There's a Mimic in the House

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[00:00:26] Look for it now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. He went pale, his eyes got huge, and we just look at each other. There's nobody in the back rooms. We are about to hear experiences from Ashley and Tiffany, sisters who are interested in the

[00:00:51] paranormal and have done their own investigations. You might notice slightly off audio quality throughout, but that gets better the deeper we get into the episode. But at one specific moment, we captured a strange anomaly that sounds eerily like an intelligent response. My name is Edwin, and here is Ashley and Tiffany's True Scary Story.

[00:01:24] My name is Ashley. I live in Nashville, Tennessee, in a small kind of suburb area in south of Nashville. Not much happens here. Usually these homes are all ranch styles, and they're either a duplex or just a single family home. Mine is a duplex. It actually used to be owned by my

[00:01:50] husband's late grandmother. I live on one side of it, and the other side my sister lives. So one day I was sitting in my living room working, and my husband was in the kitchen.

[00:02:16] Whenever you're looking at the house in the duplex, the inside part of the house is where the bedrooms are, and the outside part of the houses on the outward sides are the living room and the kitchen areas. My kids had been playing pretty much all evening together. So I decided to get a little bit more work done

[00:02:39] before it was close to bedtime. So I hear my oldest, or what I think is my oldest, talking. I can't really understand what he's saying, but it is a good couple sentences, and I automatically assume that he is with my youngest, and they're in one of the back bedrooms watching videos on his tablet. And my oldest is explaining the video to my youngest.

[00:03:09] I don't really think anything of it. I keep working. This happens for about five minutes at least, off and on. So I finally, after hearing a last little mumble, I looked out on my phone and I noticed that it is about 30 minutes until it's time to get ready for bed. I go walk through the kitchen, turn right down

[00:03:37] to the hallway where the two bedrooms are. I look into their bedroom, and there's nobody in there. The tablet's on the bed. It's turned off. There's nothing playing. So I turn and I look into my bedroom, because they sometimes like to go in there. Again, lights are turned off. There's nobody there.

[00:04:02] I get full body chills. I'm one who has experienced the paranormal multiple times. But I've never felt this sort of chill down to like my bones. So I go and I'm walking back into

[00:04:27] the kitchen area and I asked my husband, did you just hear Oliver in the back room having a conversation? And he just is like, yeah, why? And I look at him and I see from the side of my eye, both of the boys

[00:04:48] outside in the backyard, playing far off by the garden, well out of audible range. And I look at my husband and I say, there's nobody else in the house besides us too.

[00:05:07] There's nobody in the back rooms. He went pale, his eyes got huge, and we just look at each other. I look back outside. They're starting to run towards the house. And my husband says, maybe we can just hear the boys outside playing. And at that point, they're starting to run towards the house.

[00:05:33] And I can't actually hear their voice as they're running up until they get pretty close to the house. And I tell that to my husband and I say, no. His voice was coming directly from the next room. But I couldn't understand anything that he was saying. It was just mumbles, like words that were

[00:05:58] blended into other words. And neither of us could decipher what was said because obviously it wasn't my real child's voice. So then I decided to call my sister. She then reminds me of earlier in the year

[00:06:17] when she was in bed and heard my voice call out to her. My story happened a few months before where she has her computer station in the basement is directly below my bedroom. I'm not much of a

[00:06:42] morning person. So I had slept in, it was a Saturday. She was actually headed to Chicago for a show that day. I'm in bed. It's already light out. I have no idea what time it is, but I hear my name being called through the basement right below me. I'm still in my sleep phase starting to come out of it

[00:07:13] and waking up because my name is being called. This voice is calling my name and it sounds like my sister. Before I even open my eyes, I fully wake up, but because I don't like mornings, I still have my eyes closed. And I heard it again and I was like, wait a minute. Okay, so I was not dreaming that. And then I opened my eyes and I kind of sat up a little. About five seconds go by, I didn't hear

[00:07:39] anything. And I was like, okay, yeah, that was definitely all in my head. No, it happened again. Tiff. Tiffy. Tiff. And it sounded like Ashley was struggling downstairs right below, like something had fallen over. She was like, get down here now. Help. I need your help. But it was just her saying my

[00:08:00] name. So I sit up and I go, me? And I start chuckling because I'm like, who am I actually talking to? Because I don't hear it anymore after that. So then I'm like, wait, I heard my name. I get up. I go down the hallway into the kitchen where the door is that leads to the basement.

