Does DS see Dead People??

[Deedee]

Ok, I am seriously freaked out:behindsofa:

On Saturday, we were all in the garden when DS (2yrs old) started pointing up at DsD's bedroom window shouting "Nanny! Nanny" we thought nothing of it, however, about 30 mins ago, he came running in to the kitchen shouting, "Mum Mum, quick, Nanny, Nanny" I thought perhaps my Mum had come to surprise me with a quick visit, went to follow DS to front door where he turned sharp left, went into the lounge, pointed at the lightshade in the middle of the room and said "Look Mum Mum, Nanny"

I looked to see what he was pointing at, couldn't see anything, not even a cobweb, DS then said, "Nanny gone now" now either he has seen something that he calls Nanny and I dont get it, or he can see OH's DGM, who died Summer last year..... I phoned my Mum, got a bit paranoid so thought I'd check she was ok, and she asked when was OH's DGM's Birthday, now I dont know off hand, but I have a funny feeling it is very very soon, will check with OH when he comes home.

It has really struck something with me, I can remember when I was about 5ish a lady used to come into my room and tap my feet as she sat on the end of the bed, My Mum thought that I was making it up, but I can still see her clearly (in my memory)

Isn't it odd......... ok, freak out is calm now.

[samosma]

I would believe its quite possible. Children are much more open to seeing things that we adults can't. My son always used to see 'things' when he was younger, but it seems to have worn off as he got older.
Its probabily best not to make a big thing of it with him but if it happens again it would be interesting to see if he could describe what she looks like or if she spoke to him.
Don't get yourself worried about it or he might pick up on how you are feeling.

[Made in Devon]

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[tiger]

When we went to Australia, my dad was living with us so my sister came to stay and make sure he was OK. Her daughter and 3yr old grandson stayed for a while as well.
When we came back she told us that her grandson used to talk about someone who talked to him sometimes. I can't remember the name of the person but it was a very old fashioned male name and not one that he would likely to have heard anywhere.
The rest of us have never seen or heard anything though.

[suzie3441]

My boys swear blind the saw a man in there bedroom wearing a hat. He was looking out of the window. They say they were too frightened to calll out as they thought it was a burgler and then thought they were being silly so only recently told me. Admitidley (sp) they were both very young. It was in a house we used to live in and a friend of mine after I moved told me she was glad I had as the house was so opressive and generally not a nice place to be. One of my sons alwasys appeared to be looking at something in the hall when I was drying him after a bath. Very spooky

[scrumpyjane]

We had an experience with our ds who was around 2 and a half at the time a couple of years ago. My oh's dad had died around three weeks previous. We put ds to bed in his cot and a couple of hours later could hear him banging about. As he wasn't crying we didn't go up and it soon went quiet again. When we went to check on him later he was fast asleep with his bedcovers neatly tucked in which i thought was odd as he had obviously been awake and moving around earlier.

When we went to bed later, his cot was in our room at the time, he woke up and kept saying 'Grandpa, Daddy'. My oh didn't answer him for awhile and he just kept repeating the same thing with more and more urgency in his voice until my oh said ' have you seen Grandpa?'. Ds nodded and then layed down and went back to sleep.

It was quite freaky at the time, not helped by the fact that as we were un-nerved we went back downstairs for a bit for a stiff drink the smoke alarm started to beep everytime we said ds's name.

[Mrs Lady C]

My dd 6 describes her other mummy to me,she also describes her old life before she was born to me, should I be worried? Do you believe in reincarnation because I am beginning to wonder about it myself! :shocked::shocked::shocked:

[jackie_k_uk]

When my eldest son was 3 or 4 he used to calmly ask me who was the old lady in the hall and what did she want? Asking him what she looked like he described my Nan who passed away many years ago whom I was very very close to.

My middle son also used to go hysterical not just crying but screaming when in his bedroom,Had to hold his hand till he was asleep, 9 out of 10 nights though he would crawl in our bed..Something totally terrified him.

Not till now that hes grown up he can tell us the strange things that happen in his room even now,Things get moved, Music and tv turn on and off by themselves etc.
We placed a teddy bear on the tv to see what happened and later on found it on the bed.
Scared the pants off me when they were small :eek:
Now we just say " Oh it's nan again"!
But I do 100% believe that small chidren can see what we cant or dont want to see.

