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Posted: 09-10-2003 18:33 Post subject:

I had a bit of a wierd thing when I was at middle school (about age 9/10 I suppose.) I was in the same class as a girl that really looked like me and we often were mistaken for each other.
The strange bit is that when I moved schools (I went back to the school all thge kids I'd grown up with went to. Ain't divorce grand! Wink

) all of a sudden people kept accidently calling me by the other girls' name. We didn't have anyone by that name in my class and there hadn't been any crossover of friends. It was just wierd.

Posted: 27-05-2004 15:42 Post subject: Meeting yourself

This is my first post on here : but its an interesting one.

near my home is a park. About 8-9 years ago, i was walking along one side of the street that runs beside it. as i did, i noticed someone walking the opposite way down the other side of the street who looked a lot like me, but maybe a couple of years older. This person gave me a really weird look as he passed by on the other side of the street.

That was odd enough, but a couple of years later, i am walking down the same street, the other way, and i notice across the street is someone walking up who looked remarkably like me, but a couple of years younger. I then remembered the original incident and looked at what i was wearing. I was wearing exactly what i remembered my lookalike wearing a couple of years before, and the younger lookalike i saw was wearing exactly what i had been wearing the first time. I'm sure that the person i saw must have seen a really odd look on my face because i was getting a months worth of chills!

Posted: 27-05-2004 15:47 Post subject:

wow, that's really quite something.
Once I rang up my friend and he said that I'd just a minute ago knocked on his window and then run off (which I hadn't) but I think he may have just been confused.

Posted: 27-05-2004 15:52 Post subject:

Well, that'd be your classic 'fetch', then, I believe, with a neat twist. A fetch is your supernatural double, and seeing your fetch is traditionally not a great sign, from what I can recall. Still, you're probably okay, as you could argue it's 'just' an incredibly unusual timeslip instead. Just!

When did you see yourself (both times)? Morning or evening? This appears to make a difference to the significance in folklore.

This story is so slick it almost sounds like a ready-made urban myth (not that that means it didn't happen, of course!) Smile

Posted: 27-05-2004 15:55 Post subject: I wish it were

I wish it was an urban myth. I am a hardcore sceptic most of the time but this just creeped me out. If it weren't for that i would be a complete scientific atheist. Instead, it has made me more of a fortean ( that there are things happening we dont understand...yet )

Posted: 27-05-2004 15:59 Post subject:

Being all Fortean about it, did you think you might one day see your younger self after the first sighting? Was it something you thought about when you went down that road? Something you dreaded, maybe?

Or was is a complete surprise?

Posted: 27-05-2004 16:00 Post subject: filling in details

Both times it was mid-morning. very similar days in general. same time of year ( mid spring )

Posted: 27-05-2004 16:04 Post subject:

it was a complete surprise. the first time i just thought it was an odd coincidence. after the second time i still think it could be just a big coincidence - but thats really wild odds of that happening.

Posted: 27-05-2004 16:16 Post subject:

Sorry to sound cynical, but did you make a mental note at the time of the first meeting to remember exactly what both you and the stranger were wearing? What first drew your attention to the stranger?

Jane.

Posted: 27-05-2004 16:19 Post subject:

the first time i fobbed it off as just a coincidence. i didnt really think about it until the second time.

for why i looked, i just 'noticed' him... no real reason - both times.

Posted: 27-05-2004 16:20 Post subject:

bringerofbroom - Here's a similar story.

Not mine, in case you were wondering.

Posted: 27-05-2004 16:27 Post subject:

interesting story. The guy/s i saw were definitely solid and real. It's had me wondering what would have happened if i had actually crossed the road and said hello...

Posted: 27-05-2004 16:37 Post subject: Accurate information

rereading my original post, it does look just like an urban legend - no real specifics.

So here they are, as much as i can give.

the first situation happened in march-april ( not sure exactly when ) of 1992. The second about the same time of year in 1995. It happened when walking along Highbury Crescent that runs alongside Highbury Fields in Islington,London.

I have not had any 'fortean-type' situations happen to me before this or after and i am generally very sceptical about these things.

Posted: 27-05-2004 16:48 Post subject:

it's interesting, it could call into question things like free will: imagine the future you had decided to say "hello". Then in the future you'd decided to say "hello" to the past you. Would it really be a choice if you'd seen it happening a couple of years before?

Posted: 27-05-2004 16:50 Post subject:

its an interesting idea, but as it didnt happen that way, still just an idea.