197: HAUNTINGS | The 'Bad Man' & The Mimic
Avery After Dark
Avery Ross
4.8 • 746 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Tonight’s episode features two chilling hauntings that blur the line between reality and something far more sinister…
In the first story, we travel to the quiet hills of Slanesville, West Virginia — where a family believed they had found their dream farmhouse. But not long after moving in, something began watching them… something they would come to call “the Bad Man.” What started as an uneasy feeling quickly turned into a full-blown nightmare, as the presence inside the home grew stronger, more aggressive… and impossible to ignore.
Then, in our second haunting, things take an even darker turn.
A family begins to experience something deeply unsettling — an entity that doesn’t just haunt… it mimics. Voices are copied. Movements are repeated. And at times, it becomes impossible to tell who — or what — is actually standing in the room. As the activity escalates, the family is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: whatever is inside their home isn’t just watching them… it’s trying to become them.
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| 0:51.0 | now and be part of the UK's biggest true crime community. CrimeCon London, partnered by |
| 0:56.5 | True Crime Channel, 3rd and 4th of October, 2026. What does your dream house look like? Maybe it's |
| 1:04.9 | tucked away somewhere quiet, surrounded by trees, far from everything. Maybe it's something bigger. |
| 1:14.1 | Big rooms, high ceilings, sunlight pouring in through the windows, the kind of place you walk into and immediately think, |
| 1:19.1 | this is it. The place where everything is supposed to feel safe, where nothing can reach you. |
| 1:25.1 | But what if the house you thought was perfect was already occupied? |
| 1:29.7 | Not by another person, but by something that never left. Today's episode features two true |
| 1:36.0 | stories, both about families who thought they had found their dream homes. Homes they were excited |
| 1:42.0 | to move into, homes they thought would be the start of something new. |
| 1:45.8 | But not long after settling in, things began to shift. |
| 1:50.4 | Change. |
| 1:51.6 | Settle things at first, easy to ignore, until they weren't. |
| 1:56.4 | Because both of these homes were hiding something. |
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