Anyone with kids would be well aware of the fact that children often do not have anyfilters. Indeed, this can be mortifying at times, but often it’s just prettyfunny. However, sometimes this lack of awareness coupled with their earnestness means that children can very quickly become sort of scary in the right circumstances.
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When my nephew was a toddler, my brother would rock him to sleep in a rocking chair. I was in the kitchen and saw this, nbd. But when I got closer, they were both completely frozen with their eyes wide open. My brother can sleep with his eyes open, and his son inherited the trait. They were just sitting there completely still like mannequins with glassy eyes. My brother was snoring a bit. It was f*****g terrifying 😆.
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When I was really little, my mom asked where my imaginary friend Sarah (who I frequently mentioned had a broken arm from a car accident) lived, and I took my mom to the cemetery down the road. I took her to the grave of a little girl named Sarah, who died in a car accident. I couldn’t read yet and there was no way for me to know how that specific person died.
First kid played with JJ his imaginary friend. Second kid my oldest girl had NeeNee.One day we were talking about JJ and my son now 6 or 7 laughed and he discribed a dark skinned boy with a big smile.My then 3 year old daughter said her friend was NeeNee. When we asked her to describe how NeeNee looked she thought about it and then went to the entertainment center and pointed. She said “she’s in there.“Reluctantly, we opened the door and there was a small box. It had OLD pictures in it. As we were going through these old black and whites I’m not sure I’d ever even seen she said “there’s NeeNee.“It was a picture of my mom as a little little girl. She had died about 6 months before my oldest son was born.We’re all spooked but we look over and my son is white as a sheet with tears in his eyes and he’s shaking. With tears in my eyes I asked whats wrong. Shakily he holds out a picture and says “This is JJ.“I’m trembling as I take it.The back reads John John 1952 and as I turn it over I realize it’s a picture of my father that died when I was 12.The oldest picture I remember seeing of my dad before that he was 12. I never even knew what he looked like at that age but there he was in black and white with this big goofy grin.
When my son was like 3 he was staring at the end of the couch …I mean really staring. I asked him what he was looking at and he said “The people at the end of the couch.” Oooooook. A couple of minutes later I saw him crane his neck over the couch and then his eyes followed around up the stairs. I said “what are you looking at?” And he said “They went upstairs.” I didn’t go upstairs for a WHILE that day lol.
My son happily told me “when you die, worms will eat your face and I can finally get a cat. Then I’ll let the cat eat the rest of you”.Thanks, kid. You’re so generous.
My coworkers nephew came up to us and said “ i wish cats took over”.
One the greatest interactions of my life happened in an elevator. I had the car to myself, going up. The elevator stops and this guy and his daughter get in and press the button for their floor.As the door closes and the impulse of motion is felt, the daughter, probably around 10 years old, rips an absolute buzzsaw of a fart. I can’t help but turn my head and, as our gazes meet, she tells me matter of factly “you farted”.ding. Door opens and they walk out, leaving me in this gas chamber of gas lighting, thinking maybe I really did fart.
“Go back to sleep, there isn’t anything under your bed”.“Hes behind you now”.Still haven’t gotten over that one and shiver at the memory.
I was having dinner at a friend’s place and we heard her 4 year old daughter talking to herself. We searched for her and found her in my friend’s bedroom looking up at the curtain rod saying “hello man, why are you up there?” Her daughter kept talking to the curtain until her mom asked her what she was doing and she replied “just talking to the man.” We also noticed that her annoying dachshund that follows us everywhere was standing behind us with her tail between her legs and refused to enter the room.
I went to a friends house the day after my grandma died to collect a few things,one of their brothers around 7 years old sat next to me and whispered in my ear”i hope your gonna die like your grandma on the floor” and started laughing.I had to exit out of that room.All i felt was confusion,disgust and unable to believe that a kid that young could say something so horribly evil 💀💀.
When my son was 8 years old, our dog passed away and we told him that everyone gets old and eventually dies and that our dog “went to see Jesus” and that heaven was a wonderful place. The next day we were at a restaurant and he walked up to a random old guy, patted him on the back and said “you’re going to see Jesus real soon” with a big smile on his face a genuine excitement. I still wonder if that guy thought my kid was psychic.
When I went to my chemo treatment a few days before Christmas, I (thankfully) missed the childrens group that was there singing carols. But they left cards for all us poor cancer f*****s.Handwritten on the card I received was “We’re praying for you!“But they misspelled it “preying.”.
My daughter has asked me twice how to take someone’s bones out.
My mom was looking for a key to a foot locker that belonged to her mom after her dad passed away. One day, my sister (7) was talking to a painting that our mom’s mom had painted. When she was done talking, my sister went to the China cabinet, removed some pieces, and handed Mom the key to the footlocker. She also spent a few months babbling in backwater Louisiana creole.
When my daughter was around 3, she told me she wanted to be a tooth fairy when she grew up so she could make dolls out of kids' teeth.
My sister is three years older than I am. When she was three, she woke my parents up with a blood curdling scream. Parents go running and ask her wtf? Shes flipping out about the hands that come through the window and tickle the bed. It eventually stops. Three years later, I’m here in the world now and three years old as well. My parents get woken up in the night to a blood curdling scream. They run to my sister. Shes all wtf. They go into my room and I’m suddenly freaking out about hands tickling the bed.
