Recently we received another story that explores the subject of imaginary friends. Experts tell us that there is no reason to be concerned when our child “encounters” an imaginary friend. They say that it is harmless and can actually benefit the child by helping them to develop their imagination.
But what if your child’s relationship with an imaginary friend goes much further than simple imagination? Many different cases have been reported which indicate that there can often be a more macabre explanation of the child’s imaginary friend than just simply imagination.
What do you do if the imaginary friend disturbs or even harms your child? Is that even possible? Can an imaginary friend actually torment or frighten a child?
Read our newest imaginary friend story:
Robert Did It! – A Doll And An Evil Imaginary Friend
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I’ve heard of lot’s of stories that pepole talk to them selve’s and people say it’s ghost’s there talking to. Most are little kid’s with there imaginary friend. (ghost) And I believe it.
Hello Jessika
I am sure that a child’s imaginary friend is usually nothing more than their imagination. BUT, I have no doubt that some of those ‘imaginary’ friends are much more. It has often been said, and written, that children are more perceptive to ghosts than adults. How easy it would be for a ghost to make contact with a child?
I also think that it is possible for an imaginary friend to be a demon in some cases. A demon is not the same thing as a ghost. Some ghosts, or spirits, are mailicious or ‘evil’, however all demons are so.
You can learn more about demons here.
Oh my god that robert story was sooo scary whenever i heard a noise i would get so scared!!!
My friend had an imaginary friend and when i spent the night over her house weird things was happening like doors opened by themselves, covers being pulled off, and people getting touched. she said it must be Ana, her imaginary friend. i told her that ana is a ghost or demon. dont ever talk to an imaginary friend because they are more than imaginary.
that robert story scared me we didnt even finish the 3 paragraph just seeing that pic was enough to turn back but im not afraid i have a ghost dog named shelbe in my house but its a nice ghost but it brings friends…sometimes very evil friends…well one day i was alone in my old room b4 i moved up to the 3 floor anyway i had closed my door and we had the heat on well i was watching tv and suddenly the doors opens so i call me dog and he was downstairs well wen he got up to my room he would not go inside my room so then i close my door again and i hear my name well im alone so randomly i start to cry i couldnt controll it either and the hairs on my arms stoood up and i got so scared it felt like something passed through me like it was a ghost its not a good spirit in that room now i only have to put up wit shelbe the dog but thats not bad shes a good ghost but i will not go in that room…
by audiemay
yea that story freaked us out i know ghosts ARE real but i never knew that they cud do that kind of stuff. i remember when i was a kid i had an imaginary friend and she had an imaginary horse. one day the “horse” brought home a friend “cat” the next day the cat was gone and the “horse had a big scratch mark on it. also i was sitting in my room wit ALL the lights off and there was a face in my mirror and it began talking to me calling my name. i looked around but NOTHING was there!!
by momo
oh my god!!! that robert story was really scary and so is the story on top of this comment!!!!you know i never had an imaginary friend…
Wow!!
Im not saying that i have one..
But thats a little scary..
Yea,I had a imaginary friend and she seemed so really to me but once I turned 8 she went away and I never saw her again.
wow… Imaginary friends. I have heard when people talk to themselves they usually have imaginary friends. I talk to my self all the time but I don’t think i am talking to anybody. I wish I could experiance and imaginary friend to alk to though.
i have never had a imaginary friend cause i always had my brother to talk to but i do belive in real ghost.
this is really cool and scary but i live in it all the time and i think the world should
I can Remember a time when my friend and I were babysiting and the child name was Johnathan. he always spoke n a very weird voice to himself. That night he told us his imaginary friend spoke to him. We did not believe him until he told the “friend” to open the door..it did and never again did we baby sit for him..
