A British journalist has learned about several young children who are likely to communicate with ghosts. Among them is her daughter.
Rosalyn Evans
3-year-old Rosalyn, according to her mother, journalist Rebecca Evans, hangs out with what she calls "dead friends." Rosalyn herself says that she never discussed the topic of death with her daughter.
Rosalyn lives with her mother in an old mansion in the countryside. One day, while sitting at the table and eating ice cream, she began to tell her mother that she had a new best friend. "What's his name?" - asked her mother.
“Her name is Tilly,” the girl replied. “She lives in our house and she is dead. I also have a friend Alex. He is also dead and his mom and grandfather also died. We play together."
The girl talked about it so seriously that her mother felt a chill down her spine. None of the children or adults among their neighbors were named Tilly or Alex. In addition, Rebecca was scared that her daughter so often said “died” and “died”, she never discussed the topic of death with her daughter and did not even know that her daughter understood what it was. Rebecca was in a panic and did not understand what was happening.
“I have been working as a journalist for 17 years and have always prided myself on the fact that I am a very rational, practical and reasonable person. I only believe in facts and evidence. I don’t believe in superstition, much less ghosts,”says Rebecca Evans.
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Rebecca's husband works in London and only comes home to his wife and daughter in North Devon on weekends. The rest of the time, Rebecca and Rosalyn are alone in the house. The Evans Cottage is really old, dating back to the 1500s, and the nearest houses are half a mile away. A dense forest grows around the cottage.
“And this was not the first time Rosalyn scared me. When she was only 18 months old, she suddenly pointed her finger at the cellar door and said “Sheep!”. I told her that there was no one there, but then she already started shouting “Sheep, mom! There are Sheep! Look, mom! “. A few weeks later, I walked with her again near the door to the basement and then she said “Mom, the sheep are gone”.
In past centuries, part of this house was occupied by a sheep farm and Rebecca knew about it, but how could Rosaleen know? And not just to know, but to see these sheep. Then Rebecca came to the conclusion that everything just seemed to her daughter, it was calmer for Rebecca.
But after the incident with the “dead friends”, she again remembered this incident and came to the conclusion that her daughter then apparently saw the ghosts of sheep. Moreover, now Rosalyn is already three years old and she can already explain much more clearly what she sees.
In the days that followed, Rosalyn continued to tell her mother about her friends Tilly and Alex, and Rebecca became more and more worried. Increasingly, she came to the conclusion that she was ready to believe in ghosts, and then Rebecca began checking the archives and looking for any notes about the previous residents of this house. And I found something interesting.
An 1861 entry reported a 10-year-old boy named Alexander Turner. And a record from 1891 reported a certain 20-year-old Matilda (Tilly) Oka. Even after learning that Rosalyn's friends with such names actually lived in this house (and probably died in it), Rebecca was still tormented by the fact that she could not believe in the supernatural and was looking for logical reasons for what happened.
But then Rebecca Evans began her private journalism survey and found other families in the UK where children also talked about "dead friends" like her Rebecca. And their parents also suffered from a misunderstanding of the situation.
Alice Jones
Katie Jones, 33, from Canterbury, Kent, has an 11-year-old daughter, Alice. When Alice was two years old, she started talking about the people in her room and cried out of fear of them.
Alice cried and screamed for them to leave. She saw two men in her room who were looking at her and shouting something to her, which very frightened Alice. Later, Alice began to talk about a girl named Charlotte, who sits on her bed at her feet, crying and calling her mother. I started checking the archives and found an old newspaper article that said that a girl named Charlotte had been killed in this house. It was like an ice shower to me, says Alice's mother.
Alice Jones.
About a year later, Alice began to tell her that her late grandmother, who was also called Alice, was visiting her. She died a year before Alice was born. According to Alice, her grandmother protected her by asking the two men and the girl to leave and not frighten her anymore.
