To ask if you've ever seen a doppelganger?

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I'm at a major rail station about 200miles from home and just seen DH who should be at home. Went over and it is the spitting image of him except a bit taller and DH has a mole on the side of his face.

Non-DH saw me staring so I explained why. I showed him a photo of DH and he was also totally shocked at the resemblance. He kindly let me take his photo which I sent to DH, his reaction was to ask when I'd taken it as he doesn't remember having that jacket!

It's freaked us all out bit! Non-DS is 2 years older so not a seperated twin but so so odd.

Anyone had similar?

Mine's called Pauline, I think she must have moved but there was a time when almost everytime I went out someone mistook me for her! I have face blindness and I struggle to recognise my own dc or db so I'm always a bit cautious when people approach me.

I have one but never met her. My ex partner, best friend, best friend's sister, work colleagues have all come into contact with her or thought I've been somewhere else

While waiting in a ER department once, I've had a lot of medical staff make unnecessary detours to come and see me before telling me that I look just like a nurse working there and taking a picture of me with my consent. Ironically I am a twin, but non-identical, and my doppelganger is a few years younger, so fortunately not a hospital mix up!

Mine was a teacher at dd1s school, I never met her but people used to comment. One time I was there to see someone when 2 teachers came up to speak to me about a pupil, it was only when I looked totally confused they realised I wasn't who they thought I was😂

Yes! I found mine in a different country - I was on a work trip and we were in a restaurant and the staff noticed - we don’t speak the same language but interesting that someone looks just like me!

When I was a teenager, a family of strangers in Padstow told me to hurry up, we were late and had to get back to the car. They all honestly believed I was their other family member and were absolutely astonished that I wasn’t. We were identical apparently and she was also wandering around Padstow. I wish I’d seen her!

Dh & I saw a guy in an Irish bar in Amsterdam that was the double of a guy who lives near us. He was sitting at the end of a long table that we were at. I was sure it was him. It definitely wasn’t him but they were identical.

Years and years ago, we were on a family holiday to Florida. I was 7, sister was 10, and we saw her doppelganger in the hotel buffet. A year or two older, and a bit taller and slimmer, but otherwise identical. It was spooky.

I am a teacher and have worked at the same school for the last 10 years. For 10 years, various students, all from different year groups, have told me that they saw me that morning at the train station next to school, wondering what I was doing stood at the platform. I’ve assured them I drive to work and would have already been at school at the time they have seen this person. But so many of them have told me about her, so she must really look like me. Apparently we even wear the same style of clothes! I’ve never met her though!

I have a celebrity one. I didn't notice until someone pointed it out... and I was quite offended as she was playing a TB-infested prostitute at the time 😂

Disclaimer: I am certainly not a TB-infested prostitute. I had to look her up and was then reassured that she looked better when she wasn't that character!

Oh, and I was quite alarmed at seeing a photograph of a relation in the 1930's. They looked frighteningly like me, except with a bob! At least I know what I'll look like when I'm (much) older!

Years ago in a club in Butlins my husband was approached at the bar by a man who called him by name and asked him how he was doing. He didn’t recognise the man but went along with the conversation, and eventually said “I’m sorry, but I don’t think I know you “. The man said “Yes you do , you’re ‘first name surname’ aren’t you? “ My husband said “Yes, but I still don’t think I know you “ The man laughed and said “We played squash together every Friday for about 10 years, in Brixton” My husband had to tell him that not only had he never been to Brixton, he didn’t play squash either!
By coincidence, while this was happening, a man approached me at the table and asked me if I lived in a village in Hertfordshire. I said no, and he said ‘My wife and I have been looking at you all week. We were convinced you were a lady who lives in our village! You look identical!’

In the mid-1990s, I had a local doppelganger - "the lady from Teddybears Playgroup". One day quite randomly a lady in the corner shop asked me if I'd gone into childminding as I'd said I was planning to do, when we were on that childcare course together. Er...no, I hadn't done a childcare course!

A year or so later, I answered the door to two Jehovah's Witnesses, one of whom was certain he knew me because his toddler attended Teddybears Playgroup. My own three-year-old had just started at an entirely different playgroup which had a rota for "voluntary" parent helpers, and I had been wondering why the organisers had put my name down three times as often as anybody else's...

