Are You Scared of your Imaginary Friend?

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  • čas přidán 2. 03. 2023
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  • @ameliebutler9104
    @ameliebutler9104 Před rokem +11551

    Danny out here pushing the narrator back against pillows, stroking his hair, saying how much he missed him..........I think Danny wants to be imaginary more than friends

  • @YouveBeenMegged
    @YouveBeenMegged Před rokem +7625

    Please, everyone knows Shane’s imaginary friend is a little blue puppet with glasses and a hat.

  • @katherinesmith5598
    @katherinesmith5598 Před rokem +3483

    okay but Ryan saying that his friend would be a big clown and Shane saying his would be a little devil is them literally just describing each other.

    • @afrina3781
      @afrina3781 Před rokem +104

      LMAO I chuckled at this

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 Před rokem +56

      WAIT-

    • @beelieboo
      @beelieboo Před rokem +33

      BAHHAHAHAHAH NOT YOU CALLING RYAN A CLOWN-

    • @bluebawls
      @bluebawls Před rokem +69

      @@beelieboo shane is the big clown can't you read. "Describing each other" commenter said

    • @beelieboo
      @beelieboo Před rokem +22

      @@bluebawls OH sorry i kind of misinterpreted it thanks for that-

  • @bingoboiii4209
    @bingoboiii4209 Před rokem +4577

    Lmao honestly shocked they didn't make any jokes or innuendoes when Danny pushed the Dad onto the bed and started stroking his hair lol

    • @wwdinaa
      @wwdinaa Před rokem +616

      Oh my god literally that was so sexual

    • @Isabeltherat
      @Isabeltherat Před rokem +674

      and the whimpering LMAO

    • @dumbwithmilan
      @dumbwithmilan Před rokem +19

      lmao

    • @melissam6388
      @melissam6388 Před rokem +539

      No wonder he was so scared, it’s always awkward seeing your exes

    • @strjnam
      @strjnam Před rokem +153

      Wattpad moment

  • @friedeggwhites
    @friedeggwhites Před rokem +3154

    shane saying his imaginary friend would be a little devil on his shoulder is so on brand for him

    • @Kiara28735
      @Kiara28735 Před rokem +48

      Ofc, he IS demon after all

    • @hogkan
      @hogkan Před rokem +32

      *smoke cigarettes*
      I think me and Shane have the same shoulder-demon

    • @decimatethestars
      @decimatethestars Před rokem +7

      because he’s a demon

    • @matthewdonaldson2662
      @matthewdonaldson2662 Před rokem +11

      Well the man has insulted like five different demons through out his life and even invited them to eat/kill/torture him so I would say that isn't really all that surprising

    • @kelbimckinley8042
      @kelbimckinley8042 Před rokem +6

      It's giving Kronk from Emporers new groove

  • @MikazukiNomiko
    @MikazukiNomiko Před rokem +5454

    Ryan’s little giggle in the beginning was scarier than the whole story

  • @ambertregoning3821
    @ambertregoning3821 Před rokem +995

    "I'm a decently adjusted adult, not particularly bitter about my lonely childhood"
    Me lying to my therapist once again

  • @laavoney
    @laavoney Před rokem +696

    You’re telling me Danny waited for Narrator for over 20 years, babysat his kid frequently, pushed him against the pillows and stroked his hair and made him whimper, and this isn’t a love story about a yearning childhood friend?? You’re lying

  • @ferisera
    @ferisera Před rokem +2060

    "Mr. Jingles says I could take you!" I really loved that whole exchange.

    • @user-ej8qt4ee4p
      @user-ej8qt4ee4p Před rokem +27

      How are u a day ago

    • @evanhughes2409
      @evanhughes2409 Před rokem +33

      He’s up to no good, being in the past

    • @nadinepeels
      @nadinepeels Před rokem

      @@user-ej8qt4ee4pyeah what?? How does that work

    • @Be_A_Gay_Wizard
      @Be_A_Gay_Wizard Před rokem +4

      I read this legit at the same time he said that

    • @alex-rw2yg
      @alex-rw2yg Před rokem +26

      ​@@user-ej8qt4ee4p Patrons get early access to videos! CZcams videos can be uploaded as "unlisted", so it can only be found through the link, and Patrons are given that link 24 hours before the video is posted publicly.

  • @tessish
    @tessish Před rokem +1836

    ...Nighttime Dan's origin story. Before he left to become a ghost DJ. I'm glad he's chilled out since then and just kinda wants to get down now.

    • @nurathebear
      @nurathebear Před rokem +46

      gold comment

    • @presentlycrescent
      @presentlycrescent Před rokem +90

      YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! ITS NIGHTTIME DAN!! HES BACK FOR A THIRD TIME

    • @woot.raptor
      @woot.raptor Před rokem +26

      i'm so pleased i'm not the only one who immediately thought of our old pal nighttime dan!

    • @beelieboo
      @beelieboo Před rokem +27

      OH MY GOD I FORGOT ABOUT NIGHT TIME DAN

    • @sapphiretorremoro6579
      @sapphiretorremoro6579 Před rokem +8

      omg nighttime dan!!!!!!

