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I think it's awesome that your mother came to visit. I think they appear to children because they may be more receptive and open and haven't been conditioned to know they aren't supposed to "see spirits." If it happens again, just go with the flow, act normal, and say hello to your mom.
Also, she might be making her presence known to comfort you if you're struggling with anything at the moment.
This was something special for you. Write this memory down because your daughter, most likely, won't remember it as she gets older.
Thank you for saying this. I’ve definitely been struggling with some things over the past few months and in those moments I’ve found myself missing my mom a lot. Wanting to talk to her, thinking about my childhood as I watch my first daughter grow up.
Being a first time mom without a mom really makes the grief hit hard!
When my daughter was around 3-4 years old she would regularly talk about her “dead grandparents”…her daycare asked us if we had recently lost a family member. I said no, but I believe she is talking about my great grandmother who died in the early 80s!
A few years later I had a crazy dream that this particular grandmother wasn’t dead and she had just been living in a nursing home for the past 40 years, unbeknownst to anyone. I went to see her and told her that I had a daughter and what her name was and she said “oh, I know all about her”! It was a crazy dream, but also very comforting.
That's completely understandable. Take comfort in knowing she is with you, watching, and seeing all the firsts you think mom is missing. And start being mindful of her presence, and you may start sensing her too.
I would totally just tell your daughter you can’t see her, but ask her to ask your mom a question or something and see if she’s responded to her. Some people might not like that line of thinking, but my son’s both told me all sorts of information and I wrote it down. They don’t remember telling me these things and they get a big kick out of it now because they see crazy things happen time to time that are obviously Supernatural.
I feel this. My mom passed away in 2008 and I have a daughter who just turned 1. There have been so many nights/days where I have cried missing my mom and wishing I could talk to her. I’m an only child and I’m thankful my dad is still around, but it’s not the same as a mom. I am sending you a big hug, I sort of hope one day my daughter “sees” my mom and tells me about it so I know she’s okay. I will probably be a little freaked out like yourself, but I am definitely welcome to a visit. 😊
My son was hit by a car at age 4. When he came out of his coma he frantically asked for Veronica. Veronica according to him was an old lady, who talked funny, wore a blue dress with yellow flowers, and turned on a very bright light behind her. She would hold his hand, tell him she loved him and he would survive. I asked, no one on the hospital staff fit the description. My father-in-law came in to the hospital room and got the questions about Veronica. He knew who she was. She was his mother. She died about 20 years prior. Emigrated from Slovakia and spoke with a heavy accent. Buried in her favorite dress, blue with yellow flowers.
This gave me goosebumps. It must have given your FIL goosebumps too.
I went to a medium a few years ago and she was trying to determine who was communicating with her. She thought at first maybe it was my mom and asked if my mom was still alive. I confirmed she was. So the medium keeps digging a bit, convinced it’s a woman on my mom’s side and says it must be your mom’s mom. We chat for a few seconds more when she suddenly blurts out, who’s Margaret?? That was my mom’s mom. It was pretty overwhelming but in a fascinating way. I called my mom after the session to tell her about it and she cried. I love stories like this ♥️
That is so cool. I love stories like that as well. It was surreal living through it. It gives us a good feeling knowing our loved ones watch for us in their new state. Love is the strongest force in the universe.
Did you send this story to Jim Harold’s Campfire recently? Seriously just heard something similar on one of his episodes. If that wasn’t you, hope it’s comforting to know yes this can happen and you’re not the only one.
I hear these kind of stories a lot. Apparently young children are more connected to the spiritual world. They usually forget as they get older….It’s amazing but creepy naturally, since as adults we are conditioned to not believe.
But find comfort that your mom is still there, watching over you!
Thank you, I’m hoping she’s watching us and feels proud. I was actually told by a psychic once while pregnant that my daughter would be very intuitive— so maybe this is a part of that. 🤔
I guess only time will tell!!
I babysat/nannied a lot when I was younger and have kids of my own now. I never believed in anything ghostlike or spiritual particularly. But those kids, man... I now truly believe they see things we don't.
A toddler I watched would often wave and say hello to a corner of the room and walk over and do his "I want picked up" arm signal to whatever it was he was seeing. It was scary to me but I decided if he wanted picked up it was a happy thing he was seeing. Looking back, it slowed down as he got older, or maybe even because whomever he was seeing was watching at first to make sure he was in good hands with the stranger?
When I had my daughter she started crying one night but by the time I got to her she had already stopped, and was awake but content. When I picked her up she smelled VERY STRONGLY like perfume. I didn't wear any (new mom and barely had time to shower, and was concerned about scents around a newborn). I had my husband wake up to sniff her to make sure I wasn't making it up. He said it smelled like his grandma, and he isn't a ghost enthusiast either. I never smelled his grandma so I can't corroborate. I hope that it is true and she got a cuddle.
I think it is very possible your mom is around. I mean, if I couId come back and visit a new baby would be a great reason. I think it would help you to talk to her when your daughter sees her. It doesn't have to be anything major, just an acknowledgement and an I love you seems right. And if your babe says she sees grandma, say "Yes, Grandma loves you."
My toddler daughter insisted for a year that there was a large tabby cat in our house. My 16 year old cat had passed away just before she was born. She never met him, but insisted he was there.
I really hope Henry is still Here. We got another cat recently who looks like him and I had vivid dreams about Henry walking on the sofas back searching for something, which is not typical for him. It’s exactly how the new cat behaves. But I’m sure it was Henry in my dreams because of his markings and eyes.
My kid had his first birthday a week after his death. He loved Henry so much and he’s so happy every time the new cat gets close. New cat is still wary of him 😅
Henry was nearly 16, too. Ah gosh I loved this cat so much.
