This is a 100% true story. I will never forget it.
When I was around 11 and my little sister was 3 years old, she used to play with imaginary friends. If I can recall correctly, their names were Joseph, Lily and Gloria. Apparently, Gloria was the oldest and my sister would always get so upset with her because she wasn’t allowed to have fun. Gloria made the rules and if she didn’t go to bed on time or do her pre-school homework, she’d get in trouble with her. I always thought it was hilarious watching my little sister talk to her “friends” because she was adorable and watching her conversing with herself just made me laugh. My Mom didn’t find it weird and wasn’t about to send her to therapy for it because her imaginary friends seemingly had a positive influence on her. They kept her busy, she listened to Gloria when she told her to clean her room, etcetera.
After a while, we had a couple encounters of her blaming things she’d done wrong on Joseph and Lily, my Mom started to get really upset because she wouldn’t take responsibility for her actions. We let them go because she was only still a toddler. On my sister’s 4th birthday, we went to my grandparents to eat cake. It wasn’t a huge party, just a couple relatives. While my Mom and Grandma were on the back porch smoking and I was in the living room playing my gameboy, there was a crash and then my sister hysterically crying afterwards. When my Mom came in, my sister, Ragan, had smashed her cake onto the floor. My Grandma was upset and my mother was furious and took her into the spare bedroom to yell at her. I just kept hearing Ragan crying saying it wasn’t her fault and Mom had to understand this because she would never spoil her own birthday. She said Gloria made her smash it because she hasn’t had a birthday in a long time and she was jealous and if Ragan was a good friend, she wouldn’t celebrate when her friends weren’t allowed to.
It clicked in my mother’s head then. She was starting to get freaked out because this sounded like something out of a movie. None of us really believed in the paranormal, but it was starting to get weird. She asked Ragan why Gloria and her friends didn’t have birthday parties and my sister told my mother it was because they died and dead kids don’t celebrate their birthdays. Ragan wasn’t in trouble anymore and we continued with her birthday.
My mother was very into genealogy back then and I can’t recall if that has anything to do with the story, but I do know she had access to a lot of birth and death certificates and archives that other people didn’t because she paid subscriptions to websites. She called me in one day and had me look at an old newspaper article and she was shaking. And there you have it. Joseph and Lily. 10 and 6 years old, killed in a house fire while under the care of their babysitter Gloria who was 17.
I know this all sounds far fetched, but I will never forget it. Nothing like this has happened to me since and Ragan’s imaginary friends disappeared soon after and we never heard from them again. I had convinced myself for the longest time that my Mother had made it up to scare me, but I don’t even thing she has that brilliant of an imagination.
Fuck Yeah Nightmares Answered: Creepy! Nearly a 10/10, but 9/10 for scares and thank you for sharing.
















