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50 Complete Strangers Who Met Their Doppelgängers And Had A Lot Of Questions
Throughout history, meeting a doppelganger could only mean bad luck and was considered as an evil omen by many folklore tales. A doppelganger was seen as a malevolent twin or even a paranormal entity. The science behind these twin strangers is also quite grim as heautoscopy or hallucinations of seeing your own body in the distance might be signs of schizophrenia and epilepsy, which explains why it was seen as a harbinger of bad luck in the olden days. Thankfully, today we use the term doppelganger in a more general and neutral way to describe a person who looks or acts the same way as we do.
Bored Panda collected a list of people who experienced this bizarre lookalike phenomenon, and it looks like there's genuinely a glitch in the Matrix. Just think about it. You inherit the looks of your ancestors, and someone happens to look exactly like you and you happen to meet him accidentally. What are the odds? And though it is a quite an eerie experience, the chance for a fun picture is just too good.
If you have met your doppelganger in the form of funny people, we'd like to hear your story!
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My Doppelganger Was Seated Next To Me On A Plane, Then We Accidentally Checked Into The Same Hotel And Went For A Beer
The best part of this photo is the guy in the background getting a kick out of it!
I Found My Literal Doppelgänger Just Now Wtf
I Ran Into My Doppelganger At My Cousin's Wedding And She's My Cousin's Husband's Sister, No Other Relation
My Friend Met His Doppelganger Last Night
When Retired Priest Neil Richardson Moved To Essex He Found People Kept Coming Up To Him To Say "Hello John" - Because His Double Already Lived There
My Own Doppelganger That I Ran Into At A Music Festival, Plus A Face-Swap Of The Photo
My Friend Found Her Doppelganger At A Party
My Friend Also Found His Doppelgänger At A Party
Doppelgangers. Truly Freaky
Bumped Into My Doppelganger At Subic Bay. My Dad, Cousins And Brother Accidentally Mistook Her For Me, So My Aunty Asked Her If We Could Take A Photo Together
DNA test needed! I mean even her own dad thought the doppelganger was her.
10 Years Ago When I Went Off To College For The First Time, People I Didn't Know Kept Coming Up To Me And Calling Me "Brian". My Name Is Josh. Then A Few Weeks Into The Semester I Met Brian And We Took This Picture Together.
Found My Doppelganger. Funny.... We Even Share The Same Birthday
My Dads Coworker Is Also His Doppelgänger
My Girlfriend Met Her Doppelganger
I Met My Twin Brother From Another Mother At The Bar. His Name Is Adam And He Also Likes Beer
My Bf (left) Met His Doppelganger At Ikea Last Night
Saw Doppelgänger On Front Page Met Mine A Few Weeks Ago
His Girlfriend Of One Year Started Walking Towards Me Thinking I Was Him...
Met My Doppelgänger And Thought I'd Share. We Even Had Matching Hair Accessories. I'm On The Left
I (im The Shorter One) Met My Canadian Doppelganger On A Cruise Ship With My Wife On Our Honeymoon!
Got Stationed In Okinawa And Shortly After My Doppelgänger Joined My Unit
I Was Walking Around A While Back And Met My Doppleganger, We Even Have The Same First Name
Met My Doppelgänger. He's A Better Smiler Than I Am.
So My Friend Found His Doppelgänger?
This Is Me And My Doppelgänger. Have Any Of You Redditors Met Yours In Real Life?
Met My Doppelganger
My Friend Just Found His Doppelganger
My Friend Met His Doppelganger On A Night Out...
I Met My Doppelganger In Australia!
Just 20 Minutes Before I Walked Into The Restaurant, The Server Told Her She Looked Like Me. We Actually Already Know Each Other.
Was Out Last Saturday Night Minding My Own Business When A Guy And His Parents Approached Me For A Photo. Apparently I'm His Doppelganger?
Ran Into My Daughter On A Business Trip... Oops. Guess Not.
Ran into a server on break at Stone Brewing in San Diego and did a double take - she not only looked like my daughter (pictured on right), she dressed the same! I took the photo (with her permission and sent it to my daughter). When I got back home we staged a pose and sent it back to the server.
It's Always An Interesting Night When You Randomly Run Into A Beard Doppelganger
My Wife (left) Met Her Doppelgänger On Our Holiday In Rome.
I Found My Doppelganger In A Bar Bathroom
Found My Doppelganger, Bought Him A Jager And Got This Photo Op.
I Finally Meet Longtime Virtual Pal Steve Burnett. Other People Stare In Horror At The Uncanny Duplication.
My Brother Met His Black Doppelganger Last Night
I Think I Found My Beard Doppelgänger
I Met My Doppelganger A Year Ago In A Choir. I Was A New Member. Everyone Kept Telling Us That We Look Alike. We Denied For Months, Until We Decided To Do Snapchat's Face-swap. We Couldn't Stop Laughing When Looking At The Result.
Just Now, Found My Doppelganger. Surreal. My Mom Told Me To Ask My Father Why This Guy Looks Like Me...
Met My Doppelgänger At Work! She Was Hired To The Same Unit 3 Months Before Me
Never Met My Doppelgänger But He's A Korean Rapper Called Zico!
Found My Doppelgänger At The Pub After My Friends Went Up And Hugged Her 😂
Different chins, different eyes different cheekbones....same dyed hair color.
My Fiancé Ran Into His Doppelgänger At A Car Show. I Called The Guy Over And Made Them Take A Picture Together.
Been Told 3 Times I Have A Dopplegänger. Where Are They??
My husband is/was your doppelganger. He passed away. I was showing your picture to my mom. I handed the phone to her and said "Tell me who this looks like?" She had a shocked look on her face. Our oldest son leaned over and said, " Hey that's my dad!" Yall could have been twins :)
I (left) Met My Doppelgänger (jenna) At Chick-fil-a! I Actually Didn't Even See It Until All Her Coworkers Started Flipping Out. They Were Convinced We Were Twins Trying To Pull One Over On Them. After They Took The Picture I Flipped Too.
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lot's of them mostly have same hair/bear/clothes in common....
I totally agree. Having glasses also helps but on a lot of them, if you look at their faces specifically, they don't look much alike.
It's there noses though too for a lot of them, that make them look similar
Yeah!! Let's strip them all down and shave all their body hair. The Internetz deserves a more invasive method comparing these people's bodies and privacy. This isn't a fun meme, people. It's LIFE. I didn't become an unpaid freelance twitterjournalist (retwitterist) just to retweet this non-journalism!
morgan freeman is more of a doppelganger to clint eastwood than some of the people on this list.
That's a little freaky. But interesting to see. I have yet to meet my doppelgänger.
lot's of them mostly have same hair/bear/clothes in common....
I totally agree. Having glasses also helps but on a lot of them, if you look at their faces specifically, they don't look much alike.
It's there noses though too for a lot of them, that make them look similar
Yeah!! Let's strip them all down and shave all their body hair. The Internetz deserves a more invasive method comparing these people's bodies and privacy. This isn't a fun meme, people. It's LIFE. I didn't become an unpaid freelance twitterjournalist (retwitterist) just to retweet this non-journalism!
morgan freeman is more of a doppelganger to clint eastwood than some of the people on this list.
That's a little freaky. But interesting to see. I have yet to meet my doppelgänger.