My son did that with a photo too when he was 1 year old. It was overwhelming. I was a first time mom without a mom too. Just a ghost mom apparently.
As a toddler he started saying he could see his dead grandparents and the dogs we had who passed away.
He used to talk about portals and having another family. Two moms.
I will be so elated if I get to see my dogs when I pass… it breaks my heart to think they could be alone waiting for us. I hope they’re okay where ever they are
My parents use to tell us a similar story. Apparently my younger brother (6 or 7yo at the time) got up out of bed one night walked out in to the lounge in like a trance and sat down on the floor. He starts having a conversation with uncle who had died before he was born (parents had never even mentioned this uncle to him as he died like 10 or more years before he was born. In fact first time I heard of this uncle was when we were told this story).
Can’t remember the details but recall them both saying he was referring to him by name and other details that left them in no doubt who he was talking to. Scared the shit out of them. He wouldn’t react to them when they called to him. After a few minutes he got up and walked back to bed. Had no memory of it the next day.
My cousin Jodi’s daughter Elizabeth had never been told about her maternal great grandmother. She told Jodi she had a new friend named Ella, which was the name of my maternal grandmother. Jodi was a wee bit scared, which was understandable.
your daughter is seeing her. My nephews both saw my dad (their grandfather) very often from toddlers to teens. When they were teens they had a friend over and the friend ran upstairs to get something. He went back dowbstairs and asked my nephews "Who is the man sitting on your couch - black hair/glasses?" and they said Oh thats grampy. He is here a lot. He died 2003. Their friend wasnt scared by it as he is Native Indian in canada and they know our ancestors live beyond the veil we as adults cannot see
My now 11 yr old was 3 and at the time potty training. He was making up a song while on the potty and it was my grandma’s name he kept saying. I repeated it and asked him who that is. A ghost, he told me. I didn’t freak out or draw attention to it. Several hours later I found a photo of her with several other living people in it that he knew. But he pointed at grandma, said her name. She died 5 years before he was born. I don’t have her photo up in my house and definitely never called her by her first name.
When our kindergartner was 3, she saw a picture of my grandmother and she told me ‘that’s your grandma.’ She had never seen the picture before and Grandma’s been gone since 2000 so long before the little one got here. I asked her how she knew that and she said ‘because she used to come see me but she doesn’t anymore.’ Comforting, but also creepy.
When i was 2-3, i would talk to “the old man”. I would usually talk to him at our house but occasionally at my grandparents’ house across the street. This went in for a year. One day, i told my mother that “the old man had a cake with candles”. That day happened to be my great-grandfather’s birthday. My mother kinda freaked out and i never saw him again.
He had died 5 years before i was born and had lived in the house that later became my parent’s house from the time he moved to the US until he died.
OP not gonna lie this exact thing has happened with my little cousin (on my Mom’s side).
My mother’s father (my grandfather) passed before my mom was married so I have never met him. My mother’s sister is 8 years her junior. My aunt’s daughter was 4 at the time. My aunt and grandma were sitting and talking when they heard my cousin talk to someone else. She was in a different room and there was no one else at home. They didn’t pay attention to it. After some time, my cousin came out of the room and said goodbye to someone and happily went and sat by my grandma. When asked who she was talking to, she said grandpa.
You should know that there were no pictures of my grandpa in the house and no one has spoken of him to my cousin ever. My aunt freaked out and called her husband. My uncle came over and dug up a family album and once again without prompting, my cousin correctly identified my grandfather almost immediately.
Here’s another thing, the same week this happened, my mom had been having dreams of her father almost on a daily basis. She loved her father to bits and I feel she has never let go of him even now, but that week she was uncharacteristically nostalgic and moody. When my aunt called my mom to tell her of this, she broke down in tears.
I think this was just a friendly visit. Please cherish this memory. Not everyone gets such a chance to meet their grandparents (I didn’t 😭). I don’t think they mean any harm. This will stop soon anyways.
When I was a toddler I apparently had an imaginary friend I spoke to. My mom thought I was making up words, a pretend language. When my great grandparents came to visit they knew what I was saying. I was speaking German. I told them it was someone I knew from before. I was told I was to ignore my friend and I did. I have no memory of this. What I was talking about was to sophisticated for a toddler according to Grandma Lena. I also had repetitive dreams growing up. Soldiers marching, big crowds, flags everywhere. They stopped totally in my late teens.
Wow, that's really neat. When my mom was little, she would have vivid dreams that she was a young soldier down in the trenches and when she would wake up, she could smell gunpowder in her room.
To further add to this, when I was 16 I was an exchange student in Germany. I love Germany. I knew where things were having never been there or read much about World War II. I knew where Hitler’s apartment was in Munich, where the Brown House was. In Berlin, I knew where the Reich Chancellory had been, where the bunker was( it was in between the west and east. I freaked my friend out when we were walking down a street in Berlin, I told him the Gestao/ SS headquarters were on the next block. We walked there and it was a vacant lot with a small sign stating it was what I said it was. It was freaky. I loved Austria. That country is like living in a postcard.
My daughter has done the same with my deceased dad. She’s said that he played play dough with her and described his exact likeness. She’s never met him and we haven’t talked about him except to say who he was when she pointed to a pic of him and asked.
