Time and again, kids prove to us that creativity has no limits. Their curious ideas, big hearts, and vivid imaginations that are stretched as far as the eye can see bring joy and humor to our lives. When children create entertainment out of nothing and see magic in the most mundane things, their crazy adventures never end.
But while every single mom and dad to one of these little rascals can agree that kids are honest, pure and overwhelmingly cute, those are not the only things they are capable of. Apparently, they have a darker side to them too. So parents, relatives, and sometimes even total strangers are taking to the internet to share eerie and paranormal things the little ones have told them.
Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the moments when kids casually said something spooky and gave goosebumps to everyone around them. Get ready for weird questions and odd statements about the spirit world because we have collected some of the most mysterious stories found online. Continue scrolling through and let us know if you have any similar otherworldly experiences to share!
Psst! After you’re done reading this article, check out our previous ones with kids saying the most spine-chilling things and parents realizing their little ones are downright creepy.
#1
My 3 year old grandson has babbled about plane crashes since he started talking. He would reenact (with toys) a plane chasing another plane and as the first suddenly dropped to the ground he'd yell in a heart-rending scream, "OH NO WE CRASHED!" This was his first sentence. He did this over and over.Early this summer he's 3 and I'm reading him a bedtime story. I pause & look up at him and he said to me, "Granny, I was a pilot, my plane was the Kitty Hawk. I crashed into the water when they shotted off my wing and shotted off my face."
It almost stopped my heart.
He looked so troubled and sad. I told him that he had done his best and I was very proud of him and that he was only a little boy now and needed to not worry about that but if he needed to talk about it he could anytime. I just hugged him.
I researched and Kitty Hawks were used by almost every country early in WW2.
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#2
"Mommy, will you ever hurt me with a knife" I told her no. She followed up with "ok good. I know some moms do that" she was 3 when this happened. She had never seen videos or anything that showed child abuse, so I'm not sure how she was aware that some parents hurt their kids. Shes also never been abused by anyone.
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#3
When my daughter was 4-5 years old we lived in a two bedroom townhouse. It was just the two of us (mom and daughter, her dad passed away). She always crept into my bed at night but never said why. One day we were cleaning her room and putting away laundry and she got very agitated and said, “Why is he here now? He said he only comes at night.” I asked if she was talking about Dad. She said, “No the boy with no hands.”We moved a few months later and she’s never come into my bed at night or mentioned him since.
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#4
About 3 am I wake to find my 6 year old son just standing next to my side of the bed staring at me motionless. It was a very tense moment up to the point I asked him very easily "you ok son??"He then came back with "I cant sleep" but I still wonder how long he stood there before I woke....
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#5
Well, this morning I was lying in bed, my almost 2 year old came up, put her face right up to mine and I though maybe she wanted a kiss. Then she said "mama, I want eat your eyes please".
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#6
When my oldest son was about three he asked one night at bed time. "Mommy I like you better than my fake mommy". Me "who's your fake mommy?" Him "You can't see her. She tucks me in after you do."
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#7
When my daughter was around 4 yrs old, she had a habit of waking me up by getting 4 inches from my face and staring at me until I opened my eyes. Once my eyes opened, she'd say, "Mommy your face is pretty. I want to wear it on my face."Ok, Hannibal, let's get some breakfast.
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#8
A few weeks ago I was getting breakfast ready for my 3 year old when he nonchalantly told me his Grandma fell down the stairs. About an hour later Grandpa calls us to tell us Grandma had fallen down the stairs.Also last weekend my 3 year old said my sister was going to visit the next day and guess who showed up for a 'surprise' visit...
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#9
My three year old son said, "Next time I'm a baby, I want to have green eyes." I asked him if he had been a different baby before being who he currently is, and he squinted his eyes, looked at me like I was an idiot, and said, "Yes, papa."
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#10
He started refusing to go downstairs (age around 3-3.5), terrified, saying there was an evil ‘angel man’ down there that wanted to hurt the whole family. Consistently drew the same picture of said angel man too.
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#11
I have twin daughters. One day while playing outside, one looked up at the sky and said, "The sky is cracked... and on fire."My other daughter looked up and said, "Yes.... the people are screaming."
