, slept in a crib in my parents room. One night my parents were cuddling and what not and my brother says in a creepy old man voice "Feels good!". Creeped my parents out for sure. That place was just creepy in general.
DruidFuckingTank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My step brother when he was 3-4 would sit in this room of a old house we lived in and play with spoons and talk to " The little girl " for hours on end and laugh and play and aparently the little girl used to go for car rides and everything
once asked him more about it he said shes protecting the house from the angry man etc was odd
Also one night hes asleep in back room i hear foot steps run down hall way ( Child steps ) i think oh hes up go look nope still asleep this is around 2am mind you.
And hand prints showing up on everything high places low places everywhere tiny tiny hand prints.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Alright I'll bite. When I was 9 years old I vaguely remember standing up in bed and jumping. I did not say anything at all, I can remember is seeing blue things in the ceiling and feeling like something was taken from me. My mom came into the room and asked me what I was doing. I came to and said I don't know and simply went back to bed. I could swear that appartment was haunted there was alot of freaky shit going on in that house.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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venusproxxy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Aly?
elgatonoesbueno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My roommate's kid walked into the bathroom once while I was pooping and said "Watch out for the giants that are in the toilet" He then calmly skipped away.
icemage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wow reading half of these comments shocked me, please excuse my language but that is fucked up.
sysadminbj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I keep waiting for the day when some kid mutters something about Arthur Dent in his sleep.
breenisgreen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:59 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"We were just wrestling"
bg86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was 2 he requested to watch some show on tv that I don't even know he knew existed. I asked where he heard about the show he told me my deceased grandma's nickname. She had never been mentioned around him by me out anyone else and it is not a common word that he would have just thrown together with Grandma. Still creeps me out.
stickduck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One night, I woke up and laid on the ground outside in a star fish position. My mom asked me what I was doing. I said, "They're waiting for me." She doesn't like it when I stare at the night sky now.
billebob2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Let's go pull a train on that cat."
citizen059 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My seven year old son told my wife that her dead father (who my son has never met) visits him in his dreams, and told him that someone is going to murder my wife in our own home but not to be scared.
I mean what in the o.0
jasome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:27:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
while reading all these, my 6 yr old girl comes to me for hugs and kisses. I tell her not to ever say anything creepy to us. "Why not?" Because it would be creepy! "OK." She reaches over for one last hug and kiss, and as she's leaving she says, "I kissed a woman. That means I love a woman." I just looked at her and thought, I told her not to say anything creepy, didn't tell her not to say anything weird. Normalcy for our house.
charonthemoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:27:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is about me: When I was three and it was Martin Luther King, Jr Day, we learned about him and his assassination in preschool. I talked to my parents about it and, disturbed about him being killed, announced "I want a gun. So I can shoot all the bad guys!" So my parents calmly and clearly explained to me that people are more complicated than just good and bad, and there would be no way for me to know who were the "bad guys". I confidently said these two words: "I'll know."
GoodToSeaYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:28:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading a bunch of these posts I dont ever want to have children. Theyre going to kill me or see ghosts their entire life.
samw11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Our 4 year old told us, completely out of the blue one afternoon that "Auntie Barbara has gone to Heaven to be with Jesus".
The following day we found out that our friend's Mum (Auntie Barbara) had lost her battle with cancer.
There is no way she could possibly have known that & we are chicken-shit and have never discussed death with her. Where that came from, I will never know & tbh I'm not entirely certain that I want to!
loveismydrug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well i don't have kids but this happend to me... when i was a kid like 2 i used to wake up screaming blank face just screaming. my mom would ask me what is wrong and i would just keep screaming and in my house at the time there was a ghost...
JenniferLopez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young, I was in the process of trying different ADHD meds to see which would work for me. One of them worked great- my grades immediately improved. But it also kept me from sleeping and consequently made me really mean. My Mom says I looked at her one day when I was angry and hissed "You just wait until you go to sleep." They took me off of that medication the next day.
Cubitt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't really that creepy, but my parents once told me that when I was about 3-4 or something like that, I said to them "You've changed the curtains in the living room" But they changed them before I was even born D: Kinda weird I guess? I'm pretty sure I actually remember this happening too..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
not mine, but this scared the shit outta me http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/vwbyt/weird_things_children_say_post_reminded_me_of/
relinquospes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I stand corrected, shortly after I commented earlier, my 2 year old son repeatedly snatched my kitten from me and yelled "MY LUNCH!!"... he's not allowed near the kitten anymore
mynameisnotsam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'll stab you with my pencil!"
Background: This was my friend's daughter. She was coloring and it was bedtime.
benji3234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom said when I was three, I used to have conversations with myself when I was alone. when asked who I was talking to, I would always reply "Grandpa Ben", my grandfather who died when I was two and who I am named after. Needless to say, it really freaked my mom out.
_iDa_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's 3:30 in the morning in Finland and these Ghost stories are not helping! I just took sleeping pill.
xenofixus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Even though I don't have children I feel the need to share a little story that happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
I am 23 and my youngest sister is 5. I was in my bed sleeping when I woke up. Something felt a little off so I looked around my dark room when I noticed two eyes staring back at me. I realized pretty quickly that it was my youngest sister so I asked her what she was doing. She responded by saying "I was watching you sleep." I decided it was time to get up for the day.
atomic_bubblegum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Back in my old job my co-worker's 4 year old used to like going to my office to draw things, and one day she was drawing a little girl and a dog in front of the house, I asked her if that was her and if that was her puppy, she said no that the little girl was Sally and that was her dog, when I asked if Sally was her friend she said yes and that Sally lived with them and the dog didn't like to play in the morning so they only played at night. I told her Mom about it and she said that she has an imaginary friend named Sally but that the dog was new. Kids are creepy.
Tabletulips ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:13 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Me: Nathan, were is your ducky? Nathan: Ducky is dead Me: What? How? Nathan: I killed him. Nathan was 2. I was his nanny
matadora79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
3 year old son "I am going to kill you mommy" * maniacal laugh*
To clarify at the time he thought kill was the same as to hurt.
Rmw5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was about 3 my husband would leave for work about 2:30am and she would frequently climb in bed with me after he left. Our bedroom was a addition & the windows faced out to the driveway. One morning my daughter sat up & smiled & said happily "daddy's home!" & I said 'no honey, he's at work.' & she responded "well then who's the man at the window?" I did not sleep another second!
sundaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My younger brother had a really elaborate alternate personality.
At 4 years old, he would dress in odd ways (pants on head, and things like that), put on a strange accent, and call himself a different name. He would deny knowing his real name. He even had this big back-story about how his whole family died in a fire, how he grew up in this other place.
mjrhome1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter was about 5 years old when I was having a conversation with my wife about my grandma. She was writing or coloring at the table and not really paying attention or so we thought. She then turned to us and in the most serious voice days "Dads grandma is going to die in two weeks." My wife and looked at each other wide eyed and asked her why she said that. She seemed to think nothing of it and went back to coloring. My grandma had a stroke 2 weeks to the day afterwards. She was in a coma for 3 days and then passed away. True story.
BrisbaneBaby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mum and my little brother, probably 4 or 5, were in the mall one day when I woman walked past them obviously crying. My brother, very confidently said to Mum "See that woman there? She's crying because her husband just died." Mum said it wasn't just a throwaway comment, but that he was pretty adamant.
Ilaynam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I used to work at a daycare when I was in high school. In the room, we had a puppet theater with a basket of puppets. One of the boys, who was three at the time, picked up the police officer puppet, threw it on the ground, grabbed a fork from the kitchen set and started stabbing the puppet vigorously. When we asked what he was doing he turned those sweet eyes up at us and with a giant grin said "I'm killing the po-po!"
liquid_j ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like that kids parents don't think too highly of the police. Kinda a dangerous idea to cultivate in a young mind.
Ilaynam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. His parents were absolutely ridiculous and his brother who wasn't much younger than me (I was 17 at the time) had just returned from jail for his most recent felony charge.
karma_virus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was around 4 my older sister (8) caught me sleepwalking. I wandered into her bedroom in a bunny-ear cap and proceeded to use the chair in the corner of her room as a urinal. She grabbed me and dragged me down the hallway to use the bathroom, where I proceeded to throw up dark red. Apparantly the Ghostbusters cereal had a ridiculous amount of food coloring in it. SO my poor parents woke up to my sister screaming, and me all groggy, covered in piss and with what looked like chunky blood down my shirt and on the floor.
