The CREEPIEST Doppelganger Stories || Mimics Are Watching YOU || Ghosteas Tea Party #113

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What is it? Doppelgangers. Oh gosh. Okay, I'm nervous. We've got some spooky, weird, unexplainable stories here for you today. Oh my gosh. Okay, well I am really excited. I didn't know this was coming, so. Yes. Now I'm kind of nervous. I thought it was just going to be a, like a regular, you know, ooh, spooky, but this is actually something that really deeply unsettles me, so I'm not excited. And you will be unsettled, let's just say. Awesome. All right. But our tea today is Bigelow English Breakfast Tea. A classic. All right, I'm, if I delay any longer, I'm not going to want to do this episode because I'm getting really scared. All right. Let's go. Our first story today comes from Roy C. Rolls. Hmm. I'm assuming that's their YouTube name. Nice. I don't remember. They might have said it in the email, but I put this together a while ago. I hope that's their legal name. It's pretty cool. As do I. Hi, I've been listening to your podcast for quite some time now, and I love watching you guys because it reminds me of my friendship. with my cousin. Let's just call her Belle. We've always been interested in the supernatural and creepy stuff growing up, so it's really comforting to watch you bond over scary stories while drinking tea. I usually have your podcast on while making my phone lanyards. I have a story with Belle that happened in their house back when we were younger. I used to go there a lot. Her room and her parents' room were right next to each other. One time, her room was open, and I don't remember exactly what I was doing, but I think I was getting some clothes that were hanging upstairs on the third floor. As I was coming down, I could see her parents' bedroom door, which was directly in front of the stairs, and next to it was her room's door. They were both open. I remember seeing her near the door, sitting on the floor. Her room was a mess, with books scattered everywhere. It looked like she was studying, though she wasn't facing the door. I could tell it was her. Her hair, how she sat down, it just looked like her. Remember, this was my best friend. I knew everything about her. I didn't think much of it since I was heading. I didn't think much of going to her parents' room to take a shower. But just as I was about to go inside, I suddenly remembered that I had left my toothbrush in her room. Not even a minute had passed. I swear, just a second. I hadn't even fully entered her parents' room yet when I turned around to grab my toothbrush. But when I stepped into her room, she was lying on her bed, using her phone. The room was completely clean. No books. No mess. Nothing. At first, I was confused. I couldn't believe she had cleaned up that fast, so I asked, Were you studying? It was also weird. To think that she'd be studying because it was summer break. She looked at me confused and said, No, I was using my phone. I asked again, Did you see or hear me walk by? She shook her head. No, my bedroom door was closed. After my shower, I told her what happened, and to this day, we still don't know what I saw or what really happened. Anyways, that's all. I hope you enjoy your tea, sisters. Let me know if you want more stories because I have a lot. They're also with Belle and her creepy house. Love Lots, Roycey Rolls. Huh. Okay, so are you thinking like time slip type of thing? Maybe so, yeah. Yeah. They said her back was turned to them, right? So they never saw her face. That's what made it weirder to me. So was it, is it a time slip of them sitting on the ground studying back when or after summer break? Or was it something mimicking that? Her doppelganger of some kind? But how would. How would they make the person seeing it like see all the books and all of that stuff? The door open when it was closed. Yeah, that to me, that is really weird. That to me just kind of says like maybe time slip type of thing because I don't know. I don't know how to explain the books and all of that. Yeah, it was very strange. Creepy though. Yeah. I would feel like I was losing it. I would feel unsettled for sure. Our next story comes from Owen. Hi, ladies. This is Owen. I love watching your vlogs, especially reading your viewers' ghost stories. I don't think my experience would be as scary as those previous stories you've read. Anyway, I was in my last year of college in the Philippines. During this last year, we would be doing our clinical internship in the hospital. It was November 2nd, which is considered All Souls Day in my country, and I was assigned to work the night shift, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. I was excited because I got to work with my two friends that night. My friends told me beforehand that they had a very shocking experience the night before, November 1st. Hearing the department door open and footsteps with no one being there, I was skeptical about it and brushed it off. It was around 3 a.m., and I decided to take a nap in the reception area with a phone on the counter. Out of nowhere, I heard the phone ringing. I tried to lift my head up and saw my friend walk past me. I told him, hey, can you pick up the phone, please? I continued placing my head down, and the phone kept ringing. I got so frustrated and screamed, seriously? You can't pick up the phone, dude? I looked around, and no one was there. Oh, my God. I picked up the phone, but the other end hung up. I went to check the room. I didn't hear the door, but saw no one inside. I checked the back room and saw my preceptors laying down. I asked them, hey, have you seen so-and-so in here? They replied, nope, I think they said they were giving their treatments. I texted my friend asking where they were. They responded being in their respective assigned areas doing treatments. I was so spooked out because I literally saw my friend with his scrubs walking past me that time. I shared it to my friends at the end of the shift, and they were spooked out as well. Who did I see that night? Now, the phone. The phone ringing thing is interesting because it's like it was trying to get the attention, so you did see. Assuming it just didn't ring for too long and someone gave up. Yeah, but I don't know. Like, when you answer, they hung up immediately, so it just feels. Intentional? The two coupled together feel like it was trying to get your attention, yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Spooky. I mean, hospitals in general, there's no telling. A doppelganger or mimic of any kind inside a hospital is just. Ugh. Yeah, it's going to be scary regardless. A real chill just, like, went down through my whole body. Yeah, that one's spooky. Our next story comes from Ximena. Hi, Ghosties. I've been listening to your podcast since a few months back, and I know you've done an episode on this topic, but I still wanted to share mine, and I hope that you can read this. My name is Ximena. I am from Mexico, and I'm currently still in high school, where this encounter takes place. I'm on the volleyball team, and one day when we were at our outdoor practice, the parking lot was right next to where we were training, I saw that my mom was parked in front of the court. This was a bit