Here Are 50 Of The Most Hilarious And Slightly Creepy Stories About Kids’ Imaginary Friends
Having an imaginary friend is a totally normal part of childhood. It shows that the kid’s imagination is up and running and sometimes it can be quite hilarious how they interact with their invisible friends. Often the “friends” are the ones to blame for the troubles the little kids have gotten into, or they entertain them and share their daily life. However, when there’s what seems like paranormal forces involved together with a vivid imagination, it gets slightly scary and parents at least have Twitter to share the frightful things kids say with others.
At the end of the day, haunted or not, adorable or creepy kids and their imaginary friends are pretty hilarious and the following are the best tweets from the viral thread online. You can share your hilarious or scary stories about kids’ imaginary friends in the comments.
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I am not shocked or surprised. I am happy for you. I believe if more people opened their minds and REALLY listened to children without immediately dismissing things profound or mysterious, we would know more about many things beyond the here and now on Earth. A lot if these revelations come forth before the child reaches an age where their current adult memory kicks in (most adults 30+ years of age can track REAL memory to around age 4-5 with only blips prior to that). I don't think that is a coincidence....
No! it's not sad. It made her happy, so how can it be sad?
Load More Replies...They say little kids can see things we can't before they are convinced it isn't real.
This reminds me of a conversation my uncle started with my dad, he has a toddler that mumbles to herself and the walls. My dad asks why she does that and my uncle says I don't know maybe she talks to the dead. My dad then says "Have you ever thought that your dead, I mean it's a possibility that she talks to the dead so maybe that's why she talks to you because your dead. Although we can talk to you so maybe we can talk to the dead too."
Now that is some scary stuff right there.
Load More Replies...They’re not imaginary enemies. What, you never argued with your friends?
Wait hold on, if it starts getting to the point of pounding on walls and thumps you need to get you and your kid out of there now! and if u hear another voice then its to late...
"Sure just let daddy put the house up for sale real quick" lmao, I would've been like we can sleep in the car, Mommy has to burn the house down real quick, go get your sister up.
First thing that popped into my head: " Hi, Rin Okumura! How may I help you?"
Load More Replies...My sister described a man she saw sitting on her bed as wearing a black suit with a hat and having red skin. She claimed to see him a few times but no one else did.... Until the day we were outside waiting for her and I went to find out what was keeping her, and found her sitting on the side of the bed, afraid to move, with the red-skinned man in black sitting beside her.... Maybe knowing someone else finally saw him broke the connection or whatever it was, because neither of us ever saw him again.
so...he is playing with his friends dead body.....they should make a movie of this
Could be worse. I used to be a live-in nanny. “Jane’s” imaginary friend crawled into the oven while I cleaned the cake batter I accidentally spilled off the inside of the door. It took Jane 10 minutes to realize her friend was missing.
Well that's traumatizing. At least you don't have to look and or dispose of the body
Wow, this one is intriguing. It would be even creepier if there actually were two people with those names, relationships and exact death.
https://oklahoman.com/article/2048745/navy-plane-found-16-years-after-crash Idk, this is the closest one I could find. Two half-brothers, ones last name was Cole, the other one was called Gerald, Cole died in a plane accident.
Load More Replies...Many children remember their old lifes. When they get older, they forget.
I think this is a case of reincarnation and the kid is remembering his past life.
I'm so terrified right now... I just googled this crash and Its a real thing😰😱
My past life was nearly identical to the one I'm in now. I have deja vu and dreams all the time.
