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Doppelganger - are they common or not?!

36 replies

Winterinthecity · 07/01/2020 13:54

Has anyone been told there's someone who looks like them out there?

Last week (and it sort of played on my mind) someone in my office (only been here since last November) came up to me and swore blind they'd just walked past someone who looked just like me in the street, they'd said hello to me but I hadn't answered.

It wasn't me as I hadn't gone out for lunch.

They then mentioned I must have a doppelganger. Is this common?! Sounds utterly mad!

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Hefzi · 07/01/2020 13:56

I apparently have one in Luxor - I'd be interested to meet her Grin.) Though I seem to think if you do, it leads to an ancient curse or something...)

Spam88 · 07/01/2020 13:57

I once saw someone who looked so like my brother. He must have thought I was really odd because I was just staring at him for like two hours.

BonnyConnie · 07/01/2020 13:58

I have one. Apparently her own sister couldn’t tell us apart in a photo. I’ve never met her though.

eenymeenyminyme · 07/01/2020 13:59

There was a photo on the wall of our local kebab shop of 'me' except it wasn't. It was spooky though...

I guess there's only so many combinations of eyes / nose / mouth at the end of the day!

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Winterinthecity · 07/01/2020 14:00

I'm slightly worried now if I do see this person.

i did mention to this person who 'saw me' what I was wearing and surprise surprise they couldn't recall. Grin

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ithinkmycatistryingtokillme · 07/01/2020 14:02

Apparently one of the teachers at dds school, to the point that when I was in there once two teachers came up and started talking to about a parents evening, then did a double take when I looked bewildered. Thankfully it wasn't about anything confidential!

dreamingofmushrooms · 07/01/2020 14:04

It used to happen to me a lot when I was much younger, people were always saying I was the spitting image of so-and-so. Doesn't happen these days though.

CaptainMyCaptain · 07/01/2020 14:05

A friend of mine said they'd been waving to me every morning as they passed me on their way to work but I never waved back. That was because it wasn't me, I didn't go that way.

AwkwardAsAllGetout · 07/01/2020 14:07

Totally believe in doppelgangers. It can be quite something in a way to experience it in real life, I would frequently see someone in passing, a total stranger who I’m sure was nice enough, who was the absolute living embodiment of someone really nasty I knew as a young adult. Same mannerisms and everything, but it definately wasn’t them. At the other end of the scale I’m constantly told I look like a certain person from a soap, and have done for the past ten years as we seem to be aging at the same rate Grin I do find it odd that people have the need to tell me though. Total strangers who must know I’m not that person still come up and say ooo do you know, you look just like ....

mbosnz · 07/01/2020 14:09

I had one back home in Christchurch. A woman manning the check out who I'd become good friends with, when I came in front of her did a double take and said, 'what the hell are you doing back here so soon'? It wigged us both out!

It happened a few times, but I've never come across her in person.

Peoplearemiserable · 07/01/2020 14:09

I had one years ago, there was a girl on an advert on the back of my dad’s golf magazine. Really strange seeing yourself in someone else!

ShowOfHands · 07/01/2020 14:10

At school yes. Nobody could tell us apart. Even our mums from a moderate distance got us confused. It went on for 5 years until we went to different colleges.

We had different bands in our year and so we had no lessons together at all but did go on a school trip to Belgium together once and several people there assumed we were twins. Oddly, we couldn't see it.

SunnySomer · 07/01/2020 14:11

I had one at school - we went to different schools but people used to mistake us for one another. I thought it was stupid until my sister mistook the other girl for me.
I have one now too. Who I’ve never met, but whose name I know because so many people have called me by it.

BedSprings · 07/01/2020 14:13

My exH has one and they have the same name - both names
exactly the same. Uncanny.

SleepingIsOverrated · 07/01/2020 14:13

@AwkwardAsAllGetout now I want to know who it is!!!Grin

cheesewitheverything · 07/01/2020 14:14

I've often been told I look like someone a person knows, so obviously have lots of doppelgangers --or look very common.

TheDogsMother · 07/01/2020 14:20

Approaching the parking office at Heathrow Airport and the woman who came out I immediately recognised but hadn't seem in ages. She had the same reaction to me, spontaneous smile and wave. When we both got much, much closer we both realised that neither was the person we thought they were. It was uncanny though.

Keepmewarm · 07/01/2020 14:21

My sister has one. They kept having people get them confused. Eventually they were introduced and they were freaked out. They got on really well and became friends. I met her and they really were identical, looks, mannerisms, style, voice... everything. My sister and I look alike but this girl was her twin.

53rdWay · 07/01/2020 14:23

I do, in the town where I used to live. Or more than one but I think it's the same person. Quite a few times I've had total strangers talk to me like we've met before and then be really surprised that I'm not her. We had a baby around the same time and then about a year later were in hospital on the same ward a few weeks apart, which I only know because one of the nurses was so convinced I was her she was happily chatting to me about what a shame it was I was back so soon. When she realised I was a different person she actually went to get one of the others and they both stood there saying "it's uncanny, you look SO like her, how STRANGE!"

One side of my family is quite messy (understatement) so it's possible she's a cousin or something. I hope I meet her one day.

nocluewhattodoo · 07/01/2020 14:26

DP has one, a friend who went to school with him, they could be twins. Baby DD was hilarious when she first met him, looking between the two in amazement Grin

beachcomber70 · 07/01/2020 14:27

Apparently I had a double when I lived in a different area. Two or three people told me there was someone out there who was identical to me and it happened over a 2-3 year period.

I never saw her though. It felt weird at the time.

SisterAgatha · 07/01/2020 14:28

I don’t believe in them. People just don’t look properly. Often people say I look like someone, they always have glasses and dark hair with a fringe. It’s like they just see that and don’t look at your face.

SoftBlocks · 07/01/2020 14:29

I met mine in a lift at a library. We stared at one another. Our eyes were different colours but otherwise really similar looking.

I also had someone with the exact same (slightly unusual) name registered at the same doctors.

wouldyouadamandeveit · 07/01/2020 14:29

Apparently I have one in the next town and they live next door to PIL's!!!

Weirdly enough they work in a building on the opposite side of the road to where I work....

I am curious to see a picture of the person, though do feel a bit woo about it.

Pinkette06 · 07/01/2020 14:31

I had one at school. I could see similarities but that was it. She was a couple years below me and apparently pretty bad at school judging by how many teachers I had shout at me or call me and tell me to get back to detention in corridors Grin