Kubea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ironic that it was Ghostbuster's cereal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me this: She's a preschool teacher and apparently at the preschool there is a ghost of a young child, around 4 years old. The ghost likes to be on the play ground, wash hands ect. There's this one girl that comes to the preschool everyday and she doesn't talk. But she'll randomly go to a table and sit at a chair. She'll then point at the empty chair and say "bokito" over and over. Then later she'll go somewhere else, point at an empty space and say bokito. :<
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I took a little kid(4) to use the bathroom at church and while he's on the toilet he asks "how do you kill a tree?" So I asked why would u want to kill a tree? He says, "because if you kill a tree it can fall and kill someone and look like an accident." ........I just said oh....okay
shuknjive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:46:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I love you mom but when the zombies come I'll be behind you, sorry. I'll have a gun."
joshlamm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:46:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my brother was very little he had an imaginary friend named Johnny. It wouldn't have been weird if it weren't for the fact that the man who previously owned, lived, and died in the house was named Johnny. There would have been know way he could have known this.
GeneralBrohoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
About a year ago my grandfather died of lung cancer. and about 2 months ago my grandma finds my 5 year old cousin in her bedroom talking. When she asks who he's talking to he replied "im talking to pap. He's all better, and he can breathe now..."
She stopped letting him go back there.
Rockerchick15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was babysitting the neighbors' three year old awhile ago, and after asking him twice to go clean up the mess of toys on the floor that he made. After saying "No!" to me multiple times, he finally blurted out, "I'm gonna go get a knife and....and...cut you!". I told his parents when they got home later, and let my little sister babysit them from then on.
Kubea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:52:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait to sacrifice your little sister. You're a great older sibling.
Rockerchick15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:09 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Meh ...the neighbors moved out shortly after, and my Sister is alive and unscathed.
madarapt1 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean ' way to '
sleepy_sloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time I was watching TV with my little brother. I was about 16 and he was 2 or 3. He was playing with some papers and things and suddenly got a really serious look on his face, grabbed an empty CD case and pointed it at me, saying 'SIX SIX SIX', then went back to playing like nothing happened.
Milk_sandwich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Everytime i take a new gf to meet my mum, she tells them about the time she caught me in the bathroom, with a pair of scissors, about to cut my nuts off, because they kept getting hurt.
mrmeth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a friend and his little sister used to sleep walk usually she would walk into her parents room and just stand at the foot of the bed till someone woke up and noticed
zombikki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like a lot of these should be posted to r/nosleep
Eliot_2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 3 year old niece, during a car ride with the family, for no reason at all shouted "Jesus is fake and dumb."
Diabetesh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Well I am gonna go turn every light on and never sleep again. If you need me I will be in /awww
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
BLOW TREES GET MONEY BITCHES AINT SHIT-my 9 year old son after getting into hip hop. Seemed like a great thing for him to be into music right until then.
ThePositiveAsshole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but when my nephew was 4, I was teasing him every time he looked away i would tap him on the top of his head, and after about the 5th time he turned to me and says "would you just fuck off already?" That was the first time I heard him speak.
PutBroFistHere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent but apparently i told my mom that all my imaginary friends died in a fire
(I was 4 at the time)
Shaggy_Xx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I know you asked parents and I am simply a sibling but apparently my brother said to a psych that he had a spider in his head and it talked with a deep voice.
Arx0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Is it bad I want kids now just to study their demonic past life experiences.
rachelololol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but i've my own story. About two weeks after my first moving experience (being around seven) I always saw an abnormally tall man walk back and forth my doorway. It terrified me and I always complained to my mom and sister about it, it went away about a year later. Let's just say I was not pleased whenever I found MarbleHornets YouTube channel a while back.
CowMania ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Since I read this post, I have been watching those videos now, freaking myself out. Thank you for this.
DilbertOSulivan6423 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not what you asked as I was the kid but...
It was around the time the first Lord of the Rings movie came out, I was about 6/7 and I used to pretend I was Gollum. I'd crawl around on my hands and feet and do my best Gollum impression. So one night, I got into bed, top bunk of a bunk bed I shared with my little sister, and went swiftly to sleep. Later in the night, my mothers boyfriend came up to check on us and when he opened the door, I apparently sat upright in bed, basically flipped off the bed onto the floor, "scuttled"(his word not mine) across the floor into a corner where I crouched there, staring, wide eyed at him with a huge, evil grin across my face. He closed the door and went back downstairs.
I woke up the next morning back in bed and to this day don't remember any of it but it scared him enough that he never came to check on me once I was asleep again.
I laugh my ass off every time I think about it.
Red_Queen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my friend was little (around 4 years old I think) she used to have night terrors. One night her parents found her downstairs running around and screaming. Eventually, they calmed her down and she said that she was trying to slay a dragon. The night terrors went on until she was about 6 and they scared the crap out of her younger brother.
ibeatsephiroth7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 3 my Mom made some kind of Auschwitz joke. We had never before spoken of the Holocaust. My eyes glazed over and I said 'Motorcycles.'
hen_11_tre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time when my brother and I where in elementary school we would walk around a courtyard at our Sunday school and tell younger kids that he is coming for you. One time this 1st grade started yelling and said, Sometimes i see him when he thinks I'm sleeping!", We and after that time we never did it again.
GaijinSama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is more cute than anything. When my daughter was about 4, she was getting curious about death. We had a goldfish die, and she had only recently learned of the concept that life ends. We wanted to be as open and supportive as possible(I remember learning about death, and it was traumatic as fuck), so my girlfriend asked our daughter if she'd like to go on her annual Mother's Day visit to her grandmother's grave. She asked me later what a cemetery was, to which I told her 'it's a place where, after you die, they perform a ceremony and place you in the ground.' and her instant reply was 'and then you come back as a zombie and eat brrrrrraaaainnns!'
brainfart1000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well... I did this one today.
Washing the floor rugs of the living room. My mom and I were moving the now clean but sopping wet rug over the patio table to let it dry in the afternoon sun. I had rolled the thing up, hefted it up on one shoulder, then threw it over the table. It made a wet, slapping sound, and I turned to my mother and noted "It's like moving a dead body!"
My easy to smile mom actually went a little pale, and didn't comment. Now that creeped me out.
Rudefire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but, I have two creepy things.
The first was one of my friend's kids once told them that he was sick of having conversations with the man with fancy ears in his bedroom.
The other is the kid that wanted his dad to make the slimy man leave his bedroom.
schizocheeze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"This broccoli is delicious!"
scout-finch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:34:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My boyfriend's little brother had kind of a creepy streak. He was mostly a nice kid, but once when he was about 5 he came up to me and said, "Did you know if I stabbed you, you'd die?". And another time he had these red tinted sunglasses and he put them on and said, "Bloody!" and took them off and said "Not bloody!" about 3 or 4 times.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I work at a garden centre, so children aren't an every day part of my job. But, a week or so ago a grandma was shopping with her grandson. He took a liking to me and started talking to me when I went to put a hanging basket I had been dead heading into the greenhouse. I love talking to kids, so I took the chance to slack off and talk to this young boy whose maybe 5 years old. At first it's standard things little kids talk about -- ie: "did you know I have two sisters? Their names are ___ and ___" -- and he was pretty adorable -- the look of shock on his face was priceless when I told him I was also a little brother (while wide-eyed and slack-jawed he asked "how big your brother").
Anyways, he was telling me about some story he heard about people burning cars. This is clearly something he's been mulling over, and he cannot comprehend why someone would set fire to a car. To him, this is the worst thing a person to do. So, as he's done telling me about these people setting fire to cars, he calmly says "if I ever found them, I'd take a knife and cut off their heads."
I simply told him, "that's not very nice," to which he responded "no... maybe I'd just jump on them." I told him "that's still not very nice," he eventually decided he'd just push them. I decided I'd settle for that.