Car crash means not THAT long a time ago. There seems to be a pattern wherein reincarnation happens about 40 yeas upon the onset of sudden death. Residual memories of past lives evaporate off by age 5, typically. It might be worth the research to find out who your kid was, in a previous life. For a helluva story, if nothing else.
some people actually do remember their past lives sometimes i have dreams about what mine might have been it is an on gong dream i have
Maybe name is Barbara? I mean-if its a ghost, that name fits lol & scary as f*#k
Then you realized Bubbaha was you, and your daughter warned all the kids in town about you.
bubbaha is a name from budhism so they might have picked up the name from tv somewhere and kept it as a name for the imaginary friend because it sounds funny
Omg how did he do that? Edit: Oh, wow! thanks for the likes! honestly don't really care about likes (no offense you guys are awesome!) but still impressed. most I've ever got is 3 so... yeah... thank you!
More inconvenient than inviting all his imaginary friends to his own birthday party I guess.
Ummm why? Votes don't matter. Please don't make this place another Instagram where everyone's thirsty for likes.
Load More Replies...Yeah! I wish I had a family ghost. I have many dead people that I have known.
Load More Replies...He failed to pay the Exorcist on time and got repossessed. 😈
Load More Replies...Maybe the kid just gave general details of the friend so they assumed it was imaginary :P idk
Load More Replies...That sounds like a stand-up comedy routine: "I had a rough childhood. I was always the imaginary friend..."
I want to know what happened! Did a ghost come to the door? Did a old man answer, then start crying because Stephan was his son that died at a young age? Did they just keep on driving? Did someone called Stephen actually answer the door? The possibilites are endless.
“Okay son, let’s go see Stephen.” They knocked on the door and were invited in, and were never heard from again. They were forgotten, and no criminal charges were ever brought and no investigation was made. Thirty years later: “Mom, can we stop at the pink house and see Stephen?”
Load More Replies...Whoa... and sadly I probably would've knocked to see if Stephen did indeed live there at one point.
Yes, that would be almost irresistible, wouldn't it? But so creepy if he did live there...
Load More Replies...Did not mean to reply to yours sorry
Load More Replies...*hands the children each an iPhone 90000000 Pro Max Ultra Plus edition with 19 cameras on the back*
Load More Replies...one kid: PRETEND STRAWBERRY YOGURT! other kid: NO! PRETEND MASHED CARROTS!
I love the creepy imaginary friend (or ghost?!) stories, but these ones that are no doubt actually imaginary friends are great as well.
I have a lion named Leopold on my Acnh island, and I call him Leo! Sorry, that just came to me when I read that Leo was a lion.
In a new country, come on kids, lets burn down the house
Load More Replies...So this bitch Stacy possessed your daughters body because she Doesn’t have one then climbs on walls? Sounds like a true Spider-Man fan right there
If your child ever decides to kick Stacy out.. I’m here to look after her!
All I can say is get behind me Satan in the name of Jesus...the only one who has conquered sin, death, hell, and the grave. No thanks. nope. The thought is just bad wow.
burning down a house can actually sometimes make the ghost angrier i saw it on a documentary
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Love this comment! Wish I could upvote 1000 times 😂😂😂
Load More Replies...For some reason, when I read Waffles, it reminded me of a dead duck egg I buried. The thing is, its name wasn't even Waffles. It was Banana Toffee Pancake (I named it that because my mom was unpacking the trunk and had a box of banana toffee pancake mix in it).
Where can I buy this pancake mix?.. Also, sorry for the loss if your egg.
Load More Replies...this is the way we burn the tree, early in the morning
Load More Replies...A two year old doesn't comprehend this kind of imagination yet- because he/she's two. Soo it's extremely creepy when you hear of 2/3 year olds saying these things.
Maybe sharp fingers are the bones of their fingers?! Geez. That's terrifying
Oh dear God! Why am I putting myself through reading this entire article?
I'm reading it at 1am with a horror movie playing for background noise lol
Load More Replies...Check local papers and records to see if the kid’s picking up on something.
The way this post has been going I’d be surprised if she wasn’t dead.
Load More Replies...her daughter:no that's the name, not important is her name
I love your username lmao and honestly though I feel she did that on purpose
Load More Replies...Extra plot twist: Hallie was hanged there, that's why she likes to hang out.