[Littlemissjojo]

I have a friend whose mother died suddenly in an accident two years ago. She has a 3 year old daughter, who regularly talks about seeing Nanny in the house. Also, my friends father kept feeling someone pulling the covers off him in bed for months after she died. Spooky.

[suziq]

ds sees people as do i sometimes. more unsettling when kids are young i think, when older they ca express themselves better

[NitWit]

Personally I believe it is possible.

I think it's nice to think Nanny is looking out for him :)

[missstroppy]

My dd1 was the more seeing of my children. It was about 2 ish until about 4yrs. She used to describe a man who would sit on her bed.

Also she also had another 'mummy & daddy' They apparently lived in a big house and she was going to go live with them soon. This if i was honest really upset me. Until a spiritulist told me my daughter sees people and they are just protecting her.

The younger they are the more reseptive they are meant to be, because they don't reason what they are seeing like we would.

I also had a lot of 'friends' as a child...one used to play ball with me, mum lost 2 babysitters because the ball would roll back to me!!!!

As long as they are not scared, then i see it as no harm. If you do want your 'visitor' to move on, just ask them politly to do so (yes out loud, they are not psychic too ! ) lol

[sandhabibi]

I started reading this thinking never had this experience or my ds, But then remembered last year there was a time when ds shouted out from bedroom and ran like mad to me looking behind him into bedroom. I took him back in there and he was like looking round as if someone had been there. I said it was probably my mum come to visit....

[zoot]

Wow! I am amazed by all these stories!
My only experience slightly relevant to this is about my brother. When he was about 3 years old he would tell us all what is was like when he used to be a mole living underground! As far as we know at that point he had no reason to know what a mole was but could tell us in lots of detail what it was like to be a mole. He has no memory of it now though!

[Dominic]

I am seriously freaked out :bolt:

[angelic]

I am really interested in anything like this and from what I have read and been told, we are all born with psychic abilities, but few of us chose to use them.

Young children are very perceptive and open as they don't have as much "clutter" in their minds as older children and adults. Due to this, they do see and sense far more then us.
A lot of young children have imaginary friends and I believe these friends are actually spirit people (they can be relatives or people unknown to the child) and the child does actually see the person they talk to and to them they are as real a person as you and I.

My sister used to see our Grandpa in her bedroom all the time from about the age of 8, same year he passed over. Nobody else saw him, but my sister described him and he was exactly as he was when he was here with us.
My sister is most definitely psychic as is our brother, her twin and I am myself, although neither my brother or I saw people until we were adults.

DS2 had an experience I will never forget when he was aged about 7. DS1 and I were in the kitchen when DS2 said he would answer the phone (it wasn't ringing) and we watched him pick up the phone and seemingly listen to whoever was supposedly on the other end.
When he put the phone down, I asked DS2 who he had been talking to and he told me it was Grandad - my FIL passed away when DS2 was only 2 - and that Grandad told him he was looking after him.
To this day, I remain convinced that my FIL does indeed look after DS2 in particular and I have seen him at least once in our home and several things have happened in our house which I know are down to FIL.

[missstroppy]

My mum has only just moved (on saturday) but in our old house we had many spirits. One who was very 'showy' would throw things from shelves, make loud bangs etc all in the middle bedroom, my brother freaked as he was sitiing in his room when 'they' threw cds from a shelf 1 by 1. not falling/boucing of shelf, threw across a 12ft room! He swapped rooms with my sister not telling her why till after she moved out. Don't think they liked him much!

My mums BF seems to attract a spirit who likes to pinch his bum (happened twice whilst having a shower! hehe) and the same spirit has been seen by many members of my family.

Then theres the spirit who wears high heels. She can be heard walking as if in the wall the adjoins my mums to my brothers.

But saying this we lived there for 12 years, and if it wasn't a 6 bedroom house and too big for my mum now that we have all grown up & moved out she would have stayed, as they make her feel safe.

She has even told them that may come with her to her new home if they wish!

[deb2108]

My dd 6 describes her other mummy to me,she also describes her old life before she was born to me, should I be worried? Do you believe in reincarnation because I am beginning to wonder about it myself! :shocked::shocked::shocked:

..... i believe in the fact we have all have a previous life :)
i'd love to know what i did in mine before there was a tesco;)

[Addy]

I am seriously freaked out :bolt:

Me too :lalala:

[NitWit]

..... i believe in the fact we have all have a previous life :)
i'd love to know what i did in mine before there was a tesco;)

Can you imagine if you regressed after this life? They would never believe anyone that said they spent so much time on here or in Tesco's!

