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The original was posted on /r/ghoststories by /u/fire_lieys on 2025-06-27 07:53:36+00:00.

Hello, this is my first reddit post but I just need to let people know.

I’m a teenager from Australia and I was talking to my mom last night and she told me about a imaginary friend I had when I was 2 and he stayed with us until I was 4 years old. So all of this is from the perspective of my grandmother my mother and my aunty.

So apparently it all started one day when I went to her and told her that I had a new friend and his name is Ryan, my mom was confused as I was 2 years old and she asked me where I met him and I responded that him and his mother where sleeping on our front veranda. As any normal person would she asked me why they where sleeping there and I said that they where homeless, she replied to me asking what happened to their home and I said it was a house fire, she was at that point apparently weirded out but it was only worsened by her asking where his dad is and my response being that he was the one who started the fire.

After this my mom was quite worried and I asked if Ryan and his mom could stay with us, and she said yes, throughout the time Ryan was with us there were some strange things that happened. My mom explained that I used to talk to Ryan all the time in depth way beyond what any 2-3 year old should be able to understand, my grandmother and aunty both thought I had schizophrenia. I once told my mother about how Ryan died, in the house fire that took his home, in detail, another time I was in the car and my sister sat next to me and I asked her to move and she said to Ryan she was sorry, and moved but my brother then sat there and said “fuck Ryan” I told him “Ryan really hates you,” my mom told me that Ryan shouldn’t hate, I replied “he hopes you die” directed at my brother.

He apparently loved mom since she reminded him of his mom and liked my sister because she was kind, but hated my brother as he was mean. Around this same time my step father came back and before any of the stuff he did that was bad I said to my mom “Ryan doesn’t like dad he has a bad feeling.”

So from this point it kept getting worse apparently and there were things I could tell my mom that I should never have known leading her to contacted and seek out a medium, the medium told mom that she is to be careful and that I am definitely sensitive and that we might have a portal in my house.

The only thing i remember is telling my mom that Ryan was leaving and moving on, my mom told me that I said that Ryan’s mom was telling him it was time to move on and that they needed to help another boy. And that was around the time I started school.

And might be unrelated but after he left at around me being 5-6 years old I used to hear speaking and stomping in my house, but the worse was tapping in the corner of my room for and entire year.

Once again sorry if some of this is jumbled it is my first reddit post but yes this is all from the perspective of my relatives. If I get told any more I can update if this gets some responses.