I have a 24 year old girl ghost named Kaitlyn who follows me around and hates when I drink. I'm 62.
Ask the day care owner if there ever was a Hallie there, even before the house/building was the day care, and if there was, ask when and how she died.
stupid "is the s bad word" (was) to my sister, when she was younger. LOL
why do people always assume the ghost is evil? it could be a nice ghost!
Load More Replies...I immediately thought of Freddy Fazbear; 🤣🤣 anyone else? Like maybe Nightmare Freddy??
That was kinda me as a kid... I always wanted an imaginary friend but alas, I was not amongst the lucky ones
You're not alone. All my cousins had imaginary friends, but I didn't and I felt super left out.
Load More Replies...I didn't have one either, which is surprising as I had an otherwise overactive imagination.
I'm pretty sure he's saying it was the kid....small and speaking a foreign language...but it appeared creep in the dark.
Load More Replies...The dad is not Polish but the mom is. Because it's dark at night he sees his own son as but a shadow, hearing unfamiliar sounds. Seems ghostly when you're half asleep but no ghost.
Load More Replies...You need a plan, I have one for you, Move, ask a person with a wrecking ball to destroy the house, and take the pices of wood left and burn them
Well he's the one who gets me chips and candy. i eat it at night mommy.
Load More Replies...Time to try and remember the name of this this poor old neighbour who died alone some years ago and whom you completely frogot about.
Hopefully the school won't find out about his two others, Crackhead and Junkie.
This is a perfect time to find out about a totally different culture. Ask her questions about her imaginary friend, where does she live, does she live in a house, who is her family, lots of good questions
Absolutely! Let's not rush straight to the exorcist...maybe she's haunted by the ghost of a dentist? Could save a lot of money.
Load More Replies...phhth hahahhahahahah mouthwash. not the name, the word mouthwash.
I would do that. Just straight up forget and he would die and I'd be like, "Oh, well, whatever."
a 50yo man who lies on your bed? where did that idea come from? How did you kid even manage to come up with something like that?
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, here lies the goldfish that never existed(maybe it’s from another dimension or something).
If I were that age, I'd just be like, straight up, "he drowned. In the water. After he got a concussion." At the funeral: Me: He was a great and loved fish. He swam, and ate chocolates that i dropped in his bowl. After my dog died for 7 minutes from eating a Lindor chocolate, I realized something. I realized something so terrifying it made my heart tremble. It was at the age of 3 when I realized Jesus as my lord and savior. At 5 when I graduated college. At 10 when I ate a snail and almost suffocated. I realized that just because Bubbles was gone, this does NOT mean I will grow up, having mental breakdowns after my own child saw me eat a gas station hot dog in my van I was about to kidnap my child's crushes mother in. That will NOT be the case. I refuse to let the death of my beloved baby define me. I will rise. And I'll kidnap the father instead. My mother:👁️👄👁️
i had a fish and it died from the cold supprisingly not from my cat and i came home and my dad tol me and i started cring i also had a turtle who dissapered
Quantum Leap - which would be the same Scott Bakula as the other two. But I'm confused as the invisible friend was call Al - Scott played Dr Samuel Beckett who children could see as himself - I'm confused now...
Load More Replies...its probably you no offense i mean all parents need caffeine a huge llot of it
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Oh God...... I'm a little worried right now...... ¨Ishi was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century¨ Born: September 1861 Died: March 25, 1916
Interesting choice of names on daughter's part. There was a famous native american named ishi (from Wikipedia): Ishi was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century.
i told my sister that our mom and dad are not her real parents. Mom gets calls from lil sis's 'real parents' in NYC about 2wice a week 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
no i thin she wasnt adopted it think it was just a joke that she kinda beleves
don't make fun of imaginary relationships, I used to have one...
Load More Replies...He was already texting too much when he died in a car crash. He's lucky to have found this imaginary friend job with your daughter after that, and you would expect he had learned the lesson about texting too much by now.