imaginary friends might be ghosts but i think they are more of a guardian angel. but babies have a 3rd eye they use it but they don’t know so this means they see the ghost and even might be able to talk to them(that’s why the usually stare at nothing they do not know he is a ghost they think he or she is a human)
All of us has the 3rd eye but we don’t know how to use it or we aren’t prepeard for it…. now some people have more then others. People who see a ghost but don’t have a 3rd eye see them cos 1)they see them on camera any thing that takes a pic…..yes even a lame mobile like mine i caught orbs on my mobile. 2)the ghosts makes you see them not you make them appear like when you she shadows. Some times I see a shadow too my right and when i am playing my drum kit i sometimes i see a small girls haed with long black hair (I think this comes from an old building i don’t think she is from my house it has been built just for two years now and befor it was a farmers field it wasn’t abandod so as I was sayin I live in malta so it has a very cruel past and if you search for a place on the internet called bieb is-salvatur (it’s in maltese i don’t know the english word for it) so this first was a guard tower then it was an instute for children who were bad (some even died there) now it is abandond. so can some on help me????????? I don’t know if it’s a ghost my imaginary friend or just my imagination.
ok well i used to try to hve an imaginary friend when i was little lik wen i got in the car i would pretend to buckle someone in next to me then start answering questions that no one had asked but i think i knew what i was doing and was just pretending and besides the next day i would forget i had an imagianry friend and i wuld make up a new one….but now im 13 and i hve tlked to someone…not real i guess u culd say..u know those mechanical labelers..lik u type sumthin in and then u print it out..well i had gotten one about two years back and had lost it but randomley this year my friend and i found a label tht said hi, luv u…i didnt even know wer my labeler was so it kinda freaked me out..but then the next day i found it under my bed..so we wrote a few labels and left them out such as lik who are you and stuff and then we found two labels the next day one said charlie and another said ellen..ellen was a special name because just a few days b4 this my friends and i had decided to do a play and i was playing a girl named ellen and no one knew about it..then the labels stopped but one day i went on to my website and ther was a comment on ther that said something lik u better stop ellen just leave me alone just stop..i was freaked i hvnt had any other conversations recently but i do often here people run very loudly up and down my stairs and i hear doors opening and closing and recently my bedroom door will just randomly start creaking open slowly…my friends wer over the other day and tht happened..they got so freaked out wen i told them it happens alot now they bolted out of my room..it was really funny the rest of the nite they wuldnt go upstairs alone but anyways is it possible to hve a conversation via labels w/ some supernatural force?????
Around the time I was 5 years old, I would see gruesome human figures standing outside windows of my house looking at me. Often times I would get a very thick, wrenching cold pit in my stomach when I could feel one was watching me, and stubborn as I was I would look up and see it. Sadly, because of how terrified I was at the time, I had repressed it all for years. And even when I remembered it again in my early teens I would forget it all again for a year or two, and it continued this way until I re-remembered it again this past winter.
I’m 24 now, but looking out the window one night I got a very slight cold strange feeling as I peered through the window, and my memories all came rushing back. Due to the repressing of the memories, I can’t remember if the ‘demons’ were moving at all or speaking, or what my reaction was after seeing them, or even how many years this lasted. But I never told anyone until I first rememebred around 12 or 13 yrs old.
I’m open to the possibility of it being a demon(s), but I’m also accepting of the possibility of it being purely imaginary, I just wish I knew for sure. I never had an imaginary friend to my recollection or my mother’s, and I’ve only had “normal” ghost interactions since then, nothing demonic, so I don’t know what to make of it. If they really were demons though, I do wonder if they remained outside if the house was previously blessed. Anyone have any ideas about if I saw real demons or not?
EDIT: Just adding some extra info here.—
I’m trying to remember exactly how the demons looked, and I wanna say their skin was rough or bunched up and dirty with reddish brown perhaps. It’s hard to tell their height since I was so short at the time, plus, if this happened in the house I think it happened in, we may have been on the 2nd floor, so no ground outside of the window… It’s been 20 years since it happened though so my desciption could easily be off.
I can’t recall if this only happened in one house or several places. I don’t yet know the preceived tendancies of demons either, if they prefer to haunt a location or a person or what. Unfortunately for my inner child , I thought what I was seeing was real as it was happening. So even if it wasn’t real, all the fear and terror was real. I hope I’m not messed up with personality flaws because of it! lol =P
wow.i used 2 have an imaginary friend wen i was about 5 yrs old.her name was rosie and she actually turned out to be a real ghost. wat i jus told u is real
wat robert story?
