Listening to kids speak their mind can be a very fun thing to do, especially when it comes to the little ones. Having recently learned to put syllables together to express themselves—butwithout a filteryet that would stop them from saying how they actually feel about dad minus his beard, for instance—they never cease to amaze those around them with their remarks.Granted, not all of their commentary is equally amusing. Some things they say can seriously upset or shock their parents and make them wonder where their child could have possibly picked that up. The moms and dads on this list probably did.Redditor u/JrlTanasked them what was the scariest thing their offspring has ever said to anyone, and they shared stories ranging from weird to terrifying, and beyond. Scroll down to findtheir answersbelow and see for yourself how alarming certain kids’ messages can get.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Listening to kids speak their mind can be a very fun thing to do, especially when it comes to the little ones. Having recently learned to put syllables together to express themselves—butwithout a filteryet that would stop them from saying how they actually feel about dad minus his beard, for instance—they never cease to amaze those around them with their remarks.
Granted, not all of their commentary is equally amusing. Some things they say can seriously upset or shock their parents and make them wonder where their child could have possibly picked that up. The moms and dads on this list probably did.Redditor u/JrlTanasked them what was the scariest thing their offspring has ever said to anyone, and they shared stories ranging from weird to terrifying, and beyond. Scroll down to findtheir answersbelow and see for yourself how alarming certain kids’ messages can get.
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“Will the man in the attic come with us when we move?”
My son told me he had thoughts of ending himself when he was about 16. Scared the hell out of me for months while we got him professional help. He is doing much better now at 18 but I am still worried that one day I will lose my son.
“Mummy, the invisible man wants to come in your bedroom.“ABSOLUTELY NOT.
A few months after my mom passed, my daughter was sitting in the tv room. She looked down the hall and I could tell something caught her eye. She got up and said “Yaya is in her room”, and proceeded to go in my mom’s room and shut the door. I could hear my daughter talking and laughing through the door. I was equal parts scared of and hoping to hear my mom too, but I didn’t.
A few weeks after my son turned 2 yo he told me “Look, the smoke dissipates”. This is not a word in our daily vernacular so I asked him what that means and he said “It disappears “ Impressed, I asked him where did you learn that word and he replied “When I was an adult” I laughed and asked him when were you an adult and without missing a beat answered”Before I was born”😳
My adorably innocence 3 year old lovingly told me, “Mommy, when you die I’m going to keep your body so I can pet your hair.”He was petting my hair at that moment.
When my daughter was three she came home from preschool one day and her demeanor changed the minute we came home. She became very withdrawn and looked very upset. I asked her what was wrong, and she said, “The angel on the roof is angry with us.” 😳
Woke up one night and my 3 year old isn’t in his bed. It’s about 3 am. The house is dark and quiet. I go downstairs and a nightlight is on, and my son is just sitting on the couch staring into space. Doesn’t say a word. The hair on my neck was standing up. I said quietly “what’s going on?” He looked a me strangely and said “I just have to wait until everyone is asleep” Goosebumps all over my body, and I felt like I was in a horror film. Kept a very close eye on him for a few weeks. Kid is a doctor today and did not grow up to be a criminal. At least yet.
My kid and my niece have such an uncanny connection they live in different countries. When my kiddo was 4/5 we went for pizza and this little random spot they had seen us drive past, whatever seemed cool. Kiddo hits me with the ‘me and niece always wanted to open up a pizza shop here when I was in a wheelchair and niece was my little girl…we lived across the street in that house.’ Okay what a cute little story they’re a kid whatever. Time passes and we are parked and see a man having a hard time getting his wheelchair out of his van bc the parking space wasn’t quite wide enough, ‘we should help him I remember how annoying that used to be for me and niece’ instantly took me back to our pizza afternoon. (Yes we helped the gentleman) we chat a bit about the previous life and kiddo has things to say that are repeated. Time passes again and we are visiting my niece they haven’t physically seen each other in months, but on video chat and through photos. My niece learning to talk now and get her words out clearly keeps calling my kid nana (mothers father) and she gets so excited whenever my kid gets up and walks. I tell my sil about what my kiddo’s told me and she tells me that my niece always wants to go up to elderly ppl she sees in wheelchairs trying to push them/help them with their mobility. My niece and my kiddo get ready for bed while we stay with them and they insist of sleeping together bc they missed each other bc my kiddo said ‘it’s been so many lives’Not creepy per se but just always so interesting.