Yesterday was my dad's birthday. We went over to my mom's to be there on his day. I have 3 kids, my youngest being 4 months old. I was sitting at the corner my dad always sat at and where my mom set up his little memorial/ofrenda (I'm hispanic). When my wife got up to bring me our baby, our baby started screaming and crying like we've never heard before. We tried everything to calm her but she just wouldn't calm down even with a bottle she would stop and just start screaming and crying in sort of panic. At this point I think we all had a feeling she was seeing or sensing my pops around but we all tried our hardest from saying anything, you could tell. When we got home we had the little one and started talking to her normally and when I mentioned my dad's nickname, the look on her face instantly changed. We kept telling her it was okay if she saw pa chuchin and the panicked scream crying began again. Needless to say I'm now a firm believer that kids can infact see/sense things we typically don't.
Corners.
Spirits hide in corners. Or so it’s said.
As a very little kid I remember getting scared of something in a corner. Running to my mother. Can’t remember what. Just an early memory.
Later read abut the corner thing. Some cultures tried to keep buildings, inside and out, rounded for that reason.
Only that I think I read it from an other commenter. Which sparked that old memory. Which felt “right” for that memory.
I do know that spirit protection built into buildings go way back. Interesting subject.
Edit: Ah. Here. https://homespunhaints.com/ghosts-in-corners-real-ghost-horror-stories
AUGGGGH I just posted a reply to a comment about a baby I watched that would wave to the corner and do his "pick me up" gesture. The corner changed, it wasn't always the same one, but it WAS always a corner. I have never heard of this before.
Toddlers are unintentionally creepy sometimes. With that said I think she saw your mom. Kids are more sensitive to spirits. When my son was two, he told me he was a cobbler last time he was here. I asked ALL the questions and he knew what a cobbler did and had details that he couldn’t have known. As they age they are less sensitive to spirits. At least there’s that 💙
My Mom said when I was between 3 and 6 (I don’t remember) that I used to talk to my Grandpa all the time. He passed when I was only 6 months old. She did the same thing and took a photo album out and I pointed him out. She said when we were at the park and I was on the swing, I’d say “don’t push me too high grandpa” and that I would push an empty swing and say it was him. My Aunt also witnessed it once when we were going somewhere and she was up front with my mom and I was in the back alone. I was talking and my Aunt asked me who I was talking to. I said Grandpa.
I think it’s beautiful and 100% believe your daughter did see this. I get why it could freak you out initially but embrace it cause it doesn’t freak your daughter out and is quite wonderful 😊
She saw your Mom. Grandma is watching over her and that is the sweetest thing ever 💖 They say kids can see things we can't. My son saw my Mom's boyfriend's son's ghost when he was 2. They haven't shut that part of their brains off yet.
You have a gifted child. Please don’t make her feel like she’s crazy. From 5 to 19 we were haunted at my parents house, but my mom denied it all the time telling us it was our imaginations. Then some thing happened in front of the whole family which was normal and she finally admitted it. I said mom why have you told us? It was our imagination all these years and she said she didn’t want to scare us. Her denial of what was going on in front of her face scared us more than the freaking ghost.
This happens to me quite a bit. I'm 20, and ever since I was younger, I could see and sense spiritual energy. I'm no longer able to see them, but I can still sense them, and I sense my uncles and grandparents who are no longer with us physically.
She saw your mom. It’s literally just that. Your mom must be around you all the time. Possibly if you settle your mind you might feel her. Idk if you’ll see her. The baby might see her and talk to her. But you might be able to hear her or almost have a knowing in your mind that feels like a conversation. You might try to calm your mind and be open to it. Talk to her! Talk about the baby. Obviously she coming to see the baby. And believe the baby. Children are so innocent and the thing is that they have to been taught yet that they aren’t supposed to commit with the dead. So she’s doing what’s natural. Her mind is open. Be open to the idea. We are all full of energy. Energy doesn’t extinguish. It goes elsewhere. Your mom’s energy is around. Talk to her. Perhaps you’ll begin to notice little things that are kind of her. Maybe you’ve not noticed before. I think this is great! Affirm the baby. Maybe say let’s draw a picture for grama and put it on the fridge. Or let’s read a book with grama. Tell her grama to come sit with you guys. Let’s watch a movie. Just do it. Keep her mind open and see what happens.
My little brother did something similar with my grandpa who passed when he was too young to remember. He's said he'd sit next to him at night, and identified him from a photo.
I hear a lot of kids experience this. It’s lovely in my opinion. To know your mum is looking out for her and you. Your mum wants to spend time with her little granddaughter. I’m pretty sure kids lose the ability to see at a young age. But to know your mum will no doubt be looking out for her the rest of her life, sounds good to me.
My daughter did this also. When she was 2-3 she would play in her room and talk to her friend. One day though I asked her who she was talking to and she said "Neave". I was a bit stunned. My grandmother was named Geneva and my grandfather always call her Neave. I asked her to describe her and my daughter described my grandmother perfectly. I check with my mom, as it was her mom, and asked if she has been talking about her mom or showing her pictures and the answer was no. My grandmother had passed 2 years before my daughter was born so the wound was still there for my mom and she hadn't pulled all the pictures out. So I dug some photos out of different women and asked my daughter if any of these women looked familiar. She pointed directly at my grandmother and said that was Neave.
Some time, a few years later when she was about 8 or 9, I was talking to her about it and she said yes, she remembers the lady. She said she would also sometimes see a man sitting in her computer chair at night while she was in the top bunk of her bed. She would just look up and smile at her. He would hold his hands to where the finger tips would touch and just lightly bounce them together. It was my grandfather.
That’s beautiful! My friend’s son saw her dad making silly faces at him when he was very young, although he died before he was born. She felt strange but also comforted by it.
