Are Mimics Real?

Are Mimics Real?

I’d never heard of them until a few years ago, but I get why they’re so hot these days. Firstly, they’re all over TikTok and YouTube, though strangely not so much in creepypastas. But more specifically, just like Abs experienced, a Mimic is some kind of possibly invisible, possibly not invisible supernatural creature or entity that mimics the voices of someone you trust, ostensibly under the guise of luring you to your death, usually in Appalachia, but not always. Sometimes you’ll be alone, but sometimes the person or pet who you hear at the door will be right beside you. But what if you believed that voice? What if Abs had opened the door? With Mimics lurking around, you can’t even trust your own senses, let alone your loved ones. It’s isolating. It’s terrifying.

And it seems to have been completely made up by a stranger on the internet some time between 2017 and 2018. Like Slenderman and The Rake and Not-Deer and my social life, the Mimic would be nothing without Al Gore’s Internet.

I’m here to drag you down a deep strangedive rabbithole and reveal the true origins of Mimics or Appalachian Mimics as we know them. 

First I’ll tell you about all the things I think have inspired and molded the concept of modern mimics, from the supernatural to table top gaming to ancient greece to… roblox. And then I’ll take you along the timeline leading to the Mimic’s sudden explosion in popularity in 2019 and onward so you can see for yourself that the Mimic really was created on and by the internet.

Are there Mimics in Appalachia?

Overwhelmingly mimics are associated with the appalachian mountains and forests for reasons i can’t quite pinpoint, but ALSO, the problem with trying to track down the first use of the term mimic in a paranormal sense is that of course mimic is just an existing word, so putting appalachian with it helped me narrow things down a little. Most of the results for mimic result in the D&D monster, octopus, cuttlefish, ravens, crows, parrots, chameleons, and copycat recipes up until shockingly recently.

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