I had the weirdest experience yesterday, but my story actually starts in Fopp last Saturday - I saw someone who works in my department and said hello, to which he replied 'Hiya Isabelle' :confused: That was rather odd as it is, given that my name is not Isabelle, but then yesterday it just got weirder :suspect: - whilst I walking through town on my way to the post office, some old bloke walked right past me, caught my eye and then said 'oh, hello there Isabelle love' :o :wow: What are the chances?? :suspect: So, I am now convinced that I have a Sheffield based doppelganger, or that my evil twin (from whom I was separated at birth) has hunted me down and is intent on causing mayhem :P :D

Has anyone ever had a similar experience? :o

my mum used to live on a small island on the west coast of scotland, she come back to the house and said why did you walk away from me earlier? i said eh?? i been here all the time, a few days later i was out with my mum and next thing she was walking away with this other girl.. when i shouted her they both turned round.. this other girl was like me looking in the mirror! even the clothes she was wearing were similar!!!!

it really gae me the heebie jeebies!!!! and my mum was really embarrassed!

It is a little unnerving :suspect: But I'd still be interested to see this Isabelle though, I reckon it'd be kind of cool to have a twin :P :D

I was in the Sportsman in town the other week, meeting a bloke that I don't see very often, he was with his mates who were all convinced that I was someone they knew called "Gunman John."

Surely if you already know the person you saw in Fopp, all you have to do is ask them who Isabelle is?

Originally posted by metalman
Surely if you already know the person you saw in Fopp, all you have to do is ask them who Isabelle is?

That is an incredibly good idea :D Actually I don't know him very well (I just see him wandering around occasionally), and at the time I didn't want to correct him for fear of embarassing him, but given how odd this whole thing has got now I think I may just ask him next time I see him.

Top idea ;) :thumbsup: :P And so obvious :roll: :blush:

The best fictional account of the Doppelganger phenomenon is Dostoevskii's 'The Double'. Its a weird, haunting tale and well worth reading.

I sometimes think I have 'cyber doppelgangers' on this forum, in that I find usually myself in totall agreement with their postings (Timo and Starsparkle come to mind, but there are probably others).

Originally posted by LordChaverly
The best fictional account of the Doppelganger phenomenon is Dostoevskii's 'The Double'. Its a weird, haunting tale and well worth reading.


I typed 'doppelganger' into Google before I started this thread (to check I was using the word correctly, see how terrified I am of the Forum police :suspect: ) and it brought up a link to this book. I'd really like to read it now :)

The closest I can get is a few years ago when I arrived at the local pub to meet a mate. When I turned up he freaked out because he swears blind that he had been sitting talking to me for 20 mins. The other me had apparently got up to go to the bar and then I walked in dressed in different clothes. There was even an empty pint glass opposite my mate on the table. We looked around the pub, but the other me was no where to be seen. Still convinced that my mate had just gone temporarily mad!

ps. good quote Tracie :D

Has anyone ever had a similar experience? :o

Yes, I often get mistaken for Bradd Pitt.;)

To learn more about Doppels and all things unusal and strange, purchase Fortean Times monthly

There is a REALLY REALLY bad film called that, worth watching just to see how bad it is!

Unfortunatly I havemet my doppelganger he works at the same place as me only in asnother department. My collegues take great pleasure in mentioning it everytime he wonders into the office. :(

When I was about 8 yrs old we went on a family hol and when we got the photos back there was a picture of me building sandcastles on the beach - except it wasn't me. Looked like me but I didn't have those clothes and hair ribbons.

And I couldn't have built such a great sandcastle as she had.

I havent met mine but my mum had a weird experiance when we were on holiday in Orlando, Florida one year.
We were in a shop and she went up to the till to pay and the man behind started laughing and saying ''what ru doing here?''

My mum obviosly thought he had lost his marbles and said 'Im on holiday' His face suddenly fell when he heard her British accent. He went white and said that my mum looked identical to his sister who lived in another city in Florida. He had been expecting her to visit the next week and thought she had come over early!!!

He looked genuinly shocked that it wasnt his sister, thought he was going to have a heart attack!

Originally posted by TracieJC
So, I am now convinced that I have a Sheffield based doppelganger....

Aye Carumba! :wow: :heyhey: :hihi:

Originally posted by TracieJC
...or that my evil twin (from whom I was separated at birth) has hunted me down and is intent on causing mayhem :P :D


Yikes! :help:

Originally posted by TracieJC
So, I am now convinced that I have a Sheffield based doppelganger, or that my evil twin (from whom I was separated at birth) has hunted me down and is intent on causing mayhem :P :D


Are you sure that you're not the evil twin? :P

Wilf

Originally posted by Edd

Yikes! :help:

Ah, C'mon! You love the idea of me having a naughty twin :heyhey: :hihi: :P

Originally posted by BrainThrust

Are you sure that you're not the evil twin?

