Why Does This Woman Look Exactly Like Me? | Finding My Identical Twin Stranger | Full Documentary

Back in the late 1980's I stopped at a Texas Dunkin Donuts. When I got up to the drive-thru window, the girl handed me my order then did a double-take, screamed out "Michael!" and reached out to hug me. She thought I was her brother! After some minutes I was able to "prove" I wasn't her brother playing a joke. She even called him in California and they spoke briefly. After the call she grabbed her purse and showed me a family picture and sure enough, her brother looked JUST LIKE ME, down to the style of dress. Needless to say we were both almost left speechless. Too bad this was before the time of selfies.

What I found most remarkable was the social similarities between so many of the doppelgängers.

I had about a dozen different people tell me they saw me working at a casino. I worked in a lab and never in my life have I been a cocktail waitress. After so many people at our office said it I went to see if I could find this woman. I was astonished! She was a bit shorter but only by an inch or so, it was so crazy! Same laugh, same walk, same everything. I never saw her again but it was fun.

I would have been interested to see pictures of John and Neil as young men to see how similar they looked 20,30, and 40 years ago.

Around 25 years ago, my dad sent me a magazine clipping for a software advertisement. He added a note telling me how awesome it was that he found me. It stopped me in my tracks! There was a young woman looking exactly like me, and that wasn’t all. The woman was sitting behind a pc (which I do) she had a cat on her desk (which I have), and she looked like me EXACTLY she even rocked my hairdo! I still have it and to this day I am still questioning myself if I didn't, in fact, participated in an advert, but I forgot somehow!

I was adopted and haven't met many biological relatives. (Yes, I've taken all the DNA tests, and know who my bio family is now). When a stranger tells me I remind them of someone, or mistakes me for someone else, I feel almost panicky, desperate to know who it might be, and if we could be related. There's so many missing pieces of me. I'd like to meet even a few.

I walked into a salon and the woman just finishing thought I was her daughter there to give her a lift. Then the daughter walked in behind me, and I totally got it. If I hadn't known better, I might have thought she was me. I grew up elsewhere, but where I am now I have a lot of relatives I've never met. She's probably one of them.

I'm a twin and learned to be very tuned in to differences in features. I was amazed at how many of the pairs had different jawlines/chins which were not remarked on until the 3D scans were examined. I caught those differences immediately. I think the Professor caught the key: if either the eyes or noses are matching and then the other feature is similar, viewers perceive two people as "identical" and ignore the jawline.

As a child, I saw my doppelgänger on the other side of a busy street. I remember it almost took my breath away as I looked right at her. She too stopped with a blank look then smiled warmly and waved as her Mom grabbed her hand and they walked off. My Mom asked what I was staring at and I pointed but all she saw was her back. I have never forgotten that chance encounter and sadly, we were visiting from out of town so there was no chance to see her again.

John and Nei looked like each other and also had the same life experience which blew me away .

This "cutting edge three dimensional science" got some chick arrested in America a few months back for looking like someone who was wanted in a criminal situation. The women who was erroneously arrested was pregnant at the time, I can only imagine the stress she endured during the time trying to vindicate herself, I hope her and her baby are doing well...

Many years ago, I remember watching the news and seeing surveillance footage of two suspected shoplifters in a store. The resolution was quite good and one of them looked EXACTLY like me. Not just in the face but same build, similar height, looked like same age, and wore clothes just like what I would wear. I was stunned. The scary part was that I used to shop at this store occasionally. I don't think I ever went back there again.

A close friend gave me an old tintype of a woman which he found in an antique shop. The date 1937 is written on the back. The woman looks to be around 30 years old. 😯. I was born in 1943. To both of us it looked exactly like I had in my late 20s or early 30s. I have no information about this woman, but we are certainly doppelgängers born about a generation apart. I keep it on my dresser to this day.

If they are really interested in seeing how much they actually look alike, they should NOT have them wear matching outfits, hairstyles, etc. Those nonessential elements that are just superficial are likely to make people believe they appear more similar than they actually do. Some of these people don’t really look all that similar after all.

Had a friend who was adopting. She and her husband were instructed to come to the lawyer's one hour after the birth parents. When they got there, the lawyer looked up and said "What are you doing back here?! The adoptive parents are comi.....uh...OH! You look SO much like the birth mother! The daughter that they adopted looks just like her, and you'd never think that she wasn't genetically hers.

My parents were already deceased when I got into genealogy. Turns out my parents were 8th cousins. I was able to track this down primarily due to a marriage in VA in 1691, parish records, where the brides surname was really uncommon. For whatever reason, her surname was handed down generation after generation as a middle name. No doppelgangers that I know of but it makes me wonder about the number of kinships that are unknown?

I've had employess who work for my airline [I'm a flight attendant] walk up to me and start chatting with 'Patty'. I seem to have a doppelganger based in another city. I actually had a few get upset with me for denying at being Patty! They're stunned when I show my I.D. and point at my name wings. I hope to actually work a flight with this mysterious twin that I have.😊 ...with over 20,000 flight crew, with so many diverse flying schedules, it doesn't seem likely.

It's like looking at a painting by Monet. From a distance it makes sense but when you get close and look at details, it doesn't look at all like it did from a distance.

Damn! They all took a DNA test, and I was waiting to see if they had found any correlation between the DNA and the actual features - that something in the DNA caused a certain feature. Identical twins are identical because their identical DNAs have driven their physical development, so I was hoping to see if there was any valuable scientific discovery made here, but they didn't talk about the DNA mechanism - how DNA forms physical features. One pair was found to be weakly related, and others originated from similar areas of the world, but I really wanted more on the DNA side of the discussion.

I am an identical twin and although my twin sister and I look similar, we've both had things happen to us in our lives to make our appearances look a bit dissimilar. We still look very close but there are subtleties that makes each of us unique. What we do share that identical strangers probably don't is that closeness in the womb which is a bond forever. We often know what the other is thinking; will say the same thing at the same time; we are both equine sculptors and are still BFF at 70 years of age.