13. A Mimic? In MY house? It's more likely than you think + A Haunted House in Chilliwack | Two true scary stories

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the show, submit it now on
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That's MAD.
AM E Oh, hello.

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I didn't hear you come in.
Yes, it's me, Madam Strange

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Ways.
It's so good to see you today.

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I've got 2 new true strange
stories for you, A haunted house

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and what may turn out to be a
mimic or doppelganger.

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And as always, solicited or not,
usually not, I share my thoughts

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and observations after each
spooky tale.

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Now it's time for you to dim the
lights, get cozy, and maybe even

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get yourself a little snacky
snack while I read you these

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true strange stories here on
Madam Strange Ways

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story #1 by Jinxy.
I will preface this by saying

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every time I tell this story I
get goosebumps even 23 years

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later.
I think I was about 12 or 13

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years old and I was at my older
cousin's house for a visit

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during the summer.
It was going well until the

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second night.
Before I get to the happening I

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need to try and describe the
house.

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The house is situated in a rural
area outside of Chilliwack, BC

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surrounded by cornfields and a
small property that housed an

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abandoned home directly behind.
The house itself I would

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describe as a modern plantation
style home with a ground level

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wrap around balcony.
When you look at the house from

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the road, the glass paned doors
is in the center with your

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living room window to the left
and the bedroom I was staying in

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to the right.
When entering the home from the

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front door, there's a large
staircase directly in front of

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you.
It is an open staircase that

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allows you to see The Walking
area upstairs.

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There are 4 bedrooms on each
corner of the upstairs and the

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bathroom is in the center.
After a day of play in the field

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behind the house, my cousins and
I ate dinner, watched a movie

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and headed to bed.
I was the only person sleeping

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on the main floor.
I can't remember what time it

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was, but I was Jarred awake by
this heavy feeling that someone

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was watching me.
I remember being tucked into the

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wall under the window, and so
when I awoke, I looked up

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towards the window and that's
when I saw a figure standing

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there outside.
All of a sudden there was a

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wrap, wrap, wrap on the window
and I freaked out and pulled the

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blanket over my head.
Silence.

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But then the wrapping came at
the back of the house, the

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kitchen sliding door.
There's a washroom attached to

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the main floor bedroom, so I ran
into there and hid in the

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bathtub.
That's when the banging at the

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window started again.
But it wasn't exclusive to my

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window.
This person or thing was banging

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on every window in the house and
it was moving around the house

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way too fast to be human.
I don't know why no one else in

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the house couldn't hear this.
So I decided to make my way to

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the upstairs to try and wake
someone when the thing started

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knocking at the back of the
house.

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I sprinted for the stairs and
this is where I freaked out the

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most.
As I was halfway up the stairs

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the most ears shattering banging
on the front door glass

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happened.
I looked behind me as soon as I

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made my way up the stairs and
this thing was just a shadow

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just standing there, but the
banging was prominent.

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I got to my cousin Rachel's room
and shook her awake crying.

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We laid in bed listening after I
explained what happened and we

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heard nothing.
Was I crazy?

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She told me to go to sleep and
she fell back asleep herself,

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but I just could not.
And then it happened again, but

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this time it was just a small
tap, tap, tap on the front door,

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just enough for me to hear it,
as if to say you're the only one

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that can hear me.
We never figured out what it

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was, I told my aunt and she
couldn't even explain it either,

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but I believe we stirred up
something at that abandoned

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house.
We never did go in, but we

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definitely tried.
I took my fiance to the house a

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few years ago when we were
visiting family.

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We took each other to see the
places we remember growing up

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in.
It's still there, it's still

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creepy.
As I recounted the many good

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memories and finally this story,
the big Willow tree in the front

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yard kind of moved, but there
was no breeze at that moment.

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And that is when I knew that no
matter how much time has passed,

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people are never forgotten.
Jinxy, that was so scary.

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That was just so scary.
Like when when the knocking is

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happening all over the house at
the same time and it's moving

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around and it's impossible for a
human to be moving that quickly.

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That's so terrifying on like a
few levels, because the first

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level is like, OK, if this is a,
it goes through a spirit or an

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entity or a demon, etcetera,
what have you, and they're

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torturing you.
Just you, not your cousin, not

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your aunt, just you.
Sure.

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OK, that's that is scary.
Here's another level where it's

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scary is that there are enough
humans surrounding the house and

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they're all synchronized.
They've synchronized their

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watches.
They're all in on it and they're

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all trying to, I mean, for lack
of a better word, trying to

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scare the shit out of you.
That's also really, really

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scary, especially, you know,
when there's like woods that

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backs up and you know, then that
abandoned, that weird abandoned

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house that I would have tried to
get in it too.

