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October 2007 - Page 19
Little Paul's Ghost
by Valerie
Around 1974, I was living in the countryside in a town called Cayuga, on the Grand River, in Ontario, Canada. Next door lived a family with a young daughter, around five years old. The mother of this girl told us that when the child was about three years old she had an imaginary friend named Paul, a little boy around nine years of age. This friend would visit the little girl and play with her in her bedroom. The mother wasn't too concerned, as she had heard that children often have imaginary friends.
After a while, though, she became concerned because her daughter relayed that Paul said not to mention him, as her mother wouldn't understand, and when he heard her mother coming up the stairs, he would disappear. The little girl was taken to the doctor for a regular check-up, and the mother asked the doctor, while there, if she should be concerned about this imaginary friend. The doctor said that because they lived out in the country and the little girl didn't have any friends, it was normal for her to invent one. When the little girl started school, he said, the imaginary friend wouldn't be needed any more and would not longer exist. Feeling relieved, the mother didn't concern herself about the stories that the little girl told about what she and Paul had played or talked about.
A couple of weeks before the child was to start kindergarten, she came downstairs crying inconsolably. Paul told her that he was told that he couldn't visit her anymore and that he wouldn't be coming back. When she asked him who told him, he said the people where I live. The girl was heartbroken. Her mother was stunned and surprised that a child would decided to end her imaginary friendship in this way. The girl went to school and life settled back to normal.
About two years later, when she was seven years old, a car drove up their driveway with an elderly couple in the car. They said that they lived in the States, were vacationing in Canada and decided to visit the house that they had lived in in the 1930s. They stayed for a while relating stories about the house that had once been a railway station in the 1890s, etc. They said that their son had drowned in the well, and as they told the story, they brought out a photograph of the boy. The mother and little girl looked at the photo, and the little girl exclaimed, "That's Paul." The elderly couple looked shocked and asked, "How did you know his name?"
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