BABBITT— Having grown up in Babbitt, with a long Finnish lineage, Brittney Tuura was in no rush to move away from her family. In about 2012, at age 25, she and her husband and two children, Hayden age two and Kyler age five, moved into a rental house on Fir Circle in Babbitt.
After settling in and getting on with their busy lives she began hearing her son Kyler talking about his indoor playmate, who said her name was “Big Girl” in his conversations describing her brown hair and yellow dress.
“As a young mother I just figured his imagination was starting to develop and didn’t take it more seriously than that at the time.”  She recalls one evening, while setting the table for four, her son got upset because she had not set a place for his best friend, Big Girl. She and her husband went along with it for a while, seeing no real reason to worry.
She recalled that Kyler really loved to play in the basement with his Dora The Explorer ride-on-cart with its lights and musical horn, but apparently he was not the only one. On several occasions when Kyler hadn’t been in the basement the lights of the car would turn on and the car would be found in a different place than where Kyler had parked it.
Later, as time passed, things got even stranger. One day Kyler was standing in front of his potty unwilling to do his duty and Brittney said, “Go on and pee!” He said he couldn’t because Big Girl was sitting on the potty.
At other times, electrical appliances like the microwave and the clock on the electric stove would oddly keep working if the power went out in the rest of the house, so it started to occur to them that there was something more to Big Girl than they originally thought.
One day when they were remodeling Kyler’s bedroom they removed a baseboard to discover the words, “Jenny’s room” having been written on a wall by an adult. Following this discovery, Brittney then asked an older lady from Babbitt if there had ever been a girl named Jenny who had lived in the house. The woman nodded yes, and told her a young girl named Jenny who had brown hair and often worn a yellow dress had indeed lived in the house but had passed away at a young age.
During the years they lived in the house, Kyler never had any nightmares or experiences that scared him, but his experiences with Big Girl continued until circumstances provided the young family an exit from the rental property when the home’s owner went into foreclosure and lost the residence. Kyler was sad to move but never talked about his imaginary friend again, while on the other hand Brittney and her husband felt a great sense of relief.