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Posted: 15-06-2004 13:07 Post subject:

Just after I read this thread, I went into the travel agents and they thought I'd been in there before ! I know there's someone else in Manchester who looks like me as I've been told, but I've yet to meet them!

Oh, yeah, I think I looked familar to the travel agent as I spend large amounts of time at the bus stop right outside!

Posted: 15-06-2004 13:53 Post subject:

Posted: 15-06-2004 14:36 Post subject:

At the times I've been 'seen' I was doing normal things and would have put down the 'sightings' to mistaken identity, so wouldn't have pursued them too closely.

The pushbike incident was different because it was definitely impossible, and because the neighbour concerned became quite annoyed when I argued with her!

When I'm 'seen' out in my car when I'm really at home or in a different town, and later told off for not offering a lift or waving, I tend to assume it's just another car like mine. They are very common.

I enjoyed the link about Emilie Sagee. Read about her as a child and she sprang to mind the first time I was 'fetch-seen'.

Dunno, strange things happen and we can't understand because we're only human.

I have seen what might be called 'pre-crisis apparitions' of people who died soon after, which I've described elsewhere on here. No lottery numbers, though.

Posted: 01-07-2004 20:07 Post subject:

Reading these posts brings up a strange memory for me. One morning I boarded the bus to go to work as was my usual habit. I settled in a seat near the front of the bus. Glancing up, I saw my reflection in the mirror that sits above the driver and allows him or her to see what is going on inside the bus. After a bit, I looked up again, only this time I was shocked to see that my reflection looked to the side as I kept looking forward. I felt the blood drain from my face as all sense of reason escaped me for a few fearful seconds. There had to be an explanation, the only one was that it couldn't have been my own reflection I was seeing.

I turned around to see, sitting directly behind me, a woman whose face looked so amazingly like mine it was uncanny. I didn't want to stare at her, so I turned around and continued watching her reflection in the mirror, marvelling at how much like me she was. We even shared the same eye color and hair color. As she walked to the front of the bus and got off at her stop, I had a better chance to check her out. She seemed a bit older than me, as if I was seeing myself as I would become in a few years.

This was many years ago and to this day I wonder if I will ever again run into the woman who looked so much like me it even fooled me!

Posted: 29-04-2005 04:18 Post subject:

Kind of weird coincidence in that a friend and I were just today talking about this. She had been to lunch near our office and saw someone she thought was a mutual friend of ours that we hadn't seen in quite a while. She studied the girl and realised it wasn't our friend but said the resemblance was uncanny. Our friend has 2 younger brothers but no sisters and I don't know of any cousins that look a lot like her. Maybe I'll email her and ask. I commented that we're all supposed to have a twin somewhere in the world and wondered whether actual twins have twins! My friend said no, they just have their actual twin but then she said maybe they're quadruplets!
Just wanted to mention the coincidence of the earlier conversation and me discovering this post today. Myself, I've had a coworker tell me that a client of ours whose office is just down the street looks an awful lot like me but I've seen several girls from that office and don't think any of them do. Maybe the girl just wasn't there that day. Confused

Posted: 29-04-2005 13:07 Post subject:

A few weeks ago at Marlyebone station in London I saw two men walking past me, one on either side of me, and a good 10 metres apart from one another. They were walking pretty much in sync. One of them had come from the train platforms, and the other entered from the street. They had different hair and clothes, but exactly the same face! Shocked

Their body shapes were also very similar. They clearly did not know each other - one of them met his girlfriend and went off, the other kept walking. I must've looked quite strange, gawking at these doppelgangers, my head swivelling between the two.

Posted: 29-04-2005 13:34 Post subject:

There's a story about the German writer, Goethe, who claimed to have seen his 'doppelganger' when out riding in 1771. He saw a man on horseback coming towards him, who looked exactly like himself, but was wearing a grey suit with gold trimming, unlike any clothing he then owned. The apparition then just disappeared. When, eight years later, he was riding along the same road but in the opposite direction, he suddenly recalled the incident, and with shock, realized he was wearing the exact clothing that he had seen on the doppelganger eight years earlier.

There is a drawing by the Pre-Raphaelite painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, called How They Met Themselves, which shows a medieval couple confronted by their doubles while walking in a forest, based on the German folk belief in the doppelganger as a portend of death within a year. The model for the woman was Rossetti's wife, Elizabeth Siddal. A year later, Siddal was dead, having committed suicide by taking an overdose of laudanam.

How They Met Themselves:

http://www.css.edu/USERS/phagen/hon4777pr/rossetti-metselvesw.jpg

Posted: 29-04-2005 16:31 Post subject:

I once saw myself (well, an exact version of my younger self) on a billboard advertising luggage at Pearson Airport. That particular company had lots of signs throughout the airport and the rest of the city, but I never saw that particular picture anywhere else. It was startling.

Posted: 29-04-2005 22:17 Post subject:

I was in Fort William in Scotland a few years back when I saw my double walking towards me. I stared at her, she stared at me..it was a very odd experience..

I have had friends at work who have seen me about and joked about my bad choice of Rupert the Bear trousers when I have never and will never own such an item of clothing.

And finally, last time I went into B&Q the bloke on the till said hello, called me by my name and asked me how things were going. To this day I have no idea who he was. I was curious and made a mental note of the name on his tag, went home and checked through school pictures incase it jogged a memory..I came up blank..I guess I should have told him to stop me wearing those trousers as they really didn't suit me.. goof

Posted: 29-04-2005 23:30 Post subject:

Posted: 30-04-2005 00:19 Post subject:

Mentioned this thread to my friend (who had spotted the twin of another firend) and she said she knew a girl back in college who met her exact duplicate. They talked and eventually found out that they were actually twins who had been seperated and adopted by different families. Kinda made me think of that movie The parent Trap".
BTW, the friend whose double was spotted said she might have an identical cousin because her dad was adopted and she doesn't know anything about his family except the last name of Lee or Leigh and that a stranger once told her mother she (my friend) looked like a Lee.

Posted: 30-04-2005 22:35 Post subject:

Has anyone read a story by Edgar Allan Poe called " William Wilson " ?

I recommend you do as it deals with subjects mentioned in this thread.

Awfully good read vampire

Posted: 30-04-2005 22:43 Post subject:

LOL!dont buy it.
for here it is for all to read.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2148

Posted: 08-05-2005 16:12 Post subject:

A few months ago I remember seeing an article in a magazine (might have been the one that comes with Saturday's 'The Observer'?) about a European photographer (Italian?) who had found look alikes in one town, photographed the pair of them and made an exhibition of the results. These were very impressive as in some cases you couldn't tell the two apart! This should illustrate that we may share features with more people than we think.

Does anyone else remember the article or have the exact info on it as I appreciate my recall is quite sketchy?