But it’s only the movies, right? Or is there an element of truth to what is being played out on the big screen? Are young children any more perceptive to seeing ghosts than older children or adults? There are a lot of stories about children seeing ghosts that are hard to dismiss. One story on Buzzfeed talks about a young girl who claimed that a babysitter was taking care of her at night. The parents didn’t think anything of it until one day when looking at a photo, the girl pointed out her great grandmother as the babysitter. The young girl was only 9 months old when the great grandmother had passed.
Many paranormal investigators and mediums tend to believe that children are more sensitive to ghosts. But why? Do kids have special powers that adults don’t? One prevailing theory suggests that children have not been predisposed to not believing in ghosts. They are more open-minded. It is believed that if you are more open-minded, you become more receptive to spirit activity when it presents itself.
If child spirits do exist, it may also be possible that they only prefer making themselves known to children. In the ghost town of Bodie CA, for example, there is believed to be the spirit of a young girl who appears only to children visiting the graveyard.
