After getting lost in a quilting project that leaves her in a trance-like state, Alex reluctantly gets ready for a work event she’d rather skip. But when she arrives, she finds out it has mysteriously been canceled. Back home, she washes off her makeup, and as she studies her reflection in the mirror, she’s suddenly transported to another realm. Support Alex after losing her home in the Eaton Fire Check out our Merch Follow us on: Instagram, TikTok, Twitter For business inquiries contact: [email protected] If you have experienced something paranormal or unexplained, email us your story at [email protected] 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 the story behind The Mirror Realm?
Welcome to Otherworld. I'm your host, Jack Wagner. This story comes from a woman named Alexandra, and it takes place not too far from where we record this podcast here in Los Angeles. Well, at least part of her story does. The other part of her story, we're not too sure where it takes place. You'll understand what I mean when you hear this story yourself.
When this happened to Alexandra, she was working in a bookstore and spending much of her free time making quilts, which she told me is a very long process. One day, Alexandra was deep in a quilting project, and she was dreading the fact that she had to work later on that day at the bookstore. She was scheduled to work at a specific event.
When she finally pulled herself away from the quilting project and headed off to work, things took a very strange turn. I am very excited about this episode. This is a very unique story, one that is not like anything I've heard before. The stories that defy categorization are always my favorite. This is episode 115. The title is The Mirror Realm, and you're listening to Otherworld. Hello?
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Everybody moves back into their life, even if it takes them a minute. My name is Alex. I am an artist and musician originally from Georgia and then Tennessee, but I moved out to LA three years ago. I moved out here because I'd always lived in the South. And as a creative person, I was thinking like either New York or LA for a little while just to see what it's like living out here.
I grew up in Georgia, which is part of the Bible Belt. There's religion everywhere. There's a church on, like, every block. And my mom actually worked for a Southern Baptist church when I was a kid. But my family is not necessarily a—we just don't talk about our beliefs. In terms of the paranormal, I feel like I always believed in something.
And when I was a kid, it was definitely more of kind of a fear-based belief. There is this weird thing with the women on my mom's side of the family where we're all sort of connected in this unexplainable way. My mom, even now, she's still in Georgia. And I'll sometimes just get a text from her. I think a lot of people actually have this experience with mothers. Specifically, I've heard. But...
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Chapter 2: How did Alexandra get lost in her quilting project?
I looked down, I could see my hands. I mean, I was, I was still me. I wasn't looking down from above. I, I was there. I looked and maybe 20 feet in front of me, suspended in this kind of nothingness, there was a mirror. It sort of like looked like the emoji mirror. Like it was just this like perfect looking kind of ornate mirror, but it wasn't hanging on a wall.
It was just suspended in this darkness. but I could see it clearly. It definitely was not my bathroom mirror. It looked like ornate. So this mirror, I mean, I could see it clearly. So it was illuminated by some sort of light. And I assume that's the same light that allowed me to see my hands. But there was no light source that I could see.
There was nowhere where this light was coming from, if that makes sense. And then I noticed that there were two people standing next to the mirror. They're facing away from me, but looking into the mirror. I was sort of just like observing them and feeling uncomfortable, like, oh no, I'm in their space.
And they actually turned and noticed me, sort of like I think when you can feel someone looking at you. So they turned and noticed me and we were all surprised to see each other. But I immediately could tell they're not mad. They're just like, oh, there's someone here. And they waved me over to join them. I start to walk over to them, not scared.
And now I'm less worried about intruding because I feel like they're fine with me being there. And they seem very comfortable. So I think that helped me to not feel scared. I was very curious and confused about what was going on, but not worried about going over to walk up to them.
As I got closer to them, I noticed it's this older Asian couple in regular clothing, like clothing that you would go run errands. And they had like very friendly, calm expressions on their face. And I think that they could sense that I was... a little confused, but they just seemed really friendly and almost like someone's grandparents or something.
I feel like I can see their faces, but they were smiling, but not scary smiles. They were in their 60s or 70s, and they both had black hair, not gray, but they were older. They looked like Somebody that you had just passed on the sidewalk, like definitely from the same like time period and everything.
This place seemed so not of the earth that I was, I was shocked to see just a couple of like normal looking people walking. But it was comforting at the same time. It made me feel like if they got out here, I don't know, like they seemed like they were purposefully there, if that makes sense.
All right, we have to take a quick break, but we'll be right back with the rest of the story.
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