My 5yr old predicts poisoning...

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This weekend, I was having a fairly typical conversation with my GF and my 5 year old son (both NT), when all of a sudden my son gets a weird look on his face and in a calm voice, says directly to my GF "tomorrow you will wake up poisoned". Surprised, I attempted to question him about what he said, but he sort of "shutdown" and refused to talk about it, all I could get out of him was something to do with his fingernails?...

That night I take him back to his mothers, not thinking much of it. The next morning my GF has food poisoning...
I called his mum and explained what had happened, and she told my son that my GF had actually gotten poisoned and if he knew something he should tell her. His mum told me he got quite upset and was concerned about my GF, but it got to the point of him accusing her of making it up just to make him feel bad and she was only tricking.

Thoughts?

Amazing!

*facepalm*

Sorry for being crass but should it not be obvious how many bacteria and viruses reside beneath fingernails? That kids clam up when faced with expository questions? Those accusations could fly all sorts of directions and depending on what actually happened with your GF, some might be substantiated. It was probably just Escherichia coli or some such benign affliction, placebo effect or much ado about nothing, as much as I'd like to acknowledge here the sporadic clairvoyance observable in youth. My hypothesis? Jealous folly & placebo effect.

Sorry, You misunderstand me or I wasn't clear. I do not believe in physic abilities other than making a logical / educated guess with possible information others do not have. I don't believe in ghosts / spirits / supernatural, there are no greater powers at work here or anywhere else.

What you stated may very well be true, but he is 5. I can guarantee he doesn't know there is bacteria and viruses under his fingernails that could cause "poisoning". I find it hard to believe it would be a placebo effect, my GF and I gave his claims no merit, there was no willing or wanting for this to happen or be true.

He obviously knows something we do not. The main question in my mind is, did he know because he purposely did something? He is a loving boy and very well behaved (when he is with me and not his mother) or did he witnesses something he would associate with poisoning and take a lucky guess?

He could have done something bad but it seems more likely someone mentioned food poisoning, it's happened recently or there's a bug, only he might be confused and not realize food poisoning isn't poisoning because at 5 kids are literal.

The facts should be somewhere in the midst of all of this. I'm something of a radical cynic and my upbringing was considerably rockier than what you described, so it seems to me your son might have been relaying information from a branch of the 'grapevine' that was none too apparent to anybody. I don't really believe much of that either, although I think there's a distinct possibility that young brains might have a better grasp of entropy and/or the transitive property than many societies give them credit for.

Perhaps he was warned about a bug at school...