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Sleep App Captures Creepy Voice at Night | Sleep as Android Incident

Red WebAugust 5, 20221h 1min12,513 views
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The Sleep as Android Incident

  • 💡 On December 30, 2013, a woman named Jenny recorded an unidentified voice at 2:04 AM using the Sleep as Android app while asleep with her three-year-old son.
  • 📌 The app, designed to monitor sleep patterns and record sounds like snoring or sleep talking, captured clicking noises, Jenny's voice, and a distinct male voice.
  • 💬 The male voice was heard saying "nothing," "don't worry about it," and later, "it's them," leaving Jenny terrified and believing someone was in her room.

Initial Audio Analysis

  • 🔍 Jenny posted the audio to the ghost subreddit, seeking help to identify the voice or debunk the incident, leading to various interpretations from Reddit users.
  • 🗣️ While Jenny initially heard a deep male voice, hosts later found that when primed, the male voice could be interpreted as Jenny's own voice talking to her son.
  • 🔬 A Reddit user, find_baron, performed frequency analysis, claiming the male voice was significantly lower (95 Hz) than Jenny's (265 Hz), suggesting it was not her.

Jenny's Unsettling Updates

  • 🚪 Jenny reported waking up to an unlocked front door multiple times and enhanced her home security, including changing locks.
  • 🔊 She continued to hear the clicking sound on other nights, which seemed to move away from her fan when she tried to locate its source.
  • 👻 Jenny also shared other strange occurrences, such as flickering lights, her dog refusing to sleep in her bed, and her son mentioning a "black guy with no face" on the same night as the recording.
  • 🏡 Due to the persistent unsettling nature of the events, Jenny eventually moved out of the house in April 2015 and stopped listening to the app's recordings.

Explaining the Mystery

  • 🍼 One prominent theory suggests the clicking was Jenny's three-year-old son fiddling with a plastic water bottle, and her voice was her sleep-talking response to him.
  • 🛌 Another theory posits the incident was sleep talking, with Jenny's voice sounding unusually low due to being groggy or having mucus in her throat.
  • 🏠 A more sinister theory proposed a home invasion, with an intruder rummaging (causing clicks) and responding to Jenny's sleep-induced question, but the location of valuables downstairs cast doubt.

Other Theories & Host's Perspective

  • 👽 The possibility of Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) or a ghost was considered, especially given her son's comment and the dog's changed behavior, but Jenny herself sought more rational explanations.
  • 🎭 The hosts briefly discussed the possibility of a hoax, but Jenny's sustained engagement and choice of a smaller subreddit made it seem unlikely.
  • ✅ Ultimately, the hosts lean towards the mundane explanations like the water bottle or sleep talking, citing the unreliability of phone microphones and the human tendency to misinterpret sounds when primed for fear.
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