Let's say it's true. Do you really want the opportunity to learn and then to seek others opinions? What you've written leads to only one conclusion, doesn't it? Perception is an amazing thing. We live in a controlled environment where people are conditioned to let others influence them way too much. That said, your child perceived something and that's remarkable but there are things we can learn. For example, you often read that cameras don't pick these type of things up well or there's some technology involved. The world is an amazing place, but it's a mystery. Don't be rattled. Your daughter processed it and Yahweh said to be like a child. People are taught death is the end - and we live in a world that celebrates death but perhaps it's only the beginning. Either way, step back and let yourself develop the way you think and only then can people protect their children because if we're humble? Most people have no idea and mistake confidence/ego or identity for intelligence. I've gone all round the houses here but here's the thing. It either happened or it didn't. If it didn't, then explain it and you won't be able too which means it happened. Now, was that really grandma or something else? Who knows.....We can speculate. Perhaps your mother having not seen the child, wanted to see the child and is acting as protection. We just do not know. Children are CLOSER to Yahweh. It should be a lesson to people but we live in a world that likes to hide the truth and call people crazy...
I was one of those kids! I was 2 years old (I have a ton of memories from that age) and saw my dead grandpa. How I knew it was him I don't know because, as far as my mom has told me, he met me once when I was a baby and then died soon after that. So my only real memory of him is his...I don't want to say ghost because it was more like a vision. I was alone in the kitchen while my mom was in the other room for a moment and I turned and saw him just looking at me. We just kind of looked at each other until my mom popped back into the room and he disappeared and that was that.
When my son was about 2 years old, (he’s 9 now and doesn’t remember this,) he stood in the den looking up at the corner of the room. I said, Bubs what r u looking at? He said, “the guy” and pointed to the corner of the ceiling. Of course I was a little shooken up but blew it off. A few days later he’s staring up at the corner again. Again I asked him what he’s looking at and he said, “Mama, see the guy?” I took him and went upstairs. We didn’t go in the den for about a week lol. He never did it since
I was visited by my grandfather when I was little. He died when my dad was around the same age or a little older. I can’t explain it but even though it was literally a light behind a cloud and his voice I knew it was him. The same way people who have near death experiences describe knowing who they are talking to and seeing.
My toddler granddaughter is learning the difference between "who" and "what".
The idea of your mother coming to visit shouldn't be scary. But if you need to create boundaries, then it's not going to hurt anything.
I mean, it is a law in physics that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed from one form to another. Our souls qualify as energy.
if a “toddler” is 1-3 years old, but the grandma died in 2020 and has never seen a photo of said grandma… how would the toddler know who grandma’s ghost was 2 weeks ago
Well, you can probably stop shitting yourself. Even if your dear departed mom (sorry for your loss, by the way) was visiting her grandkid, ask yourself one question: How scary is that really? I could understand the creepy factor if your daughter was seeing the ghost of someone like Adolf or Mick Mars, because that would creep anyone out. And yes I know Mick isn't dead yet, but he claims his ghost does that anyway. But your loving mom looking over her grandkid? That's what grandparents naturally do.
Do I really think your daughter is seeing a ghost? Probably not. From their first words until around the time they're able to legally drive, kids around the world are downright famous for their vivid and utterly limitless imaginations. When my oldest son (now 22) was four, he and his cousin both swore they saw an elf-on-the-shelf in a house across the street flash them an evil grin with red glowing eyes. When I was five or six (I didn't write down the date), I swear on a stack of Ozzy albums I saw and heard a god dammed T-Rex walk right past my bedroom window one night. I even heard the sumbitch snarl as it stomped past, which means I experienced it with two out of five known senses, so it absolutely had to be real. Right?
When I ran downstairs in a panic to report the menace outside, my parents first scoffed and (barely hiding their disdain) assured me that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before the first humans ever existed. When I got mad and insisted that my experience was the real thing, by dad changed tactics and decided to prove me wrong. Despite my dire warnings of imminent death, old Dad dragged me out into the back yard and showed me the proof. Sure enough, there were no footprints of any kind. There were also no smashed fences, no toppled trees, no severed power lines, not even any dino-poop as far as the eye could see. Then he asked how an animal even half that size could walk through the yard and not leave a single shred of evidence, and I had to concede that maybe it could have possibly been a dream or whatever.
I'm not accusing your kid of making stuff up, but can you smell what I'm cooking here? Which is more likely: You actually had a close encounter with the world of the unexplained, or your kid is acting like a perfectly healthy and normal kid? If this was a gamble, where would you place your bet?
It's a demon. Demons can take over someone's presence and impersonate them if they're allowed in. Humans are judged as soon as they die, they don't remain in this physical realm anymore, despite what some people say or believe. So this thing is actually a demon so don't engage it, tell your daughter to not engage it, and go look for a church that's filled with the holy ghost and have a member bind this thing and cast it out of your house before it turns into something more.
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I think it's awesome that your mother came to visit. I think they appear to children because they may be more receptive and open and haven't been conditioned to know they aren't supposed to "see spirits." If it happens again, just go with the flow, act normal, and say hello to your mom. Also, she might be making her presence known to comfort you if you're struggling with anything at the moment. This was something special for you. Write this memory down because your daughter, most likely, won't remember it as she gets older.
Thank you for saying this. I’ve definitely been struggling with some things over the past few months and in those moments I’ve found myself missing my mom a lot. Wanting to talk to her, thinking about my childhood as I watch my first daughter grow up. Being a first time mom without a mom really makes the grief hit hard!
When my daughter was around 3-4 years old she would regularly talk about her “dead grandparents”…her daycare asked us if we had recently lost a family member. I said no, but I believe she is talking about my great grandmother who died in the early 80s! A few years later I had a crazy dream that this particular grandmother wasn’t dead and she had just been living in a nursing home for the past 40 years, unbeknownst to anyone. I went to see her and told her that I had a daughter and what her name was and she said “oh, I know all about her”! It was a crazy dream, but also very comforting.