Or maybe a nice one :P :D

Originally posted by TracieJC
Ah, C'mon! You love the idea of me having a naughty twin :heyhey: :hihi: :P


:wow: :blush: :blush:

Wow! There are some great stories there - what's that "Hamlet" quote - "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy"?

I've never come across a doppleganger for me, but I did come across someone else's:

When I was 14 I developed a huge crush on a lad in my class at school, which basically lasted till I left school. We never even spoke, but I used to silently adore/gaze at him across a crowded classroom. I still think he's the most beautiful bloke I've ever seen.

Anyway, in my second year at uni I was having a dance with a friend of mine at the student union one night, when suddenly the doppleganger of ----- from school appeared in front of me and started dancing with me! :o I absolutely could not believe it, they were so similar - same height, build, colouring, hair colour and style, such similar faces - they could have been long-lost twins!

Bizarre! Anyway, call me shallow but we dated for 6 weeks - who says looks don't matter? :D Unfortunately, the other side of him being so beautiful was that he had a total personality bypass, so it didn't work out.

To this day, my sister doesn't believe it happened like that. She knows how much I liked ------, and is convinced I must have noticed his doppelganger and sent out vibes to him. But I truly didn't - he just suddenly appeared! Weird!

StarSparkle :)

When i was younger my gma always used to call me Rebecca because that is my cousins name and now i get called Rebecca all the time by people who dont know my gma or my cousin! My cousin doesn't even live in Sheffield and we look nothing alike! When people call me Rebecca i ask them why and they say that i look like someone they know named Rebecca. I was in town once and a girl came up to me and started chatting about alsorts like i was her best friend and when i asked her who she was she said 'You know who i am Rebecca!' I went into shiver world then had to tell her that i wasn't who she thought i was and she thought i was messing about! I recon my twin is called Rebecca and she is 2 steps ahead of me! :suspect: :suspect:

I wish I had an evil twin
running ’round doing people in
I wish I had a very bad
and evil twin to do my will
to call and conquer, cut and kill
just like I would
if I weren’t good
and if I knew where to begin

down and down we go
how low no one would know
sometimes the good life wears thin
I wish I had an evil twin

my evil twin would lie and steal
and he would stink of sex appeal
all men would writhe
beneath his scythe
he’d send the pretty ones to me
and they would think that I was he
I’d hurt them and I’d go scot free

I’d get no blame and feel no shame
’cause evil’s not my cup of tea

down and down we go
how low one would not need to know
all my life there should have been
an evil twin


Lyrics to: I wish I had an evil twin
By The Magnetic Fields

I did about eight years ago.I mean exact double and not just someone who looks a little like you. I was in Boots Chemist,Hillsborough,being served. I looked to my left, and a lady was standing,also waiting to be served a few yards away from me. We both stared in shock at each other because we were each others exact double.Face shape,hair,eyes,nose,mouth,glasses,height and weight We were both so shocked we both quickly faced away from each other,which I regret to this day.I have never told anyone but am telling The Forum" in case she happens to read it. I wish i had spoken to her.

Originally posted by drolnhoj
Has anyone ever had a similar experience? :o

Yes, I often get mistaken for Bradd Pitt.;)

Lucky you, my 'celebrity' double is Rory McGrath! :hihi:

theres a bloke in my local hes been calling me steve for 10 years so i must have a double................havn't the heart to tell him mi names phil ...................think i've left it too long.
bought a t-shirt with my names phil wriiten on it............he saw it and said "where'd you get that t shirt steve"

No, I haven't, but I have seen a picture of him. Check out the splendidly monikered 'PooPongMcPlop' - number 36 on the 'Hot or Not' list. Perhaps it is Mr McPlop who knows the barman at Fagan's on West Bar. Every time I go in there, he shakes my hand and looks delighted to see me. I know he thinks I am someone else, because he told me he owed 'me' a fiver. I tried to explain that, although I'd be pleased to accept the fiver if he wanted to give it away, I was not 'Graham' or 'Tony', or whoever it was he thought I was. He was shocked and a little annoyed at this, and has since reverted to the handshake/delight routine, as though in denial. Does anyone know Mr McPlop? Does he go to Fagan's? Does he want a fiver?

I have an identical twin, by the way. That's right, there are two Snooties. So yes, I have met my doppelganger. In fact, I once spent nine months cuddling up to him....

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TracieJC
[B]Ah, C'mon! You love the idea of me having a naughty twin :heyhey: :hihi: :P

Why do the words threesome keep coming to mind ;)

I haven't met mine yet, but I know she is lurking somewhere in Sheffield. And I think I have more than one.

