When a child’s imagination feels too real Kate Haas thought her toddler’s fascination with empty corners was nothing unusual—until he started talking to someone named "Toddy Ro". He said Toddy lived in the house. He said Toddy was here.

What began as innocent play soon took on an eerie edge. The old house creaked at night, and sometimes her son’s gaze would lock onto unseen spaces as though following movement. The name “Toddy Ro” came out of nowhere. No book. No show. No explanation.

Kate tried to reason it away - maybe sunlight, shadows, or an active imagination. But when her son uttered five simple words, “Mommy, Toddy Ro is here,” she felt something deeper: the unshakable chill of the unknown.

Years later, her son (now grown) remembers nothing of Toddy Ro. But Kate still tells the story, because it lives in that strange space between logic and mystery. Was it a ghost, or the pure imagination of a child who hadn’t yet learned what’s possible and what’s not?

This story explores how easily the ordinary becomes otherworldly and how every parent, deep down, wonders what their child really sees when they stare into the dark.