Alice had never seen her grandmother's photographs, but when she described the clothes of her grandmother who came to her, Katie immediately realized that Alice was describing the real clothes her mother used to wear. In addition, Alice's grandmother was not alone.
“According to Alice, my grandmother had a little boy named Max in her arms. Alice couldn't know anything about him. Not long before that, our relatives had a stillborn child, a boy. They wanted to call him Max. We didn’t say anything to Ellis about it, thinking that she was too young to understand.”
Even after a few years, Alice still continued to talk about her grandmother and Max coming to see her. Once she even reminded her mother that today Max is 4 years old and was not mistaken with the date.
When Alice was 4 years old, she approached her mother and said that she had a message for a neighbor whose husband had recently died of cancer. She asked her mother to tell the woman that her husband asked her very much not to cry and that everything is fine with him now.
“When she first started saying things like that, I brushed it off, thinking it was just childish chatter. Now I believe that my daughter really has a special gift,”says Katie Jones.
One day Alice began to see a boy on the stairs and said that he would not let her go up. She stood there for a long time and shouted at him.
Now Alice is already 11 years old and she sees "dead friends" less and less often and less often remembers them, but she still clearly remembers how her grandmother came to her and Max's baby was in her arms.
“I always felt safe when they came to me. And I still remember when Max's birthday "- says Alice, -" Now I rarely see them and I'm only nervous when someone comes to me unfamiliar. To all children who see such things, I will say that this should not be afraid. They are simply looking for communication with you or want to protect you."
Luke Jordan
Newport, 32-year-old hospital secretary Tricia Jordan says her 7-year-old son Luke has seen his late great-grandmother from a young age. At first, Luke was frightened by the arrival of his grandmother, but then he began to say that it comforts him.
“My grandmother died when Luc was 18 months old. At this time, he was just beginning to speak and once said that his grandmother was hiding him in bed. I found it strange and quickly changed the subject. And then he began to try to sing a song and it was a song that my grandmother sang to me. I never sang it to him and nobody sang it. He could never find out about this song."
Luke Jordan with his mom.
When Luke was four years old, he scared his mom again.
“Once we were passing by a house next to our house. He told me that this was Martin's house, but now Martin is not there because he died in a fire. I checked the names of the former residents and a man named Martin actually lived there once. It scared me very much."
Now 7-year-old Luke has not seen anything strange for a long time and does not even remember how his late grandmother came to him. But his mother Trisha now believes in an afterlife and that the dead walk among the living, we just don't see them.
Riley Smith
Holly Smith, a 32-year-old businesswoman from Addington, South London, shares this belief as well. She is certain that her 6-year-old son, Riley, saw ghosts. She says that he has seen too many strange things to be attributed to imagination or invention.
“When he was 2 years old, we were walking and he suddenly started waving his arms and saying 'Mommy, look, the soldier is waving at us!' He was so excited, as if there really was someone standing there, and then he got upset and said, "The soldier is gone." I immediately believed him and I was not scared."
Riley Smith.
There was an even earlier case. When Riley was 18 months old, his mother walked into his bedroom and saw that her baby was lying and talking to someone with enthusiasm, although he then could hardly pronounce words. At the same time, he actively gestured.
“I asked who he was talking to and he said 'This is Humpty.' He talked to this Humpty for a few more days and then I realized that it was probably our neighbor who had died a couple of days before. He was overweight and it is possible that someone jokingly called him Humpty Dumpty (Humpty Dumpty), as in a nursery rhyme. But I never told Riley this song and rhyme.”
Then Riley had a "fictional friend" named George and he was so real to him that he played only with him for a long time and then he had no other friends at all.
Child psychiatrist's comment
Despite these incredible incidents, child psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Westgart, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the UK's chief child psychiatrist, says this behavior is normal for a young child.
Also, Dr. Westgart says that he previously worked with families where children allegedly communicated with otherworldly forces, but says that as a rule these were families where adults believe in mysticism, spiritualism, the afterlife and other similar things. Therefore, children simply "adopt" the culture from their parents.