Has anyone seen Drop Dead Fred? Drop dead Fred is an imaginary friend to an adult, but it started when she was a kid.
My grandmother says that my sister had that in her first house(that was haunted)and my sister says that she I scared that she had played with the ghost
Then the imaginary friend must be cast out and directed to go towards the light where everything is wonderful and there's lots of candy.
Someone seems to have made some experience with mean imaginary friends :D
Load More Replies...My Daughter had an imaginary tiger that she was scared of. Lots of chasing it away at night. Then we watched the Jungle Book and she learned tigers are afraid of bears, so as long as there is a stuffed teddy in each corner of the bed, we are fine.
She's learning by herself about conflictual situations in relationships and testing her own response capacity, which is easier than doing it the hard way with other real kids, maybe.
Or maybe Sparkles is just too OP... though your daughter COULD just give them something to nerf them.. ._.
when i was 3 my mom said she whold wake up at 3 am and see me talking to the wall she asked me "who are you talking to" i said turning around "my friend" we moved out that house aloooooong time ago i think it was hunted to
Am i the only one who thought she said that because she or her imaginary friend think her parent is a toy ?
Bob is such a great name! I use Larry a lot too. Specifically for shower caps made for food.
Load More Replies...I hope Alien Bob gets along well with your imaginary boyfriend and they talk to get to know each other. He's a bit like his stepfather after all.
it gets creepy as my son starts playing with his friend he tells he can see him everywhere whereas all my family members do not see him
that bad part is if your family would be able to see him but you couldn't...
Load More Replies...With your avatar, no WONDER. (hOW MUCH DOES HE WEIGH?) Your son.. not his friend. (and you, also.)
I mean... better safe than sorry. If it IS a demon, you know how to get rid of it. If not, then you're just being a slightly overprotective parent.
Nah, Lamerock just got assigned to another kid once your daughter got too old for him.
my little brother has an imaginary friend that is named special. Actually, he has a lot of imaginary friends but he calls them special friends. Sometimes he asks to borrow some board games so he can play with his special friends, and he has some mean special friends that he kills when they are mean to me or other special friends. (the killing goes like this. Ben says, "Kill! Kill! Then he says, "He is dead." Actually not very violent.)
I just read an amazing book called Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, by Matthew D***s. If you're interested in such phenomena, you should read it. It's kind of fantasy, kind of not. I loved it.
Must be related to “Nobody”, who used to run in our house when I was little, and get blamed if something got knocked off a table. (Mom: Who knocked the lamp off the table? Me: Nobody. Mom: Hmm, seems like Nobody is always doing stuff they shouldn’t. Me: Yep!)
We had a "ghost" that lived beside the hotwater tank named "Not Me". Every time my mom would ask "Who did (whatever)?!?", the answer was always a resounding "Not me!!" from all 6 of us kids lol
I had an imaginary friend. He was a baby crocodile and he had no skin but he wore a diaper. I pushed a swing for him all the time. Unfortunately, I cannot remember his name.
Perhaps not....but he remembers yours and knows where you live.
Load More Replies...I used to have an imaginary friend. her name was holly. when I was really young I would tell people not to sit next to me because holly was there. sometimes I feel like she still follows me around because she'd always be there when I was sad.
i used to have so many imaginary friends and i named the first one Mr. Nobody. i think most of them were on vacation all the time, im not sure..
Sometimes parents will get extra food for their imaginary friend- I don't have an imaginary friend but I should make one up so I get extra of my favorites, and say my imaginary friend is not hungry when my mom makes disgusting food.
Edit: The parents will get food for the kid's imaginary friend, not the parents own imaginary friend.
Load More Replies...Parent: *makes plate for daughter's imaginary friend* *Them knowing it's just a waste of food.*
No, both are equally likely. Why would you think it would be just girls?