[00:08:26] And I yell her name. I'm like, Ashley, Ashley. Nothing. I look out front. I look out back. I get my phone. I call her. She answers. I'm like, Ashley, where, where are you? I'm on the interstate. I'm away to Chicago. And I was like, are you serious? Because I just heard your voice

[00:08:51] calling my name from downstairs. It woke me up. And so we were both just kind of like, wait, what? But then we just kind of brushed it off because I was like, well, the boys, their bedroom is the same wall as my bedroom. And so I thought, well, maybe the youngest is over there and he realizes, oh, Tiffy's on the other side of this wall. I'm going to wake her up. I'm going to call her name. That made me feel better just thinking, okay, well,

[00:09:19] I just assumed it was coming from the downstairs. Maybe it was just Luca playing around. But they were in the TV room playing. And when we're on the far end of my house and she's in her bedroom, she can't hear anything from the other side because there's a big concrete wall that separates the duplex in the house. And then when it happened to Ashley with her oldest voice, we were like, okay,

[00:09:46] that's the problem. This is something. But at the same time, we're not scared. We're just a little bit more curious. My experience on top of her experience just kind of solidifies the fact that it wasn't some

[00:10:08] random one off. When you hear a voice in your house and you know that person isn't around, you kind of just try to reason any other thing that it could possibly be but a ghost. So having two experiences in one house of a disembodied voice that isn't just disembodied,

[00:10:38] it is sounding exactly like my family members. This was a full on conversation. This was a good solid five minutes of talking randomly. So the mimic in a paranormal sense is an entity of sorts who is pretty much mimicking the voice of somebody you know, or yourself.

[00:11:09] It could come either in voice form or it could actually come in like a doppelganger form where you can see it looks like somebody that you know, but in fact it is not. And the mimic would be the audible version of that, where you think you're hearing somebody that you know talking, but in fact, it's not them. Some people might say that a mimic is a very bad omen or bad sort of the entity or energy.

[00:11:40] Thankfully, I didn't have any like really negative feelings around it. I didn't feel scared or like I was being watched or anything. More of like a playful hide and seek sort of a way. I'm okay with it just leaving it at the voice. If I start seeing something that looks like my son when he's not in my house, that's when I'm really going to get worried.

[00:12:12] The house hasn't had anybody like in it or anything. We haven't had any crazy things happen around. We do live in the area where the Battle of Nashville took place, where there was a lot of Union and Confederate casualties. And I'm less than a mile from the Traveler's Rest where all of them like took shelter and by one of the areas where it was like over 2,000 soldiers died. And there's this hill called like Overton Rose Hill.

[00:12:39] And that was where one of the big battles was fought. I live in an area where there could be some Civil War spirits roaming around. But like the only thing that's ever happened to me here in this house is the mimic. And then when I caught the orbs on this side of the house where my sister lives. The orbs happened a year ago. Was it last year? Yeah, yeah. The orbs was last year.

[00:13:08] So before my sister moved in, I had my studio up here in the upstairs part of the side of the duplex. And since she has moved in, I've moved it downstairs in the basement. But when it was up here, I had ring cameras out. The reason why we even had the ring camera when the business side was up here in my place is because we're sisters. We laugh a lot. We make each other laugh.

[00:13:34] We do the funniest, ridiculous things all the time. And we always joke around about, wow, today was a great episode. Like, they only had us on recording. So that's why we initially got the ring is to record us being silly and laughing. And all of a sudden it picks up ghosts instead. Yes. I was out of town at some show once and I got a notification that there was something on the camera. And it just looked like something was just floating, a random orb.

