Doppelgangers
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So to put it simply, a doppelganger is a person who looks almost exactly like someone else, but is not related to them in any way. It's like having a twin who is not part of your family or blood related. You just look alike. That's what a doppelganger is. So like me and Alex Jones. I guess. I don't think you look like Alex Jones, but some people commented and did say that. I was an Asian Alex Jones. Uh, yeah.

Well, that's what a doppelganger is. And tell us a little bit about the history of the word, Dan. All right. So the word doppelganger was created back in 1796 by the German author John Paul. Now, John was writing a book and needed a word to describe a character that looked like another character in his book. So John Paul took the German words doppel, which means double, and ganger, which means walker or goer.

And from then on, everyone just started using that word, doppelganger. Yep. Now, even though this word was created back in the late 18th century, stories of individuals having met or seen someone that looked just like them, it's been reported throughout history for a very long time. For example, in ancient Egypt, individuals believed in something called the Ka. And according to them, this Ka...

is someone's soul or spirit. Now, this Ka represents the life force or vital essence that distinguishes the living from the dead. So let's say that you lived back during ancient Egyptian times and a loved one passed away.

Well, you would build a statue of that individual so that it could serve as a physical vessel for the Ka, ensuring it could continue to exist and be cared for. Also, it was believed that this Ka lived on after death. People who believed this would offer up food or drink to help the Ka sustain itself in the afterlife. So you would bring your food and drink to the statue.

your little kids be like i'm hungry i'm hungry papa sorry you ain't getting this extra food we gotta go deliver it to the statue of your your dead uncle that sounds like a lot of other religions but i don't know about it being the car the life essence being actually stuck in the vessel but anyway so what does the belief of a car or spirit in ancient egyptian times have to do with doppelgangers

Well, this Ka or spirit was often depicted as identical to the person who passed away. So pretty much just a copy of the individual in spirit form. That makes sense. I mean, it is their spirit, so it should look like them. Yeah. Now, another interesting fact is that many Muslim countries have a concept that is similar to doppelgangers. For example, they believe in what is called a Kareen. Kareen.

Karin. Karin. Which is a potentially harmful spirit that is exactly the same as the person that it is connected to. So you have this harmful spirit that's named Karin, and it's attached to you, and it's exactly the same as you, but it's harmful, like a parasite. I mean, it's close enough to Karen, so obviously it's going to be harmful. Yeah. Just kidding. I'm sorry, Karens.

Now, this belief varies depending on what Muslim country you are in. For example, some places believe that the Kareen is not exactly the same as yourself, that there is one major difference. It's the opposite gender. But like I said, it varies depending on what country you are in. So you would have a Kareen that was a female Dan be named Daniel or Daniela. Daniel. Daniel. That's my French name. Daniel. Hmm.

Now, when you look into Norse folklore, you will see that they have something called a vaduga. This vaduga is a spirit or premonition that precedes a person performing their actions or appearing in places before they actually arrive.

This phenomenon is often described as an ethereal double or a forerunner, creating sounds, scents, or visual manifestations associated with the person who is yet to come. So before I came to the studio, my vaduga,

you could hear him walking up the steps and up here so that's why i heard the steps like making the crackling noise as like someone's walking up yeah it's my baduga and the curtain was closed somewhat so i couldn't see someone could just walked right in and i thought it was you yeah

That would have been bad. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so just like Aaron said, though, people might hear someone's footsteps, see their shadow, or even hear their voice before the actual person arrives. The Valduga is distinct from a doppelganger as it specifically relates to the premonition of a person's presence rather than an identical physical appearance. Now, if you go back to the 18th and 19th century and look at English and Irish literature, you will see them talk about something called the Fetch.

A fetch is an ethereal double. So pretty much like a copy of yourself or someone else.

Now, if you saw this fetch, the copy of yourself, a.k.a. spirit double, it meant that you were going to die. Oh. Yeah. And this belief of you dying after seeing your doppelganger has been around for a while, and the beliefs vary. For example, in Germany, they believe that if you had to see your doppelganger a total of three times, and then you were supposed to die.

However, in modern times, if you see your doppelganger, you usually take a photo with them or you make a YouTube video and be like, hey, this is my doppelganger. And then you post it on social media. So that right there is the history of the word doppelganger, along with some ancient beliefs throughout history. Now we are going to get into the meat of today's episode, our strange facts and findings, where we discuss all the weird things that we uncovered while researching this topic.

So why don't you tell us about our first strange fact and finding, Dan? All right. So our first strange fact and finding is about Abraham Lincoln. Of course, everyone knows who Abraham Lincoln is. Right. Yeah, I assume so. Yeah, he was a senator of the United States. Okay, I know he was the 16th president, okay? Okay. 16th president of the United States. He freed the slaves, was good at wrestling, and was said to have a two-inch wiener. That means that he had a four-inch thrust.

