Throughout history, meeting a doppelganger usually meant bad luck and was considered as an evil omen by many folklore tales. Meeting a doppelganger in real life was seen as meeting with 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 look-alike phenomenon, and it genuinely looks like 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 quite an eerie experience, the chance for a fun picture is just too good.
If you have met your doppelganger in real life, we'd like to hear your story!
#41 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.
19points
#42 Met My Doppelganger At Work! Now We're Besties!
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#43 Just Now, Found My Doppelganger. Surreal. My Mom Told Me To Ask My Father Why This Guy Looks Like Me...
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#44 My Brother From Another Mother.
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#45 Met My Doppelgänger At Work! She Was Hired To The Same Unit 3 Months Before Me
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#46 Never Met My Doppelgänger But He's A Korean Rapper Called Zico!
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#47 Found My Doppelgänger At The Pub After My Friends Went Up And Hugged Her
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#48 My Fiancé Ran Into His Doppelgänger At A Car Show. I Called The Guy Over And Made Them Take A Picture Together.
6points
#49 Been Told 3 Times I Have A Dopplegänger. Where Are They??
5points
#50 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.
5points
#51 Kenneth Fearing - 1935 - Alice Neel Found It At The Moma NY
Traveling with my daughter in NY we ran into this!
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