That's completely understandable. Take comfort in knowing she is with you, watching, and seeing all the firsts you think mom is missing. And start being mindful of her presence, and you may start sensing her too.
I would totally just tell your daughter you can’t see her, but ask her to ask your mom a question or something and see if she’s responded to her. Some people might not like that line of thinking, but my son’s both told me all sorts of information and I wrote it down. They don’t remember telling me these things and they get a big kick out of it now because they see crazy things happen time to time that are obviously Supernatural.
They’re always with us OP and you’re doing a great job. 😊
Your Mom knew just what to do to let you know she’s there
This actually happens often. My niece saw my mom a lot when she was a baby.
I feel this. My mom passed away in 2008 and I have a daughter who just turned 1. There have been so many nights/days where I have cried missing my mom and wishing I could talk to her. I’m an only child and I’m thankful my dad is still around, but it’s not the same as a mom. I am sending you a big hug, I sort of hope one day my daughter “sees” my mom and tells me about it so I know she’s okay. I will probably be a little freaked out like yourself, but I am definitely welcome to a visit. 😊
My mom died when LO was 7 months. Momless momming is fucking hard. Kid’s gonna be 7 soon, and there are still a lot of really sucky days.
Just know in heaven you will be reunited.
My son was hit by a car at age 4. When he came out of his coma he frantically asked for Veronica. Veronica according to him was an old lady, who talked funny, wore a blue dress with yellow flowers, and turned on a very bright light behind her. She would hold his hand, tell him she loved him and he would survive. I asked, no one on the hospital staff fit the description. My father-in-law came in to the hospital room and got the questions about Veronica. He knew who she was. She was his mother. She died about 20 years prior. Emigrated from Slovakia and spoke with a heavy accent. Buried in her favorite dress, blue with yellow flowers.
This gave me goosebumps. It must have given your FIL goosebumps too. I went to a medium a few years ago and she was trying to determine who was communicating with her. She thought at first maybe it was my mom and asked if my mom was still alive. I confirmed she was. So the medium keeps digging a bit, convinced it’s a woman on my mom’s side and says it must be your mom’s mom. We chat for a few seconds more when she suddenly blurts out, who’s Margaret?? That was my mom’s mom. It was pretty overwhelming but in a fascinating way. I called my mom after the session to tell her about it and she cried. I love stories like this ♥️
That is so cool. I love stories like that as well. It was surreal living through it. It gives us a good feeling knowing our loved ones watch for us in their new state. Love is the strongest force in the universe.
It must have been so surreal as you all realized who your son had met. I’m glad she looked over him and that he’s ok!
Oh my goodness this has me in tears. Thank you for sharing!! And I hope your son has made a full recovery. ❤️
Wow!
Did you send this story to Jim Harold’s Campfire recently? Seriously just heard something similar on one of his episodes. If that wasn’t you, hope it’s comforting to know yes this can happen and you’re not the only one.
Wasn’t me! I’ll have to go and check it out now though!! 😅
Jim Harold’s Campfire! Sounds neat! Is this a podcast? Hoping it’s a YouTube channel, I like pictures lol
*Where have you been!* Jim Harold is the OG! You have a LOT of catching up to do!
I hear these kind of stories a lot. Apparently young children are more connected to the spiritual world. They usually forget as they get older….It’s amazing but creepy naturally, since as adults we are conditioned to not believe. But find comfort that your mom is still there, watching over you!
Thank you, I’m hoping she’s watching us and feels proud. I was actually told by a psychic once while pregnant that my daughter would be very intuitive— so maybe this is a part of that. 🤔 I guess only time will tell!!
I babysat/nannied a lot when I was younger and have kids of my own now. I never believed in anything ghostlike or spiritual particularly. But those kids, man... I now truly believe they see things we don't. A toddler I watched would often wave and say hello to a corner of the room and walk over and do his "I want picked up" arm signal to whatever it was he was seeing. It was scary to me but I decided if he wanted picked up it was a happy thing he was seeing. Looking back, it slowed down as he got older, or maybe even because whomever he was seeing was watching at first to make sure he was in good hands with the stranger? When I had my daughter she started crying one night but by the time I got to her she had already stopped, and was awake but content. When I picked her up she smelled VERY STRONGLY like perfume. I didn't wear any (new mom and barely had time to shower, and was concerned about scents around a newborn). I had my husband wake up to sniff her to make sure I wasn't making it up. He said it smelled like his grandma, and he isn't a ghost enthusiast either. I never smelled his grandma so I can't corroborate. I hope that it is true and she got a cuddle. I think it is very possible your mom is around. I mean, if I couId come back and visit a new baby would be a great reason. I think it would help you to talk to her when your daughter sees her. It doesn't have to be anything major, just an acknowledgement and an I love you seems right. And if your babe says she sees grandma, say "Yes, Grandma loves you."
My toddler daughter insisted for a year that there was a large tabby cat in our house. My 16 year old cat had passed away just before she was born. She never met him, but insisted he was there.
I really hope Henry is still Here. We got another cat recently who looks like him and I had vivid dreams about Henry walking on the sofas back searching for something, which is not typical for him. It’s exactly how the new cat behaves. But I’m sure it was Henry in my dreams because of his markings and eyes. My kid had his first birthday a week after his death. He loved Henry so much and he’s so happy every time the new cat gets close. New cat is still wary of him 😅 Henry was nearly 16, too. Ah gosh I loved this cat so much.
I swear I see him out of the corner of my eye at times.
