To ask about your doppelgänger stories?

[Betty94]

Hello,

I was watching a vlog (video blog) on Japan and in the background I saw a man identical to my husband, I kept freeze framing and he looked identical if I didn't know it wasn't my husband I would have thought so, I even sent the pictures to his mum and she thought it was him! It really freaked me out haha, I started to question my reality and if it was a glitch in the matrix (just kidding) but he was on the exact same street we were two months later so I'm really glad he didn't cause any trouble or they'd have gone after my husband

Has anyone got any cool stories about their doppelgänger or someone they knows doppelgänger? - I really didn't believe in it before, I thought people could look similar but gosh, this man could be his mirror image!

Just for fun ofc :)

I was doing an online spelling game with my daughter which had pictures. A picture came up of a girl in a swimming lesson and she was absolutely identical to DD at that age.

DD actually thought the game had included a picture of her. DH looked at it and thought it was her. I was only sure it wasn't her because the swimming pool in the background was not somewhere we had ever been and DD had not ever worn the swimming costume in the picture. It was really very strange!

I wrote about this on a thread from several days ago...

Years back, I got to work on a Monday, and one of my colleagues approached, clearly a bit upset with me. He asked me why I had ignored him when we ran into each other at shop that past Saturday. I was not in that shop, I was actually 200 miles away visiting family for the entire weekend. He insisted it was me, no doubt about it, that I was only 2 meters distance from him and looked him right in the face. He said he gave a cheerful hello, twice, and I just turned and walked away.

I'm 6 feet tall with long blond hair so I don't exactly blend into the crowd, so this woman must look remarkably like me. I tried to prove to him it wasn't me but I don't know if he ever really believed me.

I was visiting a new friend's house and no idea why, was looking through her photo album when I came face to face with myself age 6/7.

I knew it wasn't me (different clothes and in a place I had never been) but sure looked like my twin. It was like a twilight moment and really spooked me. I couldn't stop starring. Think i was freaking friend out. I was freaked out!

New friend wasn't sure of girl in photo album's name so asked her mum, the photo girl turned out to be my first cousin . No wonder I recognised my face haha.

I still see my face in that pic over my who it actually is haha.

I had a doppelgänger back when I was at college. It was quite odd. I was regularly mistaken for her - people would just walk up to me like they knew me then become unsure.

I was working at a pub and a man was being friendly which I assumed was just normal friendly customer stuff. Asked after my parents etc. Said he didn’t know I was working there and that if I was available to babysit again soon that would be helpful. Eventually untangled he thought I was his neighbour’s daughter.

THEN my best friend said she saw ‘her’ - apparently she dressed like me, had similar accessories and looked so much like me she chased after her thinking it was me.

My aunt called to chastise me for not telling her I’d passed my driving test as I apparently drove past her in a car park.

I only hope she was constantly being approached asked utterly confusing questions.

I saw my mum's doppelganger in a hotel in Wetherby about 25 years ago. I knew it wasn't her because it was an impossibility, but I was absolutely transfixed by this woman and couldn't stop watching her all evening. I remember being quite disappointed that she didn't recognise me when I caught her eye

I either have a local doppelganger or some sort of sleepwalking disorder

Someone once cheerfully said 'Oh, Lucy!' and sat down beside me on the bus.

A friend was pissed off because I didn't say hello to her in a nightclub.

I have loads!

I came to face to face with myself, and said 'Oh hello'. However I'm a twin, and was looking at a full length mirror before I realised.

I do believe some people look very much like each other without knowingly being related.I have met far too many.
The man who taught me to drive was the very image of Terry Wogan minus the Irish accent.My nephew is the double in looks of someone else I know and the same age as well.A work mate of mine was married to a man who looked like Paul Mc Cartney, he enjoyed being always chased by loads of girls when he was young as they really thought he was Paul. My DH had a friend who was the double of a prominent cabinet minister of the time.

DH swears that he first saw me in a record shop in a part of town I’d never been in months before we actually met. I’d a strong Australian accent At the time and he says he was struck by it, and “me” because he said he rushed out to talk to “Me” but I’d gone. I hadn’t been there until we started going out months after.And the bloke in the shop said “hello ‘sheila’ you come back then?”

I saw the doppelgänger of my later father in the church we used to go together. There was no reason this other man should have been there. He just popped up for 15 minutes and then went. And weirdly, I’ve never seen him since. Isn’t that a bit odd? You don’t just go to a church service once and never again....

There was a time when I was clearly thought to be ‘someone’ by french tourists in Spain. Happened over several years. People would stop. Some took my photo and one spoke to me and was confused when I didn’t (couldn’t) reply in French but spoke in English to her. Never did find out who it was.
I have a sibling who is and always has been (at every age) the absolute double of an A list American actor. He has come to terms with it. Sibling that is

All my life, people have called me by a different name. Always the same one and absolutely nothing like my own.

A couple of years ago, my brother was in a local coffee shop and saw me. He called my name and walked over, only to realise it wasn’t me at all. He took a video and sent it to me I did let him know that was creepy She really did look like me, even down to her mannerisms.

