Teeth: The Horrors of Living With a Mimic

[00:00:00] Welcome to True Scary Story. When our family moves into their new apartment they begin to discover its dark secrets. Secrets that came along with science. My name is Edwin and here is Erin's True Scary Story.

[00:00:25] This happened around 2015-2016. I was 16 years old. Our family we were moving from one place to another very abruptly. We were only supposed to be there for a few months. It's in a really bad part of Los Angeles. It's in South Central. One of the

[00:00:43] roughest parts of South Central. Crime everywhere. The idea was that we went there a few months and then we left. That didn't happen. It's been over five years now and we're still there. The first thing that I remember noticing is the smell of

[00:01:00] like paint but the apartment had been ready for months. The windows had been open. My mom had come and seen the apartment. We walked in. I remember my sister saying that it was disgusting that it smelled and then the flies. I'm

[00:01:13] not talking about one or two flies. A lot of flies. If you leave me outside and flies is, I like that really bad. My dad started swatting at them and I decided that I would keep exploring the new apartment. The rooms are dark. The windows

[00:01:30] are open. There's no curtains. That warmth of a home feel isn't there. When I walk into my mom's room it just was even colder. The feel of the room wasn't as inviting as the rest of the apartment was and even the house itself. The

[00:01:47] apartment was not inviting at all. I walk out. I see my siblings going into the room. My mom and my dad are swatting flies and going to the restroom. This restroom is tiny. The only thing that I noticed that isn't new in the restroom

[00:02:02] is the cabinet mirror. I open it because it's old. This dark wood like if it's rotting wood but it doesn't smell. The glass is foggy. We can barely see ourselves and it's a small mirror too. I open it. The first thing that I see is

[00:02:22] teeth. I thought they were dentures but no. I picked up the teeth. They were real human teeth. Like teeth that got pulled out. They were big adult teeth. I grabbed them and I'm looking inside and like these are real teeth. I walk out the

[00:02:42] restroom and I go to my parents fast and I'm like mom I'm like look at these teeth and she's like where did you get those? Those are fake. My dad turns around and he's like where did you get them? And I'm like they were in the

[00:02:53] bathroom pa. He looked at me. He thought I was joking. He thought I had brought these from somewhere or something. We have dogs. The dogs had not moved from the front of the apartment. They were standing there. They weren't moving in.

[00:03:03] They were looking at me too. My mom was like go throw them away and I'm like okay that was the resolution to that. I went back to the restroom and flushed them down

[00:03:12] the toilet. That was the end of the teeth. The flies it took us two weeks to get rid of all the flies. We thought we would be done by the end of the day. We didn't

[00:03:23] understand where all these flies were coming from. A few weeks go by. This is towards October, Halloween time. There wasn't money in the budget for costumes. Our family decided that year we would just stay indoors. We'd already put up

[00:03:39] some stuff, some of the decorations and my mom and my dad liked to collect antique furniture. Some of the stuff that we had it was previously owned by someone who either had passed away or they gave it to him. It's 730 in the

[00:03:53] afternoon already at nighttime. In October fall time it's pitch black. It's dark outside. Our living room doesn't have a center light bulb. It's just dark. We only have the kitchen light on that's illuminating the living room area then

[00:04:07] the light in the hallway. It's a small dingy hallway that connects the two rooms and the bathroom at the end. We're sitting there watching Netflix and when the episode's coming on to the next one it's quiet. I hear someone say Erin, Erin.

[00:04:25] I look up and I'm like what do you want Daniel? He looks at me. My brother Daniel he was like I didn't call your name. I look at my mom she said it's coming from

[00:04:36] the room and I'm like who's in the room? My mom is jokingly she says tal vez espantan aqui. I was like mom we just moved here. We just moved here. Stop say speaking that out in the world. I am very chicken. We come from a family

[00:04:52] that practices brujeria. So when she said that I like immediately thought of maybe someone did something because I thought back to the teeth. I don't get up. I don't go check the rooms or anything. The dogs are facing the hallway. Their hairs are

[00:05:05] standing up but they're not barking. I look down the hallway there's nothing there. I just turn around we continue watching the movie. That night we go to sleep. We always say goodnight love you to each other. It's always a thing that

[00:05:19] we do even to our dogs. I'm always the last person to go to sleep. I just sleep late. I go outside the apartment is pitch black. All the lights are off. It's just me and my flashlight from my phone. I open the room door walk in the hallway