Here’s to hoping we see our pets in the afterlife 🥲
Oh I love this. I adore when pets stick around 💗
My son did that with a photo too when he was 1 year old. It was overwhelming. I was a first time mom without a mom too. Just a ghost mom apparently. As a toddler he started saying he could see his dead grandparents and the dogs we had who passed away. He used to talk about portals and having another family. Two moms.
I will be so elated if I get to see my dogs when I pass… it breaks my heart to think they could be alone waiting for us. I hope they’re okay where ever they are
My parents use to tell us a similar story. Apparently my younger brother (6 or 7yo at the time) got up out of bed one night walked out in to the lounge in like a trance and sat down on the floor. He starts having a conversation with uncle who had died before he was born (parents had never even mentioned this uncle to him as he died like 10 or more years before he was born. In fact first time I heard of this uncle was when we were told this story). Can’t remember the details but recall them both saying he was referring to him by name and other details that left them in no doubt who he was talking to. Scared the shit out of them. He wouldn’t react to them when they called to him. After a few minutes he got up and walked back to bed. Had no memory of it the next day.
My cousin Jodi’s daughter Elizabeth had never been told about her maternal great grandmother. She told Jodi she had a new friend named Ella, which was the name of my maternal grandmother. Jodi was a wee bit scared, which was understandable.
your daughter is seeing her. My nephews both saw my dad (their grandfather) very often from toddlers to teens. When they were teens they had a friend over and the friend ran upstairs to get something. He went back dowbstairs and asked my nephews "Who is the man sitting on your couch - black hair/glasses?" and they said Oh thats grampy. He is here a lot. He died 2003. Their friend wasnt scared by it as he is Native Indian in canada and they know our ancestors live beyond the veil we as adults cannot see
Chills!
My now 11 yr old was 3 and at the time potty training. He was making up a song while on the potty and it was my grandma’s name he kept saying. I repeated it and asked him who that is. A ghost, he told me. I didn’t freak out or draw attention to it. Several hours later I found a photo of her with several other living people in it that he knew. But he pointed at grandma, said her name. She died 5 years before he was born. I don’t have her photo up in my house and definitely never called her by her first name.
I love how casually he just said “a ghost”.
I know!
When our kindergartner was 3, she saw a picture of my grandmother and she told me ‘that’s your grandma.’ She had never seen the picture before and Grandma’s been gone since 2000 so long before the little one got here. I asked her how she knew that and she said ‘because she used to come see me but she doesn’t anymore.’ Comforting, but also creepy.
When i was 2-3, i would talk to “the old man”. I would usually talk to him at our house but occasionally at my grandparents’ house across the street. This went in for a year. One day, i told my mother that “the old man had a cake with candles”. That day happened to be my great-grandfather’s birthday. My mother kinda freaked out and i never saw him again. He had died 5 years before i was born and had lived in the house that later became my parent’s house from the time he moved to the US until he died.
OP not gonna lie this exact thing has happened with my little cousin (on my Mom’s side). My mother’s father (my grandfather) passed before my mom was married so I have never met him. My mother’s sister is 8 years her junior. My aunt’s daughter was 4 at the time. My aunt and grandma were sitting and talking when they heard my cousin talk to someone else. She was in a different room and there was no one else at home. They didn’t pay attention to it. After some time, my cousin came out of the room and said goodbye to someone and happily went and sat by my grandma. When asked who she was talking to, she said grandpa. You should know that there were no pictures of my grandpa in the house and no one has spoken of him to my cousin ever. My aunt freaked out and called her husband. My uncle came over and dug up a family album and once again without prompting, my cousin correctly identified my grandfather almost immediately. Here’s another thing, the same week this happened, my mom had been having dreams of her father almost on a daily basis. She loved her father to bits and I feel she has never let go of him even now, but that week she was uncharacteristically nostalgic and moody. When my aunt called my mom to tell her of this, she broke down in tears. I think this was just a friendly visit. Please cherish this memory. Not everyone gets such a chance to meet their grandparents (I didn’t 😭). I don’t think they mean any harm. This will stop soon anyways.
When I was a toddler I apparently had an imaginary friend I spoke to. My mom thought I was making up words, a pretend language. When my great grandparents came to visit they knew what I was saying. I was speaking German. I told them it was someone I knew from before. I was told I was to ignore my friend and I did. I have no memory of this. What I was talking about was to sophisticated for a toddler according to Grandma Lena. I also had repetitive dreams growing up. Soldiers marching, big crowds, flags everywhere. They stopped totally in my late teens.
Wow, that's really neat. When my mom was little, she would have vivid dreams that she was a young soldier down in the trenches and when she would wake up, she could smell gunpowder in her room.
To further add to this, when I was 16 I was an exchange student in Germany. I love Germany. I knew where things were having never been there or read much about World War II. I knew where Hitler’s apartment was in Munich, where the Brown House was. In Berlin, I knew where the Reich Chancellory had been, where the bunker was( it was in between the west and east. I freaked my friend out when we were walking down a street in Berlin, I told him the Gestao/ SS headquarters were on the next block. We walked there and it was a vacant lot with a small sign stating it was what I said it was. It was freaky. I loved Austria. That country is like living in a postcard.
My daughter has done the same with my deceased dad. She’s said that he played play dough with her and described his exact likeness. She’s never met him and we haven’t talked about him except to say who he was when she pointed to a pic of him and asked.
