28 Of The Creepiest, Eeriest, Most Disturbing Things Kids Have Ever Said
by Hannah Dobrogosz · BuzzFeedReddit user GoldTNecklace recently asked, "What's the creepiest thing you have ever heard a child say?" It turns out that A LOT of kids say terrifying things. Here's what people shared:
1. "We had just moved into an old farmhouse when one night, my 3-year-old at the time pointed at the glass door and asked why the 'other mummy' was there. I looked and couldn't see anything, so I asked what she looked like. My 3-year-old explained that the other mummy was dirty and muddy and had blue lips and blonde hair. I kind of froze because we were home alone together. I was like, 'Oh okay, that's interesting,' and he said, 'Yes, she lives under the ground. She said she had a good boy like me once.' It made my stomach drop, and I took him to my room and locked the door, haha."
2. "My niece was talking to her imaginary friends in the back of the car. She said it was a boy and girl about her age, brother and sister. Then, as we approached the end of a road, she said, 'This is their home. Can we drop them off here?' My sister and I laughed about it until we reached the end of the road, which was a cemetery. She gave a little wave and said goodbye as we passed."
3. "'Mommy, can we sleep with the TV on? I don't want the big people to watch us sleep again.' The night before, I had a terrible nightmare that aliens were watching us sleep. It was almost like an out-of-body experience because I could see us in bed in my bedroom, which was exactly as I'd left it that night. I didn't think of it until she said that, and then I realized maybe it wasn't a dream. She was only 2 at the time."
4. "My nephew told me the basement people want my skin."
5. "We were at a family gathering, and my then-4-year-old daughter did not want to leave. She kept repeating, 'But it's the last time we will all be together!' We had to football-carry her out while wrangling our other kids. We were at a beloved aunt's home, who suddenly passed two weeks later. It was indeed the last time we were 'all' together. I wish I'd listened to my daughter and stayed longer at my aunt's house."
6. "'Look, mommy, it's the daddy ghost and the baby ghost!' My 2.5-year-old son said this excitedly, pointing at nothing I could see while I pulled into our garage. He saw the baby ghost a few more times over the next few months, and once he got so excited, he ran to get his brother to see. The baby ghost was usually in his room. A father and his young daughter were killed in a housefire in our neighborhood a week or two before he started claiming to see ghosts. The sightings stopped after maybe three months."
7. "My son tells me stories of 'scary uncle Michael' in his bedroom at night. He says he's a grey man who looks like his uncle, and he climbs on walls and calls out to him, and one night he tried to eat him. Yep, nightmare fuel."
8. "My toddler looked at the rocking chair on my parents' porch, waved at it, said 'Hi Huey!' and returned to playing. That was my godfather's rocking chair. His name was Hugh. He died almost 10 years before she was born."
9. "Once, my son looked at me and said, 'Oh, you're having a baby!' I had just found out I was expecting and hadn't told anyone. I asked him why he said that, and he just shrugged and said, 'Just a feeling.' I miscarried less than a week later, and he looked at me randomly and said, 'Oh, no more baby.' The pregnancy, miscarriage, etc., had never been discussed around him. It was so strange."
10. "My little cousin, at about 3 years old, looked at us all at the family gathering and said, 'You know, I went down with the ship,' then he switched back to speaking in 3-year-old English and started playing."
11. "I have three children: one girl (the eldest) and two boys. When my daughter was about 4, she used to talk frequently about how she was here before. She and her little sister (she was an only child at the time) drowned, and she said she was glad to be here now but that she missed her sister. It was a little creepy, but kids are weird, and she grew out of it by the time she was 6 and didn't remember talking about it by the time she was 10, so whatever. Several years later, when my daughter was around 12 and her second little brother was around 4 years old, he one day randomly asked: 'Mommy, remember last time when I was a girl? And me and [big sister] were on the boat, and I went under the water, and I died? And [big sister] too?'"