  • @dburgess2206
    @dburgess2206 Před rokem +1431

    My imaginary friend was Robin from the Teen titans, and he was my boyfriend. I stopped talking about him one day and my mom asked where he went. I responded without missing a beat "I don't know Mommy, he went on a mission and hasn't come home yet" he never came home

    • @marissadellinger8592
      @marissadellinger8592 Před rokem +20

      Same!

    • @JSGDoesThings
      @JSGDoesThings Před rokem +256

      Don't worry he's Nightwing now, he's doing a mission with Batman.

    • @OliverStarfall
      @OliverStarfall Před rokem +190

      “He never came home” 😭

    • @schmimzy
      @schmimzy Před rokem +40

      I didn't have an imaginary friend but I always fantasized that the green/white Power Ranger (Tommy) was my husband lmao I feel ya on this

    • @CobyThinks
      @CobyThinks Před rokem +47

      I'm sorry for your loss

  • @WeLoveTyler
    @WeLoveTyler Před rokem +3333

    always love when Shane looks like he just broke out of prison lol

    • @riabouchinska
      @riabouchinska Před rokem +46

      Exactly what I was thinking lmao

    • @theboneman1938
      @theboneman1938 Před rokem +104

      It's 50/50 whether he looks like he just broke out of prison, or he's a college news reporter on his first case, interviewing said escapee.

    • @Jesse-gc8fe
      @Jesse-gc8fe Před rokem +34

      @@theboneman1938 Indiana Jones to The Fugitive pipeline

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB Před rokem +1

      @@theboneman1938 why not both

    • @maddieb.4282
      @maddieb.4282 Před rokem +1

      @@Jesse-gc8feyou. You are very funny.

  • @CherryAve
    @CherryAve Před rokem +366

    I think ‘Danny’ represents the Dad’s trauma from the abuse and neglect he received as a child from his mom. And the story is about his fear that the harm he suffered would in turn hurt his son. In short, it’s about generational trauma

    • @calleum8234
      @calleum8234 Před 4 měsíci +11

      makes sense, esp since the mom said "shouldn't you be heading back," since she was the reason for his childhood trauma in the first place

  • @London-ke2pq
    @London-ke2pq Před rokem +141

    20:10 I don’t think Danny wants to be just imaginary friends, he wants to be imaginary lovers

  • @nerdfightersadie75
    @nerdfightersadie75 Před rokem +240

    My imaginary friend was a flying squirrel, and I left him in Paris when we were on vacation because he seemed happier there 💀

  • @justdrop
    @justdrop Před rokem +3051

    Ryan's story about the coat rack is basically my entire early childhood. I would give myself anxiety nightmares based on the "what if" of my furniture or toys being a monster.

    • @wubbalubbadubdub2810
      @wubbalubbadubdub2810 Před rokem +19

      I have a chair that looks like The Nun at night

    • @cherryjwan_
      @cherryjwan_ Před rokem +12

      ​@@wubbalubbadubdub2810 my mom's hand purse was red/white coloured , my eyes and brain somehow thought it was annabelle staring at me frm a corner in the dark lmao

    • @TealWolf26
      @TealWolf26 Před rokem +9

      It was clothing hanging on a hook on the bathroom door for me. Swore it was a zombie or something. I'm also super blind without my glasses, so there's that.

    • @PepperTheDeadly
      @PepperTheDeadly Před rokem +1

      What was that commercial with the talking armchair and couches….

    • @LilDevyl17
      @LilDevyl17 Před rokem +5

      I had a closet with the loses hinges. It didn't take much for it open. My Mom gave me a mini flashlight, so every time I thought I saw something. I would shine there and see nothing. Then go back to sleep.

  • @carscarscarscarsfourmorecars

    As a child, I was frequently sad that I hadn’t developed an imaginary friend. I thought that one day, I and only I, would see a stuffed animal like child who would speak to me and keep me company. I thought I was a bad kid and hadn’t earned one.

    • @DaniMol
      @DaniMol Před rokem +98

      D'aww you poor little thing 🥺 I've also never had one and did briefly wished for like a Pokemon or some shit growing up. These days we have video games, which give you like 50 imaginary friends 🤣 no time for anything else!

    • @carscarscarscarsfourmorecars
      @carscarscarscarsfourmorecars Před rokem +28

      @@DaniMol no joke about that. I’ve been fixating on Arthur Morgan and Charles smith from rdr2 lately

    • @heatweve
      @heatweve Před rokem +10

      oh my god, same

    • @valery5360
      @valery5360 Před rokem +38

      ME TOO. i felt so weird cause everyone had one and i didn't😭

    • @hogkan
      @hogkan Před rokem +132

      Dawg same, I had an "imaginary" imaginary friend because I knew I wasn't hallucinating a full-on apparition, I just had a nonexistent friend in my head, and thought I was "faking it" whereas everyone else totally *was* hallucinating corporeal forms and I was just unlucky

  • @ronnietullo
    @ronnietullo Před rokem +3089

    Mollie KILLING IT with these illustrations!

