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Were they trying to inspire incipient serial killers? New Zealand cat-killing competition for children axed after backlash A children's cat-hunting competition in New Zealand has been cancelled following backlash to the event. Organisers of an annual hunt were criticised after they announced...

I couldn't locate a thread on remarkably responsible / effective acts performed by small children, so I'm inaugurating one with this story ... SOURCE: https://apnews.com/72a3b9104e624fe29a87cb2d654daae0

I always thought this was a very interesting case,,,,I have a hard time feeling this was a hoax or made up by the kids but then is it a real alien event or something else..? (Dead video link deleted) Why would advanced space aliens land in such an out of the way place to appear to school...

I think this news item belongs here due to the strange image of the intruder. ------- Intruder seen on baby monitor camera in Billings home Posted: Mar 02, 2017 12:04 AM RSTUpdated: Mar 02, 2017 5:21 AM RST BILLINGS, Mont. - The Billings Police Department is making the public aware of an...

Apologies if I've put this in the wrong place - please move it if it needs to be moved! Reddit asked parents to share some of the creepy things their young children had said to them. A couple of examples: and Link here. Enjoy!

Hi all My first post...so please be gentle. I read with interest the article in last month's FT about the imaginary friends some children take with them...but I am particularly interested in whether anyone has experienced their own children communicating with what you might term spirits...

Seems it's not just old farts like me who worry about the nations youth... Time magazine features Britain's violent youth By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent Last Updated: 2:56am GMT 28/03/2008 Britain's problems with binge-drinking and youth violence are held up to the world today...

Has anyone got any experiences of toys acting strangely? I am not really talking about dolls here (as there is already a topic on this) more the kind of things like Elmo-type toys or playmats and the like. I would be interested to learn some more.

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Not sure if there are any other threads relating to this topic but it's something I'm fascinated by. Everyone seems to know a child who has imaginary friends - insists on a place being set for them at dinner etc. However, the detail in some of these friends seems amazing. A friend of mine who...

I recall reading in a Charles Berlitz *ahem* book some time ago, that there was a cave network beneath St Helens on Merseyside, where there was much rumness afoot. The story went along the lines of a boy scout being murdered whilst on an expedition to the caves, allegedly by some kind of...

I vaguely remember a secret world of rhymes, songs and chants. The stuff we told each other. Many of them were innocently rude. Some were just nonsense. Do the rhymes change much over the years? Does anyone ever remember any of it?

Kids are so adorable at that age This was in my newspaper today: GANG OF CHILDREN MOLEST 2 WOMEN, STEAL THEIR FOOD BALDWIN, PA--Police plan to file charges against at least seven children, ages 8 to 12, for allegedly invading the apartment of two young women, molesting them and stealing...

someone asked about where to get the black-eyed-kids story. it's at ghosts.org. i'm not sure where exactly since i haven't went through it in quite sometime. but i'm sure it's there, it also has a lot of different interesting stories [ including one about a girl who believes she met and...

Did anyone here when they were kids (or even as adults for that matter :)) have a ghost that lived in the toilet and if you didn't get downstairs before the toilet finished flushing, the ghost would get you and you'd DIE? Or any other childish fears - I know that the fears I had as a child...