My son is 2 and I swear he sees something? what do you think?What should I do?

Question

We were sitting watching TV 1day when he said "mom what is it?" pointing up towards the hallway leading to his room.I asked him what he was talking about..he replied "that" pointing again towards the hallway..seeing that I wasnt understanding he jumped off the sofa,grabbed me by the hand & said "come on" ..he took me down the dark hallway asking me to turn on the lights 1 by 1. we reached his bedroom & he said "shhhhh" holding one finger towards his lips...then he stood in front of the closet & said "mom u ready? ready?" i reached out to open the closet when he said "no LIGHT!!!".. I turned the light on & he procedeed to tell me "u ready?" I opened the door & nothing was there!He walked in,turned around,sat in the middle of the closet ,looked up & started laughing then, he looked at me & said "what is it?" I told him I didnt see anything. He got back up turned looked back up and waived bye.&@1 of our friends house he points @ the RR saying there is some1 there this 1 scares him though

PLEASE dont be mean about this!!! I really think and know he sees something! Allot of my friends get scared BUT I always ask him and tell him to guide me to what he is looking at. I even ask questions about them.

I should also point out that one of our friends past away in Dec of 2006. He seems to be descridibing him as the one that lives in the closet BUT what about the one that he is scared of at my friends house? its always the same place that he points out and after awhile he will tell the "thing" to go away on his own...I never pressure him or make fun of him BUT i dont want others to be scared or to frighten my son either..how could I explain to them that he is just a kid that is capable of seeing things?!..for the record I DO BELIEVE in spirits.

Answer 1

i don't know if you believe in spirits or guardian angels or just angles but what he probably saw when you turned the lights on was a guardian angel. it could have also been his spirit guide. i don't know if you believe in this stuff but i know i do and little kids see things that we cant only because their eyes are open to it and when we get older we refuse to see it, the thing at your friends house could be any of the things i listed. if you have a loved one that has passed or if your friend does then your son can see them. if it doesn't scare him then don't worry about it and if it does then find out their name and tell them its time for them to move on to the other side. sometimes when we hear our kids talking them self's when they are younger we think its their imaginary friend but 10/9 times they see something we don't.


but if he doesn't say hes scared then don't worry about it but if he does say hes scared then ask your son to find out the name and tell them its time to pass over!

Answer 2

While some people are scepticle, many believe that children can see spirits, and I agree. From very early on my son has had a 'friend' he will look, smile and laugh at. Nothing there, its been in different places, and it is beyond a doubt his "this person is nice I like him he's funny" smile and laugh. So long as he is not afraid, I would not be overly concerned, but continue to talk to him, ask questions. Does your son ever talk to what he sees? Do they talk back? Have you had him draw pictures etc.
Also, for the ones he is afraid him, assure him that they can not hurt him. While I'm not sure, I think the best way to describe it would be to explain that it is someones bad memory. Perhaps, when you can, try to find out things such as if anyone had died by bieng hit by a train etc? Explain to your son that this is what happened, so now he has a bad memory that stays there so that he can go on to a new life (heaven, etc) with only his happy thoughts. These are all of course just suggestions, tailor it to your sons personality, and good luck.

Answer 3

I can totally relate to this.

First of all, I don't think you have anything to worry about.

this ability sometimes runs in families. You might check and see if any of his grand parents or great grand parents had the sight. People who have it, don't always talk about it for fear of being redicluded.

That may sound wierd, but it's really isn't. Some people are just more sensitive to these kind of things.

My daughter (who is now 17) started this when she was small.

She has not forgotten any of it, nor has she out grown it.

I also have the gift (if that's what you want to call it) and always have.

I often noticed my daughter (when she was too young to talk) looking at something I couldn't see and giggling.

Once she was old enough to talk, the first incident I can recall is driving down the street and passing a church we had never been in and weren't members of. She immediately pointed at the church and said "I remember that place. You took me there." I told her I had not and she still insisted I had. She even described the inside of the church. I didn't know until a couple of years later that she was right. I attended a craft sale at that church. It was the first time I'd ever been there.

She sometimes sees or knows things she shouldn't.

An example: Her boyfriend bought her a gift. He was excited about it and told me what it was. I promised him I would not tell her about it and didn't. Unfortunately, this was one of those times when the sight kicked in and she told him she knew what the gift was. He was furious, thinking I had told her. I never could convince him I had not told her.

Other times, we see things that are going to happen or may have already happened. It's not alway easy to tell the difference.

I know these examples would be hard to prove, but it's gets even stranger.

I was walking down the hallway in my home one day and passed my husband going to the bathroom, but when I stepped into the living room 2 seconds later he was sitting on the sofa watching tv.

My daughter stepped into the bathroom one afternoon and saw our cat jump through the shower curtain into the tub. She was meowing.
The cat was actually in my lap asleep. She was no where near the bathroom.

This whole thing really bugs her friends. She doesn't explain the sight to them or even mentions it. But she warns them sometimes about things and they are always irritated that what she said to them was exactly how things come about. Especially her boyfriend.

We are not quacks or freeks. We don't tell fortunes or any of that other garbage.

We simply live with the fact that these things happen.

Even the place where I work is haunted. I use that term because it's a term people understand.

