Does your child have an imaginary friend? Maybe you had an
imaginary friend yourself when you were a child. Psychologists will
tell you that there are several reasons why a young one may concoct
an imaginary friend. Sometimes a young child just needs to have a
special friend. Their imagination is very vivid and can seem almost
real to them. Sometimes they create an imaginary friend to keep
them company and share their thoughts, someone who will always
listen to them. In most cases psychologists are probably correct in
their explanations. Could it be possible that some children's
imaginary friends may be more than just products of their own
imagination? What if a supernatural entity such as a ghost somehow
made contact with a child? Especially if very young a child would
not think anything out of the ordinary. They would see the entity
as being real and in most cases would be unafraid. Since the adults
would most likely not be open to recognizing or perceiving the
ghostly entity it would be assumed that the child simply had a
vivid imagination.
Believe it or not there have been cases where an imaginary friend
did in fact turn out to be something more. What would you think if
your child met an imaginary friend soon after you moved into an old
house? Your daughter has a name for her imaginary friend and can
even tell you things about them like where they died.
I am sure that you would be a little concerned about her ascribing
a death to her friend though she claims to see them and talk with
them daily. She may even bring them to the dinner table.
Now, lets say that you become concerned enough by some of the
statements that your child makes about her friend that you decide
to ask questions around the neighborhood. One of the neighbors
informs you that a child by that name did live in that very house
but that she had died years ago. When the circumstances surrounding
her death is explained to you, you realize that your daughter had
real information from somewhere about what had occurred.
As amazing as it my seem to many of us there can be no doubt that
something much more than imagination was at play here. If her
friend was truly a product of her own imagination how did she know
the name? How did she come to know other aspects about the girl's
life and her death?
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