Look, we all know kids are terrifying. The fact that they can somehow manage to break every object in your house if left unattended for thirty seconds is a testament to this notion. However, they can also be weirdly spooky when it comes to discussing supernatural matters.
Recently, actress Natalie Morales came across a clipping (presumably from a school newsletter of some sort) which featured kids describing their imaginary friends. Sounds cute, right?
NOPE.
One little girl named Ruby has a pretty disturbing “imaginary friend”: her imaginary “mum” is a 14-year-old who is pregnant with twins, only visits her at night, and can “never have a birthday.” Her name is “Grateful.”
Ruby, you have a ghost. This is straight up terrifying. pic.twitter.com/DM0y77CWHI
— Natalie Morales (@nataliemorales) May 28, 2018
Um, if that doesn’t sound like some kind of creepy, Puritan-era ghost, then I don’t know what does.
Twitter was totally spooked.
“She’s 14 but she can never have a birthday” is maybe the most horrifying phrase I’ve ever heard
— Stuart (@stuwhen) May 28, 2018
“She can never have a birthday…” ?
— Walter Thunderfläsk (@Thunderflask_) May 28, 2018
— Roger Buchana (@Butters360) May 28, 2018
— dryfitsocks (@suzytwoteeth) May 28, 2018
As one person theorized, “Grateful” could feasibly be a Puritan name — and 14 would have been a marriageable age at the time. Perhaps this mystery ghost even died during childbirth.
“Grateful” sounds like an early Puritan name that might’ve been given to a little girl – they had a preference for naming their children names that conveyed virtue. Haunting to think that “can never have a birthday” could be three-year-old speak for “died before she could give
— LuckyNumber861 (@FugaPericulum) May 29, 2018
birth to her twins.” Fourteen would’ve been a totally marriageable age prior to the 1800s or thereabouts.
— LuckyNumber861 (@FugaPericulum) May 29, 2018
One person actually illustrated a portrait of “Grateful,” which is scary as hell.
I spent more time on this than I’d hoped. Here ya go!https://t.co/sfOIzy9cek pic.twitter.com/DQqBhAw2eo
— An Overwhelming Surplus of Diggity (@kemiroart) May 29, 2018
Everyone agreed, though: this story is just par for the course as far as creepy kids are concerned.
There’s a Reddit thread somewhere about creepy things kids have said to their parents. The one with the “snake neck man” freaked me right the hell out.
— Kate (@thescarlettkate) May 28, 2018
Children are terrifying. pic.twitter.com/MZf38LSK2R
— Evan (@324_B21) May 28, 2018
My young brother had an imaginary friend named “Jane”, he used to go to the kitchen at night to talk to her, one night I went to see what “they” were talking and he was saying “no Jane, I cant give you a knife to hurt my family” he was 3 years old!
— Nathália Urban (@FairyS) May 28, 2018
On the bright side, at least Ruby sounds very precocious for her age — even if her house is most definitely haunted.
Ruby is pretty damn articulate for a 3-year-old.
— Tori Tori Bobori ?Fana Fofori… ??? (@smexys_sidekick) May 28, 2018