Jesus Christ. Canceled. Canceled. Now, what we're going to discuss is what happened to him on the night of the election, not the night of the theater. You know what happens there. Yeah, he gets shot. All right. So it all started on November 6th, 1860. Abraham Lincoln was just chilling. He was waiting to hear the news to see if he won the presidency. He was sitting there and he was flexing in the mirror and he's going, God damn, you look fucking swole. Damn, Abraham, you look big.

I'm gonna slay some vampires. Yeah, I'm ready to slay some vampires. So he's standing there flexing and all of a sudden his butler runs up to him and goes, sir, you've won the election. And he goes, you're goddamn right. I won the election. So then after that, after he received that news, he's like, you know what? I should probably tell my wife Mary that I won. But before that, I'm going to go take a rest on the couch because I'm kind of tired from flexing. I mean, victory.

It can exhaust you. Yeah. So he turns and he starts to head towards his couch. But out of the corner of his eye, he catches something in the mirror and makes him turn back. And he looks at it and he goes, what the hell is that? There was a reflection that appeared and a reflection of not only himself, but a copy of his face. So it was two Abrahams in the mirror.

Now, the normal reflection of himself in the mirror was normal. It was clear and it was lifelike. But the other face was ghostly pale and seemed to just hover beside his own. And he was like rubbing his eyes. He's like, oh, shit, what is that? Now, Lincoln was startled. And even though being startled, he still got up the courage to go up to the mirror and look at it more closely to figure out what the hell it was.

And he noticed that the double image persisted with the pale ghostly image always beside his normal reflection. He moved around and adjusted the angle from which he viewed the mirror, but the double image remained. So Abraham was pretty freaked out and he ended up yelling at his wife, Mary. He said, Mary, come here. She ended up running in from wherever she was at. I don't know where she was at. I'm going to guess like the bedroom or something. Yes, Abe. Get your ass over here. So she came to me.

the fuck? What was that? So she ended up running in. She stopped and he was like, Mary, I need you to look at this mirror. She was like, well, okay. So she went up to it and looked at it and was like, yeah, you look swole. You look swole, Abraham. You've been working out. He's like, no, you don't see that. She's like, yeah, I see it.

I see your muscles. And he's like, no, I fucking, I see it because there's something in there. There's, there's a double, like there's a ghost. You don't see that. And she was like, no, she was confused because she wasn't seeing what he was seeing. So with the two of them being confused as hell, they decided to, you know, just ignore it. Be like, all right, whatever. Maybe I'm just tired or something like that. I just won the election. I got to celebrate my victory. I became the president of the United States. So he decided to move on with his life.

However, though, a few days later, this doppelganger would appear in the mirror again. And of course, Lincoln would, of course, tell his wife, Mary. Yeah. And at this point, Mary became deeply disturbed by the incident and took it as a bad omen. Mary believed that the two faces meant that Abraham Lincoln, her husband, would be elected to a second term. But the ghostly pale image signified that he would not survive it.

Of course, his wife would be right because he was elected for a second term, but ended up dying just a month into it. And that's the end of our first strange fact and finding. He was roiding up. Yeah, he's probably on roids, HGH, getting ready for the second term, got elected, decided to get off cycle. And then that's when he got shot up. Damn. All right. Let's get on to our next strange fact and finding.

Now, before we get into that, we are going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. All right. Welcome back. All right. So this next strange fact I'm finding is about an article in 1884 issue of the Sunny South, which was a weekly magazine in Atlanta. The article goes on about a county clerk from Cahaba, Alabama, who contracted malaria.

So one night while this clerk was in the hospital, you know, he was just laying there shivering, unable to fall asleep. And as he laid there, he noticed a shadow of a man open up his room's door and walk in. The individual approached his bed and with the dim light, he saw the face of the man that was staring down at him. And it was his own face.

He was like, damn, this malaria is some strong shit. Right. Or maybe the drugs they had him on. Damn, I'm hallucinating. It's good. Yeah. Now, the clerk thought that he was just hallucinating, was like, screw this. I'm going to pretend this never happened and rolled over and he tried to go back to sleep. Then the next night, the same thing occurred again. The shadow of a man entered his room and stood beside his bed looking down at him, having the same face as the clerk. So it's pretty much himself looking down at himself. Yeah.

So he kind of wanted to verify that this was happening because no one was really believing him. So he invited two of his friends to come and stay the night in the hospital with him to prove like, hey, this shit is happening and no one's believing me. The two friends that showed up, who were just farmers, arrived at the hospital as quickly as they could because they were like, hey, we want to see this. Yeah, they brought their pajamas.