I found it pretty funny, but I didn't tell my friend I was working with what he said. I didn't want to ruin her image of the cute little boy who was just dying to talk to me. I don't think too much of it because I know that kids that age don't really comprehend death until they've experienced it in someway. But, if in a few years you hear about the killings of some guys that wrecked some cars, you can bet it was that cute boy named Hunter.
loner_with_a_broom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:36:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My close childhood friend used to live in an area where Native Americans were known to bury their dead. One night I slept over at her house and we both went downstairs at the crack of dawn to get breakfast. Her little brother was staring straight out of the window looking at an empty field. He turned to us and said "Who are those weird men in the Indian costumes?" It scared the crap out of both of us.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:36:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 2 I used to tell my parents things like "Raikus is in the wall daddy." and I would follow things across the room and point. Later my Dad learned from some Indian or Hindu friend that it was the name of a demon.
Arx0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:36:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A few years back some of the family and I went and stayed at a cabin deep in the Adirondacks. The youngest kid, one of my cousins, was about 3 or 4 then. About the 3rd night, it was particularly foggy out, so we retired early. I remember waking up randomly in the middle of the night, hearing a loud thud/scratching noise against one of the walls. I quietly peeked out the window to see what it was, and I couldn't see much over the fog. I disregarded it, as it was probably a raccoon, and I laid back down. Then I heard a voice outside. It sounded like a small child. I was worried that one of the kids snuck out of bed and went outside. The Adirondacks are teeming with wildlife, including black bears and coyotes, so naturally I was worried. I grabbed my flashlight, and gathered my nerves as I opened the front door. a billow of fog wooshed in, making everything 10 times creepier. I went around the side of the cabin, by my window, and as I approached it, I made out a shape. It looked like a small child. I was relieved. I asked my cousin if he was alright, but he didn't reply. He didn't even turn to look at me. He just sat there in the mist, stone like. I got closer and shined my flashlight at him. He was sitting there, surrounded by what looked like drawings in the dirt. I picked him up to take him back inside when I saw it... He was sitting in a pentagram. My heart sort of skipped a beat when I saw it, and I accidentally lost my hold on my cousin. He screamed and crawled away, under the cabin. I still can't get the scream out of my head; it was blood-curdling. When my breath came back to me, and my brain recovered from the shock, I went into panic mode and sprinted back inside to wake the others. I turned the lights on and told everyone that he was missing, and was hiding underneath the cabin for some reason. Everyone was worried, and as we were about to head back into the mist, out came my 3 year old cousin holding his stuffed Snorlax, from out of his bedroom. I stood there in disbelief. What the hell did I pick up out there? MFW I realized I was Satan, and I was the one that drew the pentagram.
gaasem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:11 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading through these comments, I'm tempted to ask my parents if I had any sort of imaginary friends or creepy experiences when I was younger.
Then again, asking them might freak them out as is.
Fuckit21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:39:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was little I would talk about how weird it would be for everything to be black and white(reffering to black and white movies). My mom thought it was hilarious.
samuriwerewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not me hearing But apparently as a child I used to sleep with a knife under my pillow and when asked about it I said "It's in case one of them comes into my room at night."
wallyfoggle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My oldest son was about 3. My wife and I were sitting with him in his bed after reading a book. There was silence for a moment then he turned and looked at the open door to the room and with a slightly alarmed look said "why is that man screaming?". After the hair on our neck went back down we asked gently "what man?". He smiled and said "I don't know" and we left it at that.
wallyfoggle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:56:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I on the other hand have had and still do have hypnagogic hallucinations since as far back as I can remember. My lucky parents got to witness:
Me screaming in my room telling them to get the bat out. I saw a small bat with glowing red eyes flying around my room. Obviously nothing there.
Me standing at the window of their room for quite a while in the middle of the night. They thought I would eventually leave so they didn't bother me. They fell asleep and I was still there an hour later. I remember it myself as I was looking out their window seeing a vast open view of space with stars, galaxies and everything. Thing is they said the curtains were closed.
There were other hallucinations back then and they still happen to this day although not as often.
sirbeast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:57 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I came here hoping - only to have those hopes dashed - that the OP would start this off with his/her own tale.
frogzorz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my sister was a kid in China (6-7 years old?) she told our mother that after she (the latter) died and was cremated, my sister would have her ashes made into a chair, with wood of course, so she could sit on her every day.
._.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welp, I'm not sleeping tonight. Not after reading these comments.
Mr_Quantum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:44 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother age 5, about two years ago, would tell my entire family at dinners (which we ate together at a table like a good family) that we were not his siblings and that our parents were not his parents. He said that he was Jesus' son, and that he felt sorry for us and gave him to us so we would be happy. He's still convinced Jesus is his father... And that he has no middle name
scarleteagle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:56:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Do to the stunning amount of reincarnation stories here, I thought I'd share this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my sister was little she had this best friend who drowned. On the anniversary of his death (no one told her it was) she told my mom the fairies were talking to her, telling her he would be okay now. Another time she used her play phone and when my mom asked who she was talking to, she said his name and that they talked a lot.
drgk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Do you like pizza?"
"No."
"Do you like yogurt?"
"No."
"Do you like mommy?"
"No."
"Do you like daddy?"
"No."
She's 18 months old.
kaituhlin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when I was a kid I used to talk about what it was like living with the angels. My grandma was so freaked out she wouldn't babysit me till i stopped.
Human_Captcha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but as kid I once told my mom "One day you're gonna be old....and then its my turn"
soawesomejohn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually a story of something my sister said to my Mom once. My Mom had just gotten to the top of the steps when my sister came down the hall. Seeing Mom, she asked "Mom, do you have a will?".
Mom got a much tighter grip on the railing and the wall and asked "Why?".
"Just wondering.."
callipygous_princess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A child I was babysitting at my house was staring out my bedroom window and shaking her head whispering "I'm here. I'm only looking." When I asked who she was speaking to she said "I'm talking to the trees."
OBESEJESUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of mine had just passed away from a motorcycle accident. This friend has a somewhat unique name, I have no other friends with that name and know of no other people that my son could have possibly known with that name.
He came up to us one day and he told us that he was playing hide and go seek with his friend name "Christian." That was the name of my friend who had recently passed. I thought hmmm, ok, could just be a coincidence. I think the next day or so he mentioned him again. He said that his friend Christian was in the tree and talking to him.
At that point I hadn't gone to the site where he had died (friends were going and putting flowers). I finally went with my family and son and we left flowers there for him. I never heard my son mention that name ever again, not a peep, not even until this day. It was pretty crazy to say the least.
ausigurl77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My parents told me that when I was about 5 they were having a conversation when I suddenly interrupted them to say that I knew which one of them was going to die first. Thinking I was joking they laughed and asked me who it was going to be. Completely deadpan I said "It'll be dad of course. He'll never see it coming". I still have no idea why I said that or even saying it at all.
blackwidowk758 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
this thread has some scary shit man
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just wondering, what do you guy's kids experience? Do they watch TV/watch movies? If so, which ones? There seem to be a lot of reaccuring themes and I'm interested in the topic.
Bear_rapist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Inverse: Mommy, can I have a pet bear?
biteysaur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:32 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One I can remember from my own childhood: One night my mom and I were returning to our house, I was around 8. I froze in my tracks on the front porch and refused to go any further. My mom asked me what was wrong, and I said, in a really strange voice "they've pinned the door. The Pygmies have pinned the door." I then had nightmares about evil Pygmys for several months after.
IamAJordan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:12 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kids but me:
My grandma (super religious) claims i saw ghosts as a child. One i can vividly remember, (One of the more creepier ones) happened when i was 6.
I lived with my grandma as my mom lived on base with my dad. I slept on the couch right under the window and i can remember always seeing a man just standing on the sidewalk. One night i didn't see him and strangely my grandpa had a horrible stroke that night. The next night, i left the hospital with my uncle and stayed at the house. I ended up sleep walking and standing in the same spot as the man for about half an hour till i yelled, waking my uncle up and he came out to get me.
chewielovesyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:30 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my brother was a baby he didn't talk much and my parents were a little concerned. One day, my mom walked into his room to check on him and he looked her in the eyes and said in a gravely voice "Gimmie more milk momma."