strange, since we still had one hour left until practice was over, so I told my teammate and pointed to my mom, who had her phone pointed at us, and said, OMG, my mom is here, and she's recording us. That's so embarrassing. My friend saw her and agreed with me, since we were only tossing the ball around, so nothing exciting to record. This thing looked exactly like my mom. Oh no, this thing. It even was wearing a hot pink sweatshirt that my mom loves to wear. Its hair was in a ponytail, just like my mom's, and not to mention the car it was in was exactly the same. Exactly the same as my mom's. I thought nothing of it, just that it was a bit strange, but just decided to continue like normal. Once practice was over, I looked over at where I initially saw my mom, and she wasn't there anymore, so I figured she must have gone somewhere else while we finished. I decided to call her, and she picked up and asked me what was up. I asked her why she left, and she told me she was just getting out of the gym, that she'd been there for at least two hours. When I tell you, my face turned so pale, I mean it. I just hung up and told my teammate. I hung up and told my teammate, and she too was very confused because she saw the same thing as me, but we just passed it as she was joking or something. When my mom finally arrived to pick me up, I saw that not only was she wearing a blue sweatshirt, her hair was in a bun. My mom is very religious, so when I told her this story, she told me to pray, and she basically bathed me in holy water, and this has never happened again. Thank you so much for reading, and I deeply enjoyed listening to your stories, your episodes. Okay, two things. One, this is so scary because the trajectory. Trailer for The Other Mother. Oh my gosh, if you haven't seen it, look it up with Jessica Chastain. It looks absolutely horrifying. The Table, that's all I'll say. Go watch it. The Table. That's all I'll say. When he saw. Oh my gosh, I cannot. Watch it and report back. I cannot wait till that movie comes out. I'm going to watch it like immediately when it comes out. Yeah. Oh, I just got like a little nervous. It's based on a book, and I need to go read it. Really? Yeah. I don't remember who it's by. So first of all, that's scary. It's just like a mimic of someone as important for, you know, some people as like your mom. It's your safe. It's. She's, oh, picked you up from practice. She takes care of you. Things like that. Yeah. It feels so unsettling. But what I thought was really weird and interesting is you didn't just see her. You saw the car, her phone, like everything about her. Yeah. How does that even. How does that even happen? How does that work? Why was it recording? That, yeah. Why? mother or other mommy i thought we said other mother it's other mommy oh really other mothers from coralline yeah oh okay well the other mommy either way it looks really scary and this type of story is exactly why it's really horrifying yeah i forgot about that trailer and it just added another layer of yikes to me yeah this is it's really scary it's just when you see someone that's like oh it's your friend your co-worker something like that but when it's a family member or someone really close to you who takes care of you like you said and i wouldn't trust them i wouldn't know like which one are you it would be one thing if him and i saw this person just at a glance out there by themselves and just like oh yeah that's my mom and i went back but her and friend made a point to point out my mom's over there yeah nah that's too much why was it recording why was it recording i know our next story comes from cas hi guys my name is cas and i'm from arizona i don't know if you've heard of me i'm from arizona i'm from arizona i'm from arizona i don't know if you guys will ever read this as i'm sure you guys get hundreds of emails from viewers but i recently found your podcast and to say i'm obsessed is an understatement i wish i could sit down with you guys with some hot coffee i just like hot tea sorry and tell you guys the hundreds of ghost stories i have that started in my childhood and have now followed me into adulthood this is a long one so if you choose mine thank you so much i grew up with my grandparents after having personal family issues with my own parents i should explain first that i believe my grandma is haunted by something or maybe it's just me i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know things every home she's ever moved into quickly starts to become haunted she's also a deeply religious woman always has been so she believes it's always something positive because of my personal experiences when i was living with her i sometimes think differently it doesn't matter where she lives she always sees the same woman in white dress with a white hood covering her face with long black hair this is the description my grandmother has given me when my siblings and i moved in with her we quickly started to have our own family and we started to have our own paranormal encounters as well i would say this is where my interest in the paranormal scary movies horror stories anything old and antique and the unexplainable really started i think they also took a liking to my curiosity too because they seemed to have followed me pretty much wherever i go too my older sister growing up was is petrified of these kinds of things she has completely shut it out pays no mind to it and as far as i know has had no weird unexplainable encounters that have followed her into her adulthood my grandmother would go on daily evening walks every day when the sun was normally starting to set my sister and i would often join her and by the time we'd get back it would normally be dark outside one night as we were getting back from our walk my grandma told us to go ahead inside the house because she wanted to tend to her plants for a little bit as she normally does she loves her big garden in her front lawn my sister and i head inside straight to our shared bedroom to hang out after our walk a little while after our grandmother knocks on our door we open it and her face goes white when she sees it and she's like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry she's me she says oh you're both in here have you guys both been here the whole time my sister and i look at each other confused and say yeah we came straight to our room after we came inside my grandma continues to tell us that she saw me or at least she thought it was me a doppelganger of me or a mimic i guess you can say she said she saw a person not a shadow or something quick from the corner of her eye it was a solid person same hairstyle same clothes same shoes the exact same things i was currently wearing she said i had walked into the kitchen opened our back door that led into the garage and closed it shut behind me without saying anything i never came back inside so she started to get worried and came to our room to ask my older sister what i was doing i told her no grandma i promise i've been in my room this whole time i never went to the garage are you sure you saw me it wasn't a shadow or your eyes playing tricks on you she said something along the lines of i promise you i'm not going to lie to you the way i'm looking at you right now is the