There’s no denying that children have wild imaginations. But what if your kids weren’t imagining things at all? Have you ever considered they are recalling experiences from past lives? From believing they are their grandparents reincarnated to reminiscing about serving in the military, these people took to Reddit to share the creepiest past life memories their kids shared with them. Prepare to hear some spooky, unbelievable stories that will have you questioning if past lives exist!

Little Oracle

“I have a few, all the same kid. When he turned five he told me he had never made it this far. Also when he was five, we drove past my grandparents old house, they have been gone 16 & 18 years now. He told me ‘I used to play in that house with Pappy (my dad) when I was little, except the house used to be white’ The house did indeed used to be white and it had been painted and ugly gray. My dad also had 9 siblings, three of which died in infancy.”

Happy Place

“My mom tells me that just as I was able to speak I told her one time that ‘I was starting to forget’. She asked me ‘what do you mean what are you starting to forget?’, ‘the place where we all are before we’re born. The beautiful place where we wait. I don’t want to forget about it but it’s getting so hard to remember.’ At this stage I’m told that no elements of religion had been discussed and that I was too young for tv. My parents aren’t very religious anyhow so strange to think what I was talking about..”

Out of This World Story

“I would tell my parents about my ‘moon’ family and how I had lived with them until I said a bad word and got sent to earth and landed in a field nearby before someone found me and brought me to my earth family. They asked me to tell them exactly where I landed and I led them to a nearby farm. When we spoke with the farmer, he told us that a meteorite had hit his land the year I was born.”

Stroke of Genius

U/un87: “My brother in law is about 6 now, but when he was around 4 he one day mentioned that he was someone called John Merris hundreds of years ago. That he was a painter and he died and now he was this kid. He had a lot more back story, but after he realized his older sisters were laughing at him he wouldn’t tell us any more about it. He got really mad and just told us to stop asking him about it.”

Just a Drill

U/EfficientEase4768: “My daughter is deathly afraid of fire because ‘the fire at school killed my sister and my other mom was really sad.’ When she started preschool at 3 they had a fire drill and she cried hysterically until it was over and she was convinced there was no fire. I had to go pick her up and on the way home she told me she’s glad they have fire drills so all of the kids don’t die like at her last school. I’m still freaked out.”

Friend From Beyond

U/mellonians: “Didn’t believe in ghosts and s— until this day but it’s fair to say that now I have a slightly more open mind. Our 2/3 tear old daughter was playing on her own but like she was playing hide and seek with an imaginary friend. Asked are you playing hide and seek? She said yes. Who are you playing with? ‘Uncle Andrew’ My wife’s brother Andrew was 7 when he drowned when my wife was 5. Didn’t like to talk about it so we never mentioned it.”

Unknown Caller

U/WOKEbaby: “When I was about 4 years old, I told my mother that I wanted to phone my mom. She didn’t think anything of it. A few minutes later she hears me talking and comes in the next room to find me speaking to a woman. I somehow knew the phone number, and the woman’s name. I told her I was sorry for leaving and that I missed her and loved her. My mom took the phone and started apologizing saying it was just her son playing. The lady’s son had died less than 10 years prior in an accident. And she was in shock and crying not knowing what to say.”

New Mommy

U/sammie-chu: “I didn’t witness this myself but when my little sister was 3 (she’s now 8) she apparently looked at my gran really seriously and said ‘remember when I was one I was really sick in the hospital?’ This had actually occured but it was the first 2 weeks of her life, since then she’s been fine. My gran obviously thought she was ‘remembering’ this through stories. She corrected her and she said ‘not that time, before then when I was one again. I had another mummy then but I think I like this one better.'”

Peter Pan Syndrome

U/Sleepybear1314: “My middle son used to talk about having a different mom before me. He would say she was blond and looked nice but wasn’t nice. He would bring it up randomly and only ever got a bit emotional when he would tell me that when he was with her he never got to grow up. He said he chose me to be his mom this time because I would let him grow up and get old. When he would say the last part it was as if he was looking for reassurance. He’d ask me like ‘right, mom? I can grow up this time?’ Really f—– me up sometimes.”

Piano Prodigy

U/solveitwithchocolate: “According to my parents, I did something like this when I was about 2 years old. We were in a waiting area of a restaurant, and I indicated to them that I wanted to be put on the bench of a piano that was against one wall. Apparently I pressed a few keys to test what was what, then went into perfect playing posture, only pausing when I realized that my foot didn’t reach the pedals. After dinner they asked me whether I had ever played a piano before, and I replied, ‘Oh, yeah, I played it when I was a man.'”

