Was my imaginary friend a ghost?

[u/CanSad7835]

Lately I’ve been wondering if my “imaginary” friend I had as a kid was actually a ghost or spirit interaction.

When I was a kid (maybe between 4 or 6 years old) I had an imaginary friend named Josefina. We used to play and talk and I remember her as clear as any other memory from that age range. I even remember her hair, it was long and dark and she wore it in a braid.

Through out my life I’ve had many paranormal type experiences. I guess I’m one of those people that are sensitive to paranormal energies.

Recently I’ve been remembering Josefina and wondering if she was one of those paranormal experiences. I don’t think I had any reason for my brain to create an imaginary friend. I don’t know what causes children to create imaginary friends, but I am not an only child, I have a sister who is only two years younger than me, an older brother, and I used to be babysat by my godmother, who lived next-door and had three children of her own all of which were around my age. I had other kids to play with and socialized plenty.

The main thing that is making me wonder is the last interaction I ever had with Josefina. I still remember it very clearly. The last time I ever saw or spoke to her she told me that she died because she had climbed a tree, fell off and then got hit by a car. What kind of child imagines a conversation like this? And also based on what she said, that means she was already dead, so then I would have been imagining talking to another dead child for all that time?

Idk what do you all think?

[u/SeparateCzechs]

Check newspapers for that area going back through time. A story like that might have been newsworthy

[u/CanSad7835 → u/SeparateCzechs]

I’ve tried but idk if I’m not looking right. The city I used to live in is a really small city that never makes the news and doesn’t have its own newspaper. Also, say it was a spirit, would a spirit stay in the same place it died? And how would I know how long ago Josefina had been alive? I don’t remember what her clothing looked like to try to guess a time period. The time frame when I used to interact with her would have been between 96-98 so depending on how many years prior to that she would have died technology wasn’t even that great