Are children more likely to be able to see into the spirit world? It would make sense, and most people who believe in the ability will tell you yes. Babies often stare at a particular area just over their heads, as when they are lying in their cribs, and some would say that they are talking to angels. Children have imaginary playmates, so is it so much of a stretch to believe that some of these ''imaginary playmates" are not imaginary at all, but spirits sent to watch over and befriend them?
Many believe that small children and babies are close to the other side, having just been born, or born recently, and so are still connected somehow to the other side. As we grow older, distractions of the material world begin to replace this, and they lose their ability to see and talk to unseen beings. If they were in spirit form before they were born, perhaps they had communication with departed loved ones of the same family before they came to the physical world.
Most times spirits and children seem to have a friendship, there have been reports of ghosts and spirits comforting children during stressful events. However, Hollywood has taught us that seeing spirits is bad, wrong, or should be scary.
And, although rarely, it sometimes can.
Poltergeists are manifestations in the form of banging, thuds, movement of objects, such as doors or shutters and even kitchen drawers opening and closing without anyone near. There have been reports of foul odors, and unexplained electrical activities, such as lamps turning off and on by themselves.
This is typically associated with a female in the house under the age of 25, and scientific researchers who study unexplained occurrences such as these lean toward subconscious psychokenesis as the explanation. Often the young girl is completely unaware of the correlation between the happenings and it is unintentional, nothing like the Hollywood portrayal of, for example, "Carrie" by Stephen King, wherein she was very much aware that she was the cause of the commotion.
Psychiatrists and investigators have a theory that poltergeist activity stems from emotional problems such as the inability to express anger normally for the developmental stage, or anxiety. In some cases poltergeist activity associated with a teenage girl has been thought to have been brought on by schizophrenia. Almost always the activity stops as the girl matures. A modern (1800's) and well documented account of this type of activity was the famous "Bell Witch" case in Tennessee.
The difference between poltergeist activity and a true "haunting" is that the poltergeist occurrences are triggered by a living person's trauma while haunting is related to spirits of the deceased. Fear and anger are both made up of tremendous energy. The more energy you put into ''dealing" with poltergeist activity, the more frequent the occurrences will become.
Because of the 'openess' of children it's not unusual for true hauntings to revolve around them. While most cases of children and ghosts relate to a relative that has passed and has remained to look over the family, sometimes the ghost that attaches itself to a child has darker intentions. There have been cases of children being attacked by something unseen only for the family to discover that a violent individual once lived in the house. Children themselves have been responsible for their tormenting spirit.
Often children look at tapping into the paranormal as fun. Holding seances and using Ouija boards are often seen as a distraction during a slumber party. However, often dark spirits or even demonic forces are called through this activity. Cases of possesion have been found to correlate with the use of a Ouija board. Ridding the dwelling and child of these spirits and demons typically becomes a long and drawn out process involving exorcism and constant vigilance.
Children experiencing paranormal activity is common. However, because of their active imaginations, it is hard to tell if they are actually seeing a ghost or are simply playing. Some ways to determine if a child is experiencing a haunting:
* Does the child have full conversations with someone you can't see?
* Does the child know things that a child simply wouldn't know at their age?
* Ask the child to ask the ghost about it's history. Do they come back with answers they wouldn't know or understand at their age?
If you have determined that your child is indeed being visited by a ghost then what do you do?
A haunting can be frightening for you and the child. It is important for you to be a solid influence that the child can depend on. Explain to the child what is happening. Most often, hauntings will not result in any physical harm, and ghosts will typically obey the child. Let the child know that if the ghost is frightening them they can sternly tell it to go away. Ghosts usually will not try to strain their relationship with a living individual that they can communicate with, so they will adhere to commands made by the child. The most important virtue to have when your child is being haunted is patience. In time the child's ability to 'see' will fade.
Typically, as the child is more exposed to daily life (school, jobs, relationships, etc.) their ability to see ghosts diminishes. Many times the ghost is communicating with the child because the ghost is in need of something. It needs a message passed on, or it needs something accomplished that it was not able to do in life. Once this task is complete often the ghost will pass on to the other side.