Ice Cold

U/mmartinez59: “When he was around 4, my grandson used to talk about his job at the ice factory. One day he was talking about his boss ‘Farvo’ and the day he quit. I asked him why he quit and he turned to me and…said ‘I’ll tell you why I quit! They made me work 15 days in a row without a break and I had enough of that!’ It was weird hearing all that righteous anger coming out of that little boy. my daughter just informed me that he was three when he always talked about working at the ice factory. So yeah….scary three year olds.”

Grandpa’s Return

“My daughter was 3-4, she kept asking me, ‘Mommy, do you remember when you were little and I was big? I took good care of you, we went to the store all the time!’ Then when her little brother was born she asked me if she could call him ‘Auggie’ (pronounced Oggy), I asked her where she heard that name and she told me that she made it up. My great grandfather passed away August 31st of 2001, she was born September 7th of 2011. My great grandfather used to take me to king soopers a few times a week and he had a dog (long before I was born) named Auggie (nick name for August).”

Hats Off

U/Raspberry_Sweaty: “My daughter asked me, ‘Remember my fancy hat,’ and when I said no, she said, ‘Yeah, before I was dead, I used to work in a bank. I saved my money and bought a hat in a round box. I was on the bus and a man almost sat on it. Then the bus crashed and I died.’ She was about three and totally casual about it.”

Second Go Around

U/Jesader22: “When my son was 4 we had driven past a cemetery. He asked me if I remembered when he died and was buried. I said no and asked him what he meant by saying that. He said he had died, was buried in a cemetery and that’s when he started growing in my belly. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up when he said this. He doesn’t remember say this.”

Sisterly Ties

“I’m not a parent, but when I was 4-5 years old and sitting in the back of my mother’s car on a drive, I suddenly had very strong memories of sitting next to a little blonde girl that I knew had been my sister smiling at me in a different car. I suddenly became very afraid and cried. It’s almost 2 full decades later and I’m still freaked out because I know I didn’t form that memory in this lifetime. I have a sister but she’s a dark haired Asian girl.”

Gifts of Time

U/ellen_001: “More things than I will ever be able to explain…His old birthdays, his dear departed wifes old birthdays, This 2 year old baby was inconsolable that he didn’t get her (his wife) something for her birthday (which he remembered)..This is a very very small sample.. I spent 6 years splitting time between now and years ago..He remembered old family members and a thousand things that no one would believe… Also a few years ago, he was maybe 6… He said, ‘ya know mom, I think it’s pretty cool. You are born and get to live and then you get to do it all again.'”

Angels Flying

“My wife was reading an illustrated Christmas story to our kids. When she got to the part about the archangel Gabriel visiting Mary, my 3-year- old daughter exclaimed, ‘I haven’t seen one of those in a long time!’ She said, pointing to the angel. Then my wife asked, ‘When did you see one of them?!’ and she said ‘When I was up in the attic when it was my nursery. My governess was singing to me and I saw an angel fly in through the window. She started singing too.’ My wife was surprised and when we did our research later on, it turned out that the family who lived in our house in the 1800s had used the attic as a nursery.”

Flood of Tears

U/the_procrastinata: “When I was about 3, I used to tell my mum stories of being a little Chinese girl. Apparently I lived at the bottom of a hill with my grandmother, and I died in a flood. When I was 6 or 7, I came home from school upset that I’d been surrounded by a group of boys, and I cried to my mum that it was like when the soldiers on horses came to take us away.”

Lost Brother

U/fridayfridayjones: “When my sister was 3 she would go on and on about her brother, Brian. We’re all girls, and we don’t know where she would have heard the name. But it was all, Brian does this Brian and me used to do that, on and on. Thinking Brian was an imaginary friend I asked her where Brian was now. She said ‘he’s dead, I am, too. The bomb got us and our house is gone.’ Very weird.”

Tiny Time Traveler

U/blinky84: “My 3y/o niece, in a hotel near her home ‘I’ve been here. I used to sit in this chair and knit.’ Wouldn’t say anything else when pressed further. Another time in an antiques shop, we looked at an old school desk with a flip-top lid when she, bemused, said ‘Where’s the inkwell??’ It just seemed strange that she’d expect there to be one.”

Generational Love

U/capnvontrappswhistle: “My 3 yr old said, ‘I was your mom in heaven,’ Multiple times. When I was six weeks pregnant with her, my mom died unexpectedly the day she found out the secret that I was pregnant at 40 with what would be her last and 21st grandchild. We were going to surprise her on her 75th birthday, two weeks later, but a niece let the secret out. When my girl was 4, we were looking through pictures boxes. I have no family pictures posted in my house. Later that night I realized my girl took three pictures of my mom and put then in her room. She’s never seen pictures of my mom before. I asked her why she took those pictures and she said, ‘because I’m pretty.'”