Alright, so the farmers decided to stay at the hospital with their friend. They brought their PJs, their blankie, and they sat there while their friend, the clerk, tried to go to sleep. The two of them, though, were startled later that night when the door opened up to the room. With just the dim light of the candle that was lit beside the bed, they both watched as the figure walked into the room with the same exact face as their friend, the clerk, and all they could see

I mean, all there was was a candlelight. Yeah. So there wasn't much light. So they were like, oh my God. They got up and they went up to the individual, this ghostly figure that looked like their friend who had the same face. And as they got close to it, this ghostly figure just vanished into thin air. They were like, damn, he wasn't lying. But after that, the ghostly, I guess, doppelganger never reappeared.

ended up disappearing but the clerk ended up passing away that sucks yep so that right there is our second strange fact in finding which makes you wonder why did it open the door and enter that way when it could just disappear into the shadow i don't know if you wanted to make a uh like a i don't know a grand entrance each time hey look at me i'm gonna come stand over you i'm here yeah that would honestly freak me out and if there was if i had two friends there

I'd expect them to run and like tackle that thing and just start beating the shit out of it. If I was there and that happened? You'd probably be just there and, nice. I'm going to wait and watch and see what happens. What's the Dan going to do to the other Dan? All right, so let's get on to our next strange fact and finding. All right, so our next strange fact and finding is about royalty and their encounters with doppelgangers. So way back in the day from 1558 to 1603, Queen Elizabeth of England ruled over the lands.

Well, one day as she passed by her bed, she ended up noticing something odd. As she looked closer, she noticed that what she was seeing was herself laying in her own bed as if she was dead. Of course, the queen was pretty messed up mentally from seeing this and ended up reporting the incident. A lot of the people there, they were like, it's just the queen doing reptilian things, you know?

However, shortly after reporting it, her health would start to decline and she would become bedridden and eventually die. Damn. Yeah. So that's how the adrenochrome farming began. That's exactly how it began. All right. So this next strange fact I'm finding is about the ex-president of Nigeria, Mahabudu Buhari. Now, Buhari served as the president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.

And in the first couple of years, everything was going semi-okay for Bihari. Yeah, he wasn't doing really good, but he wasn't doing really bad either. And a little fun fact, he used to be a general in the army of Nigeria, and he was one of the ones involved in the coup and took over violently. So yeah. Anyway, so in 2017...

The 76-year-old Nigerian president ended up becoming super sick and traveled to the United Kingdom on medical leave. And he ended up staying there for several months. His specific illness was kept a secret from the public. And then just randomly, he reappeared in Nigeria, just randomly reappeared. And it was at this point that a lot of people started to notice something odd.

Buhari's appearance had changed. Also, his dominant riding hand had changed as well. Of course, these allegations, you know, led to that the real Buhari died and that he had been replaced by a Sudanese doppelganger named Jabril. And we do have a couple photographs.

The first one we're going to show is of President Buhari in 2018. The one that was the most recent. And then next to it's going to be Buhari in 2015. I don't know. That one's not that, I mean, can you get your fucking tooth replaced? God damn, dude. You're the president. Get a tooth. Get like a horse tooth or anything. You're over there in the UK. Get them, put your tooth back. Get some dentures. Anyways, here's this other image right here.

This one I think is better. It shows the late Buhari, shrunk and shriveled, faces and hands. And then the next one is supposedly the imposter. His hands are not shriveled and he looks different. I mean, that just looks like one he's dehydrated and the other one he's just hydrated. When was that left photo taken? That was right before he went to the UK for his illness. It looks like he has both teeth there.

It does. Maybe he got him knocked out. Maybe he got one knocked out. I don't know. If you or a loved one are from Nigeria and were over there whenever Buhari was the president, send us an email. We'd love to hear from you and your opinion on this matter. Unless you're a Nigerian prince. That's what I'm thinking. Maybe that's what happened. He got scammed. He got scammed. Yeah. Damn. So our next strange fact and finding is about a doppelganger robbery.

A robbery. I know I was skeptical, but this is probably one of the most infuriating but interesting stories that I have ever read. And I thought we have to cover it. Okay. So it all starts way back in 1999. It was in Roland Park, Kansas, in a Walmart parking lot. A young woman was just walking alone to her vehicle at night whenever a man approached her and

grabbed her purse. He's like, give me that purse, bitch. Hold on, back up. Give me a chicken sandwich. He's like, give me that purse. It's always a Walmart parking lot. What the hell happened to you at a Walmart parking lot? Wait, save it for story time. Now, even though the robber grabbed her purse, she was able to hang onto her purse and he managed to run off with just her cell phone. But in the process, he sent her sprawling to the ground where she ended up injuring her knee.