Then they went back to playing with dolls. Fingers crossed they're not predicting the future, everybody!
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#12
My 3 yo daughter was going through the monsters under her bed phase. Lasted for weeks, and it was really wearing on her mom & me.One night after mom tried to put her to bed, she tagged me in. After 30 minutes, I grew pretty frustrated. In a last ditch attempt, I promised my daughter that there weren't any monster under her bed. She replied, "I know. Now they're behind you."
After that, I let her sleep with us for a week.
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#13
My oldest kept talking in his bed past bed time. When we asked him who he was talking to he said he was talking to the floating white lady. I don't remember the description he gave us, but what I DO remember is kid #3 doing the same f*****g routine 8 years later...
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#14
Picked him up from daycare when he was 3. Driving home, totally quiet, him just staring out the window... he randomly asks "hey dad, 'member that time we [passed away] in a fire?"
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#15
I used to say things my grandfather used to say a lot. Like yelling out in German at our dog. My grandfather [passed away] years before I was born.
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#16
My two year old has a motion-sensored night light in his room. One night , he wouldn't fall asleep. He kept "talking" to someone/something and was playing. He hadn't eaten much for dinner, so I decided to get him up for a midnight snack. I made him some macaroni and cheese and fed it to him from a bowl as he sat on the couch and watched tv with me.Suddenly the motion light turned on in his room, unprovoked. Odd, but whatever. It turned off again, and we went back to watching tv. Suddenly, my son stops, and looks down the dark, empty hall leading to his bedroom. His face lit up and he says, "Hiii!" He runs up to the darkness, and starts babbling to it, talking to it.
Then he runs back, grabs his fork, puts some mac&cheese on it, runs back to the darkness and holds his fork up to it, like he's trying to feed it. He started getting impatient that "it" wasn't eating, but kept baby talking it. Finally he gives up, waves and says, "Buh bye!" And then goes back to watching tv like nothing happened.
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#17
Telling this story on my Mother's behalf. Ever since I was little I've been a sleepwalker. I don't know when it started or why all I know is that my mom was the one that would find me walking about and send me back to bed when I was living with her. Apparently one night (I have no memory of the event my mom told me the next morning) I got up, walked into the doorway of my parents room, and just stood there, head down, while softly muttering something under my breath. Mom tells me she woke up and nearly had a heart attack. As she got up to help me back upstairs I sloooowly turned around and walked myself back to bed. Mom's locked her door ever since.
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#18
My oldest daughter occasionally sleep walks. A few weeks ago she came out of her room and into the living room where me and the wife were watching tv. I asked her what was wrong and all she said was 'The rabbits won't stop screaming. '. Then she turned around and went back to her room. Kinda creeped me and the missus out a bit.
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#19
When my oldest daughter was in Kindergarten, she wrote and illustrated her first book titled “I Hope You Die in a Fire.”She and her friends were really into Five Nights at Freddie’s at the time, so I guess you could call it a fanfiction of sorts.
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#20
Once when my toddler was hugging me he quietly said “I won’t eat your bones.”Oh, uh...much obliged...
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#21
My 5yo told me a story that went something like this: He said that Georgey-Porgery doesn’t come around anymore. I asked who Georgey-Porgey was he said “Georgey-Porgey is the man who comes in here at night. He said it’s not good to bang on walls, if you bang on walls all the beetles will fall onto your face and in your eyes and your mouth. Georgey-porgy and doctor Mecha are [deceased]. When you’re [deceased] you’re not anywhere anymore, dr Mecha says it’s really important not to [pass away], so don’t [pass away] ok?”
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#22
Starting at about 18 months, my daughter had an imaginary friend. NBD. At first, we didn’t think much of it because she seemed to delight in its presence. She would talk with the friend, and play with him, and he was generally a protective presence although she said that he did like to get into mischief. After a few months of this, we started asking our daughter questions about her friend and she would give us very specific answers, like his gender, first and last name, age, hair, eye color, etc. My partner and I thought, wow, those are some really specific details for an 18-month-old to provide. So, we googled the name. Turns out, there was a boy who [passed away] in another state that matched the name, age, height, hair, and eye color of my kid's “imaginary friend.” Now, thinking this imaginary friend to be a ghost, we asked my daughter if she knew how the boy [passed away], and she was correct. Mind blown.After about a year of this “friend” hanging around, we summon the courage to message a group set up to memorialize the boy. We get a message back from the boy's mom. Turns out she has the exact same profession as my partner and, months before we contacted her, had planned on visiting the city we lived in. We ended up actually meeting her later that year.