He's been weird all his life.
the7thkat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME2wmFunCjU&feature=related These kids exist and you should never let that behavior go unchecked
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up in a house built in the early 1900s. My mom always likes to tell me that when I was little, I would ask her and my dad why there was a little boy crying at the bottom of the stairs. I don't believe in ghosts anymore, but my mom sure knows how to resurface fears. I have quite a few scary stories from my house.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:26 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but I was babysitting my neighbors 5 year old boy when he said the creepiest thing I've ever heard a child say. After going to the bathroom, I walked out and the boy was sitting infront of the door, deadpan expression. I was kinda like "Hey, whatcha doing buddy?" He replied, in complete seriousness, "I was just checking if the man in the toilet talked to you, too." A little creeped out, I said something like "What man?" and I'll never forget what he said. "The man who always watches me go doo doo and wee wee." Needless to say, I never babysat there again.
LP2B ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is creepier than anything I've ever read in r/nosleep. I am legitimately freaked out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:46 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have read so many creep stories, I now think that small kids can either see dead people or remember their past life.
ImDotTK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a parent, but these experiences are from my life.
When I was young (No idea how old, but it was under 3) I walked up to my grandmother and started talking to her about the time she wore a nice yellow dress while standing at the door way when she was about 8.
That moment I was talking about was more then 50 years old. She told me that I had described it as if it was her father talking to her. I can't recall a single thing.
And then in 2006 she died. But before I even found out, I had a dream that I was in a car with her, driving down a never ending road into the sunset. There was a burnt out tree a few kilometres ahead and she had a massive tube going into her neck (She had to be put on life support and heavily sedated, and this is what my 10 year old mind came up with)
I awoke to my father knocking on the door and him speaking to my mum. I just sat there, sitting straight up in the middle of my bed, and when he came in to talk to me I just said "I know"
Tatertits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Basically, according to this thread, don't ever have kids.
Wilkie_Collins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:17 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
From a friend's sister after they told her to stop hitting her brother, "I just don't know any better," then smiles all creepily.
Purefruit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:41 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Classic
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
MFW this entire thread
tntvegan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't my kid but me, one night when I was maybe 8 I had a nightmare and screamed at the top of my lungs and told my mom how I saw her and grandma at a cemetery and how I thought they were going to die and she got me to calm down and go to bed. When she woke up she got a phone call saying her best friend died in her sleep. I didn't go to the funeral.
garykemble ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was at kindy she told me that a witch lived under a pile of wood in the shed.
wigglepiggle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, my parents didn't get creeped out by what I said, but more by what I did. If I was awake before them, I'd sit near their bed and just stare at them until they woke up. It worked pretty well. Eventually, I started doing it to my friends, too. It's a wonder no one ever had me exorcised.
the_dehumidifier77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
well thank you reddit, i dont think i want to have kids anymore...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My Boyfriend: As a small child growing up in germany he was caught digging holes in the snow by his father. When asked what he was doing he replied "Digging graves for the children". He was about 4 years old. Apparently his parents think he overheard them talking about his fathers time spent in Bosnia as part of the Canadian military. Either that or my boyfriend is seriously disturbed.
THUNDERCUNTMOUNTAIN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Welp.. after reading this thread, some people don't need sleep.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reading these comments is making me not want kids.
anc21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Reddit... I don't think I will be sleeping tonight.
Noelthemexican ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:21 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm now going to downvote this thread for prohibiting me from sleeping tonight. Fuck You All.
Edit: Fuck it, upvote because it will be 1500.
AntiqueToasters ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well it looks like I'm not sleeping tonight.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:52 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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Chimie45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:16:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If you can get the exact number, then it's not really estimating.
telimonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
so, when i was about 11, i had my tonsils removed (they were nearly the size of grapes, but this is besides the point). anyways, about a week later i still had a high fever for whatever reason. my mom wanted me to sleep in her bed because she got worried i might need to go to the hospital because of my fever (yes it was that high!). so one night, i had a very intense hallucination that of course scared her. i sat straight up instantly and started saying "I'm sorry" repeatedly and then she asked what i was sorry for, i replied with "I'm sorry about the [something rather creepy, i forget what though]" this is where i burst into tears. she says it's okay and asked me what [the creepy word i forget] was and i said "the brush strokes (of paint) on the walls are too uneven. im sorry. i need to fix them." i then get out of the bed and pick up the lamp next to me and rub it against the walls very hastily. my mom jumps out of bed and gets my dad (who is sleeping on the couch) and tells him that i need to go to the hospital. when they walk in to the room, i stop hallucinating and realize what I'm doing and i say "wait wait wait what. i don't need to go to the hospital. that was weird." then we just go back to sleep after i take some Tylenol.
i remember every detail of it and she does too. i think i might have some sort of subconscious OCD about paint on walls...
elementalrain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why the hell did I read this thread at midnight?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:05 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was just a few weeks old, my mom noticed that the moment it was midnight, I would shriek and cry like a maniac, just uncontrollably like I was dying. It was RIGHT at midnight... like on the minute she said. It happened for a week straight without fail and she got seriously spooked. So my mom told my grandma, and she collected a bunch of knives and put them underneath my pillow to scare away "demons". And the next night I stopped shrieking.
SquitsMcGrish ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:46:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
knives under a newborns pillow sounds more frightening than demons
KaioKennan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:54:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, I'd smack my mother if she suggested something like that to ANYONE. I'd report the parents who thought it was a good idea to some sort of portectiony whatever as well. That's downright stupid.
ApatheticMoose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:45 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Although not my child, my 3 year old niece was annoyed at her two older sisters and come to me and said "I'm going to put them in the fire and watch them burn". Needless to say I became the cool aunty after that.
Porkenstein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:08 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So this is where creepypasta comes from... huh
Birdsonbat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:56 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my children but I was helping my GF babysit once when the young boy (8ish) looked at some knives and asked "Could those knives kill someone?". Normally that would be an awkward question but nothing too crazy. This kids tone was just ridiculously creepy
SteveV91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you soo much Reddit, now I'm going over to /r/aww so I can sleep without nightmares.
Karmaseeker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
can we PLEASE stop posting fake stories that scare the shit out of me and make me unable to get out of my chair without crapping my pants. Please.
WhatTheFoxtrout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, my experience was in florida in 1990-93ish and the dark man wore a hat or something on his head that kind of looked like zorro's hat from the 70s. Does anyone know what kind of hat that is? And if there is ANY type of association with Florida?? Would be kind of cool if he was like a local hero in the 50's or something... I am only curious because this being was not threatening at all and I would often get really scared that I would see this 'entity'.
Michelle6671 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:06:53 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 2/3 years old I would tell my mom a man with a black long coat and black hat would come in through my window at night and play with me. He had the same hat as you are describing. I only know this because for some reason I can remember what he looked like. And he wasn't threatening at all. My mom said that she would hear me in the night playing, get up and I would be out of my crib playing on the floor. She also said weird things would happen around the house and I would tell her he did it for fun. My mom, my dad and my grandpa (who used to live with us) all say this was a daily thing and every night he would come in through the window. Hm I find it odd that you see him in Florida. This was when I lived in Calgary Alberta. Weird stuff!!:)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:34 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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dimmidice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:39:00 on July 3, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
your parents were having a musical orgy. think of musical chairs. but with cocks & vags. the mouse mask dude was the supervisor.
true story.
Octavius96 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:47:25 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Why does this remind me of the end of The Shining?
ExiledSenpai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:02 on July 4, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've worked at a daycare center for many years, and there was once a child who would eat ants. It took us a good 3 months to get this behavior to stop :-/
thetroll1911 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well when I was about ten my grandmother passed away. The day before her funeral my dad, stepmother, and myself stayed at her house since we had just moved to south Carolina and had no place to stay. It was around 10:30 at night when all of a sudden my dad called me into the next room that he and my stepmom were sitting in. When I got the the lights were off and as I walked in I started to say, why are you sitting in the dark when all of a sudden the lights go on, needless to say I screamed like a Bitch and ran into his lap. The lights went off and on periodically for about ten minutes. I honestly believe it was my grandmother telling us she was ok now.
master_of_all_a_v ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:41:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Messed up way of telling you
fs337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm listening to Music Box by Eminem while reading this. Also, alone in a big house.
i-wont-dance ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Walking through a rough part of my town with my 3 year old nephew. He suddenly pipes up with the question of "why are some people black?" so i explain to him that for a long long time people live in different countries and their skin is a different colour because of the sun. I was very proud of my explanation.