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My hair stylist used to live in a haunted home that was once a place for workers who worked in tobacco. A man died in the house. When Sarah (my hair stylist) moved in, she would hear noises of workboats clunking and someone tapping on the window. Sarah recalled to me that her daughter, Abby, who was about 2 years old, would sit in the tub during bath time and stare at the doorway, where nothing was there. Abby would also make noises and point at seemingly empty space. Needless to say, Sarah and Abby moved out a few months later.
We definetly have a child haunting our house.. My son is 3 and always talks about a boy.. I didn't think anthing of it... Until one morning around 2:00 am my son's toys just went off by itself.. I said something to my husband the next day and he told me he was laying on the couch and seen a small boy standing on top of the stairs looking down at him.He also told me about an incident that happened when he was in the shower. All of a sudden the door knob started to move like somebody wanted in.. He got out of the shower and nobody was there.. My husband always see's him and i never do...The only incidents that happened to me is the shaking of our bed, and my son's room light turning on and off, i actually have never seen him...The shaking of our bed happens alot and i just ignore it.. It happens mostly at night time...He seems very friendly, i just want to know why he is here and what he wants???
Usually the person(your husband) who can see the ghost can talk to him tell him to go away. If you really wanna know why he is there. Have your husband ask him next time he sees, but have a tape recorder ready. Cause most of the time you wont hear em with your human ears.
My little sister is turning 2 in October and in the last couple of months she has been seeing something in her room that is making her scared. The first thing that happened was she woke up and my step mom went in to get her and she just kept pointing at a spot saying "guy guy guy guy" like someone was scaring her. The next thing that happened was my step mom woke up (at 1 in the morning) to sounds in the baby moniter like a 3 or 4 year old child was talking and thought that my sister had woken up but when she was getting up she saw my sister lying next to her sound asleep. The last insident we had was my sister was in her room getting a book then she ran out of her room pointing behind her saying "GUY GUY GUY GUY" my family is getting really freaked out. Wat should we do?
When I was young, I saw 'shadow people' and had a very heightened sensetivity to odd energies and presences around me as a young child. The shadow people were the most frequent experience, and upon telling my mother about these things she proceeded to tell me I had been making it up. So naturally I shrugged it off. I am 19 years old now and i feel more sensitive than ever. I've seen shapes and beings that in all logical and scientific reasoning, should not exist or be where I've seen them, but my eyes werent lieing. Seeing a skeletal figure formed of what appeared to be tv static is not a common occurance.
And to Samantha, I would get the family out as soon as possible before it scars the childs mind. They wont ever forget what they saw. And you might get some information on the house itself, find out if a guy did die there that was....well less than tasteful.
When I was about 11 years old, i was doing the dishes. My kitchen looks out to our side yard and i can see the tall oak. My dad and cousin were playing battleship and absentmindly talking to me about somthing. Then all of a sudden i looked outside and saw a girl in a white dress with blond hair running across the side yard. i screamed and told my dad what i saw. He jumped up and went outside looking around. He didn't see anything, but he didn't say that i was making it up, (my dad believes in that kinds of stuff). Now I'm close to sixteen years old and ocassionally when im doing the dishes i will still see the blond girl in the white dress running across my side yard. I don't really care and I'm not scared anymore, but i got to say that was probably the scariest thing that had ever happened to me, i won't forget it.