[00:05:32] my dog Soy she's standing in front of our room door facing down the hallway. My brother's dog Jade was also sitting right in front of the door. They were facing the hallway. Just them two. I'm like what are you guys looking at? Like flash

[00:05:48] the light up. I don't see anything. They look at me they have worry in their eyes. I got this really bad vibe and I woke up my mom. She tells me go back to

[00:05:57] sleep. I go back to bed. I don't tell my siblings or anything. We're in a new environment. A few months go by there's not a lot of like activity in the house. One day we're sitting in the living room. We weren't doing anything it was just me

[00:06:12] my sister my mom. We're having a conversation. We can hear walking in the hallway. My mom was the first one to look up into the hallway. I look up no one there's no one there. The house becomes still silent. Our dogs they stand

[00:06:34] up get in front of the entrance to the hallway. They start showing their teeth. They've never been aggressive and I have never in my life seen them puff up like that. They were snarling showing their teeth. At the end of the hallway we had this

[00:06:47] chinero. At the top we had my sister's 15 crown. It was sitting on top of the chinero. Right behind it is a Bible. When the dogs are snarling they start barking. The tiara flew down the hallway like if they threw it at the dogs. Our

[00:07:05] dogs scurry away. They're still trying to attack this thing. My mom starts to pray. My mom is very tough. She's very thug. Whatever you are you need to get out of my house. I don't want you here. In the name of Jesus Christ she starts praying.

[00:07:21] That stillness of the house and the heaviness lifts. The dogs slowly start to come down. Then they come and they sit next to us but they're still looking at the hallway. That was like the first like intense thing that happened. When we told

[00:07:39] my dad, my dad was stressed out. We had just moved. He didn't want to hear that this place was haunted. We didn't have anywhere else to go. We just put that to the side. We forgot about it. Like I said my mom practices brujería and stuff. My

[00:07:55] mom talked to her sister. My tia practices black magic. The blackest magic you can think of. She told my mom, There's something in your house and it doesn't want you or your kids.

[00:08:06] They didn't want us which is us as kids. My mom told us it's not a demon though and she said no. Your aunt didn't say that it's a demon but it's a spirit. Like a human spirit

[00:08:20] and I'm like okay what does it want and she's I don't know. My mom she didn't want to freak us out more. She kept it hidden. As time went on we would have more and more conversations about it especially the more it started to

[00:08:36] manifest itself in my sister's dreams when I would walk it in the dark at night what my mom would see in her room and for my sister at least for her, my sister she has prophetic dreams. She can dream the death of a loved one. She'll

[00:08:54] dream the birth of a new child. At the time when the activity started to pick up my sister started having night terrors. She would wake up crying but we would ask her what were you dreaming? She would see a woman, an old woman standing at

[00:09:08] the edge of her bed. She had a black veil over her face. She'd be screaming at her to just screaming loud screaming no nothing no words. It was a constant thing to the point where my sister wouldn't sleep. She was terrified of having that

[00:09:25] same nightmare. We come to find out she was having sleep paralysis. Her sleep paralysis demon was this woman with the black veil. Her prophetic dreams started getting painted with this figure in her dreams. She was like I don't understand

[00:09:43] I'm dreaming something that's supposed to be good and she always shows up and she interrupts it. My mom she reached out to a local church told them listen there's this being in my house it's affecting my daughter we don't know what

[00:09:55] to do I don't know what to do. The sister that she spoke to she said of course I'll tell the pastor to come himself and it was a group of nine of them. They came into

[00:10:05] our home they went room to room. El pastor as he got to our room he stopped he took more time to bless the entrance to our room. He turned looked at my sister and blessed her first. He told her he was like

[00:10:21] I won't be able to touch you anymore. My sister was pale they go into my mom's room and one of the hermanas she starts crying she whispers to the pastor There's something there. They're praying the pastor is throwing holy water around

[00:10:35] all over the place he tells us repeat after me. The blessing ends he blesses the rest of us my dad my mom me my brothers he even sprinkles holy water on the dogs. He leaves the activity dies down my sister's able to sleep the week

[00:10:53] goes by at 2 30 in the morning I have to use a restroom I come outside I see my dog the oldest dog she's standing right beside our door looking down the hallway my brother's dog she's sitting in front of my parents room guarding it. I go to