Now, it was due to that, you know, attack where she ended up getting hurt, hurting her knee, that he ended up getting a heavier charge. So instead of it being a perpetrator, you know, of robbery, it graduated to an aggravated robbery, which carries a stiff penalty. So when police questioned the woman who got robbed and other witnesses in the area who witnessed it,

They described the perpetrator as being a light-skinned Hispanic or African-American male with long hair pulled back. That's what they told the police. And the police were like, all right, well, we'll go looking for him. And one of the other witnesses came forward after that and said, wait, wait, wait, wait. I managed to get the license plate of the car that the thief had used. So the authorities were like, okay. So they looked up that car.

And they found out that the car belonged to a man named Rick Amos. And they ended up finding his address and they went to his home. But he was not at home at the time that the police showed up. So they're like, OK, well, we'll be back. All right. So the victim was taken down to a police station where they actually had her go through booking photos and actually found the man that they said that, you know, robbed the victim.

And the only problem was that it wasn't Rick Amos. It was actually a man named Richard Jones. And the witness right there swore that there was no mistake, that Jones was the man seen robbing the woman. And so Jones was arrested and put on trial, despite denying that he had been anywhere near that Walmart at the time of the robbery. So when the trial came around, several witnesses came forward to state that they were sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was Jones that was the perpetrator. He was the robber.

However, all as Jones denials and assurances of innocence fell on deaf ears because the district attorney, they didn't care, you know?

In the end, it didn't matter that there was no physical evidence to place Jones at the scene of the crime. It did not matter that this was all based on eyewitness testimony or that Jones actually had an alibi that day, that he was at a birthday party at the time of the incident. And several other people who were at the birthday party confirmed that he was there.

It didn't matter. It did not matter. And in the end, Jones was found guilty and sentenced to a shocking 19 years in prison. So Jones was adamant that he was innocent and appeals that he immediately requested were all denied. And Jones would go on to say this, and we quote, I filed every appeal possible in my case, exhausted all my remedies. The Supreme Court denied every last one of my appeals, even appeals that I had merit in.

End quote. So Jones would end up withering away at the Lansing Correctional Facility for the next 15 years. However, in 2015, something strange began happening at the prison. Other inmates began mistaking Jones for someone else, calling him Ricky.

And then they talked to Jones as they knew him. Like, hey, Ricky, what's up? What are you doing here? Yeah. And Jones was like, I'm not Ricky. What the fuck are you talking about? I'm not Ricky Bobby. Yeah. And this baffled Jones. And he ended up saying, no, who's this Ricky guy? And they were like, oh, Rick Amos.

And that's when Jones was like, hey, I need to call my attorney. So he called him up and was like, hey, I need you to find a mugshot of this guy, Rick Amos, this Ricky that everyone's calling me. So his attorney was able to get that mugshot. And when they looked at it, they were shocked.

Exactly, because Rick Amos looked almost exactly the same as Jones, right down to the hairstyle and the resemblance was so uncanny that they could have been twins. Which we do have a photograph right here. And if you aren't watching us on YouTube, I don't know why you aren't. It's free. Just go to YouTube, type in Theories of the Third Kind and click on today's episode. Or you can go to Theoriesofthethirdkind.com, click on today's episode and you can see this photograph. But here it is. Look at that. Jones on the left, Amos on the right.

I mean, the resemblance is there. Amos got a bigger forehead, wider nose, crooked nose, not as much gray in his beard. But damn, they look like twins. The fact that they have the same beard style, same hairstyle. It's similar. It's pretty similar. Yeah. So shortly after that, after the attorneys found this mugshot,

the attorneys decided to look into Ricky and discovered that he was the man who lived at the address that was tied to the license plate that the witness had taken down during the crime. And the police ended up kind of hiding that fact and not bringing it up during the trial. And it was after that they discovered that, that all the pieces started to fall into place.

Evidence proved that it was Ricky Amos who had committed the crime, not Jones. And witnesses at Jones's trial would concur that they could not tell the two men apart in the photograph.

Now, based on this new evidence, in 2017, after nearly two decades of rotting away in prison, Jones was released and walked out a free man, granted a certificate of innocence, the record of his arrest and conviction expunged, his name cleared, and eventually awarded $1.1 million in damages, although as one attorney has said,

This compensation is relatively small given the unfathomable hardship of 17 years of wrongful imprisonment. $1.1 million for 17 years. That's crazy. And knowing you're innocent the entire time. And the fact that the police hid the fact that they got the license plate. Yeah, they had a lead there, but they just went by. Oh, yeah, that definitely looks like them. Corruption. They should have at least looked at the photo of the Amos guy and been like,

What about this guy? Yeah. You figure his photo would have been in the booking thing. So you want to make sure that you look through all the photos. Well, um, after they ended up releasing Jones, they ended up trying to charge Amos for the crime, Ricky, but he was already in prison for an unrelated crime and could not be charged with the robbery because of the statute of limitations had expired. So they were like, damn.