After that, I think Teddybears Lady must have moved away because things went quiet for two or three years, and then an old lady at a bus stop greeted me like a long-lost friend before saying, "...But you can't be here. You're still in Northampton!" Apparently she'd just moved to my small town in Sussex to be closer to her grandchildren, didn't yet know anybody locally, but then unexpectedly saw a familiar face - her former next-door-neighbour's daughter - walking towards her. Her name was Ethel, and we ended up being friends for many years.

Slightly more bizarrely, a man recently stopped me and insisted I was the double of Helen Mirren - I'm short, grey-haired and tubby and also about 20 years younger than her! He also claimed to know my daughter who works at the local Co-op. My daughter lives and works 25 miles away and nobody at our little Co-op looks anything like her.

In my 20s my doppelganger was a street sex worker who worked about 3 miles away from where I was living. That was interesting!

Two weeks ago I was trying to get rid of some Jehovas Witnesses when our cat walked out of the house. They were surprised to see him because he'd just spent an hour with them two streets away and been to every house with them. I don't think they believed me when I told them he'd been in all morning 'helping' me to change the sheets. Hes quite fat distinctive as well.

My parents saw me walking towards them in a garden centre and thought I'd come back from living in South America for a surprise visit.. They ran towards me very emotional and excited but stopped in front of her in shock.. they had a lovely chat (obviously couldn't take or swap photos as pre mobile phones.)

I've only ever noticed celebrity lookalikes. There was a waitress at a hotel in Paris who looked exactly like the actress Dora Bryan for instance.
Folks used to say I looked like the singer Mary Hopkin when I was a teenager. Can't say I do any more 😁.

Yes I have one. She lives in Oxford and a photo of her appeared on the wall of a bar there. Different friends had been at this bar and noticed ‘me’ and told me about the photo.

Even more weirdly though, OP, yesterday I was thinking about posting about doppelgängers.

I bought tickets to a museum off my doppelganger in a European city. We just kind of blinked at each other. It was odd because great grandparent lived there so she probably was a distant relative, but I don't speak the language so couldn't ask her and to her I was just a tourist.

I want to meet mine, I know they exist somewhere not too far from where I live because I had a few people tell me they had seen me somewhere, at first in my teens it was just a boss who once said she had seen me kissing at a bus stop, but it moved on to Policemen who have pointedly asked if they know me from somewhere, shop security have very often given me a look of recognition and then not too subtly appeared to follow me around the store, I could go on, this has been going on for decades, though not so much since I gained a lot of weight. I wonder if she has the same in reverse - Do people tell her about me? I worry sometimes about how she is, she seems to have been just surviving however she can, doing whatever to just get through. At times I have worried about her especially during a phase where I suspected she might have begun working in some sort of Adult world.

I worked with a Scottish woman years and years ago who was/is the double of Linda Lusardi.

I met a friends doppleganger at a wedding. Freaked me out. I did get very chatty with her as I think some part of me actually believed it was her!

Husband had a very strong resemblance to a foreign politician. He would often be followed around when in the country.

my doppelgänger is a well known MP who is often on TV. Weirdly I also am involved in politics for another party. I have been stopped in parliament and at events and people talk about constituency stuff, and I have to say, that’s not me. I have wondered how deep I could get into Parliament before someone notices!

we have friends in common so she knows I exist, and she has been mistaken for me, yet we have never actually met. We have different hair now, but it is still quite odd when I see her.

My mum’s cousin died in 1969 before I was born in the mid 70’s. There is no actual blood link as turns out her dad was illegitimate but I am the spitting image of her!
when the deceased cousin’s mum died, I went to her funeral and the husband of the deceased cousin was there. He said he had to do a double take because I look so much like her and my mannerisms etc were so similar. It really freaked him out.
no one had ever told me about the resemblance although deceased cousin’s mum always had a soft spot for me and I wonder if that’s why….

We had a friend whose double was a politician, he was often stopped in the street. Both alcoholics.

I went to uni with mine. She was the year above me. One day she pushed open the door to from the library, having seen me in the corridor outside.. and discovered the corridor was empty and she'd seen her own reflection.

If she couldn't tell us apart, nobody else stood a chance!

My doppelganger was on a popular TV quiz show years ago. Friends messaged me thinking it was me. I watched it myself and it was freaky, even the mannerisms were the same.