12. "When I worked at a daycare, one little boy always asked about 'the man.' We would eat lunch, and he would stop, turn around, and stare at the door. When I asked him what he was looking at, he would always say, 'The man is being silly again,' or 'The man is looking at me.' He once woke up from a dead sleep to tell me that the man had spiders on his face, then went back to sleep. He was 3. We were in a building with only female coworkers. It still creeps me out."
13. "While changing my daughter in front of the open closet door, she kept looking around me and laughing. I asked her what was so funny. She said, 'The man,' to which I replied, 'What man?' She then pointed at the closet and said, 'The man with the snake neck.' I turned around, but nothing was there. I'm afraid to look into the history of my house to see if anyone hung themselves in the closet. At least she wasn't scared."
14. "My 4-year-old daughter says that before she was born, she was a ghost, and when she was a ghost, she would spy on us because she couldn't wait to be alive and live with us."
15. "'Go back to sleep. There isn't anything under your bed.' 'He's behind you now.' I still haven't gotten over that one, and I shiver at the memory."
16. "While walking through a graveyard with my little niece, she asked, 'What is the little girl's name?' while pointing at a gravestone. It had no little statues or any indicators that it was a child's grave. It looked identical to the parents' graves beside it, but the name and dates were for a 6-year-old girl. My niece had not learned to read yet. She spoke as if she was looking at the girl."
17. "My niece had never met my dad, her granddad, as he had passed away the year before she was born. When she was 3 years old, she pointed at the corner where his walking stick used to sit, waved, and said, 'Hiya, Granddad!' with the biggest smile. It was the creepiest and sweetest thing I had ever seen!"
18. "When my brother was little, he was in the kitchen with my mum while she was cooking. Suddenly, my brother asked, 'Mum, why is that boy crying in the corner?' My mum looked over, but no one was there."
19. "My 2-year-old grandson has been telling his parents 'The Man' visits him in his bedroom at night. A couple of weeks ago, when he was at his grandmother's house, he opened a box of old photos she keeps in her living room and looked through them. He held up one of her father, who died 10 years ago, eight years before he was born, and said, 'Grandma, it's The Man!'"
20. "My 3-year-old: 'Something is staring at me from the window!' I looked out the window and saw nothing. Me: What did it look like?' My 3-year-old: 'It has green eyes!' I remember seeing the same green-eyed creature many times in my childhood. I never told anyone about it. It gave me chills knowing my child was seeing the same thing."
21. "My nephew, while chatting to my grandmother about Christmas, says, 'You'll be dead then.' She died on December 20. She wasn't even sick at the time! He was 3 and doesn't remember saying it."
22. "My little cousin once said he has a friend named Mr. Bones who lives in the closet. Bro, that's terrifying."
23. "Once, when my little brother was about 4 or 5, he woke up one night and told me and our parents that he was talking to David. When my parents asked him what David looked like, he said he was a little ginger boy about his age and was looking out for us. We all just sort of froze because he described my best friend, who died about three years before my brother was born (at the age of 5), so that one hit me hard, but, like, in a good way."
24. "Our eldest was 3 when she often talked about 'when she was a grown-up.' She also used to ask when we (her parents) would be kids again. She also promised to care for me when she was a mummy and I was a baby."
25. "'I used to be a policeman, but then I died. I was trying to stop a burglary, and the burglars were really rough with me. They were really rough with me, and then I died.' This was a 4-year-old I used to babysit."
26. "My daughter told us at a very young age (4 or so) about these 'black-eyed children' that live in the woods behind our house. She said they couldn't come inside unless she invited them. There were also red-eyed children in the woods."
27. "My daughter was 3 years old when she told me that she and her old family died in a house fire. Around that time, she would talk about her 'old family' a lot, and to this day, she is petrified of any type of fire. She's 9 now."
28. And: "My 2-year-old saw me organizing my basketball cards. He tottered over and said, 'When I was big, I used to buy those for you.' My dad bought me those cards 25 years ago, shortly before he passed away."
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