And to wrap this story up, in 2019, Jones would be arrested on a federal indictment and charged with being in possession of cocaine and methamphetamine along with illegal firearms. And there's no word on whether Ricky had done this as well. I don't know. That one could have been Jones. I think that one was Jones. Just for the fact he has $1.1 million. He just got out of prison. That's a lot of cocaine and methamphetamine and illegal firearms.

damn you know what happens to people that win lotteries and such yeah well it wasn't really a lottery but i mean it was a lot of money that he got so i'd be pissed off at the justice system i would be too prisons are supposed to be a place similar to rehab re-education rehab you serve your time afterwards you are done you're free of your crime that's not the case here in the united states when you're sent to prison

It's supposed to be that a lot of people look at it as torture. They pretty much treat you like an animal in a cage. Yeah. And there's no rehab. There's no rehab. There's no rehabilitation. There's nothing. You're supposed to rot away and they don't care. And they make profit off of you. Private prisons do. That should be illegal. It's modern day slavery. Pretty much is. Yeah. But anyways, I'm not going to get into that because that's another episode. But that's the end of our strange fact and finding over the doppelganger robbery.

Alright, so our next strange fact I'm finding is about a school teacher from back in 1845, and this is actually one of the more famous stories about a doppelganger. Now before we get into that, we are going to take a quick break. This is our last one, so don't go nowhere. Alright, welcome back.

So there was this woman named Emily who was 32 years old and was described as a northern type from Dijon who was a blonde with a very fair complexion, light blue eyes, chestnut hair, slightly above the middle size, and had like a slender figure. Which I don't understand the whole like middle size thing. She was thick. Okay. I guess.

Now, while in Latvia in 1845, Emily would start a new job, a teaching position at one of the boarding schools. So at the boarding school for that year in 1845, there were a total of 42 young ladies around the age of 13, most of whom were daughters of nobility. My lady. Among these ladies was the daughter of the baron, a young lady named Julie.

Now, Julie said that when she was 13 years old, she remembers when Emily, the teacher, was hired and that it was only a few weeks after Emily had arrived that the rumors started to spread. You know, at this boarding school, they refer to all the young ladies as Mademoiselle. Mademoiselle. So, like, Julie, it would have been like Mademoiselle Julie. It was weird. What the hell is a Moussel? Is that a musical? I think it's just a title of...

Nobility? Okay. So yeah, they were all referred to as that. Now, as the rumors started to spread, students, you know, going around saying that they had seen Emily in one place, while others said that they had met and talked to her elsewhere at the same exact time. Then one day, as the teacher was giving a lesson to a class of 13, Emily, the teacher, was seen writing on the chalkboard, and then that's when it appeared.

Right beside Emily, there was an exact copy of her standing and pretending to write on the chalkboard in the same exact motions as she was doing writing. Yeah. And the students were like, oh, my God. And Emily, whenever she would turn around, the copy would disappear, leaving the girls baffled. They were like, oh, my God. Where'd it go?

Now, after this happened, one of the girls needed help with her dress. Emily would go and help her. And just by chance, the young girl would turn to look at the mirror toward Emily and saw that there were two Emily's hooking her dress together. Damn, that would freak me out. Oh, yeah. Then over the next few months, these strange but similar sightings kept repeating themselves.

The doppelganger would be standing beside Emily, copying her every motion, exactly, and then at times it wouldn't at all, it would just stand there doing nothing. But the biggest event to occur was when all 42 students had been gathered in the same room, which was, I think, was the auditorium?

Uh, so they were all participating in a lesson over embroidery. When some of the students looked over and they noticed that Emily was outside gathering flowers. They're like, damn, how the hell's our ass outside gathering flowers? We're trying to learn embroidery over here. We don't have time for that. They're like, we're out here working our asses off learning how to embroider. And there she is outside picking flowers. Yeah. So as another teacher was sitting in the area with them,

the teacher needed to go take a dump. So she got up and left. Now, the students were all alone, no teacher because she had to go take a dump, but that only lasted for a short time. When all of a sudden there appeared in the seat of where the other teacher was previously sitting, a figure of Emily appeared. The students were confused because they just saw her outside picking flowers.

So they turned towards the window in confusion to look to see, hey, is there another Emily out there picking flowers? Which this only made things worse because there was. There was another Emily out there picking flowers and then there was Emily number two sitting next to them. But another thing they noticed that was weird was that Emily number one was picking flowers outside. She was moving very, very slowly. They're like, what the hell's wrong with her? That's very odd. Mm-hmm.

