These People Are NOT Twins. Believe It Or Not, They Are Complete Strangers.

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Je ne suis pas un sosie! (french for I'm not a lookalike!) is a photography project that consists of over 200 pairs of doppelgängers. Canadian photographer, François Brunelle, is the mastermind behind it all. The pairs he finds are from all over the world, and what's most incredible is that each duo are complete strangers.

more: http://www.thisismarvelous.com/i/237-These-44-People-Are-NOT-Twins-Believe-It-Or-Not-They-Are-Complete-Strangers

[lovemydog]

1. I saw a doppleganger once at a restaurant in NYC.

Someone at my table mentioned it. Someone at his table mentioned it. We both said 'no way will he look anything like me.' Then when we saw each other it was like looking in a mirror. Frrrreeeeeky.

[elleng]

18. I saw someone in NYC too,

at Lincoln Center, in the crowd, years ago. Didn't have the chance to examine her closely or speak to her. Have thought of it occasionally. You, however, had the up close and personal experience!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. When my youngest son was a toddler, my sister and I saw another little boy

at a restaurant that I wanted to go ask who his daddy was. He was a couple of years older, but the looks were identical. It was a little creepy.

[magical thyme]

3. I saw mine some 40 years ago, on PBS

they aired the finals of a piano competition, the Leventritt I think. One of the finalists looked exactly like me. I mean it was freaky!!! And she play a Liszt piece that I had struggled with just a couple years earlier in college. Way over my untrained head, but I was trying just for the hell of it. We probably were working on it at the same time, lol!

Nobody won the competition that year. I wish I had written down her name so I could check it out and see if we still look that much alike! Also to see if she was living one of my other lives...

[mnhtnbb]

4. My brother tells a story of seeing me on a street in Westwood

when we were both at UCLA and he was preparing to make some snide comment
as we walked past each other--only just as he came face to face with the person realized it wasn't me!

So, I guess my double is out there.

[a kennedy]

5. I sat about 5 rows behind ME at a concert, and was so enthralled with myself

I didn't see the show I paid for. Very unsettling situation. Yikes....

[Orrex]

6. Sam Hamm keeps telling people that we're twins

I did have a doppelganger in college. We were actually good friends and hadn't realized our similarity until we discovered that people were having conversations with each of us that were meant for the other.

Most of these conversations took place while we were sitting down, because I was about a foot taller than he was.

[malthaussen]

7. One of the weirdest experiences I ever had...

... was when I met a guy at work who looked just like a friend of mine. I addressed him by that name, and he addressed me by mine... and we didn't know each other! Not only were we both doppelgangers, but we also had the same names as our look-alikes!

-- Mal

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

9. Quadruple wow.

[raccoon]

20. Just like in "The Comedy of Errors!" And here I always thought it was totally unbelievable that

the two Dromios and the two Antipholuses would JUST HAPPEN to have the same names.....

[My Good Babushka]

8. I have noticed

from painting portraits, from old photographs, and from current ones, the same types of faces occur again and again. It's pretty neat.

[Laffy Kat]

17. Me too! I also notice that some mannerisms and other characteristics...

seem to fit a "type". I see it over and over again and it makes some people familiar even though you know you've never met them before. There must be a word for this phenomenon.

[Arugula Latte]

10. Fascinating. Does anyone know how me makes the matches?

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12. I think he does it through his facebook page now

People send in suggestions.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/francoisbrunellecom/105826659439687

Edit: NYTimes says

Most come to him through social media links to his website. “It has taken on a life of its own,” he said. “I have heard from people in China — and even a man who has an uncle in Uzbekistan who is a dead ringer for former President George W. Bush.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/science/looking-at-twin-personality-through-look-alikes.html?ref=science&_r=0

[Godhumor]

11. My doppelganger is Jon Cryer

We look so much alike that I had a Vegas casino mistake me for him...that was an interesting night.

[noamnety]

13. Once after I had started dating my (now) husband

my ex boyfriend showed up at my house. I was a little freaked out, we hadn't seen each other for about 2 years, he didn't know I was married. I just open the door at looked at him and couldn't even think what to say even though we were face to face.

Turned out he was not my ex, he was from the telephone company. Thank god I didn't react by saying something like "we can't be together, there's someone else in my life."

[LiberalElite]

14. A co-worker once told me she saw me

on a certain street a few days previously. I told her I hadn't been over on that street for at least six months. Co-worker was dumbfounded. She was sure it was me! Co-worker said, "but she even WALKED like you!" I said it was a good thing "I" wasn't doing anything illegal when I was "seen." LOL We had a running joke for a while I'd ask her "did you see me last weekend?"

[raccoon]

21. Good argument for why we shouldn't have the death penalty. nt

[madamesilverspurs]

15. Mirror, mirror . . .

My doppelganger lived in Virginia. I never met her, but a few people mentioned that they liked my hair when I wore it "up" (which I didn't do); they'd seen "me" in Norfolk and Newport News. Turns out that her "employer" drove a white Lincoln with faux-fur interior and chasing lights on the running boards. Yikes.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. I had a client who was the spitting image of my son.

and about the same age.
My son was 3,000 miles away at the time.

The neat thing was that I told the client he was a twin of my son's, and the kid became more responsive in his treatment program.

Really shook me up for a couple of days, the resemblance was that close.

[mackerel]

19. What no traveling salesman jokes??????? You loungers are letting me down.

[Boxerfan]

22. I have one who rebuilt a Type 4 engine in a video

I was researching a rebuild on my Volkswagen Bus engine. I found a video that showed the complete process which was very helpful.

But the guy doing the video was me?? . Down to the mannerism/bald spot.

I sent a link to my Sis & she also was amazed it was not me in the video


Way back when-the Kent State shooting made the cover of Time. Very iconic photo of a woman in agony over a bloodied student.
I was maybe 7 at the time but I remember the photo looked just like my Mom.

She even got calls from friends thinking it was her.

[hifiguy]

23. It's folk wisdom that everyone has a double somewhere.

But that doesn't excuse the person in the grocery store who once asked me if I was Bill Gates. I'm no Brad Pitt but I don't look that much like Gates either. Hmph.

[AngryAmish]

24. My best friend and I could pass for each other until puberty

His hair got kinky and I got thicker boned ( bigger head, etc.).

Our teachers could not tell us apart and we had to sit on opposite sides of the classroom.