She is 6.

We live in a 200+ year old house.

She only sees them in one room.

She doesn’t call them ghosts, she calls them “dust people” or “smoke people”. The other day my wife asked her if she could see any at the moment and the reply was “There’s one behind you”.

We’ve had her eyes checked to see if she has any “floaters” but she came back with a clean bill of health.

Woo!

Could it be mrsfry?

A bit of previous there…….

Do any of them have axes?

Can they use a tv remote?

You’ll get used to it. You may even grow to like it.

Hang on a minute … this is really scary!

What are you going to do?

It’ll be fine. Six year olds do spooky shit all the time…

My first ever thread on STW…….

What are you going to do?

Nothing. The rest of us can’t see them and she isn’t bothered.

Maybe you should rethink your night-time attire, and only wear it for weekly cross-burning….

I used to live with a vicar’s daughter, and her dad was trained in religious exorcisms.

I was fascinated, cos I didn’t know ‘exorcists’ actually existed. But she told me that he had helped many families with your sort of thing going on, regardless of their religious inclinations.

Nothing. The rest of us can’t see them and she isn’t bothered.

Ah well in that case it all sounds groovy.

Interesting though.

My three year old son sees “the grabby girl” who comes out of the cupboard or the wall.

Even I have to check now.

I’d want to know who they are/were and why they’re still bothering with things ‘down here’, I think.

Interesting.

My daughter (aged 6 ish) apparently takes part in superhero training whilst she is asleep.

She’s almost done Level 1. Up next is level 2 which is all about animal rescues.

Creative things aren’t they?

TM

It’s the names they give them that gets me.

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My cousin is in to all types of ghosty stuff,she has loads of stories like this.Little kids just have a brilliant imagination.

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It’s the detail that gets me and the fact that she doesn’t call them ghosts “no daddy, they are people”. She only sees them on the landing outside my wife’s home office. Never in the office. The landing dates from 1810, the office from 2004. The office is north facing, so it doesn’t get shafts of light through the window.

obviously they don’t actually exist, so she’s seeing imaginary friends and that’s even more fun, she should be congratulated for putting ghosts in there with imaginary friends, we need Frasier in here to do some couch work.

Didn’t I read somewhere that excessive consumption of pastry can cause hallucinations in children?

Lid only pies from now on. 😉

If you live in an old house it’s just one of those things, you get used to it in the end and they are pretty easy to ignore.

If it bothers you just move to a newer house.

“There’s one behind you”

I’D BE GETTING THE F*** OUT OF THERE

You can’t post Ghostwatch without a health warning! FFS!

😀

If it bothers you just move to a newer house

and to quote myself…

What are you going to do?

Nothing. The rest of us can’t see them and she isn’t bothered.

She can see you. Have you checked you’re alive?

could actually be something there, just that as adults we are conditioned to not “see” them anymore. Loads of psychology studies to show that people will only perceive what they expect to be there and will not register things that don’t fit into that, Lots of Darren Brown illusions work on the same principals of inattention blindness and saccadic masking

My daughter (aged 6 ish) apparently takes part in superhero training whilst she is asleep.

She’s almost done Level 1. Up next is level 2 which is all about animal rescues.

What was level 1? Plant rescue?

My 6 year old and her friends assist the fairies that live in the school orchard. I’m not entirely sure why the fairies need help but I blame the Rainbow Magic books:

We have over 70 of them :-/

could actually be something there, just that as adults we are conditioned to not “see” them anymore.

Yeah… Or perhaps kids just have wilder imaginations than (most) adults and more readily ascribe fanciful interpretations to every day phenomena?

(As every parent who has had to explain a “scary shadow” or “radiator monster” will understand)

yep had to do the whole scary monster, ghost thing with my kid, however look at classic studies like the invisible gorilla, Our brains are great at filtering out what we don’t expect to see. Interestingly there is an element of learned behavior and dependent upon your cultural and religious belief systems, different people will filter different things from the same scenario, both convinced that they are right and the other person is lying about what they have seen

in the same way that if you have a heightened awareness regarding something (say example, bloody single speeders) you will “see” more bloody single speeders, whereas other folks wont notice any within the general blur of humanity or just see a bod on a bike

Or perhaps kids just have wilder imaginations than (most) adults

Last week:

Him – Daddy, tell me a story about the ninjas. The fire ninjas. Cooking bacon. On Lego.
Me – The fire ninjas cooking bacon on lego?
Him – Yes. Not the turtles under the bed. They eat sausages.

He’s 3 1/2 and we’ve never spoken about ninjas before.

He’s 3 1/2 and we’ve never spoken about ninjas before has been watching Ninjago- Masters of Spinjitsu.

FTFY

I wish my conversations with my kids could be about lego ninjas.

Last nights gem…..

“Dad, I’ve got a bawbag!”

“What!? Where did you hear that word?”

“At school”

“Well, that’s not what it’s called. I don’t want to hear you saying that again..”

“But it IS a bag and it’s got Baws in it!” 😯

could actually be something there, just that as adults we are conditioned to not “see” them anymore.

LOL.
do you read horoscopes to.

I watch a lot of horror films and therefore an expert in these things…also I have access to the internet which makes me an expert on everything.

Your next step should be a Ouija board.

Then when it escalates and the spirits get violent, you need to get in student paranormal investigators.

You’ll eventually be forced to flee your home in terror in the middle of the night, but before the credits it will be revealed that the ghosts are linked to your family not the home, and they’ve come with you.

You’re weird Aunt may be part of a Witch Coven.

Harry its mould spores in the room.

I’ve seen one at a training college where a security guard verified what I saw/he saw it too previously.

I’ve had things move round our house and a voice say ‘good night’ to me.

Im still a sceptic. Where are all the cavrmen ghosts?

When he was five my son came back from school saying they had a pie cooking competition and he made the champion pie and won, and the deputy head held him aloof and paraded him around the school and all the children cheered.

Best.
Day.
Eva….

Kids, brilliant!

DrP