exact same way i saw you heading into that garage my grandma simply brushed it off and went to bed oh my god but this is one of those memories that just sticks with me because first off ew what the hell was that why did it look like me was it trying to trick my grandmother to follow it to this day we have no clue what that was this is just one of the many crazy stories i have while living with my grandparents there are so many more scarier ones where i believe something tried to possess me seeing objects move on their own knocking on my bedroom window in the middle of the night and so many more my grandparents moved out of that house but they continue to have hauntings in their home specifically my grandmother she's gotten grabbed by the shoulders seen dark shadow figures in her hallway and has gotten pulled by her feet i moved out of my grandparents home when i was 17 years old but i believe something has if not attached itself to me visits me sometimes i guess you could say i'm very sensitive to things i can feel the energy of a room change see things from the corner of my eye often and have recently experienced a little bit of unexplainable things i've always had a feeling that if i really tried to tap deep into the paranormal my senses could potentially become stronger if that makes sense so i never really bothered because a part of me is really scared i am also now 27 and have three small children that rely on me to not be scared even though sometimes i'm petrified so i'd rather dismiss things more often now even just typing everything out now at 12 11 at night i'm getting that weird feeling i normally get as if i'm being watched anyways let me know if you'd like me to share more stories of my encounters growing up with my grandparents or any recent ones i've had she loves to retell stories too i love you guys podcast keep the episodes coming please stay safe you guys much love first of all they said they have something scarier than the story of their grandma physically seeing them walk through the door and close it and they were there and wait lie and wait oh my god is that where you're that's where my mind went yeah i'm never gonna be able to go to my garage again like i'm never gonna be able to go in again if grandma wouldn't have had the sense and the feeling to say i'm gonna go ask sister first instead of walk into the garage the dark what would have happened hopefully empty garage oh my gosh i'm i'm picturing all of this as if it's my garage and i'm opening the little door to walk in and something's just crouched in the corner waiting for me other mommy oh my god i feel like my my limbs just went numb like i oh that's really scary and that enough would be like that story alone would be enough to send me somewhere i like that grandma was just like oh okay and just went on with her day with her nightly routine no i i wonder what she did when she went back to her room open up the bible and i mean anything all religious texts everything that you can possibly find oh my gosh yeah i don't like that one at all i feel really sick now i'm sorry i sickened you i knew this one would get you though yeah it really does i'm really excited about it oh i feel really sick and it's nighttime too yeah good times good times if you ask me august is the perfect time for a reset school is starting back up autumn is just around the corner and we're beginning our 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myself re-watching ones i've already watched waiting for new episodes to come out that's so nice thank you so i just wanted to let you know that i've actually emailed twice with an older email i only did this because wherever i would go to the sent box and to reread my email i had just sent to you guys so i'm going to read the next one and i'm going to the email wouldn't load or open so i resubmitted my story again and the same thing happened eventually my entire yahoo email account just got to the point where absolutely nothing would load so here i am with a whole new email this isn't the first time someone has said this i hope it's a storage issue and not a you told the spooky ghost story through your email and now the internet hates your email address i don't like it because this is literally this is not the first time someone has said i keep trying to send you guys emails and i they won't get to me to you. I know. hmm i'm i'm hoping it's some kind of storage or human error it has to be obviously the loading isn't human error but yeah oh god okay i'm going to resubmit those previous stories that i sent with my old email through this one but i had something very strange happen to me this morning and i just wanted to get it out to you now while it's still fresh oh my gosh so me and my five year old son were sleeping on the couch and levi my child's dad came down and decided to lie with us uh just for a little bit before he went to get ready for work so i dozed off for a bit and got woken up by three fast slaps on my arm i opened my eyes and it was levi getting me up he was in his gray underwear and i watched him go upstairs to get ready i assumed a couple of minutes later i was just browsing on my phone and i asked my son if he was hungry and wanted some breakfast he said yeah and told me he was sad and i said why and he said because daddy's going to work and i was like yeah but not yet honey he went upstairs to get ready remember my son replied back and said i'm going to bed and i said yeah and he said because daddy's going to work and i said yeah and he said because daddy's going to work and i was like yeah but not yet honey he went upstairs to get ready remember my son replied back and said yeah and he said because daddy's going to work back to me oh yeah but still i don't want him to go a minute passes and levi wasn't coming down the stairs or making any noise at all i walked upstairs and i couldn't find him now remember it's only been about 15 ish minutes since i watched him walk up the stairs in my confusion i called him my heart is in my throat at this point he answered and i asked how long he'd been gone when did he go out the door he told me he had been gone almost an hour at that point i saw him go upstairs my child saw him go upstairs but never come down i am spooked that's all in real time oh my god once again everyone saw him and there was he laying there in bed contact there was a the slaps on the arm be like hey get up yeah yeah yeah why that's always that's always the question right like with doppelganger doppelgangers yes yes with doppelgangers and mimics it's why and stories like this one it's just like he wasn't asking raven to follow them no he was just like hey i'm i'm going upstairs wake up because you know i'm i'm leaving and you know gotta get up for lunch or whatever dinner whatever yeah breakfast whatever time it was in the morning yeah but it's what's the point why wake her up why why do anything i don't know why it feels more so like it it wants to live life if it is a sentient being you know what i mean like it's like it's just going through the motions and trying to just be mimic the like mundane things yeah and is that practice or is that you know just practice for what oh for it's i don't know sinister plan at the end i don't know it's just it's way of learning