Comments on: Strange Experiences with Imaginary Friends

By: Breanna

Breanna — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:39:55 +0000

inxxy’s comment gave me a kind of eerie feeling.. Knowing that it could possibly be those people that came to you as imaginary friends as a child.. Who knows what those chains could mean or what kind of foul play happened there..

0 likes

By: Some Kid

Some Kid — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:44:43 +0000

OMG! I thought the same thing! when u said bearded i thought that u were seeing him ……………………………………………… Anyway i dont think that he likes u talking about him he is still with u. He might be trying to tell u how he died, also. Anyway, when in a room alone, ask him if he is there and………… i guess u could thank him for staying with u all the time like a guardian angel or something. U may not get a response but he hears u.

0 likes

By: inxxy

inxxy — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:18:47 +0000

Timothy Lincoln Beckwith (born October 14, 1968) is the son of Annamarie Hoffman and once was thought to be the son of her husband Robert Todd Lincoln …

This was off wikipedia when i searched google for timothy&lincoln… thought you might find that interesting….

0 likes

By: savana

savana — Sun, 02 May 2010 14:20:50 +0000

I used to have many prentend friends but when my little brother died they went away.SUPER WIERD,BUT i love this story

0 likes

By: grim reaper

grim reaper — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:06:04 +0000

My cousin has this so called imaginary friend called Augustine…But I’m not very sure whether he is real or not….though he seems so real.She seems very serious about it and takes him everywhere.Before this-to us-he was nothing but a figment of her imagination,but now I think he may not just be in her head.How do I differentiate between imagination and reality?How did your relatives/those around you actually find out?Should i ask her to command to him to show some signs through movements like slamming doors shut or is it too risky?She started this ‘Augustine’ business only when they shifted into a new house-pretty old-at least a 100 or so.This place was infested with French folks,once upon a time and Augustine is a French name…so is my cousin.I dont really know…any suggestions?

0 likes

By: savannah

savannah — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:14:55 +0000

I am currently 13 and still have imaginary friends. and one day my bf came over to my house and when we went into my room he was staring at my bed and said i thought i was the only one over today when i turned around my imaginary friend casy was sitting there and i looked at my bf and said you can see him to? He told me he always saw me with that kid but never heard me mention anything about him. Creepy huh?

0 likes

By: Niki

Niki — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:23:13 +0000

Why do you think you stopped seeing both of them after Timothy walked you home?

0 likes

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:59:52 +0000

i might be thinking this but ive seen a girl maybe the age of 10 in a white hospitak gown with black hair outside of my front door….

0 likes

By: creepymemory

creepymemory — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:49:05 +0000

First off, thank you all for your comments and personal stories of imaginary friends. They are much appreciated.

As for what was written…
I wonder about the whole slave-master dynamic…
It’s funny. I never thought about connecting Lincoln to the Civil War or Timothy to slavery.

Timothy appeared as a white boy about age 7. His chains were quite distinct… metal rings at the neck, wrists, and ankles-and a chain connecting them to his mid-section. He never seemed encumbered by them.

I was concerned that I encountered some kind of spirit(s)… or demons. Looking back, I feel as if I was worked over by a “good cop/bad cop” duo, with Timothy being the good cop & Lincoln the bad one.

However…
with Ginklings mention of the Civil War, I started thinking about my family history. I do not think that I am descended from slave owners–my people were poor coal miners (one side native american indian, the other came to the states in the 1840s) but my mother was born in a former plantation house that had been abandoned in the Appalachian Mountains… one that had slave quarters off to the side. My mother said that she remembers all kinds of paranormal activity going on there… weird lights glowing in the window by the dining room, and some ghost was supposed to be seen at night in the slave quarters. They moved out when she was 7 or 8, and she was happy to leave that place behind.

I wonder if something had followed her from that place…? A lot of weird, violent acts have taken place out that way. The isolation of the landscape breeds it. We lived on a farm, but it was not so very isolated.

Tonight, I asked whatever entities they were to forgive any disturbances that me or my family might have caused them. I hope that they find peace (and do not latch onto any other children… it was a weird, and ultimately disturbing relationship).

I guess that it’s all an enigma that I’ll wonder about until my dying day!

0 likes

By: blondie

blondie — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:37:55 +0000

At a young age a childs mind can be open to such things as spirits and imaginary friends, without being scared. As the child does not yet know these things are not considered to be a usual accurance.

I too am glad that Lincoln and Timothy were not my imaginary friends. I think they were probably spirits, because i had an imaginary friend as a child but he was a monkey!
I can vaguely remember him, his name was just ‘monkey’. My best friend at the time (we were about 4 years old) used to get cross with me when we played dolls because i used to insist on pushing around an empty pram with my imaginary monkey in it!!

I think our friends were different in the way that ‘monkey’ was just a figure of my imagination and nothing more. Although i did used to sense spirits as a child and have seen one and for me these were entirely diffrent things.

Thanks for sharing

0 likes

By: Camille

Camille — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:00:11 +0000

From what I can gather from the situation regarding Lincoln and Timothy, it seems that
Lincoln would be an authority figure a “king”.
Timothy is a subserviant figure “peasent/slave”
It is likely they are linked by the “chain” due to the fact that Lincoln is responsible for
Timothy’s demise.
Possibley Timothy was executed for some crime. Later it is found that he was innocent
of the offense. But due to Lincoln causing his death, Timothy is linked to him forever.
Always a reminder of what he caused to have happen to an innocent person.
This is my take on them.
I am very glad that they were not my imaginary friends!
Thank you for sharing your story.

0 likes

By: electric boy

electric boy — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:02:48 +0000

that was kinda weird and interesting.I thought you meant by Abraham Lincoln, cause like he died by getting shot by john will booth.

0 likes

By: Ginkling

Ginkling — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:55:53 +0000

Hi, I think imaginary friends are common for many small children, but they “grow out” of them and often do not even remember them. I have always wondered if most “imaginary” friends weren’t spirits seen by children whose minds are still very open. Yours seem very real as you had physical evidence, such as doors closing when asked, etc.

I have stories of my own regarding this that I will share in a separate post.

Did you ever try to get some history on the area where you grew up, and see if you could find out any info regarding Timothy? Do you think he was a murdered slave? I am curious as to why his chains linked him to Lincoln.

Thanks for sharing your story.

0 likes