Children And The Paranormal

Has you child ever experienced  nightmares or come to you with claims of hearing voices or seeing someone in their bedroom? Have you told them don't worry it's just a dream? This is a common occurance with many children and in most cases it probably is something they saw on t.v. or a bad dream they had. However I can tell you from first hand experience that it's not always a bad dream. Sometimes paranormal events do intersect with our lives and with children being so perceptive and vunerable they can see and hear what we as adults can't. When I was a child I experienced constant nightmares and would see shadows in my room. I would tell my parents about what I saw and they would tell me not to worry that it was just my imagination. I experienced the same thing over and over again for years. Was this the overactive imagination of a child or was there something paranormal going on? If you think about it what parent would want to acknowledge that their child is seeing strange things going on. I lived with this until I was about 9 years old and then it stopped. I look back and believe that this was some sort of entity. This is so typical of evil beings. They are cowards and will for the most part pick on children or when they choose to torment an adult it is almost always a situation where the person is mentally weak and doesn't have the stamina to fight back. Now as an adult and paranormal investigator I know that not all nightmares or things that go bump in the night are from a child's overactive imagination. I recently confirmed this by going back to my childhood home to perform a paranormal investigation. Each investigator also had personal experiences they couldn't explain. This for me validated what I remembered as a child being constantly terrorized by something that I could not explain. This has led me to specializing in cases involving children who believe they are experiencing paranormal activity. I know first hand what their going through and can sympatize with their fears. 
When going into an investigation involving a child you have to choose you words very carefully. It's important to let them know you understand what they are going through and that you are there to help. It really is quite amazing in many instances once we show up everything just goes away. It's not that we have rid the house of evil spirits by conducting our investigation. In many cases after we have gone the child will have more confidence and will tend to ignore all those little noises that seemed so horrible before. Remember about 85% of the time we will find a logical explanation for what they are experiencing. We don't ghosthunt, we debunk. However there still is that 15% where we will find things really are happening. Then it is our job to find what might be stimulating the activity and try to find a way to resolve it.
If your child says they are hearing voices at night you can go out and buy a digital recorder for $30.00 and let it run all night in their room. If you don't pick up any voices this will help prove to them that it's nothing to worry about. If they tell you they see something coming out of the closet let a video camera run facing the closet. When you are able to show them that nothing is happening it will more then likely just go away. If you happen to pick up any activity while conducting these experiments then give us a call. The paranormal is best left to people who deal with it on a regular basis. Lastly, try to have patience with your child and remember even if it is their imagination it's still very real to them. It was for me.