Hey,
The one with the E-mail address me!!!. I dont want to appear rude but imaginary friends are just Imaginary friends and by the way children only have two eyes (UNIVERSAL TRUTH!!!)
My son had an imaginary friend from the time that he was about 2 until he was 4 or 5. It’s name was Bobby and he lived in his bed room. My son slept with my husband and I until his sister was born when he was 3 1/2, so his bedroom was used more as a playroom. He would always talk about Bobby and when he was in his room he would talk to him, and if he happened to do something that got him into trouble he would say, “Bobby told me to,” or “Bobby did it.” So I’m not sure that it was a ghost or just a little boys imagination. He is now 11 and really doesnt every speak of Bobby anymore, but he does remember him.
well im here to tell u that imaginary or not my little girl does have a friend,named angela.angela has been with us since my daughter was 2,she is now 6,will be seven soon and angela is just a part of her as ever.
it all started round 2003 when we moved to a new house,a country house built by the owners father or grandfater,not real sure.my first inpression of the house was not so great either.while looking around for the first times,we decided to see what was in the attic,opening the door to it was a danger in its self,the latter came rushing right at our heads lol i expected a bat,not some old 1920 built wood structure sliding down to behead me.never the less hanging right above the entrentance was some kind of plowing farm thing sharp and ready to fall at any minute.needless to say we closed it up and never opened it again.while living here we had more than a few stories we could tell.but the two that stand out the most are my daughters new friend and my son asking many times if we watch him at night while he sleeps.we never looked in on him more than once,but oftten he would say someone was standing at his door looking at him. i do know that something would pace the fireplace room and the hall but never into the rooms i saw him myself.after a few months we moved,however the friend that we brought with us from there is still here and talked about almost daily by my little girl.and things that she had done or had my daughter do or my daughters imagination has been very real.they have cut her hair daily at one point,locked a kitten in a freezer,thank god i found it, kitty ok.hide to the point where i called 911.locked me out of the house,and when i finnally got the door opened was already pointing to where angela was sitting in the hall laughing at me, she said.the most recent has been my daughter telling me about angelas family and that ghosts are real and they are everywhere,but at her nanas where nana and paw paw wont let them in,my parents have had there house blessed several times.so real or imaginary ?
hey, you have to be careful about these things. This story is completely true. There have been cases where children talk about imaginary friends and it turns out to be a demon trying to possess them! One case related to this topic was about a child who had an imaginary friend who made him do things he didn’t want to do like spit on a picture of Jesus.
me to, my best friend had an imaginary friend named Nicole but I’m not beliving to any imaginary friends but this got to be real . everytime I go to their house,everyting is so weird.That time 8:30 im in her comfort room,while im urinating I was whisteling. And while Im whisteling someone is joining me to whistle I was very scared I fell Ican’t move,Ifell my heart is on my neck.
I believe that some imaginary friends are ghosts. My neice Symantha had something like that happen to her all though she is young and did not realize it. She still says that she was having a sleep over with her friend with the long brown hair. None of her friends fit that description. They talked most of the night and the bed made up for her younger brother Jett Had been slept in all though her brother had slept in his own room that night and was sound asleep when we went to check on them. So yes in my opinion imaginary friends can in fact be ghosts.
I had 2 imaginary friends, but they were just that, imaginary, so apparently not ALL imaginary friends are ghosts, but undoubtedly some of them are.
I have an imaginary friend and I am 12 and a half yrs. old! Her name is Raelyn and she has an imaginary friend and her name is Ashland. And I see them both!!!! They are both good NOT bad. We ALL get along, but sometimes we fight. I thought that ghosts couldn’t touch anything or their hands or feet or wat ever would go through it, but they BOTH proved me wrong their when I met them. We call achother sisters! But the ONLY people that can see them is me and my 1 of my Aunt’s. I love BOTH of them to death!!!! They are the best Spirits or People or wat ever they are that I have ever hung out with. I have pics of them with me at “Wild Adventures”. They go where ever I go and I am perfectly FINE with that because they are the only spirits or people or what ever that are that I can go to when I need somebody, EXCEPT FOR MY MOMMA!! THEY ARE ALWAYS THERE FOR ME WHEN I NEED THEM!!
ok. well…i hope nobody thinks im crazy buuut…when i was about 6-7 or so i was lying in my bed at night with the tv on and everyone was asleep. at the foot of my bed two completely pitch black hands came up and started put on a show with a red ball. i just lay there and stared. they kept coming other days but only when i was alone. when i would call my mom they would go down behind whateer they came up from. they just did magic tricks with red thinks like scarfs or balls. i was really scared of them. i am 14 nw and havent seen them since i was very little. i remembered them one day and got so creeped out i freezed up! lol noone believes or remembers it.
you guys… i have imaginary friends… and theyr’e NOT ghosts. they’re just for funn.