[deb2108]

It has really struck something with me, I can remember when I was about 5ish a lady used to come into my room and tap my feet as she sat on the end of the bed, My Mum thought that I was making it up, but I can still see her clearly (in my memory)

73Deedee i also had a similar experience several yrs ago - i was in bed, a lady was in my bedroom(i knew she was a female by her voice) i couldn't see her but i could sense her moving round the bed and she said my name, then
i felt her sit on the bottom of the bed and she lifted my left leg ........ i was so scared at the time!! i felt her stand up and walked round the other side of the bed and lay down next to me ........ never had the experience again and don't think i want ever want it to again .............. of course nobody believed me !!!

[missstroppy]

Can you imagine if you regressed after this life? They would never believe anyone that said they spent so much time on here or in Tesco's!

:laugh:

[far canel]

Anyone else sleeping with the light on tonight:behindsofa::eek:

[jimjam]

when my ds was 2 we moved house and he regularly used to come downstairs in the morning telling me he had been talking to his friend, i just thought he had an imaginary friend until the day he described his friend
you see the man that used to live in my house i had known all my life as i grew up 3 doors away, we bought the house off his son after the poor man died from carbon monoxide poisoning
what i soon came to realise was that my son had moved into his old bedroom and when asked he could describe exactly what he used to look like
well as you can imagine it freaked me out something rotten (i lived on my own at the time) i just didnt no what to do
when halloween came i was literaly in pieces my kids were spending the night at there grandparents house and i was all alone........so i started drinking to calm my nerves the trouble was the more i drank the more paranoid i got i ended up completely off my head and ended up sleeping on my mums sofa as i just couldnt face sleeping in my house
i decided the next morning to swap my kids bedrooms around and since then ds hasnt mentioned his friend and its been about 5 years now, and dd who now sleeps in that room has never reported seeing anything.....mind you she is a complete cynic(sp) and wouldnt believe it if a ghost sat on end of the bed singing to her lol she would just think i was trying to wind her up

[LoveABargain]

Anyone else sleeping with the light on tonight:behindsofa::eek:

Me too- but I love reading stuff like this too even though it spooks me out!!!

[maleficent_mum]

OP in answer to your question I agree I think it's entirely possible, just reading through all these replies and by an incident I had with my DS, I'm more than happy to keep an open mind on paranormal/psychic events.

Going back a few years I watched a Most Haunted Live with my eldest DS, we had it on the TV and were watching the webcams on the PC at the same time. DS was on the PC at one stage and I was in the kitchen making DH's sandwiches for the next day, when DS started coughing and called me saying mum there's smoke coming from the computer. I went in and had look and there was nothing and he was saying "Can't you smell it, it's really strong", anyway I finished making DH's sandwiches and went back in to watch the rest of the programme on the TV and after a while they got to the part of the house, it was at the top of some stairs, where DS had been watching the webcam and Derek Acorah was on there then and he said " there's a very masculine prescence here, a cigar smoker, very heavy smoker, it's a strong smell, really gets at the back of your throat" ~ Well as you can imagine I was totally freaked out by this and then a little bit later in the same programme, we went to one of the other webcams in a room one of the trigger objects had been set up in and DS said there's a man in there, he's going to touch it and blow me the alarm went off, on the webcam and on the TV and as far as I could see that room was bare apart from the table and the trigger object on it which was a book.

I think as adults we try to justify things and find a rational explanation or even just put it down to imagination, I know I've had a few dreams, premonitions that have been strange and then afterwards I've thought, that can't be right but kindof ignored it, when you have a child tell you, you can be sure they're not not trying to rationalise, they're not expanding on it, it's all innocent, straight forward and how it happened and quite scary. :eek:

[sandhabibi]

Blimey m mum thats freaky....I remember doing a home viewers thing with Darren Brown once and that was spooky....

[SimonJB]

Me and OH always felt our old house was haunted but never talked about it in front of our eldest (was 2 when we moved out, now 4), he talks about 'the man that got run over by the train who Mummy wouldn't listen to' but also about a HGV going into the shop at the bottom of our road and killing 6 people. This did happen, but years before he was born.