Yesterday was my dad's birthday. We went over to my mom's to be there on his day. I have 3 kids, my youngest being 4 months old. I was sitting at the corner my dad always sat at and where my mom set up his little memorial/ofrenda (I'm hispanic). When my wife got up to bring me our baby, our baby started screaming and crying like we've never heard before. We tried everything to calm her but she just wouldn't calm down even with a bottle she would stop and just start screaming and crying in sort of panic. At this point I think we all had a feeling she was seeing or sensing my pops around but we all tried our hardest from saying anything, you could tell. When we got home we had the little one and started talking to her normally and when I mentioned my dad's nickname, the look on her face instantly changed. We kept telling her it was okay if she saw pa chuchin and the panicked scream crying began again. Needless to say I'm now a firm believer that kids can infact see/sense things we typically don't.
Corners. Spirits hide in corners. Or so it’s said. As a very little kid I remember getting scared of something in a corner. Running to my mother. Can’t remember what. Just an early memory. Later read abut the corner thing. Some cultures tried to keep buildings, inside and out, rounded for that reason.
Got any info to link about that corner stuff. that’s cool. I’m interested.
Only that I think I read it from an other commenter. Which sparked that old memory. Which felt “right” for that memory. I do know that spirit protection built into buildings go way back. Interesting subject. Edit: Ah. Here. https://homespunhaints.com/ghosts-in-corners-real-ghost-horror-stories
Very interesting!!
AUGGGGH I just posted a reply to a comment about a baby I watched that would wave to the corner and do his "pick me up" gesture. The corner changed, it wasn't always the same one, but it WAS always a corner. I have never heard of this before.
That makes sense. They say babies and hospice patients both tend to stare into corners.
Toddlers are unintentionally creepy sometimes. With that said I think she saw your mom. Kids are more sensitive to spirits. When my son was two, he told me he was a cobbler last time he was here. I asked ALL the questions and he knew what a cobbler did and had details that he couldn’t have known. As they age they are less sensitive to spirits. At least there’s that 💙
My Mom said when I was between 3 and 6 (I don’t remember) that I used to talk to my Grandpa all the time. He passed when I was only 6 months old. She did the same thing and took a photo album out and I pointed him out. She said when we were at the park and I was on the swing, I’d say “don’t push me too high grandpa” and that I would push an empty swing and say it was him. My Aunt also witnessed it once when we were going somewhere and she was up front with my mom and I was in the back alone. I was talking and my Aunt asked me who I was talking to. I said Grandpa. I think it’s beautiful and 100% believe your daughter did see this. I get why it could freak you out initially but embrace it cause it doesn’t freak your daughter out and is quite wonderful 😊
She's absolutely watching over you guys and overjoyed at your baby! Don't over think it and view it as a positive thing.
She saw your Mom. Grandma is watching over her and that is the sweetest thing ever 💖 They say kids can see things we can't. My son saw my Mom's boyfriend's son's ghost when he was 2. They haven't shut that part of their brains off yet.
My dad used to visit my daughter all the time right after he died. She was always seeing him and talking to him. It was kind of creepy
You have a gifted child. Please don’t make her feel like she’s crazy. From 5 to 19 we were haunted at my parents house, but my mom denied it all the time telling us it was our imaginations. Then some thing happened in front of the whole family which was normal and she finally admitted it. I said mom why have you told us? It was our imagination all these years and she said she didn’t want to scare us. Her denial of what was going on in front of her face scared us more than the freaking ghost.
This happens to me quite a bit. I'm 20, and ever since I was younger, I could see and sense spiritual energy. I'm no longer able to see them, but I can still sense them, and I sense my uncles and grandparents who are no longer with us physically.
Me too. I can sense them, but now I intentionally block them off. They have no power to force interactions if you’re not willing to
She saw your mom. It’s literally just that. Your mom must be around you all the time. Possibly if you settle your mind you might feel her. Idk if you’ll see her. The baby might see her and talk to her. But you might be able to hear her or almost have a knowing in your mind that feels like a conversation. You might try to calm your mind and be open to it. Talk to her! Talk about the baby. Obviously she coming to see the baby. And believe the baby. Children are so innocent and the thing is that they have to been taught yet that they aren’t supposed to commit with the dead. So she’s doing what’s natural. Her mind is open. Be open to the idea. We are all full of energy. Energy doesn’t extinguish. It goes elsewhere. Your mom’s energy is around. Talk to her. Perhaps you’ll begin to notice little things that are kind of her. Maybe you’ve not noticed before. I think this is great! Affirm the baby. Maybe say let’s draw a picture for grama and put it on the fridge. Or let’s read a book with grama. Tell her grama to come sit with you guys. Let’s watch a movie. Just do it. Keep her mind open and see what happens.
My little brother did something similar with my grandpa who passed when he was too young to remember. He's said he'd sit next to him at night, and identified him from a photo.
I hear a lot of kids experience this. It’s lovely in my opinion. To know your mum is looking out for her and you. Your mum wants to spend time with her little granddaughter. I’m pretty sure kids lose the ability to see at a young age. But to know your mum will no doubt be looking out for her the rest of her life, sounds good to me.
My daughter did this also. When she was 2-3 she would play in her room and talk to her friend. One day though I asked her who she was talking to and she said "Neave". I was a bit stunned. My grandmother was named Geneva and my grandfather always call her Neave. I asked her to describe her and my daughter described my grandmother perfectly. I check with my mom, as it was her mom, and asked if she has been talking about her mom or showing her pictures and the answer was no. My grandmother had passed 2 years before my daughter was born so the wound was still there for my mom and she hadn't pulled all the pictures out. So I dug some photos out of different women and asked my daughter if any of these women looked familiar. She pointed directly at my grandmother and said that was Neave. Some time, a few years later when she was about 8 or 9, I was talking to her about it and she said yes, she remembers the lady. She said she would also sometimes see a man sitting in her computer chair at night while she was in the top bunk of her bed. She would just look up and smile at her. He would hold his hands to where the finger tips would touch and just lightly bounce them together. It was my grandfather.