I have an Imanganary friend called rick he is also my guardian angel when i am upset he moves things in my room
imaginary friends are stupid!
i find it freaky having an “imaginary friend” cause most little kids don’t lie well .. in my dad words ; so anywho ; my little cousin would talk to the little boy ; im not sure what is his name but if you look at the virgin mary under her is a little boy and my cousin from mexico would talk to him and well i believed it ! i was amazed when he said my grandfather was going to die and sure enough he did i was like whoa ! and he was like 3 or so ; so young and my grandparents wouldn’t like him saying that but he said that the little boy told him and etc . he also said about my cousin as well ; and my cousin past away like 3 days later or a week i dont remember in a car crash
TAKE THERAPY. IT HELPZ.
THIS WAS VERY MUCH SCARY I DIDNOT THINK IMAGINARY FRIENDS GHOST
I am thirteen years old and I still talk to spirits. At random points in time, I will feel/hear a loud buzzing in my head. I can’t get it to go away, and it sometimes sounds like people screaming words at me all at once…another time that I’ve experienced paranormal activity was when I was in this very room, (Where my computer is…I’m sitting in the spot that this happened.) and I was feeling a bit upset. Well I was thinking about running away, when suddenly a voice from over by my window simple stated the word: “Don’t.” I froze and looked around, but no-one was there. I’ve also had someone say “Maybe so.” right in my ear when I was laying down on a bed in my old home. My old touch-lamp, (the kind where when you touch the metal, it turns on) actually switched on while I was in the shower. No-one had gone into my room, and that never happened again. Another thing that’d happened was I was trying to sleep, and out in the hallway I heard the cabinets in the bathroom closing and opening, and heavy footsteps down the hallway. The noise didn’t stop until I ran downstairs calling out for my grandmother. (I was about eight.)
i am very horrified to listen this story but i don,t really bealive these things (coz i am a muslim) this oly imagination of children but still i know who r these imaginary frnds they r the jins u can even call them ghosts which get inside the toys
Family story is that my grandfather was about 5 years old, living with his family on a farm in Pennsylvania. He would come down to breakfast and every morning the family would ask if he has seen his friend in the upstairs hallway. I don’t recall the name, we’ll say Mr. Smith. And my grandfather would tell about these little small talk conversations. The family would joke with my grandfather about his imaginary friend, and the child would become indignant and insist his friend was real. A couple of times Mr. Smith would give my grandfather messages for the family. Don’t wait until next week to harvest the apples, do it today. And to humor the little boy the family would oblige. A few days later there would be a hail storm that would have ruined the crop. Mr. Smith just sort of slowly made less frequent appearances as my grandfather grew up and focused on other things. When the family sold the farm, a title search was done, and a Mr. Smith turned up as one of the former owners of the property. Seems like if Mr. Smith was a ghost, he was a benevolent one. My mother was born in 1920, so I guess you can figure this all as having taken place around 1900. My grandfather died with my mother was 14, so the story came to me from his older sister, my great aunt. She insisted it was because my grandfather was the 7th son of a 7th son, born with a cawl. (Meaning his mother’s water didn’t break before the birth and he was born with a bit of the placental membrane over his face)
i realy think imagination is cool and for that to happen somthing has to go wrong
althoug i am a muslim i believe that anything can happen
i didnt really care much for imaginary friends…i only made them because all the other kids had them and i would forget about them after like ……five minutes
Yes, in most cases an imaginary friend is just that, but if you do some research and read the experiences and stories of others it becomes clear that they are sometimes more than just imagination
I have an imaginary friend…nd this isnt a joke i swear. Its name is Kitzu. It wouldnt tell me its real name so i call it kitzu. It looks like a fox or a wolf or something like that i am not sure. It came up to me about a week ago in the park and when i tried talking to it, someone came up to me and asked me who i was talking to. It follows me everyhere and at first i was scared and cried a litlle bit. But she is ok company. She never hurt me…but she is starting to follow me to school and i dont want her to hurt my friends…I hope kitzu behaves like I know she can.