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So if I was there with you, I
would have been getting, I would

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have been haunted right along
with you.

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Oh, sorry, cornfields surrounded
by cornfields, not forest.

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Wow.
That's also scarier because now

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third level way that that's
terrifying aliens.

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I recently rewatched Signs.
That movie is still scary.

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So it could have been aliens.
I know I've talked about

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knocking before.
This woman who wrote in was sick

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and she just felt like something
was wrong.

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And this knocking started all
over the house.

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And it I think it happened for
days while she was sick and it

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was constant and it was coming
from even inside their walls and

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from inside the home.
So like it couldn't just be from

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outside.
So first of all, just not that

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kind of knocking is so scary to
me.

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It's like top three spooky story
chills for me.

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But in that episode I was
talking about tying that back to

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the knockers or, you know, the
Tommy knockers or just in Welsh,

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Scottish, Irish, English
folklore, you know, knocking

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signifying an omen.
It's an omen for death.

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But that's not what was
happening here because your

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story didn't say, oh, and then,
you know, one week later, Graham

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Graham died.
So I, I presume everybody

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survived shortly after.
So I'm glad Graham Graham didn't

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meet her grizzly end because of
an omen.

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So that's good news.
So if the knocking wasn't

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signifying death, it wasn't an
omen, it wasn't a portent of

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doom, presumably.
Then the first thing I thought

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was, are there mines nearby?
So I googled Chilliwack and I

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saw that it's in a valley, and
if there's a mountain nearby,

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which there must, because
otherwise you don't have valleys

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without mountains, right?
So if there's a mountain nearby,

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that must mean there's mines
nearby.

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And in fact, when I looked up
mines, Chilliwack, it did come

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up with some mines.
I didn't see anything hugely

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historical, but I'm going to be
honest, I was distracted by the

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fact that Chilliwack has a corn
maze, which is almost as

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terrifying as having knocking
happening all around the house

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at the same time and no one else
can hear it but you.

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So what were you near the corn
maze?

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Because there's I feel like
there's a non zero chance that

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that corn maze is haunted.
OK, coming back to the mines

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though, the mines, if there were
mines nearby, the knockers, the

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Tommy knockers, they both derive
from these purported creatures

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or entities, sprites, etcetera,
that lived in the mines and

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would knock either as a, as a
well intended warning or as an

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as a less well intended threat
to the miners to get out because

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there was an imminent mine
collapse.

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So you know, you are near mines.
There could be some mine

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tomfoolery afoot, Tommy knocker
foolery if you will.

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And then the weeping Willow kind
of gently waving as if to say, I

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remember you who, who, who like.
OK, calm down.

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That's unnecessary.
Like, there's no way, Jinxy,

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there's no way that you're ever
going to forget this.

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So if they could just forget if
the land and the ghosts and the

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tree could just lay off.
Story #2 First paranormal

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encounter by Ted.
I've had many paranormal

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encounters, starting from my
teenage years, intensifying in

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my early adulthood, and
seemingly tapering off now that

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I'm in my late 30's.
The first experience that I

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remember was in 9th grade coming
home from school.

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My parents were both working, so
usually I'm home by myself until

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late dinner.
I usually get the rice started

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in the rice cooker and thaw the
meats.

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This afternoon I was extra tired
from wrestling practice, so I

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was relieved when I came home
and heard rustling in the

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kitchen and the faucet turning
on and off.

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I didn't actually look in there
to see who it was, but I assumed

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it was my mom because sometimes
she'd get home early from her

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restaurant job, sometimes they
have private events and they'd

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send some white staff home.
I turned the corner to the

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bedroom and yelled out to her.
Can you wake me up in like an

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hour?
I wanted to study for a test

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tomorrow.
I heard her say in a raspy

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voice.
OK, con Con is a Vietnamese term

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addressing your own child.
I thought nothing of it.

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Maybe she's feeling a little
sick.

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I woke up from the landline
phone ringing.

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Cell phones in the early 2000s
were available, but we were poor

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so only the adults had them.
It was my mom asking me if I

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wanted the leftover food from
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I told her, did you go back to
the restaurant for leftover

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food?
She said no, she's been working

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the whole time.
Chills ran down my back, it was

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twilight and the sun was setting
so the whole house had an eerie

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semi darkness to it.
I told my mom to hurry up.

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Home please.
I did not lock my bedroom door

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so I could see out into the dark
hallway.

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I jumped up to go lock the
bedroom door and turned on the

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light, opened the window and
turned on the radio.

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Anything to drown out the
silence and the dark.

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Eventually my dad got home
first.

