Two years ago, we moved into a 105 year old house. It is on the historic registry as the first US Post Master of Covington, KY lived here (and no, I have not been able to find out much information on him - Issac something, I would have to check the plaque on my house again).
When we moved in, I was always nervous to go in the kitchen at night, border line scared to death. I just felt something bad and it was only in the kitchen. There have been strange things happening, like the gas stove turning on by itself and then turning off buy itself, usually only last 30 seconds. There is nothing wrong with the stove, I have had a repair man and the gas company all come out. Of course, we have had strange noises, doors opening on their own, things going missing and them finding them in a weird place.
Recently, the light at the top of our steps just stopped working. We tried changing the bulbs - not it. We have not yet called an electrician to come out. Anyways, my son (27 months old) is so scared to go up the steps now. He will only go if I carry him and he closes his eyes until we get to his room. He points at the light and says what we think is Tom, maybe Don. He will not even sleep in his room, which does not have a door as it is being rehabbed and his bedroom looks right out into the hall with the light. He has even been pointing at the light and saying scary.
Do I have a ghost...what do I do. My biggest concern is I think I have a not nice ghost. Scaring my child and turning my gas stove on!
Often disruption in our lives causes disruptions in our psyches. This can manifest in many ways, most of them quite recognizable. We become angry at our spouses or partners, we are short with the kids, and so on.
While there are unusual things going on, you are doing a rehab. Abnormal things do go on. Even in modern homes and buildings or those relatively recently built, one could put some erie spins on otherwise simple events.
Example, a few years ago my burglar alarm began going off in the middle of the day. I work at home, so I was there to shut it off thankfully. It recurred over and over again. No apparent problem with the detectors or the units involved on initial inspection. Finally, one day, it was happening every hour or so. I rechecked the station reporting the alarm and discovered an ant colony happily living in the depths of the detector where I initially had not been able to see them. They were randomly crossing the delicate circuitry, causing the alarm trips. These sorts of things are often the root cause of physical behaviors.
Doors move for a variety of physical reasons. Lights fail because of unusual voltage fluctuations, especially problematic in rural areas. The list goes on and on.
Your child will react to your emotional condition. That's important to remember. Try to keep calm, and you may notice that he or she will calm down as well. Most of all, keep track of what is going on if activity fails to cease. We advocate here keeping a log of daily activities. This really does work, because you can begin to see if things you do daily are related to what appear on first glance to be phenomena.
Keep us informed, and do feed back any questions you have.
My son Noah, is three years old, and since he could talk, he's told us so many stories about seeing 'people.' The latest incident happened in a house we just moved into in the beginning of February. I'm not sure how old the house is, but it sits at the top of a mountain in Alpine. Since we moved in, our son had been waking up three times the normal amount with night terrors. They arent just regular nightmares though, the entire time he sits and struggles to push someone off him, he yells at it, and eventually he calms down. When I ask him what he dreams about in the morning, he usually refuses to answer, and tells me that he can't, because he doesnt want me to be scared. The worst, was about a week ago. I walked into the hallway, leading out to the driveway, and our bedroom door, and he was leaning up against the doorwith his back, and bracing himself on the walls with his arms. When I laughed at him, and asked him what he was doing, he said, "That guys trying to get in here so im holding the door shut. Who is he?" Theres a whole in the bottom of the door from a past roomates dog, so my son bent down to look through the hole, and no one was there. I walked around the 1.9 acres, and no one. We live on the top of a hill with one exit and enterance, which is a huge incline, so, we would have seen them leaving. After this, things have gotten worse, noises, feeling like people are following my son, his father, and myself. No matter where we are it feels like people are watching us. Does anyone know how I would begin to research the lot of property where this home now sits. I am 20 years old, and renting a room at this home...I am at witts end, and I dont know where to start.