[00:14:04] And I mean, it just kept dancing and dancing for a very long time. And I called my husband and I said, hey, there's something floating around or I don't know, there's an orb or something in my studio. And I can see it on the camera. Can you go over there and check it out? And he was like, ha, no. So I just recorded it.

[00:14:28] Flash forward to three months later and the back room, I get another notification that there is something in my studio. And I open up the video and I see this orb-like thing just floating around. And luckily I'm at my house, so I'm on the other side of the duplex. And I come and walk over here. I still have my ring camera app open on my phone.

[00:14:56] So I'm watching the video and I'm watching this orb dance around, changing shapes, changing transparencies. You can see through it at times. It's super solid at others. It's like a straight line and other times. And it has this orb about it that's floating around it. It's not a bug at all. So I go into that back room and I see nothing.

[00:15:23] I'm looking at the screen still and I'm trying to touch and to feel like where this thing is and look and see if I can see it with my naked eye and nothing. Absolutely nothing is there. I can still see it though. On my ring camera app on my phone. Live video. As I'm trying to catch it, it's just dancing around my hands and would not let me touch it whatsoever. Which was very strange.

[00:15:52] You cannot convince me that it's a dust or a bug or a spider. No. I was there. There were no bugs, no spiders, no dust, nothing. Absolutely nothing. That goes on for at least a good 10 minutes or so. And me being the parental investigator that I am, I decide to grab my dowsing rods.

[00:16:20] Dowsing rods, if you don't know, are these two metal things that are shaped kind of like an L and then you hold on to them. And the energy move the rods either inside as an X for yes or outwards and open for no. So I use them to ask some questions.

[00:16:44] From just asking a few questions, the orb or whatever spirit entity that was there told me that it was just passing through. And it really liked the area and just wanted to hang out and rest for a little bit. Which leads me to believe that it might have been a soldier from the Civil War.

[00:17:09] Thousands of soldiers died right down the street, not even a mile from the Traveler's Rest, where said soldiers would go there either hurt, tired or hungry, and would seek refuge. I've talked to people that have lived kind of around the area and they have experienced orbs and all sorts of paranormal things.

[00:17:28] So having that sort of orb that I could see on my phone but not in my naked eye and asking questions and getting answers that it's just a wayward spirit walking through, you know, felt very comfortable with it. And happily welcome any other orbs to hang out around the area. Just don't call my name out in the voice of any of my family members because it will scare me.

[00:18:12] Ashley and Tiffany share a few clips of a video where a doorbell camera captures a strange light that is moving in weird patterns. As we're talking about the clips, we capture a strange interference. During our recording, we started hearing an audio anomaly. What you're about to hear is us reacting in real time to what is happening. The sound appears to be interacting with what Ashley and Tiffany are sharing. And it was all caught on our audio recording.

[00:18:44] I'm looking at the video right now. I just pulled it up. This is, it's moving not just from side to side, like, you know, when you have a spider web. But, like, it's literally zooming, like, goes back and, like, it plays around with, like, where you are. Yeah. Okay, so you're holding a phone, right? With the phone light or whatever, you're looking at it. If this were, like, some light effect, as you move the light, it would also move with you. Or, like, it would move as a reflection of your light somehow. But it doesn't. Like, it doesn't even.

[00:19:12] Plus, like, you being there and swinging your hands around. Like, if it were something there, like, it would follow that motion. Yeah, you would hit it basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you can tell it's trying to, like, dodge my hand as I'm trying to, like, feel for it. It's kind of like playing around. Like, it goes away and comes back. I've never seen anything like it, like, ever. And, uh, geez. Okay. Have you shown people that, like, maybe they have an explanation for it?

[00:19:41] Or, like, some type of trying to debunk it or something like that? I posted it on socials and everyone was like, I mean, I would say it was a bug. But it actually doesn't look like a bug. So I have no idea, you know. But it would be great to, like, send it to, like, fairly professional. I don't know. Last year, we ran into another traveling spirit on my birthday at my mother's house, like, a mile down the road.

