There's a Mimic in the House

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 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. My name is Ashley. I live in Nashville, Tennessee, in a small in the 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 and actually used to be owned by my 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. Whenever you're looking at the house and the duplex, the inside part of the house is where the bedrooms are and the outside part of the houses. On the outboard. 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 before it was close to bedtime. So I hear my oldest for 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 there in one of the back bedrooms watching videos on his tablet, and my oldest is explaining the video to my youngest. I don't really think anything of it. Keep working. This happens for about five minutes at least. Off and on. So I finally, after hearing a last little mumble, I looked down on my phone and I noticed that it is about thirty minutes until it's time to. Get ready for bed. I go walk through the kitchen, turn right down 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. I get full body chills. I'm one who has experienced a 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 the kitchen area and I asked my husband and 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 outside in the backyard through the side window, 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. 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 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. Was just mumbles, like words that were 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 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 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 lied 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, face starting to come out of it 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 ago, but I didn't hear 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 name. So I set up and I go me. And I started chuggling 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. Did they get you? Where the door is that leads to the basement, and I yelled her name. I'm like, Ashley, actually. Nothing. I look out front, I look out back, I get my phone. I call her. She answers. I'm like, Ashley, where are you? It's like I'm on the inner stake on way did Chicago, And I was like, are you serious? Because I just heard your voice 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 gonna wake her up. I'm going to call her name. That made me feel better, just thinking, Okay, well, 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 on the other side because there's a. Big concrete wall that separates the duplex in the house. And then when it happens to Ashley with her oldest voice, we were like, Okay, that's the problem. This is something. But at the same time, we're not scared. We're just a little bit more curious. To have my experience on top of her experience just kind of solidifies the fact that it wasn't some 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 to experience is in one house of a disembodied voice that isn't just disembodied, 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 the paranormal sense is an entity of sorts who is pretty much mimicking the voice of somebody you know or yourself. It could come either a voice form, or it could actually come in like a dopplginger form where you can see it looks like somebody that you know, but in fact it is not. In 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. Then some people might say that a mimic is a very bad omen or bad sort of the entity or energy. 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 tide and seek. Sort of a way. I'm okay with it, just leaving it at a voice. If I start seeing something that looks like my son when he's not in my house, that's when I'm really gonna get worried. The house hasn't had anybody like dye in it or anything. We haven't had any crazy things happened 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 two thousand soldiers died, and there's this hill called like over ten Rows Hill, and that was where one of the big battles was fought. I live in an area where there could be some. Civil war spirits throwing 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 orb was last year. So before my sister moved in, I had my studio up here on 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. We do the funniest ridiculous things all the time, and we always joke around about well, today was a great episode, like we only had. Us on recording. So that's why we initially got the ring is to record as being silly and laughing and. All of a sudden it picks up ghosts and said, Yes, I was out of town at some show once and I got a notification that there was something like the camera. And it just looked like something was just floating. It's just a random orb, 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, huh no, So I just recorded it flashed 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 two plates, and I come and walk over here. I still have my ring camera app open on my phone, so I'm watching the video and I'm watching this orb dance around, changing shape, changing transparencies. You can see through it. At times it's super. Solid, at others it's like a straight line, and other time and it has this like orb about it that's like floating around it. It's not a bug at all, because I go into that back room and I see nothing. 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. 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 ten minutes or so, And me, being the parent ole invespator that I am, I decide to grab my dowsing rods. 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 used them to ask some questions. From just asking a few questions, the orb or whatever sphered 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. 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. So having that sort of. Orb that I could see on my phone but not in my naked eye, and asking questions and getting some 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 here. Just don't call my name. We'll the voice of any of my family members because it will scare me. 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 in audio anomaly. What you're about to hear is us we acting 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. 