Gina and Sully
Imaginary friends are a common and usually harmless part of childhood. Most people eventually outgrow these companions as they mature, and the memories of them fade away. However, this storyteller’s sister has a different story to tell. She vividly remembers her imaginary friends, Gina and Sully, and insists they were real beings during her preschool years.

Two aspects of this tale raise eyebrows. First, the choice of names, “Gina” and “Sully,” seems unusually sophisticated for a four-year-old to conjure independently. Second, the imaginary friends suddenly disappeared, with the sister going into graphic detail about their deaths. Such details are typically beyond the understanding of a preschooler. This leaves the storyteller pondering whether these “friends” might have been more than just products of her sister’s imagination, prompting a lingering belief in the possibility that they were real-life ghosts.