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Have you ever met your doppelganger?

33 replies

blueskynoclouds · 23/07/2026 12:36

I’ve had a few people come up to me in my town thinking I’m someone else. They then said I’m the double of someone they know, though I haven’t seen this person myself.

I have no close relatives where I live so i am intrigued to hopefully find this person one day.

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ohreallyIsee · 23/07/2026 12:50

I never met her but one of the teachers at my daughter's secondary school. I was in there one day when 2 teachers came up and started talking to me about a pupil, it was only when I looked totally confused they did a double take and I wasn't who they thought I was

Duckies · 23/07/2026 12:49

Love this idea for a thread OP. I am fascinated by doppelgangers in the original, 'spooky' sense. I've never met mine, closest I've come was a photograph on the cover of a book I had as a child with a girl who looked an awful lot like me.

MamaBobo · 23/07/2026 12:48

I never met her but close friends saw her and a boyfriend even chased her up the street when she ignored him, convinced it was me. Even when he spoke to her he initially thought it was me.

These days I am relentlessly pursued by a fat old woman who looks vaguely familiar….mirrors in shops are cruel things!

foxychox · 23/07/2026 12:46

I had left my first job and they replaced me literally with me!! A few ex colleagues mentioned it to me so I went along on a night out and we were spookily alike in looks, voice and interests. The only difference I could see is that she wore Converse which I wasn’t trendy enough to do (late 80s)!

Moederbuffly · 23/07/2026 12:46

I've never met my doppelganger but for many years, we followed each other around, I lived on the south coast and friends would say, who was that guy you were with last night? My Mum even bumped into me and said ooh, why aren't you at work, fancy a coffee... I moved away and I'd pop to hairdressers and someone would say, oh didn't you like your hair cut we did this morning? Moved again a few times more and each time, wherever I was, someone would recognise me, even a man who thought I was his daughter. Not happened in a few years, but I do often wonder who she is and whether she got the same treatment as I did!

ChaToilLeam · 23/07/2026 12:44

I have a couple. I even know their names.

Once saw a pic of one of them and it was weird, she was so like me that I thought she was me - in a place where I had never been. Strange feeling!

ShowOfHands · 23/07/2026 12:40

I went to school with mine. Nobody could tell us apart. Teachers and students confused us daily.

We look less alike now we're in our 40s and living on different continents helps.

Katemax82 · 23/07/2026 12:38

I've walked past a few sad old frumps that could pass as mine