Sorry, I just realized this original question is 5 years old.
debby, these are serious psychiatric symptoms. Please don't waste time hoping he's "lying" or being afraid to act.
First thing tomorrow, call your pediatrician and ask where to go from there.
Best wishes.
My daughter had bipolar at that age and was hearing voices and later started seeing things and hearing voices. It was years before she told us what was wrong. She got put on some meds that helped a lot and we also did take her to our Priest. She is doing well now. Keep turning over rocks until you find out what is wrong. Tell your son he is brave for telling you. Many children do not. My daughter took years. On girl I know went to the ER many many times with the eraser end of a pencil stuck in her ear trying to make the voices stop. She never told people why she stuck the pencils in her ear though
speak w/ your PREIST!!!!!!! Schizo does not USUALLY appear this early, and it is very eerie that from doing a simple search, completely unrelated to this topic, how MANY VERY similar posts from parents dealing w/ the SAME horrifying issue as you. Please keep us posted & I will keep your son & all of the other children I've read about in my prayers!
I have read about children that were experiencing the same things as your son. Thought you might want to read the information to get some insight as to what the symptoms could be, the website is "www.schizophrenia.com/family/childszsym.htm
Please do not let the title of the website scare you, they discuss all possible things that could cause the symptoms your son is experiencing.
I am so sorry that he is going through this,and hopefully he can get some peace soon.
Take care
Has your child ever had any previous phsyciactric problems? If not, he is obviously needing your help. Take him to the doctor, see if he can get a cat scan. Make sure you and your son keep open communication over this. If there is nothing wrong with him mentally and he still see's people and they're coming into his room at night, I do not know where your belief lies, but I would recommend a priest or maybe even a ghost hunter to your house. When a perfectly healthy son is suddenly having problems such as these it may be more than a psycological problem. But in the meantime, I wouldn't let him be alone if he only sees "people" by himself. See if he would agree to sleep in another room with either you and your husband or one of his siblings.
I would take him to the doctor definitely to get him checked out, especially as he says the voices are telling him to do harmful things.