Random People Describe Their Creepiest Experiences With Kids (17 items)

• (#1) Godson Puts out Serial Killer Vibes

  "He's not my kid, but my godson is extremely creepy. He likes to stand in his little sister's doorway while she naps and watches her sleep. I ask him why and he says, "It's the closest I can get to seeing her dead."

  He also likes to shove her fist in his mouth as far as it can go because he wants to "know what suffocating is like, just in case."

  I'm pretty sure he'd be a serial killer if it wasn't for Mario Kart."
• (#2) Kid Shows Babysitter How He Would Kill His Mommy

  "I babysat. When the parents went out, the little boy, who was around six, told me, "I'm going to kill mommy," and took me to the top of the stairs where he'd tie a string across the banisters at ankle level."
• (#3) Son Shares How He Would Hide His Victims

  "My son has said that when he kills someone he'll put their body on the train tracks, so no one will know they were murdered. Then, he said if anyone saw him, he'd have to put their body on the train tracks, too. He was six.

  I embrace his dark side. It'll help out a lot in the future zombie invasion."
• (#4) Daughter Has Existential Epiphany in the Middle of Night

  "I come home from work one night to find my darling two-year-old blonde daughter standing at the top of the stairs staring up at the full moon in her jammies, teddy bear in hand. She should have been in bed by this time.

  Not wanting to scare her, I walked up the stairs, knelt down next to her and asked her what she was thinking about. I was imagining she would say something childish like, "Is the moon really made of cheese, daddy?" Something cute like that.

  Instead, she turns to face me with a very serious look in her face and, in a very serious and creepy monotone voice, says to me, "We are all in the same cage!" Two years old!

  I nearly died of fright. I literally recoiled from her and ran back down the stairs backwards. I couldn't believe it.

  She said a few more creepy things like that, but it stopped after a while."
• (#5) Child Hides Animal Corpse from Father

  "My kid hid a dead animal. It's escaping me what kind it was at the moment, either bird or squirrel. He kept it there for long time until it began to stink up everything. When I found it, I thought, "Oh sh*t, am I raising a serial killer?"

  I watched him closely for years. He's fine now, in college, good grades etc.

  If he's a serial killer, I have no idea."
• (#6) Little Girl Imitates "Lady with the Braid"

  "I was visiting family for winter break in Los Angeles. This was about five years ago.

  I was heading to the bathroom on the second floor of my aunt's house when I saw my cousin, April, on the stairs. April was four and very animated. She was busy making funny faces while sitting on the stairs. I asked her what she was doing. She said, "I'm copying the lady with the braid." I looked around; there was no one else, but us.

  I asked, "Where is the lady, April?"

  She pointed to a beam running parallel to the stairwell. I asked April, "What is the lady doing?" She said, "Making funny faces."

  I smiled and started walking up the stairs again when April said something that stopped me in my tracks.

  "Her braids is around her neck."

  I turned back and asked April to repeat herself. April pointed, "The lady is hanging by her braid... She's making funny faces."

  Then April started making a face which I then realize was it someone gasping for air."
• (#7) Niece Becomes Friends with Satan

  "My niece would talk to herself in her bedroom. [Her parents] assumed it was just playful imagination, so they didn't give it much thought.

  One day however, my brother asked her who she kept talking to - she said it was her new best friend Satan that visits her at her window every day. Her window is close to the ground, so they were seriously concerned that there was someone actually going up to her window, so they kept a closer eye on her for the next few days.

  Every single time they would hear her talking, my brother would go outside to her windows, but never found anyone. They began asking her more about her new friend and apart from his name being Satan she mentioned how he follows her everywhere she goes and that he promised her he will bring her a cake one day.

  At a late cookout at my parents a week before, they mentioned that she took her mom outside to the back yard and pointed at the pitch black backyard and told her that her friend Satan was there, and she wanted to meet her also. That made chills run down my spine since I was at that cookout also.

  After that, they made her promise she wouldn't talk to Satan anymore. I haven't checked with my brother how that worked out though."
• (#8) Little Boy Is Obsessed with Murder and Violence

  "The little boy my grandma took in is really creepy, but no one else sees it but me.

  He is obsessed with Five Nights at Freddy's and guns. He has so many toy weapons that it's worrying. He also likes to tell me in detail how he is going to kill me and my grandma. All he does is sit at the computer and play Minecraft. He makes these really complicated machines to kill NPCs, and then he laughs when they die.

  He also likes to attempt to get into the bathroom when anyone is doing anything in there, so he can watch."
• (#9) Son Builds Train Sets with Imaginary Friend

  "My father died when I was about nine years old. Years later when I had a son, I named him after my father.

  When my son was three, he would build elaborate train sets out of the BRIO train set my father gave to me. I would hear him in his room talking like he was having a conversation, so one day I was in his room asking him about another elaborate train he had built and asked him how he figured it out on his own. He answered, "Oh, I am not alone. I am with my friend Mike (my dad's name and his name). He always helps and by the way, he says he loves you."

  I never knew what to say or do when he played with Mike. I guess I just have to believe it was what it was."
• (#10) Daughter Sees Little Girl in Empty Corner

  "A few years ago, I was putting my daughter to bed for the night. She was about three at the time, and she was fighting going to sleep. She asked me why she had to go to bed, and I said, "Because it is late and it's time for little girls to get a good night's rest."

  She then pointed at nothing across the room and said, "What about that little girl?"
• (#11) Baby Brother Screams about the "Moon" in His Room

  "When [my baby brother] was about two, he would wake us all up screaming in the middle of the night, "Moon! Moon! Moon!" My parents and I would run frantically into his room to see him cowering in his bed, bawling and pointing to an empty corner.