Now, as the students looked back at the chair inside, the figure was just sitting there silently, not moving a single muscle. Even though they were confused, though, it no longer scared them because they were just like, we've seen this shit so many times. Emily here, Emily there. She's everywhere. Yeah. So they're just like, you know what? We're used to this. This doesn't scare us anymore. Mm hmm.

Yeah. And, uh, two of the students got brave enough to where they were able to go up to the Emily that was sitting in the chair and attempt an attempt to touch her. They said that, uh, when they went to touch her, they felt a slight resistance, but their hand was able to pass through her. Then one of them forced their hand all the way through the copy.

which that Emily didn't even react, the one that was sitting down. Gradually, though, this copy that was sitting down would start to disappear. And once it was finally gone, they ended up looking outside and saw Emily still out there picking flowers, but she wasn't slowed down. She was at a normal pace. Got her energy back. Now, these events continued on throughout the school year of 1845 to 1846, and the parents of the students continued

they kept hearing their children talk about these weird events at school, of seeing two of the same teacher everywhere. So the parents being concerned pulled their kids out of the boarding school and by the time the school actually took any action, there were only 12 of the 42 girls left.

Took them a little while, huh? 30 of the girls had been removed from the school. It's like, damn. So it was at this point that they asked Emily, the school system asked her to resign from her teaching position in which she responded with, ah, the 19th time. It is very, very hard to bear. End quote. Now the school system, the people higher ups there, they were confused by this response from Emily and they just, they were just like, what the hell do you mean the 19th time?

And Emily confessed that she had worked at 18 different schools since she was 16 years old. Jesus Christ. That's a lot of schools to bounce, you know, from. Yeah. She lived with her sister-in-law who had a couple of children of her own and Emily would teach, uh, would teach them while staying there until she lost her job and decided to move to Latvia, uh, to try and teach there. The school ended up investigating further and they had found out that the children of her sister-in-law knew about this, uh,

copy of Emily, but they just thought that they had two aunt Emily's. So after leaving the boarding school, no one knows where Emily ended up and if she still had the doppelganger with her. So that's the end of that strange fact and finding. She bounced pretty much from 19 schools. All of them pretty much got rid of her because of something weird happening with her. And then even at home with her sister-in-law and their, her kids,

They knew about this doppelganger, but I mean, they didn't know it was doppelganger at the time. They just thought it was a twin or something like that. Yeah. We got two Aunt Emily's. Damn. That's gotta be weird. All right. So let's get into our last strange fact and finding, which is modern day celebrity examples. So there are a few celebrities that have doppelgangers. For example, Matt Damon and Matt Damon. And who's that other guy?

Matt Damon and are you talking about Mark Wahlberg? Yes. Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg or Zooey Deschanel and Katy Perry. Got this photograph. There's a third one too. What do you mean a third one of them? Zooey, Katy, and there's a third one. Oh, hang on. Oh, I think Zooey and Katy look similar. I don't think they look super, super similar, but I think it's just the eyes, the skin tone and the hair.

Dark hair, light blue eyes, and a light complexion. They're pale. They need to go see some sun. They look like vampires. I have no room to talk, though. Yeah. How pale? Lizzie Kaplan and Kristen Ritter? I don't know. One of them does look like her. Oh, that's the girl off Breaking Bad who overdosed, Jessie's girlfriend. She kind of looks like him. That one's a little bit. The bottom left one looks more like him. Yeah.

So if you continue on, we've got a few more examples. Dak Shepard and Zach Braff. They look similar. They could pass as brothers, I think. Yeah. This next one. Put this next one down. Because I was like, they look exactly alike. A young Joseph Stalin and Zayn Malik, formerly of One Direction. I mean, they kind of do look alike. Even the hairstyle. Oh, that's actually pretty good. Yep.

Uh, there's this one that I'm sure everyone's seen. It's an unidentified photo of one particularly dapper gentleman and Eddie Murphy. Yeah, I could see that one. Yeah. What about this Russian immunologist? I don't even know how to pronounce his name. Mitchick and off and Robin Williams. That, that one's a good one. That is a good one actually. And then an unidentified civil war era man and Nicholas cage.

They look exactly like. The ears are a little different, but I mean, a lot of resemblance. Yep. So, uh, the daughter of author Laura Wilder, also known as Rose Lane or Rose Wilder Lane and Maggie Gyllenhaal. They look exactly the same. They do. One just has like a little bit wider face, but. Yeah.

What about this Union Army soldier and Louisiana State Senator Marshall Twitchell, or however you pronounce his name, and Conan O'Brien? I could see that one a lot. Yeah. The last one. This last one's my second favorite. A young Vladimir Putin and Macaulay Culkin. I could kind of see it. So there you go. There's some examples of some celebrities and their doppelgangers. Can't forget Keanu Reeves.