for to what end i don't know why that is so scary and i wouldn't have been able to be alone in that house or are these just more glitch in the matrix type things you know and i don't in another timeline it was like hey wake up raven and then came back downstairs and was like where'd everybody go oh yeah you know weird oh scary and in another timeline we're telling the story from his point of view you never know i love stories like this one they're really scary this is like a good way to get a quick chill yeah but mimics doppelgangers seeing it is scarier to me i think than just hearing it yeah well yeah in some instances as long as it's not like whispering scary things to you yeah but but physically you can't you can trick yourself into thinking no i was hearing it was the wind or something but to actually see someone doing an action right before your eyes and it's not a quick glimpse so much more trippy to me yes i agree i agree 100 really scary our next story comes from annie hi macy and natalie your podcast popped up on spotify a little under two months ago and i've since binged your episodes i love listening while sewing crocheting cross stitching walking my dog and doing housework i have to turn you guys off when the time hits 2300 so i don't spook myself i'm partial to the listener stories and wanted to send you my own to set the scene i rent a unit in a generational house that belongs to my landlord we live side by side and have a very good relationship i walk her dog every day and she cleans my house once a month because i have adhd and struggle with these things we also know a lot about each other and share stories one thing we have in common is that we have experienced weird things in this house we have experienced weird things in this house her grandfather passed away in the unit which i now live in and many other relatives have a close bond with the house this story is not about that though in march i was struggling a lot because i invited my father to my city of residence to have a chat about my childhood and because i needed him to recognize what i have been through being late diagnosed as an adult without help from the system as a child i was really poorly in the week leading up to it struggling with sleep eating and having anxiety that riddled me every day i was sure that this talk would end the only paternal relationship i had left and thus make me an orphan when i drove home one evening it gets dark early in norway i saw my landlord standing by the barn entrance with a white coat snow boots and beanie with a hole for a ponytail she went into the barn which is very dark and when i parked i stood there for a minute waiting for her to come out so i could say hi to her she never did and i found the whole thing very weird because she always wears a headlamp stops and says hi and i can hear her rummaging through the barn i went inside and texted her she said she was never outside oh no i told her what she wore and that she didn't have a headlamp on either she agreed that she would always have a light and would have stopped to say hi she found it very weird that i saw her in the clothes that she wore earlier that day but she changed when she came home the thing is i didn't get up until 1600 hours because of poor sleeping habits and couldn't have seen her or know what she was wearing i joked about her having a doppelganger and she was like no don't say that jokingly but obviously freaked out i chalked it up to being a bit emotionally unstable at the time and put it to rest the thing is it didn't stop here because about a week later i was walking my dog in a blue track suit and brown winter jacket i went home and hadn't been outside for many hours when i got a text from my landlord asking if i was out walking my dog about half an hour ago i was like no we walked around 1400 hours but now it's 1900 hours and i hadn't been outside for hours she got a bit scared and i was like no i'm not going to walk around 1400 hours again and said that she saw me and my dog walking down the side of the road before turning left and walking around a bush where she couldn't see me anymore i was wearing what she described and now we were really freaked out that meant that what i saw wasn't a fluke we both saw each other wearing things we had worn earlier and being somewhere we wouldn't have been i started googling a bit and found something that made sense you see at the time my landlord was dealing with her very sick mother we weren't even sure that she was going to pull through and she was in and out of the hospital with infections trouble breathing and on top of that a very difficult stepfather that seemed to make everything about him what i figured out was that in moments of intense emotions that a part of yourself that you haven't dealt with can split from you by by location allowing others to see a physical manifestation of yourself young yin psychology suggests the doppelganger represents the shadow archetype which represents split off or intense emotions like anger or passion that a person has pushed away or not acknowledged i like to think that we care about each other so much that we could see each other's emotions and therefore know when the other person is struggling to keep it together what i also find beautiful is that my shadow self even had my dog with me because he is a part of me he is my soulmate like the animals in the book the golden compass i do have other stories about what has happened to me both in this home and throughout my life i'll probably send that in a separate email but i refuse to do it at home because i refuse to talk about it or acknowledge it in my home as to not encourage it i love the pod and can't wait for more stories feel free to shorten it down as long as you keep the important parts i am in fact an over explainer and a yapper till next time love from norway annie i didn't uh take anything out your story was very succinct it didn't feel that long or like too many details it felt perfect but i you know what the explanation that annie came up with comforts me i love that yeah and it makes me feel better you should have saved that for the end i should so we could all walk away feeling like wow it might all be okay you because you know now it's a roller coaster because it went from terror to like oh okay yeah cool to now it's like we're gonna get back to the scary again huh okay that was just our intermission then yes that was i really it was spooky until the explanation i feel good about it i do like that i do like that you can see an emotional separation of a person that you care deeply for yeah you're looking out for i think that's cool yeah but you're right we will get back to the spooks great all right our next story is unsigned so anonymous we live in the philippines and my family has a lot of connections and experiences to not just ghosts but creatures from local folk tales the land belonged to my great-grandfather's family with only one and a half acres left from what the plantation used to be my grandmother and one of her sisters whole family and kids live there in their own house with a small farm at the back almost every generation there would be someone born with the ability to see ghosts like my sister who had a very strong third eye from what