One night tucking my kids in:My then 4 year old: “Mummy, when you die I’m going to keep your bones.”.My then 6 year old: “Ooh - we could make a wind chime!”.The creepiest and also the sweetest thing my kids have ever said to me.
Woke up to my 1.5yo standing on the bed saying “daddy” repeatedly while looking at the door.Daddy is on the run for almost unaliving me 😀 needless to say I didn’t sleep
My mum told me a story about me years ago…..When I was about 2 I was sitting in my high chair in the kitchen with my parents and grandparents and suddenly started speaking Welsh- I am Welsh, but I’ve never spoken it fluently, and we exclusively spoke English at home. I basically said that I was from x (a small market town about 20 miles from where we lived), that I used to work on a farm with my brothers and sisters and I didn’t have any shoes. Apparently I also said that I preferred ‘this house’.I certainly have no memory of this other life but it freaked my parents and grandparents out at the time!
Not my child, but my nephew, (from a very Christian family) one day said “if we all go to heaven when we die, why don’t I k**l everyone, then we can all be in heaven “. He was 5 and meant it in the most positive way. He just wants to get everyone into heaven fast
Does pointing and laughing at the empty corner of the room count? Might need to go burn some sage…
Teacher here. 3 yr old stopped playing to say, unprompted, “Humans are just meat you know.” Then returned to playing
My son told a cop my husband was lying about his name. Tbf it only lasted a minute because then he immediately said “your name is dad!”
I cut my foot on a piece of broken glass. My kid (about 5 at the time) said, “Don’t clean it up! I can use your blood for painting!”
My daughter is 3 and is working on performing her own nighttime routines. We asked her how she gets ready for bathtime and gave her her stuffed bunny to demonstrate on. She takes the bunny and begins explaining the steps of her routine, mimicking the actions on the doll.“First you take off your pants.” * she wiggles Rabbit’s legs*“Then you take off your shirt.” *she wiggles Rabbit’s arms*“Then you take off your underwear.” *wiggles the legs again*“Then you take off your hands.” *she pulls on Rabbit’s arm in a plucking motion*“Then you take off your arms.” *Rabbit’s arms are wrenched immediately*“Then you take off your legs, your hair, your tummy, your face!” *she gleefully laughs as she mimes ripping each part off of Rabbit*“All done!” *she looks up at us with a smile. We are aghast.*
3 year old daughter whispered, “No one is coming to help you.”
Dad, I took an overdose. I’m not sorry.We have been with them 24 hours/day ever since. We are exhausted and burnt out but on the weekend they dyed their hair and was kind to their brother, and I think (hope) that we have turned a corner
One day she told me she spends her whole period week imagining cutting out her uterus. She described it in great detail.
My little friend went through a phase of telling “dark stories” when she was 3-4. She was also really Into playing games about taking her toys to the doctor. We were playing and she said “this toy is really scared of the doctor!“ and I said “why? Doctors are there to help us!” Or something like that. She said “he is scared because this is the bad nurse. She gives him medicine so he can’t move or scream and then cuts him open and takes his insides out.”I was just like “yeah. That’s a good reason to be scared!”We have no idea where she came up with that stuff. She’s 6 now and all her stories are about fairies and princesses. I kind of miss her dark stories- they were more creative, even though some kept me up at night!”
My daughter at nursery (Aged 3) came home and said “Mammy there was a lady on the roof eating cats “..Poor bugger had a raging temperature.
My three year old: Poop is like a fart cake.
At 5 years old, “Mommy, Danny put his hand under my skirt today.” Still don’t know how I didn’t wreck the car (we were on our way home).
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I told my father and grand father that I remembered dying in WWII.