[suziq]

most haunted worries me, i know a guy who went a bit loopy after getting into all that.
a black cat lives in my house, my live cat can see it too.

[charlotsofun]

i am soooooo scared now i am not moving off this chair till my brother comes in and walks upstairs with me.

a few years ago my dd heard my mum running the bath so she ran in the bathroom and asked if she could get in my dm said yes whilst they were in the bath dm was asking her what had she been doing dd said i have just been talking to my friend but he had to go because it was his birthday and he was having a party dm asked her what he looked like and she described a man that looked like mummy but was tall like uncle my dm came down stairs and told me about the conversation then said josh my db would have been 21 that day. he past away when he was a baby
that realy freeked us out.

[Darkangel709]

Please dont freak out over it. I believe that your ds did see his nanny and that she is looking over him and protecting him. I used to see people when i was little sometimes i still do, i have premontions too but not all the time. Children are more open to things like this and its when they grow up that they either decide to channel what gift they have got or decide to ignore it. But as adults we seem to lose the power of seeing things. If you have a problem with it please seek help from someone. I believe that your ds nanny came back to check on him and see if he was ok. It is because children havent been tainted yet with the real world and sceptisism..... Please dont worry hun at least he told you about it xxx big hugs xxx

[Deedee]

ty all, not tooo worried, just "excited" I suppose, but then I started thinking, what if she could see what I have been up to? lol (i.e, being on here while DS is watching Lazytown etc! lol)

[Deedee]

i am soooooo scared now i am not moving off this chair till my brother comes in and walks upstairs with me.

a few years ago my dd heard my mum running the bath so she ran in the bathroom and asked if she could get in my dm said yes whilst they were in the bath dm was asking her what had she been doing dd said i have just been talking to my friend but he had to go because it was his birthday and he was having a party dm asked her what he looked like and she described a man that looked like mummy but was tall like uncle my dm came down stairs and told me about the conversation then said josh my db would have been 21 that day. he past away when he was a baby
that realy freeked us out.


There is definately a link then, My Mum was right!

[lozzy]

When my brother was younger he saw our Great Grandad in his bedroom, He doesn't remember it but I do very clearly.
He never meet our Grandad as he died before he was born but when this happened we ask him to tell use what this man was like and it sounded like Grandad, so mum got out a photo and my brother said this was the man he had seen in his room.

I wouldn't worry about it to much as long as your Ds isn't scared.

When this happened to my Brother it scared him so when Grandad came back the next day my Brother told him, he didn't like him coming to his room and to this day he has never seen him.

[holliemon]

Me and OH always felt our old house was haunted but never talked about it in front of our eldest (was 2 when we moved out, now 4), he talks about 'the man that got run over by the train who Mummy wouldn't listen to' but also about a HGV going into the shop at the bottom of our road and killing 6 people. This did happen, but years before he was born.

Was that Sowerby Bridge by any chance

[6lilpigs]

My step-nan (stepmums mum) once told me that she had seen a lady stood at the end of her bed. My step nan is a very sensible sound minded lady, no funny business so she was not attention seeking. She then told me that when she first came to visit my house when my stepmum moved in that she recognised the photo on the wall as the lady she had seen before, the lady on the wall was my mum who we lost in 89'.
I would like to think that if I was to die that I would be able to maybe pass a blessing on to the family of the lady who was taking on my children. We couldnt have picked a better step mum if wed been looking ourselves.
So I'd say that some people are able to pick up on things.

[Coupon-madder]

I definitely remember seeing more than one ghostly man in our house when I was young, primary school age.

One I recall clearly was a man standing in the hall upstairs when I went to come out of the bathroom. He was old and stocky, and had stange glasses in that one lens was noticeably smaller than the other (like a jeweller might use to study hallmarks or something). I had never seen anyone with such glasses AFAIK, it was only when I later described him to my Mum and Dad that they mentioned the sort of glasses you can use that have a smaller magnifying lens, which may have explained his appearance (a bit). There was no question of him being a real living person BTW, there was only my family in the house and they were downstairs.

My parents believed me when I told them about the ghosts I saw but they used to change the subject. Several times I saw old men upstairs (different ones) and they were not real people, they had a certain unreal appearance and never said anything. But they weren't see-through or misty, just quiet. I didn't recognise any of them BTW.