My daughter actually had this friend for about 3.5 more years and then he came around less and less. Every once in a while, she still talks about him, or sets toys aside for him. It’s crazy.
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#23
When I was really small, my Dad would go out of town quite a bit because of his job. One night when he was at home, I went up to my Mom, who was in bed, and said, “Who is that strange man in bed with you?”Mom blinked and said, “That’s your Father.”
Shortly afterwards, Dad stopped traveling so much.
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#24
My one year old will point to a spot on the ceiling, say awwww, make grabby hands towards it then begin tracking whatever it is she sees and blowing kisses at it. I'm pretty sure it's satan. Nothing good lives on the ceiling
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#25
I have a freckle on either side of my mouth. My little sister once said that it looked like a good place to "start cutting"
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#26
my youngest brother (5 at the time) asked me if I wanted to come to play with the girl in the wall. freaked me the f**k out
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#27
My daughter told me (at age 4 ish) that Santa makes toys by popping the eyeballs out of [unalive] people and chasing them around the floor until they turn into toys. Wtf.
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#28
Looked over to see what my five-year-old niece was drawing. I was almost too afraid to ask who it was. "A girl that cries" is all she told me. I didn't want to know if it was in our house.
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#29
My 4-year-old cousin said it was the girl sang to her at sleep I asked "what is about her neck?" She said "Oh she has a snake neck" I'm never sleeping again
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#30
"There's a bad thing in my room." "What's in your room?" "A devil dog." "A dog?" "No, a devil dog. It's a dog that's also a devil."My son said that to me in the middle of the night while standing in the door to my room, looking down the hall with his back to me. It was also right after I discovered NoSleep and binged all the top stories
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#31
Me, singing kid to sleep: "Have you been half asleep? And have you heard voices?"Kid: "Sure, all the time!"
#32
My little brother would come into my room, stare into this one corner and when I called him to come closer so I can have a hug, he would very persistently shake his head no and then run away.#33
My daughter had a sleepwalking phase from about 3 to 6 years old. One night I fell asleep with my bedside lamp on. At around 1am I woke up suddenly to find her standing beside my bed laughing. Full on evil character in a Disney movie about to murder her stepdaughter laugh. I said her name and got no response. So I got up, took her hand, led her back to her room and tucked her in. She stopped laughing as soon as she was in bed, and was fast asleep immediately. She had no memory of it the next morning. I’m glad I fell asleep with the light on, it was scary enough seeing what was happening, would have been terrifying in the dark!#34
The other week my 4yo was telling us that there's "a man in the toy room and he scares me and he cuts my arm like this" and pretended to cut across his arm with his hand, he hasn't brought it up once since then#35
My five-year-old daughter was sleep talking in kind of angry tones. I went to go wake her up a little and get her back to bed more soundly. She was saying “ I don’t like you.” I kind of rubbed her arm and said her name and she sat up. Gave her a drink of water and asked if she felt better and wanted to go to sleep. She said super lucidly “ yeah, I just wish that strange baby over there would stop smiling .” Then went back to bed. Now I’m dealing with THAT.#36
Not a parent, but one time my brother at around age 6-7 (he's 10 now) mentioned an old apartment we used to live in years before he was born. I asked him how he knew about it, and he said "Before I was born, Jesus showed me and said 'This is going to be your future family.'" Our family / community isn't religious at all.#37
My three day old infant was sleeping with rapid eye movements (dreaming). I watched her crack a smile, which deepened and turned into a belly laugh. What does a three day old infant have to dream about that cracks them up?#38
It’s one in the morning, I’m dead asleep with my wife in the living room reading. All of the sudden the baby monitor is blaring my 16 month old sons laughter in my ear, so I jump up, run into his room, and he’s standing in his crib pointing at the corner of the room and giggling hysterically. I just stared at him for a few seconds before I grabbed him and put him in bed with me.#39
I heard the one-year-old's high chair move even though nobody was near it. I asked the three-year-old, "what was that?" and he said, while pointing to the chair, "what is SHE doing here!?"#40
A kid once sat near a camp fire and seemed to be lost in thoughts. I asked what he is thinking about. This 6 yr old said "I wish I was high up in space and the whole world was on fire. That would be beautiful."#41
When my son was about five he started having night terrors. Eyes wide open, he would stare into an abyss of his own devise and *scream* with the chilling ferocity of hell itself. I would hold him and rock his rigid little body until he loosened back to sweaty deep sleep. What I never told my husband or the pediatrician, or even my mother, was that I was *afraid of him* during those nighttime bouts of what looked and felt like nothing less than possession. I was afraid of my own sweet child and wanted to run away.#42
Not my kid but nephew.He went through this phase of being absolutely terrified of going to sleep in his room (I'm sure all kids go through this eventually). I babysat a couple of times during this phase - we basically had to sit beside his bed and help him fall asleep, and he'd usually wake up shortly after you left the room and start crying.