I am 20 years old, my nephew was born when I was 15.. My mother and I lived in a VERY old trailer on some farm land belonging to my family (where we know several family members and non family members died on that land) My nephew stayed with my mother and I everyday and some nights. After a few months, Jeremiah, my nephew, would wake up out of a sound sleep screaming and crying and frantically waving his arms and legs. This continued for months until he was about 9 months old. When he started to get up and move around and talk things changed. He stayed every night with his mother and slept in her room, he was terrified of her walk in closet, always saying there was a bad man in there, naturally we chalked it up to his imagination. And when the "bad man" would visit him while he stayed at my mothers with me, I got a little concerned. The nightmares had stopped but he was terrified of something. During a small family gathering I had Jeremiah on my hip getting something from inside the house, and I saw what looked like the shadow of a person go past me and at that point Jeremiah got hysterical. Screaming and crying telling me about that bad man behind me.. That went on until he was about a year and a half old to two. At this point things changed once again, but wasnt so much focused on Jeremiah.. We would notice him playing with his toys acting as if he had a playmate when there wasnt anyone with him, we would see and hear him talkin and babeling on and on.. My mother thought he had an imaginary friend, I thought it was more serious. The nights that Jeremiah would stay with his mother we would notice when me and my mom got up in the morning, his toys would be all over the place.. After this happening for weeks, we had this "Itsy Bitsy Spider" stuffed animal who played the song if you would press his stomache. That doll went haywire for days on end. Constantly playing the song over and over and over. We even took the batteries out and it still played that song.. My mother and put the batteries back in, just knowing that there was more to this than just an imaginary friend so we took Jeremiah to my grandparens house down the road, with the Itsy Bitsy Spider doll, it would NOT work at all at my grandparents house. Even with brand new batteries in it. My mother and I decided it best that Jeremiah not spend so much time at our house.. And thats when me and my mother started notice that there was somthing or someone in the house with us. We would be in the livingroom day or night and out of the blue toys of Jeremiahs would literally be playing with themselves, moving across the floor, the sounds going off, and there wasnt an explanation for it.. I started to see a shadow of a small boy in my room at night, I would always wake up to my dog barking and grawling at my bedroom door and I would see the shadow run out except one night, I looked over when my dog started barking and I seen him face to face. He told me his dad never loved him much and turned to the right to exit my room and the left side of the childs head was a bloody pulp. A few nights later watching Television with my mother, we heard a child holler "HEY".. That was 5 years ago, we've all sinced moved.. But Jeremiah acts so different, he has such an angry temper especially towards his sister who now is experiencing similar events but in a less drastic way, All shes doing is constantly looking up talking to someone.. Can someone Please help me? What is going on with my niece and nephew whom I am now raising..
im young all most 12 and i am seeing and heirng things i cant explane (as i was righting this first sentence i herd scraching on the window in my kitchen) i here a sound at night form my back yard......i can only explane it as a tipe of "moaning" and it dosent stop till like 3 or 4 am and i see "death" or the grim reaper if you will.......wen i was six i wuz in the car with my dad we wer comeing home from a long drive and i wuz looking out the window, there was a shadow but not big anuff to be the car's i wuz waching it as if i was scared to look away..yet i dident know wut it was at the time.....we wer in the forest so there wuz no lights i will remeber wut happend next untill the day i die i saw the city comeing up and as we left the forest the shadow disapired and a large black cat ran from the forset in form of are car and we all most crashed....
I am a mom of an almost 3 year old named mya and im so scared for her we lived with her dad wen she was born and then moved out into are friends apartment after there room mate pasted away witch waz one of her fathers and my best friends and not even two weeks later weird things started to happen to her she was just learnin to talk and only met are friend three times before he past and she would go into are room and have full conversations with him like she would just sit on my bed for hours and play talkin to some one and when we asked who she was talking to she would say uncle richard and that was his name she used to tell her dad that he said hi and talk about things that happend before she was even born. thats not even the scary stuff we moved out and moved back in with myas dad, she was about a year and a half old and thats when she started to talk to a little girl named alice she used to share eveything with her and she would only talk to her in are bedroom they would talk for ever and one day i asked her how old she was and she told me that she was 6 and missed her mommy and daddy that scared me so much i didnt know what to do so i just left it alone because she wasn't being hurt by anything and over time she stoped playing with her but would still say goodnight to her and try to share food with her. that went on for another year or so and me and her father broke up and i moved in with my mother and everything was good till my dog died and now she doesn't sleep at all and when she does its only for like 20min and shes waking up screaming her face off and crying and i dont know why and she wont tell me. i dont sleep anymore. its weird because we can go to her fathers house and she will sleep all night with out waking up crying and being scared and when we come back to my moms its back to no sleep and waking up again and crying its the same at my friends house she goes for the night and dont sleep and when she does she wakes up crying and scared im so scared for her i dont know what to do anymore WHAT DO I DO HOW DO I HANDLE THIS WILL IT END??????
