You're not mishearing it. The is a corrupted form of common to accented speech in Japan. does something similar, but uses . The works as similarly to (question-indicating sentence final particle), but I would think of it as a softer, more colloquial .
(In Shoko's comment on this answer, she suggests that it feels a little bit arrogant and is most likely to come from an old man.)
If is "Who are you?", you can think of as "Who da... hell're you?" or similar.