His reason?
"The big dark scary man standing in the corner with red eyes doesn't want me to sleep."
#43
My daughter was about 8 when she asked "What's it called when your parents [pass way] and you go live with someone else,, who are the people?" I answer/asked "godparents?" To which she replied, "you and dad should get those". Huh? Am I [passing away]? Are you [passing away]? I'm confused and terrified!#44
"I want to play "Frozen" but only the part where the parents [pass away] in a shipwreck."#45
My sister came up to me and said she’ll dance on my grave then ran back to her dolls to play with them. I love her but she lives in her own world that I do not want to be apart#46
My special needs son has made so many comments about keeping my body when I [pass away], I've considered specifically putting info into the will to make sure it doesn't ever happen.#47
Friend's younger brother once asked me if I could see "The hands" from the basement cieling and wanted me to go down and check it out. Never went down and never found out what it meant but it gave me a creepy vibe.#48
Not my kid, but a neighbor. Maybe 7-8 years old."Hey Mr. Soomuchcoffee, whatcha doin!?"
"Bringing in groceries dude."
"Can I come inside your house?"
"Oh, nah buddy. I'm busy, and your mom would wonder where you went, I don't think she'd like that too much."
"You mean I really can't?"
"Yeah bud. Sorry. Maybe another time when you mom knows where you're at."
"I...I'm gonna use my gun and put a virus in your brain so that you [pass away]!"
"I uh....ya. Alrighty then. Welp, groceries bye bye now!"
#49
"Someday I will have a farm and I will have some animals like a rat and some mice. I will have a little pecker chicken with a little pecker thing and he will pecker my head and make a hole and it will tickle!"Visiting a friend's new baby and my son's first words were "When will that baby [pass away]?"
I was watching my son play with his trucks on the floor and smiled and said "I love you" he responded "I love you too. I actually don't feel like [taking your life away] you right now"
When my son was much younger he would talk about the woman who lives in our wall and misses her family. We'd find him upstairs with a pile of blankets just laying there and he'd say he was laying down with the lonely woman.
#50
I was asking my 3-year-old if he remembered being born then I asked him if he remembered what happened before he was born. Without missing a beat or any prompting from me other than the question he goes "I was in a helicopter that go round and round and round then BOOM into the ground!"#51
My son once told me he saw a woman in the basement of our old house#52
My 4 year old son had a habit of announcing when he had to use the bathroom. He would say "I gotta go potty". One time he makes his business known and heads off toward the bathroom. He returns seconds later and says "There's already someone in the bathroom". Now I do know for a fact that it's just the two of us home so the hair stands up on my neck. I ask him, "what do you mean". He repeats, "There's already someone in the bathroom".Now I'm thinking, is it someone "I see [unalive] people" or someone in a hockey goalie mask.
So I grab the biggest knife from my knife block and tell him to stay here. I walk to the bathroom, take a wide angle to see in, nobody. Slowly and quietly walk toward the shower and pull back the curtain.
Nothing.
By now my son has walked around the corner and I ask him "where did you see the person?" He points to an un-flushed toilet and says "See, someone’s already here".
