Do your kids see ghosts?

Question

My son has seen them since he started to talk & nobody ever talked about ghosts around him.

Answer 1

One of my kids used to have an imaginary friend, but it went away when she got older.

Another one of my children insisted that they saw Santa Claus and fairies flying around the garden.  But that does not mean that they really did.

However, I think that there are more logical explanations for it, than it being a ghost.

Despite the claims of some, there is absolutely zero proof that ghosts exists.  If they did, real scientists would be all over it.

Kids have big imaginations, are very impressionable, and can easily have memories built that aren't there.  

Questioners take some little tidbit that is said by the child, and then through continuous questioning, build a memory in the child that they have seen ghosts.

Research has been done, and it has been proven how easy this is to do.

Answer 2

yes..they do.. but not all of them.. i think your son is gifted

Answer 3

No,though they like to pretend.They figured out for themselves what was real and what was not.I think most kids do.

Answer 4

How do you know that nobody has talked about ghosts around him?  He does have friends, and he does go to school, right?

I'm sure your son has heard all about ghosts from other kids. Kids tend to believe in ghosts. At that age the whole world seems magical, and the existence of ghosts doesn't seem strange. And given the healthy imagination that kids have and the power of suggestion, kids will readily believe in that sort of thing.

Answer 5

When my daughter was an infant, she would smile, chuckle and watch something in the room and I could not figure out what she was looking at. But I think that feeling fear of something like that is unnecessary. We have to be careful to not push our fears onto our kids. If one of my kids told me they saw a ghost I would ask them questions, and assuming there was nothing bad going on I would tell them to ask the spirit person nicely to please leave and give them some privacy. After all, in a child's mind a spirit is not necessarily any more peculiar than, say, santa claus. But our reaction is what will determine to the child if there is something to fear.

Answer 6

All children see ghosts until their parents push filters upon them so they learn to filter out the spirit world thinking it is wrong.

Answer 7

I saw ghosts when I was a kid, and my kids have all seen ghosts.

Answer 8

My oldest can. he's my gifted child so far, has the same abilities as I do, and as I develop, so he seems to as well, and neither one of us is trying. But yeah... I have a friend who comes over to check on me on occassion via astral travel and my son has actually seem him. He's also seen my great-grandmother around the house. I don't have the ability to see spirits. He doesn't talk to them though, as they still scare him (we had something bad in the house once).

Answer 9

Yes my kids did as well, I do believe that the spirit world are always in tune with our kids until a early age. Is this because of the early mind building and being naive at this age.  Now when the kids get a little older and start sports and such, there minds are in other places and they will not see ghost and feel them anymore. This is what happened to my kids. However there are many kids that do not get into sports, relationships, etc. I then believe they stay within the realms of the spirit world and will always stay within a frequency away from tuning in the other-side.

I hope this makes sense. I should have had my coffee first. LOL Eric

Answer 10

It is believed that some children are born with the ability to see and hear ghosts.  It seems though as time goes by and the child gets older, they seem to lose the ability to communicate with the other side.  There are many reasons why children begin losing these abilities.  One proposed reason is because it seems that many children who can see and/or hear ghosts, are discouraged from talking of such things by their parents or other family members, and telling the child that it is only their imagination.  Overtime the child begins to ignore their abilities because they are taught that it is in their head, rather than encouraged to develop their abilities further.  In other situations it is also believed that something happens in the child’s mind which basically shuts down the area of the mind that allows a child to see/hear ghosts.  This can happen as they get older, usually between the ages of five and eleven years old.  Another reason some children may have the ability to communicate with ghosts, is due to near death experiences or major injuries that trigger something in the human mind to open up to these abilities.  Some also believe that when children are born, because they have just crossed over from the “other side” they are close to others from that realm and therefore can more easily see them and possibly others from the other side have stepped into this realm of existence to visit that child or protect them.  As the child gets older it is possible that their guardians or other spirits from the other side no longer feel that the child needs them and is ready to be on their own, therefore the child stops seeing them or loses the abilities to communicate with the other side.

Answer 11

What's more likely - that your son has an active imagination or that ghosts really exist?  My money is on your son being creative.

Apply Occam's razor and let him have his invisible friends.

Answer 12

I think I will apply circular logic to Occam's razor.

Answer 13

My kids have seen spirits in the house we lived in a few years ago. Specifically my daughter was in the shower and saw a shadow come into the bathroom, she called out thinking it was her brother. The shadow stayed there for a few moments and left. My wife and I also saw this spirit on the second floor but we hadn't told any of the kids.

Answer 14

o m gosh  are you sure?

How old is your son?

Answer 15

I believe that ghosts exist. There are many people who see them - and studies confirm that what they see is often indeed the person who lived in that place in the past.

I am not sure whether ghosts are beings with a will of their own, maybe, but at least they're images of people who lived in the same place a long time ago.

Young children have a much better ability to pick up resonances from the past, and thus see ghosts. The way they do it, has not yet been explained by scientists although many take it seriously.

If the 'talented' child grows up with people who tell them that ghosts don't exist, the child will probably lose the ability, or the child may think that he/she is crazy.

If the child grows up with people who believe that ghosts do exist, the child can develop the ability. As a result, he may have strange or scary experiences, but a strong child can learn from it and use it.

I think it's a wonderful gift, and also a very useful gift. In South-American cultures, children are taught to develop this. The child will sense if some place is right or wrong, he might sense/see the auras of living people, maybe sense something about the future as well.

Have a look at how he reacts - is he scared of ghosts, is he annoyed by people who think that he is crazy? If not, there is no reason to deny what he sees, and say that they're imaginary friends (which is a possibility, but the child will know very well if that's the case. Your experience in the historical museum doesn't confirm this).

If he really sees ghosts, there is no need to be scared, I would say. A child can easily understand the idea that people who lived here before can reappear to some. Ghosts are harmless! They remain in the place where they have lived, they never follow somebody. So if you want to leave ghosts behind, you just leave the area. A better sense can be a very useful talent, it means you pick up information that others do not pick up. You can help other people with it. It's good to tell him that not everybody sees what he sees.

Answer 16

Check your local listings for a nearby Spiritualist institutes or churches.   They can direct you in teaching him to develope and control his gift.

Answer 17

As a child...I was always afraid in our house when no one was there. It was a big house...2 stories. You can say it's just because I was alone and that it was a big house...but stuff happened that wasn't me. After all these years...just a few months ago..I found out that the son of the people who our daddy bought the house from had committed suicide there. I don't know if that had anything to do with my being so scared and the things that happened. To me, it explained a lot of things.

EDIT..I don't agree with"thijs". Did you see Ghost Whisperer last night? Similar things happened to me in our house...things you KNOW aren't you...harmful things.

Answer 18

I don't have kids yet but I have seen ghost activity before, it was at Poogan's Porch in Charleston, South Carolina.

Answer 19

He learned by picking up on your belief in ghosts. Of course children have imaginations and sometimes that could be augmented by such things as nightmares, sleep paralysis, night terrors and such.

My son is afraid of ghosts, even though I have tried incessantly to convince him they are fiction. However, he has never made the claim of seeing a ghost, he hears them when the room is dark. His mother believed in them before we were married and he picked up this fear.

My daughter will know the truth growing up, that ghosts are fun, but make believe.

Answer 20

I believe anyone who believes they see ghosts should get psychiatric help.