Load More Replies...What? It is literally someone with a mistaken bit of information. Why on earth would you think it was necessary to pull this covering crap on? People are allowed opinions. What IS this covering rubbish for? If people are so easily offended how on earth do they cope with the rest of the world?
Load More Replies...2 dads...thats pretty dope. I dont have a dad. but i mean like idc he wasn't a good one anyway
I feel really bad for you I would never feel how you would because I have two dads because y parents got divorced but it's probably bad
Load More Replies...Be pleased. It also may be a sign early on that your son is gay, in which case support him if he is! ❤️🏳️🌈
It's not what you said, it's how you said it. Imaginary friends are easily offended. Check Facebook and Twitter for proof.
Oh s**t! It just dawned on me that there’s a whole generation of adults who STILL have imaginary friends—-hundreds of them. Some of them have thousands or millions. Cripes.
Load More Replies...So, what’s the problem? I mean, this could be BS, or an actual problem.
And content, until she says... my friend said you ate their desert!
Load More Replies...Thought you were going to say you kicked the imaginary friend out for not paying rent.
My daughter played with a square of toilet paper when she was 3 years old for a entire weekend. Pushed it in a stroller and placed it in a baby crib. Its name was "Friend Towel" lol
Ours had a pasta jar lid... she could distinguish it from all the other pasta jar lids
Load More Replies...Mine was a red balloon I named after my favorite comedian on TV. I was a little off on the name but Red Skeleton and I had a great time.
annabelle the doll people, from the conjuring universe. in real life it's a raggedy ann doll.
Why is that creepy? It has something to do with the name I think but why is anna creepy? I used to have a friend named anna.
I think maybe the name might make it creepy, but I really don't know
Load More Replies...Old named imaginary friends for kids 3-4yrs old always makes me think ghost. Scary stuff lol
or Uncle Owen from Star Wars, who burnt into a crisp
Load More Replies...Bruh screw imaginary people. My sister had an entire imaginary land, complete with 2 civiliations at war with each other. TBF, my sister keeps this up at age 8, and she no longer believes in it she just likes making up the stories. And she created the war at 8, and the civilizations at 5 or 6. But she always had Mr. Nobody, who had a wife woth my name, and a lot of children who are still aloud depsite the fact the my siste rwas forced to execute Mr. and Mrs. Nobody. No, she hasn't had any childhood trauma, and who the heck called child protection services. Oh, and one of them can change his age and like sitting on my head.
This is amazing! Have you read any Lord of the Rings? I feel sure you have that's the first thing I thought of when I read about the different civilizations, races and map.
Load More Replies...Imagine all the imaginary friends gathered together, and a photo was taken so you could see all of them. How unique and different they would be. 📸
Many wayward spirits get trapped in the space between our world and the other. This is where we get haunting from. Children are all newly returned to life and in order to be born they all have to pass through this limbo space. Often it leaves a residual, like walking through a spider web. Over time the web or veil fades, but before it does, ghosts or spirits can interact with them. Being children, they play, mostly harmlessly.
i remember i had a imaginary friend and his name was elephant and yes he was an elephant, but one time i crashed my dirt bike and i told my mom that "elephant" made me crash
I used to have an imaginary friend named Lily, who lived in Colodado Springs. I was about 4-5 and I didn't know that Colorado Springs is where we lived at th time. I gave her a seat in the car, and shared my food with her. Something creepy my mom told me about Lily was... So one day I was talking to myself and stared a mirror. My mom came over and she's like " Are you having a nice conversation with yourself? " in a joking way. ( I dont remember this AT ALL ) So I'm like " Not with myself, can't you see Lily and her brother Nightmare in the wall? They say its the only way I can talk to them! ( through the mirror )" My mom looked horrified and I then said " Nightmare said you and daddy look very nice while your sleeping too! " My mom took sold the mirror and sold it the next day.Me now, Im like " Bro thats so creepy "
My little sister had 3 imaginary friends. Tinny with the black hair, Tinny with the red hair and Tinny with the blonde hair. For years she would tell us stories about each of them until we randomly noticed that she stopped talking about Tinny w/ red hair, so we asked her and she said, "Tinny with the red hair died in a fire." Then she just skipped off.