i've heard but even without it it's a very strong third eye from what i've heard but even without it it's a very strong third eye from what i've heard but even without it it's a very strong third eye from what i've heard but always follow and appear before us especially in my grandparents house which fun fact caused a breakup with my aunt and her ex-boyfriend because apparently something scared him so much that he never wanted to go back there oh my gosh one such instance of these paranormal events was when one of my cousins leah was in our grandparents house and was talking with one of our aunts during this time they were the only people in the house leah said that the entire time she was talking to aunt jen who was sitting beside her on the couch folding clothes not once did she speak or react while she was talking to her aunt jen who was sitting beside her on the couch folding clothes while she kept on talking and asking questions. After a while, she stood up, and went to the kitchen to grab a cup of water, but was shocked to see Aunt Jen in the kitchen cleaning. When Aunt Jen saw Leah, she asked for help with cleaning, but Leah, who was scared out of her mind, asked her, if you're here, then who was I talking to in the living room? They both stared at each other with obvious confusion and panic in their eyes till they heard a voice breaking the silence. Leah, can you come here for a bit? Oh my god. In the voice of Aunt Jen. Now, the saying in our country is that you should never meet or see your doppelganger, as doing so will put you in grave danger. Knowing this, they both ran through the back door and to the front yard standing beside the gate. While waiting for whatever it was to disappear or someone else to come home, Leah saw Aunt Jen's doppelganger in the windows of one of the bedrooms and immediately told Aunt Jen, who was beside her, to not look at the house, because she can see her in the window, moving like a normal person, changing the curtains. Oh. Oh my gosh. It wasn't doing anything unusual or creepy, just there doing chores, looking exactly like her. After all this went down, Aunt Jen was bedridden for a whole week. Logical reason is, she got so scared that the stress caused her illness, but we believe these entities take something from who they copy, especially if their presence was acknowledged by the person, especially since Leah was talking to this entity, probably giving it the attention it wanted in the first place. It's a story they rarely ever want to talk about. To add more info, this is also, our aunt, who, in her childhood, while asleep with her sisters, woke up in the middle of the night and saw a man with a skin as black as coal, with glowing red eyes, looking at her through a small window. She screamed, waking her sisters. My grandparents ran into the room, and after hearing what happened, thought it was some creep peeping on their daughters, but when they ran outside, machetes in hand, it dawned on them that the window was at least two meters off the ground, and no one in our town could look or even be that tall. Our great-grandparents had connections with authorities to the point my grandmother, never had any boyfriends since the police were always watching her, so they would have gotten info if there was. Now, the window was by a balete tree, which, in the stories told, is home to different kinds of entities, most notably the capre, a tree-dwelling giant, generally described between seven to ten feet tall, skin as black as coal, and smokes a giant cigar. It's often said to be a being that loves to scare kids, causes travelers to get lost or end up back where they started, and causes a lot of people to get lost. The window is a giant cigar, and it's often said causes illnesses to those disrespectful to it or nature. If a capre falls for someone, men and women alike, it falls deep. It would take them to its home and would shower them with gifts, never harming them, but would try to stop them from ever leaving. Hope you enjoyed my family's story, and if you guys want more, I have enough to share. That's all from me for now. Love you guys, and all that you do. Have a wonderful day. Thank you. Um, the second one. Before we even talk about the terror that was just placed upon us in that first one. I'm intrigued. That's, like, duende-esque. The second one is interesting, and it's also, like, lorax-y, because it attacks people if they mess with nature, harm nature. It's like, okay, heck yeah, man, do that. Keep doing that. And just, like, the fae. Some of the duendes and the fae. Hmm. I mean, it's creepy to see outside your window, but if that's just what it was, and it was just curiously looking, you know? As long as it wasn't trying to fall in love. Yeah, no, that's creepy. But, okay. That one isn't super, like, super scary. It's more interesting to me, but the first one. The first one was horrifying. The first one. Here's the only silver lining. I mean, aside from Aunt Jen getting sick. That's horrible. Were the chores actually getting done? Good point. Was it actually doing stuff? Or just kind of moving things around, and you don't even pay attention enough to see that it's not really doing something? Because if my doppelganger's coming in and folding my laundry? I'll take it. I'll mind my business. I'll take it. I'd say. But, no. Seriously, though? Could you imagine? Just put yourself in that situation. Put yourself there. Your niece comes in to talk to you, and is like, wait, I thought I just saw you in there. It's like Spider-Man. And you hear your own voice coming from the living room or wherever. I would simply never recover. I would do exactly like they did and run out of the home and say, we're waiting for somebody else to arrive. I would never recover. That is so horrifying. Because where does it, okay, you run out of the home, all that stuff. Where does it go? I don't know. Where does it go? Does it find a hiding place in the home? Hopefully away. No, it doesn't. That's one of the scariest ones we've heard in a minute. Calling back. The calling back. Definitely. It's bold. And it lingered. It lingered. It was in the windows. Yes. It's very bold. It didn't get spooked whenever it realized, like, oh, they probably caught on. Ha ha, they got me. Whatever. Let me run away. No, it was standing there. No, you're right. That's going to be one that sticks with me, I think, for a while. Yeah. I just want to give you the space to process it, Michael said. Elena paused. I don't think I want to see anybody else. This is the love story of real hinge couple Elena and Michael, written and read by me, Raven Smith. Listen to the free audio book now. Hey, friends. Olivia from Oli. Start your mornings off right with multis made to support nutrition and immune health. Head back to class with. The number one gummy supplement brand. But we'll move on to our next story. It's from Maria. Hi, Macy and Natalie. My name is Maria, and I'm 15 years old, living in Upper Michigan. Before I get into the story, I just want to say I love your podcast so much. I stumbled upon you randomly one day on YouTube way back in December, and I've not stopped watching since. You both are so funny, sweet, and genuine. Thank you for unknowingly helping me through late-night studies. Study