does my 3 yr old niece see ghosts?

Question

My three year old niece lives with my brother and his wife in a house built in 1750. two times that I have babysat her she has woken up screaming. The first time she was in her cot, she woke up screaming pointing at a rocking chair in her room saying ‘nana, nana’ this affected her and she wouldn’t go back to bed. All of her grandparents are alive. This has also happened when my brother was at home. The most recent time I have babysat her she woke up and came downstairs screaming (she is now in a bed) and said that someone had crept up on her, and that her dad was pretending to be a wolf, but her dad wasn’t there, yet she still insisted that someone had crept up on her. The house doesn’t usually have any bad feelings about it although I do know that there was a fire in her room but that was fairly recently and I don’t think anyone was hurt. Could you explain this?!

Answer 1

People see and people don't, some believe and some don't.
That's total rubbish the non believers saying "there is no such things as ghosts"
I have never had an experience with a ghost, that doesn't make me a non believer, there has to be something.
People always ask, why does it happen in old houses, I believe where there is a long history, if the materials that the building is made of and the conditions are right, why shouldn't a building be able to play back an event, the same as vinyl or video tape or any other type of recording medium.
For me, that is the most plausible explanation to ghosts.
something is upsetting your neice, whether it be nightmares or ghosts, whatever she sees she believes it to be true.Try and help her deal with it.

Answer 2

These are nightmares. I am a Bible beleiving person and in the Bible it says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord or the Devil, which means that there are no such things as ghost. Some children have a very active imagination or emotional problems that will cause them to have a nightmares. They cannot at that point of the nightmare distinquish whether it was real or a nightmare.

Always take her back to her room and calm her down, turn on the light and show her that there is nothing there and then lay with her a bit to get her back to sleep. She may need a stuffed animal or favorite blanket to help out.

If you feel there is a stronger force here, like some people might would say it is a demon. Look in the Bible there is a scripture that says When though liest down though shall not be afraid, but when though liest down thy sleep shall be sweet. Annoint her room with oil and pray over it. I know this may seem weird especially if you do not beleive what the Bible says, but it is no weirder than beleiving in ghost and it can't hurt. The worst that would happen is that it would not work and she would continue to have th nightmares.

But seriously I truely beleive it is more her imagination than anything. So just cuddle her a bit and help her get back to sleep in her on room.

Answer 3

Maybe she is seeing something in the house.

You say there was a fire... maybe she thought she saw someone pretending to be a wolf but was actually someone trying to help or escape from the fire covering themselves up. Or a fireman.

Maybe ask her to draw a picture? Another idea is set up a video camera in her room to record the night-times and maybe capture one of those nights if it ever happens again.

Maybe she was dreaming it and thought she saw her dad.

When I was little, I was up early one saturday morning and my parents were both in bed. I sat down in the living room drawing away as I always did and I saw my uncle come into the garden, waving.

He came in but I waited for him to come into the livingroom but he never did. I was convinced he was there but he was no where to be seen. He was in bed all that time and he never gets up early anyway.

It could be ghosts or psychological projection. Kids are more sensitive to those things than adults tend to be.

I used to believe I saw ghosts as a child but rarely see them now that I have gotten older.

Have a look at Wikiepedia if you are interested in doing some research in this.

If it has not happened since and your granddaughter is okay then there's no real need to upset her any further as it may cause it to happen again?

My son plays with his grandmother and she sometimes cover her fake fur coat over her head and pretend to be a wolf. He loves it and laughs but at night once or twice he woke up saying that there was a big bad wolf under his bed.

Its just the child imagination running riot - we talked to him about it and he's been fine since. Still asks Granny to be the bad wolf (sigh).

Answer 4

Yes, I think she see ghosts. I've read in a site in internet,a real life incident it it like this:
There is a house a very big one,it was built in 17th or 18th century.The people who lived in it heard sounds of footsteps and people laughing even though no one else was there.They also saw faint images of old and young people that disappearered the next moment.Neighbours also reported seeing faint images of other people. However now harm was done to any of them.
Some people say that some animals especially dogs and also small children can see things and hear sounds which other people can't. So I think your niece see ghosts and if that house is really old, I'm sure of it.There is a chance that she might be pretending and trying to scare you. But this chance is very less.

Answer 5

My niece used to wake up and describe a old man sitting on her bed when she was about three years old so maybe they are more prone to seeing things at that age,
It is obviously disturbing her because she screams out

She must be seeing something maybe her parents could put a bed in their room for her for a while to see what happens or maybe someone could sleep in her room if they are brave enough ( I'm not sure id be brave enough )

Answer 6

kids have very active imaginations. They also find it hard to tell the difference between dreams and reality. My 4 year old is always going on about stuff which never happened and then at the end of it she says "but I saw it in my dream". She is convinced it really happened. She talks about how her dad used to be a girl (which he gets really annoyed about!) and how she saw her cousins when she hasn't seen them for a year. It's just dreams and not ghosts - there are no such things as ghosts.

Answer 7

She could very easily be seeing ghosts. It's not uncommon in younger children to see ghosts, mostly because they are more likely to believe and accept that fact than adults (who also see ghosts but often refuse to believe that). Honestly, she could be seeing ghosts.
When she sees these things and starts screaming, talk to her. Have her explain what she was seeing and form your own opinion. Chances are, she's seeing ghosts. Good job for actually recognizing this may be more than imaginary friends, as most people would write it off.

Answer 8

Beat this one...a couple brought their kid (about 3 years old) to a friends restaurant. The kid starts playing up, i.e. smiling and waving across the room (to an imaginary friend, we first thought). When the parents asked the kid what she was doing, she replied, ' waving to a lady in the corner'.....We found out later from our friends that the restaurant was MEANT to be haunted by a woman ghost.
Coincidence?

Answer 9

Hi, When my sister was younger she used to say a lady rocked her to sleep on a night. The house we lived in was haunted and a lot of unexplained things happened to us, my dad always played things down trying to explain to us why they had happened and what we had seen was in our imagination. It was only years later he said he also had seen things in the house but didnt want to scare us. Children are more susceptible to see the unexplained, so just keep reassuring her.

Answer 10

Dreams. Children at this age do not know what dreams are, so they believe everything they see.
If this were happening at age seven, yeah, I'd totally hear you.
I've sensed a presence or two in my life.
But in life, the right answer is generally the simplest, so i would go with this for now.