I have evil triplets. One I learned of in 1988. He lived in Lima, Ohio and his brother-in-law bought my grandmother’s house. The other I met online in 1994. He emailed me his picture and if i hadn’t known it was him I’d have identified it as a picture of me.
looks like i’ve got everybody here beat. BOTH my husband and i appear to have duplicates running around.
my husband’s family name is not uncommon up in Pennsylvania (where he’s originally from), but not so much here. yet there is someone else here in the DC area with the same first AND last name. the only difference between them is their middle initials. and they both work for the Department of Defense. he’s gotten many phonecalls in the past looking for his counterpart – sometimes he’d flounder around, trying to figure out where he knew the caller from, until they happened to ask about his wife. (that was back when he was still single.) now, it takes asking about the wrong wife’s name to make the tip-off.
(and i guess in that same vein, there’s now someone in our Outlook directory here at work who has our last name, and a first name that is perilously close to my first name. when they were switching over computer network accounts, i was originally getting messages that had her name on them. thankfully, that appears to have stopped.)
but my freak-me-out invisible twin would seem to belong to the same church i go to. i’m a pretty easy person to spot – routinely go to the same Mass every Sunday, and 99.9% of the time i wear a hat. (i don’t doubt that Hat Lady is my nickname to everyone who doesn’t personally know me.) yet two years in a row, when the church has a membership drive to get people to sign up for various committees, some woman has come up to me and started gushing over how nice i always look, and how well-behaved my little boy is, sitting there next to me in the pew.
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i’m hoping she’s just some harmless delusional, but i gotta tell ya, she’s starting to freak me the hell out.
susan_foster, sometimes this happens when you get introduced to two people at the same time. You can’t remember which one is which, and you think of them as a duo.
I was once introduced to two guys at the same time, Smith and Cunningham, and from that day on never remembered which one was which. One was black and one was white, among other characteristics that made it realllllly easy to tell them apart. I just couldn’t get their names straight. Cunningham thought it was funny, but Smith always got very, very angry about it. Touchy.
Anyway, that’s one possible explanation for your situation.
By the way, Litoris, that’s a great story about your dad and the tombstone.
I have one kinda similar to Litoris’ story. Back in the '80’s my husband was playing the character of Dracula in a production of “The Passion of Dracula” at LaGrange College. For some reason while on a trip to visit his parents here in Columbus, we decided to go wandering around in a local historic cemetary. (I love tombstone sculpture) We found a tombstone with Mr. SCL’s first name, last name, middle initial - and same day and month of birth, with the year back in the 1800’s. Engraved on the tombstone was the biblical quotation “I am the resurection and the life” which is also a line from the play, done as a very spooky voice-over.
There was no date of death on the tombstone. The man would have been well over 110 years old.
We left with a quickness.
Thanks – my dad had a lot of really cool stories. I think our bloodline has some kind of weirdness magnet or something, since I also have a lot of weirdness that happens around me 
SnakesCatLady – cool story 
I bet that was a bit freaky with no date of death!
I’ve got a couple of evil doppelgangers out there. Do you want the one who managed to get my license revoked for drunk driving in a province I’ve never visited, or the one who managed to convince the bank my deposits should go into his account?
I have no idea if I look like these guys, but they’ve got my name. And I once lived two blocks from one of them.
My brother’s evil twin is worse. He has the same name, and nearly the same birthdate, as a guy with a criminal record as long as your arm. He once got stopped for speeding while there was a warrant for his doppelganger’s arrest. Not a fun night…
Two stories, neither about me:
-My sister’s college roommate, and longtime best friend, has a speaking voice and vocal mannerisms so identical to my sister that when I called and the roommate answered, I thought it was my sister. I don’t think my parents could tell, either.
-In college I knew two guys who really looked nothing alike, and yet who had such similar mannerisms and outward-personality-indicators that I constantly got them confused. It was really freaky in retrospect, because, after I eventually got to know them both better, they were clearly distinct, both in personality and definitely in appearance. But whatever it is which, on first meeting someone, becomes the impression you have of that person… it was EXACTLY the same for the two of them.
I had a twin in my home town I never met. A close friend would tell my husband and I that he saw me driving our truck here and there. Apparantly she was a dognapper-one day hub called me at work to ask why I just drove by his place of employment in the middle of the day with our Chow Chow in the back. Of, course I was AT work fifteen miles away, so I couldn’t have just driven by!
Yes. An arsonist who looks just like me. Seriously.
I’m a lawyer. He was a client.
Yes. Sadly, he’s much more successful. While I don’t see it, way too many people, who don’t know each other, say I look like the actor who played Henry Hill in ‘GoodFellas’.
I just hope Anthony Hopkins doesn’t cook & eat my brains…
I went to a very large university, and apparently I had a lookalike there, close enough that friends would call out to her on the street and then later ask me why I didn’t say hi. Working out the location, I could tell I wasn’t there at the time they cited, and it happened enough that we figured out there was a woman there who looked a lot like me. I gather she also wore a jean jacket in nicer weather, bicycled, and wore a bike helmet.
Then my sister attended the same university a couple years later, and she looks enough like me that we referred to the lookalike as the “evil triplet.” Even my sis’s boyfriend thought that the Evil Triplet was my sister.
SCL, that is an awesome/creepy story.
I don’t have an evil twin, but last quarter we had a prof who kept on mistaking me for one of my classmates and vice versa - she even went so far as to send my friend’s marked mid-term paper to me by mistake. The thing is we don’t look ANYTHING alike. The only thing we have in common is that we’re Asian. The “you Asians all look alike” jokes from our friends got old pretty fast.
About 5 years ago, I was in the back of the house and suddenly heard SWMBO and SWMBOette start hollering at me to come up front fast! I did so. They were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and the guy in the hot seat was the twin brother I never knew I had.
It was scary. This was not just a moderate resemblance. His body language and manner of speaking were mine, as well as his sense of humor. They say everyone has a doppelganger; I’ve seen mine.
He won $125k, so good on him!
I’ve had people come up to me for decades, ever since I moved to Oahu, and claim to have seen a guy that looks exactly like me. Although disappointingly enough none of them have accused me of being him. I was at paddling practice yesterday and this girl was seriously freaked out that I looked so much like this guy she knew. I wanted to talk to her about it but after coming up to me and saying that (I guess she had asked my name from the coach and learned we were different people) she just wanted to get away and not talk about it. Apparently he works in a bank.
I may be your cyber-twin Darryl Lict since I was going to start a thread like this last night but I hurt from practice and decided not to.
I have one two (pun intended)
I pity the guy…
He looks just like me. his first name is one letter off of mine, he was a drummer in a local punk band of some fame (locally), His body language is a lot like mine and our voices, speech patterns, body language and etc are identical…
Aside from my lack of musical talent, in my younger, wilder yrs, when some young lass came up to me in a bar and said WOW! Are you the drummer with ****, I just love you guys!"… well long story short… I became the “evil twin”…
Regards
FML