The internet is flooded with stories of someone meeting their exact double – a copy who looks, acts, speaks, even thinks like them, only they seem to have a… supernatural quality to them. Even prominent figures in history, from Catherine the Great to Abraham Lincoln have come into contact with their doppelgängers, making many wonder, are these ghosts of ourselves, or versions of us from some alternate reality?
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- Reddit (comment): “Doppelgänger/mimic stories.”
- Reddit (comment): “Are doppelgangers real ? Is it true that if you meet your dop. you will die shortly after?”
- Facebook group “Supernatural, Myths, Legends, Ghosts, Paranormal & Superstitions” post.
- Reddit (post and one comment): “Just saw a doppelgänger I think? Not entirely sure I’m still trying to process it.”
- Wikipedia “Catherine the Great”
- The Guardian “Twice in a lifetime: would you dare meet your doppelgänger?”
- Wikipedia “Percy Bysshe Shelley” – “Death”
- History.com “The Lingering Legend of Abraham Lincoln’s Ghost”
- Medium.com “Real Doppelgangers ghost stories”
- Wikipedia “Mary of Jesus of Ágreda” – “Mystical bilocation”
- Wikipedia “Astral plane”
- Wikipedia “Astral projection”
- drlesleyphillips.com “Out-Of-Body Experiences And How To Astral Project Safely”
- news.fullerton.edu “‘The Haunting Within’: Professor Explores the Duplicity of Doppelgängers”
- NPR.org “When You’re Visited By A Copy Of Yourself, Stay Calm”
- PubMed “Autoscopic phenomena”
- BBC.com “The disturbing consequences of seeing your doppelganger”
- Cleveland Clinic: “Hallucinations”
- Wikipedia: “Temporoparietal junction”
- Mayo Clinic: “Encephalitis”
- Wikipedia: “Multiverse”
- YouTube video by Unearthly Whispers “Paranormal questions – Are doppelgängers a version of yourself from another dimension?”
- Wikipedia “Multiverse” – “Occam’s razor”
- Higgypop.com “Understanding The Doppelgänger Phenomenon”
- Reddit post: “What if ghosts/spirits are actually from an alternate universe/dimension?”
- YouTube short by Haunted City Podcast “The Doppelganger Theory.”
- UnnaturalWorld.fandom.com “Doppelgangers”