So perhaps it was appropriate that a creepy little Twitter thread popped up a couple days after Christmas last week. It was started by Valerie (@ValeeGrrl), who is Deputy News Editor for a nifty website called Scary Mommy. This was her initial offhand observation of a moment in the parenting life...
while tucking in my son he casually told me he lived a life a long time ago where his name was Gerald and he had a brother Cole who was also his business partner and they died together in a car crash so plz join me in not sleeping at all tonight lol
— Valerie 🍾🥂 (@ValeeGrrl) December 28, 2018
That post has gotten nearly 26,000 retweets already, so many folks have seen it. But that's still just a drop in the bucket compared to all the humans on Planet Earth. So I think it's worthy of being preserved as a future Lost Corner of the Internet.
What really makes it great, though, is all the replies to Valerie's tweet. They represent a veritable gold mine of paranormal-twinged instances of possible past life regressions and childhood visits with deceased relatives. (Or perhaps just cryptomnesia or playful storytelling in some cases.)
Here are some of my favorites:
years ago my baby brother passed away and 9 months later i had a little sister born prematurely. when she was about 4 one day she told my mom “i’m glad to be with you guys again...god took me away cuz i was very sick but that made you really sad. so he told me i could come back.”
— the dude (@tranquiliTwav) December 30, 2018
When my older brother was little, he asked my mom for two glasses of water. He said one was for him and the other for the man in the kitchen. No one was home but then two. When my mom told him to describe the man, he described our grandpa who died a couple months b4 he was born
— rosie (@Rosie1D5SOS) December 31, 2018
My son at 3 pointed to a photo of my Grandfather, who had died several years before. He said, “Mommy, see dat man? He cover me at night when I cold.” And then ran away all cheerful!
— Chronically, Raven♿️🌈 (@ChronicallyRavn) December 31, 2018
When I was a toddler I was watching Mary Poppins with my Nan and I apparently turned to her and said "I watched this with you when you were a little girl too" and she asked what my name was and I told her Maud, my nans Grandmothers name...everyone was freaked out lol
— Coley 🍄 (@narrpip) December 30, 2018
I remember when I was about 4 I would sing this song to help me go to sleep. Much later on in life, I heard the song in the background of a VHS and asked my mom about it, apparently it was a song my grandmother wrote like 20 years before I was born. She died 6 years b4 I was born
— JackJackWild (@jackjackwilds) December 30, 2018
So my son Aiden & his dream
— NaLonni Nikole (@NayLahKnee) December 30, 2018
Aiden: I dreamed that God made us from heaven & this is his 1000th time making us. He said be calm, be careful & be nice. I said thank you & amen
Me: Did you see him?
Aiden: yes, he's in heaven.
Me: What did he look like?
Aiden: he looked like me.
Every year we visit my great grandma and the cemetery for a balloon release. When my brother was around 3-4 he would go around and talk to headstones. Like full on conversations and he was always laughing. He said they were his friends.
— ✨Naturally Nicka✨👸🏾 (@blk_girl_magic) December 31, 2018
When my mom was about 4 (I think) her little brother passed away & they didn’t have her attend the funeral but she was able to recall every single detail down to the flowers about the funeral. She also said she saw him in their attic a few times after.
— JULZ (@sourposh) December 30, 2018
My son (5) insists that he has a grandfather in space name John who "adopts" him when he goes to space and that he lived there with "Space John" before he was born here. For the record, my dad's name was John, and he died 22 years ago.
— Gia Geach (@giabean27) December 31, 2018
When my youngest son was 5 or 6 he INSTSTED he had a “friend” named Joe who was his age. 1 day we saw him just a laughing & talking to himself & then saw him pushing an empty swing. Asked him about it & he said it was Joe...that Joe was sad cuz him & his parents were dead 😳 pic.twitter.com/7gtMuWUpTZ
— stephanie l. ogle (@soulsis69) December 30, 2018
One day my son was looking at picture with my mom and saw a picture of MY grandma who died when I was about 6. He told my mom, 'oh I like her, she's nice and comes over to play with me all the time.' She was a huge part of my life, it gave me a kind of peace to know she was here.
— Jacqulynn Fahrmeyer (@JackieFBabee) December 30, 2018
When I was little, I was with my family driving by a grassy hill and lake in the summer time that I’d never seen before, I was happily chatting then suddenly stopped and said “I died here in a skiing accident once” - the lake is used for skiing and skating in the winter
— kallee tucker (@kalleegrace) December 31, 2018
My parents told me that I spoke a different language while I slept (ages 4-7). I had a recurring nightmare (of hiding from soldiers who marched loudly & wore tall blk boots. I always hid in the same closet & the first thing I saw were the soldiers boots when closet door opened)
— Suzan Anthony (@suzanthony7) December 31, 2018
My friend sd her grandkid was scared of the “Scratchy faced man” in her closet. 1 day she was organizing pictures & her grandkid sd “I know her” she sd no honey she died a long time ago, that’s my grandma. Kid sd “that’s the lady who protects me from the scratchy faced man.
— Arcana7609 (@arcana7609) December 29, 2018
It's like the boy on Sarah's ceiling!
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