Psychic children?

Had a very odd experience with my daughter when she was about 9 (44 now). We lived at the time in Berkshire and one Saturday afternoon as usual, parked in a multi storey car park which had a walkway leading from it across the ring road to a department store. As we walked across she asked why the one way traffic was travelling in the wrong direction. I looked down and told her she was being silly, it wasn’t. On the way back there was an IRA bomb threat at the department store and we used another walkway to return to the car. Sure enough, the traffic was indeed going in the other direction.
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When my youngest son was two, we moved to a house adjoining woodland. When my husband took him for a walk in the woods, my son looked up at a tree and said “look daddy,” accatin man” (his words for Action Man). When I spoke to my new neighbour about this, she went pale. She said several years ago a man deserted the army and wearing his uniform he hanged himself from a tree in the same woods.

That wasn’t all, several nights later when he woke up one morning, he described a woman standing by his bed smiling. Again neighbour confirmed that the description of the woman matched the former occupant of our house who died in her early 50s of sepsis....I got chills!

A year before my daughter was conceived I had a miscarriage I didn't realise I was pregnant as it was in the very early stages. Fast forward three year's and my daughter was in the bath playing with toys when she started talking to someone else I asked her who she was talking to and said that little boy sitting on the top step! I often think it might have been my lost child as we are the only ones whose ever lived here. She also use to have vivid dreams about WW1 and she would discribe the poppy fields and show her dad pictures in books that was what she saw.
My gran was quite spiritual

I have enjoyed reading all these little accounts. An enjoyable topic. My granddaughter had an invisible friend called Douglas for a few years from a toddler. When I asked her where Douglas was she said he's right behind you. It was a bit scary!

Oh this has made me all shaky. My lovely Grandma ' saw things' and said that she thought I probably 'saw things 'too when I was a child - she dies when I was 6. My mother had the odd 'insight' as well and apparently she told me years later saw Nanna sitting on the stairs shaking her head as I walked down them in my wedding dress. The marriage only lasted a couple of years. I have been know to have the odd intuition myself!

I hope there is something in all this - I am not religious by any means but would like to think I am at least a little bit 'spiritual' and there is something else after all this! I know I have had several incidences of deja vue myself - the most noticeable one being my husband whilst travelling back from somewhere said he was going to detour to show me something - at which point I said, no we have been before ... he looked at me and said, never, and in any case you have no idea where I am taking you?? So I told him - it was the church where he was christened, and described it perfectly - we never found out how or why, but we definitely had never been before together, nor me alone!

I am going to digress slightly here, but my health took a nose dive when I was in my 40's and now at 56 I am well and truly beyond it and getting worse sadly ..... I live in a 350 year old cottage and my health has definitely deteriorated since I have been here. My neighbour at the time who sold me the house also had health issues so got in the local 'diviner' to see if there was anything 'dodgy' going on - mine was ok, but hers sat on a ley line so he did a bit of 'something' and told her to move something else and apparently all would be fine from then on .... when he came round to me however, he said the house was fine, but that in a previous life I had been ' a bad woman' and had been murdered, (I was wealthy, from Bristol and probably involved in the slave or shipping trades!) and that my current bad health was as a result of that and I had to apologise - I did, albeit half heartedly, but there has been no improvement, in fact it has got much worse! Interestingly however - the neighbour, her husband and I all have developed auto-immune diseases - they started rebuilding these cottages from derelict before they got married so were in their late teens, and scraped goodness knows what off the beams and walls in both houses .... she has developed Sarcoidosis, and he and I have both got Sjogrens Syndrome - neither of which are great to have, and in a man, it is very rare .... makes you wonder eh??

We moved house when my younger sister was only 3. After a while she began saying that 'a lady' was sitting on her bed and smiling at her. She was quite unconcerned about it.

We heard not long afterwards that the woman who'd lived there before us had died in childbirth. Very sad, she can't have been more than early 30s, if that.

As I recall the 'lady's' visits didn't go on for very long.

I know of a couple of cases of very young children talking very matter-of-factly of when they were here 'before'. Seems to start at 3 -ish, presumably because only then do they usually have enough language to be able to articulate it - and it usually fades away by 5 or 6.

When I was 16 I moved house with my mum, dad and brother. When I was shown the room that was to be mine I said - I don't know why - I don't like that room because someone died in there. In due course I used to wake up and see a man standing by the bed (but only when the bed was in a certain position - I was always moving my bedroom around). I'd say "What do you want?" and he would disappear. Naturally this scared me and when I told my mum she said to take the dog up to bed with me as spirits didn't like dogs. Many years later she told me that when she first brought the dog up to my room he stood at the door and refused to come in - she had to give him a great big shove to get him to come in!!!! I was glad when I moved away from that house

A few years ago I watched a TV programme about a little boy who lived in Glasgow. He was about 4/5 years old and kept saying to his mum "you are my other mummy" she was quite puzzled by this and quite upset when he kept telling other people that she was his other mummy. They thought he was being fostered or adopted. This developed further when he told her he had lived in a house where the aeroplanes landed on the beach, he was adamant about it and described in detail the house and small secret gate which led to the shore. His mum made all kinds of enquiries to try and solve this mystery. Eventually someone took it seriously and researched were possibly it could be. The family had only ever holidayed locally and were completely baffled. Then someone suggested the place could be a Scottish island called Barra. A journey was arranged for mum and her little boy to visit this island and sure enough he ran off straight to the house he had described and into a room he said was his with his other mummy. The only thing missing was his little dog which he remembered having. The secret gate was still there, but obviously not his other mummy.
His family I believe did quite a bit of research afterwards searching family trees etc. to try and establish the generations of people who had lived in this cottage on Barra, nothing sounded remotely familiar, so if there was a previous life of this little boy it was many generations before it seems.
It was a really interesting documentary ...I think it was called The Barra Boy.

