It is the spookiest America’s Got Talent audition of the season and possibly the most unsettling moment Sofia Vergara has ever experienced on the show. No one saw her coming, no one knew how she arrived, and no one was sure when she left. The magician called Olive left an imprint on the stage without ever being seen.
She calls herself invisible, but to the judges and the screaming audience in the auditorium, it felt more like she was haunting the place rather than performing a magic act.
The lights were dimmed, the stage covered in a faint mist, and the atmosphere shifted the moment the announcement echoed: “You can’t see Olive, but Olive can see YOU!” A creepy, ethereal voice pierced the silence, setting the entire room on edge. Without a single body in sight, Olive’s disembodied voice floated through the air, sounding neither male nor female, but certainly not human.
What followed was an invisible sequence of eerie movements — objects gliding across the stage by themselves, buzzers flickering and trembling on the judges' table, and the haunting sensation that someone — or something — was watching, unseen.
Then came the chilling invitation that no one expected. The voice called for Sofia Vergara specifically. The audience erupted into nervous cheers and laughter as Sofia, half-smiling but visibly wary, made her way to the stage. She was asked to press her own buzzer — an action that seemed harmless at first but became the beginning of an inexplicable demonstration.
Simon Cowell was asked to retrieve a piece of paper from what Olive eerily called “the box of her lies.” No one understood what that meant, but the phrase alone sent shivers down spines.
Simon, slightly amused but equally puzzled, reached into the box placed on the judge’s table and pulled out a crumpled note. As he unfolded it, Sofia was already reacting on stage, clutching her temple as though receiving a message transmitted directly to her mind. Then, as if by magic — or by something far darker — Sofia spoke aloud the exact words Simon was reading from the paper. She looked around in disbelief, as did everyone else.
If that wasn’t enough, the unsettling experience escalated. As Sofia tried to regain composure, the sound of all four judges’ buzzers rang out, one after another, their lights blaring in rapid succession without anyone touching them. It was a signal — though of what, no one could tell.
As the room fell into stunned silence, a loud slam echoed from the back of the auditorium. A door, which had been closed and unnoticed until then, had violently burst open by itself.
Nobody could see who, or what, had left through that door. But what was clear was that Olive’s presence had exited the stage — though whether she truly left remained an open question. The audience sat frozen, judges exchanged bewildered looks, and Sofia, still processing what had just occurred, laughed nervously while fanning herself as if to shake off an invisible energy clinging to her.
Strangely, there was no immediate verdict from the judges, and AGT producers have yet to confirm if Olive advanced to the next round. There’s no telling if we’ll see Olive again, but the question that lingers isn’t just about her place in the competition — it’s whether she was ever really here at all, or merely watching from the shadows.
America’s Got Talent has had its fair share of magicians, illusionists, and mentalists, but Olive’s invisible terror is one that audiences won’t easily forget. And if she returns, no one may feel safe on that stage again — especially not Sofia Vergara, who unwittingly became the star of a performance she never signed up for.