    • @poppyonline4034
      @poppyonline4034 Před rokem +65

      She should get an award

    • @joeldrzycimski1629
      @joeldrzycimski1629 Před rokem +40

      The illustrations of Danny were the one of the scariest things i've ever seen on this channel!

    • @damiengattoufi9018
      @damiengattoufi9018 Před rokem +8

      Right?! None of these would be as scary as they are without the illustrations

    • @andia960
      @andia960 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Makes me think of the books Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!

  • @olivia7782
    @olivia7782 Před rokem +457

    My imaginary friend was actually named Danny (Danni, technically, full name Daniella). Later found out that there was a male relative who tragically died named Danny. Probably good my mom didn't pay much attention to me playing pretend or she would have flipped shit, bc she's really into receiving "signs" from the beyond and def would've thought it was a ghost. I just named her that bc I liked Danny Phantom💀

  • @AriaAR
    @AriaAR Před rokem +896

    Very good episode that was actually pretty scary. I really liked the image of the emaciated imaginary friend as a symbol of actual childhood neglect.

  • @moonriverinc7896
    @moonriverinc7896 Před rokem +1494

    Every time Ryan says “are you scared?”, I (someone with chronic anxiety) respond with a confident “yes”

    • @Ddalgiichigo
      @Ddalgiichigo Před rokem +41

      I have severe anxiety but these don’t scare me 🤣 normal things like going outside scare me I got it the wrong way around 🤣

    • @alexiswilliamsinc
      @alexiswilliamsinc Před rokem +11

      That’s why these stories are great. They match the unavoidable sentiment so we feel normal.

    • @MelissaLawrence2002
      @MelissaLawrence2002 Před rokem +4

      I don't typically get scared by these stories, but I think Ryan and Shane make it hard for me to get scared. I get scared of True Crime, but never when Ryan and Shane are the ones telling me.

    • @moonriverinc7896
      @moonriverinc7896 Před rokem +2

      @@Ddalgiichigo yeah I mean it’s not always the story. I’m just generally nervous most of my waking life 😌

    • @sydneyslaughter7163
      @sydneyslaughter7163 Před rokem +2

      “Always”

  • @Eztra326
    @Eztra326 Před rokem +754

    As a kid, I would play alone outside for hours with not much more than my imagination. But even with that, I can't say I ever had an "imaginary friend". The concept has honestly always been weird to me because I understand the idea behind it but the moment I needed to come back to reality, everything was gone. Other people claimed their imaginary friend would always kinda be with them but never me... Odd

    • @polarberri
      @polarberri Před rokem +85

      Same! I'd build imaginary worlds, but I always knew they were for fun. And I'd pretend I was in a point and click game, or have imaginary pets... The idea of someone constantly there creeps me out 😅

    • @avaregular8090
      @avaregular8090 Před rokem +11

      I have 4 siblings, I didn't have an imaginary friend cause I had them

    • @TheNitpickChick
      @TheNitpickChick Před rokem +29

      Same. While I had a recurring imaginary friend that I created, she was only ever there when I actively thought about her and pictured her with me. And she was always more of a concept, rather than an actual being that I would see or have actual conversations with, or whatever.
      (Her name was Jasmine, and she was a shapeshifter. She only ever took the forms of animals, though. Usually something fast, like a horse or a cheetah, so I could imagine her running playfully alongside the car on long trips. She was just sort of a vague, protective presence that was there when I needed her. ☺️)

    • @Vincisomething
      @Vincisomething Před rokem +23

      Same. But as a kid, I thought they thought their imaginary friends were real people, like it was normal for kids to hallucinate someone lol. It was like I guess I don't have an imaginary friend 🤷🏾‍♀️. I didn't get that you yourself imagined them, I thought it was just something that happened to you lol.
      I had fantasies and imaginations of characters, but it wasn't like I was "hanging" out with them.

    • @riabouchinska
      @riabouchinska Před rokem +13

      Same tbh… I used to just walk around my yard or the playground or whatever and make up stories. I still make up stories, and there are a lot of characters in them that have been around for years, and that’s kind like having imaginary friends? Maybe more like reading about imaginary celebrities in imaginary tabloids but also you’re the one writing everything in the tabloids

  • @zynosgd9982
    @zynosgd9982 Před rokem +70

    When I was young my imaginary friend told me he didn't want to be my friend anymore, then left and never came back.
    If imaginary friends are practice for social activities, that was the most formative and preparative experience I've ever had.

  • @jaskper
    @jaskper Před rokem +172

    Apparently my imaginary friend was a tiny lion that could fit in the palm of your hand and I used to make people hold the door open for him to walk through all the time 😂😂

  • @Who_evenamIanymore
    @Who_evenamIanymore Před rokem +718

    Shane having a little devil on his shoulder is proof he can’t make it in life without his boss telling him what to do.