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 work, 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 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, 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. It's I've never seen anything like it, like ever, And geez okay, have you shown people that maybe they have an explanation for it or like some type of trying to deep bunketers 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 see like what their thoughts on it is. Last year, we ran into another traveling spirit on my birthday at my mother's house, like a mile down the road. I just heard like the weird interference that we actually kept hearing when we were at my mom's house. But I'm 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? Like? I just hold on? Getting chills on my o? Did you did you hear that? Did you hear like a when I mentioned it? Or do 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? Yeah, I don't think we heard it at the same time. I'm getting chills right now. Okay, this is bizarre. It shouldn't that happen at all. Did you did you like, I don't know, blow on the mic? Did you like? No? I have a Taso ear pods and she has the right one in her ear and I have a 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 just gotta wait. Interference. I don't know if you heard it and then I'm like, no, that's weird. I'm going to go through the record. And then I heard it right when you started. 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 like. Someone was like exhausperating, like exascerate, going like talking about us again. Yeah, it was like. That. It was. And when we do our like paranormal investigating, I mean like we've gone to the old Dale and Saint Augustine like house in Augustine. Oh there it goes again. Did you hear it a little bit? Yeah? Yeah, Jeff okay, Yeah. Literally about to tell you every time that we use the 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. You've never heard voices on a recording. It's always an interference in the electrical or something. We're like onto something here like this is uh, this is the first time this I mean, we were talking about the voices and I said, this is really odd because it goes really low. When in the beginning of the call, I was like, it was 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 appearence as soon and. It's recorded, I'm sure, like I hope at least that it is actually in the recording because it's it's I mean, I'm. Going to hear it. We go through it extensively, like we like freely break it down in them, so. If it helps. I've got my hair pulled up, so it can't be something that like my hair is running against the mic. Same with me. It's the mics part I'm watching hers. It's a completely degree of anything again too. So I heard did you did you? Did you just hear something? Now? No, but I did just open up pent top. So I'm gonna talk that so I don't accidentally make a noise. Do that again, just do it just to see if that maybe that's what's making this sound. Okay, here I go. Did you hear that did you hear it? No, by the way, you right now, I think it was Tiffany that you were talking about a story that you get to finish that before we got interrupted by the sounds. Yeah. It was my birthday and we had a ridgely gone and tried to do a Wuiji board in the house and it was silent, crickets. Nothing, clearly, no one's here. They don't want to talk to us. Mind you. I would never use the Ouigi 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, Peter, there is something to it. So that's why we at my mom and she's like, try to figure out what it is. You know, I don't care do all the sessions you want at my house. We tried the ouiji, 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, coming off, they put off. They would tap on the artwork that was right behind us, and it was in line to a question. Basically, what we gathered from that evening was that it was the 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, half fun, thanks for talking to us. I feel like whenever we do communicate, just like randomly with things, it is just like a passer buyer sort of spirit, or. Like I'm just scared hang around. 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. You know, the old jail in August Panel'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 gonna 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, the only communicate, can you knock for me three times? 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 from inside of the maximum security jail cell on the far end of the jail where absolutely nobody was. Everybody was on the other side. And then as we were walking out, I have the ovulus on my phone that brings up words, and then I had my flashlight out. So we went to where the gallows were as 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 ovulus. 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 the curiosity about it too. We were raised in religion, but we are not religious now. Very much in the spiritual. We're very much more into like getting down to the like like the humanity behind ghosts or spirits and not like the perceived notion 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 lends itself be more positive in nature. You know, maybe our curiosity about it is what's lending all these spirits to come through and they know they're saved 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. 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 this is as benign as that, but if not, then maybe I was wrong and there is something a little bit more levelent in my house. I do see things out of the core of my eye, and that's how both of us. But it's actually a lot lately. I just attribute it to it being the floaters of my yeah, or me seeing like a reflection on my glasses. Yeah, yeah, No, I'm just like it was. It was just it was just my eyeballs, and then when the mimic thing happens, we're like, Okay, are those floaters or what is this? Please check the description to be the clips we mentioned in this story. What do you think the Strange Sounds work? Ad free episodes are available over on our subscription from Scary Plus. You can find it at scaryplus dot com. It's free for fourteen days and then four ninety nine a month and cancel whenever. A huge thank you to Ashley and Tiffany for sharing their experiences with us. Scheduling for this episode was done by Bianca Chaves, with editing and sound designed by Sarah Vorhez Wendel from VW Sound. Additional production by me Edwin Karubias and the Scary FM team, thank you very much for listening. Keep it scary everyone, See you soon.