My son Noah, is three years old, and since he could talk, he's told us so many stories about seeing 'people.' The latest incident happened in a house we just moved into in the beginning of February. I'm not sure how old the house is, but it sits at the top of a mountain in Alpine. Since we moved in, our son had been waking up three times the normal amount with night terrors. They arent just regular nightmares though, the entire time he sits and struggles to push someone off him, he yells at it, and eventually he calms down. When I ask him what he dreams about in the morning, he usually refuses to answer, and tells me that he can't, because he doesnt want me to be scared. The worst, was about a week ago. I walked into the hallway, leading out to the driveway, and our bedroom door, and he was leaning up against the doorwith his back, and bracing himself on the walls with his arms. When I laughed at him, and asked him what he was doing, he said, "That guys trying to get in here so im holding the door shut. Who is he?" Theres a whole in the bottom of the door from a past roomates dog, so my son bent down to look through the hole, and no one was there. I walked around the 1.9 acres, and no one. We live on the top of a hill with one exit and enterance, which is a huge incline, so, we would have seen them leaving. After this, things have gotten worse, noises, feeling like people are following my son, his father, and myself. No matter where we are it feels like people are watching us. Does anyone know how I would begin to research the lot of property where this home now sits. I am 20 years old, and renting a room at this home...I am at witts end, and I dont know where to start. Any information would be highly appreciated.
I have written a little booklet that explains how to research your house and property. I get so many people writing about this topic that I thought a beginners guide might be useful.
Just want to reiterate something that often happens when people have a feeling of being watched. This is usually caused by faulty electrical wiring. In turn, this causes electrical fields to be produced to which our brains may react. The final effect is one of fear, panic and a sense of being watched or followed. It is not uncommon to project those reasonably simple emotions into far more complex dramas, including most of the things you earlier reported.
I also want to tell you that Bonnie has done a great job of providing a tool that folks can use to evaluate their own homes, referenced in the previous message in this thread.
My son is 31 months old, all of a sudden he started telling me that he was talking to a man in the house, when asked who, he just said 'the man in the TV room'. It actually made my hair stand on end. Since that night, every few days out of the blue, my son says: "uh-oh mommy! Person just died at hospital". When I respond to say that it is not true, people go to the hospital to get better, he gets very angry and insists that someone "person" just died. Is he getting this information from a spirit???? How would he know that a hospital is where people go to die??? Any advice please, I am really creaped out by this!!! Thank you.
Leamarie, Denise, and all other mothers, you do not ever have to contend with belligerent and negative spirits coming around your children.
Tell them off--quite forcefully! Order them to leave--in the name of Jesus Christ, or if you are not Christian, order them out in the name of your icon! It works! Spirits who bother children are cowards and are quite easily dealt with. It sounds kinda cornball, but burning sage or thyme are ancient methods of chasing out bad spirits. Do not leave the house when you do so, simply walk around with the burning herbs in your dish, releasing the smoke into the rooms. Bad spirits hate the smell of sage and thyme. You can also choose to cook with these herbs as a helpful and healthfull way to keep 'things' away. You are always stronger than these wierd spirits who cavort around your home, do not dismay!
I wanted to address children seeing spirits. Many children do and we assume they are imaginary friends. Children are just more open, which is a good thing. They also hear a wider range of frequencies than adults.
I cannot say this enough, spirits are people without bodies. When we leave here we take our personalities with us. Spirit people are not saints or demons, just people. Can they be angry and difficult? Yes, but that does not make them a demon.
Sometimes we feel they are being negative when they are simply trying to get our attention and help. Forget about sage and salt and any other potions, they would not keep a living person away and they will not keep a dead person away.
So, what works?? Communication
Try to find out what is going on with them. If your child is telling you things about the spirit person LISTEN to your child. Ignoring your child and the spirit person will make the situation worse. How would you feel if you were sitting in my living room and I ignored you? It is the SAME for them.
If you just remember that they are people you should be able to cope. If they truly are being a threat to the safety of yourself or your child, tell them to leave, just like you would a living person. Otherwise try to help them move on or just work it out.
I hope this helps! Bonnie Vent San Diego Paranormal Research Project www.sdparanormal.com
Last Edited by on Sep 27, 2007 7:56 PM
My daughter who is 2 yrs old now has been seeing someone for a couple of months now. She has no fear of anything. I first noticed it when we went to visit my grandpa in GA. She was laying in her playpen one night and started wrestling with something. It was like special effects out of a movie- she looked like she was really being pushed back into the sides of the playpen. She kept throwing her hand out and saying "Stop it....Jimmy". It freaked me out and then I was like she is playing. Well since we have been back in KY she wrestles and fights with "Jimmy" everynight. Last night a book fell off of the bookshelf and she said "Aww..Jimmy did it", and she started walking backwards and walked herself into the corner of the room like she was scared and started hollering for her daddy. My husband had never got to witness her interactions with "Jimmy" until last night. He says that when he was young he saw a little boy riding his bike and when his mom looked his bike was empty but it was moving! So he believes she is seeing a ghost. I don't know what to think- how did the book fall last night? She has a brother and a sister she plays with all of the time- she doen't neeed to make up an imaginary friend. In fact last night when "she told on Jimmy" that was the first time I have ever really seen her scared! when she watches Jimmy her eyes just follow. It is really like she is watching someone walk around the room. this only happens in the evening and at night. What do you think is happening? Does anyone have any thoughts?