[00:20:11] Okay, I just heard, like, the weird interference that we actually kept hearing when we were at my mom's house. She's telling you right now. Okay, sorry. Go ahead. I feel like we just, we encounter, like, playful energy. Okay, hold on. I hear it now. I hear it now. Is it me? I just, hold on. I'm getting chills on my head. Ashley, did you hear that? Did you hear, like, when I mentioned it? Or did you hear it before? I heard it before and then I heard when you mentioned it, too. When I said, did you guys hear that?

[00:20:41] Yeah, I don't think we heard it at the same time. I'm getting chills right now. Okay, this is bizarre. Or, uh... It should not happen at all. Did you, did you, like, I don't know, blow on the mic? Did you, like... No. I have a Tazo earphone, earpods, and she has the right one in her ear and I have the left one in my ear and we're just sitting here still on the couch next to each other. It's weird because these are brand new ear headphones, too. You see, because what you just said, you said, I've just got to wait on your fingers. I don't know if you heard it.

[00:21:10] And then I'm like, no, that's weird. I'm going to go through the recording. And then I heard it right when you started talking. But it wasn't anything that I've ever heard during a call. It doesn't make... I mean, I know what interference sounds like when you're recording with audio. This wasn't interference. This was like a... Oh, man, I'm getting extra. It was like someone was, like, exasperatingly going... Like that. Exactly. Like, oh, here she is talking about us again. Yeah. It was like a... Like that. It was a... And when we do our, like, paranormal investigating...

[00:21:40] Because, I mean, like, we've gone to the old jail and St. Augustine, the lighthouse in Augustine. Oh, there it goes again. Did you hear it? A little bit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'm just getting... I was literally about to tell you. You know, every time that we use EVP, we get interference just like that. That just happened as I was explaining to you that we get interference. Like, what the heck? I never get a voice. I only get an interference. We've never heard voices on our recordings.

[00:22:06] It's always an interference in the electrical or something. We're, like, onto something here. Like, this is... This is the first time this... I mean, we were talking about the voices and I said, well, this is really odd because it goes really low when... In the beginning of the call. Uh-huh. I was like, it goes really low. And we're talking about voices. And right now when you said... And, you know, it's weird because I hear, you know, it's interference. I just heard it. So it's... And then you heard the interference as soon as you can. And it's recorded. I'm sure, like, I hope at least that it's actually in the recording because it's...

[00:22:37] It's... I mean, I'm going to hear it. We go through it extensively. Like, we, like, freely break it down. So if it helps, I've got my hair pulled up. So it can't be something that, like, my hair is rubbing against the mic. Same with me. It's... The mics are part of the... Yeah. I'm watching hers. It's completely free of anything rubbing up against it, too. So... I heard... Did you... Did you... Did you just hear something now? No. But I did just open my pen top. So I'm going to toss that down so I don't accidentally make a noise. Do that again. Just do it just to see if that...

[00:23:07] Maybe that's what's making the sound. Okay. Here I go. Did you hear that? Did you hear it? No. Okay. Then it went to the pen top. No. By the way, right now, I think it was Tiffany that you were talking about a story. Did you get to finish that before we got interrupted by the sounds? Yeah. It was my birthday. And we had originally gone and tried to do a Ouija board in the house. And it was silent.

[00:23:37] Crickets. Nothing. Clearly no one's here. They don't want to talk to us. Mind you, I would never use the Ouija board in my own house. But my mother's... Yeah, that's fine. Well, because she's also convinced that she's got a spirit there. But I've debunked everything that she has said is what makes her think there is. But then we were like, well, maybe there is something to it. So that's why we... And my mom, and she's like, try to figure out what it is. You know, I don't care.

[00:24:06] Do all the sessions you want at my house. We tried the Ouija. Nothing came of it. So we were like, well, let's just do our normal flashlights. Because we get so much response. When we do the flashlights. We went into the dining room. We got so much response. The flashlights were, yes, no. Okay, thank you. Turn off. They turned off. They would tap on the artwork that was right behind us.

