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..
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