MrBallen

And so Haley's parents and the investigators went back to treating Alicia as just an imaginary friend, just a simple coping mechanism.

And so the investigators went back to just doing their interview with Haley.

They got all the information about how she got from the bluffs down to the river as much as they could.

And then because Haley was fine, they said, okay, you're good.

See you later.

Now, Haley's case was a really big deal and it was all over the news, especially after she was found.

And so her interview where she said this imaginary friend named Alicia had assisted her in getting down the bluffs and had basically taken care of her, that was put in print.

And after it was published, there were some readers that realized there was another little girl who had gone missing in the exact same spot as Haley 23 years earlier.

She was four years old.

She had black hair, brown eyes.

Her name was Alana and she had died on those bluffs.

After this connection was made, it got national media attention because suddenly news outlets were saying this imaginary friend was actually Alana and that she was Haley's guardian angel.

In fact, Haley was brought on Dateline to talk about her imaginary friend.

One night in the summer of 1904, a young woman named Anna Gray was laying in her bed in her second story room in a bed and breakfast in Chicago, Illinois, except she couldn't sleep.

She couldn't really tell why she couldn't sleep, but you know, her stomach was kind of upset from the mince pie she had eaten earlier and it was kind of, you know, her stomach was rumbling around and so maybe that was why.

And also, you know, the air in the room was very stuffy, you know, there wasn't any circulation and so she's just laying in silence as her stomach is growling and it just, it was very uncomfortable.

And so eventually, Anna felt so frustrated that she was not able to sleep, that finally she just threw the covers off, hopped out of her bed, and walked over to the window, and she opened it up to let in some fresh air.

And even though, you know, her stomach still felt pretty upset, you know, having the fresh air hit her and sort of circulate through the room did, even if it was just by a small percentage, make her feel a little bit better.

And now that she was standing up near the window and sort of realizing how late it was, she suddenly did feel sort of tired.

And she was like, great, I'll leave the window open and I'll go back to sleep.