When my daughter was not quite 3, she had an imaginary friend named Miss Manning. Asked to describe her, she said, “She’s tall like Mommy, with a black dress and a black hat. And sometimes I can see what’s behind her. And she’s sad sometimes.” Me: “Why is she sad?” Daughter: “Because she doesn’t get to live anymore.”
I had an imaginary mouse named Mitzi, and she came with me everywhere.
Load More Replies...I feel like I’m the only one who didn’t have an imaginary friend, of course when I was younger I’d talk to myself, actually I did that a lot. (Maybe still do) But it was always me just talking to myself, no imaginary person and I was fully aware it was just me talking to myself.
Bruh screw imaginary people. My sister had an entire imaginary land, complete with 2 civiliations at war with each other. TBF, my sister keeps this up at age 8, and she no longer believes in it she just likes making up the stories. And she created the war at 8, and the civilizations at 5 or 6. But she always had Mr. Nobody, who had a wife woth my name, and a lot of children who are still aloud depsite the fact the my siste rwas forced to execute Mr. and Mrs. Nobody. No, she hasn't had any childhood trauma, and who the heck called child protection services. Oh, and one of them can change his age and like sitting on my head.
This is amazing! Have you read any Lord of the Rings? I feel sure you have that's the first thing I thought of when I read about the different civilizations, races and map.
Load More Replies...Imagine all the imaginary friends gathered together, and a photo was taken so you could see all of them. How unique and different they would be. 📸
Many wayward spirits get trapped in the space between our world and the other. This is where we get haunting from. Children are all newly returned to life and in order to be born they all have to pass through this limbo space. Often it leaves a residual, like walking through a spider web. Over time the web or veil fades, but before it does, ghosts or spirits can interact with them. Being children, they play, mostly harmlessly.
i remember i had a imaginary friend and his name was elephant and yes he was an elephant, but one time i crashed my dirt bike and i told my mom that "elephant" made me crash
I used to have an imaginary friend named Lily, who lived in Colodado Springs. I was about 4-5 and I didn't know that Colorado Springs is where we lived at th time. I gave her a seat in the car, and shared my food with her. Something creepy my mom told me about Lily was... So one day I was talking to myself and stared a mirror. My mom came over and she's like " Are you having a nice conversation with yourself? " in a joking way. ( I dont remember this AT ALL ) So I'm like " Not with myself, can't you see Lily and her brother Nightmare in the wall? They say its the only way I can talk to them! ( through the mirror )" My mom looked horrified and I then said " Nightmare said you and daddy look very nice while your sleeping too! " My mom took sold the mirror and sold it the next day.Me now, Im like " Bro thats so creepy "
My little sister had 3 imaginary friends. Tinny with the black hair, Tinny with the red hair and Tinny with the blonde hair. For years she would tell us stories about each of them until we randomly noticed that she stopped talking about Tinny w/ red hair, so we asked her and she said, "Tinny with the red hair died in a fire." Then she just skipped off.
When my daughter was not quite 3, she had an imaginary friend named Miss Manning. Asked to describe her, she said, “She’s tall like Mommy, with a black dress and a black hat. And sometimes I can see what’s behind her. And she’s sad sometimes.” Me: “Why is she sad?” Daughter: “Because she doesn’t get to live anymore.”
I had an imaginary mouse named Mitzi, and she came with me everywhere.
Load More Replies...I feel like I’m the only one who didn’t have an imaginary friend, of course when I was younger I’d talk to myself, actually I did that a lot. (Maybe still do) But it was always me just talking to myself, no imaginary person and I was fully aware it was just me talking to myself.
