Does anyone else have a young relative (under 5) claim to see people?

It's fairly commonplace for young children to have invisible companions and imagine invisible people. They have a very active imagination and soak up everything they hear and see. And grandpas in general do look alike in a lot of ways, so he was probably relating what he thinks grandpas look like.

I don't think you should rush to chalk this up to paranormal abilities when normal explanations are more than sufficient to understand this. I would definitely not encourage belief in ghosts and the supernatural, and especially at his tender age. It could have very negative psychological consequences.

I don't have a relative but I've had my own expereinces when i was you and have known young children to. Spirits are drawn to children, not only their innocence, but hey children are just more open minded than most of us adults! They haven't truly been told or learned any different yet at that age... Anyway, I use to say I talked to my grandfather when I was around 3 & 4.... And also one experience that sticks out in my mind is once when I was working in a preschool, we were rehearsing for a show they were doing, there was a spot backstage that was kind of dark and I had never gotten a good vibe from that area. I had to take some children to the bathroom and it was back in that area, three of the children froze in there spots and started crying saying there was a mean man standing behind me and they didn't want to go back there. And for the whole rehearsal various children not all of them but soem would refuse to go back to that area.

Unfortunatly, though it seems that a lot of children do lose this as they get older.

Many children have the ability to see the soul's of loved ones and people who have passed, because their minds are not jaded and convaluded by "rational" thought. My two year old niece used to tell her mom that she was playing with my other sister, even after my other sister had died. At two years old, children don't really imagine things, they relate what they see, and they see these things whether we as close-minded adults see them or not. Whether people want to believe in spirits or not, there are things in this world we cannot explain, and just because we don't have a "reasonable" explanation for them doesn't mean they don't exist. I would say your young cousin is just more open to seeing your grandfather than the rest of you are. He'll probably grow out of it as he gets older, but he can maintain the ability if he has people who encourage him. Just as an FYI, everyone has some type of psychic ability, it's just whether or not we want to explore it that determines how much or what we "see".

^ Sorry I don't, but I've read about children that are like your cousin. Small children are very open to the para normal so he's able to see your relatives, he could also be an old soul, which means he as been reincarnated. Unless he is physic, this most likely will unfortunately pass as he gets older. I wouldn't discourage him, but I wouldn't encourage him either, just let this play out naturally and take comfort in the fact that your grandfather and other relatives are okay and watching over you. I hope this helps. Blessed be.

childrens represent innocent as it best,they can't have a concrete thinking at that age,but they can describe things

so it can be possible to experience this things,an imaginary

friend will be an invented person, animal, or character that is created especially by children, but sometimes by adults. talking to it, playing with it, or even attempting to feed it are some of the things that they do with this imaginary friends,

however the description given by your child is very amazing,

and you should not discourage him,but don't try to push this

spiritual gift ,let this ability flow in a natural way.

My little cousin who is 5 years old. Ever since he was able to talk he has always said in the olden days I used to.....then he would go off and say how he was a farmer and that he went to the war and many other things. Anyways I was driving around town one day and he was with me and I drove by where my great grandparent's farm use to be, but is now a subdivision. And he says out of the blue I know this place I had a farm here and raised 9 kids here. He then named all of the kids names and called my great grandmother by her nickname that only great grandpa called her. How weird is this!!!

Some very close friends of ours have had such experiences. They have a daughter (just now 18) who, as a very young child, use to "wave at the smiling people" across the street from a gas station they frequented when visiting relatives near Waco, Texas.

...You know what's coming, right?...

The problem was, there were no "people" that anyone ever saw, and the property across the street from the gas station was a cemetery.

The daughter recalls this vividly and says that she remembers the appearances of several of the people very clearly. No big deal. To her mother, however, this is alarming and quite disturbing.

I just think it's freaky...and makes a good tale!

I have 3 daughters and my milddle child is 7. She sees people that I can't see. I believe that it is normal for children at a young age to see spirits that we can't see. I don't discourage or encourage her one way or the other. My nephew is 9 and he sees a little red-headed girl that haunts there house. She is harmless. At the same time his dad also saw her and totally freaked beacause he thought it was one of his children and rolled over in bed to see it was her standing beside the bed. Strange but true. I think you should say a prayer over your cousin, to which he is not harmed by any of these. In time it may go away(ability to see spirits) if it doesn't he is gifted. Good luck and God Bless. Peace!

Hi "Big".

Great Question, though I can't really say it is a gift or an ability.

I personally as many others believe are born with this additional sense that we either choose to hone in on, or forget as we grow older for some odd reason...especially as the day to day events of life and the people around us have a way of influencing our perceptions of what we think and what we feel.

**( Or rather what we choose to let ourselves think and feel)**

If you really think hard about it when you were a child yourself once, you were probably alot more open to people and places with fewer prejudices as we all tend to acquire some in life.

Getting back to your answer, my son had experienced the same, seeing folk's long gone in my own family from an early age and began speaking of my maternal grandfather too as if he were right in the room with him at age 2 1/2 .

It was unsettling at first because my gramp's had passed some 7 years before his birth. He never saw a picture of him until age 5 because his passing was still too fresh and painful to my Mother's memory, that his picture's were packed away, but my son could describe his basic daily dree attire, and how he smelled of English Leather and Cherries ( cherrie pipe tobacco.)

My grandfather worked as a breakman for a local train/ railway. My son had from age 4 also acquired a healthy love of trains, had a collection til he was 12 and claimed my grandfather played with the trains with him.

Whatever you do, do not let your cousin's child think they are abnormal. I have to say those of us in our group with definitive strengths in sociology will probably also agree, this child is incredibly normal, depending on how his family chooses to guide him in life, he will either grow to forget it, or will adapt strengths and knowledge in learning how to put this sense to better use.

Love him and God Bless,

Madam

You are wrong about it. Normal child can see 'things' only under 3 years old. For your relative, it must be either he bump into them or he's born with the ability. If he's born with the ability, you would sometime see him playing with a 'friend' or wave to someone. If your religion is buddhist or taoist, you can expand his ability by asking him to become a medium ( priest ) to help humans. Exorcist.