re: OT parents: my 3yo says she sees ghosts...experiences?

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Welp, I'm hooked.

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Me too. It sort of reads like the first page of a reddit nosleep or creepypasta.

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No she hasn't. It is seldom that I ever voice my experiences IRL and that's usually very late at night around a campfire or something, not with kids around

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Maybe not, but it definitely seems like the most logical explanation.

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Perhaps she read about Harold Ramis and this is her tribute.

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One day she asked her daughter who she was playing with, and her daughter said, "Grandpa!". So she asked her daughter to describe him, and she did describe him down to the detail.

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My parents say I did the same thing when I was young. I don't remember any of it. My grandfather died 3 months before I was born, and all I saw of him were pictures. But my parents said I described him in ways you can't get from pictures.

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Keep in mind that land may have been there for hundreds of years, maybe more. 

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Ya think?

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quote: Welp, I'm hooked.

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I'm a pastor that walked through some of that stuff with Big Ed. I'll let him tell the rest of the story but, in my experiences over the years, these things are at times very real. Sometimes they're obviously just the result of over-active imaginations fueled by fear and movies. Other, more rare times, they're not. In the 27 years or so I've been in ministry I've probably dealt with what I'd call legitimate spiritual/demonic manifestations to the degree the OP is talking about- maybe 3-5 times. I'm not saying more is not out there, but I'm not one to go looking for it. That's just what I've personally helped people in.

I've been pounding this out while riding passenger. I'm about halfway done on the iPad. Its going to be long and boring, but real.

I find that when the discussion of spirits comes up in a diverse group, there is always at least one person who recounts a firsthand experience. The spirit is usually a close relative and the stories I've heard have always been pleasant and soothing (not evil like in the movies).

My mother died in December. She was bedridden, barely able to lift her head. Then one morning she pops up, eyes wide open and begins talking/ crying to her deceased dad, her deceased brother and her deceased best friend from high school. I, my wife and sister saw it all. I was boxed out, so I pulled out my laptop and took dictation. Her side of conversation lasted about 3-5 minutes.

A dozen hours earlier I told her that my sons and granddaughters were coming in from out of state over the next 3 days to see her. She told her Dad and relatives that "I can't come with you now. You'll have to wait, I'm going to see my boys and the babies." She'd never met the youngest granddaughter, her namesake.

That week everyone visited. After they all left, she died.

Two months earlier she had surgery at Oschner Main Campus, New Orleans; same hospital her Dad lived in the last year of his life. That evening I'm leaving the connected hotel, walking the hall alone. He comes to me ... "I'm ready for your mom (calls her by name). You've have had her long enough. It's my turn" .. says a couple of other things. BTW, I didn't 'see' him or 'hear' him, but the feeling and consciousness of his presence was overwhelming. I did not know him (he died when I was 3), but I knew immediately who it was.

Spirits exist. There is the "other side." However, before you panic about your daughter, you may want to find out who it is. Might just be a grandparent or great grandparent that wants to visit.

Time to move

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Still on a job site. Check back around 5 or 6 I'll have it posted.

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damn Ed, you got us all hooked now