By the way, Kitzu is a girl. I call her an “It” sometimes but i think that is upsetting her. She had blue eyes so she looks girly…kind of i am not sure….
In response to simone’s comment. I also have seen the magic black hands. I was young so I don’t really remember. They did the magic tricks with a red ball only. That was not mine. Shortly after that in the same night I saw my mothers nail polish floating through the apartment. It was a big apartment basically my mothers room on the second floor and mine on the first. I have never had imaginary friends. As far as the voices go. I have heard them and still do sometimes. But I will NEVER forget those pitch black hands that night!!
I was haunted by my unborn twin brother for 10 years untill I found out he was my unborn twin brother.I thought he was just my friend,
HEY MY NAME IZ JASMINE WHEN I WAZ ABOUT 12 I HAD A DEMONE IMANGINARY FRIEND THEY WILL MAKE ME DO BAD THING LIKE ASKING ATEAHER OUTT WE WENT OUT FOR OVER AMONTH HER NAME WAZ MS. WILSON THEN WHEN I WAS AT HER HOUZ I SAW A TALL LADY IN A WHITE DREES IN MS. WILSO ROOM I WAZ SCARDED IN I GOT USED TO IT
my little girl is three years old, she usually plays in her room by her self even though she has a liitle sister that is one, but i think that, probably they dont play with each other because of the ae diffrence that is why my three year old daughter play by her self. one day my daughter came runing to me and said that that somebody had scared her. really i didnt think it was something for me to worry about because she was by her self. then a few days later i found her locked in her rooms closet, it was really weird because she would never do that, then out of the no where she started telling me that she wanted to go play at her room because her friend was waiting for her to play, she told me that he comes in through the window and they start playing then that he constantly hits her in the hand that is why im concern about my daughter having a imaginary friend…. please help i dont know what to do….
THIS STORY THAT I WILL TELL IS THE SOLEM TRUTH AS GOD KNOWS IT ! One hot summer night me and my special uncle were sitting reading a story , me to him because he was slow. The night was hot and the surrounding farms lights were all turned off, Then out of nowhere a MARCHING BAND started to play ! we could both hear the trumpets , drums bang , the marchers marching feet stump . We could hear it from far away . coming up our hillside farmhouse . I said to my uncle HUSH….HUSH…NO DOGS WERE BARKING , NO LIGHTS WERE TURNED ON FROM THE FARM HOUSES . NOTHING ~ NO ONE HEARD A THING….NOTHING . THE BAND KEPT COMING UP THE MOUNTAIN YET WE COULD NOT SEE THE MARCHING BAND !! IT CAME CLOSER AND CLOSER TILL IT CAME INSIDE OUR LIVINGROOM THRU OUR BIG WINDOW. AND WE STAYED HOLDING HANDS IN AMAZEMENT . THE INVISIBLE BAND MARCHED OUT THE KITCHEN . AND OUR PARENTS DIDNT WAKE UP TO NOTHING . AS OF THIS DAY I STILL REMEMBER >>>>> THE MARCHING BAND ,<<<<< this was in the late 60's
I had an imaginary friend. He was very nice and sweet..he looked like a doll that my sister had, and was a little bit shorter than me. With very pretty blue eyes, bald and wearing a baby blue outfit. I would have my mom make room for him at the table and I would constantly see him…i lived in the roof, even though we did not have an attic; he just…lived in the roof.
I dont think him and I went outside..at least I dont remember him ever leaving the house, I could be wrong, but I dont remember it, as i am 23 now.
Everything was good between him and I, but when I turned 5 yrs old, for some reason he turned evil. He wanted to kill me and I remember running away from him. His eyes changed color and his hair grew, it was brown.
I was terrified of him at the end…I still remember him.