[00:11:10] the restroom I'm in there for less than five minutes I come outside they're both standing in the hallway I can see them looking at something I'm too tired to deal with this right now. I walk into my room I shine the light up in between our

[00:11:24] beds there's this tall lanky man facing the wall he has his hand on my bed frame he's not moving his coat is burgundy I can feel my dogs walk behind me they start grooming snarling again this thing is just standing there I lower my

[00:11:46] flashlight close my eyes I can hear my dogs snarling my siblings are not waking up I have my eyes closed it must have been just a few seconds I opened them there's no one there. I bolt into my mom's room I woke her up and she was

[00:12:04] scared I'm like there was a tall man in the room I couldn't even tell her I was having a whole panic attack she comes into her room the dogs are scurrying around in the room looking for something I turn on the light and my siblings wake

[00:12:18] up my mom she sits in there with us she has us do a prayer circle we're praying she's giving us comfort words and that ends right. We go to sleep a few nights

[00:12:31] go by I'm terrified to sleep in my room months go by my sister has begun to have these weird dreams again they start complaining that they hear my mom calling out to them when my mom is not home my brother was sitting in the

[00:12:46] living room he heard my mom shout his name he heard her shout his middle name from the room. Shalom. My brother was like what? There's no response. He got up from the couch he walked down the hallway into the room her room was dark pitch

[00:13:03] black no one was home he calls my sister and he calls me frantically he's like where are you guys we're out with our friends what happened he explains to us what he had just went through we're like okay just go back go into the room

[00:13:14] stay inside don't answer if anyone calls you. We come home all the lights are on he's sitting in there blasting music he doesn't want to hear if someone calls him he's pale he's freaked out so we tell our mom she tells me okay we should

[00:13:30] practice praying more and stuff like that I don't think this is working this thing it's getting stronger it's manifesting itself more. This was a year into living there I remember I was sick I had stayed home from school I was

[00:13:44] laying in bed and I knocked on the wall that's how we would tell each other we were here my brother Daniel missed school a lot he was always sickly I knocked on the wall someone knocks back I knock twice someone knocks back pop up

[00:14:00] I knock again they knock back like they're responding to me I'm like okay cool Daniel's here I get up all happy from my bed and I walked down the hallway and look in his bed no one's there no one's there the dogs are staring straight at

[00:14:17] his bed I walk right back into the room I close the door I lock it I turn all the lights on. After all of these events Erin's family is about to find out the story behind the apartment from a neighbor and her story continues right

[00:14:35] after this stay with us. At this point because we've been living here for a year we've become friends with the neighbor who has been here a long time my mom and her are having coffee my mom's like oh how long have you been

[00:14:53] here I've been here 15 years my mom brings up the apartment the neighbor tells her you don't know where you live do you go talk to the neighbor in the front that neighbor is very very quiet very to herself my mom asked her why

[00:15:08] because she lived there she lived there right before you got here maybe a few months then she asked them to switch her unit she couldn't deal with the person that walked down the hallway my mom her feet and her hands went cold

[00:15:25] she had never told anyone about the hauntings in her house my mom goes knocks on the door introduces herself she's like I have a few questions about the unit number one where I live are you seeing things too my mom responds yes

[00:15:37] I'm seeing things hearing things my kids are seeing things hearing things she tells my mom very straight up that thing is never going to go away ever when another unit opens up in the building ask them to move you they won't

[00:15:52] go away it's only gonna get worse they talk about the apartment more she explains to her the things that we're seeing the flies the knocking on the walls the walking in the hallway the things being thrown off the walls the

[00:16:06] neighbor she tells her it's going to talk to you it's going to sound like one of you one of your family remember it's not your family my mom scared of her mind she comes back to the apartment she tells us this is what the neighbor told

[00:16:24] me about the apartment we're like all right so what do we do ignore everything that you hear everything that you see don't pay attention to it that's what we are doing we still hear the walking the knocking and everything but we don't

[00:16:42] pay a mind to it I don't think that was the right decision to do it got upset it started to hit the walls harder it started to attack us more psychologically in our dreams attacking the dogs in the dark my sister she was showering one day

[00:17:04] my mom had put up a shelf in the bathroom the metal ones there was empty jars small glass jars not heavy ones super smart we're all sitting in the living room kitchen area we hear a loud bang and glass breaking my sister starts