Do people really help here? My son is 7 now and been haunted by something more then 1 since he was newborn. He tells me very odd things that a child wouldnt even know. can ghost spirits follow you or is it different ghost. I have seen 3 at different times, and all for different reasons. but these were for good not to scare or harm what he is dealing with is different it even scares me. where do we find help?
i am 13 and i am being haunted and i can see, hear, and talk to them and it scares me and i cant wake up and it frighten peoples....what do i need to do...i need help....
Heather, all i can say is pray. i have been that way forr uhhh 2 weeks. im 12. its called the 6th sence. me and about 7 people can see, hear, tlk to them also. Im terafied..
I have two year old twins and one of them is very, very advanced. She knows things she shouldn't know, she says words that she shouldn't say. She has learnt all her colours and shapes, and can even name words from when I give her a letter! EG. I said L, she said 'log' (what child knows this?)
In the last couple of weeks she has started talking about a man named Max, she talks about him all the time and says he is sad and scared. I really don't know what to do?
Is she being haunted or is she just bright? Any advice would help I really don't know what I can do about it. Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this and respond!
Hi Liane ,
I would say first, don't underestimate the precociousness of a 2 yr old. Your daughter is very intelligent, creating an imaginary friend certainly is not out of the realm of possibility. First, I'd ask her why Max is sad and scared; she may be using Max to try to communicate her own real fears and anxiety. However, in the mind of a 2 yr old she does not know how to express her feelings, so she creates a 'friend' to play it out. When investigating any type of haunting it's important to rule out other possibilities. Your daughter may have simply saw something on television that disturbed her, and is recreating it through the character of Max.
However, imaginary friends are typically playful. The one matter of concern is that Max seems to be sad and scared. The possibility of a haunting should not be dismissed. In order to make that determination, I'd begin by asking your daughter some specific questions. Be conversational, don't make her anxious or fearful. Ask questions like 'Where is Max from?'. Your daughter may give a common imaginative 2 yr old answer like, 'the sky' or 'the television'. If your daughter gives you general playful answers like that, you can sigh with relief. She is more than likely playing.
However, if her answers are more specific, if she answers 'Max is from Lincolnshire' or if she insists that Max had lived at your house before you, then she may be in communication with a ghost. Continue to ask questions that would require some specifics. Determine what time period Max is from, can Max tell your daughter about historical events that happened during his life, etc..
Additionally, keep an eye out for other haunting activity in your home. Since Max has arrived, have you been hearing strange noises? Disembodied footsteps, faint voices, or knocking and scratching on the walls? Have you seen any apparitions, or noticed that doors will close and open unexpectedly?
It's important that if you determine that your daughter is indeed haunted to remain calm. You can imagine how traumatic it may be for your daughter, no reason to add to her stress. Additionally, Max may not have dark intentions toward your family. He may simply need help and is overly excited that he can finally communicate with someone, causing your daughter a good deal of fear. Be sure to tell your daughter that she can tell Max to go away. Ghosts typically do as they're told out of their own fear of loosing someone they can communicate with.
If you feel that your house may be haunted, the next step may be to contact a local paranormal investigation team or a reputable psychic. They can help you communicate with Max, and possibly help him move from your home.
Either way, you have my best wishes, Liane.
Thanks so much for coming back to me so quickly. Its a relief what you have said. I have asked her where he is from and she says, "here!" when I ask her to be more specific, she just gets angry with me. I asked her before if he makes any noises (thinking it might be an animal) and she says he crys!
I did ask her if she was scared of him and she said no, but he is very very sad and scared. Which then upsets her. People have suggested that I try to get a local psychic to speak to her but I thought they might think I was making it up so you have really helped me!
