I don't know if it's strictly dark side
But some of the stories my Mum tells about her school children do freak me out a little bit. She's the headteacher of a nursery, and the kids are aged two to four.

One girl used to tell my mum that she used to be a 40-year old man who went fishing in Ireland, including details about all the different rivers and fish. Another boy would refuse to answer to his name, insisting instead that he was a 37 year-old woman named Sue. He would wear a dress and high heels whenever possible. She also taught a boy who, at the age of three, scared her more than almost anyone she'd ever met before. She said he had the blank, dead eyes of an expressionless psychopath, and that she was certain that's what he would grow up to be.

Another teacher friend had a boy of six (normally one of the best behaved in the class) stand up while she was teaching and asking: "Miss, what about the boy?" He was pointing to a table on which sat some soft toys, including a stuffed owl. "What boy?" she said. "He said he wants to kill your owl," the boy replied. Extremely disconcerted, she told him to sit down and carry on, but he was insistent that the boy was still there. In the end she was left quite shaken, and had to practically order him to sit down and be quiet.

Neither me, my mother or my friend really believe in ghosts but kids can be downright creepy sometimes.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 21 Apr 2006, 0:39, Reply)