My parents told me that as a 3 or 4 year old that I thought Bob Geldof was my invisible friend. I would talk to him and I wouldn't let them walk up the stairs because he was sat on them. I have no idea why I chose Bob he was in the boomtown rats at the time.
A childhood belief about imaginary friends

others believed things like this
- I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.Anon
- I was sure my stuffed dog "Floyd" could talk, but he chose not to.
— Cyn - When I was little, my parents told me if i ate my fish sticks, I would become invisible.— Jake
- when I was about 7 I thought that aliens hid under my bed. I wouldn'd sleep in my bed for a whole year!— *Rachel*
- Yesterday I realised that invisible ink doesn`t make me invisible.— Jonathan Eleven years old
- when i was small i thought rats mutated into batsAnon