  • @vickrice6082
    @vickrice6082 Před rokem +237

    Danny creepily standing in the mirror….
    The boys “AAYYY DANNY!! Wanna go get a beer?!”
    Just what we need to take the scare edge off 😂😂😂

  • @keepcloudcityweird
    @keepcloudcityweird Před rokem +465

    It’s the implication that Danny possessed the narrator as a child…….and his mother knew about it, and allowed it 😱 (and who’s to say Danny didn’t also possess her in the past???? 😳😳😳😳) this was such a good episode

  • @joyleafsidhe6185
    @joyleafsidhe6185 Před rokem +225

    In a world where so many media friendships turn out to be fake, I really appreciate that the boys are ACTUALLY friends.❤❤❤❤

  • @ruaoneill9050
    @ruaoneill9050 Před rokem +216

    Ryan's discussion about his fear of the coat rack and his thought process after figuring out what it was just a coat rack that still allowed him to be scared was exactly how I thought as a child! I feel so less alone!

    • @aa4488
      @aa4488 Před rokem +3

      Did you really think that wasn’t a thing? There’s memes on it too. It’s common. Children and adults alike.

    • @ni__wolf143
      @ni__wolf143 Před rokem +1

      Of course you aren't alone dummy, there's someone in the room with you.

  • @TheNitpickChick
    @TheNitpickChick Před rokem +254

    I deliberately created my imaginary friend as a kid, because it sounded like a fun thing to do. lol
    Her name was Jasmine, and she was a shapeshifting animal. We never really talked, or hung out. She was always more of a vague concept, a calming presence that mostly stayed in the periphery, rather than a more physical presence that I interacted with a lot. Occasionally, I’d picture her close enough to pet, but that was pretty rare.
    On long road trips, I really liked imagining her in a horse or cheetah form, playfully running alongside the car on the side of the road and gracefully jumping over fences and such along the way. 😊

    • @hogkan
      @hogkan Před rokem +82

      Why the fuck is that "watching an imaginary thing doing parkour outside your car whilst your parents drive you around" such a bizarrely prevalent experience??
      If you'd asked me at the time, I'd swear I'm the only human who would possibly do that, but like, our entire last couple generations has this shared random-ass lunatic thing that serves zero purpose and no one ever told us about

    • @evypolyak
      @evypolyak Před rokem +10

      @@hogkan I did that too 😭

    • @actuallysatan236
      @actuallysatan236 Před rokem +12

      Okay, but did anybody else also imagine that there were little tiny people living on the shelves in the grocery store while you were out shopping with your parents?

    • @soundwave.superior
      @soundwave.superior Před rokem +28

      You 🤝 Me
      Watching our shape-shifting imaginary friends with traditionally feminine names run alongside the car on trips

    • @Cilibi
      @Cilibi Před rokem +14

      Mine liked to run along the telephone lines

  • @poltergeistpoacher
    @poltergeistpoacher Před rokem +155

    ryan showing how mr. jingles would slap his belly and point to his mouth to indicate his hunger and then shane just going “...i don’t know” killed me

  • @meganr2869
    @meganr2869 Před rokem +32

    I thought it was spooky. It’s like the Babadook but instead of symbolizing grief, it’s symbolizing childhood neglect. Very cool.

  • @bobbitworm8184
    @bobbitworm8184 Před rokem +182

    My imaginary friend as a kid was just. Slenderman. I didn't know any of the lore or anything I think I just saw like one picture of him & latched on.
    I think it's because I was a very anxious kid prone to some pretty terrible nightmares, so having a scary imaginary friend was kind of comforting in a roud-about way. Whenever I was scared I would just picture him in my mind's eye & be like "Demons wont get me because Slenderman is watching over me :)" & it worked lol.

    • @abbysmultiverse
      @abbysmultiverse Před rokem +30

      Oh my god I've never mentioned this to anyone because it was really fucked up but I also had an imaginary friend from creepypasta. It was fucking Jeff the killer. Which is arguably worse but I guess that's what happens when you have unrestricted internet access at a young age 💀

    • @bobbitworm8184
      @bobbitworm8184 Před rokem +14

      @althea3609 Omg that's amazing. Also its interesting to me in retrospect how many fanfics & stuff existed for creepypasta characters where they're friends with the reader insert character & the fic is just sort of them hanging out. I think a lot of kids latched onto creepypastas as comfort characters, but very few will admit to it now for fear of being seen as cringe.
      Idk, I think it's sort of funny looking back but I don't feel bad about it. Yeah it was weird but it did help with my nightmares so hey 🤷 I can't complain.

    • @urfriendsquid6367
      @urfriendsquid6367 Před rokem +10

      No literally i stopped getting scared of "things in the night"/having as many nightmares when i found creepypasta cause i was just like "its ok im friends with them now, they wont hurt me and they'll protect me from anything that tries"

    • @Cat-hz7yd
      @Cat-hz7yd Před rokem +1

      Omg me too, except I was kind of delulu and convinced myself that Slenderman was gonna adopt me and take me to the Creepypasta mansion. It's kind of cringe lmao, but as a kid I think I just wanted a place where everyone would accept me no matter how 'weird' I was, and who's weirder than a faceless man and his posse of serial killers 🤷🏾‍♀

    • @bobbitworm8184
      @bobbitworm8184 Před rokem

      @Cat-hz7yd Relatable honestly. Something about the old creepypasta stuff rlly made neurodivergent kids/teens go hogwild.
      Like I distinctly remember there being quite a lot of fics where slenderman just adopts some random orphan or something (or like one of those 'my parents sold me to one direction' type fics except they idk abandoned them in the woods instead lmao), so I don't think you were alone in that.