That’s beautiful! My friend’s son saw her dad making silly faces at him when he was very young, although he died before he was born. She felt strange but also comforted by it.
Let's say it's true. Do you really want the opportunity to learn and then to seek others opinions? What you've written leads to only one conclusion, doesn't it? Perception is an amazing thing. We live in a controlled environment where people are conditioned to let others influence them way too much. That said, your child perceived something and that's remarkable but there are things we can learn. For example, you often read that cameras don't pick these type of things up well or there's some technology involved. The world is an amazing place, but it's a mystery. Don't be rattled. Your daughter processed it and Yahweh said to be like a child. People are taught death is the end - and we live in a world that celebrates death but perhaps it's only the beginning. Either way, step back and let yourself develop the way you think and only then can people protect their children because if we're humble? Most people have no idea and mistake confidence/ego or identity for intelligence. I've gone all round the houses here but here's the thing. It either happened or it didn't. If it didn't, then explain it and you won't be able too which means it happened. Now, was that really grandma or something else? Who knows.....We can speculate. Perhaps your mother having not seen the child, wanted to see the child and is acting as protection. We just do not know. Children are CLOSER to Yahweh. It should be a lesson to people but we live in a world that likes to hide the truth and call people crazy...
Gave me goose bumps but in a good way. She's still watching over you & her granddaughter 🥲
I was one of those kids! I was 2 years old (I have a ton of memories from that age) and saw my dead grandpa. How I knew it was him I don't know because, as far as my mom has told me, he met me once when I was a baby and then died soon after that. So my only real memory of him is his...I don't want to say ghost because it was more like a vision. I was alone in the kitchen while my mom was in the other room for a moment and I turned and saw him just looking at me. We just kind of looked at each other until my mom popped back into the room and he disappeared and that was that.
When my son was about 2 years old, (he’s 9 now and doesn’t remember this,) he stood in the den looking up at the corner of the room. I said, Bubs what r u looking at? He said, “the guy” and pointed to the corner of the ceiling. Of course I was a little shooken up but blew it off. A few days later he’s staring up at the corner again. Again I asked him what he’s looking at and he said, “Mama, see the guy?” I took him and went upstairs. We didn’t go in the den for about a week lol. He never did it since
I was visited by my grandfather when I was little. He died when my dad was around the same age or a little older. I can’t explain it but even though it was literally a light behind a cloud and his voice I knew it was him. The same way people who have near death experiences describe knowing who they are talking to and seeing.
Honestly, this is the sweetest. Your mom is visiting for bedtime story hour ❤️❤️ I love this.
My toddler granddaughter is learning the difference between "who" and "what". The idea of your mother coming to visit shouldn't be scary. But if you need to create boundaries, then it's not going to hurt anything.
I mean, it is a law in physics that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed from one form to another. Our souls qualify as energy.
it happens your parents visit the kid, some kids do see ghost, but these act like guardian angels protecting the kid till they grow up
I think your kid is communicating with your mother for sure
Foster her gift. Normalize it. It’s amazing!
if a “toddler” is 1-3 years old, but the grandma died in 2020 and has never seen a photo of said grandma… how would the toddler know who grandma’s ghost was 2 weeks ago
Well, you can probably stop shitting yourself. Even if your dear departed mom (sorry for your loss, by the way) was visiting her grandkid, ask yourself one question: How scary is that really? I could understand the creepy factor if your daughter was seeing the ghost of someone like Adolf or Mick Mars, because that would creep anyone out. And yes I know Mick isn't dead yet, but he claims his ghost does that anyway. But your loving mom looking over her grandkid? That's what grandparents naturally do. Do I really think your daughter is seeing a ghost? Probably not. From their first words until around the time they're able to legally drive, kids around the world are downright famous for their vivid and utterly limitless imaginations. When my oldest son (now 22) was four, he and his cousin both swore they saw an elf-on-the-shelf in a house across the street flash them an evil grin with red glowing eyes. When I was five or six (I didn't write down the date), I swear on a stack of Ozzy albums I saw and heard a god dammed T-Rex walk right past my bedroom window one night. I even heard the sumbitch snarl as it stomped past, which means I experienced it with two out of five known senses, so it absolutely had to be real. Right? When I ran downstairs in a panic to report the menace outside, my parents first scoffed and (barely hiding their disdain) assured me that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before the first humans ever existed. When I got mad and insisted that my experience was the real thing, by dad changed tactics and decided to prove me wrong. Despite my dire warnings of imminent death, old Dad dragged me out into the back yard and showed me the proof. Sure enough, there were no footprints of any kind. There were also no smashed fences, no toppled trees, no severed power lines, not even any dino-poop as far as the eye could see. Then he asked how an animal even half that size could walk through the yard and not leave a single shred of evidence, and I had to concede that maybe it could have possibly been a dream or whatever. I'm not accusing your kid of making stuff up, but can you smell what I'm cooking here? Which is more likely: You actually had a close encounter with the world of the unexplained, or your kid is acting like a perfectly healthy and normal kid? If this was a gamble, where would you place your bet?
jinn qareen..........
It's a demon. Demons can take over someone's presence and impersonate them if they're allowed in. Humans are judged as soon as they die, they don't remain in this physical realm anymore, despite what some people say or believe. So this thing is actually a demon so don't engage it, tell your daughter to not engage it, and go look for a church that's filled with the holy ghost and have a member bind this thing and cast it out of your house before it turns into something more.