sessions and day chores. Aw. That's very kind. Thank you. Now Maria is probably, what, 17 or 18? Maria is now at 80 years old. It's been a while. Because it's taken so long. Either about to graduate high school or has already graduated. I don't know. This one could be recent. Oh, it's not in order today, huh? Yeah, it's not in order. Okay, never mind. I was stuck on last week's. Never mind. It's just taking so long. It is taking a long time. I apologize in advance because Natalie's not going to like this one. Oh, God. Okay. I've had. Let me adjust. I've had paranormal experiences. I've had paranormal experiences my entire life. Whenever I'm listening to an episode and I hear a story that reminds me of something that's happened to me, I immediately write it down in my notes app so that I won't forget. I have a laundry list of stories I'd love to share, so just let me know if you'd like to hear them. However, this is the most exceptional one. I'm so, so sorry for the length. I hope you enjoy my experiences, and feel free to put my story in the pod. She also said, Also, Macy, I completely agree. Trains are horrifying. Oh, my gosh. She's your people. Vindicated. Quick context. I have nine older siblings and one younger sister. Appearance number one. I was a toddler about two years old. Of course, at this age, I don't remember what happened, so this first one is from my mother's point of view. It was in the middle of the night, and my mom had gotten up to pee. On her way to the bathroom, she glanced down the stairs and saw me sitting at the table with my back towards her. She kept walking before the realization set in that I was up and alone downstairs. My mom doubled back, but I was gone. Certain that I had just gone around the corner. Into the kitchen, she started down the stairs calling out for me, but I was nowhere on the first floor. My mom was rightfully freaked out, wondering how her little toddler disappeared without making a single noise. I couldn't have passed her without her noticing, but she decided to look upstairs anyway. She checked every room for me, ending with my room. There I was, in my bed, fast asleep, as I had been all night. Another one where it's the backs turned. Just living life. Mm-hmm. And it's like, you're mimicking. You're mimicking a two-year-old. For what? See, this makes me think that these entities, they're harmless. Like, they're just there to, I don't know, repeat, copy. I don't know. I can't agree with you on that. There is something sinister about it, but just to have so many stories of. I mean, Maria's mom went down there to check. Went after. Nothing there. I don't know. It's not luring. I mean, but it is, though, because it's sitting up as. Your two-year-old child, obviously, someone's going to go and look and check on it. But to what end? There was nothing down there. Nothing happened. I really don't know. I just imagine, like, scary movie style or, like, horror movie style. She goes down there, and she's looking around. She's like, Maria. And you hear, like, pitter-patter running and, like, giggling children down a hall. And it's just this whole. Exactly. Follow me, mommy. Exactly. And you're saying, oh, no, they could be, you know, just neutral. No. I don't agree. Appearance two. At the time, I was about age six. Maybe seven. I was sat peaceably at the dinner table, pouring an obnoxious amount of shaker cheese on my spaghetti. For context, I used to eat extremely slow. So slowly, in fact, that I was given the endearing nickname Mountain Man. So at the time. That's so funny to call a little six-year-old. So at the time, everyone else had already cleaned up and left the table. I, however, was still enjoying my slow dinner. Did you say Mountain Man? I did. Oh, my gosh. Okay, sorry. That's so funny. My dad was sitting in his rocking chair that was placed on the other side of the living room. He called out to me. He called out to my siblings that it was time to find our outfits for school. My older sister, who we will call Nellie, was twelve at the time, had been assigned the duty of helping me pick out an outfit, as I was only six and not fashionably wise. So she came downstairs and told me it was time to go to our room for the dreaded task. She held out her hand and began up the stairs. She could feel my hand clasped with her own. However, it was shockingly cold and almost stiff, as if it were made of porcelain. By the time she reached the top of the stairs and let go of the hand, I was in a state of let go. She turned around to somehow see me, still sitting at the table, still eating. She shouted down the stairs, Maria, what are you doing? i looked up at her and remarked that i was still eating my dinner and that our dad had told me i could find my clothes after she exclaimed that i had already come up the stairs with her and that she even held my hand i told her that it wasn't me because i'd been at the table the whole time why is the thing in their house mimicking just mountain man sorry maria why is it only mimicking maria i don't know like i'm really frightened sorry it's so funny i don't know i don't know but appearance number three this took place maybe a year or so after the last one seven or eight maybe similarly we're once again in nelly's point of view it was bedtime and every night my sisters and i would give our parents good night hugs and kisses in their room before heading to our own for the night nelly had already said good night and she was laying on her bed she looked over and i was like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry and saw me across the bedroom by the built-in closet just standing there looking at the floor i'm talking head down as far as it can be my hair was down and was subsequently shielding my face i was dressed in an oversized sage colored t-shirt that fit as a nightgown it was worn and scuffed with dirt she sat up startled as i had come out of seemingly nowhere nelly began questioning me maria why are you standing there what's wrong are you okay etc just then my younger sister ruby and i came around the corner from my parents room and as i stood in the doorway i could clearly remember my sister's face a mix of pure confusion shock and genuine horror she shuddered over her words pointing with one finger motioning from me to the corner if you're here how were you just there for the record i was actually dressed in a purple sparkly my little pony nightgown to what end like that's like why why why why why just to scare people would you trust me anymore yes if you kept seeing quote-unquote me and i'm like no macy what are you talking about i'm over here as a whole yes you wouldn't think that as a whole yes but i would double check like is that really you maybe call out to you and the rest of the house or something first oh imagine the thought of that may be sick you see i don't like it who you think is me standing there and i'm like oh my god i'm so scared i'm so scared i'm so scared i'm so scared and you scream out like natalie and you hear me from my room go like yeah and then the thing rushes you that's what oh that's what i was thinking too the thing rushing oh i feel i feel weak my arms just got weak again anyway appearance number four this story took place at my elder sister's house i was about 11 at