Why do little kids see ghosts?

Question

My grandpa died this year and my little baby cousin who is 5 years old said that she saw grandpa lying down in the room smiling at us. She knows grandpa is in heaven but why did she see him in the house still? She said he was wearing black pants and white shirt. But he looks happy and noone else saw him but her. why do kids see things like this? She was a little afraid of him. Her little 2 year old sister too said she saw grandpa at church, she said that he gave her a hug. she was down the basement for his funeral, how could she know that grandpa was there? We feel like he's still around, he's trying to contact us, many people in my family have seen him in their dreams. He keeps saying that he's hungry to each person that he visits in their dreams. How could this be possible, how do we even feed the dead when they are already gone?

Answer 1

(History on me so you know, Every first born child in my family is able to see spirits at the age of 5 at least, We don't let any one know about this till the child is of teen age years and ask... are thinking is don't bring it up and we can't influence them to thinking they can)
I was 5 and in my back yard when a little girl ask me to play, we played every day ... my parents told me years later that they watched me play out back and sing and dance with some one who wasn't really there!!
I still see ghost and now i watch my daughter tell me she is going out back to play with "Emily"... she sings and dances with Emily .... but i have yet to actually to see see Emily...
It is much easier to see things when your younger b/c your so much more open to the big wide world... it's not an over active imagination. it's that you are able to be less restricitve in your mind set.
I think there is a fine line in the spiritual world. and if my child wants to keep Emily company while she is here then that is great.
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You need to look back at his life... Did grandpa like to eat dinner with you all as a family??
Maybe everyone should have a specail dinner for grandpa and tell the children to invite him. Maybe grandpa misses that??
Maybe grandpa is hungry for some thing else... love?? company.
For your grandpa sake tell the children any time they see grandpa to be sure to talk to him and hug him.... it make them pass over much easier.
Every one needs to work together and figure out what grandpa means.... the ones how pass over and are older.... are not as able to realize there current state of mind... they maybe only concetrating one of there last thoughts.
This may all sound crazy... but i live this every day. If you need help what so ever make me a contact... i've helped alot of other people.

Answer 2

I've seen heard my grandpa and seen my dad's sister, both just passed away. I'm 12. I think maybe everyone sees spirits every now and then, but it so happens to be that little kids see them alot. Maybe it is because the young ones don't know that they are ghosts, or something. They havnt learned that ghosts dont exist! So spirits come to them, because they see them more as real people. I dont know if all of this is true.. but this is what I have learned. :) hope it helps!

Answer 3

Maybe a good idea would be to pray. I don't know if all little kids see these things or not. I think that you should just maybe go into your grandpa's house and talk to him or something. Or try to talk to him in your dreams. Ask what he wants to eat. It's just a guess but maybe when he says he's hungry it's figurative. He could be hungry for his family. If anyone in your family is having problems maybe resolving them would help. How long has your grandpa been dead. Because i heard that a soul roams the earth for 40 days before going to heaven or hell. Maybe that's whats going on and maybe the little kids are just a little more sensitive to his presence. Just like in Just like heaven. When the little kids can see her.

Answer 4

I've read somewhere that because children have not yet fully learnt to make calculated judgements on decisions and try to answer things logically through science or calculations of deduction, they are more susceptible to seeing things that we don't see. It's like convincing a child that Santa and the tooth fairy exists. When we get older and become adults, we work out there is a logical cause and effect for everything and realise/decide ghosts/santa, etc. don't exist.

Answer 5

It may be that they dreamt about him and are getting mixed up. I'm not entirely sure I completely understand the situation but when I was younger, I thought it could snow in the house because I dreamt that it did and then whil construction was happening sheet rock fell from the roof. So I kinda stretched it. It might very well be the same situation.
Kids are pretty imaginative, and can't always recognize the fine line between dreams and real life. But it does seem like a kind of sophisticated dream for a five year old.

Answer 6

Children are far more in tune to things like this, we all were at one point or another but as we age we forget how to use those skills and for some it takes a lot to get it back.
Interesting that grandpa is 'hungry' I wonder what that could mean. Maybe leave a piece of bread out at night and see what happens...maybe something, maybe nothing - not really sure. Don't expect the piece of bread to just disappear but maybe see if it changes the dreams???

Answer 7

This looks like an interesting study, it pretends to be scientific but interesting never-the-less. If ghosts exist and children can see ghosts its probably because their minds haven't been closed yet. The child hasn't been taught they don't exist yet. So the child has no prejudice when it comes upon a new thing.

Answer 8

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Why do little kids see ghosts?
My grandpa died this year and my little baby cousin who is 5 years old said that she saw grandpa lying down in the room smiling at us. She knows grandpa is in heaven but why did she see him in the house still? She said he was wearing black pants and white shirt. But he looks happy and noone else...

Answer 9

Children have been welcomed into a world unknown. A youngins is exposed to anything and everything. Possibly a loved one has the communication skills to let someone in the family know they are being watched over and are protected. And the death in the family may just want to see someone again since they never will again... God works wonders....

Answer 10

its often to be said that children are very paranoid due to some stories their elders tell them. another answer is that the "ghosts" often apear to children because they still have a long time to live. ghost contact the living either because of the relationships. like how a widow is visited by her ghost husband in a dream