[Closed] My 2 1/2 year old keeps saying he sees a lady in his room.......

I used to see my granfather(who had died) in my room when I was a kid. Spooky.

Does the wardrobe have mirrored doors?

My grandson was doing this until daughter twigged what was wrong, fitted wadrobes have mirrored doors. Moved him into other room and he is OK now.
He was seeing monsters.............

the grandaughter of the folks that live next door used to see a lady at the window of the house a lot - they were freaked out by this and had an exorcism. kid never saw the lady in thr house again.

they are not religious but had no other ideas - local vicar was happy to sort it.

try him in another room if possible.
must be terrible for him.
and leave him a dull lamp on.

swap rooms for a while

Tell him they are ghosts that are going to rip out his soul as he sleeps

Try a night light for a while,so if he wakes it will give some back ground light.
Hopefully grow out of it.

Is the lady dressed or naked?

It is possible it was a spirit. I have witnessed a number of strange incidents in two different homes and other's who shared the houses had never experienced anything of any kind. I should add that the situations on both accounting periods resolved themselves.

When he's finished with her can you ask her to pop round my bedroom next please? I could do with a bit of company...

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dont smoke weed in the house!

Regardless of what is happening (I would lean towards over active imagination) it is real to him so "something" has to be done that he believes it is sorted.
Maybe you do something to get rid of "it" and spend the night in his room with him to check it has worked. He won't see it with you there (bet you a pint) and will be happy you have fixed it. If you are happy you will be convincing what could possibly go wrong...

My aunt, who is the most serious minded, straight down the line lady you could possibly imagine (with a cut glass accent to go with it) was adamant they had a ghost at one of their previous houses (somewhere in darkest Essex).

My uncle was really annoyed that apparently everyone in the local town knew about this ghost but didn't bother to mention it to them when they were buying the house.

Some old chap would appear, and walk across the landing on the first floor. Except that where the landing had been redesigned a bit and went up a step, he went through it.

night light

does everyone make a big fuss when he mentions it? Play it down - not saying he is doing it consciously, but kids will repeat behaviour that gets a lot of adult attention

i'm always seeing "figures" in my room when I wake in the night, used to when I was a kid as well - its always my imagination

It is possible it was a spirit

oh really? and what would that be?

sleep on the floor in his room tonight, show him you ain't afraid of no ghost 😈

Who you gonna call?

We had this in our house, we had 5 guests and my sister over a period of 3 years see the figure in the downstairs hallway. I never had a problem but the room always had a strange feel. It's gone now.

It is possible it was a spirit

oh really? and what would that be?

White Spirit? Have you been decorating lately?

Yeah, get a night light. My nephew got spooked by shadows in his room, once a night light was fitted all was well.

Can you get him some little baby-Bombers to sleep with?

Does he wake up from it straight away? I used to get sleep terrors where you open your eyes but dont actually respond to being shaken etc...
Can still remember the dreams now (pretty vividly too!) but was given some Bach remedies and havent had a nightmare since, probably 18 years nightmare free!

Flipping double post!

Regarding the 'sighting of a woman':
[i][b]They are not religious but had no other ideas[/b][/i]

So your friends could not imagine it could be one of the many million possibilities within the realms of reality, so instantly suspect it was an impossible being??

Bonkers!

DrP

My daughter used to tell us about her 'other daddy' when she was 3 or 4 yrs old. When we asked, she said oh, thats my dead daddy.

She's almost normal now (as far as 11 year old girls go).

It's not an iron mesh base that's supporting the mattress on the bed is it?

There was a recent article in New Scientist where they stayed in the supposedly haunted Tapestry room in Muncaster Castle, Cumbria.

The scientists doing the study think that magnetic fields could be to blame and they found the strongest magnetic field in the room came from the iron meshed bed. It fluctuated when people turned over on it as well.

They didn't see anything that night though. 🙂

I think the only way to be sure is let the lad sleep with his mum for a week and you have his room. 😀

[i]It is possible it was a spirit[/i]

Yeah sure.

Tell him "ghosts are friendly and it is probably looking out for him, but,

ghosts with axes want to chop his legs off as he watches so scream loudly for mummy"

I was typing quite a long post in reply to this but it all got a little complicated.

I don't believe in ghosts, never have, but weird things happen after people die.

Add kids into the equation and things get weirder. Not necessarily scary, just strange.

Or if you are rational, adult enough and not scared of the dark, you can say that is a sensible explanation for everything. The problem though is that there isn;t a rational explanation for everything in the world, and kids might just see things that adults don't. Both of mine have.