  This went on for a while, but as he got older, he would make casual comments about wishing the moon would stay out of his room and other things like that.

  We still to this day have no idea what the "moon" was; I just know whatever he saw that we couldn't terrified him."
• (#12) Kid Recounts His Past Life as Serial Killer

  "I work at a daycare, and this literally just happened today:

  "'Miss Nikkil, I have a story to tell you! I was a baby once, but I wasn't always a baby. When I was big, I was scary, and I did a lot of bad things. I used to chase down girls and BAM! DEAD! and I would run up behind them and go RAWWWWRRR and I guess that's why God made me a baby again. Now I'm four, but I won't hurt girls anymore.""
• (#13) Little Boy Impersonates a Conductor with a Twist

  "My friend and I were babysitting her four-year-old cousin one night, and she really believed in all that reincarnation stuff and decided to test out her theories on her little cousin.

  She began asking him questions that he didn't quite understand, but then stated simply, "What were you before you were [kid's name]?"

  He replied that he was a conductor and waved his hands in the motion that a conductor would.

  The problem with this was that this little boy was born blind.
• (#14) Child Sees Deceased Cousin on Porch

  "I lost my boyfriend to a stray bullet a few months back and when I went to visit his family a few days after it happened, his little cousin came up to me while I was crying.

  He asked me why I was crying and so I told him that I missed my boyfriend. He gets this confused look on his face and then says, "Why? He's sitting on the front porch."
• (#15) Little Brother Talks about a Bunny Visitor

  "When I was about 16, my little brother, who was six at the time, started telling me about a "rabbit" who would come and visit him. I blew it off thinking it was his imagination.

  The next few days, it's all he talked about - how the rabbit would open a hole in the wall. He said he left his body and went through the hole, and the rabbit showed him places and told him things that when they got back he couldn't remember. I just told him he is probably dreaming all this up.

  Well, that night there was scratching on the wall in my room. I looked around and couldn't find anything making the noise and decided that it must be something outside or a mouse got inside the wall. It just got louder and louder until I finally got dressed and went outside. Nothing was there. I went back in my room where the scratching was still going on. I hit the wall a few times hopefully scaring away the rodent. It stopped for a few seconds and then continued. It kept going until around 3 am, and then it stopped completely.

  The next morning, we were eating breakfast, and my little brother didn't say anything about the rabbit. As glad as I was to finally not hear him talk about it, it just wasn't normal. So, I asked him, "Didn't the bunny see you last night?" Now what he said chills me even today.

  He said, "He didn't take me anywhere last night. He told me he was trying to see you, and you wouldn't let him in. He said you tried to hit him."

  After that, I started asking questions about this bunny. All I got was that he would take him places and tell him secrets. The stuff he learned he would forget when they came back. Also, the bunny wasn't just a bunny. He supposedly looked like the guy off of Donny Darko - a more realistic version, but the movie hadn't been released yet.

  The bunny finally quit coming around after another week. When he tried to get my brother to "come live with him," my brother said, "No, he wanted to stay with his mommy and daddy."

  The bunny has never been back since. Sadly, my little brother passed away 10 years later." 
• (#16) Son Shares His Encounters with "the Third Kind"

  "When I was a teen, I had some nightmares (at least I really hope that they were nightmares; the event I'm describing will explain why I am unsure about that). These nightmares were broken up in weird ways, as nightmares often are, but they were of me being abducted by aliens. I always brushed them off as a product of my imagination.

  Fast-forward 11 years: I have two children. I have never and still haven't spoken about those nightmares where the children might overhear, only at home while they are gone, and only with a small, select group of people.

  Last summer, my son was four, and I started having nightmares like that again, but I wasn't telling anyone. That was in June. The nightmares hadn't stopped by mid-July. In fact, they were more frequent and longer, and I was waking up with bruises. I figured it was me thrashing about in my sleep, so I decided it was time to set up a counseling appointment.

  That night, my girlfriend and I are putting the kids in bed, and my son looks at his mom while I am standing in the doorway. I assume he didn't realize that I hadn't entirely left the room and due to the angle, he couldn't see me. Then, this conversation happens:

  Him: "Mommy, tell Daddy he'll be okay."

  Her: "What do you mean? Daddy's fine."

  Him: "But Daddy's worried that when they come in their spaceship and take him, we might not come back."

  At this point, I am starting to have an anxiety attack, but I keep listening.

  Her: "Wait, are you talking about aliens?"

  Him: "Yeah, but they like to be called planet strangers."

  Her: "Oh, is that so?"

  Him: "Uh-huh, but they said not to worry. They promised they would bring Daddy back after they brought him up in their spaceship, and that they wouldn't hurt him."

  Her: "Okay then, you sleep good, little man."

  She and I stepped into the backyard, and she was smiling thinking the whole thing was funny until she noticed that I was visibly shaken. She asked me what was wrong, and I explained that I had been having those nightmares again for over a month.

  That was the most terrifying thing a child has ever said around me ever."
• (#17) Daughter Warns Mother about the Dark Coming Inside

  "My daughter is generally laid back and not really afraid of anything. A few years ago, when she was two, we lived in an apartment with a big patio window.

  One night, she walked up to the glass door leading out to the patio and stared motionless into the night for several minutes. Shortly after, she runs into my arms saying, "Scary. Too scary." She wouldn't let me put her down and demanded that I hold her and rock her for the next half-hour.

  Eventually, she started repeating over and over, "The dark coming inside now. The dark coming inside now."

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