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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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RetiredGranny · 23/07/2026 14:55

When I was a teenager, I went on a French exchange and the family had a wedding to go to when I was there, so I went too. Another guest at the wedding was the doppelganger of my friend's boyfriend. He looked nothing like the local lads. I took his photo to show everyone back at home, everyone thought he looked like him. It freaked out the boyfriend that he had a doppelganger.

Optimisticdramalarma · 23/07/2026 14:56

My aunt is the image of 'sharon' in the later birds of a feather

A friend has one in the town we live in but they've never met-i often see the 'twin' out and about (the only difference is about a foot in height)

A friend had one in the area she lived in which was unnerving when friend died and the other lady would often walk past me

I had one at school apparently
I never met her but others swore she was my twin

OtterlyAstounding · 23/07/2026 15:02

No, thankfully. I'm not superstitious, but the idea of meeting my doppelganger gives me the creeps.

Flutterbees · 23/07/2026 15:52

Yes…I have an identical twin sister!

Bedheadbeachbum · 23/07/2026 15:57

In my early 20s a few randoms said I looked like 'Rebecca' or something like that but I never saw her, we might look very different to each other now.

I watched an excellent YouTube documentary about this phenomenon. Apparently we all have multiple doppelgangers worldwide as there's only so much variety to features.

Seaitoverthere · 23/07/2026 16:11

I spent about 10 mins at a bus stop once explaining to a lady that I wasn’t Sarah who she had had Christmas dinner with one year despite living on same road, same dog breed, similar age and sex DC.

A bit later I met Sarah when dog walking. I could see the similarity but not to the extent the bus stop lady spent ages I insisting I was Sarah and she had spent Christmas with me.

SerendipityCat · 23/07/2026 20:33

Never met my doppelganger, but she caused me a fair amount of bother in the late 70s when "I" was seen around town with a couple of different men. My boyfriend at the time took a fair bit of convincing that it wasn't me holding hands with another man in the cafe at Leeds/Bradford airport... I never did find out who'd been reporting back to him, bloody shitstirrer!

GreggsistentialCrisis · 24/07/2026 13:49

No, but one evening I was in a bar with friends and two women walked up to me said hi and when I didn’t know who they were got quite aggressive, saying "why are you being like this?" "You know us!" They wouldn’t leave me and my friends alone and continued to sit on the end of the table with us ignoring them.

They were so convinced I was this other woman they knew, it was the most bizarre thing! So yes, someone looks very much like me and has even been to the same bar as me.

Never seen this person though, which is even more strange.

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