Thanks again
Hi, I have a 9 year old daughter who has been experience weird things. I don’t know what to think or what to call it. She has been having the same experiences since she was 2 months old. When she was 2 months old we lived in Rialto in a 3 bedroom house. When ever I had to change her, I couldn’t change her in her room because every time I would try to change her in her room she would start crying hysterical with her arms up in the air and her eyes really big staring at the wall like if she was seeing something or someone. Then when she was 2 years old we didn’t live in Rialto anymore, we had moved in with my parents at their house. We found out that she was experience the same thing again because she would wake up at about 3 am screaming and crying that there was a little boy in her crib waking her up and scaring her. My husband and I would tell her that there was nothing there and wait for her to calm down so we can put her back in her crib and turn off the light. But when we would do that she would scream again. It stopped for a while then it start it all over again when she was 5 yrs old. It was the same pattern but this time she said that they would talk to her and ask her for her help. My daughter would cry because she didn’t know what to do or why was this happening to her. One time she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth when she came out screaming saying that a girl around the age of 6 or 7 was saying her name and asking her to help her. I asked her what did she look like and she said she was light skinned with blond hair past her shoulder. She was wearing a crown made of flowers and a white dress but she was barefoot it. I asked her why she didn’t ask her what she wanted or for her to live her alone and she said that she didn’t say anything because she got very scared. My daughter got so scared that she didn’t like to be in the bathroom by herself, she would cry if my husband or I didn’t want to be in the bathroom with her so she wouldn’t be by herself. There would be times where my daughter would be in the room playing when she would come and ask me if I had called her, I would tell her no. She would get very angry and would tell me not to lie to her because she had heard me calling her. What I thought was weird is that I hardly ever call her by her name; I usually call her by her nick name. So it was weird when she would tell me that she heard me calling her and by her name and not by her nick name. Now my daughter is 9 years old, we no longer live with my parents. We now live in a 2 bedroom apartment. For the last 3 nights my daughter has been waking up at around 3 am again. She wakes up shaking, crying and very scared that she hears noises in her room, her bed shaking, knocking on her wall and the same women's voice calling her by her name. She refuses to go to sleep in her room to the point where my husband has to go to sleep in her room so she can go to sleep. I don’t know what to do or what to think because it doesn’t matter where we go it keep's happening to her. I don’t know if it's just her nerves that are making her hear and see things, can my daughter have some kind of paranoia or anxiety disorder problem, please can somebody help. Could it be that it really is a ghost that follows my daughter where ever we go, can she be like one of those people that can communicate with spirits??? Please help I don’t know what to do nor what to think. I don’t like to see my daughter go through this.
Hi Elizabeth,
Your daughter is experiencing some extraordinary behavior. As I discussed with Liane earlier, it's important to determine that your daughter is not acting out due to another reason, something outside the paranormal. However, it would not be unusual that your daughter is indeed experiencing something paranormal at her age.
Psychics and spiritual investigators often state that they had their most vivid and alarming communication with spirits when they were young, around your daughter's age. However, even among the strongest psychics their perception fades a bit during puberty, for some it disappears completely.
It can be incredibly frightening and traumatic for a young person to have these experiences. One thing you must instill in your daughter is that she is in power. She has the ability to shoo away the spirits. Ghosts rarely harm those that can see and communicate with them. They will essentially do as their told out of fear of being shut out completely.
I'm assuming that you do not share your daughter's abilities. While these experiences can be frightening for a child it can be just as frightening for a parent. You want to protect your daughter, yet it's difficult when you are not able to see or hear what she does. If you determine that your daughter's abilities are indeed paranormal you may want to consider having her speak to someone that shares her abilities.
Contact a local paranormal investigation team, ask them if they could put you into contact with a reputable psychic that would be willing to sit down with your daughter and chat. It may relieve some of her fears and anxiety to meet someone that shares her abilities. Additionally, the psychic may be able to share with your daughter how they coped when they were her age.
All my best to you Elizabeth, as I said at the beginning; often psychic abilities that your daughter is experiencing fade away with time. However, it's important that if you do indeed determine that your daughter has extended abilities, teach her it's not to be feared, but a gift that few hold. Additionally, make sure she knows that she is in power when it comes to communication. The spirits that visit her are depending on her, not the other way around.