this point once again for context she is the oldest and we will call her charlotte my mom had her when she was a teen then charlotte got pregnant as a teen too this meant that my nieces are just about the same age as me i'm the second youngest all you need to know about charlotte's house is that she lives two states away and in her house there was a long hallway two doors on the left the first one was a bathroom and the second was the room my mom and i were sleeping in as we visited then at the end was my niece's room my two nieces harley everly and i were outside playing in the sprinkler we came inside and headed to their room to dry off the three of us moved down the hallway everly in front then harley and then me as everly passed the second room and abruptly stopped we all bumped into each other due to the suddenness she whipped around looked at me then back into the room a few times harley and i were very confused and kept asking what was going on everly explained that she saw me lying on the bed asleep she couldn't see my legs because of the angle but my shirt was white my arm was hanging off the bed i assume she was laying face down right arm hanging off but of course when she turned around to look for me my sleeping copy was gone my nieces had no prior knowledge of my copies existing once again i was wearing a swimsuit and didn't even own a white t-shirt this is starting to feel targeted i wouldn't say target i was gonna say like somehow maria can split there's something i don't know it it's her alter ego mountain man it's mount it's actually mountain man oh my god it'd be different if the whole family was like oh i thought i saw mom i thought i saw dad i saw thought i saw sister number five it's always maria i saw maria i saw maria only maria and it's not even just in their house it's at the sister's house two states away it's following yeah oh my gosh appearance number five at this time i was 13 we are in a different house as we had moved on my ninth birthday important for later my mom was on her way to visit her best friend who was in town we will call sage my mom pulled up to the motel sage was staying in at the time sage was waiting on the porch of the motel my mom parked the car and got out as she walked over sage said oh yay you brought my bestie along my mother's face went pale and asked her what she was talking about sage replied maria in the back seat my mom explained she was by herself okay okay it's so many people it's not even people in the household it's everyone everyone is seeing maria i have a theory everywhere i have a theory how many more how much how much is left of their story one appearance and one update so i can make it quick okay because i have a theory hold on to it i need to hold on to it before i say anything because i don't want to say it and it'd be completely wrong after you tell me some some more information okay i'm gonna wait appearance six this happened a month ago for context i have a sleep disorder that makes me sleep 12 to 18 hours during the day my mom came out of the room and saw me clear as day in her peripheral vision walking into the bathroom since this whole thing has been happening for years now my mom wasn't even phased and just kept walking even though she knew all too well that i was sleeping in my room across the house as i had been for the past 10 hours who is she there is a theory that she's actually my sister no i did not have a twin in the womb but my mother lost two children of right before she had me you know what sorry to interrupt i'll let you get back to that that was gonna be my theory so i'm glad i held it in because i was gonna say did you have a twin in the womb and then you just like combined but the spirit state like i was gonna get all into that so never mind nope i don't have a theory so sorry you can you could go back i think i stepped on your words that's okay let me i'll start over there is a theory that she's actually my sister no i did not have a twin in the womb but my mother lost two children right before she had me the first was a boy named victor and the second wasn't old enough to know the gender but we call her leo some of my siblings think that it's leo but i don't think so i don't know it feels more like she wants to be me not that she's my sister my greatest fear in life is coming face to face with whatever entity is attached to me however i do have stories i know are leo i know she is love you guys keep up the amazing work i hope next time you go outside you see a crow and find a shiny rock best wishes sincerely maria that was cute that's the kindest wish anyone has placed upon me thank you update it's learning to speak oh god okay hi ghosties i know you've not gotten to my story yet so i figured i'd share this horrifying update with you p.s strap in natalie i'm already i'm already just unwell the other day i had just woken up and came out into the my mom was standing in the kitchen when she said oh maria i have something to tell you she then went on to tell me that the day prior she had been minding her own business when she remembered she had a question for me she could hear me quietly speaking in my room the walls are thin she assumed i must have been on a call with one of my friends but as she walked towards my room following the voice she quickly realized that she had dropped me off at my boyfriend's house hours ago oh my gosh i did not have a tv or any device that could have been playing anything as my phone was with me and my tablet was dead it's never spoken before who is it speaking to i don't know i do i am very unwell yeah that one's that one that one's a little gross see i don't know if it's just because i've been watching charmed and prue has the ability to astral project but that's where my mind is going i've also been reading a lot about astral projection you've only been talking about that for like two weeks i've been everything is astral projection yeah i've been i've been on projection kick but that's my thought like especially with the sleep disorder okay you know okay you lost me but then you brought me back because i forgot about that you're picking up what i'm putting down i get you but no okay i don't think so the way that it's speaking it's kind of like taking on a life of its own is what's kind of scaring me and the only reason i don't think so is because it has been seen while like maria has been fully awake like playing with the playing with the nieces and you know looking back and back like it just feels like it's a separate thing but i will say i would like an update as they come if anything else happens if it starts it learned to talk i don't know if it starts doing tricks or something let us know yeah i'm scared all right we have one more story it's from jay hey there ghosties first of all i just want to say that i love your podcast i listen to them to fall asleep at night and whenever i want to just relax oh okay what do you want to say about your podcast i listen to them to fall asleep warning though this is going to be a lengthy story since i tend to become a little too excited when narrating a story i'm a writer i am 18 year old male from the philippines you can call me jay growing up i've always been a fan of supernatural the unknown fairies magic and things alike i've