I may get some flak for the title of this post, but I think that it sums up the topic nicely: sometimes kids say really spooky, weird things. It doesn’t mean they are reaching out to the supernatural or having visions or speaking of some other worldly event – at least, probably not. They just have different observations about the world based on their limited experiences in it. And sometimes the resulting comments are spooky.
About a year ago, Jack had his first spooky event. He had crawled onto my lap and looked at my forehead with great concern. ”Oh, no. Mommy. Broken head.” And then he kissed my forehead. I’d try to get an explanation as to what was “broken,” but he’d just offer the same commentary. I checked myself in the mirror – did I have a cut or a bruise? – but saw nothing. It was weird the first time. When he did it again and again over a period of weeks, it got spooky.
For the record, my head is not broken. Not yet.
We recently had another spooky event. It was about 3:00 a.m., and Jack asked if he could crawl in bed with us. I said he could, and he crawled in, situated his pillow, and put his arm around my neck because that’s how he gets comfortable. Then he sat up and looked over my shoulder.
“Who’s that Mommy? Up there?”
Well, shit. That’s scary.
I sat up and turned around. Nobody there. My husband was sound asleep.
“Do you mean Daddy?”
“No, up there!” And he points near the ceiling. ”He’s dancing!”
If I could type out the look on my face, it would be this: O_0
“Who? Where? What are you seeing?”
“Up there. Who is that dancing?”
I looked again. Was something casting a strange shadow? Was a different light in the room reflecting something he didn’t usually see?
There was nothing. No dancing man, not that I could see, but nothing that would explain his questions.
He soon drifted back to sleep. Me, on the other hand? I was wiiiiiide awake after that, wondering about the dancing man.
What spooky/weird things have your children said? Did you ever figure out an explanation?