I should mention at this point that in no way am i, his parents, or anyone i know of the nature to teach him the content below. The only thing i can think of is that it came from his old fashioned grandparents on the fathers side.
He thinks for a bit, and i can see his cogs turning, then he suddenly pipes up with "i don't like black people. I think they should go back to where they came from."
My heart stops and i look around. 3 big BIG black guys are watching me and i have no idea if they heard but i ran. I ran like i was being chased by the nemesis from resident evil. Then sat him down and had a talk about why what he said was wrong.
I thought i was never gonna get out of there alive.
rebelspyder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:31 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
because he has to look around before saying things like that?
i-wont-dance ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:53 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
No. Because there is no difference between colour of skin, sexuality, religion or gender. That's what i believe and also what i would like him to believe.
rebelspyder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:01 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
oh right, right. that's what I was thinking too.
AdmiralTso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:14 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So about 20 years ago, my son came home from the playground and said he had gotten in a fight with some other boys. He said it was ok because he was going to "hang them from their insides on the basketball hoop." Naturally I got scared, so I said, "you're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air." I'm afraid of flying, so I made him take a cab all the way from West Philadelphia to California. Out of sight, out of mind.
Timbo15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:07 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent myself but a friends little girl (about 4-5) told a story that her parents took her from Japan to the US and had to smuggle her in her moms vagina.
xbryn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe in ghosts personally, but my boyfriend told me a story once that made him possibly believe in their existence, having to do with his little cousin. A few years ago, he was at a funeral for his aunt (at least I think it was his aunt), who had been in a car accident and died. They were at his late aunt's house, mourning, when they heard the dog barking upstairs. I think the dog and his aunt's son were in the son's room, which I'm told was cold compared to the rest of the house. Apparently, the dog was barking at a spot in the center of the room, and the child was crying, I believe, and saying that his mommy was there (in Spanish, though). I'm pretty sure this is...circumstantial, but it's still pretty creepy.
shweatyyeti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:20 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Right after my second younger brother was born, i remember going to my mom and telling her i had just talked to god and he told me that she was going to have another baby. "Oh no sweety, i think we are done having babies now." she said. 18 months later, my youngest brother was born. P.S. Now im an atheist.
brreadd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:48 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not my kid, but my todler cousin. I asked, "What do you find worse? Saying curse words all day towards your mother, or bombing a whole city?" The answer was saying saying bad words.... Parents need to teach their kids some morality.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 4 or 5, I would always sleep with my mom because I could never sleep by myself. One night, I had my arm hanging off the bed while I was trying to fall asleep and I felt a licking feeling and I said "Stop, that tickles." My mom asked what tickled and I said the licking. We had no pets.
kittendolphinhybrid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:42 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's mom runs a daycare out of her house. I was sleeping in the basement and the first kid of the day showed up at about 6 AM and came downstairs. Seriously the weirdest kid ever. He started making up songs, one of them said something like "Take a butterfly, stick it in your bum, take it out, and it will feel... so... dead!" I actually have audio of it. So creepy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was around 3 years old my dad was standing on our cabin dock, holding me. Apparently I was giggling and waving out towards the sunset. He asked who I was waving at, I said "Grandpa!" and kept waving and laughing. My step Grandfather who was very fond of me had died fairly recently.
puss_parkerswidow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a step parent, so I didn't get to be there when he was little- though I love him to pieces now and he's almost a grown man...anyhow - my brother and I both used to freak our mom out. When we were toddlers, she says we told her past life stories. I have a vague memory of doing so. My brother would tell her stories that started off "When I was out West..." and mine always began with "When I was big..."
boopah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My father-in-law passed away almost a year ago, a little after my son turned one. He's two now, and about a month ago he started regularly saying things like, "poppa's up in the sky." And coming out of his bedroom laughing saying "poppa's funny!"
His death was really sudden and difficult for everyone to deal with, so my son has very rarely heard anyone talk about his Poppa, and he was definitely too young to be able to remember much about him, so when he says these things it usually catches us off guard.
dbabbitt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son told me he would flay me to death and skin me. He has been hauled off in handcuffs and is under house arrest.
awe300 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:03 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What if one day you woke up and your nipples were completely gone...? like no scars or anything, just flat skin
and then once you leave your room you find out your dad died last night and then several days later, you find out that for your entire life your dad had been sneaking into your room while you slept
and sucking on your chest to make to gigantic hickeys where your nipples should be because you were born without them not for any sexual reason, just so you would fit in
god bless you dad.
TheFlyingDingo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:43 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not a parent, but a cousin of mine threatened to kill me if I didn't keep playing minecraft.
supergreekman123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was younger, little boy, my older brother's friends loved me. They always asked my bro what I was doing and stuff (Don't worry, they didn't actually stalk me). One day at dinner, when my brother mentioned one of his friends asking about me, I sayed to my parents, "I think I have groupies." I didn't get what was so funny about it.
lehcar_slohcin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:24 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
There are so many posts on here suggestive of reincarnation.. I am finding it quite interesting!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:40 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: checkmate, atheists
spongyiq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if this is creepy, but when I was younger I would always sprint full speed down our hallway and slam into our door.
babykiller44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:55 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being a little kid and laughing at the people who were jumping out of the windows of the twin towers on 911. I was 8 and didnt understand what was actually happening but that must have freaked my mom out
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This whole thread is full on NOPE. Ahh well can't stop now.
tramliner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:02 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My 6 year old nephew (sorry, no sprogs of my own) made a bumble bee out of play-doh. He looked at it and exclaimed: "Squish the bumble bee!" and flattened it between his hands. I told him I felt sorry for the bumble bee, and made a new one with remnants of the old one. He looked at the new bee, grinned and said "Zombie bumble bee! I know what to do with that!" and proceeded to TEAR THE PLAY DOH APART!
I know who I'm going to stay with in the zombie apocalypse.
CypherWulf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My b6 year old seems overly interrested in how my wife's ambien works and feels...
dontcallmepeanut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my daughter was 4 she had sat down next to me at Christmas dinner and asked who was the old lady that smelled like roses that wore the white dress with flowers and a blue sweater and had white hair? She described my great great grandmother to perfection. My grandpa cried and asked her what she said. She turns and says to him and slowly said," for her not to worry because she wouldn't let any bad things happen to her." Weird thing is that the day my daughter was born, they buried my great great grandmother that morning.
macs_rock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a child, we were on vacation in a town we had never visited before. Anyway, my parents found me a babysitter while they went to a show or something. Evidently when they picked me up, I kept talking about going somewhere with Mike. The girls who were babysitting me hadn't taken me anywhere (that I know of), and I hadn't slept (I'm a vivid dreamer and used to get those mixed up with reality sometimes). Everyone has since passed it off as a figment of my imagination. The creepy part is I distinctly remember someone, not my parents, carrying me to a dark colored Saturn sedan that night. Not quite sure what happened, seeing as we didn't know anyone with that sort of car at that time, and we didn't know anyone named Mike who lived near enough for this story to be true. Weird, no?
oh_wendy_darling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was told by my family that when I was about 1, I used to scream every night and have my eyes fixed on something, even though there was nothing there. The screaming stopped the day I got baptized. Freaks me out till this day!
ladyfoghladha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
One morning my friends son woke up and said "Tank is sleeping with his eyes closed now. We can't play with him anymore" Their cat Tank had died in the middle of the night. He never saw the dead cat or heard anyone talk about its death.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:58 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
its
ladyfoghladha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:25 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Touche'
loganonmission ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:33 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I have a few things I remember from when I was a kid:
1) I grew up in Alberta, Canada and when I was about 4 years old, there was a government-owned telephone company named A.G.T. that had commercials featuring a humorous Albert Einstein character. Anyway, every time this commercial came on, I would stand up, walk over to the TV, and stand in front of it, trying to cover the TV with my body. Then, I would fall into a weird trance and begin to dream. In the dream, I'm in a large room with my family in one corner of the room and the Albert Einstein character at the other corner. I was standing somewhere in the middle, trying to walk towards my family, and suddenly the Einstein man was right behind me and would grab me up in his arms. I would start crying and he started carrying me away from my family, and I could see in my mother's eyes that she was upset and was trying to get me back, but she couldn't move. At this point, I would come out of the trance and I would wake to my family trying to tell me to get out of the way of the TV. I remember telling my family what had happened, but they told me that I was just dreaming. The thing is that I remember doing this every single time that commercial came on TV. Weird.
