I saw a commercial or two... Or three... Maybe 17... Of that movie The Messengers. It said that there are thousands of cases reported of children experiencing paranormal activity. Majority of which are proven alse, but SOME, can never be explained. This line had brought me to all those reports we used to get here in UM about a year ago and before, about 11, and 12 year olds, saying they seen stuff. We all know kids that age want attention, but, what IF it was true? This would make like, 100 out of 2500 reports on haunting true right?
Anyways, it is an odd question to bring up, but my main question is HOW children see these things more than adults, is it something that really has to do with their age?

Even me, I used to see stuff that was NOT normal MUCH more often, and even when my dad or mom was around, they would not notice a thing. Any ideas?

IMO... I think small children...usually 5 and under... do see things that older people don't... they've not been taught that there's no such things as monsters and ghosts. When they see things like that, their minds do not automatically rule it out as a trick of light, etc... They don't have the imaginations older people do in which to make up things of that nature, either.

Absolutely. After all, children do not have the breadth of experience that adults take for granted. Many things we we consider normal are not for them. This does not mean that what they are seeing is anything out of the ordinary, but simply that what they are seeing is beyond their range of experience. Similarly, simply because an experience cannot be explained does not mean that it is inexplicable. It simply means that we do not have the means to explain it. If a bird swoops down and grabs a fish, only to lose hold of it and drop it on shore, a child not seeing the bird would claim that the fish jumped from the lake to the shore. An adult would not be able to explain the event, simply because they do not have the data needed to do so.

And then, of course, there is a difference in age. Children generally have far better eyesight than adults remember having. As such, they tend to take notice of things that most adults overlook simply due to not having the same focus as the child. Again, this is not really any indication that anything supernatural is occuring. A child who clearly sees a shadow will think that there must be a ghost of some kind present. An adult who only glimpses a shadowy area won't think twice about it.

Hehe, that pretty much killed my question, yet another one of my crazy theories crushed, I am thankful for that.... Somehow

You might want to check out -

The Boy Who Lived Before

Not, really about seeing ghosts or anything. Its about children who have memories of past lives. Far from being conclusive but still very interesting. If there is anything to it, this could be considred evidence that children have connections that we (older folks) don't.

Adults always tell kids it was their imagination. But sometimes it might be something else. Did anyone ever read The Headless Cupid?

WE see what we want to see right? But what about young kids who don't know about such things like shadow people or even presences. If kids don't KNOW what they want to see, and they still see something not of this nature, technically it would be more beliavable right?

Well, I believe in supernatural stuff like spirits floating around and such. I also believe in reincarnation.

To me, the cycle of life and death is pretty much a circle crossing through the life / death line at birth and at death. When kids are young... and then again in people nearing death, they are really close to the other side - the spirit world, if you will.

Just my thoughts.

I reckon that young children believe what they see and because they haven't been inundated with "don't be so silly, there are no such things as ghosts", they are more open and their senses are stronger. However, as people get older they seem to push things like this to the backs of their minds and it would often take something like a sledgehammer of an experience to get some adults to admit "that there may just possibly be something in all this".

heh my 4 year old is always seeing monsters and he will fly down the steps looking back the whole time like somthing is chasing him... i try to tell him that theres nothing there but i realize he has no idea what "real" and "fake" mean... thats something they must find out themselves but ive tried to help by sitting in his room and going over whats under the bed and whats in the closet but that still didnt work... i guess i just dont remember what its like to be a lil tot anymore... but seeing the previews for that movie kinda freaks me out haha..

Dangit! I was going to start a topic on this movie and others... I still will.

We do know that children can hear sounds that adults cannot. Remember that new audio system that they were talking about putting outside of stores in the U.K. to keep teens from congragating in front of them?

We also know that kids have a better sence of taste than do adults. It's why we'll eat things that they won't. It's a self defence mechanism.

I definitely think kids can see things we cannot. When my son was born, my two year old daughter was sitting on my lap. She reached up toward the ceiling and smiled. I asked what she was smiling at and she said "Grandad." THe only one we called grandad was my grandfather who died a couple months before I was born and that I was named after. I really believe that he had come to "visit" my son and my daughter saw him.

Because they want to believe. It's like what I read in a book: A vampire says, "Remember, we can not hurt you if you don't believe in us."