[00:17:19] screaming I run to the door with my brothers I'm like open the door say I can't open it there's glass everywhere we break the knob to get in my sister's in the shower the shelf had been yanked off the wall clean cut straight out of

[00:17:33] the wall I'm looking at my sister she's looking at me let's just forget this at this point we're used to this but it's obviously getting to a different level of seriousness my mom she's in the living room my dad is just sitting there he's

[00:17:51] antagonizing it he starts laughing my mom gets mad at him and it progressively gets worse from there my mom whenever she didn't clean and cook she would have her friends over to help her cook this friend had come to our house multiple

[00:18:07] times this specific day my mom and her are sitting at the table they're pelando corn taking the husks off the dogs go crazy they start nipping at this thing my mom looks up her friend she turns her head and looks up there's

[00:18:25] this tall black figure like of a man he had no distinguishable facial features he was reaching for her friend trying to grab her her friend she can't move my mom starts praying out loud and it stops turns looks at her and

[00:18:43] it still has its hands out it turns 360 smears onto our hallway wall disappears into the wall her friend never ever came back it started to manifest itself more we can see it sitting on the couch with a table we can see it cross front and

[00:19:11] down the hallway from our room to my parents room very swiftly it looks just like us my sister's sitting in front of me she can see me walk from our room to my parents room I can see it too years go by we become used to seeing this

[00:19:32] thing in our peripheral vision my sister gets more in touch with her spiritual side I have stayed away from that coming from a family that most of them have done is where they have very good spiritual connections and spirit guides

[00:19:45] the closest thing that we come to is that our dogs are our amas which are our soul lifelines the way my mom explains it when we get a pet or an animal in the name we say they're ours they become protection for us my sister

[00:20:00] at the time that we had just moved here to this place her I may have just passed away she was hit by a car out of nowhere it happened in a blink of an eye my

[00:20:10] sister had just gotten a new dog and she named her and she was like this is my new I'm a this is my dog that dog protects my sister like no one business we come across folklore about mimics we started putting two and two together but it's in

[00:20:25] such a weird place because there's no forest around us we're in the middle of South Central there's buildings upon buildings but there is a lot of crime and death a lot of cats dying people dying car accidents people getting hurt

[00:20:38] robbed anything that you think of when we figure out that this thing is a mimic you can't get rid of those things you just have to ignore them don't give it that attention the fear they feed off that fear 2019 I had just came back

[00:20:57] from college my sister she tells me this thing that lives here the mimic that lives in this house it's taking new forms it talks like you we've seen you sitting on the couch looking at the TV but you're not moving you're not talking

[00:21:11] but you weren't here I asked my mom my brother he said yeah that thing likes you that thing likes to be you I get in the habit of every night I go to bed I pray my friend she had given me a rosary that she got from

[00:21:26] the Vatican it was blessed by the Pope it has a saint in the middle for the first few nights some stuff gets moved here and there I'm awake late I'm a college student used to not sleeping I hear someone down the hallway I hear my

[00:21:41] brother Daniel Daniel doesn't live with us anymore I look up I'm like no I pull my Rosario out from my bag I started praying and I don't know any prayers my heart I'm like please God please make this thing go away please tell it to

[00:21:57] leave me alone I don't want it next to me it calls me again I start screaming and I'm like mom and I'm 19 and I'm not a kid anymore my mom opens the door turns on the hallway light I'm like that thing was in the hallway she sits with

[00:22:11] me in the living room it's okay it's okay I even went and looked up the apartment I know that the apartment was built in 1965 it's been bought and sold three separate times it was sold once again right before we moved here the

[00:22:29] owner had just redone the apartment a lot of the interior for the apartments are the same the cabinet in the bathroom is it's the original interior design to the bathrooms and they just never swapped it out from our apartment from

[00:22:42] what I could find the original prints for the apartment our apartment was huge it was the main apartment you could live in our hallway they ended up building a wall and that's the wall where we would end up putting our t-net

[00:22:55] on where all that stuff would manifest in the beginning the extra part that was closed off it was made into a single unit they also see and hear things at the worst times ever I came back because my parents liked the help but it never

[00:23:14] changed the stuff that happened when I was 15 it still happens now when I'm 24 our family still experiences these things even people that come into our apartment they experience these things all the spiritual remedies that we've

[00:23:26] tried we still can't get freed from whatever is holding us here that's what it almost feels like we're trapped join us on Instagram and Facebook with the links in the description of the episode now you have a story or you want to get

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