WHAT IF IMAGINARY FRIENDS ARE REAL?: The Chilling Question – Can Children See What We Don’t?

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What if the imaginary friend you had as a child wasn’t imaginary at all — but something lingering, watching… and very real?

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IN THIS EPISODE: Most people had imaginary friends when they were younger. These "friends" were usually nice, funny, and even comforting. They took the form of animals, other humans, and sometimes larger-than-life characters that defy classification. And sometimes they were extremely creepy and downright scary, especially when examined in hindsight.

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Imaginary Friends 01: http://ow.ly/olpf30nQLkP
Imaginary Friends 02: http://ow.ly/obdb30nQLl8
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Originally aired: June 2021
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0:00.0	Strange creatures, gruesome murders, oozing organisms, unfathomable abductions, enigmatic expeditions,
0:11.5	an age-old malevolence, and much more. Author J. C. Moore delivers a collection of dark
0:17.5	horror tales that are both chilling and poignant. Dark Intrigues, Book
0:22.4	1 is filled with horror fiction for fans of short story anthologies, horror collections,
0:28.5	ghost fiction, suspense, possession, and more. Dark Intrigues Book 1 by J.C. Moore,
0:36.0	available on Kind of an audiobook narrated by Darren Marler. Find Dark Intrigues Book 1 by J.C. Moore, available on Kindle or as an audiobook narrated by
0:39.1	Darren Marler. Find Dark Intrigues Book 1 on the audiobooks page at Weirddarkness.com.
0:45.5	That's Weirddarkness.com slash audiobooks.
1:00.8	Step into the shadows with tainted, a bone-chilling collection designed to haunt your darkest nights, tales filled with a spectrum of horrors, from evil spirits to bleeding caves, haunted
1:08.0	sewers, and sinister childhood games.
1:11.8	In this installment of the Dark Intrigues book series, J.C. Moore delves deep into the
1:17.6	darkest recesses of the human psyche.
1:20.4	Brace yourself for a modern journey through the twisted corridors of terror.
1:25.7	Listen, if you dare.
1:30.1	In this book, The Ordinary Become Ominous,
1:36.4	the mundane turns malefic, and they reveal the tainted secrets of the human heart in all their gruesome glory. Dark Intrigues, Tainted, a collection of short horror stories by J.C. Moore. Purchase the audiobook or
1:46.8	hear a sample on the audiobooks page at weirddarkness.com.
1:51.0	Imaginary friends are, for many people, a childhood rite of passage, giving them their
2:00.5	first true friends and
2:02.4	confidants.
2:03.9	But be careful who you make friends with.
2:06.8	For some creepy imaginary friends come back to you, as an adult, if they were even friends
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