My 5 year old nephew said that the fall of Constantinople was the worst day of his life. That event happened on May 29, 1453… so I wonder if he had a past life…
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My son had an imaginary friend, that luckily only was around for a few weeks. He would talk is if his friend was real, freaking me out it was so believable. I tried not to react to it, but he told me that his friend was very mad and has a knife to my throat. 12 years later, I’m still alive and he is a normal college kid.
When i was young like less than 4 y/o i woke up in the middle of the night and called my mother just to tell her ‘i see vampires’ and then started hissing at her - she still tells the story of how terrified she was.
Not creepy, really–but funny, was at my job at an after-school program.I regularly joke around with my work kids (K-5th graders), once their grownups start arriving for pickup, and ask them, “Is that your mom/ dad/ aunt/ uncle, etc.One day, a couple months after i was back at work from having taken five weeks of FMLA time for my Dad’s hospice & death, I was sitting next to one of my K’s, when another child’s name was called for pickup.So, as is part of my normal end of day silliness, I asked the little dude next to me, “Is that your dad?The little guy looked over to the door, and said, “Nope!“So I asked, “Is that my dad?“And that’s when he looked at me, like I was the dumbest adult on the face of the planet, and completely straight-faced, said, “Your Dad’s dead!“And I lost it, giggling, and said, “You know, bud you’re right, my dad is dead!“Dad would have cackled at the way that little guy delivered that line!And, since the goofy questions was something I learned from him and my uncles asking my cousins and I nonsense questions as a child, it seemed pretty fitting that the little guy’s delivery was so impeccable!😉.
About a year ago I was in Florida visiting extended family. I hadn’t seen any of them in over a year and my 2-year-old cousin (R) said “Can I come to your house?” I responded “Maybe someday, wouldn’t that be fun?” R said “Yes, the (my exact house color) house with 18 windows on the front and a dog-wood tree! Oh and also your new pink room I wanna see it.” While it is possible he had seen a picture of my house I had painted my room pink about a week before we had left and had been waiting to tell the family as a surprise sort of thing. I asked his Mom later and she was perplexed, having no idea how he knew that stuff. It still kind of scares me.
I remember when I was a kid I called my mom “sexy mama” after hearing it on a tv show (I want to say Johnny Bravo?) and she had to explain why it was inappropriate. I still cringe thinking about it, even though it was obviously innocent.
When my brother was a kid, he was talking and laughing in his room alone. My mom went in and asked him who he was talking to. My brother said he was talking to his friend Kevin. My mom, already creeped out, asked who Kevin was. My brother said, “He’s my friend, but he already went home. He lives in the walls.” My brother is in his thirties now, but my mom is still creeped out and mad about Kevin hahaha.
„Luna is going to die next week“, said the little sister of a boy I was tutoring. She said this in a really sad tone. I was freaking out inside, wondering if she has a sick friend I don’t know about or something (and wondering why the parents didn’t warn me). Turns out what she meant was that her favourite tv show, Soy Luna, was going to be taken off Netflix (it’s a Disney show and this was shortly before Disney+ started, so all of the Disney stuff was disappearing from Netflix).
My nephew told my mom, dad and I that he could see people in a field, from a plane crash. We did live in a neighborhood that was built on old farmland decades ago. Maybe something happened before the neighborhood was built. 🤔 All of us fully believed him btw.
As I am reading this, my 10 year old son just walked in the room and told me the dog is trying to hide a dead body in the backyard.
So, my little sister was maybe 3 at the time.We were in the car waiting for mum to get out of work.She turns to dad and says, straight as can be ‘before I lived with you I lived in Chicago and rooted for the White Sox.‘My family has lived in Boston for generations.Girl why would you say that.
I used to be a preschool teacher. Many years ago I had a strange boy in my class we’ll call Ben. He was always saying weird, random stuff but this one sticks out. I noticed him standing in front of the glass door, smiling and moving around, watching his reflection when he smiles again and says “Other Ben! Come out and play!” I think about that kid a lot. I’m sure he grew up to be a creative of some sort. He always seemed to be operating on a whole other plane!
My neice told me she wanted to take my insides and put them through a cheese grader . I had a talk with her mom after that one. She’s 5.
When my son was about three years old he asked me in a very sugary tone to come into his bedroom, assuring me “everything will be fine”. Tells me to sit on his bed and then lie down, all the while telling me everything’s ok. “Now close your eyes..” I complied, then I hear him say calmly “Just lie still, this won’t hurt a bit.“I opened my eyes right away to see him standing over me with a toy plastic hammer in one hand and a toy saw in the other. Noped out of there real fast.
My niece went into my parents room and said she was talking to Pop-pop, who is my father and her grandfather.Except Pop-pop died in 2006, and she was born in 2008…
It’s not that creepy when you hear or read it, but I know some people can relate to this happening to them. Sometimes, you’ll talk to a 2 year old and they’ll stop talking and look directly in your eyes for 30 seconds, switching from your left eye to your right eye periodically, and it’s the creepiest thing ever. Mind you a 2-2.5 year old is innately curious and constantly moving. I work with kids and it’s happened to me a few times, not that it’s necessarily “creepy”, but it’s so beyond eerie and odd, and all I can chalk it out to being is them forming their first conscious memory or actualizing that they’re a living being.
My nephew walked up to my fireplace multiple times and said “stop staring at me!!”.
One of my students (f8) who was always super quite came up to me and quietly asked “how does the cold kill you?”.
A friend of mine has a 4 year old son who’s very creepy. One time she took a nap on the couch and he sat next to her and stared at her the whole time. He didn’t go play or fall asleep or get into trouble, he just stared at her. And he has a unibrow so something is just not right with him.
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