If it was just a one off, your son was probably just dreaming. If yours is anything like my experiences - both my kids would see and talk to my dead mother even the one who never met her " There's a lady at the top of the stairs, Daddy" "Oh great! DOGS COME HERE!" - then it will stop as quickly as it started.

Now who's for a night ride?

I used to 'see' loads of stuff...pretty sure it was an active imagination and some unfortunate lighting /shadows....perhaps arm him with a torch to check stuff out...I used to lie terrified for ages not daring to get out of bed but perhaps I'd have risked a quick look with a torch.

So your friends could not imagine it could be one of the many million possibilities within the realms of reality, so instantly suspect it was an impossible being??

Where did the "instantly" come from ?

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My toddler was stood at the end of his cot chatting to someone, when my wife asked him who he was talking to he said 'Martin had come to say goodbye'. Martin was my best mate who had commited suicide that day though, at the time we didn't know that. Utterly spooked the missus.

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On a serious note i hope you get it sorted 😉

Use it to your advantage. When he's a bit older and starts misbehaving, just tell him to be good or else the lady will be back to take his toys away.

hope you get it sorted too.

My own take is that under certain extreme emotional circumstances a human's electromagnetic field can be 'imprinted' on the surrounding building structure, and some sensitive people respond to it. Seems as plausible as lost spirits.

I see fat people, everywhere.

Lots of mirrors in this place. 🙂

I used to see vampires, monsters, all sorts as a young child.
Shadows, creaking wardrobe doors and billowing curtains were all to blame - as said before nightlights really help, as does mum or dad having a quick peek under the bed and in the wardrobe before turning in.

IdleJon - Member
The problem though is that there isn't a rational explanation for everything in the world

Yes there is, it's just that we haven't worked some of them out yet.

Tell him its not the ghosts that he has to worry about,its the burglars climbing in through his window whilst he's asleep that he needs to fret over........

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I always find small children very receptive to the fact that one day in the future our planet and all that lives on it will burn as it collapses into a dying Sun.

Best not to be too specific about dates. 😀

Houns your sick! 😆

We had exactly the same problem here a few months back my two year old kept waking up screaming and saying someone was in the room with her, Abertail she used to call it. We tried calming her down etc and it seemed to make things worse. I even told her to try and make friends with 'it' the result was 'they' would 'play' together, then fall out and my daughter would become even more fearful!

Really weird!

Anyway it all fizzled out so I guess 'active imagination' gets my vote.

Take some advice on how to deal with wardrobe monsters

my son used to complain that ghosts would make his toys move at night. I gently explained to him that "they" wouldn't hurt him as daddy is far more scary and the would be more scared of me and that the ghosts would behave if I told them to. One stern telling off for the spooks and the problem went away

when my son was about 6 year old he mentioned he used to keep seeing a man with dark glasses on in his bedroom... ( must have been his 'passed away' grandad ! kids see alot more than adults you know...there 6th sense is much greater when younger

I can't even tell if people are taking the widdle on this site any more

I would probably be freaked out too if it was my kid.
Interesting thread this- I like the variety of opinions on this topic. It seems that most people are skeptics towards the supernatural (myself included) which is reassuring.

..there [s]6th sense[/s] imagination is much greater when younger

Fixed that for you.

My own take is that under certain extreme emotional circumstances a human's electromagnetic field can be 'imprinted' on the surrounding building structure, and some sensitive people respond to it. Seems as plausible as lost spirits.

Until you learn about electromagnetic fields and materials, then you realise that's not physically possible.

[i]...there 6th sense is much greater when younger [/i]

Sense of balance?

maybe he's possessed. Has his head spun round at all?

Our (then) sub three year old had a similar thing - monsters in the room etc. We didn't rise to it, a reaction means for sure it'll happen again.
It did continue though on a low burn (talking about it etc), so I bought a toy dinosaur that roars when you press a button - then said that "Allie" is there to protect the room and if she roars it's cos there's a monster in there. Worked well, no more monsters in the room.
Though I am tempted to lean into her bedroom one night and make the dino roar - psychologists would take years to untangle that one I think.

One thing I have noticed is that she's started talking in her sleep now, so I guess dreams are more vivid. A couple of nights ago she had crept into our bed (too often this happens!) and then later shouted "orange!" nothing else. Very funny.

ex-pat - Member
A couple of nights ago she had crept into our bed (too often this happens!) and then later shouted "orange!" nothing else. Very funny.

"Lapierre" would have been funnier tho 😉

Oh and ghosts - yeah, probably not fussed either way. That doesn't worry me, would be interesting to talk to someone who's been dead for ages. Violent poltergeists? Meh, I have a three year old, an eighteen month old and now a cat staying with us, I challenge them to trash a room more thoroughly...

and now a cat staying with us,

A wise move ........ cats (and dogs) can pick up strange things, and warn you of ghostly goings on.