Last Edited by on Nov 01, 2007 11:23 AM
my son is 23 months and this is the second time this has happened. first time his great grandmother was laying in her bed before she passed and she has alltimers which she died in june and he was standing by her bed and reached for someone or something at the end of her bed. and then a couple days ago my fiance was giving my son something to eat and my son looked up at the ceiling and was reaching for something or someone again. nothing would be there. can you tell me if he is seeing someone?
Last Edited by on Dec 11, 2007 1:10 PM
Children are open to psychic powers. Especily seeing ghosts. Where do you think imaginary friends come from? This usually goes away around 5 years old. very rarly do they keep it through their lives. I know from experiance that almost all ghosts are friendly.Remember they are just people and are maybe just a little angry they have past on.
Hi I am new to this but my 3 year old son keeps saying there is a ghost in the house, he even named him Patrick now it might be a coincidence but he watched SpongeBob that day and maybe that is the name he chose to give him.
This started happening after his dad and I split up and his dad moved out. He started telling me mommy hide the others are coming and he would get underneath a blank it. My son's never watched a scary movie ever and I didn't even know he knew what that word meant but when I got under the blanket with him I said it's to hot under here and he said no mommy it's cold.
He keeps pointing to one corner of the house and saying Patrick's here. He saids it's scary but he is always running and hiding with a smile on his face kind of like he's playing a game of hiding go seek. There has been so many more things that have happened and for some strange reason I'm not scared I'm just curious to know if this is normal.
This morning we got up and I took him downstairs and we were doing our normal morning routine of me making coffee while he plays his video game. Then I said it's time to go upstairs and get dressed and we started heading up the stairs and my son yells out bye Patrick and keeps walking up the stairs. That was the first time he ever did that, he usually only see's him at night.
Please explain is he really seeing something or he just playing a game with me?
It is possible that your son is seeing a spirit person. You mentioned this started after his Dad left the house. It is also possible that this is his way of dealing with this situation. It would be wise to check with a professional before assuming a paranormal explanation.
Keep us posted. Bonnie Vent San Diego Paranormal Research Project www.sdparanormal.com
I'm not sure if my 2 yr old daughter is seeing ghosts or not, but she has suffered from severe night terrors since she was only a year old. Since then, I have done everything the doctors have told me to do, but it doesn't seem to be getting any better and most recently, she seems to be having these incidents while she is awake. She is scared to go in to her room now and we have to really struggle with her to get her to go to sleep. She doesn't really like to play in her room and if the door is open during the day, she will shut the door and run away. At night, when she wakes up, it's not just crying, but screaming for myself or my husband and she's usually shaking. We've tried sleeping on the floor next to the bed and she constantly checks to make sure we are still there. If we aren't, she freaks out. When I ask her what's wrong, she'll point behind me and ask "who's that?" Of course, I see no one and my husband thinks I'm crazy, but I don't expose her to anything that should be giving her nightmares, especially this extreme. At times, I can also hear her on the monitor yelling "No" over and over but there is no one in her room with her. Last night, she woke up and started crying. After I finally calmed her down, I tried to sneak out of the room and she ran to the door, screaming for my husband and started banging her fists on the door. When I opened it, she ran by me and started trying to claw her way up the side of my bed to get to my husband. I don't want her to get used to sleeping in my room, so I rarely allow her to do that, but I don't know how else we can all get a good night's sleep? I'm really worried. Could she be seeing ghosts and if so, why are they scaring her so badly?
This pattern seems to be recurring more frequently over the past few years. I believe the most rational initial explanation is that your child is undergoing changes as she develops. This could be neurological in nature, and is often quite natural. The reactions can be unnerving to parents and other adults.
It is quite possible she will grow out of this as time passes for a couple of reasons. One is that her thought processes and reasoning abilities will mature, leading to a change in her perceptions that will no longer frighten her. The other is that any sensitivity she may have, whether to spirits or field energy that may be overstimulating her brain and causing hallucinations now, will be diminish.
Either way, the likelihood is that this will pass with time. If she is truly sensitive, you should encourage an open dialog (which is why you may have to wait since meaningful dialog is difficult with most 2 year olds). For the moment, patience and understanding are the best medicine.
