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The paranormal

Do we all have a doppelgänger….

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Onerulefor1 · 19/12/2021 13:30

WTAF. A friend sent me a link today which showed an advertisement with a picture of my son. Only thing is….it’s not my son! I have looked at the photo for ages and can’t understand it. Like my son, the person in the photo has no earlobes and also a slight abnormality on the rim of his ear.

I keep going back to look at the photo, trying to find something different in the photo, to distinguish the person from my son, but I can’t! The person even has the same haircut as my son, which makes it even weirder! Has anyone else ever come across something like this?

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HeronLanyon · 19/12/2021 18:55

I have come to realise I have a doppelgänger in France. French tourists in say Spain or Greece start to stare and nudge each other sometimes. Enough I’ve created fantasy that she’s a well regarded actress or amazing role model of some sort. Wouldn’t it be awful if it was someone loathed for some reason !?

Ohdofuckoffcovid · 19/12/2021 18:12

This happened to me yesterday with my daughter, I wondered why she hadn't mentioned modelling for a local boutique, it wasn't her!!!!!!!!

BobaTea · 19/12/2021 18:07

I have one who loves in the same town as me. My daughter seen her in the local park. She has the same hairstyle, same style of clothing as me and even pushing the same pram as mine!

JessieCaroline · 19/12/2021 17:42

Yes. Mine was on a TV show once. Several of my friends messaged me asking if I was on TV! Even her mannerisms and laugh was the same as mine. It was creepy.

Brainstorm21 · 19/12/2021 15:22

There's a website twinstrangers.net/ where you can see some uncanny examples

RavingAnnie · 19/12/2021 15:21

I apparently have one locally. Loads of sightings by friends (including by my then boyfriend) of this person. Never seen them myself. Apparently also has similar mannerisms to me.

Very strange. I look quite unusual too. So I've not got one of those faces where everyone thinks they've met me before.

Pegasushaswings · 19/12/2021 15:19

My Mom apparently had a doppelgänger when she was a girl, she used to get stopped and asked why she’d been at XYZ etc when it wasn’t her, she said she saw her on the same bus once but wouldn’t look her in the face as she believed the old tale of one of you will die!

HeatonGrove · 19/12/2021 15:19

Did anyone read this story of the two sets of Colombian identical twins confused at birth and raised as two sets of fraternal twins…

www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiVq6_vk_D0AhWLhv0HHcFlC2UQFnoECDIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-latin-america-35220779&usg=AOvVaw0W1ZtchWkbA541ySGoM__U

ivfbabymomma1 · 19/12/2021 15:16

A women once stopped me in the street and was talking to me about something and I was like I don't mean to rude but do we know each other and she was like what?! Turns out she thought I was her daughter 😂 so yes possibly!!!

HeronLanyon · 19/12/2021 15:13

I have one. Or rather I did. We were at university at the same time. Even I agreed we looked very alike. Decades on i suppose that we’ve aged differently. ??

Colinthedaxi · 19/12/2021 15:09

Yes, not that I've seen her but people are convinced I am her, she is local, has a sister and works in healthcare!! (I have not got a sister and do not work in healthcare) People get quite "off" with me when I try to convince them they have the wrong person.

cheapskatemum · 19/12/2021 14:42

Becky Hill is a brilliant singer, much loved on Radio 2

There are 2 women locally I'm regularly mistaken for & I presume they are for me, but in reality we just have very similar hair/hairstyles.

When I was a student though, a flat ate showed me a photo of her sister and she really did look a lot like me. It was weird!

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 19/12/2021 14:36

Dh has two. Friend found two guys when they went away for a weekend down south. Was so weird

Whenever I am working on nights in middle of town drunks are convinced I'm a singer Becky Hill. Never even heard of her before then

BusterGonad · 19/12/2021 14:34

There was a girl at college who looked just like me apparently. I never saw her so cannot vouch for it.

Onerulefor1 · 19/12/2021 14:30

@WaltzingToWalsingham

Interesting. In the link to Francois Brunelle's project, the doppelgangers all seem to live in the same city as their double (Bogota, Paris, Lisbon etc). I wonder if they could be half-siblings/cousins etc, not officially related but perhaps conceived during affairs etc and therefore their true paternity and family lineage has been obscured. Does anybody know if Francois does any DNA testing of the doppelgangers?

I don’t want to be too outing but the photo was in an advertisement for a company which is only about 80 miles away from us. The only way I know it isn’t my son is because of the clothes his double is wearing!

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OverByYer · 19/12/2021 14:29

I have one but haven't met them, but several times people I don't know have stopped to talk to me , thinking I am someone else. When its clear I don't know them they have asked me if I am so and so's sister as I am her double. Im not, unless I have a secret sibling that I'm not aware of.

Onerulefor1 · 19/12/2021 14:26

Sorry posted too soon. Okay, as @IncompleteSenten says there are billions of people on the planet, but until now I always thought that no one has an identical twin (except for identical twins).

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WaltzingToWalsingham · 19/12/2021 14:22

Interesting. In the link to Francois Brunelle's project, the doppelgangers all seem to live in the same city as their double (Bogota, Paris, Lisbon etc). I wonder if they could be half-siblings/cousins etc, not officially related but perhaps conceived during affairs etc and therefore their true paternity and family lineage has been obscured. Does anybody know if Francois does any DNA testing of the doppelgangers?

Onerulefor1 · 19/12/2021 14:21

@Peakedtoosoon

A friend shared some video of "me" when were were teens. It absolutely can't be me, she's behaving in a way that the cripplingly shy teen me would never have done, but it is uncanny.

Even so, being so extraordinarily similar, are you sure there's no way a stock photo of your son has been used OP?

Absolutely no way. I keep looking at the photo, to see if there are any differences, but I can’t see any! Wish I could see this person in real life, to see if he is the same height, shoe size etc. Okay

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ImmutableSexQueen · 19/12/2021 14:10

I have a distant dna link in the US who looks exactly like me. Poor woman.

IncompleteSenten · 19/12/2021 14:06

I think everyone has loads of people who look exactly like them.
There are what? 7 billion people on the planet? There's only so many combinations of features.

newtb · 19/12/2021 14:04

Came face to face with mine when getting the bus from platt fields to umist in about 1975/6. We were both shocked and said nothing, friend was fascinanted.

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ArblemarzipanTFruitcake · 19/12/2021 13:49

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/30/neil-thomas-douglas-doppelganger-flight-galway-bearded

Fascinating subject!

DaftVader42 · 19/12/2021 13:45

Better examples on this link …

www.chasejarvis.com/blog/me-myself-and-i-francois-brunelle-and-his-doppelganger-project-find-your-look-alike/

Peakedtoosoon · 19/12/2021 13:44

A friend shared some video of "me" when were were teens. It absolutely can't be me, she's behaving in a way that the cripplingly shy teen me would never have done, but it is uncanny.

Even so, being so extraordinarily similar, are you sure there's no way a stock photo of your son has been used OP?

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