Is Your Child Talking To A Ghost?

One in three of us believes in spirits, but what would you do if your son or daughter was convinced they were communicating with someone on the other side? Closer investigates…

- Anna Matheson

Then Katie Jones’ daughter began complaining that there were two men standing at the end of her bed each night, she put it down to nightmares. But after months of sleepless nights, she took two-year-old Alice to a medium on the advice of a friend – and was stunned to learn that her toddler was being visited by ghosts.

MURDERED

Katie, 33, from Canterbury, says, “I was at the end of my tether over it and a friend suggested we take Alice to a medium. I’m quite openminded, so I thought it could give us some answers. The medium said that the two men were my dad and grandad. At first, I was sceptical, but since then, Alice has continued to see ghostly spirits.

“When she was three, she was convinced she’d been talking to a little girl called Sheila. I did a bit of digging online and learned that a girl had been murdered in a nearby house. As I was reading a news article about the murder on my laptop, Alice peered over my shoulder and saw a picture of the little girl. Without any prompting, she told me it was Sheila. I was gobsmacked.”

Alice’s story may seem farfetched, but spiritual author Jacky Newcomb says it’s not uncommon for children to play with ghosts.

Jacky, who wrote the book Angel Kids on the subject, says, “I come across many children who have spirit playmates and, the younger the child, the more likely this is to happen. The ghost may be a deceased relative or a spirit associated with the property the child lives in.