About this episode

The episode explores a listener's childhood memory of an imaginary friend and a mysterious elderly woman she encountered.

In tonight's dead letter, listener Mothmaiden remembers a time when she was four years old and an only child in a neighborhood with no other kids, and she had an imaginary friend named Cindy Cora who looked exactly like Betty Rubble from The Flintstones. Then on a sunny afternoon, in her own bedroom with the light coming through the window, she saw an elderly woman with white and gray hair piled high on her head, sitting in a rocking chair, calm and gentle and completely solid. Were these things connected? Relevant Prior Episodes Abduction at Devil's Den Devil's Den: The Reckoning Part 1 Chris McKinnell and the Warren Legacy Dan, Susan, Micah Hanks and Missing Time Links and Further Reading Two-thirds of school-age children have an imaginary companion by age 7, University of Washington Note: We say about one in three for the invisible-only friends. In the study, about two thirds of kids have had an imaginary companion by age seven, and about one in three have one at the time they are asked. The psychological significance of play with imaginary companions in early childhood, Learning & Behavior Childhood amnesia, Wikipedia Ghosts and Apparitions in Psi Research, the Society…

People in this episode

Host: Astonishing Legends Productions

Guest: Mothmaiden

Topics covered

• imaginary friends
• childhood memories
• ghosts
• psychology
• paranormal experiences

Keywords

• imaginary friend
• ghost
• childhood
• psychology
• paranormal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Washington

Books & works: The Flintstones, Phantasms of the Living, Strange Intruders, Devils Den: The Reckoning, Contact

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