small children seeing ghosts and hearing voices

by moanzy 51 Replies latest jw experiences

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  jimakazi

  supernatural superstition bunk

  tetrapod;

  I can see you feel strongly about this but it's a little harsh, obviously you havn't had anything unexplainable happen to you. Others have. Seeing a health professional may be a good idea - but if it's real then you just distroy the childs trust in adults - there a good start to life some shrink twelling your parents that the kid has a altered sense of reality and should be on some nice little calming drug [and visit them regualrly of couser for the rest of their natural lives].

  My wife and I have experienced strange stuff in the Philippines that had no rational explantion. It was spooky as and despite not wanting to beleive I had to open myself to the idea of there being more than I or documented science could explain. Which doesn't mean it won't be explained in the future - but certainly not by closed minded "educated" health professionals with a motive to maintain their own practices.

  In our 1959 house we have had some strange things happen - but apart from 1 incident this year it has only been my wife and notice them. It's a little hard to dispell hearing what you assume are the running footstep of your kids playing way past their bed time, hearing the step dissapear round the corner, see no one there and then look in their room to see your kids are SOUND ASLEEP in BED. The incident this year was in the Kitchen after school, my kids were having an snack at the table, I was standing at the sink - we all saw the kitchen door go from full open to slammed shut hard enough to shake the house. No windows open, no draft until the door slammed. Was this collective insanity? My kids looked at me dumb founded - who did that? I suggested the wind, neither was buying it.

  So I don't know about encouraging it, but keep an open mind.
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  Billygoat

  So I don't know about encouraging it, but keep an open mind.

  I have to agree with this. Get your daughter physically checked out, but at least consider that it's something else.

  BTW - a house doesn't have to be old to have strange things like this happen. Do you know anything about the previous residents and their lives?
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  Crumpet

  I think the most disturbing statement was the 4 year old saying she had a different mummy before. This is really freaky. The seeing stuff is easily explainable - as kids see and hear stuff all the time. My step daughter insists to this day that I stood outside her room late one night when she was 6 and discussed with her father whether I should tell her about the new baby, which simply never happened! She dreamt it and it felt real.

  She also insisted she saw a badger behind the shed, and another little girl she was playing with automatically said that she could see it too. I was there and had the same view as they did and there was no badger - they just made it up!
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  LittleToe

  Keith:

  ...please just don't discourage your daughter, encourage her. It's a beautiful gift.

  Maybe you need to elaborate on "how to encourage her". If you mean "don't discourage her", I can go with that. However, if it is a fantasy and you encourage it, then that isn't too healthy. That having been said, I don't think the idea of combatting an overly-imaginative child with a shrink is necessarily the best way to go, either. Can't kids be allowed to be kids?

  Try to get more details from her.

  Sound advice! Doing that, without making a huge thing of it, can sometimes be tricky though.

  I really don't want to scare you, but it likely wasn't Jesus on the sidewalk...

  And based on the details you have read, how would you know that? Are you imposing your paradigm?

  ...it could have been someone else wanting you to know they are heading to the light.

  It could just as easily be that, yes. The bottom line is that we just don't know. Hence we need to go back to your advice about getting more details...
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  Sherri

  My (then) three-year-old son had an interesting experience three years ago. It was a one-off -- nothing similar has happened before or since.

  Here's the link to my original story: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/16495/1.ashx
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  moanzy

  Thanks everyone again! I want to wait and see if anything more comes out of this stuff.

  Billygoat: I know the people that owned this house from the beginning and they had small children. They are the only owners of this house besides us.

  dannybloem: I know what she said doesn't sound consistent, but what two year old is? Also by the way she talked about "the bad light" briefly in that story. What she said to her dad is different than what she said to me, but what she did say was all consistent with what some have described when having a "spiritual" experience. Remember she is only 2 and to me this is unusual for a 2 year old to talk like.

  Moanzy
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  love2Bworldly

  As a mother of 3, I doubt a 2 year old would make something like that up. That is something an older kid might make up. Your story gave me goosebumps, hope your new house won't be like that all the time. I don't believe in 'ghosts' per say, but I do believe that people have these type of unexplainable experiences. I believe in evil spirits who like to play tricks on people.
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  Why Georgia

  Have your children made any new friends? When my son made a new friend a few years ago at age 3 he started talking about vampires, demons and shadows coming alive.

  We could not figure it out at all.

  It turned out his new friend watches scooby doo and a lot of other shows we dont' allow our son to watch and he was using his imagination and telling our son stories.

  It may be something supernatural. I had some odd things happen to me as a child that I still cannot explain now as an adult....I would look for the simplest explaination first.

  WG
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  crazyblondeb

  Usually there's a good explanation. But, I guess I do have a slightly different perspective on spirits. And when it comes to children, they are very discerning. And yes, they do like to tell stories!

  shelley
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  funkyderek

  Maybe I'm losing track - but how did the the word 'ghosts' enter a 2 year old's vocabulary? How does a 2 year old understand that word?

  Because someone has told her about ghosts. Children are amazing like that. Tell them about ghosts, aliens or monsters under their bed, and you can be guaranteed they'll see them. Had she actually seen a ghost, you can be sure she wouldn't have described it as such.

  OK, I'm a naturally skeptical person, but I'm flabbergasted by the number of people who are willing to believe that these small children must be channeling spirits instead of just babbling, repeating what they've seen on TV or playing games while they try to make sense of the world.