And the old photo that he matches with. Yeah, there's a lot more that I didn't include on here, but there's honestly a lot. And I tried to find a photo that my oldest brother sent me. That one kind of scared me because it was in the show law and order specials victims unit. There was, I guess like a extra in the show.

And the side profile and kind of like straight on looked just like me when I had glasses and my beard was about this. It looked just like me from the side. I'm just, and they laughed and they're just like, so that's where you're going. You weren't actually doing outages. You were going to LA and filming the show.

I'm like, oh, cool. Thanks. If anyone knows that episode and knows what Dan's talking about, comment down below or send us an email. I tried to find it. The guy is wearing a blue suit, wears glasses, short hair, beard, but I couldn't find it. Well, let's get on to theories and figure out why people see these doppelgangers and if they're really...

just like normal people that look like one another, or if there's something more sinister. Yes. So why don't you tell us about our first theory we got? All right. So our first theory is called neurological. This theory states that whenever someone sees an individual that they believe looks just like them, that is all just hallucinations. When you look deeper into this theory, you will learn that there is a neurological condition called a hutoscopy in which one hallucinates their own image at a distance.

Makes you wonder how many of those individuals in the historical data had this neurological condition. This neurological condition could go with out-of-body experience. Yeah, it could. People thinking that they possibly have an out-of-body, you know, thing, but it's actually them having this condition or vice versa. Mm-hmm. Yep.

All right. So let's get on to our next theory, which is called interdimensional glitch or simulation glitch. So this theory states that our entire existence is just a computer simulation and that every now and then it glitches and accidentally makes a copy of an individual. That's the first part of the theory. So it's a computer simulation. It glitches and then boom, makes a copy of you or whomever, or

This next part of this theory is called interdimensional glitch, and it states that maybe there are multiple dimensions, and every now and then, the dimensions temporarily merge, or an interdimensional wormhole opens up and an individual passes through it unknowingly.

This individual is a copy of another person from a different dimension and is now living in not his original dimension. Eventually, this copy of the other person crosses paths with his original self from that same dimension. And I was like, whoa, we look alike, but doesn't realize that, hey, this copy is from another dimension. Hmm.

Because if you think about it in another dimension, there is probably a copy of you, but you aren't living the same life that you are here because that copy has made, I mean, even the slightest difference.

like the butterfly effect, the slightest of change changes everything. Whether it be one day when you're driving when you're 16 instead of taking a right, you take a left. And all of a sudden you end up getting into a car wreck and you got your big toe cut off. And then that changes your course of how you do the next 30 years or whatever. So that would explain why some of these doppelgangers aren't 100% the exact copy. Yeah. And then these dimensions, somehow they...

merge or there's like a wormhole and then one of the copies ends up passing over which they they aren't in they aren't even aware that they're passing over because everything looks the same to them and then when they come across their copy they're like oh cool could explain a little bit about deja vu for some people yes because that's other dimensions bleeding over and you kind of it's a very interesting theory to think about that one actually intrigues me a lot

Well, this next one, though, doesn't really intrigue me a lot because I don't like it, but it's the theory called ghosts or demons. This theory states that the doppelganger that an individual sees is not an actual human being, but rather a ghost or demon taking the form of that individual. I don't like that. I don't like it either. But in historical texts, as well as the what is it?

72 Demons of the Goetia King Solomon The Lesser Keys of Solomon that's what it is talks about the demons being some of them being parasites creating a copy of them of the host and then using their energy to get what they want the demons so I mean there was this movie that we watched way back on discord and it was about doppelgangers I honestly disliked the movie just because they made it confusing it's like one of those movies you have to watch

multiple times to fully get it there was like a ghost or a demon type thing but it lived on the other side of the mirror so as your reflection and it's able to cross over oh fuck that and pretty much replace the actual individual pretty much take over their life and everything like that which is pretty scary that is scary makes you walk past the mirror and look at it and be like

You want some? Damn. Damn. All right. So let's talk about this next theory, which is called alien copy and paste. So this theory states that alien beings are just out there chilling in space. They're observing us and they want to make contact with us, but they don't want to freak us out. So like, how do we approach them? So they send down Bigfoot and they're like, okay, look, they don't like this big hairy creature.

So what we're going to do is we're going to abduct some of them and they abduct some humans and they end up making a replica of those humans and they take this replica, but it's not like a full human. It's just a suit of a human and they put the suit on and they're like, Edgar, your skin's falling off. He's like sugar, sugar, water. Yeah. He puts it on.