always wondered if these things are true or somewhat true because i've heard a lot of stories from my relatives about these mysteries especially ones that are related to ghosts and elements of horror first story that i want to tell you is an experience of my sister my cousin and me but it happened in two different times first one is when my sister saw my grandfather It was early in the morning, around 4.30, 5 a.m. My sister was preparing herself because they would be going to the farm. She needed to go outside to grab some of her stuff. But as she was trying to find the things she needed, she saw my grandfather. She didn't bring any light with her because she knows her way around, but she is sure that it was my grandfather. As she looked at him, she noticed that Bramps was looking down. Then, it started talking to her. He asked her what she was looking for in a low, quiet tone. My sister answered him, but noticed something was a bit off. As she was heading back inside, she passed by him, and she noticed how he walked. My grandpa's feet were not touching the ground. He was floating sideways, entering the kitchen door, which is locked at the time. My sister remained calm and told no one what happened until the next day. I simply could not remain calm. Like, just floating. That. Floating on by. Is so scary. I am so deeply unsettled right now. This is not, like, my stomach. I feel pain. The Philippines. I feel pain in my stomach. The Philippines just has so many paranormal, spooky lore. And stories. I'm spooked. Consider me spooked. The second one is when me and my cousin were left alone in our house. We were just lazing around, talking to each other, when suddenly I saw my aunt, walking slowly to the kitchen door at the back of their house. We were neighbors. I could only see the side of her body, though. Her hair was covering her face. As she passed by, I called out to her. She slowly turned her head to look at me. Her eyes sharp. And something didn't feel right at all. I asked her what she was doing, but she looked away, and proceeded to enter the kitchen. Then, just a moment later, we saw her again, walking towards the kitchen door. Wearing the same clothes, so I called out to her again. Asking her what she was doing outside, and if she had gone into the kitchen. But she said, no. That she went outside, and just now came back in. My cousin and I were confused at the time, and when we told my mom, she told us calmly that there are doppelgangers, in our area, and those kinds of events happen occasionally. That was one of the events that slowly sharpened my senses. I started seeing things from the corner of my eyes, experiencing unexplainable scenarios, and worst of all, some events that made my heart skip a beat. Like this one time, when I was studying late in our kitchen because we had exams the next day. I was in 10th grade, and was familiarizing the key words for my notes, when suddenly I sensed something, like someone was standing from behind. But I know that there's no one, because. I'm the only person who's awake at this time. I ignored it, and continued what I was doing. Then suddenly, something started scratching my leg from under the table. It was just a soft scratching, so I didn't mind it, thinking it was just our cat. But it got intense. I felt pain. And when I looked down, I swear, it wasn't a cat. Or something normal. Something was looking up at me, from under the table. Eyes wide open, and its mouth open too. If you're familiar with Momo, that's. Kind of how that thing looked. Except, it was real. It was right in front of me. I tried to remain calm, because it was holding my feet. I looked away, and as I did, it slowly removed its hand from my feet. And when I looked back, it was gone. Whatever that is, it's there. And will always be there. I can still feel its presence, up till now. That made my senses sharper, and I've started seeing paranormal things in full view, wherever I am. There are a lot more. There's a lot more that I want to share with you. And I hope you want to hear more of it. I hope you read my story, and I hope to hear it in one of your many more episodes. Stay spooked, and spooky. Sincerely, J. The visual. Oh, like, the more I keep talking, the more I feel like I'm going to throw up. The feeling in my stomach right now is not something someone should experience just from hearing you read something. What is wrong with me? It was, it was the visual. It was the. Oh my gosh. Linking it to the photo. We all know. Should I include a picture? No. Actually, you know what? Google that on your own, guys. Sorry, I'm not looking that up. It is not real, but it is scary. I don't care. That image scares me so bad. Are you looking it up right now? Yeah, but I'm not going to look at it. Okay. It's so scary. Fun fact, when I googled Momo, it popped up Avatar The Last Airbender Momo, so. Okay, that's so much better. You can look up that Momo. Oh my gosh. Hey, all the YouTubers and people are making movies now. Someone make the Momo movie. There might be one. Oh my god. I don't have any thoughts. Just throw up. Just puke. Just feeling bad. It being under the table, too. Like, we were just talking about other mommy. Uh-huh. Scratching, holding onto their feet. Just. Yeah, that's not good. And why is it always happening in the kitchen? I don't know. There's something dark happening in the kitchen over there. There's a darkness in the kitchen. In a lot of y'all's kitchens. Oh my god, yeah. In my kitchen as well. This is sick. That's why I can't cook anything. The darkness is you. The darkness. I am a dark cloud over all kitchens. Oh my gosh. I don't feel good. Good. Yeah. I'm glad, actually. Thank you. You keep coming to me and you're like, I want to be scared. I know. I haven't been, like, super scared in a while. I want to throw up. I know. Here you go. Then here we go. Because I feel like, at the beginning, everything scared me really bad. No matter what we were talking about, I was bundled up. I was like, oh god, no, the horror. But I've gotten more used to it. We've also kind of ventured out further and into less scary territory. Like, it's still kind of, like, chilling, but it's not. This is better. Fright. This is bad. These are fright. And these were excellent. So if you have a story where you've seen yourself or somebody else in your family that could not have been there, please let us know. If you have a doppelganger, we want to hear about it. You can email us your stories at ghostiespod at gmail.com. It's also written down in the description. So if you want, you can just copy and paste it from over there. Like this video if you liked it. Share it with your friends if you feel compelled to do so. And subscribe for more. We've got a month full of Reddit stories coming your way in August. I already have the topics lined up. I'm really excited. We will also still be doing listener stories on Friday. I'm going to try and match up themes. So it could be like a week of. Oh, it's going to be bad. Something similar. I'm excited. Are we going to be scary? Yes. Oh, okay. There's a week of still scary, but not as scary. But it's mostly scary. So prepare. Prepare yourselves. We're getting to the October, like, spookier time. 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