  • @obamaforlife7341
    @obamaforlife7341 Před rokem +279

    I LOVE that they’re bringing back Are You Scared

  • @CattyKittenQueen
    @CattyKittenQueen Před rokem +166

    I feel like this story is easy to poke out when read but if it were a short film it would actually be pretty creepy!

  • @hannalundmark1436
    @hannalundmark1436 Před rokem +58

    Honestly, I feel bad for Danny. Imagine being best friends with someone only for them to suddenly leave you all alone and when you finally see him again he says you’re not real.

  • @drewjohnston4309
    @drewjohnston4309 Před rokem +41

    I feel like "what if you were my imaginary friend" is a good premise for a scary story.
    A story about a college age person who meets and becomes best friend with someone who happens to have the same name as their childhood imaginary friend. But the longer they know eachother, the more and more it seems like the friend remembers their childhood together.

  • @LocalAceAJ
    @LocalAceAJ Před rokem +18

    I remember thinking I was the weird one for not having an imaginary friend growing up.
    I’m pretty sure I played pretend w my toys, but never actually made up a friend to “play with”

    • @Who_evenamIanymore
      @Who_evenamIanymore Před rokem +2

      Same, my LPS dolls got up to some crazy shit. (involving a famed young actress’s step mother driving her off of a cliff)

  • @bluestcircle4550
    @bluestcircle4550 Před rokem +25

    Legit, the toys being "hungry" and alive has been one of my biggest fears as a kid (and I didn't even watch Toy Story)
    I always would fear that they'd come for me

  • @thewanderer8494
    @thewanderer8494 Před rokem +122

    What I took away from this episode:
    1. Ryan and Shane need to write and star in their own child/toy themed horror movie. It would win awards and be an instant classic.
    2. Neither of you should babysit! Lol 😆
    3. The things I was afraid of as a child have absolutely scarred me for life.
    😅😅😅

    • @jdg9825
      @jdg9825 Před rokem +2

      lol number one kinda did happen when ryan got taken hostage by a knife-happy holo-puppet

  • @Ziaberry
    @Ziaberry Před rokem +70

    Me and my sister had an imaginary "friend" named Birdie. He was a giant blue humanoid-ish bird with a pterodactyl-like face. He was very naughty and was always mean and did bad things. I barely remember him but in retrospect that must've been creepy af for our parents

  • @Vesta_the_Lesser
    @Vesta_the_Lesser Před rokem +16

    Oh so it's like Hereditary, the mom passed Danny onto her son (it's implied she intentionally left him alone and lonely so that he'd take to Danny) and now she wants to make sure her son passes it on likewise. I think that IS a type of demon, when the only solace a person can get is to commit the crime of afflicting it upon another person.

  • @harpurr53
    @harpurr53 Před rokem +70

    Around 14:20 there's the discussion of if you'd be nervous if your kid had the same-named imaginary friend as you, and i have an answer! My mom was scared as heck, because her imaginary friend was named Mary and then so was mine.. AND so was my sister's. She had some energy or spirit cleansing done & neither me nor my sister actually remember said imaginary friend

    • @tairneanaich
      @tairneanaich Před rokem +6

      To be fair, Mary is like, THE most common given name in the world. If it were something more unique it’d be scarier, I reckon

    • @stygianmoon1716
      @stygianmoon1716 Před 2 měsíci

      well, Mary is a pretty common female name, and everyone tends to forget their imaginary friend when they grow up. So i don't think it's that scary tbh

  • @hannah-eb9qd
    @hannah-eb9qd Před rokem +54

    i technically had an “imaginary friend” but it was in the physical form of my favorite stuffed animal. I carried that stuff animal EVERYWHEREEE with me 😭 as a twin, i think i just needed someone around me at all times. i developed in the womb with someone, and was born into the world with them, so being on my own was unfamiliar territory.

  • @juliaegnot4644
    @juliaegnot4644 Před rokem +14

    Everyone's imaginary friends always seem to have such normal names, mine were Glinday and Glonday lol if my kid came up with those out of nowhere I would be terrified.

  • @uglysongsforuglysouls
    @uglysongsforuglysouls Před rokem +22

    Love that they bring up emperors new groove because as a 3 year old, my “imaginary friend” was Yzma, but her feather headdress thingy was rainbow colored. I brought her into existence because I liked bullshitting.