2) I remember when I was about 3 that me and two of my sisters all had our own beds, but we slept in the same bedroom. All of our beds were oriented in such a way that our feet pointed towards the large window that was fairly high off the floor. Well, one night, I was looking through the pictures of a Dr. Seuss book with the lamp on by my bed. I was the only one awake, as I often stayed up late. The window was open, and I remember hearing a woman laughing in the distance, and the laughing seemed to be getting closer and closer. Soon, I heard it right below the window outside, and then a woman climbed up the window and sat there on the windowsill with most of her body inside the room. She looked at me and cackled. I nervously chuckled back at her. She laughed again, and I laughed back. She then turned and jumped down, and I could hear the laughing getting more distant. I tried waking my sister (who was sleeping in the bed right beside mine), but it seemed like she wasn't waking up even though she was usually easily awoken. I just lied down and tried to fall asleep. I told my mum the next day that a witch came to my window, but I was told that it was just a dream.
3) Again when I was about three or so, I remember waking up very late one night after having wet the bed (don't judge me!). The room was pitch black. My sister and I slept in the same bed at this point (poor her!). My dog was sleeping at the foot of the bed. The door to our room was open to the living room, which was also dark. I sat there awake for a few moments and I suddenly began hearing loud drums, as if a person had a complete drum set in the living room, except most of the percussions were snare drum and cymbal sounds. My dog began barking loudly and growling. When I first heard this, I got really scared, so I shut my eyes tight. Amazingly, as soon as I shut my eyes, the drumming stopped entirely (but the dog continued barking). I kept them closed for a few moments, and when I opened them, the drumming was still there as if I had just un-muted the sound. My dog continued barking, but I shut my eyes tight, pulled the covers over my head, and must have eventually fallen asleep.
4) Last one. In the same house as story #3 and around that same time, I distinctly remember waking up late one night to go to the bathroom. I have no idea what time it was, but to get to the bathroom, you had to go into the living room, through the kitchen, past my parent's room, and then into the bathroom. I remember walking into the bathroom, turning on the light, and standing there urinating. I looked up at the smaller window above the toilet and I saw what I would describe as about 2-3 Smurfs with very large eyes looking into the window. I recognized Papa Smurf, but I don't know who the other two were. They looked really dazed or something, they didn't seem to be the happy-go-lucky Smurfs I was used to. When I saw them, I quickly finished up and ran out of the bathroom and back to bed. That's really all I remember of that incident.
Well, that was it concerning the stories when I was really small. I'm so glad that I eventually grew out of those years where it seemed like anything could happen, no matter how weird or scary. I feel so sorry for kids because I know that they see all this weird, creepy stuff that us adults don't see anymore.
BitKid4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm just curious, was that "Albert Einstein" character a cartoon or an action figure like thing that you'd normally see on something like Robot Chicken? Because those action figures creep me the hell out and I have no idea why.
loganonmission ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:08:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It was a real person acting like Albert Einstein.
BitKid4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:23 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ah. In my opinion, it would be even creepier if it was a cartoon character. I guess that's just my weird side speaking.
rockstarking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was about 5 years old and our house was being added to and painted. I was gung ho about it and wanted to help. There I was one afternoon in my little overalls and workboots painting the siding on the deck and supper time rolls around.
My mom comes out to get me to come eat and I look at her with a stern look like any from Clint Eastwood, put my hands on my hips and say: "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!" then continue painting, but then my man tummy was hungry.
I also made actual mud pies once.
Anonymous_name ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
In the middle of the night my mom opened her eyes, to see a man eye level with her that just started screaming in her face. She then rolled over my dad and slammed into the wall. Well my dad grabbed his knife and jumped up expecting to see an intruder, finding nothing. She said the only reason she got back in the bed was so that he couldn't get her on the floor.
EDIT: My mom often saw things like this until we moved.She hasn't seen anything since.
Numchuckupchuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew when he was about oh... 5 or 6. At the local wimming pool with his mother when all of a sudden he exclaimed "I like lesbians" and trust me, this kid doesn't so much "speak" his mind as shout it
isthatagoodidea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Daughter (aged 4):what's this chicken made from? Me: chicken Daughter: dead chicken? Me: yep Daughter: yummy dead chicken!
witai ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:48:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was two I pooped in the bathtub frequently
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:07:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's not creepy. That is funny as hell.
ObamaisYoGabbaGabba ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I see a lot of stories here about kids seeing things or hearing things no one else sees and the parents said they were creeped out.
There are no such thing as ghosts, spirits or invisible men in closets. None have been ever captured on film that can be even remotely proven. That sci-fi show is bullshit and those jackasses should be shot.
Children have active imaginations and lack experience to figure out simple matters.
Adults also have even more active imaginations and lack the will or intelligence to figure out simple matters.
My children have told me at a few times over the years that they saw someone or heard something. In one case my kid came running into the bedroom telling me people were talking to him in his room.
Creepy right?
My wife proceeded to tell him all about spirits and bullshit like that and sometimes people can hear voices. I love everything about that woman except that belief system she has.
Real world skeptic here.. found out after just a few minutes of listening that it was the neighbor on her porch talking to her older son. In the summer she sits on her back porch and smokes, the older son comes home from second shift and they chat out there sometimes. The neighborhood is quiet and sound travles, my house is 60 yeard old with no insulation, when sound hits the house it reverberates in the walls and it sounds like it's coming from the closet.
Case closed and verified.
There are a half a dozen similar instances in my kids life, each time I explained it to them. My children do not believe in ghosts, spirits or god for that matter and now are able to rationalize what is going on around them.
Some of you, if you haven't taken the time to figure this stuff out, should be ashamed of yourselves for the John Edwards followers you might be creating.
Regardless of anything else I do as a parent, I think this is a HUGE win in terms of parenthood for me. My children will grow up healthy happy and not worried about boogeymen.
That said, the creepiest thing my son ever said to me was:
"Do I get your car when you're dead"
I said yes and he grinned and walked away.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Woah.. that's.. that's like using logic. Is such a thing even possible?
workingbored ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 19:42:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Mom, dad, I'm a gay, liberal-athiest." scariest moment of our lives.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 19:56:01 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why you're being downvoted but this is literally the worst thing that can possibly be said. You might as well start calling him Hitler.
turtlenecksandshotgu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:28 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah man, literally Hitler.
jubco ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:35:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So this is what I can look forward to with my 10 month old?? Yikes!
misterodgers07 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:23:04 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Some of you parents need to get your children checked for esp sensitivity. because if they are they are going to see stuff you will never see in your entire life. ive been a sensitive my whole life. used to scare me until i went to; a therapist and got help and they explained it to me. there are such things as the unexplained and "sensitives" notice it more. True story
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:20:15 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've never masterbated so furiously in my life before
I read all the stories and I'm scared. I've been up for hours and the little noises are scaring me.
I can't stay up much longer. My weiner is exhausted. They are here. Oh my god th-
madusa77 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:22:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the next Hollywood movie plots.
epistemology ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:49:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on reddit.
Jamamp ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:51:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The ending of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas gets me every time. It's not a very well-known movie but I would highly recommend it. Very immersive story relating to the Holocaust.
Nomnombunny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:30 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Great recommendation, wrong thread!
Jamamp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my goodness, I totally meant to post this in that other thread about movie scenes that "get you every time". Thanks for the heads up!
35nnnn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:24:18 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When i was about six, i got into my father's charcoal stash, which he used to light the grill when food need grilling. Being the post-toddler i was, i would take a piece and make drawings under the deck, usual birds and guns and the usual six-year-old shit.
However, one day, after comig home from a rigorous day of public education, i decided to impress my parents by showing all of the words i knew. On the side of the house, i wrote, in first-grade grammar, "i be dead, you die soon."