Around the age of nine or ten I realised I had stopped seeing them. Deedee, I reckon your DS does see ghosts but he should grow out of it in the end. My own kids have never said they see ghosts at all but they are fascinated that I still believe I did.

[SimonJB]

Was that Sowerby Bridge by any chance

Yep

[Angel]

Anyone else sleeping with the light on tonight:behindsofa::eek:

I sleep with the light on every night, I always have and probably always will :o

I wish I had not read this thread (curiosity got the better of me) I am now really scared :hurt:

[tiger]

Don't be scared Angel. Just look at how many people have found these presences comforting. They've not come to any harm. :hug:

[Deedee]

Definately not scared!! Really happy that Nanny has come to say hello to Joe! Just worried she saw me sat on my ar$e on here!! lol

[Angel]

Don't be scared Angel. Just look at how many people have found these presences comforting. They've not come to any harm. :hug:

I never thought of that :)

[Darkangel709]

Angel please dont worry hun you will be fine. xx theres nothing to worry about tbh would rather see a ghost than a living person. As the saying goes be more afraid of the living than the dead, as the dead cant hurt you xxx pm me if you wanna talk.....lol

[zoot]

angel, please try not to worry. Most people seem to be saying it is children who are more open to this kind of occurance so you have nothing to worry about if you have no experience of anything like this happening to you as a child.

[missstroppy]

Angel, spirits come to comfort, they will know you are scared and respect your wishes not to see them x

And remember they are usually loved ones, or those who are drawn to you and wish to protect you...nothing bad :)

If you ever get freaked, just say out loud.... I am not comfortable with seeing you and they will not come x

[Made in Devon]

My neighbour and her daughter regularly are aware of someone in their home, but my neighbours DH and DS are unaware totally.

For what its worth I beleive my neighbour, nothing sinister ever happens, but she is aware of things that logic cannot explain. She hears someone calling her "Mum" when no-one else is in the house. She smells food cooking, when there is nothing going on in the kitchen. She is aware of movement upstairs and when she goes and investigates, no-one is visible, yet she knows someone is there.

Nothing like this has ever happened to me, yet I believe that it is something that is there, my friend and her daughter are not scared by it, but would love an explanation. All the obvious questions have been asked about the families that lived in the house previously. But this is a council house built in the 1950's, and no-one has died there, and some family members still live locally. Not everything can be explained can it?

[missstroppy]

Someone doesn't have to die there for their spirit be be there.

They travel ! They get drawn to peoples energy and go to them....so your neighbours home must be very comforting for them x

[rainbow]

A long story, but my neice was killed in an accident a few years ago. A few months later at New Year, DH and I were in bed reminiscing about various events that had happened that year. It was very dark. I made a comment that I'd like to think that my grandmother was looking after my neice on the other side. Right at that moment my mobile phone lit up the room. It did not ring or vibrate, there was no text or missed call....nothing other than the light coming on. When I checked it, my grandmother's picture (which was saved in my phone) was smiling back at me. She answered my question and I found it a lovely comforting experience. Not scary at all.

[PipkinSam]

Wow Rainbow - that is fab! How comforting.
As I have been reading this I heard a beep seemingly coming from the unit next to me - I've had a look through it and there are no phones or anything in there, and the calculator is off - so don't know where that came from!
I have seen a few people - including a little girl and my grandma. But these have been when I was adult.
As a child I was terrified in my room at night for some reason. One night I felt that someone was standing over me - I was terrified and pulled the covers over my head - and eventually fell asleep. (Didn't think to call out for Mum or Dad!), I could hear the sound of a ticking clock but there was no sound in the room. In the morning my Mum told me that her grandad used to love the sound of a ticking clock and always had a clock with a load tick. Maybe he had come to see me.

Although these things sound frightening - if it is someone we know then they wouldn't want to scare us, or hurt us.

Isn't this subject interesting!

[missstroppy]

i love this subject too, my family all believe and have seen, but trying to talk to others and they look at me as if ive grown a 2nd head before their eyes...They would prob believe i could rather than accept there's spirits!! lol

[missstroppy]

After my baby brother died (he was a triplet) he comes back to us on special days! flicks lights moves things , even threw a glass at my then BF, when he said something a lil' mean about his triplet brother!! That shocked him!!! Haha

My dad is a DJ and when ever he went to work and played certain songs.....he (DB spirit) would flicker lights on and off in large function rooms. Very comforting......