And they come down here dressed as the replica of the human that they made, but in another part of the world. And they learn our customs and they feed that information back to the mothership. And then slowly,

These other aliens start making replica human suits and start slowly incorporating themselves into society until eventually one day they become the president of the United States and they slowly start enacting their reptilian ways and they end up taking over and then they reveal themselves. They shed their flesh suit and say, look at us. So they're reptilian aliens? Yeah. That's how I like to envision my aliens. Do they have a split tongue? Of course. Yeah.

Of course. So that's that theory. I mean, that one's actually kind of fun to think about. Our next theory is called etheric body. In this theory, it is believed that in some esoteric traditions, humans have multiple subtle bodies. One of those is called the etheric body. The etheric body is said to be a duplicate of the physical body and at times can become visible as a doppelganger.

This etheric body is thought to operate on a higher vibrational level and on occasion can be seen during moments of intense emotion or spiritual activity. Hmm, never heard of that before. We have multiple bodies and each one is on a different vibrational level. And this one, the etheric body, when you're stressed out, very emotional or very high spiritual activity going on in your life, it can pretty much be

brought to this, brought down to our vibrational level. Okay. I mean, that kind of goes with the neurological one, if you think about it. Yeah. Where people kind of see themselves like away from themselves at a distance, but it could be actually the etheric body. Yeah. Having stressed out. Or it could all be this last one, this last theory called coincidence. So this theory states that the entire thing is a giant coincidence.

A lot of people have similar features and there are a fuck ton of people alive over 7 billion. Yeah. Now you will eventually have some individuals who share the same look, you know, the same skin tone, hairstyle, eye color, physical appearance. Statistically, the probability of that is high. Yeah, really? So that's all it could be is just doppelgangers is just a coincidence because there's so many people.

I don't think a lot of them are 100% identical. There's always like a different variation. Yeah. But they look very close. Yeah. So that's that theory, which I mean, if you go on TikTok, there's a guy who raps who looks just like Abraham Lincoln.

I don't know his name off the top of my head. I think it's like rapping Abraham or something. Gosh, but he looks just like Abraham Lincoln. Because then you got Elon Musk and then there's an Asian Elon Musk, which that one's kind of freaky. Then there's another guy that looks just like Dwayne Johnson. But like you could tell that's not him, but quick glance looks like him. The coincidence one, I kind of lean more towards because there are over 7 billion people. The probability. The probability of it.

It's just really high of having same features as someone else. And yeah, you might look like somebody else, but I wouldn't say that they're identically you and, you know, they're from a different dimension or anything. So that's what you're going with. If we have to go to our personal thoughts and theories, you're selecting the coincidence one. For the most part. Yeah. Cause I mean, I like to believe some of these other ones, they sound better than the coincidence one, but this one's just more logical, I think.

Yeah. I would like to think that as well. It's a coincidence, but I'm going to have to go with interdimensional. I think there's multiple different dimensions out there with us in them. And every now and then one of our copies of ourselves or selves from another dimension ends up bleeding over or crossing over unexpectedly. Yeah. Cause I mean, I can't really say coincidence is a theory that works with like the Emily one or the Abraham Lincoln one. Cause they're not actual physical bodies. They're just

More like a... Almost like an afterimage or an apparition type thing that's there. Or maybe someone from another dimension. Their dimension is bleeding over into ours temporarily. And that's why we see ghosts. That's why we see Sasquatch. That's why we have Deja Vu. Damn. You know what it makes remind me of? Once Human. I don't know what that is. The game. Oh, the one that you've been playing? Yeah. So...

It only reminds me of that, I mean, it's mostly like, I think, Korean games. There's servers. No. They have different servers called worlds, or different servers, but in those servers, they have different worlds. So it's like a sub-server in that. Okay. So when you pick a server, you have all these different other worlds you can play in, but technically you can switch worlds, and it's the same layout and everything, but it's different worlds.

people in those things. So it's like switching worlds. And so it'd be more like the interdimensional simulation glitch. Like say I'm on world two, you're on world 10. You don't see me in world 10, but then I switch over and then now I'm there. Okay. And then my other copies there and they're just like, what the hell?

Yeah. Well, two Dan's. If you are a loved one, have came across your doppelganger, send us an email. We would love to hear from you or comment down below and let us know. I came across my doppelganger and he was an asshole. What's new? I never met mine. And I actually, I didn't, I didn't come across my doppelganger. I saw, I've seen two photos that could have been me, the one off the show. And then

Back in Virginia, I went to this Mexican restaurant and they had like this board of people. Like, I guess, I don't know if it was like some contest they did, but they had selfies up there. I walked past and I had to do a double take. I'm like, I've never been here before. I've never been here before. And this guy looked just like me on there. I'm just like, wow. Damn. It's like, he's trying to replace me. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I, somebody said I got a doppelganger on the history channel on some show, but I don't know. I've never seen it before. Who watches that? Anyway.

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