Now I wonder if she has this other name, and if she’s spent her life with people calling her my name.

No cool stories but I had a doppelgänger in my town for several years. My best friend was convinced it was me, my exH's friends thought I was lying about my job as they saw 'me' working in McDonald's, colleagues tried speaking to her and told me how they'd mistaken her for me in pubs etc etc.
I never saw her - my exH did once and said she looked just like me but thinner .

My dad had one too at his workplace. Very convincing from a distance but noticeable up close. During my parents' divorce, my mum's twat of a friend insisted my dad had another child, this was all brought up in court. Turns out she was following (and photographing) the wrong bloke. Can only imagine how that went down when it was all proved to be false.

A girl I was friends with and sat next to at school for years. Even by the end of secondary school some of my reports would have her name on. We both trained for the same job but work in different places and when people who know me have met her at her work they've told me they've met my doppelganger, and I always can guess that it was her!

My friend thought she saw my OH in a photo on a friend (of her’s) fb page. Commented ‘I didn’t know you knew x’. Response: this was taken in the US last summer [We’re in the UK], we don’t know x. Cue lots of exchanges of photos in comments of the two of them, and everyone joining in saying how similar they look. Was quite lovely!

I was in a music shop in Washington DC. I went to pay and the woman behind the counter said I reminded her of someone. One of her colleagues told her to put her glasses on and there was me even down to the small mole on my left cheek except hers was on the right.
Our hair was different but our faces were so similar it really freaked both of us out.
I paid and left the shop, no photo, no numbers exchanged. It was all far too weird.

I was soundly ignored by a friend from uni. When I asked him if all was ok when I next saw him he mentioned he had an identical twin....

A friend once called me to find out where my DD was as she was following a man around the local town with a very upset child who she swore was DD. I think she thought she'd been kidnapped. Friend was so panicked she only calmed when I put DD on the phone.

DH was treated like royalty in a hotel bar once on a business trip. Free drinks etc. They seemingly thought he was Mark Bosnich. Something that amused me greatly as I'd been saying it for years and he wouldn't have it.

As for me, can't say as I've got one though a bloke did say to me once I looked like Chrissie Hynde. DH never let me forget that one either.

Girl in the year below me at college. Same tutor. Tutor and her (new) friends kept mistaking me for her for a few weeks. None of my friends mistook her for me - we weren't massively similar.

On a family holiday many years ago now, a couple was sitting a few feet away from us and I noticed the partner kept looking at me and then his girlfriend and then me repeatedly! I couldn't see her as her back was turned.
Anyway one of my family members went to the toilet, when she came out she looked at me and said "how did you get out here so fast?!" And looked really confused. I told her I had been here the whole time and she replied that when she came out of the cubicle, I walked past and went into the next one.
Few moments later the couple sitting a few feet away from us, his girlfriend came out from the bathroom and she was identical to me, same hair, height, everything! I just stared at her in complete shock and she also done the same back.
Never saw her the rest of the holiday.

Girl below me in secondary school. We liked so alike out patents couldn’t tell us apart from far away.

Once got chased by television crew as they thought I was Prince Harry’s girlfriend at the time. I don’t think we look similar, but a tv crew did and followed me for ages.

I got in trouble with my mum for bunking off college - she'd seen me walking across the supermarket car park that morning during school hours. I had a very distinctive shirt on that day, so, aside from the fact that my mum would recognise me, the shirt was further confirmation. She was 100% convinced it was me, and couldn't believe I was lying to her. I was in French class at the time she saw me. We decided that I must have been thinking about walking across the car park, and she saw some kind of manifestation.

A friend has a doppelgänger in the next village and they are unbelievably similar, same age, identical in looks and they have the same name also which makes it more confusing when you speak to them.

I have a theory that the doppelgänger is actually the result of an affair as both my friend and her double are spookily similar in looks to her dad.

I was looking through some photos when I visited DB's house, and came across one of myself at my nephews christening. It took me a moment to realise that I didn't own that dress, and I'd been ill and not able to attend the christening. My doppelgänger was actually the girlfriend of one of DB's pals.

A few years ago at my church we had a social evening. Everyone gets involved either by making the meal, serving or washing up and all sit down to eat. Our Vicar had brought a male friend (Pastor) who was visiting from the USA. I was carrying plates of food out to various tables and I noticed the American guy was really staring at me. I thought I was imagining it at first, he was probably in his forties so younger than myself and I couldn't figure out why he would be looking at me.

Anyway at the end of the night he approached me and said "Do you know you have a doppelganger? I can't get over how much you look like a friend of mine"
Not knowing what to say, I jokingly said "Really, I'll have to meet her if I ever visit the States, what's her name?"
"Winnie" he replied......
Even he was shocked when I said "That's my name too"

(My real name isn't a common one, not even in the Top 100 which only adds to the spookiness)

My teenage son died. I moved. There's a lad in my new city who looks so like him. About the same age, so I now occasionally see him a few years later and wonder if my lad would have looked as this other lad does now. I hate it when I see him. Not his fault at all, just he stirs such strong feelings.