MrBallen

After she gave this explanation, investigators had a lot of questions.

Like, if you were sleeping up on the bluff on that first night, then why couldn't the helicopter see you?

Because that's all they were doing was flying over the bluff.

And they had thermal imaging.

They could have very easily picked you up.

And so they asked her, you know, are you sure that's where you were?

And she said, yeah, that's where Alicia told me to stay.

And they were like, who's Alicia?

And she said, oh, she's my imaginary friend.

I met her on the bluff.

And so immediately the investigators and the parents are like, okay, she's clearly coping with this traumatic event by creating this imaginary friend.

And so they don't ask any more questions about the imaginary friend.

Instead, they continue to ask questions about basically how she got from where she was lost to where she was found.

And they say, okay, Haley, how did you get down the bluffs?

Because there's only one way down and it can be hard to find, especially if you're off the trail.

And Haley said, well, Alicia brought me to a trail and she led me down the bluffs.

And she stood in front of me and made sure that I didn't fall forward.

And so her parents and the investigators are now starting to think, you know, maybe this isn't an imaginary friend if this person is right in front of her kind of propping her up.

And so they ask Haley, you know, can you describe what Alicia looks like?

And Haley said, sure.