Can you see your imaginary friend

So I finally just broke down and called him and I said I don't know what to do. I need your help. But we need to talk tomorrow. Well, I get home and over the front door, he was very big into anointing things with oil.

Down here in the South, they will actually make crosses with oil: they'll anoint people's foreheads, they'll anoint cars if you get a new car, anything. They love to anoint things with oil down here.

So I come home and over my front door is a cross in oil. He's oiled a cross over my front door. And then we go inside and over the windows, the walls, bathroom mirrors, all through the house, are these crosses in oil, which is a little freaky.

It kind of unnerved me still coming home but it almost felt peaceful. We never had another issue with Kellum.

As a matter of fact, after that happened, I don't recall her ever telling me that Kellum came to play with her again. Amory: But the loss of Kellum, also meant a loss of innocence, in a way, for Madison.

Madison: I never had another imaginary friend again. It was just kind of all over from there. Kellie: Of course, I got a good preaching to the next day about how, you know, I watched trash television and listened to secular music and I'd invited the devil into the home and all this kind of stuff.

You brought this thing into your house. But I got rid of it for you. Amory: Do you actually believe that, Kellie? Do you believe that you somehow invited a spirit into your house? Kellie: I don't know. I can't imagine that the things that I'd gone through as a kid, the things that I knew, would deter a spirit from coming around us. But I also don't believe that it was my fault that something was absolutely terrifying my child that night.

I don't believe that, no. Ben: But Kellie has also never stopped wondering about who Kellum was. And why he came to her house to play with her 3 year-old, Madison.

Kellie: I only thought you could look up like family names on Ancestry. And so we put in my property and we also put in property around, probably within I would say a good half a mile of my home.

And what we found out was that the property that was adjacent to ours in , it was bought by the Beasley family. And the thing that just absolutely made my blood run cold was when we pulled up the property history and we found out that the man who bought the property in , his name was Callum Beasley, C-A-L-L-U-M. I just got chill bumps. His name was Callum Beasley. Ben: Callum Probably even more so to a 3 year-old. Kellie: No! Kellie: And Kinga. Boyfriend and Girlfriend.

I just thought it was an odd name. So then when I saw that actual name come up on the search for the property, I'd swear I felt every bit of the blood drain out of my face. Well thanks for giving me a nightmare. Kellie says the records she found on Ancestry. The youngest was named Madeline. She died when she was 3 years old. The same age Madison was when Kellum showed up. Kellie: And it almost makes me wonder, was this his way of connecting to something? Did he think this was his kid?

It just, there was just too much of a coincidence for us to not sit up and take notice as like, OK, this is this is a little more than a coincidence at this point. Ben: Kellie and Madison moved out almost 3 years ago. But they remember the Beasley property.

It was behind their house. Kellie: Just a big open field. Just literally a big open field. There were no buildings, there were no houses, not at the time that I knew it. Madison: I can recall one night — or I think it was after school one day — I had walked to the back of the property where that area was and I saw dairy cows.

Black and white cows with tags on their ears. They were healthy. Maybe they were imaginary? Ben: Imaginary cows. Kellie: I did reach out to one of the women in the family. Helpful tips. Can you have an imaginary friend at 14? Is having an imaginary girlfriend normal? How do I get rid of my imaginary girlfriend? Can you have imaginary friends at 20? Can you have an imaginary friend at 16?

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Imaginary friends usually retreat by around age 9 — but some linger, and that's okay. Most of the time, imaginary friends tend to go away on their own as children become more invested with playing with their real peers. Most imaginary friends fade as childhood fades. In some cases, the friend doesn't truly go away, but the child will stop talking about him for fear of being made fun of. If your kid holds on to her imaginary friend for longer, there isn't reason to worry.

Markham adds. But if the teen is managing their life well, then an imaginary friend isn't a problem. In fact, some choose to keep their imaginary friends into adulthood. She knows the tiger isn't real, but when she feels scared, the tiger reassures her and helps her feel less anxious. While June and her family were recently on a road trip, Salad hung back in Berkeley.

But her existence, Sale believes, is helping June learn about friendship and storytelling. The novelist K. Hoyle, 36, believes that Ed, who has the head of a vampire and the body of a fish, serves as a form of wish fulfillment for Edmund, who used to go by Ed. He wants Ed to have what he doesn't have, apparently.

Though Hoyle and her family live in Alabama, Ed resides in South Dakota, in a giant house occupied by ghosts. Hoyle credits this detail to a road trip the family took to Badlands National Park last summer.