His big brother didn't flush the toilet..........
#53
Not my son, but a friend’s son said “Uncle Seiji (me) is gonna [pass away] in the water” me and his dad: ”WTF?? How?” He: ”He’s gonna fall from a bridge and [pass away] in the water” *walks out of the room laughing* He’s 4.#54
When my special needs son was 10, he had to have a very serious surgery. It was an 8 hour procedure and it was a pretty risky operation. We did not tell him these risks. Right before they wheeled him into surgery, he hugged me and said "Goodbye. Forever...". He made it through and his quality of life was dramatically improved by the surgery. Scariest 8 hours of my life though.#55
My 12-year-old comes up to me visibly shaken and said that she thinks she saw someone in the bathroom. I asked her to clarify and she said when she walked past, it looked like someone ducked into the shower. Mind you it was just her and I at home at that time, since my husband was at work.So, we have a Doberman named Rango, and I have him follow me to the hallway where the bathroom is. My adrenaline is pumping hard, and as I quietly and slowly crept to the bathroom. I stopped a few feet away from the door and looked at Rango. He looks at me and I point to the bathroom.
I s**t you not, he f*****g understood loud and clear what I wanted, and he looks at the bathroom and slowly and carefully stalked towards the bathroom with the fur on his back raised. When I saw him react like this, I was CONVINCED someone was in there and my heart started racing.
Once he made it over the bathroom threshold, he paused and leaned his body in as he sniffed the air, and one step at a time, he slowly crept in leaning and sniffing.
Once he made it all the way in, he became more comfortable and relaxed and looked in the shower sniffing around, then he just looked at me like "Really?" and did that huff thing dogs do through their nose, and walked right passed me out of the bathroom looking somewhat irritated.
But for good measure, I had him check the rest of the rooms just in case.
#56
Not me but a friend was babysitting her nieces. One a toddler the other a newborn. They put the baby down for bed and the toddler stood over her holding a pillow and menacingly said "Night, night baby..."#57
When my daughter was little she was crying and I went to check on her. She said she couldn't get the picture to go away. I said what picture? She pointed to an empty spot on the rug. I asked her what it was a picture of. She said it was my car on fire.I was leaving for a long road trip a couple days later. I never drove so carefully in my life.
#58
Sleeping in bed, wife was at work, sense someone at the side of my bed. I slowly opened my eyes to see my 5 year old standing at the edge of the bed."Whats going on?"
"They're coming for us"
"What?"
He proceeded to walk back to his bedroom and go to bed. We discovered that he was a sleepwalker, who also suffered from night terrors (the night we discovered that one is another horrifying night).
#59
A few month back. I had just put my 3 year son to bed a couple hours prior and I was downstairs watching TV. I hear him calling out, so I go up to see what he wants.He tells me that there is a ghost in his room. Hes not really scared or anything only ghost that he is aware of are the ones in some of his cartoons or during Halloween.
So I just look around the room and tell him I dont see anything and that ghost are not real.
He looks square into my eyes and say. "No Dad, Ghost went in my mouth, down my throat and is in my tummy. "
Hmm. Ok son go back to sleep now. Cause I may not.
#60
My daughter, about 6 months ago, was having a conversation to herself, I asked who she was talking too, “Uncle Lee”My brother [passed away] 8 years before she was born, in her broken language skills (being 2 and a half at the time) she told me he was happy to see her and said hi to daddy.
Didn’t know what to say or do.
#61
My son was speech delayed and through therapy learned a few signs. Early on it would take effort on our part to get him to use them. Lots enthusiasm, making the sign, speaking distinctly and lots of motivation. Motivation = Cheerios. And that boy loves him so Cheerios. Even then we were only getting a sign or two back about 30% of the time. No biggie, he’s learning.One night, after putting him down to sleep I’m upstairs binging on the Great British Baking Show and I hear him playing on the baby monitor. Not unusual, it takes about 15-20min for him to wind down. Some time passes, and I hear his energy amping up (bouncing, giggles, babbles, etc.) I pick up the monitor and press the video display and see him being his adorable toddler self. He sort of pauses, walks up to the crib bars and signs”all done” “bye bye.” And lays down and curls up with his stuffed animal. WTF.