Quite a few people I meet for the first time say 'I know you don't I'? But they don't. Even our very own Kristian thought he knew me from somewhere.

I ran a meeting two years ago at St George's House in Windsor Castle, and was chatting to one of the staff. She said something along the lines of 'but you'll be used to this though won't you' when I asked why, she said 'well you come here quite a lot don't you?' Errrr, no. I think I would have remembered - 'coz it was such a fantastic experience.

Also a new manager started working at my place and struck up conversation with me and swore blind she knew me from Manchester. Well unless she went to see Russell Watson - coz that's the only time i've been to Manchester ...

Originally posted by pattricia
I did about eight years ago.I mean exact double and not just someone who looks a little like you. I was in Boots Chemist,Hillsborough,being served. I looked to my left, and a lady was standing,also waiting to be served a few yards away from me. We both stared in shock at each other because we were each others exact double.Face shape,hair,eyes,nose,mouth,glasses,height and weight We were both so shocked we both quickly faced away from each other,which I regret to this day.I have never told anyone but am telling The Forum" in case she happens to read it. I wish i had spoken to her.

Sure it wasn't a mirror?:)

I met my doppelganger several years ago when i was 15. I was waiting for a friend in Piccadily Circus underground station when a young lad came up and said 'hello'. He obviously thought I was someone else, and he apologised for his mistake. I had this weird haircut at the time which I had designed and cut myself (long down the left side of my face reaching to jaw level and really short and tucked behind my ear on the other) I also made my own clothes and wore somevery unusual!!! clothes. While I was talking to this lad I saw a girl approaching as she came up to us we both stood there and stared, she had the same hairstyle but in reverse, the same weird taste in clothes (she made her own as well), same pronounced nose, she was slightly shorter than me but for all intents and purposes otherwise identical. We got talking both our birthday's were in January but not the same date and she was a year older. She was training to be a ballerina. She lived at 1 Grafton Way round the corner from Goodge Street tube where she stayed with a Chinese man. Her name was Antoinette. We hung around together for about 3 weeks, but when I went to call for her one day, she had gone and I never saw her again. (she suffered from Asthma by the way). If anyone knows what happened to her I would be interested in hearing about her or from her.

Years ago I was always being mistaken for someone called Angela, which was a bit odd because that's what my parents initially wanted to call me and I was an Angela for the first two weeks of my life until they changed their minds when they came to register the birth. Once I met someone who was glad I was "coming to the party next Saturday" (what party??!!) and looking forward to seeing me there. Perhaps I should have found out where it was and gone too, then the elusive Angela and I might finally have met...

I had one in Paris. My Mum went mad because she thought I'd gone and got in a car that was riding past. She did look like me a LOT and we even had the same jacket on. It freaked me out at the time. :shocked:

I think that I have 2 in Sheffield.

One that used to work in the old Broomhill Bakery that was in the building that until recently housed Whichcraft (several friends commented that they didn't know I'd got a part time job, and how did I fit it in with Uni and my other job).

And an ex brought his new GF round to see me, and although she was 5 years younger and quite a lot shorter (not hard when you know how tall I am) she was really very similar, including wearing glasses almost identical to mine. I later found out after they broke up that she cut her hair and changed her clothes and glasses to look less like me, but in 4 years of relationship most people still called her by my name unless corrected (just a small smirk there!)

I haven't met mine but I'm told others have and when I meet people they think they've seen me before. Maybe I've just got one of those faces.
My Nanna once saw 'me' in the Peace Gardens and was waving like mad apparently, except I was at home and hadn't been in town at all. Another time she saw me on the bus near her house, quite odd, since I haven't been on a bus since I passed my driving test.
Then there was the chap in Waitrose a couple of weeks ago, he was sort of walking near me in a very odd way, trying to see me but not be seen I think. My hand tightened on my bag and I was wondering why no one else seemed to be about. Anyway the guy very suddenly approached me and then veered away.
I must have looked worried because he then said 'Oh hi, sorry, didn't..... no it isn't you...I thought I knew you.... didn't we used to work together? No sorry, it isn't you. I thought I knew you but it isn't you.'
Thankfully it is me, but I'm not the one who used to work with him. Anyway he wandered away apologising and staring all the way down the aisle before he finally vanished out of sight.

This reminds me of something that happened many years ago. I was in my local post office with my daughter, who was in her pushchair. An oldish bloke came in and said 'hello' so obviously I said 'hello' back.

He then started chatting to me, saying he'd not seen me for ages, how was I doing etc. He said 'we used to have such laughs didn't we' etc. I didn't have a clue who he was (and still don't) but every week after that I saw the same guy and we chatted and he was convinced he knew me really well ...

I'm certain, to this day, that I never knew him ... I've always been pretty good with faces, though not names, but I really did not know him ???