  • @lildeadgirl1443
    @lildeadgirl1443 Před rokem +41

    Ryan throwing a sweet Emperor’s New Groove reference out there and Shane is just ignoring it

  • @jaydenalvarez382
    @jaydenalvarez382 Před rokem +20

    ryans giggle after he described what mr jingles would do to you is actual peak nightmare source material

  • @BThirstyPretzel
    @BThirstyPretzel Před rokem +41

    The creepy "Looks like you're going nuts" put me over the edge. I can't stop laughing now

  • @neonstream6935
    @neonstream6935 Před rokem +144

    I love how Shane just sits back and smiles, while he watches his years worth of effort and planning to turn Ryan into a sarcastic, pessimist, finally unfolding in front of him. Lmao
    Now they laugh together like a bunch of evil twins. I don’t think Shane understands 100% what he has created.

  • @NeuroPandas
    @NeuroPandas Před rokem +9

    I had a boss once that I was close with and one argument we had he told me "Well I'm your imaginary friend so your just arguing with yourself." fastest way to disarm an argument

    • @sebswede9005
      @sebswede9005 Před rokem +1

      Narrator: "You're just a voice in My head".
      Tyler Durden: "And you're a voice in mine!"

  • @alaenamarie8702
    @alaenamarie8702 Před rokem +36

    When Ryan said, “That’s my morning mantra”, I thought it was in response to Shane going “Oh fuck” and I was like, “You and me both, Bergara!” 😂😂😂😂

  • @25mjs03
    @25mjs03 Před rokem +49

    This one was honestly creepy, and I LOVED it.
    Also, once again, like normal, AMAZINGG art work.

    • @Tom.8515
      @Tom.8515 Před rokem

      how did you see the video in 16 sec
      impressive

    • @soupy55
      @soupy55 Před rokem +4

      ​@@Tom.8515 This comment was posted 17 hours ago

    • @Chilling_Chilling
      @Chilling_Chilling Před rokem +5

      ​@@Tom.8515 Obviously Patreon
      But they could've just seen it in their imagination, 👻 👹

  • @maddstermind11037
    @maddstermind11037 Před rokem +20

    loving shane's prison jumpsuit this episode

  • @kaerfnatas2042
    @kaerfnatas2042 Před rokem +11

    I like the idea that in Ghost Files, there's really concrete, irrefutable evidence of ghosts climbing out of mirrors and stuff but they just don't keep it in the episode and Shane has nerves of steel.

  • @ashleykim5964
    @ashleykim5964 Před rokem +41

    i had an imaginary friend when i was very young (2 or 3). they appeared after I had a nightmare and my mom comforted me saying that it was just a dream. from then on I started talking to my imaginary friend whose name meant dream in korean. my parents were really freaked out and I would count multiple in certain spaces, usually in the top corners of rooms. Sometimes there’d be five in the room, sometimes they wouldn’t be there at all. one day i yelled at my imaginary friend to leave while pointing at the open window. from then on i never talked about my imaginary friend and had no memory of them.

    • @Flanneryschickens
      @Flanneryschickens Před rokem

      Kids are terrifying

    • @ni__wolf143
      @ni__wolf143 Před rokem +1

      More than one huh, personally I only had one, a little kid named Justin.

  • @theimplications635
    @theimplications635 Před rokem +27

    Okay, serious question: Did anyone think their imaginary friend was real? In TV shows kids think they are real, but I only had imaginary friends because that's what kids on TV did and I knew they were imaginary, I was just playing. I'm interested to see if anyone thought they were real.

  • @ursaltydog
    @ursaltydog Před rokem +74

    I REALLY enjoyed this! Freya is an excellent writer!

  • @derekdash4995
    @derekdash4995 Před rokem +10

    Danny really didn't do anything wrong besides be ugly.. he never hurt anyone. he was really just chilling quietly and wanting to play in the middle of the night. basically a ghoulish sort of house cat

  • @johnecoapollo7
    @johnecoapollo7 Před rokem +10

    I love the ending because the dude got exactly what he wanted. Reassurance from his mother that what he saw was true.

  • @sephrajackson3381
    @sephrajackson3381 Před rokem +78

    Who would’ve thought that Ryan’s imaginary friend was Shane all along 😮 lol 😂 😅

  • @vanshikasharan6124
    @vanshikasharan6124 Před rokem +18

    watcher is my comfort channel, whenever i'm anxious i rewatch old vids so it's the best to see new uploads i love yall

  • @26nyy
    @26nyy Před rokem +35

    Danny's a cool guy. He probably doesn't mean any harm. Thanks for sharing his story!

    • @lecoeur2
      @lecoeur2 Před rokem +1

      this comment was written by THE danny

  • @Sekstravagant
    @Sekstravagant Před rokem +20

    I had an imaginary friend that I took so serious I forced my parents to put down a plate and everything for them too while setting the table and to this day that scares me

    • @aa4488
      @aa4488 Před rokem

      Did your parents actually give into your demands?

    • @Sekstravagant
      @Sekstravagant Před rokem +1

      @@aa4488 Yeah they did hahaha but I dont know for how long. Will ask them next time I see them hehe I think one day I just stopped asking them?