Believing that a child of my age could write that, my freaked-out parents called the cops. Needless to say, i got in quite a bit of trouble, all with a lecture from the police chief.
Fuck da popo.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Did they really need to call the police? I mean you were their 6-year-old kid and they were responsible for you. You learned a new word, they should have teached you the meanings
35nnnn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:56:19 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I guess i misphrased that: they werent sure wgo write it, so they called the police. After that, i told them it was me.
calamormine ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 19:47:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once, when I was a little kid, I did some incredibly creepy stuff that never actually happened, and we were all creeped out and stuff. Then a relative of mine, a cousin maybe, totally did something that mimicked that behavior, thus validating my original story!
momster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What creepy stuff did you do?
[deleted] ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 20:06:55 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Daddy, why does the man have no pants?"
Oh wait, that wasn't my kid, that's what someone else's kid said the last time I went to the park.
Teh_Br4iN ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
Not that anyone is going to see this but, EVERYONE GET THE FUCK BACK HERE RIGHT NOW AND EDIT YOUR POSTS WITH A TL;DR! Fuck this thread and it's book long fucking comments. You guys suck.
Edit: I was wondering which one of my comments was bombing. I thought someone might get a laugh out of this. I mean I thought I was clearly being over the top. I guess next time I must go even further over the top so you guys can realize that I am kidding.
motdidr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:56:39 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Just read them man.
Teh_Br4iN ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:36:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
HaHa, I don't have all night.
NaquadahEOD ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:15:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
I remember when I was two I said to my mom, "When I'm 22, I'm going to pretend that I said something with completely correct grammar and syntax. Reddit will surely believe that a two year old could say something this complex, because they are all fucking Downies." Then my mom smacked me for saying "fucking." Isn't that story just wild? No lie.
Fluffi_McPhee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:10 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My daughter is 18 mths and I was beginning to believe maybe she was a little slow from reading these. Glad it's not just me who thought some of these kids speak surprisingly well!
l3un1t ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:47 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
He wasn't my son, but this kid I tried to help told me that he could see dead people.
TheTeufel-Hunden ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:30:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
are you Bruce Willis?
l3un1t ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I am, M. Night Shyamalan is directing my life.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:38 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Your mother sucks cocks in Hell!
PDFormat ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a story that involves me as a child, age four.
My mother was driving us home after we went on a camping trip, and a tornado was coming our way. Eventually, the twister was upon us, and we had to take refuge under a highway overpass. Once we had done that, I asked her in a serious, deadpan, matter-of-fact voice:
"Are we going to die?"
She responded: "I don't know."
After some unknown amount of time, the storm passed, and we went home.
illogicalreality ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:13 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
So at what point did Reddit completely throw out science?
Hibernica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry. /r/nosleep is leaking. We'll get the night crew to patch it up right quick.
seilennA ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That God created us
Yoso11 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 19:37:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Man I wasn't expecting "Creepy things kids might see you don't" I was thinking like a kid coming home one day being like "Mommy why do I enjoy killing bunnies?"
O.o
Mugendai ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 21:57:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
So this one time I woke up in the middle of the night and hear this creaking and shuffling noise coming from down the hall. This was unusual because I never wake up in the middle of the night and there's usually a complete absence of creaking and shuffling in the hallway. I then hear one of my kids start crying, and that never happens either because I always tell the little bastards to shut up and then raise my fist up and make my Unhappy Face at them.
So I get up out of bed, my fist ready, and what looks vaguely like my youngest son is already standing at the very end of the hallway, mostly in the shadows so I can barely make him out. And, for some reason, he's standing completely still and has his back turned. So I call out, "Why THE COCKSHIT aren't you asleep, Elroy? You want another epic ass kicking?" Then suddenly, he jumps like two feet in the air and takes off further away into the house, knocking shit over.
I start to chase but I pause to look into my kids' room. I do a double take because all my kids are in there, my youngest son still crying. I asked him what the hell was going on. He looks at me and says, "...the Oompa-Loompa took our Tonka car." I looked down at the floor with a shudder. That fucking R/C Tonka car cost me a cool 80 bucks.
Then I felt a sudden, distinct chill and my son, this time almost whispering, asked, "Dad.....who is The Dark Lady standing behind you?" I turned around slowly because I remember asking my father the same question when I 8 years old one stormy night in the rustic New England cottage I had dwelt as a child. It was my mother. She had gotten a bad sunburn earlier in the day. "BITCH," I told her, "stop sneaking up on people and watch the goddamned kids!"
I pick up my aluminum bat and shout after the fucker who took my son's toy, "I don't care if you're 7 years old! I'm taking $80 outta the side of your skull, motherfucka!" That was when the backdoor window shattered, accompanied by heavy grunting. I jumped through the opening and gave chase. From somewhere in front of me, I hear an indescribable howling that was unearthly or possibly the two neighbor dogs fucking in the approaching alleyway. He took a turn, then another, and then another. He was trying to shake me but I didn't give up. Oompa-Loompa, mere 7-year-old, indescribable entity, pair of fucking neighbor dogs, or whatever else lay ahead...it was not getting away. I started running full speed and could finally see my unknown foe ahead...
The next morning at the breakfast table, my morbidly obese wife started nagging me about all the commotion from the other night. I told her to chill get me my hot chocolate and Kix. But she was insistent and wanted to know how things ended up. So I pointed at the headline in the morning paper: BODY FOUND AT WILLIAMTON CREEK. I read aloud "43-year-old Carl Powers, who suffered from severe dwarfism, was found dead this morning lying in the river. His body was covered in bruises and several bones were broken." I gestured proudly towards my bloody bat in the corner of the room. "See? I took care o' everything." My wife nodded approvingly.
Then my youngest son spoke up. The words he said stunned me into silence: "...that doesn't sound like the little Chinese woman who took my truck last night."
RocKiNRanen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:21 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Anger management classes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:37 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
... excuse me?
AlexGrass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Meh, not bad.
krogger ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:37:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm bored. What can I eat?"
Rakoons ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:39:57 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Daddy, why is my wee white?" He was 5, and i thought he was referring to sperm. Caught me off guard.
VillaIncognito ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:02:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"Can we go to church?"
nightwood ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:07:02 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ta.
hedbangr ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:18:10 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"What is r/creepshots?"
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:28:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
R-E-D-R-U-M
DenizenOfHi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:01:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hello...
And I don't even have kids.
1N7B ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:07:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I told my big sister about all of the people walking through the hallway in our house, like I was barely able to see them but they were there, hordes of them. Was brushed off and was told it was just my imagination.
Until my little brother told her the same thing, not knowing I had seen these things. He said he could see them walking from room to room, all in old fashioned clothing
metalman421 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:22:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me when i was about 11. My bedroom, my younger brothers (8 at the time) and my moms bedroom are all at the end of a hallway. All doors were open, and i see a shadow walk across the hall. I thought oh its dark my eyes are playing tricks on me. Three seconds later my mom says, metalman421's brother why did you get up, do you need something? And my brother says im in bed, i thought that was metalman421. We have never spoken of it again
Mashu009 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:38:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
when i was little i used to ask my parents who the man wearing the hat was. (i'd say black man though because it was more like a shadow person maybe) My parents think its my dads dad as he died before i was born.
EggoBatman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:39:31 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"i love you, daddy"
SpliceGirl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:47:28 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was pregnant with my oldest son, Hubby and I went to Germany as sort of a belated honeymoon. While on the flight over, the baby starting moving for the first time, and I felt him almost constantly for the next several days - until we toured Dachau. He went still and I didn't feel him again for days, until we went to an old Roman museum in Augsburg. creeped me out that my unborn child was affected by the atmosphere of the place!
HeronSun ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:53:45 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Considering my daughter is only four months old, perhaps the strange stares and giggles she was making while I was describing my nightmare to my Fiance'.... It was about Cthulhu.
bamforeo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:55:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
After reading the comments in this thread, I'm now convinced that all little kids are mediums, and really fucked up dead people like to possess small children and fuck around with their families :(
Swissguru ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:01:14 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Frightening? "Dad, I'm pregnant"
Not a parent though ;)
ScreamWithMe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:16:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son runs in the door on a Saturday afternoon and exclaims: "Dad! I just got to pet a moose!"