Did this all start at about the time a STW poster removed a skull from behind a false wall by any chance?

stayed at a mates house a few years back.He lived in an old post office that had been converted to being one big house so it had two flights of stairs and two ends to the house if you get my drift.Over the years that they lived there they had tried to rent one end out (lodger stylee) but it had never worked out,the lodger would allways clear off after about a month.
so i was staying with them for a week with my mrs and we took up the empty end of the house.
Every bloody morning at 2:20 i would be woken up to the sound of someone running up the stairs (in my end of the house)then stopping, next would be the sound of something being thrown back down the stairs.something small like a wooden ball.
happened five nights in a row, on the last night i made a dart for the landing as soon as i heard it but the noise stopped as soon as my feet touched the floor.
when i told my mate it freaked him out a bit because 2:20 was the time of night that his 3 dogs would join them in bed.
never had any other weirdness like that but it still baffles me because its hard to put the noise down to anything else.

Our daughter used to tell us in detail about the place she used to live before she was with us.

Kinda odd.

Although it could well be an imagination thing I personally would ask him what he felt when he saw it. (other than scared) Good move with the cat.

[i][b]genesis - Member[/b]
My toddler was stood at the end of his cot chatting to someone, when my wife asked him who he was talking to he said 'Martin had come to say goodbye'. Martin was my best mate who had commited suicide that day though, at the time we didn't know that. Utterly spooked the missus. [/i]

F*** that, that would freak me out, never mind your missus!

Like someone else, i've done the whole - sit upright & say something, then go back to sleep thing quite a lot, sometimes pointing at something in the room, etc. Freaks my girlfriend out, I never remember though. Dreams are weird. If I nod off after she's left for work but before I have to get up, I have the most weird not-physically-possible mish-mash of dreams...

When my 5yr old girl was only 2, she'd go on about a girl called 'Suzy' all the time. When I finally asked her who Suzy was, she said "She's the girl who stands at the end of my bed when I sleep".

I didn't enter her room for a week.

aarrrrrrrgggghhhh!

why did i read this post now before going to bed?????

Houns.... haha.

the one with at the post office is freaky and the kiddie talking to dead man (martin?)

my nan lived in an old pre-fab bungalow in chelmsford. lived there since these things were built in the 50's up until her death two years ago. she told of a tale relating to a house a few houses down from her's. a young couple in and things started happening. plates and cups would be broken on the kitchen floor in the morning. books would be torn up laying on the lounge floor. this went on for a while until the couple got hold of the vicar. he went in to exorcise the house, but came running out screaming saying "the forces are too great!".
a while later and the man walked into the lounge to see the cat clawing at the carpet whilst being 'pulled' toward the open fire by its tail. the husband supposedly grabbed the cat and when he did so the 'force' let go of the cat and he went flailing back across the room. at this point the book shelf and other cabinets started toppling over from against the wall...... can't remeber the outcome but it was a well spoken of tale amongst the 'oldies' if you asked them.....

i always used to shit myself watching the Omen.

Bet its true children are acceptable to seeing ghosts
My Daughter shit the hell out of me when she was 3 years old.

We was coming back from Cambridge on the A10 and she was mad
about swings, anyway we came past a pub within the grounds was
some swings, Gutted for us the pub was shut but mad child wanted the
swings.
I takes her to the far end of the grounds to the swings.
There was two swings and she says I want this one
OK on you get and so I starts to push then she says theres a boy there
Where I says no one there ??
I looks around by the shrubs and franticly shes shouts not there
there pointing at the other swing.
Anyway smart arss here swings the other swing.
She then shouts NO HE DONT WANT TO BE PUSHED.
I grabs me kid and legs it.

I don't believe in ghosts.

But, I wonder what would happen if some fungus or bacteria was able to release a compound that could get into the brain and stimulate the visual cortex enough to make it think it was seeing something? The human brain can get quite enthusiastic about filling in missing details. It might well then just make something up for you, which you then get to "see".

You might even get consistent "sightings" from one person to another if there was something in the room which got used as a starting point for the made-up details. Perhaps a pattern in the wallpaper, or a particular stain in the floor boards.

If the bacteria/fungus/whatever involved also had its own reasons for releasing the chemical then it might also only ever get strong enough to have an effect at particular times of the day.

Might also affect other animals (e.g. dogs) with similar brain structures.

Should be quite easy to test if you have access to a mass spectrometer.

Or failing that, a dehumidifier might stop the bacteria/mold/whatever from doing its thing.