  • @oliveraddison6143
    @oliveraddison6143 Před rokem +14

    i 100% relate to ryan staying scared of the coatrack because he was afraid a real threat would know he let his guard down 😭

  • @alexandrajay2001
    @alexandrajay2001 Před rokem +20

    my childhood imaginary friend was a skunk. not even a talking one or anything, just a regular skunk 😂

  • @kevingluys3063
    @kevingluys3063 Před rokem +15

    My imaginary friend had huge green eyes peeping out of a suit made of black trash bags and duct tape, and lived underneath the drainage pond in the park near were I lived.
    Had no issues then nor now with her.
    Was really chill for what sure now seems like a spooky ghost.
    Never had a name or a face, the eyes were just reflecting green out of a dark hole in the "hood" kind of like a Jawa or Marvin the Martian.

  • @softhorror8779
    @softhorror8779 Před rokem +14

    I don't remember it but my parents said I had one as a toddler, it was an old lady. Apparently one day I told them she went to the hospital, and never mentioned her again lmao

  • @hearts4discord
    @hearts4discord Před rokem +62

    When I was younger, I had an "imaginary friend" called Cubit but soon I found out he was someone who kept breaking into our house and stealing my clothes at night, while singing me lullabies and rubbing my stomach, the thought of that still sends chills down my spine lol

    • @spadeleine9545
      @spadeleine9545 Před rokem +31

      that is fucking terrifying

    • @leilanyx
      @leilanyx Před rokem +47

      you can't just drop that and leave it?? hello? what do you MEAN your "imaginary friend" was actually someone who kept breaking into your house and stealing your clothes at night, while singing you lullabies and rubbing your stomach? how did you find this out? was he caught??

    • @SirNeutral
      @SirNeutral Před rokem +27

      @@leilanyx I know! That's like "There was a stray cat that came through my window when I was a kid, I named him Mr.Jingles, turns out it was a serial killer that left dead animals by my bed and meowed at me lol"

    • @hearts4discord
      @hearts4discord Před rokem +7

      @@leilanyx ye he was caught, and I remember it, that's how I know, I can remember a lot of things from when I was very little

    • @OrochimarusPanties
      @OrochimarusPanties Před rokem +3

      You are in fact, scared.

  • @jamesdominguez7685
    @jamesdominguez7685 Před rokem +13

    Wow, this is a genuinely well-written story. Well-selected, guys!

  • @cicadathegod8277
    @cicadathegod8277 Před rokem +14

    I had imaginary friends since I didn’t really have many friends that lived close to me. And while I don’t have imaginary friends anymore I still fill the silence by talking to myself to this day.

  • @colinjohnson5515
    @colinjohnson5515 Před rokem +6

    Dudes mom didn’t feed Danny anything for YEARS?!?! Who’s the real villain here?

  • @marcusyee2211
    @marcusyee2211 Před rokem +16

    Is the devil on Shane's shoulder going to be a new character we need to keep an eye out for? I'm already struggling with Ricky Goldsworth, C.C. Tinsley, and the Aussie Shane variant lol.
    "Push-Up Devil"

  • @lydiaalthouse7335
    @lydiaalthouse7335 Před rokem +24

    I had a feeling I would regret watching this on a darkening rainy/snowing evening, in my apartment alone, and I was VERY right. I’m going to have to close the bathroom door and maybe turn the mirror around now. But great story as always guys 👍

  • @Mr_Leo_DS
    @Mr_Leo_DS Před rokem +12

    When I was little, my imaginary friend was a literal ghost (a cartoonish ghost but still). I don't know how my parents never took me to an exorcist

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. Před rokem +9

    I’m LIVING for Ryan’s array of colourful caps. Ryan is giving Hipster Playwright and Shane is fun High School Teacher who goes retro once in a while.

  • @anuheajai
    @anuheajai Před rokem +7

    i’m living for this series, it’s giving me flashbacks from unsolved. i love the combination of discussions and stories as well as going on ghost adventures this channel is providing

  • @lostrebel
    @lostrebel Před rokem +3

    I mean, I feel like the white knuckling thing is my state of being.

  • @JasonLihani
    @JasonLihani Před rokem +16

    Didn't expect Shane to be killed off in this episode.

  • @irenerichmond6725
    @irenerichmond6725 Před rokem +3

    I am BEGGING you to release a sign or merch for “Another day, another white knuckle ride through this thing we call life” or a t-shirt that says “I don’t feel in control” on the front and that quote on the back 😂

  • @leifschannel
    @leifschannel Před rokem +17

    I first thought our beloved shane is dressed as a garbage disposal man and honestly, that would be a hell of a fit.

  • @leifschannel
    @leifschannel Před rokem +21

    Modest proposal for the next episode: Ryan, are you scared of the Hotdaga?

  • @Crow-Fly
    @Crow-Fly Před rokem +7

    I love how quickly Ryan knew how to defeat a mirror ghost. Of course he knows! This is the best story you've had in my opinion :)

  • @LunaBeth97
    @LunaBeth97 Před rokem +21

    I never had an imaginary friend but I do remember one time I really wanted one so I decided that I'd have a family of seven imaginary cat friends and promptly forgot about them until now. I finally have my own cat and (as much as I love her) I couldn't imagine having SEVEN cats!

