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The bad memory could be a connection but this in all honesty sounds nothing like DID. I can see how people could possibly suspect an alter ego doing this but typically with DID you do not communicate with someone outside of your body the communication is all internal. The alters, the beings are internal, not imaginary friends that stand at our side. At least not in any case I've heard of. Granted alters may be able to stand next to the body on rare occassions but that doesn't qualify others as DID because they are speaking with someone that could possibly not exist. I'm pretty sure that would fall along another line.
It is however possible that this entire thing could be somewhat mental, repressed memories and the man who has been in contact somehow was connected through the man in the top hat... Who knows really. But DID isn't like it's portrayed in the movies and to assume it's DID because they may possibly be dillusional in thinking that the other person is there communicating is not very productive. DID is too quick to be used nowadays when in reality it's nothing like most people think it is.
I get both dillusions and I have alters, sorry if I myself sound judgemental or condescending but in personal experience as well as information over the years given by therapists as well as pdocs, this would not fall along the dissociative spectrum, unless there is something I'm missing here...
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