Houns - Member

Tell him they are ghosts that are going to rip out his soul as he sleeps

Wise words.

druidh +1 😆

When I was young we lived in an old converted workhouse. The place was very noisy - creaking/slight movements etc (you know- like a Wimpy house when the central Heating is turned off).

Then as soon as Im Dad walked back in- it would stop immediately. you knew as soon as he walked in. Same when he walked back out.

Grantway, sound nothing but child's imagination my kids do it all the time pretend there's something or someone on there. My eldest had a friend called flower she'd play with all the time, once her sister was old enough to play with her she forgot all about it.

Then as soon as Im Dad walked back in- it would stop immediately. you knew as soon as he walked in. Same when he walked back out.

Your dad's extra weight on the floor joists was enough to alter that part of the building's dynamics that the creakings went away. You could probably have achieved the same effect with a large sack of cement.

Don't discount these occurrences though. Yes we all had active imaginations when we were small but some of us did see things. I still remember something crossing one wall and going out through the other when I was circa 4yrs old! I screamed the house down and slept UNDER the bed.

Luked2. I used to stay at a friends new-build house that creaked the exact same way once the heating was turned off- all the floorboards contracting etc etc.

This was the same in this OLD house but with other noises ontop- no heating was turned off and on. Hard to describe sounds (we had the rafters etc checked for mice). All stopped. Wierd!

Even now I regularly wake up and have a full conversation with my other half about something I'm dreaming about. I can be pretty insistant about it too. Then I'll wake up and it seems like it was all happening there and then, but I'll be confused as to why I was speaking to Z in my bedroom at 3am. As an adult I know it's just a dream, even when it happens again 10 minutes later. I don't assume its the spirit of a dead person trying to communicate. When I was a child, yep, I was convinced it was people I knew who'd died. And once I saw the green monster from ghostbusters. Maybe he's real too, and only kids are susceptible to ghosts...

This was the same in this OLD house but with other noises ontop- no heating was turned off and on. Hard to describe sounds (we had the rafters etc checked for mice). All stopped. Wierd!

The temperature differences from night to day can make some pretty large temp differentials across a house-sized object.

To all the sceptics (I must admit, part of me thinks 'yeah right'- prove it).

What happens to us when we die? Is that it. Nothing? Blackness? We go somewhere but where?

What happens to us when we die? Is that it. Nothing? Blackness? We go somewhere but where?

That's it, blackness. Your cells stop producing the chemicals that keep each other active and working in harmony, they stop functioning and you grind to a halt. You are no more. Dead. Gone. You're an ex-hora. But don't worry, the world will go on without you as it has for millions of years 🙂 Though STW may be a bit more dull.

here's another suggestion then ..if you dont think kids have a 6th sense.... then pay attention to your pets ! your dogs 'see' 'things' too..
they are always right ! when they start looking around the room in the dark and growling short grrrrr.... they know ! trust me...
i have many interesting things at my house...white mists, faces, clowns, and i dont have 'young' kids to tell me... had a mist a while back i thort i was seeing things at first then i mentioned it to my hubby and he said he had seen a mist too but didnt want to frighten me so he kept quiet for a while.... ive actually been woke up by a spirit whilst having a bad dream... someone was patting me on the back to say wake up (no it wasnt hubby he was snoring his head off.... then you know that feeling of a presence (i darnet look in the dark... i trembled under the duvet ..im not looking ..ARRRRGGGGG...lol... after a while it went away..ooohhhh

elaine anne- my mate lived in a converted church with what I describe as the 'gay ghost'. boy he loved it when I named it that. Basically he always saw someone (male/black hair) out of the corner of his eye when changing/getting up. I royally wound him up once when we were drunk that the ghost does things to him when hes asleep (he didnt go home that night!) 😆

[i].if you dont think kids have a 6th sense[/i]

My kids have way more than 6 senses.

[i]they are always right ! when they start looking around the room in the dark and growling short grrrrr.... they know ! trust me...[/i]

Dogs growl if they're a bit nervous, they see the dark as a threat nothing to it.

[i]What happens to us when we die? Is that it. Nothing? Blackness? We go somewhere but where? [/i]

Your dead and that's it.

So murder whoever you want (if you can get away with it)?

This is the funniest thread ever. My kid sister, when she was little, used to talk about when she was a big girl called Wendy. She's called Sarah.
Once copped off with a big girl called Wendy, couldn't bring myself to nail a big fat girl that could easily be either a ghost, or my sister's preincarnation.
[shudders]

Am I really reading all this? Ghosts only exist in films and childrens' over-active imaginations. How can any right-thinking adult really think they do exist?

She must be the ghost of a woman who died from an overdose of homeopathy.