People are tweeting the creepiest things they've heard kids say and it's a full-on nightmare fest

Make them stop.
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Sam Haysom
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It's common knowledge that clowns, scarecrows, and ventriloquist dummies are all creepy, but did you know that small children can be just as terror-inducing?

Well, they can.

On Saturday night, writer Mikki Kendall proved it.

A few days on and that tweet has been shared almost 10,000 times, with a solid 1,600+ responses. It's now been turned into a Twitter Moment, too.

Turns out quite a few people had experience on the topic of creepy children...

It's official: these children all need to be stopped.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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