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I was so relieved to see him but
didn't know if I should tell him

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what happened.
I waited till dinner time to

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slip in casually that I thought
mum was home earlier and was

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doing something in the kitchen.
She denied it and they concluded

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that I must have imagined the
whole thing, but I know I

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didn't.
Someone was in the house,

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rustling in the kitchen, turning
the faucet on and off, and

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imitated my mom's voice and its
raspy voice.

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It called me Con, so my first
thought was that it understood

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Vietnamese.
No relatives.

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We knew we're going to come
over, nor did they have the keys

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to the house.
To this day I still don't know

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what it was or how it mimicked
my mom.

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It wasn't the only spooky thing
that happened in that apartment,

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but it was the 1st and
spookiest.

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Ted, thank you so much for
giving me permission to read

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this horrifying story.
Thank you.

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There's something creepy just
about liminal spaces.

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I think we can all agree that
liminal spaces are kind of

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spooky just in general.
So that weird that just the when

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you take a nap as a teenager
that you wake up, you're

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disoriented and then in your
case, like the sun is setting

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and that there is just a, a
weird liminal aspect to it.

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So that's already creepy to
begin with, but then you heard

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something mimic your mom.
And by the way, I, I looked up

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pronunciation of the word CON,
which I said con.

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Please forgive me if it was
wrong.

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But hearing your mom's voice OK,
on on one level, you would

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expect to hear your mom's, your
mom's voice if you heard her in

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the kitchen, you heard things
moving around in there.

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But like, so even if it was like
a raccoon, if a raccoon got in

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your house and it was making
noises in the kitchen, it

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wouldn't say anything to you.
It would not use a human voice.

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So I think we can, we can
probably discount raccoons.

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Although maybe if you heard
something that was not likely.

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I I don't know.
I don't know.

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I just don't want this to be
true.

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So I'm trying to figure out a
way in which it's not true.

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So moving forward, you heard
what sounded like your mom's

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voice, though off a little off,
so not perfect.

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So I, I don't know if everyone's
hearing this kind of when this

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was released at this point in
September of 2024.

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Mimics are huge right now.
They're super hot right now and

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they're all over TikTok.
And I think mostly it's the the

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TikTok of the girl recording
from inside her room with the

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door closed, hearing her mom
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But her mother is not home.
She knows her mother's not home.

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She knows she's home alone.
So who is it?

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Who was phone?
Who was talking to her from

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across the door?
So that's the concept of a mimic

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is that you are hearing a loved
one speak.

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We this is similar to a vadoga.
Oh, I practice it for the last

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time.
I the last time.

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I don't know about this time.
It's a Finnish folklore concept.

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So you where you'll hear the
sounds of someone doing

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something before they do them so
that it kind of sounds like what

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you're dealing with here, except
it does just feel a little bit

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more ominous, like the voice not
sounding right.

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Typically you can't tell the
difference when you're dealing

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with those sorts of things,
especially a mimic.

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So what was it that talked to
you?

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What was it that went into the
kitchen, was trying to make you

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dinner and then didn't make
dinner, didn't thaw the meats,

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didn't start the rice cooker,
but scared you but let you nap

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though.
So how malicious or ominous

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could it be really, if it lets
you get your sleep?

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You needed your, you needed your
beauty sleep, you know, But they

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could have it could have started
dinner.

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It could have done something to
help around the house.

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I am a big proponent of
creatures that haunt your house.

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Spirits, ghosts, shadow people,
mimics.

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If they're going to hang out in
your house, they need to pay you

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a portion of rent or do
something around the house

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that's useful.
I do love though classic parents

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where they just brush it off.
They're like, oh it's nothing.

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You obviously imagining it.
I'm sorry that they didn't

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listen to you.
Although I would be interested

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to hear if any of the spooky
things that you said happened

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there happened to them and if
either your mom or your dad ever

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acknowledged the creepy stuff
that's happening in your house.

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I did look up.
Vietnamese folklore, Vietnamese

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creatures, cryptids, ghosts,
spirits, etcetera.

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Trying to find something similar
to a mimic or similar to a

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doppelganger and I came up empty
handed.

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So if there is one I would love
to read more about it.

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And also by the way, for anyone
playing D&D, these are not the

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same kind of mimics.
You don't need to roll for

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initiative or whatever.
You would have to roll for a

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mimic, I don't know, but you
don't have to.

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So put your dice away.
I'm sorry, put your die away.

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for such a lovely spooky time.

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next time.
The house is situated in a rural

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area outside of Chilliwack, BC.
Nope, that doesn't.

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That doesn't.
That doesn't sound right.

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What else would it be?
Chilli chilli wok chilli wok.

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OK Google.
How do you pronounce Chilliwack

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BC?
That's pronounced Chilliwack.

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Chilliwack.
I nailed it.

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I'm practically a Canadian now.
A.