Oooh - forgot to say, I had imaginary friends too Mrs Mung and Dizzy (Mung) her daughter when I was maybe 3 or 4 - strangely no-one ever heard me mention Mr Mung, who was obviously off the scene but we don't know why? At that point I didn't know of divorce or even knew any one parent families, so no idea what he was up to! Think they disappeared before I went to school, I must ask my Mum when I go up next!

We moved into our old cottage around 6 years ago. Strange happenings from the start. Youngest grandson around 18 months used to stand in the hall chattering away and talking to something in the corner. We have had the kettle switching itself on while we were at the other side of the kitchen, this happened many times. I was in the shower, came through and the wee tv in our bedroom had come on at loudest setting, no one else in the house. The lid from the plastic box I had stored my kindling in was lying on the floor, on other side of the high freezer. Could not have blown over or anything. Sweet flowery scented smell in bedroom at night, the feeling that someone is there. Parked the carone day, walked round to the rear of it and really strong flowery smell there, I actually thought flowers had been delivered. Oddest thing was the day after my mother in laws funeral. Husband up just before me, I went into the kitchen to put the kettle on, came back out into the hall and there was a small brown bird walking up the hall carpet, it went into the lounge, flew up on the sofa and just sat there. Now we have dogs, neither the dogs or the bird seemed concerned about the other. Husband and I were a bit bemused by this. Ended up opening the window and put it out. Not worried about these things at all.

When my cousin was a small child the family lived in an old house that used to be the garage. He remembered that there was a small white dog running around which to his mind must have been the family pet, although he did say that when he got older he realised that nobody else seemed to know it was there.
A few years later he was shown an old Victorian photo of the then vicar and his family. Three little girls in white dresses with the little white dog sitting beside them.

Used to be the Vicarage!

My friends and I have often talked about this and as a matter of one passed away recently.....we used to wonder why no one has yet appeared to us and told us what death and the after life was all about
My recently deceased friend has not come back, not even in a dream . We were so close.

When my cousins son was small he had an imaginary friend, a little elf man that used to visit him. This elf man had a distinctive ,none human name. After a few months he was forgotten about and his mum thought no more about it. Years later she was talking with her sister in law and said this name. 'Oh 'said SIL 'how did you know about him ?' 'He was As imaginary friend when he was small ' 'No ' replied SIL 'He was Rs ( her son) imaginary friend ' The boys were 10 years different in age ,lived miles apart and only met up a few times a year. Yet had the same ( strangely named ) visitor

My daughter used to talk about going up her magic ladder at night,she never knew my parents but started talking about things they said but thought she must have heard her saying about them but one day she began to tell me about their budgie called Peter,what colour he was and how he ate crisps,she never knew about the bird,I was only about 10 when they had it.
Another time my husband was a twin but his twin died at 39,only difference in them was his twin had a beard,no pictures of him in our home as my husband couldn’t look at it but daughter said when she went up her ladder there was a party and daddy was there but he had a furry face,wasn’t really sure what to believe after that

So many stories about children, and I have one too. My mother died long before my son was born, but when he was about 21 months old he found a picture of her as a young woman. Clearly delighted, he ran to me saying "G'anma, g'anma, g'anma!" I'd never talked to him about her or even chosen what to call her, but as I called her own mother 'Grandma' I know that she would have picked that for herself. Now I am 'Grandma' to his little daughter.

My friends daughter aged about 3, was messing about at the table, pushing her chair back onto 2 legs.
My friend told her if she kept doing it she would fall..
Her daughter said "No I won't!" then looked at the empty chair and said "I won't, will I grandad?"
(Her grandad had died around a year before)

So many intriguing stories told here. I often have "feelings" about places but as a naturally sceptical person I try to consider what might have prompted the particular vibes about a place, perhaps at a subconscious level. I also wonder why the sense of the spirits of deceased people generally seems to be found in domestic settings and not in places like hospitals where hundreds and often thousands of people have died often in painful and distressing circumstances. The mystery continues....

There's probably a waiting list for hospital haunting.
Unless you pay privately.

Many nurses believe that there are hauntings in hospitals.

Maybe a person in spirit is more likely to appear in a place, or close to people, that were important to them.

MissAdventure - what a cracking comment, you just started my day with a good laugh! Lol x

When I was 7 or 8, I went to stay at my aunts house while my mum visited my much loved grandad in hospital. During the night I awoke to see my grandad standing by my bed smiling at me. The next morning I was told that he had died during the night in the hospital. I remember the image so clearly.

Small children have no preconceptions of what is "normal" so are open to seeing anything . Some people believe children's imaginary friends are spirit children ie the ghosts of dead children which live children accept as just like themselves. As we age the world takes over and we lose the sense we had. I don't remember things as a child but as an adult am sensitive to atmospheres in buildingsand have had the feeling I have been somewhere before although I know I haven't visited there previously. I once went upstairs at a friends house ( not been upstairs before) and on the bend of the stairs said there was a cold spot. She said the previous owner had died at that spot after having a heart attack and falling. In another friends house, she'd just moved in and was showing several of us around I wouldn't go into the one bedroom because there was the feeling of an awful prescience there.