My 2 year old son says that he sees my grandmother that has been gone since 2002 and he says that she comes to play with him. He used to think it was my aunt because they look very much alike but now that he is getting older he points to her picture and says that it's grandma jan, and we have never told him her name before. His play kitchen grill will go off and then he runs and says that she's in his room, he gets so excited and can't wait to go play with her. Then we here him talking to someone. Sometimes he sits in the hallway and is looking up having a conversation with someone and he says that it is her.
A few weeks ago he came running out of his room so hysterical he couldn't even talk. He finally told me that there was a man in his room that scared him. I got scared and called my family to come over. We checked the whole house there was no one inside. We showed him tons of pictures and he kept saying no. Finally, I called my grandfather and asked him to bring over a picture of his dad that has been gone for 50 years now. As soon as my son saw the picture he started screaming "that's the man, that's the man in the room!" He has been traumatized, he talks about it everyday and says that he has seen him before but for some reason he scared him this time. Just this morning the incident happened again only now in the kitchen. I asked him if he would like to go and talk to him and he said yes. So I picked him up, took him in the kitchen and told him questions to ask the man. He said that he is papa's dad, he is here to visit him, and to play with him. Then I asked him to ask the man his name. my son told me to turn the kitchen light on first and when I did he said the man went away. He also told me that the man wanted him to go buh bye with him where there are lots of babies. This comment worried me and now i am having doubts that this is my great-grandfather. I don't know what to do.
my 2 year old daughter recently started acting like she sees things that i cannot see... we were at the playground when all of a sudden she turned around and pointed at the basketball court, and said " oh.. the fire" and sounded very sad. - she has never seen a fire. i asked her what she was talking about, and she just kept pointing at the same spot- i asked her if there was a fire there, and she said " yeah- right there!"... also, on 3 seperate occasions at home, she has become very scared, clinging to me and looking like she is going to cry. when i ask what is wrong she says she is scared and points to our hallway. she is so scared she will not even get off my lap to show me what is "scary"- could she be seing ghosts?
Hello Bonnie. I have a now 7 year old daughter who has been seeing things since she was about 3 or 4. It started out with little green things that were everywhere in her room and trying to get her. (she called them boogers) She would be perched on her pillow with a terrified look on her face when I would come to her room after she called me in the night. The green things evolved into brown things which are somehow scarier but they don't come as often. She has seen ghosts in her room, figures most often, but sometimes just whisps of white. I have had a few nonvisual visitations myself. Last night though was the worst (other than the green things). I am trying to get her to sleep by herself so I will lay down with her and then leave later after she is asleep. Last night I did the same but about 5 minuets after I left her room she started screaming hysterically that a ghost was in her room. It totally freaked me out and every hair on my body stood up. I ran to her room to find her sobbing. I asked her where it was and she said "right behind you". Once I got her calmed down I asked her if the ghost was still there and she said yes. I asked her to describe it. At first she was too scared but eventually she told me that it was a man and he was running in place in her closet. She kept peeking out of her blankets to look at him. After a while she said that there was a little person, perhaps a child, with him and that they were now walking. I told her to ask him what he wanted but she didnt't get any answer. She said that maybe he couldn't talk because he was a ghost. I just hugged her close and told her to go to sleep. She kept looking and then she sat up and said "you can come back tomorrow but don't just appear so fast because you startled me". She went back to sleep eventually but I had to stay with her the whole night. Any thoughts? Thank you for your help. =-)
My son is 22 months old. His Daddy is in the Army and was gone for a month at NTC (national training center) as soon as Daddy got back is when this all started. My son was sleeping through the night just fine 830pm-8am. As soon as my husband got home my son started waking up throughout the night again just as he did when he was little. He also has been fighting me to go to bed and to take naps which usually he runs to bed and loves to go to sleep. Then the other morning when I went in his bedroom to get him when he woke up he looks at me and says "ghos" and I said "what?" and he said it again. He has never heard that word so I dont know where he got it from, I ignored it but he is still waking up at night. He doesnt say anything, I just give him some milk and he goes right back to bed. Now last night at 1am my sons train in his toy room went off twice and has never done that before, my son however slept all night last night for the first time since my husband got home. Now my husband and I just went to put our son to bed again tonight and as we laid him down he said it again "ghos." This gives me the chills to even think about. I really dont want him to be scared to go to bed.