My daughter was 4 when she said “you know I died in a jail when someone hit my head then I came to you”
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I was at a silent auction and there was a really creepy 100 year old doll that I bid on as a joke. Turns out nobody else wanted it, so I won. My wife and I are talking the whole time about how creepy this doll was.As I stood in line to pay for it, my daughter asked to hold the doll, so I gave it to her. A few older ladies starting coming up to her and saying things like “That doll is older than I am.” and “You’re so lucky to have such a pretty doll.” I guess because my daughter had been listening to us talking, she would respond with things like “Did you hear that? She’s laughing at you.” I tried so hard not to laugh at the look on their faces, but the last one got me. My daughter put her ear down to the dolls face and with a very serious look said to a lady “I think the doll just said the ‘F-word’.”
My daughter was performing at one of her school events when she told me she saw my grandmother. She was dead and we missed her funeral that day.
My two year old never stops talking and has said some really weird and freaky things lately. The creepiest one was when we were putting her to bed and she said goodnight to the “closet man” and when we asked her who she meant she told us it was the little man that lived in the small access hatch she has in the back of her closet. Scary thing is she has never seen that hatch open and i’m pretty sure she has never seen it before because there has been a big storage tote in front of it since before she was born!You bet I checked the hatch the next morning when she was downstairs and found nothing but dust and spiderwebs in there so that made me a bit happier!
We found him in the unfinished basement with the lights off in the middle of the night. Standing in the corner whispering. And he told the therapist, the devil comes to my window at night
My first born daughter, when she was around 5 or 6 years old. She use to take her dolls and place pennies on their eyes so “Sam” can play with them…..don’t know a Sam…. I hid the pennies…nope, big ol’nope.
“Daddy, there’s a caveman in your kitchen!“It was a sticker she put on the floor
My daughter told me there was a fire in the kitchen. It was a lit candle 🤦
Not my child, but a friends child was sitting in bed with their mother and said the red eyed people were coming down from the roof, they also hid in the wardrobe, in the evening they would come into the house from the forest, she said she would watch them walk out of the forest into the house.
My eldest had an imaginary friend he claimed to be the ghost of a child that died in our house. He would sit in his room having conversations with him. It was f*****g creepy. His imaginary friend was quickly forgotten a couple of weeks after he started preschool and we all breathed a sigh of relief.
My 4 year old son asked me if i prefer death or labour very loudly in publicTook me a sec to realise that those are the names of two songs that i’d been playing quite frequently in the house lol
He drew something and asked me what it was. As clues, he told me it was at the stairs (we were in the family area on the second floor of our house at the time, facing said stairs), but sometimes it was at the bedroom door (also on said floor), and it didnt have any legs.The answer is ghost.
At 3 am in the morning, I was a single mum and lived alone with my 3-year old at the time: “Mum, there’s someone over there at our window”.
Daddy who is that behind you? * we were alone in a room at the children’s hospital -*
I learned to play that chess game when I lived in the castle with my other mommy and daddy.
We were staying on an island and waiting for the last barge back to mainland . It was just after dark and we drove through a small old cemetery to kill time. It was empty and no one around, but my 1.5 year old daughter was waving hello and giggling like she was seeing someone.
I ask the kid, “whatcha drawing?”Kid: “oh, a land of infinite darkness where darkness reigns.”Cue me going through the whole video collection thinking I must have missed something.
My 5 year old said he sees an old man on the stairs, i asked him to show me where exactly and he keeps pointing to the ceiling above the stairs (as if the man he refers to would be hanging..). Very odd.
Neighbor kid walked up to me one day, just said “I learned how to start a fire today” and walked off.
So I have a 16 year old young man and one time he woke me up dead of my sleep at 2am and said (they are coming) and gave me that odd freaking stair! Turns out he was fully asleep!
My then 2 year old: You’ll be scared. There’s a ghost coming for you. Now run.
My two and a half year old at the doctor this past Friday when they were going to take some blood from me “Mommy, I want your blood!”
My younger sister was about two or three and ended up waking up in the middle of the night screaming and crying. She wouldn’t stop saying that something was in the corner. She was inconsolable for at least an hour. I assume it was a night terror but it lasted much longer than night terrors I’ve seen from others (my own kid today suffered from them when younger).
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Monika Pašukonytė
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