[00:24:35] And it was in line to a question. Basically what we gathered from that evening was that it was a passing by spirit. It really liked the area. She lives on top of a hill. Her house has got a lot of natural light and windows. And it thought that the neighbor, like all the people that lived on the street were really nice. They thought that the, just the scenery was nice. They were just passing through. They didn't really want to talk much about anything. But they were enjoying themselves. And so we were like, okay, cool. Well, welcome. Have fun.

[00:25:05] Thanks for talking to us. I feel like whenever we do communicate just like randomly with things, it is just like a passerby or sort of spirit. Or it's just like, hey, I'm just here to hang around. Even when I was in the old jail, I never felt any sort of like evil spirits. And thankfully, neither in my mom's house or our house here either.

[00:25:33] You know, the old jail in Augustine, it's like the oldest jail in America. I decided to go on to where the maximum security area was. And everybody else, including my sister, was on the other side of the jail. So I was just like, I'm going to go off by myself for like a second. And so I went off by myself in the jail cell area. And I said, if there's any spirits around here that only communicate, can you knock for me three times?

[00:26:03] And so I knocked on the concrete wall. And, you know, if you knock on concrete, you can barely hear it. As soon as I finished my bang, bang, bang, I hear a... From inside of the maximum security jail cell, on the far end of the jail where absolutely nobody was. Everybody was on the complete other side.

[00:26:28] And then as we were walking out, I have the Ovilus on my phone that brings up words. And then I had my flashlight out. So we went to where the gallows were, and it's the original gallows. And I walked underneath the gallows and looked up, and I set my flashlight down. And I said, if there's any spirits here, can you turn the flashlight on? Boom, flashlight turned on, and the word judgment came up on my Ovilus.

[00:26:58] That was the first time I actually really got freaked out after years and years of paranormal investigating. We've had just like little micro experiences with the other side. And a curiosity about it, too. We were raised in religion, but we are not religious now. Very much in the spiritual.

[00:27:19] We're very much more into getting down to the humanity behind ghosts or spirits, and not the perceived notion of... It's a demon, yeah. So instead of getting frightened by these things... I mean, yeah, it's a little frightening. But at the same time, like, we have more of a curiosity towards it. And so it lends itself to be more positive in nature.

[00:27:45] And maybe our curiosity about it is what's lending all these spirits to come through, and they know they're safe with us. Who knows? With my mimic situation, I can only assume that it is a spirit that just wants to be playful. Especially because they were using my son's voice, who is a happy-go-lucky, playful kid. There wasn't any sort of, like, negativity towards... I didn't feel any sort of negativity.

[00:28:14] I mean, yeah, it creeped me out, of course. Thankfully, I'm feeling like it's not coming from anything negative. But again, as time will tell, I might. I might not have another experience. But if I do, I hope it is as benign as that. But if not, then maybe I was wrong. And there is something a little bit more malevolent in my house. I do see things out of the core of my eye in this house. Both of us have been actually a lot lately.

[00:28:42] I just attribute it to it being the floaters of mine. Yeah, or me seeing, like, a reflection on my glasses. Yes, yes. You know, I'm just like... It was just my glasses. It was just my eyeballs. And then when the mimic thing happened, we're like, OK, are those floaters? Or what is this?

[00:29:10] Please check the description to view the clips we mentioned in the story. What do you think the strange sounds were? Ad-free episodes are available over on our subscription from Scary Plus. You can find it at scaryplus.com. It's free for 14 days and then $4.99 a month. You can cancel whenever. A huge thank you to Ashley and Tiffany for sharing their experiences with us. Scheduling for this episode was done by Bianca Chavez, with editing and sound design by Sarah Voorhees-Wendell from BW Sound.

[00:29:39] Additional production by me, Edwin Covarrubias, and the Scary FM team. Thank you very much for listening. Keep it scary, everyone. See you soon.