A woman in New Zealand and her friends have experiences with Doppelgängers while hanging around a dilapidated house called "Appleby Mansion". This is just a taste of a Patreon only bonus episode. To hear the full story, sign up for the Otherworld Patreon. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Appleby Mansion and why is it significant?
Welcome to Otherworld. I'm your host, Jack Wagner. And it takes place in New Zealand. At this time, she was 19. She just moved out of her parents' house and in with some friends looking for some freedom. And she often found herself hanging out at another friend's house that they called Appleby Mansion. This place was not... in a good state. It was a crumbling house in severe disrepair.
Chapter 2: What strange occurrences happened at Appleby Mansion?
It was far from a safe living environment, but despite that, Rebecca's friends did the best they could to make it more inviting. They decorated the walls, tried to spruce it up a little. However, it was not long before they all started experiencing Some very strange things that revolved around the theme of doppelgangers. I'm going to let Rachel take it from here and tell the story herself.
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Chapter 3: How did people feel about the atmosphere at Appleby Mansion?
the vibe was not good there. You know, our energy was great. Like I really enjoyed the people that we were spending time with and like the stuff that we were doing, like people were playing cool music and stuff. And there was just something about the place that, that felt quite intense and quite off.
It was quite noticeable, but that wasn't, you know, brought up by anyone for some time because it's just a house. Like it's just a, just a shitty old house. You're not really trying to read in too much to it in a, You know, you sort of think maybe once you've hung some pictures on the wall, maybe that feeling will change.
Chapter 4: Why was Appleby Mansion difficult to navigate?
I remember my first impression of the place was just that it's really cold and kind of foreboding. And also, it was strangely hard to navigate, which is not something that you really... That's not an impression that a building leaves on you a lot of the time. We were partying and stuff, but I wasn't drunk all the time.
I'm going to this place in the middle of the day and being like, hang on, didn't I just come into this room? It was hard to find your way around and to remember where you were and to remember how to get to, I don't know, the kitchen or whatever bedroom. It was just kind of a disorienting place. Yeah, and the place, the electrics didn't work.
So, you know, once you're there at night time, again, this was before, like, advanced mobile phones like we have at the moment that have torches and flashlights and stuff like that. So I don't actually know how the place was lit. Probably a lot of candles, which would have been a bit of a liability, but that's what we were working with. Within a couple of weeks...
The flat was relatively established. People had moved in and word started getting around that people were having weird experiences there. And the theme that seemed to be attached to these experiences was that each occurrence involved basically a doppelganger or someone that looked like you or someone that you knew that clearly wasn't them. Quite a destabilizing feeling, occurrence.
So the first I heard of it was when one of my friends who we'll call Shelly moved in. Her and her boyfriend, Justin, was helping her shift. And they were... Doing a long day of it, they were going, you know, back and forth from their car to Appleby Mansion with boxes and furniture, like back and forth, just over it, you know, moving day, no one really likes.
And they were just, by the end of it, working independently, trying to get it done and, you know, just... focused on the task at hand. Slogging through, at one point Shelley was out in the car grabbing one of the boxes that she wanted to move in and she turned back to the front door of the house and she saw Justin was there with his back to her.
So she called out for him for help to lift this heavy box because she was quite a small girl. And he didn't respond. He was just kind of like standing there for a beat or two. Then he walked through the door, through the front door, down the hallway, didn't respond to her. So she heaved the box somehow herself, feeling kind of annoyed with Justin for not helping.
And when she got to the front door, she saw that he was at the opposite end of the hallway again with his back to her. And she called out again for help. But again, he didn't respond. He just turned left kind of robotically and headed into the lounge and So at this point she's tired and irritated and she called out like, what the fuck, Justin? And from the car behind her, Justin responded, what?
So Justin's in the car and she's just seen Justin in the hallway. There was no one else on the property. So no idea what's happening there. And I guess they just got on with the day, but she did mention it to me as something that was kind of like strange and She was like a pretty high stress person anyway.
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