We moved into our house when our son was three years old.
First night in the house, it was only my son and me because my husband was away for a work. Got us ready for bed, and then as I’m about to turn off the kitchen lights and head down the hallway to the bedrooms, which was still lit as well (so, low light was not an issue), my son says hello to a friend suddenly.
Child saw many people who were not there
He called everyone, including strangers, „friends“ back then, and I asked who he was talking to. I was more worried about break ins, and I couldn’t see anyone that he could have been talking to. He told me he was talking to a friend, and if he was making eye contact, the friend’s eyes were at the same height as his.
Even though I saw nothing and immediately realized that this was possibly a paranormal event, I didn’t panic at all, and I started asking questions calmly and cheerfully, like whether the friend is in the house right now (yes), what his friend’s name is (unknown), if the friend said anything (no answer), and if he has seen his friend before or if this is a new friend (no answer). My son mostly just stared at the friend, and he said hello again at my suggestion. I then I asked him if he could touch his friend. My son took one step forward, stuck his hand out, and slowly moved his hand in front of himself.
He then said no, he couldn’t touch his friend. I couldn’t even see anything at all this whole time. I asked a few moments later if his friend was still there. My son said he was gone, but he couldn’t give me an answer when I asked where the friend went. Some of the unanswered questions may have come down to comprehension because of his age. We both went to bed, and I was able to convince myself that it was nothing to worry about. We were tired from moving all our stuff in as well. Fell asleep quickly.
There’s not anything here that gives me bad vibes, and nothing else has happened since then that I know of, except possibly a minor, probably unrelated and possibly not even paranormal thing that doesn’t give me ill vibes either. The neighbors are very positive about the previous owners, who seemed to live nice lives and lived in this house for many decades before their health declined (but they are still living).
A relative I told about this event thinks it may be something to do with a vision of a friend from a past life since my son was still so young and since I couldn’t see anything. This relative’s sister (so, another relative of mine too) had a somewhat similar event when she was a child, and she does not recall it. Her parents told her when she was much older. I’ve never asked my son about it again because I don’t want to scare/concern him by fixating on it. This happened nearly two years ago now, and my son does bring up very specific memories randomly from 2-3 years ago in our old house, but again, I just don’t want to concern him, which is also why I remained calm and cheerful during this encounter. I also did not want to upset our possible visitor since perhaps we had caused a disturbance by moving in, and I prefer to show respect.
My family has had some possibly mild paranormal experiences over the years, and I always appreciated my mom for telling us to not be afraid and to gather and remember as much as we can about these experiences. One of my mom’s relatives has even jumped in front of floating entities simply to see what would happen. Most of us have science degrees and such, and this stuff makes no sense to us, but we want to learn as much as we can about it.
I always worry about hauntings before moving in, but nothing has ever happened right away, nor like that before. Most places wind up totally uneventful in the paranormal realm, despite very bizarre local lore and histories and despite some other people living in such places being completely convinced that the local area is severely haunted.
If anyone has any ideas on what this could’ve been or similar stories, I’d love to hear.