Homecoming Journey

U/Germanpoetrygeek: “When my oldest son was three, he used to wake up crying and saying that he wanted to ‘go home’. Over and over he would repeat it. I would reassure him that everything was okay, he was at home. We had a huge map of the world in the hallway and one night when he was upset, I took him to the map and showed him where we lived and asked, where his other home was. He pointed out a small town in Mexico. So, we took him there. It was a beautiful little area and we had a great time. There was nothing profound in any of his reactions. When we got home he started sleeping through the night and never mentioned it again.”

Past Pains

U/BurntBaconNCheese: “My nephew was a miserable baby. Always upset unless my sister was holding him. When he was 4 he out of nowhere asked if she remembered leaving him. My sister very confused asked when she left him…… he looks at her and says ‘last time you were my mommy you were a bad mommy and left me. That’s why I used to be sad’. My sister was shocked but took him seriously and apologized for leaving him and assured him it would never happen now and she love him. He also kept talking about how excited he was for Caitlynn to come. When asked to clarify who Caitlynn was, he said my sister in your belly…….she had no idea she was pregnant. Sure enough a girl, they named her Caitlynn.”

Udderly Dramatic

U/seouldavi: “I grew up on a dairy farm and when I was around 2, my mom said I would freak out whenever I saw a cow and would try to run away. In my 20’s I randomly met a psychic at a party. She looked me dead in the eyes and said, ‘you were killed by a bull in your previous life.’ We had never spoken before.”

New Awakening

U/Theladyis_trouble: “My brother was very ill as a child, so he didn’t get to socialize much outside the house. Every doctor visit we’re rushed affairs in and out of the room. I also came from a family with pretty minimal tv watching. At 3 my brother explained to the family a belief system we later understood to be Buddhism. He then asked all the crosses be removed from his room, as the man on the cross was ‘recycled into a new baby’ and it was mean to keep looking at his old body.”

Scent from the Past

U/Take2task: “This is about my sister. We have always called her a baby genius and she has always seemed like an old soul. I remember when she was four she was playing in another room and my mom was cleaning. My sister comes into the room and asks my mom, ‘Have you been cleaning because it really smells like ether in here.’ As in the surgical anesthesia used in the civil war! I had never even heard of that word before. When we asked her how she knew the smell of ether said, ‘It is what we used.'”

Fired Up

U/Qlinkenstein: “My son was three at the time. We were at a ceramics place and I was taking a wheel throwing lesson when he say to this lady ‘I saw you in the fire. Did it hurt when you got burned? I was there but I couldn’t help you.’ She turned white as a sheet and explained to me that when she was a young girl, her house caught fire and she was badly burned. She told me that used to tell her family that she followed a little boy, she’d never seen, out of her room and then out of the burning house. She is sure that my son is her guardian angel, and that he was sent to tell her this as an older lady to make sure always remembers. My son is now 16 and doesn’t remember much about this other than he has faint memories of her.”

Past Love

U/ViolentGrace: “My daughter would freak out and start crying and screaming while repeating. ‘Why! Why! I got married, I just got married, I got married.’ Over and over again with this tone filled with grief that I never heard come out of a child so small. 2 and 1/2 is pretty young to be sobbing you’re heart out. It was a cry that I had only ever heard from adults who have lost the love of their life.”

War-Torn Secrets

U/studoroma: “This happened right after a war. Mother was walking my older sister, who was three years old at the time. My older sister pointed into the forest and said, ‘That’s where you buried me.’ Mom was like, What? My sister continued, Yeah, i was sick. Remember? Without showing emotions, mother freaked out and took her straight home. It turned out, mother had an older child who past a way during the war, due to an illness and lack of medical aid. The spot that my older sister pointed out, was the exact location where my mother’s eldest daughter was buried.”

Ancestral Ties

U/greffedufois: “My MIL has a story that my husband told her when he was around 3. He asked what happened to his ‘mommy with black hair’ (his mom’s hair is brown) and his other brothers and sisters (only had one older sister at the time). She asked him about it and he told her about how they lived underground and there was a fire and they died. Oddly enough his family is native Alaskan, and it is possible that some of his ancestors lived in small subterranean grass shelters during fish season. Pretty interesting and creepy.”

Mother Tongue

“When I was young, I really wanted to learn Russian, so they got me into a class. In general, Russian was very easy to pick-up and use. It sort of ‘made sense’ and I could construct complex sentences. The teacher told my mother that it was spooky, because I could speak it in a way that they hadn’t been teaching me (I could figure-out colloquial phrases). To this day, I still have it and haven’t lost my Russian.”

Spiritual Sibling

U/sharkbait1999: “My cousin died from a stay bullet in 92. 9 months later his mom had another son and in a few years, the visited the house where they used to initially live when my murdered cousin was around. Kid walks in the house like he owns the place (had never been there before in his life) and was like o yea mom slept,here sis slept here, we used to play cards here and then he goes to the room where my deceased cousin slept. ‘And this was my room’.”