  • @robertfernandez3346
    @robertfernandez3346 Před rokem +14

    Just binged the entire Are you scared playlist this week then a new episode as my reward! Best way to kick off the weekend!

  • @levityoflonging22
    @levityoflonging22 Před rokem +5

    It's messed up that she apparently knew Danny was there, and yet didn't feed him the whole time. Bad mom indeed.

  • @xaviermorales7849
    @xaviermorales7849 Před rokem +36

    You guys literally have zero idea as to how much us fans love this kind of stuff! Especially "Are you scared?". This stuff is top tier, keep up the great work, guys! 👌

  • @ceciliavasey9732
    @ceciliavasey9732 Před rokem +8

    I don’t know man, I would be down to just crack a cold one in the mirror and chill with Danny-seems like he only turned dangerous when he was insulted-he just seemed like he wanted to catch up!

  • @morammofilmsph1540
    @morammofilmsph1540 Před rokem +37

    Finally, the stories are back! missed you guys!
    Also that wheeze Ryan makes at 11:05 is hilarious!

  • @mothmanshusband
    @mothmanshusband Před rokem +9

    i had an imaginary friend named sebastian who i used to say was my brother. cool dude. weird though because he was not my age, he was around 19-21-ish (i’m estimating here) and he had hair that would alternate between white, blue, and purple, and he had tattoos and a bridge piercing. what’s funny is that sebastian also had an imaginary friend, who was a leprechaun that sat on his shoulder and basically just argued with him about anything and everything, meanwhile sebastian was always convincing me to do crazy stuff.

    • @sdivine13
      @sdivine13 Před rokem

      I do not have a piercing and I only dyed my hair colors once or twice.

    • @Who_evenamIanymore
      @Who_evenamIanymore Před rokem

      @@sdivine13 Are you suggesting you’re sebastion

  • @3namega
    @3namega Před rokem +8

    I never talked to my toys/imaginary friends as a kid because I just assumed they could read my thoughts(??), so I'd have incredibly long silent "conversations" with them where I talked to them in my head, and now I'm very glad that my parents never saw me doing that because that sounds horrifying to walk in on 😅 Great video though, very unsettling!! I'm an adult and I still keep most of my toys, never really understood how other people think of them as creepy, but to each their own ig!

  • @AJHareTheHarebrain
    @AJHareTheHarebrain Před rokem +26

    I would love it if you made two videos for every story: one where Ryan just reads the story straight without interruptions, and one where Ryan and Shane get to be silly. I'd watch both.

  • @T.Florenz
    @T.Florenz Před rokem +10

    I love any show format that feels like I'm pulling up a chair to hang out with Ryan and Shane 🧡 This is a fun story, and I love the implication that the mom had been letting the creature feed off her kid until he grew up and left.

  • @meara-
    @meara- Před rokem +12

    even though the ending was changed, this story is still really good! the original one as posted by the author was much more... disturbing. i would've loved to see that ending in art form lol. but the direction the watcher boys took here leaves more to the imagination so i'm not complaining

    • @-theviolinist-7710
      @-theviolinist-7710 Před rokem +11

      What was the original ending?

    • @bigearcat96
      @bigearcat96 Před 5 měsíci +1

      can you link the original story please

    • @meara-
      @meara- Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@-theviolinist-7710i only saw this just now lol. if you haven't read the original, the ending was a graphical depiction of how danny ate oscar

  • @jas17p
    @jas17p Před rokem +7

    My imaginary friend was also the phenomenon lots of kids get where they imagine a person or animal running beside the car as it drives. She would jump around on objects (lampposts, signs, other cars, etc) and sit on top the car when I fell asleep. When not in the car I imagined she knew nothing about humans, so I had to teach her. She was humanoid with features just off enough to give the idea that she wasn't human but I was super into fae and the like. I don't remember exactly but my mom tells me she apparently had dark hair, black eyes, pointy ears, sharp teeth, and purpleish skin I dont remember when for a fact but one day I just stopped seeing her.

  • @MENACEMAXX
    @MENACEMAXX Před rokem +6

    Funnily enough, the conversation at 22:30,
    It's said that facing two mirrors close to each other creates a door to the spirit realm, a vortex of sorts. It's why some places such as the Stanley Hotel (if I remember correctly) are speculated to have intense hauntings. I think this hotel specifically was what inspired the Shining as well!

  • @emmamacdonald9415
    @emmamacdonald9415 Před rokem +4

    Ryan and Shane's imaginary friends are just versions of each other

  • @sedavesi8764
    @sedavesi8764 Před 6 měsíci +3

    I feel bad for Danny, dude was just trying to catch up with a friend. All the dad had to do was apologize for his absence and set some boundaries for when tea parties were acceptable. THIS is no longer an "Are you scared?" It should be an "AITA?"

  • @ericbuescher2122
    @ericbuescher2122 Před rokem +2

    The scariest part was Ryan's fashion choice. 'Bling lumberjack' 'crunky hispster'?

  • @ERROR-ct1ih
    @ERROR-ct1ih Před rokem +4

    Ryan’s giggle is scarier than any story he could ever throw at me