Thank you so much for the information, I feel more relax knowing that there is somebody out there that can help out my daughter. I will take your advice and see if I can find a reputable psychic in my area. I would really like for somebody to talk to her and let her know that there is nothing wrong with her and that she doesn’t need to be afraid. One thing that I find very odd is that my daughter feels safe when she's with her little brother. My son is 3 years old and he also says that he sees ghost. But with my son it’s a different story. He doesn’t seem to get afraid, and out of nowhere he will point to a place or area and say look mommy there's a ghost right there. He has even told us their name as well as what they look like. There are times when he covers his ears and we ask him why he does that and he will say he does that because his tired of hearing them talk or that they are too loud. I do admit that I get scared when he tells me that but I try not to let him know that. My son even tells my daughter to not be afraid that they are not going to hurt her. I just don’t know what to think about all this. The first time he told us that he saw something he was 2yrs old, he told us that he was mean and that he was scary. He was scared for a while but then he got over it and now he talks about it like its no big deal. It seems like he accepted it and sees it like its very normal, like part of life. There are times that we hear him talking to himself and we will ask him who is he talking to and he will tell us but he will tell us as well as there name and if it’s a child or a grown up. As for my daughter I just find it strange that she has been experiencing this paranormal activity's since she was little. Also why is it the same voice that calls her name all the time? What could this mean, because it seems that it doesn’t matter where we go this thing goes with her. Is that possible, and If it is why.
One thing that I forgot to mention, when I was pregnant with my son my daughter was the first one to tell me that I was pregnant. We where at Costco when out of nowhere she told me to be careful because I was pregnant. I didn’t know what to say I just smiled and sure enough I was pregnant. I just had another baby in December and my son told me as well that I was pregnant. He even told me that I was having a little girl; I was like 3 weeks along when he told me. But yeah sure enough I was pregnant and with a baby girl. Could this mean anything, can a child know when there will be a new baby?
My grand-daughter is 5 years old and has full conversations with things I can't see. She has always done this. One house they lived in she played in a large closet that went under the staircase with a being named Arty that she had tea parties with. I asked her what Arty looked like as she can plainly see him. She said it was white with white hair, white eyes and a big white belly. She also said that a little girl lived in her bedroom and cried a lot and said that she was in the corner because Mommy said she was bad. One day my grand-daughter said she heard the little girl whisper in her ear that bad mommies get shoved down the stairs. Now lately she sits up in bed at night and points at the ceiling and says "You guys go away!" This is at my Mom's and she lives with me. She has no nightmares at my house but does talk to them still. Last night she sat straight up in bed and started this horrible screaming and started vomiting and continued until we had to take her to the hospital. They did not have a clue what caused it but had to give her a medication to stop the vomiting.
Im 12, and i always feel like im being watched. my chihuahua is called mocha, will randomly look at stuff above us or even growl. i have heard growling, whispering,talking and childrens laughter. im not going through puberty so i dont know whats going on. me and my friend are experiencing stuff we shouldn't be seeing. stuff hits my window, the water is running in the morning in the shower, and im just lost. my brother thinks im crazy. my sister in the past has had imaginary frenns but none tht had hurt her. her imaginary frenns seemed to have turned out to be real people tht hav lived at some time. i need help!
ok well umm my aunt has a spirit in her yard and it is soo frecky and it comes in the house and night and one time it slapped her in the face when she was asleep and the ghost bothers my lil cousin and he is 3 and it scares me soo much :(
Hey guys, ok I really need to know what's going on. My daughter just turned 12 and she recently revealed to me that she has been seeing & hearing people for the past couple of years. Well, I didn't think much of it because I did the same thing in my younger years, still do sometimes. However, tonight she went into her bedroom & started screaming & crying, so I went into her room & she said there was someone in there to het her out of there. My best friend was there with me & she proceeded to go into my daughter's room & she couldn't get the closet door to open, she said it felt like someone was on the other side keeping it pulled closed when there is no knob on the other side of that door. So, my friend said aloud that the closet door wouldn't open, so I walked in the room & as soon as I did, the closet door opened for her freely. My daughter also saw someone standing across the street ( I didn't see anybody) But, she descibed the "person" in her room as a mean man. She said he had brown hair & red eyes. Please help ???????????????
I also forgot to meantion that some of the people she sees asks her for help. And, some of them just say her name. Come to think of it, she has always kind of what I thought talked to herself, but maybe she was talking to someone else...
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