Everyone who works there knows about (what we call the spook). Unfortunately for new employees, it can be quite disconcerting when someone they can't see touches them or takes their quipment and hides it. He is usually harmless and seldom shows himself, but when he does, he usually scares the bejusus out of someone. Even the most cynical people end up realizeing that he is real. He seems to pull most of his tricks on people who are especially afraid, or are new and don't realize he is there. That doesn't stop him from playing tricks on the employees who have been there for years, but it must not be much fun for him, because they just take it in stride and keep working.

I could tell you hundreds of stories, but what would be the point. There isn't room enough here and wouldn't really help you any.

Just try to be understanding as I believe you are trying to be, and let your son know you support him no matter what happens. Imaginary friends are not always imaginary, even though it makes us feel better to believe that.

Good luck

Answer 4

I have 2 kids, and my son was especially scared about things. With him they felt real, because he saw things on tv or heard something that he didnt mean to hear. Like my husband and I arguing, or a tv program that might of had some questionable characters in it. What I did was sit down with my son , and have draw my a picture of what he saw and asked him how long has he seen it, was it really mean and scary or just ugly . I gave him a special teddy bear I named buddy guard to protect him while I wasnt in the room with him. I also went out and bought a story book about things that go bump in the night, or something funny that he could sit and laugh at , or he can sit with you and listen to you while you read it to him, then have him draw a happy picture from that story and put it on his wall near his bed.

Tell him that everything is ok, and that he can tell him he isnt afraid of that thing in the closet. also have him maybe sit next to you while you are in the kitchen cooking something sweet like cookies, or have a glass of chocolate milke and cookie while he tells you something funny or you tell him about something good that you saw today.
maybe you can also have a play date with a friend over during the day. and have them do something outside with you watching them and then insde near that room where he feels it in. By being in there and seeing nothing is going to get him he may not be so afraid of the closet. or place.

I'm always near by if you need the suipport.
My kids are grow and in their teens now so I've gone through a lot of things with them.

Answer 5

He is a child and much too young to be concocting wild stories just for the fun of it. He is either extremely creative or is attuned to something in the house. Do you know the history of the house? Even if it is new, do you know of anything unusual that may have happened during construction.

A story that I know to be true. An eight year old girl insisted that a "friend" often visited her in her bedroom at night and wanted to play games. The parents finally thought there might be something to these stories. This house they lived in was over 40 years old. They discovered that, at one time, a young girl of six died in that house. The " friend" coninued to visit until the child was around 11.

Answer 6

Your kid is able to see a ghost. I find it amazing how kids can sometimes see things we dont. I once watched a show on kids who could see ghosts and one had an 'imaginary' friend. Or that was what the parents thought but it turned out it was really a ghost of someone who used to live in the house. It sounds like your house is haunted. Before you moved in were their any deaths?

Answer 7

Cool! Try to get him to talk more about what he sees. Ask him questions, trying to get him to describe in detail, what colors, genders, height, weight, age, etc, of any people he might be seeing. When you have as many facts as you can get from him, investigate who lived in your house previously and if anyone died there. Also see if you have any deceased relatives who might be presenting themselves to him.

Don't discourage him, whatever you do. He might and probably will lose this second sight eventually (unless he's one of the rare ones who don't) but you want him to keep it as long as possible, because he's providing a way for us to examine further the possibility of an afterlife.

Ask him if you can ask questions of the people he sees. Ask for names, birth and death dates, anything that will clue you in.
Ask if they are trying to convey something important to you in particular, details of a future event or something you need to be aware of.

Be very supportive and protective of your son, because he may take some teasing from other people because of what he sees. Others will discourage him, so you must make sure he understands there's nothing wrong with what he sees nor nothing wrong in discussing it. You sound like you are doing a good job of that so far.

Come back and tell us if you get any interesting information!

Answer 8

I don't think it is weird at all, when my nephew was about a year old i was rocking him to sleep as he dosed off he all of a sudden jumped up and pointed behind us at a blank wall and started whimpering. This was at my mothers house, he is almost 3 and to this day if we put him to sleep in that room he wakes up screaming and pointing to the ceiling.
I have always thought her house was haunted, we used to find him in another room baby talking to something? Someone? that wasn't there. They say children can see and sense things we cant.
Pray for him if that is what you believe in.
I wouldn't worry about it unless he starts to get too scared, then i have no idea what to do except lock the closet door.

Answer 9

I wouldnt be too frightend if i were you. However, its an old wise tale that toddlers can see ghost, I dont know how true it is but its possible that that is what he is seeing. But if whatever it is, hasnt bothered you or your child in a negative way i wouldnt worry, But if your child is showing signs of being very afraid or scared then i would get some counseling for him. Also it could be an imaginary freind which is a phase alot of kids go through but if your child doesnt feel threatened then i think he is ok.

Answer 10

Sounds like your son might be seeing spirits. Young children and animals have the ability to do this. My son did the same thing to me when he was younger. We would be outside and he would say Mom can I play with that boy over there. Of course there was nobody there that I could see but he was very convincing. We lived on a property that dated to the mid 1800's. It really creeped me out (I am a big chicken) now that he's older he doesn't do it anymore.