You're Going to Sleep With the Lights On Tonight After Reading These Chilling Things Kids Have Said

By Alessia Santoro

Published on 9/23/2016 at 1:31 PM

Flickr user Tim Pierce
Flickr user Tim Pierce

Any frequent internet-dweller knows that the depths of Reddit can sometimes be a very scary place. Perhaps the most damning evidence of this claim is a recent thread in which users are sharing the most chilling and disturbing things their kids have ever said. Hold on to your seats, friends. You're probably going to want to sleep with the lights on tonight.

  1. "When my cousin was two years old or so, her mom got pregnant again. One day she went to hug her mom's belly and said, 'Little brother sick.' A few days later she had a miscarriage." — JuWhi
  2. "My niece drew a picture of 'a man in her room' that she kept telling her parents about. He had two different colored eyes, and one was gray. When asked why it was gray, she responded, 'Because he can see the storm coming.'" — herobotic
  3. "When my son was small, I was talking to him about growing potatoes. I described how you bank up the earth around them as they grow, and he said, 'I used to do that when I was an old man.'" — cheeselet

  1. Source: NBC

  2. "My son had an imaginary friend named Sam when he was three. He would talk to him and laugh when we weren't in the room. We would always play along with him. Build his imagination and whatnot. We asked him, 'What does Sam look like?' And he said, 'He's small. Like me. But hes not a kid. He has black hair and black eyes.' I looked at my wife and laughed and said, 'That doesn't sound like a nice friend.' And [my son] replied, 'Shhh, he's right behind you.'" — Unicorncuddletime
  3. "My three-year-old daughter was in the bath playing with her toys with me and laughing. Suddenly her face deadpans, she looks me in the eye and tells me in a serious little voice, 'Mummy, if you bit and ate all my fingers off I wouldn't love you anymore.'" — Likatiger
  4. "My son always says odd things. Usually they're funny but this one threw me for a loop. He is eight. I was telling him how much I love him and thanks for being in my life. He said: 'I didn't choose this life. I couldn't control how it began. But I can control how it ends.'" — ravenlily
  5. "We were driving down a dark, snowy highway late one evening. My son, who was around four or five at the time, was in the back seat and becoming a bit restless. He suddenly covered his face with a blanket and announced loudly, 'I don't want to get glass on my face!' A few moments later, a pick-up truck towing some snowmobiles pulled out in front of a tractor trailer a few cars in front of us and got hit, spinning out into the median. Fortunately, we avoided the accident completely. It was indeed a bit creepy, though, almost as though he predicted there was going to be an accident right in front of us." — lori1119

  1. Source: 20th Century Fox

  2. "When my sister was around three we drove past an old tennis club, run down and no longer being used, [and she said], 'When I was old I played tennis there.'" — THESLAINE
  3. "Not my child, but a child I was working with in preschool: 'You have a baby inside you, but you won't be a mommy.' I found out I was pregnant that day and miscarried the next week." — Commandeurrr
  4. "My four-year-old son said, 'Daddy, I want to drill into your tummy, crawl inside and eat your dinner.' The food was OK but I didn't think it was worth that much effort." — yogsoghoth
  5. "I was with my sister, her husband, and their two-year-old daughter. We were talking about loved ones that had recently passed (my father had died sometime recently). My brother-in-law went and grabbed a picture of his mother, who had died in a car crash when he was six, to show me. When my niece saw the picture though she started laughing. We asked her what was so funny and she looked at us and said, 'That's my special friend who sings to me.' I still shiver a bit just thinking about it." — KaiserXI

  1. Source: The CW

  2. "We were living at a house where a school mate of mine lived for 15 years before he committed suicide. One day my daughter said, 'He's in the closet.' 'Who's in the closet?' 'Nick. He looks scary daddy.' I went to pictures on [my classmate's] Facebook and asked her who he was, because we'd never talked about him before and she said, 'Oh that's Nick.'" — snooju

"As a dude with a newly pregnant wife, that's enough Reddit for me today," one commenter wrote. Yeah, that about sums it up.