What the hell? How? Where? Takes me to an apartment complex across the street where some local yokel is feeding an adolescent moose heads of cabbage and a gaggle of neighborhood kids are standing around petting it.
misterodgers07 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:35:07 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
my diagnosis was what they call HSP or Highly sensitive persons.
Thebaldeagle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:52:06 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once called my mom hitler when I was little. Im sure she appreciated tht
The_Yar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:14:43 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
One time an IAmA child psych worker said that a kid screamed at another kid to go dig up his dead father and suck the maggots out of his dick.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:40:27 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: r/nosleep
Gburger95 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:41:03 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
All of this belongs on r/nosleep...
Kimsuebob ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:09:34 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my son was about 3 or 4, he said to me, "I like old people. I like their skin."
Sukutak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:50 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Brother, not kid, but.. for about two weeks earlier this year, my little brother would do this thing where he would unplug/cover up any of the little lights that are on late at night, whenever he and I were the only people up. The only light would be from my computer screen, and it was really hard to see anything past the bright screen, when it was almost pitch black everywhere else.
For a while, he was content to just try to creep up on me and try to scare me by jumping out from behind something or so. One of these days, he was being so annoying that I turned off my computer for the night and went to read in my room. He grabbed my wallet or so from my dresser while I was on my bed reading, and when I tried to grab it from him I managed to hit my head on the foot-board of the bead, pretty hard. So I'm lying there on the bed, in a lot of pain, and I look up to see what he's doing just in time to see him flash a smile, turn the lights off, shout "Suffer in darkness!" and slam the door, leaving me in a completely dark room, still in too much pain from the head thing to easily get up and put the lights back on.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:17:22 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Ok i was like 3 and i came up to my mom and I said mommy there is a man. my mom said what man. I said the man. she said can i said can i see the man. I said the man is hiding. creepiest thin i have said to my mom.
boyt53 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:40:54 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
My son said to me "I am going to take all your ash's when you die and give only a little Dan(brother)" Yeah...Idk.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:29:35 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's okay to flush your socks down the toilet if you don't like them.
PagingDoctorLove ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:57:00 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I find it interesting, all the stories about people who (or whose children) did or said something creepy involving a dead friend or relative who they had never seen before...
Don't you all have family albums laying around? I mean, I get it if nobody told you that your great great uncle Chester wore red suspenders and did terrible things, but odds are, if he wasn't completely estranged from hiw whole family his entire life, that there are some pictures of him just sitting around. And it's not like your grandma is standing next to the photo albums with a semi automatic, 24/7, yelling "NO! You can't know what he looks like!!!"
Odds are, you've seen a picture of the person, or picked up information in some other way, and you (or your family) have just forgotten. Just makes for a better story to say it never happened, I guess.
IMO, it's still creepy when your kid brings up "The Molester," (or any other dead person) whether or not he knows what the dude looked like.
WoeIsLuna ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:03:16 on November 16, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Once I babysat a kid and we were drawing with chalk he said "Is that your boyfriends name?" "Yes" "I want a baby brother boyfriend" "You do?" "Yes but we can't because my mommy is to old"
phantomknight ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 19:39:54 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
asked mom if I said any freaky stuff as a child to tell the whole internet for karma.
Her response is "What's karma?"
coingiboi ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:21:51 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, let us all believe kids with jacked up imaginations is seeing dead people.
BLTDrive ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 01:56:37 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Daddy I believe in jesus
[deleted] ยท -49 points ยท Posted at 19:38:23 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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WorkingMan512 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:49:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Casey Anthony thinks your a bad parent for giving a toddler acid
nanowerx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:01:20 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wait...what?! You gave your kid acid?!
not_a_novel_account ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:02:50 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the actual fuck
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:14:19 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit. You did not put acid in your childs applesauce.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:16:15 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck is wrong with you? It is a person's choice to use any sort of drug, not yours. ESPECIALLY when the person is just 3 years old. That can really hurt a person's development.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 20:18:00 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:17 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Trust me, if there's anyone who knows a lot about LSD, it's me. It is still not good to introduce any psychoactive chemicals to developing brains, especially those of 3 year olds. Do not try to justify yourself.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:34 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey man I'm really sorry for being so irate. I'm coming down right now an I really didn't mean to be so rude. I may disagree with your actions, but I have no right to police or criticize them. I'm sure your son is lovely and I'm sure that you are a wonderful father. Sorry again bro :(
stark222000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:49 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I'm very pro drug but that's a little fucked up. Upvoting anyway.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
wut
NBThunderbolt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:48 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is a joke, right?
eeples_n_beeneenees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:04 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You gave your 3 year old a half a hit of acid?? What the actual fuck? Nice parenting skills.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:23:05 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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eeples_n_beeneenees ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:36:32 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't matter. It's still careless and irresponsible. One more reason there should be an IQ test for people to determine whether or not they're intelligent enough to have children. I hope you're real proud.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:07:42 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
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eeples_n_beeneenees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:11:18 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You can try to justify this as much as you like, but you still look like fucking twat.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:25 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
You're remarkably unfit to be a parent.
LandOfHalloween ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:12:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
bad father
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:27:16 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What worries me about this is how completely neutral he is. He says it like its a normal story about parenting.
I'm sure he knows he'll get shit for it, as he should, since he is a shitty person, but still. It's more creepy that you gave him acid than him having a standard response that someone on acid would have.
tony1449 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:23:33 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope your joking because what the fuck is wrong with you?
the_emptier ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:20:29 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you're joking.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of these posts are about children who experience these things at night. Chances are most of them are experiencing these while half asleep, and are confusing them with real life. They're not used to what dreams are or how they work, so they assume it's normal.
As for the kids seeing dead relatives, I have no idea.
HereForKarma ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:59 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: We lie about our kids and make them something special in order to get Karma, or claim "it was just a dream".
hartatttack ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:08:22 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"daddy, I hate Oreos."
hulahoop12 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:28:12 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When my boyfriend, Derp, was really young, he thought that when people grow up they have to change their names to either mom or dad. One day, little four year old Derp ran to his mom crying and said, "Mommy, I don't wanna change my name to Dad when I grow up!" It must have been the cutest thing ever.
Ps. My boyfriend told me this story, that's how I know. I promise I'm not a creeper.
lagarco ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:55:16 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This will get buried but when I was little (5-7?) I saw fairy dust, as if a fairy had just disappeared in time for me not see it. I also flew around my room, I jumped off the last step on mu bunk bed adder and flew around, went to the toilet, tried to jump again and fly but it just didn't work.
This is a more recent one though, last year my sister was having a birthday party so we had a bunch of kids and adults walking around the house. I saw a man walk into my sisters room so I went to see if they were ok, but when I walked in the room was empty. I know I didn't imagine it because I went to the room to find out who the 'parent' was. Creepy shit.
When I was little I had quite a few experiences like that and so did my friends, I think I had a very strong imagination. I'm still convinced that I flew though!
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 21:20:44 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck all these fucking karma whores trying to make jokes out of genuinely eerie stories. Sometimes me and my friends exchange scary stories after we smoke weed and if you were there trying to make fucking puns and generally killing the mood we would think you are a douche.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:20:51 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
REDRUM REDRUM... wait that a movie
Lpup ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 09:56:38 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"I love you"-my child
shuaiw96 ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 20:32:53 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
"im gay".....jk, not even a parent, and really wouldnt care
nachocheese1243 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:38:26 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)*
As a kid (6-7), I would wake up in the middle of the night crying. I was sharing a bed with my brother -12. I sat up told him, "It's O.K. , I won't hurt you." I had no recollection of that the next morning. He told me that I woke and said weird things like that often. Another time my brother was sleeping on the couch and I found a fireman's hat. I ran downstairs and busted his head open with it. He told me later when i woke up about it.
jimsta76 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:23:58 on July 1, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I was sleeping in my bed and i woke up to see me sister standing over me with her hair in front of her face(like the girl in "the ring") *she is almost 5 now
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:38:36 on July 2, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young, maybe 9 or 10, I used to sleepwalk often. My mother woke up one night to find me standing by the front door, my shirt on the ground, scratching at the door saying "let me out, let me out!" Not terribly creepy, but definitely eery.